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Snowflake reveals AI innovations and more at Snowday 2023

Announced at its Snowday 2023 event, Snowflake has unveiled several new innovations, enhancements and investment plans to enhance the user experience and extend new capabilities to organizations.

A building part of the University of Bristol | HPE and Uni of Bristol to help create UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer

HPE and Uni of Bristol to create UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer

HPE and The University of Bristol have announced a collaboration to deliver the UK’s fastest supercomputer thanks to £225m government funding.

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UiPath Clipboard AI named on TIME’s Best Inventions 2023

UiPath Clipboard AI has been selected as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023. Named in the Productivity Category, Clipboard AI removes the need for anyone to manually copy-paste.

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SAP Build Code embeds AI co-pilot Joule to Build better systems

SAP has launched SAP Build Code, an application development solution that utilizes AI co-pilot Joule by embedding AI-based code generation.

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Google Cloud thinks out of the Box to transform world of work with GenAI

Google Cloud and Box, a Content Cloud single platform that allows organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle and integrate best-of-breed apps, have expanded their partnership to transform work in the enterprise with GenAI.

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Tech breakthroughs unveiled at Celosphere 2023 could skyrocket process mining to the stars

Celonis announced that more than 3,000 of the world’s top process mining experts will convene at Celosphere 2023 in Munich, Germany on November 14-15.

Accenture building | Accenture to acquire 6point6

Accenture to acquire technology consultancy 6point6

Accenture will utilize 6point6's expertize to enhance its strategy and architecture capabilities.

IBM unveils IBM Storage Scale System 6000 to increase efficiency

IBM has introduced its new cloud-scale global data platform, IBM Storage Scale System 6000, to meet today’s data intensive and AI workload demands.

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Daudruy take a bite of Infor’s Food and Beverage solution

French company Daudruy Van Cauwenberghe, a nearly two-century-old oils manufacturer offering vegetable, animal and human food, oil seeds and greases, has chosen to deploy the Infor CloudSuite Food and Beverage solution, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Microsoft launches new Copilot capabilities to enhance brand operations

Microsoft has announced new Copilot and demand planning capabilities for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

image of birds migrating | IOM and Snowflake

IOM and Snowflake delve deeper into migration management in EHoA

IOM has recently hosted its first hackathon on “Bridging Climate Change and Human Mobility”, in collaboration with Snowflake to provide insights on the intersection of environmental factors with migration management and policymaking in the East and Horn of Africa.

Cognizant and ISS extend partnership to drive innovation

In their partnership so far, Cognizant and ISS have successfully delivered an optimized scalable financial and accounting model which has been useful in improving efficiency and decreasing costs.

Rise in AI demand drives strong IFS results in 2023

IFS has announced its financial results for its third quarter 2023, reporting total revenues of €749m, an increase of 33 percent year-on-year (YOY).

Analytics and AI

Fujitsu forms merger to enhance cloud services

Japanese multinational conglomerate Fujitsu has announced its decision to form an “absorption-type merger” of its public cloud business.

ERP Today’s weekly hotlist: 23-27 October

We’re bringing you ERP Today’s weekly hotlist, featuring our top news picks from the previous week of October.

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KPMG India transforms financial workloads with Vianai Systems

KPMG in India has announced an alliance with Vianai Systems to put conversational AI directly into the hands of finance users with Vianai’s hila Enterprise.

Application Development and Integration

AWS Q3 results show higher revenue, but slow sales

Amazon announced its Q3 financial results with the AWS cloud platform becoming a key driver of revenue, despite recently slow sales.

image of small figurines standing on a pile of coins | LSEG and Oracle

LSEG upgrades financial operations with Oracle Cloud

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, has chosen Oracle Cloud to transform its finance operations.

image of white fluffy cloud with blue sky | Microsoft and Submittable

Microsoft and Submittable collaborate on a new future of cloud

Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with Submittable to collaborate and innovate together to enable Submittable to develop new solutions powered by Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service.

SAP debuts new CX generative AI capabilities

SAP has announced new generative AI capabilities dedicated to spanning its SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio.

Storm clouds for Google as Q3 misses expectations despite AI flurry

Google parent company, Alphabet, has announced its financial results for its third quarter, ending September 30, 2023. The company reported total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY).

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Financial Management

Accenture’s North America take-over continues with Comtech Group acquisition

Accenture has acquired Comtech Group, a consulting and program management company for infrastructure projects, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Accenture to acquire ConcentricLife to boost marketing capabilities

Accenture has agreed to acquire ConcentricLife, a healthcare marketing agency helping Life Sciences brands build optimal experiences.

Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer | IBM third-quarter

IBM’s Q3 23 growth driven by software and consulting

IBM has announced its third-quarter 2023 results with revenue totaling $14.8bn, an increase of 4.6 percent, up 3.5 percent at constant currency.

CEO Bill McDermott | ServiceNow sees “tailwind of growth” with GenAI in Q3 23 success

Analytics and AI

ServiceNow teases rivals with real GenAI “product” in Q3 23 success

ServiceNow has outperformed its guidance across most Q3 23 profitability metrics, citing GenAI impact as it increased 2023 guidance.

IBM building | IBM earns AWS Generative AI Competency award

IBM and KPMG expand partnership to aid client use of SAP S/4HANA

IBM and KPMG have shown evidence of being successful as a team from their comprehensive business transformation program at Liberty Utilities.

image of person in lab using microscope | Salesforce | Life Sciences Cloud

Salesforce unveils Life Sciences Cloud for pharma organizations

Salesforce has announced Life Sciences Cloud, a secure platform for pharmaceutical and medical technology organizations to help them speed up drug and device development, enlist and retain patients across the clinical trail journey and leverage AI to deliver personalized experiences.

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Smart Communications personalizes digital services with Google Cloud

Google Cloud and Smart Communications, the mobile services arm of PLDT Group, have entered into a collaboration to improve the accessibility of essential digital services for Filipinos, with Searce providing technical implementation support.

Microsoft's office building | Microsoft’s shows positive Q1 2024 results amid faster cloud growth

Application Development and Integration

Microsoft shows positive Q1 24 results amid faster cloud growth

Microsoft’s fiscal first-quarter earnings outperformed analyst forecasts driven by revenue in Intelligent Cloud rising 19 percent to $24.3bn.

AWS announces new data-secure AWS European Sovereign Cloud

The new AWS European Sovereign Cloud will give its customers who are in highly regulated industries and the public sector further choice and flexibility to address evolving data residency and resilience requirements in the European Union.