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Fivetran Named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

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Fivetran Named a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

Recognized for stronger completeness of vision and ability to execute

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, announced that it has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools.

With over 7,700 customers, 740 connectors, and 7,200 terabytes of data moved monthly, Fivetran’s scale and reliability position it as a central player in the enterprise data ecosystem.

Gartner defines the data integration tools market as platforms that enable organizations to combine data from multiple sources and perform tasks related to data access, transformation, enrichment, and delivery. Fivetran believes this recognition reflects its continued innovation in delivering a unified, secure, and reliable data foundation that integrates movement, transformation, and activation at scale.

“Enterprises are consolidating their data stacks and moving toward open, automated platforms that power AI,” said George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran. “Fivetran delivers that foundation — integrating all data across systems and clouds, automating every pipeline, and ensuring governance at scale. Our mission is to remove the complexity of data movement so teams can focus on building and innovating.”

Trusted by global organizations

With over 7,700 customers, 740 connectors, and 7,200 terabytes of data moved monthly, Fivetran’s scale and reliability position it as a central player in the enterprise data ecosystem. Organizations such as Pfizer, Hippocratic AI, and Steve Madden selected Fivetran to strengthen their data foundations and support their growth.

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Expanding leadership in data integration, transformation, and AI readiness

In 2025, Fivetran continued to advance its leadership in automated data integration with key innovations and strategic milestones:

  • Product and platform innovation:
    • Expanded support for Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service, including deeper integration with Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure for AI workloads
    • Improved support for unstructured and semi-structured data across pipelines
    • Launch of the Connector SDK, giving customers and partners a faster, more flexible way to build custom connectors
  • Strategic expansion:
    • Acquisition of Census, adding governed, automated, real-time activation to the platform
    • Acquisition of Tobiko Data, bringing advanced, multi-engine transformation and open source innovation

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Michele Launi, Nina Showell, Robert Thanaraj, Sharat Menon, 8 December 2025.

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Comcast and Amazon Launch Amazon Luna Cloud Gaming on Xfinity’s Entertainment Devices

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Comcast and Amazon Launch Amazon Luna Cloud Gaming on Xfinity’s Entertainment Devices

Luna on Xfinity Enables Seamless Gaming Right From the TV, No Downloads or Consoles Required

Xfinity WiFi Offers Gamers the Fastest Speeds and Lowest Lag for the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Experience

Comcast and Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Luna, a cloud gaming service, on millions of Xfinity TV and streaming devices across the U.S. Starting , Xfinity customers with an eligible X1 or Xfinity Xumo Stream Box can now enjoy Amazon Luna’s vast collection of high-quality video games directly alongside their favorite entertainment. They’ll have access to games such as like Hogwarts Legacy and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™, along with family friendly, accessible GameNight titles like Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg and The Jackbox Party Pack 9 included with Prime at no additional cost. Plus, the experience is backed by the nation’s most reliable WiFi network, making it a great choice for cloud gamers who need low latency and lightning-fast speeds for a seamless experience.

To access Amazon Luna on Xfinity, customers can simply say “Luna” into their voice remote and sign in with either an Amazon Prime or Luna Premium subscription to get started playing. Customers can choose to pair a Luna controller or compatible Bluetooth controller.

Recently redesigned and reimagined for players of all interest and experience levels, the all-new Amazon Luna now offers Prime members access to more than 50 games at no additional cost. This includes GameNight experiences optimized for in-person, party game play on the living-room TV with no controller needed – players can simply scan a QR code on their TV to join in on the fun with their mobile phone.

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“At Amazon, we’re focused on making gaming more accessible for our customers, and this collaboration with Comcast allows us to reach more customers across the U.S.,” said Jeff Gattis, General Manager, Amazon Luna. “Comcast’s reach and versatility makes it a great fit as we continue to scale Amazon Luna and its growing content library across more devices, more homes, and more players.”

“Xfinity is redefining what it means to game on the big screen,” said Fraser Stirling, Global Chief Product Officer, Comcast. “By combining our superior broadband with our world-class entertainment platform, we’re making it easier than ever for customers to jump into high-quality cloud gaming experiences like Amazon Luna – no console, no downloads, just seamless play on top of the best WiFi for gamers.”

Powered by Comcast’s global entertainment platform, Entertainment OS, Xfinity’s TV and streaming devices will offer a one-of-a-kind gaming experience, seamlessly blending cloud gaming, live TV, on-demand content and streaming apps into a single, easy-to-navigate interface.

Entertainment OS brings features like voice search, seamless content discovery and personalization to life on tens of millions of devices from Comcast and its partners across the globe, including Xfinity and Xumo in the U.S., Sky in the UK and Europe, and global syndication partners like Rogers and Foxtel. Built to be flexible and scalable, the platform makes it easy for partners to serve advanced entertainment experiences to their customers, including Rogers who is launching Amazon Luna on its Entertainment OS-powered Xfinity Streaming devices . Comcast plans to extend Luna’s availability to additional Entertainment OS-powered devices in the future, working with its partners to introduce new, innovative cloud gaming experiences to more customers worldwide.

A Network Built for Gamers

Comcast engineered the Xfinity network to meet the connectivity demands of gamers by providing multi-gig speeds and ultra-low latency for fast, smooth and reliable gameplay. And it continues to push the limits of innovation to deliver gaming experiences that exceed customer expectations. For example, Comcast was the first in the industry to a new technology that offers Xfinity customers an even smoother, more responsive gaming experience with dramatically less lag.

Cloud gaming continues to surge across Comcast’s Xfinity network, with gaming-related traffic growing 30% over the past year alone, putting it on pace to double every three years. This growth is part of broader trend of streamed entertainment, which accounts for more than 70% of total network traffic, a category that continues to grow and also includes gaming alongside other forms of entertainment like live sports, movies, TV and music.

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Perficient Named a Major Player in Three IDC MarketScapes For AI-First Approach to Customer Experience

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Perficient Named a Major Player in Three IDC MarketScapes For AI-First Approach to Customer Experience

Perficient’s AI-First Methodology Drives Measurable Client Outcomes in Experience Design, Build, and Strategy

Perficient, a global consultancy transforming the world’s most innovative companies through AI-first solutions, announced that it has been named a Major Player in three IDC MarketScape reports: IDC MarketScape Worldwide Experience Design Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52973225, October 2025), IDC MarketScape Worldwide Experience Build Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52973125, October 2025), and IDC MarketScape Worldwide Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Services 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52973025, September 2025).

