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The Aruba networking unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is making what it calls its biggest switching announcement in two years, introducing new hardware, software and analytics that are designed for campus-wide deployment in far-flung networks. The Aruba CX 6300 Series …
New Microsoft deal boosts SAP earnings, but new executive team faces challenges
SAP SE stole its own thunder by pre-releasing its earnings results 11 days ago, so this morning’s conference call with executives was more of a get-to-know-you for new co-Chief Executive Officers Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein than a news event. Still, the announcement …
Hot bots: The payoffs and pitfalls of robotic process automation
Irish health insurer Laya Healthcare Ltd. needs to clean up thousands of accounts each month that carry balances that are too small to bother collecting. “A customer may have a balance of $150.12 and pay $150 because they can’t remember the correct …
Boomi bulks up API management and adds streaming support to its integration and governance platform
Boomi Inc., the Dell Technologies Inc. subsidiary that focuses on data integration and governance, is kicking off day two of its Boomi World event in Washington, D.C. today with a raft of product enhancements. They include expanded functions for its application programming interface or …
Invoca applies machine learning to transcribing and classifying voice calls
Invoca Inc. today extended its call tracking and analytics platform with capabilities that apply keyword analytics to transcribed conversations and automatically categorize them for marketing purposes. The new Signal Discovery feature uses unsupervised machine learning to scour large volumes of recorded calls and …
TigerGraph’s cloud-native engine debuts as it raises $32M in new funding
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. today announced the general availability of a cloud-native version of its product that it announced nearly a year ago, adding a free trial option and a range of starter kits aimed at making graph technology accessible to …
Cloudera debuts all-open-source integrated cloud data platform
Two months after adopting an all-open-source strategy, Cloudera Inc. today is announcing an integrated data platform made up entirely of open-source elements. Cloudera Data Platform is being positioned as one-stop-shopping cloud service for organizations that want to perform analytics across hybrid and …
Startup applies AI to cybersecurity insurance underwriting to improve policy precision
Startup Cowbell Cyber Inc. is applying machine learning to the small but growing market for cybersecurity insurance. It’s doing so with the announcement today of a continuous underwriting platform that it claims brings new levels of precision to risk assessment to enable …
Alfresco offers content/process management platform as a cloud-native service
Alfresco Software Inc. today is unveiling a cloud-native version of its Digital Business Platform that it will offer as a fully managed service. The maker of open-source enterprise content management and business process management services pitches its software as a way to …
Splunk adds new pricing options and launches venture capital arm
Splunk Inc. is introducing new pricing options, an assortment of new partner initiatives and the establishment of a venture capital arm to invest in data-focused businesses. The company, which Gartner Inc. ranks as No 2 behind IBM Corp. in the market for searching, …