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New practice helps clients in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and more to close more deals and provide a better customer experience  Saggezza, a global technology solutions provider and consulting firm, announced the launch of its Salesforce Practice. Through the new practice, Saggezza clients accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and better align business processes and technology investment with their primary goal: to become customer-focused companies. Saggezza became an official Salesforce Partner…

New Category To Support Business Professionals Working Remotely Zoom Video Communications, Inc. announced Zoom for Home, a new category of software experiences and hardware devices to support remote work use cases. In a time where employers are grappling with what the new normal of work will look like, Zoom for Home elevates employee experiences to connect remotely and be productive. The future of knowledge work will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person experience. In a recent study by IBM, 81% of respondents—up from 75%…

Global report recognizes merits of significant EY milestone in SAP implementation services EY has been named as a worldwide Leader in SAP implementation services by IDC MarketScape. The IDC MarketScape model is based on a comprehensive evaluation framework and set of parameters that aim to identify those organizations which are expected to successfully provide SAP implementation services in both the short and the long term. The report analyzes 15 SAP applications system integrators (SIs) with broad portfolios and…

What's the News: EPAM was named a leader in Cloud Business Analytics Services by IDC MarketScape. Why it is important: In a volatile market, data is critical for companies to stay afloat. Leaders in business analytics, like EPAM, can help provide the tools and expertise to pivot quickly and make informed decisions that enable businesses to thrive. Who it affects - Corporate enterprises worldwide. EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services, announced that…

New offering assures uninterrupted advanced observability across globally distributed data centers for security and compliance-sensitive organizations Software intelligence company Dynatrace announced the addition of a new Premium High Availability deployment option for Dynatrace® Managed, its unique managed offering that seamlessly extends Dynatrace’s SaaS architecture to hybrid clouds. Organizations using Dynatrace Managed in a single region, and those using Dynatrace SaaS, have always had uninterrupted advanced…

New Free Service Helps Customers Move File Data to Amazon Web Services Qumulo, the leading provider of cloud file data services, announced today the launch of Qumulo Shift for Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, the first-ever native cloud service that enables organizations to move file data from any Qumulo on-prem or public cloud cluster into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and transform that data to object in an open and non-proprietary format. With Shift, Qumulo file customers can now leverage the full ecosystem of…

International Data Corporation (IDC) today published an IDC Innovators report profiling four companies that provide augmented reality (AR) platforms for enterprise use. The four companies are: Atheer, Scope AR, Ubimax, and Upskill. Augmented reality overlays digital information or objects within a person's current view of reality. The included companies provide AR enterprise platforms that enable customers to use either mobile devices (such as smart phones and tablets) or smart glasses and head-mounted displays (HMDs).…

Organizations That Invest in Data-to-Insights Capabilities Benefit from Better Decisions And Improved Outcomes, Including 21% Increase in Revenue Qlik announced a global study that shows organizations that strategically invest in creating data-to-insights capabilities through modern data and analytics pipelines are seeing significant bottom line impact. The global IDC survey, sponsored by Qlik, of 1,200 business leaders* shows that companies with a higher ability to identify, gather, transform, and analyze data to glean…

International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, and Ecosystems, the leading platform for winning and growing customers based on quantified business outcomes, are excited to announce a global strategic partnership. Improving the scale and consistency with which B2B sales teams communicate business value to customers can be challenging, requiring both effective industry content and a software infrastructure to bring that content to the point of sale. Through…

New Features Include Active Disaster Recovery Built on New Continuous Replication Technology and Unified Block and File Capabilities Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced Purity 6.0 for FlashArray, the latest version of Pure's flagship suite of software. Engineered with the modern organization in mind, these new agile data services provide customers with an efficient way to store, safeguard, manage, access and mobilize their data with strategic consumption models…

A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey of more than 2,000 IT and line of business (LoB) decision makers confirms that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing worldwide. Over a quarter of all AI initiatives are already in production and more than one third are in advanced development stages. And organizations are reporting an increase in their AI spending this year. Delivering a better customer experience was identified as the leading driver for AI adoption by more than half the large companies…

Ariox announces the release of Lumino version 2.1, a user-managed, one-stop scalable integration solution. This innovative business tool includes dynamic data rules, integration prioritization, business intelligent (BI) analytics, and smart alert engine—for agile communication between any enterprise applications. "The economic turbulence of 2020 underscores the necessity for businesses to function with the highest levels of agility in all domains," says Mary Arnhart, President of Ariox. "Lumino radically transforms how…

New market data and real-life insights unveiled to help CIOs and IT executives successfully lead their organization through the next phase of the pandemic and beyond International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, announced a strategic partnership with TrustRadius, the most trusted customer voice and insights platform, to deliver a new webinar series, Crisis through Recovery. Through this series and new partnership, attendees will benefit from the combined…

Companies around the world can now secure a valuable premium .cloud domain name with new affordable pricing Top-level domain (TLD) .Cloud announced the release of over 100,000 premium domain names with a new pricing structure to their worldwide partner network. These premium domain names are considered highly valuable for branding and marketing purposes and opens new opportunities for businesses to create modern branding and memorable websites. Released on May 6, 2020 at 16:00 UTC, the inventory totaling 103,395 domains is…

Over the past five years, International Data Corporation (IDC) has been documenting the rise of the digital economy and the digital transformation that organizations must undergo to compete and survive in this economy. To that end, IDC announced the launch of nine new research practices in 2020 that bridge its traditional technology market view with a business outcomes view. The objective of the practices will be to provide context to what is happening in the digital economy – explaining the desired business outcomes, such…

In today's technology-driven world, customers and consumers have made the experience they receive from a brand a crucial aspect of any engagement or customer journey. Brands will be competing for customers and loyalty based increasingly upon the experience the customer receives, not just the product they buy. To guide organizations through this transition, International Data Corporation (IDC) has published the Future of Customers and Consumers (FOCC) framework. Marketing Technology News: Questionmark Releases Discounted…

A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) study offers the first look at enterprise workloads leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities on the public cloud. The study found that IaaS and PaaS spending in 2018 was dominated by three workloads: Data Management, Application Development & Testing, and Data Analytics. Combined, these three workloads represented more than half of all IaaS and PaaS spending in 2018. This was primarily driven by enterprises migrating their…

A new index of leading indicators for IT spending launched by International Data Corporation (IDC) supports recent forecasts that point toward declines in overall tech spending in 2020, but also highlights opportunities where businesses may be looking to increase short-term investments as part of their response to the COVID-19 crisis. Enterprise respondents to a global survey identified expected cuts in spending on traditional technologies including PCs, mobile devices, server/storage infrastructure, and IT services, but…

Company Now Valued at $2.5 Billion, More Than Double the Valuation 21 Months Ago Cohesity announces $250 million in Series E funding, led by DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Wing Venture Capital. DFJ Growth and Greenspring Associates are new investors as are Baillie Gifford and Sozo Ventures. The round also includes broad support from existing investors, including Sequoia Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund 1, as well as strategic investors Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Investments. Cohesity…

Zuora, Inc., the leading cloud-based subscription management platform provider, today announced the launch of Zuora Revenue, the latest release of RevPro, and the only automated revenue recognition application built for subscription businesses and their ASC 606 and IFRS 15 needs. Fully integrated with the entire Zuora order-to-revenue (OTR) suite of applications, new Zuora Revenue features enable companies to achieve a faster quarter close, minimize compliance risk, and more precisely forecast the revenue impact of business…