As customer expectations reach unprecedented levels, organizations face mounting pressure to deliver AI-powered experiences that are both personalized and scalable. Perficient is disrupting the technology services category, and the firm believes its inclusion in these IDC MarketScape reports underscores the strength of its strategy, progress, and delivery of solutions that help transform businesses.

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“Our clients value Perficient’s AI-first approach because it transforms customer experiences and delivers measurable business results,” said Erin Rushman, general manager of digital marketing and experience design operations, Perficient. “We believe being recognized by IDC for Experience Design and Experience Build reinforces the impact we have on behalf of clients creating personalized, seamless interactions that accelerate growth. In experience-driven economy, that’s the competitive advantage that matters.”

“In my evaluation of Perficient for the IDC MarketScapes focused on Experience Design and Experience Build, it is evident that Perficient is a good choice for organizations looking for a global services provider that is AI forward and can combine client intimacy with industrial-strength capabilities in digital transformation and experience design and build,” said Douglas Hayward, senior research director, worldwide customer experience services and strategies, IDC.

The Experience Design (XD) and Experience Build (XB) IDC MarketScapes assessed vendors through a comprehensive framework in which product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of the vendors can be compared.

According to the IDC MarketScape for XD, “Perficient has strong capabilities in digital offering design and offers leading-edge experience design services backed by a global innovation network.” The report also notes, “In conversations with Perficient’s reference clients, the three areas where experience design services buyers commended the vendor highly were for the quality of its professionals, for its industry specific capabilities, and differentiation as a vendor.”

The IDC MarketScape for XB states, “As an independent digital experience agency, Perficient combines business and technology transformation capabilities, including a robust collection of supporting assets and tools, with a focus on the design and build of customer experiences. Perficient has strong personalization capabilities.”

Perficient was also named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Customer Experience (CX) Strategy Consulting Services. This report evaluates customer experience strategy consulting firms, offering a comprehensive framework including providers’ current capabilities and future strategies. Perficient believes being named a Major Player emphasizes its commitment to partnering with organizations and prioritizing scalable, transformative CX solutions with a reliable and flexible approach to achieving impactful results.

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SEO Experts Expands Local Digital Marketing Services in Melbourne, FL, Continuing 20-Year Legacy of Nationwide Success

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SEO Experts Expands Local Digital Marketing Services in Melbourne, FL, Continuing 20-Year Legacy of Nationwide Success

SEO Experts

SEO Experts is proud to announce a renewed focus on empowering local businesses across Melbourne and Brevard County with premier Local SEO Services.

SEO Experts, a leading digital marketing agency and industry veteran since 2002, is proud to announce a renewed focus on empowering local businesses across Melbourne and Brevard County with premier Local SEO Services. While continuing to serve a robust portfolio of nationwide and enterprise clients, the firm is dedicating new resources to help Space Coast businesses dominate local search results and drive community-based growth.

In an era where “near me” searches and Google Map Pack visibility are critical for small business survival, SEO Experts leverages over two decades of data-driven experience to ensure local companies stand out. From niche local retailers to large-scale service providers, the agency’s tailored “White Hat” strategies are designed to deliver sustainable, long-term ranking improvements without the risk of search engine penalties.

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For over 20 years, we have helped some of the nation’s largest brands achieve top-tier rankings, but our heart remains here in Florida”

— Robert Desruisseaux

“For over 20 years, we have helped some of the nation’s largest brands achieve top-tier rankings, but our heart remains here in Florida,” said Robert Desruisseaux, founder of SEO Experts. “We want to ensure that businesses right here in Melbourne and Brevard County have access to the same enterprise-level expertise that we provide to our national clients. Our goal is to be the engine that drives local economic growth by connecting great local businesses with the customers searching for them.”

Key Features of SEO Experts’ Service Offerings:

Hyper-Local SEO Campaigns: Specialized optimization for Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business), local citations, and geo-targeted keyword strategies specifically for the Melbourne and Brevard County market.

Nationwide & Enterprise SEO: Comprehensive organic search campaigns for brands looking to expand their reach across the United States, backed by a proven track record of ranking for highly competitive keywords.

100% In-House US Team: Unlike many agencies that outsource work overseas, this Local SEO Company prides itself on an all-US-based team of strategists, ensuring high-quality content, transparent communication, and accountability.

Customized Strategy & Transparency: Every client receives a bespoke roadmap and detailed reporting, moving beyond cookie-cutter packages to address specific business goals and competitive landscapes.

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Quvy Launches Predictive Ad-Performance Platform and Appoints New Head of Sales

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Quvy Launches Predictive Ad-Performance Platform and Appoints New Head of Sales

Quvy | Simulated Audience Ad Testing | Validate & Optimize Before You Launch

Quvy expands its enterprise offering with new predictive ad-testing tools and names Stefan Adamczyk as Head of Sales for North America and EMEA.

Quvy, the platform that uses simulated audiences to predict real-world ad performance before advertisers spend their budget, announced the expansion of its enterprise offering and the appointment of Stefan Adamczyk as its new Head of Sales for North America and EMEA.

Quvy enables advertisers and agencies to test image, video, and UGC ads against highly defined synthetic populations—parents, gamers, shoppers, travelers, high-income households, and more. The platform provides deterministic, pre-launch predictions that show how each creative is expected to perform before campaigns go live.

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“Advertisers are done gambling on creative,” said Stefan Adamczyk, Head of Sales at Quvy. “Quvy gives them clarity before they spend. When you know which creative will win, planning, pitching, and scaling all become more effective.”

Quvy’s Private Silo Models provide enterprise partners with dedicated, isolated simulation environments that keep their brand assets, historical performance data, and audience definitions fully separated from all other customers. Agencies benefit from a confidential and accurate environment for evaluating creative direction.

“Agencies now bring Quvy directly into pitch conversations,” Adamczyk said. “Deterministic predictions outperform subjective opinions. When clients see evidence instead of speculation, decisions move faster.”

Quvy simulates population-level behavior across thousands of personas. Each creative receives predictive scoring for major advertising metrics, including:

  • CTR (Click-Through Rate)
  • CPC (Cost Per Click)
  • CPM (Cost Per Thousand)

These predictive metrics help teams identify high-potential concepts early and avoid producing creative that isn’t likely to perform well.

