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Snowflake Inc. said today that it is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to support a connector that enables bidirectional access between Microsoft’s Dataverse platform for copilot development and the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Snowflake said the connector simplifies interoperability between Microsoft’s …
OpenText broadly enhances customer experience cloud suite
OpenText Corp., the maker of a diversified set of cloud-based information technology and knowledge management products, today unveiled a set of enhancements and new products around the theme of artificial intelligence enablement. They’re combined in version 24.4 of Cloud Editions, a platform …
Copilots will be everywhere in Microsoft Ignite announcement spree
Microsoft Corp. is going all in on agents as it expands its line of Copilots to take on unique roles handling mundane tasks as well as complex, multi-step business processes. Agentic artificial intelligence refers to AI systems that are designed to act …
Oracle expands integration with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
Oracle Corp. is using Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today to announce that it has expanded the number of its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters colocated in Microsoft Azure data centers to nine regions,. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in …
Microsoft Fabric gets enhanced AI development and data integration features
Microsoft Fabric is getting new tools and capabilities to streamline artificial intelligence application development, enhance data integration and improve security in a series of announcements at Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today. Fabric is an integrated analytics platform that unifies data integration, engineering, …
Informatica expands support for AI and Microsoft Fabric on Azure
Informatica Inc. today announced three new capabilities for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud aimed at smoothing the process of building, deploying and activating artificial intelligence and analytical applications using trusted data. The Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI provides a set of reference architectures …
Dell expands AI Factory with new high-powered servers and dense racks
Dell Technologies Inc. is expanding its AI Factory in announcements being made today at the SC24 high-performance computing conference in Atlanta. The AI Factory is intended to help organizations adopt and scale up artificial intelligence across their operations by deploying an integrated …
Five9 ups the intelligence level of its virtual agents
Contact-center-as-a-service provider Five9 Inc. today said it has expanded the Genius AI suite it announced in August with intelligent virtual agents that incorporate generative artificial intelligence and natural language processing to simulate the conversational abilities of a human. Businesses can fine-tune Five9 …
MinIO debuts object storage built for AI workloads
MinIO Inc., developer of a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 service, today announced a version of its cloud storage service designed to support all types of artificial intelligence training data in one infrastructure. Object storage is …
Snowflake adds bevy of features for AI development and managed Polaris catalog
Snowflake Inc. today announced at its annual Build 2024 virtual developer conference numerous enhancements to its cloud data platform, many focused on artificial intelligence. Among them is a natural-language front-end to internal data with agentic capabilities, tools that help developers more quickly …