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Symphony RetailAI Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified Organization in 2022 in Nine Countries
Symphony RetailAI announced that it is Great Place to Work-Certified in all nine of the countries in which it was eligible for certification. Certification has been awarded to Symphony RetailAI in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Germany, India, Slovenia, Thailand and the Netherlands.
C3 AI Selected by Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
The C3 AI Application Platform will enable next-generation AI applications to accelerate DCSA’s initial awards and ongoing maintenance of security clearances, helping to maintain a stable inventory of background investigations critical to U.S. national security.
Microsoft Selects RISE with SAP to Drive Business Innovation
Microsoft is the first public cloud provider to adopt RISE with SAP internally to transform some of its large SAP ERP deployments. The decision to adopt RISE with SAP builds on its wide adoption of SAP solutions. These include SAP SuccessFactors solutions, the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution, SAP Business Technology Platform and other SAP solutions running on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft’s implementation of RISE with SAP will deepen Microsoft’s expertise with SAP solutions and establish best practices that can be shared to the benefit its and SAP’s joint customers.
Inspur Information and Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University Improve Patient Outcomes Using AI and Machine Learning
At NVIDIA GTC, Inspur Information announced the results of its partnership with the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to advance medical research and healthcare. Northwestern researchers have developed a custom AI workflow using Inspur AI servers with NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate the processing of radiology reports and provide crucial patient follow-up.
DeepBrain AI Unveils Virtual Humans to Transform Education at the ASU+GSV Summit
DeepBrain AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in South Korea, will demonstrate how Virtual Humans enable more engaging experiences at the ASU+GSV Summit held in San Diego, USA, April 4 to 6. With an expected 15,000 visitors, ASU+GSV is North America’s largest EdTech exhibition, where leading EdTech companies gather to meet and share cutting-edge technologies and new products.
Allied Electronics & Automation Supplies Hardware for Phoenix Contact’s New PLCnext Edge Gateway IIoT Software Solution
Allied Electronics & Automation supplies hardware for Phoenix Contact’s new PLCnext Edge Gateway software, a state-of-the-art IIoT edge computing solution designed for data collection in demanding industrial and manufacturing environments. The new PLCnext Edge Gateway software is the latest addition to Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext Technology platform and enables industrial automation and control customers to transmit data from any industrial system to any cloud without having to invest capital to adapt legacy infrastructure.
DataStax Astra DB Now Delivers Connected, Real-Time Data Pipelines Powered by Streaming
DataStax, the real-time data company, unveiled “change data capture” (CDC) for Astra DB, a new capability for its multi-cloud database built on Apache Cassandra. The new CDC for Astra DB is powered by advanced streaming technology built on Apache Pulsar™. It processes and delivers database changes in real time via event streams, making real-time data available for use across data lakes, data warehouses, search, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Ingram Micro Cloud Retains Microsoft Azure Expert MSP Status for Third Year Running
Ingram Micro Cloud announced it has retained Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) status for the third consecutive year. This status recognizes Ingram Micro Cloud for effectively assisting partners in growing their own businesses by extending services, continuously expanding their offering portfolio and providing first-class in-house support to their partner network.