Jonathan Zweig, CEO of Quvy, described the company’s mission:

“Creative shouldn’t be a guess. Budgets are tight, and cycles are fast. Quvy lets advertisers understand performance before spending a dollar.”

Key platform capabilities

  • Predictive scoring for CTR, CPC, CPM
  • Support for image, video, and UGC ads
  • Persona-, demographic-, and interest-level insights
  • Emotional data points: attention, clarity, novelty, trust, excitement
  • Private Silo Models for isolated enterprise environments
  • Simulations completed in under 10 minutes
  • Creative Insights for agencies to validate concepts, strengthen pitches, and justify creative direction

Growing adoption across agencies and brands

In recent months, Quvy has onboarded agency networks, studios, DTC brands, and app developers seeking to reduce inefficient A/B testing. Early adopters report meaningful decreases in wasted spend within their first month of using the platform.

“Predictability is what marketing teams want,” Adamczyk said. “Quvy makes that possible.”

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ConverSight Ignites Supply Chain Decision Intelligence Among Pine Services Group ERP Partner Network

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ConverSight

Pine Services Group existing and future ERP consulting firms join ConverSight’s partner ecosystem to deliver agentic AI and analytics to supply chain organizations worldwide

ConverSight, the category creator in Unified Decision Intelligence, announced a strategic partnership with Pine Services Group, welcoming existing and future ERP consulting firms into the ConverSight partner ecosystem. The collaboration enables manufacturing, distribution, and retail organizations to access ConverSight’s AI employee, Athena, directly through their trusted ERP advisors to bring real-time decision intelligence into everyday supply chain operations.

This expansion formalizes the adoption of ConverSight’s agentic AI and analytics across Pine Services Group firms, who will now deliver AI supply chain visibility, demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory optimization as part of their ERP advisory and implementation services. Customers benefit from continuous decision support driven by real-time operational data, eliminating the need for static dashboards, manual reporting, traditional inventory management, or complex BI tools.

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The following ERP consulting firms are now officially part of the ConverSight partner ecosystem:

  • Alliance Solutions Group – Sarasota, FL

  • i-Tech Support – Ocoee, FL

  • Alta Vista Technology – Royal Oak, MI

  • Strategic Information Group – Rock Hill, SC

  • The Vested Group – Plano, TX

  • NexTec Group – Seattle, WA

  • Eureka Solutions – East Kilbride, Scotland

  • Western Computer – Oxnard, CA

  • Third Wave Business Systems – Wayne, NJ

  • ETHOSystems – Chicago, IL

  • Practical Software Solutions – Concord, NC

  • Equation Technologies – Encinitas, CA & Vancouver, Canada

  • DB Computer Solutions – Limerick, Dublin & Cork, Ireland

  • Acumen Information Systems – Clermont, FL

This growing alliance extends ConverSight’s decision intelligence platform across North America and Europe, creating a collaborative network of ERP experts delivering AI planning and operational insight directly to customers.

By integrating Athena into their service offerings, Pine Services Group’s partners empower teams to generate custom reports through natural-language conversations, forecast demand shifts, identify inventory risks, and receive recommended next actions across purchasing, operations, and finance, all without ongoing data engineering or analytics overhead.

“At Pine Services Group, we’re committed to bringing innovative, best-in-class solutions to the organizations we serve. By introducing ConverSight’s decision intelligence platform, we’re empowering teams with AI insights that elevate how they understand their data, optimize operations, and drive smarter decisions,” said Chris Milan, VP of Strategic Partnerships, Pine Services Group.

“ERPs play a critical role in operations but decision-making often lags behind execution,” said Ganesh Gandhieswaran, CEO and Co-Founder of ConverSight. Through our partnership with Pine and its outstanding member firms, we’re putting Athena, agentic AI, into the hands of teams closest to daily operations—unlocking faster insights, better alignment, and intelligent automation at scale,”

Delivered through Pine Services Group’s professional services network, customers benefit from rapid onboarding and immediate business impact, bringing agentic decision intelligence into daily workflows without months-long implementation cycles or specialized analytics teams.

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Ours Privacy Unveils Next-Generation Analytics Suite, Advancing Its Vision for a Comprehensive Healthcare Marketing CDP

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New capabilities for attribution, web analytics, session replay, and funnel insights arrive as healthcare organizations navigate an evolving privacy landscape

Ours Privacy introduced a significant expansion of its HIPAA-compliant customer data platform, launching an advanced analytics suite that brings together multi-touch attribution (MTA), web analytics, session replay, and user funnels, all fully aligned with the privacy standards healthcare marketers now require.

The release comes at a pivotal moment. Healthcare companies are experiencing a surge in privacy litigation and new federal guidance that reshapes what is permissible in digital marketing. As traditional tools like third-party cookies, pixels, and legacy analytics platforms become riskier to deploy, organizations are seeking modern, privacy-built solutions that preserve insight without compromising patient trust.

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Ours Privacy’s new analytics suite delivers that clarity. Designed to feel as intuitive as the analytics tools marketers have long relied on, yet engineered for the realities of healthcare today, the platform helps teams understand visitor behavior, diagnose performance issues, and measure the true impact of campaigns across channels.

“Healthcare teams need clarity, but they also need compliance,” said Adam Putterman, co-founder of Ours Privacy. “Our analytics suite is designed to empower growth while keeping privacy at the center, unlocking insights without compromising patient trust.”

The advanced analytics suite includes:

  • Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA): Understand how each channel contributes to patient conversions, with models purpose-built for HIPAA environments.
  • Web Analytics: View real-time traffic, engagement, and behavior, similar to the clarity of Universal Analytics, but built for modern privacy requirements.
  • Session Replay: Visualize user interactions to identify friction, improve conversion paths, and resolve issues faster without exposing PHI.
  • User Funnels & Flows: Measure drop-offs, analyze intent, and optimize patient journeys with interactive, step-by-step flow insights.

These new capabilities build on a year of rapid expansion for Ours Privacy. What began as a pixel replacement and CDP has evolved into a full-stack healthcare marketing platform, now including consent management, audience building, session replay, analytics, embedded maps and videos, and more. Together, these components move Ours Privacy closer to its long-term vision: a unified, privacy-first marketing CDP designed specifically for healthcare.

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Shoppable Video App Novel Acquired by AI Powered Influencer Platform partnrUP to Automate UGC and Video Commerce Brands

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Shoppable Video App Novel Acquired by AI Powered Influencer Platform partnrUP to Automate UGC and Video Commerce Brands

partnrUP

Novel videos influenced $41M in brand revenue during BFCM, proving the impact of automated shoppable video at scale

partnrUP, the AI-powered creator commerce platform, announced its acquisition of Novel, a leading Shopify video app built to help brands deploy UGC, influencer content, and social-first video across their storefronts to increase shopper engagement and conversion. The acquisition brings high-impact creator and UGC video directly ecommerce DTC websites – automating content distribution, personalization, and revenue attribution for brands like Ridge, Bloom Medicube.

What This Acquisition Unlocks

The latest partnrUP acquisition of Novel brings together two critical pillars to unlock social commerce: creator content and on-site conversion.

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Brands today invest heavily in UGC and influencer partnerships, yet much of that content lives off-site on social platforms where discovery happens, but where purchase decisions are rarely finalized. Novel changes that by making high-performing social and creator videos easy to deploy directly into Shopify storefronts.

Brands shouldn’t have to guess which creator content drives revenue.”

— Jessica Thorpe, CEO of partrnrUP

With Novel now part of partnrUP, brands gain access to a single system that can ingest, manage, and activate creator video across the entire shopping experience. From product pages to collections and landing pages, video becomes a conversion-driving layer of the storefront rather than a disconnected asset library.

Why This Matters for Brands Right Now

Commerce is increasingly visual, social, and trust-driven. Static product pages are no longer enough to answer shopper questions, especially as product categories become more competitive and crowded.

Video does what photos and text cannot. It shows products in motion, demonstrates real-world use, addresses objections, and builds credibility through authentic voices. Yet most brands struggle to operationalize video on-site at scale due to technical complexity, bandwidth constraints, and lack of clear measurement.

This acquisition directly addresses those challenges by eliminating friction across three of the biggest barriers brands face:
* Distribution: getting video into the storefront without slowing site performance or relying on development resources
* Relevance: ensuring the right video appears with the right product at the right moment
* Measurement: understanding which videos actually drive engagement, conversion, and revenue

By combining Novel storefront-native video experiences with AI-driven creator workflows, brands can finally treat video as a system -not a one-off experiment using the partnrUP platform.

How the Combined Platform Impacts Brands

Top-performing UGC and influencer videos sourced from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or created in house can now be activated directly within Shopify in minutes. No custom builds. No engineering overhead. No tradeoffs between performance and speed.

Once live, those videos become shoppable, dynamic elements of the purchase journey. Product detail pages evolve from static information hubs into immersive, trust-building environments where shoppers can see the product in action and gain confidence before buying.

“With Novel, we’re completing the loop from creator discovery through on-site activation and sales attribution. This is a major step toward a fully automated, social commerce experience where the right video content meets the right shopper every time,” Jessica Thorpe, CEO of partrnrUP.

Proven Retail Impact

The model is already delivering measurable results.

RIDGE, a leading Shopify Brand and Novel customer with world renowned YouTube content creator Marques Brownlee as an investor and chief Creative Partner, shared how on-site video changed the way their audience connects with the brand:

“Once we installed Novel we immediately launched a split test, said Michael De Lia,” Sr. Manager Ecommerce. “The addition of Novel UGC on our site resulted in a 2.55% lift in sitewide conversion. Running an old theme, we were stoked to start hosting dynamic video content on our site without sacrificing speed.”

These results are consistent with other customers, including Shopify DTC brand Lineage Provisions. Their 41.4% revenue improvement on their Classic Meat Sticks page demonstrates what’s possible when content resonates with the specific audience and product context.

Leadership Perspectives

Joe DeWulf, CEO and Co-Founder of Novel, emphasized the strategic alignment behind the acquisition:

“Novel was created to bridge the gap between social discovery and the point of purchase. We wanted brands to be able to showcase their best creator content right where buying decisions actually happen. Becoming part of partnrUP lets us take that idea to a completely new level. Together we can give brands a smarter, more automated way to turn video into trust, engagement, and measurable revenue.”

Toward Fully Automated Video Commerce

At its core, this acquisition is about removing manual effort from a process that should be intelligent, adaptive, and revenue-driven.

As partnrUP integrates Novel more deeply into its platform, brands can expect a future where:
* Creator and UGC videos are automatically ingested and organized
* Products are matched to relevant content without manual tagging
* Different shoppers see different videos based on behavior and intent
* Performance data informs both content creation and distribution
* Video becomes a continuously optimized conversion engine

The result is a storefront experience that feels alive, personal, and purpose-built for how people actually shop.

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ServicePower and Marcone Appliance Parts Announce Strategic Partnership to Streamline Field Service Management Solutions

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ServicePower and Marcone Appliance Parts Announce Strategic Partnership to Streamline Field Service Management Solutions

ServicePower, a leading provider of field service management software, announced that it has partnered with longstanding North American distributor Marcone Appliance Parts.

This collaboration will streamline operations and speed up procurement for service providers by integrating Marcone’s extensive parts inventory with ServicePower’s AI-driven platform. Doing so will provide the 13,000+ service companies using ServicePower immediate access to more than 300,000 parts that they can seamlessly identify and purchase for warranty jobs.

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“Service technicians are the backbone of the customer experience, and they need more than just tools—they need intelligent support,” said Frank Gelbart, chief executive officer of ServicePower. “By partnering with Marcone, we’re making it easier than ever for providers to access the right part at the right time. This integration empowers technicians to boost first-time fix rates, reduce costly return visits, and deliver faster, more seamless service, all while driving customer satisfaction and operational sustainability.”

Marcone Appliance Parts is a division of leading North American distributor mSupply, which maintains a nationwide network of distribution centers, including recent additions in Houston and Denver, ensuring rapid parts delivery across the country. Coupled with ServicePower’s intelligent scheduling and dispatching capabilities, the partnership enhances the ability to meet customer demands promptly and effectively.

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“This collaboration underscores our commitment to high-quality service and delivery speed,” said Asterios Satrazemis, chief executive officer of mSupply. “By combining our extensive parts inventory with ServicePower’s field service management expertise, we are setting a new standard for efficiency and ease in the repair industry.”

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Adaptiva Releases Next-Generation OneSite Patch Experience, Advancing the Era of Autonomous Endpoint Management

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Adaptiva Releases Next-Generation OneSite Patch Experience, Advancing the Era of Autonomous Endpoint Management

New UX advancements introduce guided onboarding, streamlined navigation, and powerful dashboards to make autonomous patching faster and more accessible for IT teams.

Adaptiva, the leader in autonomous endpoint management, announced the release of its next-generation OneSite Patch experience, marking a major advancement in the company’s mission to deliver the gold-standard for autonomous endpoint management (AEM) at global scale. The new release modernizes the user experience for IT and Security Operations professionals to streamline patch management setup, deployments, and reporting. These UX advancements make it possible for teams of all skill levels to adopt autonomous endpoint management faster and with greater confidence.

“With IT and security teams stretched thin and threat actors moving faster than ever, organizations must accelerate their shift to autonomous technology to close vulnerabilities before they can be exploited,” said Dr. Deepak Kumar, Founder and CEO of Adaptiva. “This next-generation release of OneSite Patch delivers the intuitive, guided experience organizations need to utilize autonomous patch management with greater speed, accuracy, and independence.”

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The new advancements to the OneSite Patch experience democratize powerful automation by delivering significantly simpler operational capabilities:

  • Guided Onboarding Experience: A built-in onboarding workflow walks users step-by-step through product setup, teaching where to configure integrations, manage patching strategies, and monitor deployments, all within the interface.
  • Simplified Navigation: A streamlined sidebar menu and OneSite Patch home screen highlight day-to-day functions while grouping advanced options under a dedicated “Advanced” menu. This reduces cognitive load for new users and ensures that the most frequently used patching actions are always easily accessible.
  • Modernized Patching Strategy Editor: Autonomous patching rules are intuitively set up using the new “What, When, and How” configuration tabs and drop-down menus in the Patching Strategy Editor. This makes it easy for organizations to set their patching strategies once across all OS and third-party products using declarative deployment plans with rings, scheduling controls, and approval logic. Once those rules are set, OneSite Patch executes them autonomously whenever a new patch is released, without the need for creating scripts or packaging individual deployments for each patch.
  • Powerful Dashboards: Enhancements to the homepage and deployment views offer new live dashboards for monitoring and trouble-shooting patch deployments in real time. The dashboards also offer time-based metrics for one-click updates and drilldowns into charts and reports for deeper insights into patch, product and device status.
  • Enhanced Security and Controls: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) updates introduce new role definitions, while security updates extend permission enforcement to all objects. The Home screen dashboard also offers quick actions for faster troubleshooting and an integrated Emergency Kit to quickly remediate failed or problematic patches. These features ensure that users always stay in control over autonomous patching and can quickly optimize their deployments.
  • Additional Improvements: The release includes a Java upgrade to JRE 25, improved user interactions for handling open applications during patching, and consolidated rollback functionality for easier resolution to patch deployment errors.

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Adaptiva is on a mission to eliminate complexity in endpoint management. By enhancing navigation, onboarding, and patching workflows, the new OneSite Patch experience enables customers to achieve higher productivity and independence while reducing support demands.

“Our goal was to make OneSite Patch as intuitive and user-friendly as it is powerful,” said Jesse Rogers, Principal Engineer at Adaptiva. “With the UX innovations in this new release, users won’t need deep configuration knowledge or extensive training to succeed. From onboarding to deployment, everything is self-guided, transparent, and built to help organizations patch smarter and faster.”

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Cognizant Unveils Artificial Intelligence Lab and Cognizant Moment™ Studio in Bengaluru

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Cognizant Unveils Artificial Intelligence Lab and Cognizant Moment™ Studio in Bengaluru

Innovation hub combines AI research and user experience to accelerate enterprise transformation

Cognizant announced the opening of its India Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab alongside a new Cognizant MomentTM Studio in Bengaluru—forming an innovation hub that advances the company’s AI builder strategy. Both the lab and studio are part of the commitment Cognizant announced in 2023 to invest $1 billion in generative AI over the next three years.

The India AI Lab extends Cognizant’s AI Lab in San Francisco, which was recently granted its 61st U.S. patent. The Cognizant MomentTM Studio is part of the company’s digital experience practice that helps clients leverage AI to reimagine customer experience and drive growth. Together, the lab and studio will focus on developing business-ready multi-agent systems, AI decisioning capabilities, responsible AI and AI-for-good initiatives.

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“Cognizant plays a pivotal role in enterprise AI by acting as an “AI builder,” bringing together our platforms, partnerships and highly skilled workforce to bridge infrastructure investment and business value,” said Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant. “With Agentic AI now essential to enterprise transformation, the real breakthroughs will come from pairing multi-agent systems with trustworthy, human-centered design. Our India AI Lab and Cognizant Moment Studio in Bengaluru offer research in agentic architectures, AI trust and next-generation user experience to create intelligent systems that support dependable decision-making for enterprises.”

The India AI Lab and Cognizant MomentTM Studio will accelerate enterprise innovation by blending creativity, technology and a robust partner ecosystem to transform visionary ideas into intelligent platforms and immersive experiences. The lab’s team comprising PhD-level scientists and AI engineers will advance applied research in multi-agent AI, decisioning systems and responsible AI. It will also strengthen Cognizant’s IP portfolio and platform innovation through the development of proprietary frameworks, reusable AI components and experiential platforms that will set new industry benchmarks.

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“The India AI Lab is a major expansion of Cognizant’s research footprint and our ambition to accelerate the next wave of AI innovation,” said Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer, Cognizant. “Bengaluru’s exceptional engineering and scientific talent will help us expand our work in scaled, reliable and inter-operable multi-agent systems, evolutionary AI and trustworthy decision-making as manifested in our Neuro AI platform suite.”

“Cognizant Moment is about creating experiences that resonate deeply—where creativity, technology and emotional integrity work in harmony,” said Benjamin Wiener, Global Head of Cognizant Moment. “The India AI Lab and Cognizant Moment Studio combine technological expertise with human insight to create a new generation of digital experiences that are intelligent, elegant, powerful and effective, delivered seamlessly to our clients.”

The India AI Lab will partner with leading universities across the country enabling joint research initiatives, real-world experimentation and internship opportunities for scholars in applied AI.

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IBM and Pearson Collaborate to Build New AI-Powered Learning Tools for Organizations and Individuals Worldwide

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IBM and Pearson Collaborate to Build New AI-Powered Learning Tools for Organizations and Individuals Worldwide

IBM and Pearson, the world’s lifelong learning company, announced a global partnership to build new personalized learning products powered by AI for businesses, public organizations, and educational institutions.

Recent research from Pearson found that inefficient career transitions and skills mismatches will cost the US economy $1.1 trillion in lost earnings annually. Employers, educators, and learners need faster, more relevant ways to learn new skills as AI reshapes how people work and learn.

IBM and Pearson aim to address these needs with AI-powered learning tools, built using watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx Governance, which will be available globally. IBM will also help Pearson build a custom AI-powered learning platform – similar to IBM Consulting Advantage – that combines human expertise with AI assistants, agents, and assets. The platform will drive growth with new products and services, while transforming Pearson’s operations to enhance workflows, productivity, and data-driven decision-making.

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As IBM’s primary strategic partner for customer upskilling and workforce transformation, IBM customers and its 270,000 employees will benefit from Pearson’s enterprise learning solutions. These include, Credly for digital credentialing, Faethm for strategic workforce planning, and Pearson Professional Assessments, which delivers IBM professional certification exams globally.

In addition, IBM and Pearson will explore the development of tools that will help verify the capabilities of AI agents, ensuring organizations can deploy them with confidence. This combines IBM’s expertise in building reliable, responsible AI with Pearson’s deep understanding of learning, skills development, and recognized credentials.

“Technology is evolving faster than human skills can keep pace. To close this gap, learning must be embedded seamlessly into the flow of work. When people learn where work happens, it has an immediate impact on productivity and performance,” said Omar Abbosh, CEO of Pearson. “Together with IBM, we’re building trusted AI-powered learning tools that will help people and organizations adapt, learn, and thrive in a world of constant change.”

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“Whether you’re leading a company or just graduating, everyone needs to build new skills for the AI era,” said Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM. “IBM and Pearson are bringing AI-powered education to more organizations to help people learn faster. Together, we’re helping companies and their teams adapt to change and succeed, while helping Pearson transform its own internal operations.”

This partnership advances Pearson’s strategy to build 360-degree relationships with a select group of strategic partners to deliver stronger customer outcomes, drive joint go-to-market initiatives, and enable shared growth.

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ZS to introduce ZAIDYN intelligence into Agentforce Life Sciences

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ZS to introduce ZAIDYN intelligence into Agentforce Life Sciences

ZS is growing its partnership with Salesforce, now bringing ZAIDYN intelligence directly into Salesforce’s Agentforce Life Sciences. Available starting in January 2026, this integration will boost sales and marketing performance. Its smarter omnichannel orchestration, field strategy planning and execution will equip life sciences teams to deliver therapies to patients more rapidly.

This ZAIDYN integration empowers organizations on three core fronts:

  • Personalized, compliant healthcare professional (HCP) engagement: Rich healthcare professional intelligence, derived from ZAIDYN Customer Engagement, integrates life-sciences-specific insights directly within Salesforce workflows. This intelligence helps teams drive more relevant interactions.
  • Improved field effectiveness: ZAIDYN Field Performance, when integrated with Salesforce, can help organizations optimize territory coverage, apply dynamic deployment and introduce performance-driven incentives. This way, reps are in the right place to engage with the right customers, and reps can showcase measurable results to close care gaps more efficiently.
  • Expand Agentforce with life-sciences-trained agents: ZAIDYN extends Agentforce with contextual, domain-trained agents that provide recommendations and automate next best actions. Agent capabilities include HCP suggestions, Next Best Action, personalized content and dynamic targeting to help teams anticipate customer needs and act faster.

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Integration will be facilitated through multiple modalities, including API-based approaches, MuleSoft and Data Cloud integration packages, and agent deployments via AgentExchange.

“ZS’s ready-to-use data and intelligence engine acts as an extension of Agentforce Life Sciences, allowing users of Salesforce to integrate powerful industry insights from ZAIDYN seamlessly into the flow of work,” said Tara Helm, VP Agentforce Life Sciences Strategy, Salesforce.

Jaideep Bajaj, Chairman Emeritus and Head of ZS’s platforms and products business unit, added, “We’re excited to bring together the right combination of Salesforce’s industry-specific Agentforce platform, ZAIDYN intelligence and ZS consulting to deliver for our clients and meet their goals. When Salesforce is the chosen platform, ZS makes it work for life sciences. With ZAIDYN intelligence, we can strengthen field planning with the intelligence and orchestration of a life-sciences-native system.”

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Xcel Energy to Provide Personalized Energy Services to Customers Using Oracle Platform

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Xcel Energy to Provide Personalized Energy Services to Customers Using Oracle Platform

Energy provider taps the AI-powered Oracle Opower Platform to provide personalized energy usage insights to millions of customers and give them tips on how to save

Xcel Energy, a major electric and natural gas provider, has selected the AI-enabled Oracle Opower customer engagement platform to support its energy programs, strengthen customer experiences, and improve grid resiliency. Designed to provide customers with insights on their own energy use, Opower residential behavioral energy efficiency programs are now used at more than 100 utilities and have saved more than 38 TWh of energy.

“As utilities transform to meet growing expectations for clean, reliable, and affordable energy, customer engagement is essential,” said Matt O’Keefe, group vice president of Oracle Utilities. “Together with Xcel Energy, we’re delivering innovative, AI-driven solutions that empower customers with personalized insights while providing regulators and policymakers with the measurable outcomes they expect. This collaboration demonstrates how technology and customer experience can accelerate the clean energy transition.”

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Xcel Energy is committed to delivering safe, reliable energy while keeping bills low for its 3.9 million electric customers and 2.2 million natural gas customers across the eight states it serves. The company will use Oracle’s platform to show customers how their energy use compares with similar homes, provide energy savings tips, and give personalized recommendations about energy programs that can help customers save money on their bills.

“As we build out our grid to meet the growing energy demand across the states we serve, we’re focused on continuing to make energy work better for our customers,” said Emmett Romine, vice president, Customer Energy and Transportation Solutions at Xcel Energy. “By providing customers with personalized insights about their energy use, we’re empowering them with options to reduce or shift their usage and potentially save money on their energy bills.”

Empowering a better energy future
The Opower platform powers dozens of products and services to help energy providers give customers insight and choices about their energy use, provide efficient service, and create a satisfying experience. Oracle’s advanced, AI-driven data analytics insights enable seamless integration across utilities’ digital channels, helping to ensure customers receive consistent guidance whether online, on mobile, or through email.

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Components of the Opower platform include:

  • Customer engagement and energy efficiency: Opower Home Energy Reports deliver personalized, data-driven, energy insights, giving customers clear, actionable guidance about their energy usage, where savings opportunities exist, and nudges to take advantage of other customer programs.
  • Behavioral demand response: Scalable, equitable, peak reduction programs that will use well-timed, personalized messages to encourage customers to lower or shift their energy usage during periods of high demand, avoiding costly capacity and keeping the grid more reliable. The addition of this flexible peak reduction resource contributes to deferment of costly infrastructure investments, enhanced grid stability, and long-term energy affordability.
  • Connected energy insights: Through personalized energy insights, utilities can create a seamless customer journey—from regular reports to event driven alerts—that empowers customers to save money, manage peak demand, and support the clean energy transition, all within one unified experience.
  • Real-time analytics: AI-driven, cloud-based dashboards show program performance, customer segmentation, and grid impacts, supporting data-driven decision-making and compliance reporting. Visualizations and insights will be accessible to both program managers and executives—not just data scientists—extending value across the organization.

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Omada Simplifies IGA Visibility with Access Intelligence

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Omada Simplifies IGA Visibility with Access Intelligence

Omada A/S (“Omada”), a global leader in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), announced that its platform now provides enhanced capability for Access Intelligence that unifies the company’s role intelligence and role visibility capabilities with advanced role analytics. This consolidation advances traditional governance by connecting visibility, analytics and remediation into a single, continuous operational loop.

Many organizations struggle with identity data scattered across HR systems, directories, cloud environments, and SaaS tools, creating fractured views. Omada’s Access Intelligence resolves this fragmentation by consolidating identity and entitlement data from every connected source into one correlated view that reveals the full scope of human and machine access relationships.

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Access Intelligence applies advanced analytics to interpret data and find emerging risks. It highlights how access is used, where policies diverge from practice, and which patterns indicate unnecessary complexity or excessive privilege. By inspecting factors such as historical changes, access patterns, and identity relationships, it uncovers dormant entitlements, hidden dependencies, and privilege drift.

These insights help governance teams assess and refine role models. Access Intelligence detects when boundaries drift – showing where roles have become too broad, redundant, or misaligned – so IGA programs can maintain models that accurately reflect current business needs and support simplified governance. Through real-time anomaly detection via continuous access correlation and ongoing hygiene management with embedded remediation, Access Intelligence enables organizations to proactively maintain role accuracy and governance effectiveness.

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“Access Intelligence bridges the gap between IGA and business-driven security needs,” said Michael Garrett, CEO of Omada. “By unifying visibility, analytics and remediation, it enables organizations to shrink their attack surface, maintain compliance and support business agility – turning static identity data into actionable insight that helps governance teams prioritize what matters most.”

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TripleLift Closes a Breakthrough 2025 with Global Expansion, Creative Innovation and Strategic Partnerships Across CTV, Retail Media, and Addressability

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TripleLift Closes a Breakthrough 2025 with Global Expansion, Creative Innovation and Strategic Partnerships Across CTV, Retail Media, and Addressability

TripleLift, the leading Creative SSP, is celebrating a milestone year defined by global expansion, accelerated product innovation and partnership momentum across CTV, retail media and programmatic addressability. The company advanced its position as the creative engine of programmatic advertising, delivering more relevant and performance driven ad experiences for advertisers and publishers around the world.

2025 introduced a new chapter under Chief Executive Officer Dave Helmreich, whose appointment in February brought renewed focus on creative technology, supply excellence, and global scale. The company expanded into 15 international markets, opened a new office in the heart of Paris, appointed new regional leadership in Canada and the UK, and launched an exclusive partnership with Numatec to accelerate growth across Latin America.

“2025 has been a year of extraordinary momentum for TripleLift, where we’ve proven that creativity and technology can redefine what’s possible in programmatic advertising,” said Helmreich. “Our focus was on defining ourselves as the leading creative SSP. As we look to 2026, we’re committed to scaling that innovation globally and continuing to make advertising work better for all.”

To support its rapid expansion, the company also announced three key leadership hires, including Abby Hamilton, chief people officer, Matthew Novick, chief financial officer and Rob Diechert, who was promoted to chief operating officer after coming on board as general manager of the Exchange. The strategic hires ensure continued excellence in creative, operational, and client success functions.

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Creative Innovation That Redefined CTV

Throughout 2025, TripleLift delivered some of the most celebrated creative advancements in CTV, introducing new ad formats designed to elevate performance and viewer engagement. The company launched Programmatic Pause Ads with DIRECTV Advertising, a category-defining format that transforms the simple act of pressing “pause” into a premium, brand-safe moment for advertisers. Adoption has been strong, with half a dozen publisher partners already live, and additional ones slated to roll out in early 2026. As these advanced formats continue to scale, TripleLift’s holistic CTV inventory footprint has more than doubled year-over-year and advanced formats continue to make up close to one-fifth of all CTV revenue.

This builds on the momentum of TripleLift’s Enhanced Spots, one of the fastest-growing CTV formats in the company’s portfolio. Enhanced Spots incorporate product images, QR codes, and other dynamic content elements directly into the creative, enabling brands to reduce friction between awareness and action and break through the noise of conventional CTV ads.

Growing Demand Side Momentum

TripleLift also strengthened its marketplace position through key platform advancements. In October, the company joined Amazon’s DSP Certified Supply Exchange Program, a milestone that gives advertisers enhanced creative technology capabilities paired with access to premium, high-quality inventory. As part of the technical and integration updates with Amazon DSP, retail media grew 110% YoY organically in 2025. TripleLift also saw demand driven growth increase by 24x, which continues to highlight the importance of retail as a growth area in 2026.

“This year, our teams turned ambition into impact, launching new solutions, expanding globally, and helping partners achieve stronger results across every channel,” said Rob Deichert, chief operating officer at TripleLift. “As we move into 2026, our focus remains on execution, excellence, and creating meaningful value for the advertisers and publishers who trust us to deliver every day.”

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Looking Ahead: AI and CTV Drive the Next Chapter

TripleLift plans to deepen its investment across several key areas to drive future growth and innovation. These strategic priorities include enhancing its AI-powered creative automation capabilities, expanding crucial CTV integrations, developing sophisticated dynamic creative frameworks, and advancing its solutions for identity and addressability.

“As we look ahead, TripleLift is doubling down on the technologies shaping the future of advertising,” said Helmreich. “We’re investing in intelligent creative automation, deeper CTV integrations, and new ways to help brands and publishers connect with audiences through more relevant, impactful ad experiences. The next chapter of programmatic will be defined by creativity powered by AI, and TripleLift intends to lead that transformation.”

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ANY.RUN Launches AI Sigma Rules to Help SOC Teams Scale Detection and Cut MTTR

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ANY.RUN Launches AI Sigma Rules to Help SOC Teams Scale Detection and Cut MTTR

ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions, announced the launch of AI Sigma Rules, a new feature that automatically turns verified sandbox detections into reusable, standardized Sigma rules, helping SOC teams scale detection, reduce MTTR, and move faster from investigation to prevention.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐬

SOC teams find real threats every day, but turning those findings into reusable detection logic is still slow and manual. Rules live in different tools and formats, making it hard to scale protection fast.

AI Sigma Rules fix this by turning verified malicious activity into ready-to-use Sigma rules, so every confirmed threat strengthens the whole environment.

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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬

AI Sigma Rules address one of the core bottlenecks in modern detection operations: turning confirmed threats into protection that scales. By automating Sigma rule creation directly from sandbox detections, ANY.RUN enables SOC teams to move faster and operate with greater consistency across their security stack.

· 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀, reducing the time it takes to turn investigations into live rules

· 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 tied to real attacks and deployable across SIEM and EDR platforms

· 𝗟𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗧𝗧𝗥, as analysts no longer start from a blank page when building new detections

· 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, with less time spent on manual rule drafting and formatting

· 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗦𝗦𝗣𝘀, where one investigation can be converted into protection for multiple tenants

· 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, using a shared, standardized detection format across all tiers

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Rallio Launches Revolutionary AI Assistant to Transform Multi-Location Brand Management

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Rallio Launches Revolutionary AI Assistant to Transform Multi-Location Brand Management

The Best All-in-One Social Media Management Platform | Rallio

Introduction of Rallio’s New AI Assistant to Transform Brand Analysis and Social Performance Strategy

Rallio | Powered by Ignite Visibility, the AI powerhouse supporting Ignite Visibility’s social media services, unveiled its newest advancement, the Rallio AI Assistant. By powering Ignite’s social strategy with deeper automation and intelligence, Rallio enables franchise and multi-location brands to transform social media into a predictable engine for growth.

The Rallio AI Assistant builds on existing AI features like automated review responses, content creation, image generation, and analytics. Now, brands can simply ask questions, get insight, and uncover new opportunities in seconds. “This isn’t just AI answering questions,” said Chuck Goetschel, Chief Product Officer at Ignite Visibility. “It’s AI that understands your entire ecosystem… what matters, what needs fixing, and where you can win. We built this to give brands not just awareness, but direction.”

Unlike traditional dashboards that require digging through data, the Rallio AI Assistant pulls insights from your Content, Analytics, Community, and Reputation tabs and turns them into plain-language guidance. With one question like “How is my brand doing?”, you instantly get performance highlights, top posts, competitive signals, and recommended next steps, all in one place.

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Key Features & Capabilities

Unified Data Access: The AI Assistant pulls insights from Analytics, Content, Community, and Reputation, and answers natural-language questions instantly. It returns clear summaries, highlights opportunities and risks, and provides actionable recommendations on demand.

Conversational Intelligence: Users can chat naturally with the Assistant, ask follow-up questions, and switch between brand-wide or location-level insights. It remembers context and saves sessions, making data exploration effortless and ongoing.

Actionable Summaries: Instead of overwhelming dashboards, the Assistant breaks down complex reporting into simple takeaways. It surfaces what matters, points to priorities, and recommends next steps so teams can act quickly and confidently.

Competitive Comparison (Flagship Feature): The Assistant generates side-by-side comparisons against local competitors, including ratings, reviews, and visibility. It then offers clear strategies to outperform the competition, turning insight into advantage.

Reputation Intelligence: Brands receive clean summaries of reviews, sentiment trends, and reputation drivers. The Assistant recommends ways to strengthen ratings, improve response strategy, and build customer trust more efficiently.

With this launch, Rallio continues advancing its platform as one of the most intuitive and intelligent tools for multi-location digital management.

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Nutshell Connects Claude, ChatGPT, & More to CRM Data for Instant, Conversational Insights

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Nutshell Connects Claude, ChatGPT, & More to CRM Data for Instant, Conversational Insights

Nutshell

Nutshell’s new MCP server integration lets teams ask plain‑English questions about their pipeline, customers, and activities—and act on answers in seconds.

Nutshell, the CRM and marketing automation platform that saves teams time, announced a new MCP server integration that securely connects AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to live CRM data.

The result: instant, natural‑language answers and one‑click follow‑ups that help SMBs make faster, smarter decisions.

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With a quick, no‑code setup, teams can ask questions such as, “Which deals over $5,000 are at risk this week?” and receive clear, data‑backed insights in seconds—then create tasks or launch follow‑ups directly from the response. Nutshell’s permission controls ensure teams decide what AI can access and can revoke it at any time.

“Now you can talk to your CRM like you talk to a colleague,” said Chris Cain, Nutshell’s VP of Product Development. “No more digging through reports—just ask a question and you’ll get the context and actions you need to keep deals moving.”

Designed for real‑world sales workflows, the integration simplifies common use cases, such as:

  • Getting instant pipeline summaries and trend analysis
  • Preparing for calls with quick account context
  • Automating routine reporting without spreadsheets

The MCP server integration supports leading AI assistants, including Claude and ChatGPT, and provides SMBs a fast path to value by transforming CRM data into conversational insights—without requiring custom scripts or complex configuration.

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