Mike Vizard

Oracle at a Modern Business Experience event announced a series of updates that embed a range of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its applications portfolio. In addition, Oracle announced updates to its supply chain management (SCM) application to enhance collaboration within the application while facilitating integration between field service and customer service representatives. Finally, Oracle […]

Neurala announced it has made a self-service instance of the tool it created for building and training artificial intelligence (AI) applications available as a service on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Dr. Massimiliano Versace, CEO and co-founder of Neurala, says Brain Builder makes the tool Neurala created to simplify data tagging, training, deployment and […]

The gap between what most senior business executives believe can be accomplished by investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and what can be really accomplished today using AI has now widened to the point where a backlash against AI in the enterprise may be all but inevitable. Senior business leaders are motivated by a need to […]

Strikedeck today launched a self-service edition of its customer success platform that is hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Company CEO Shreesha Ramdas says the cloud-based instance of the company’s platform, dubbed Strikedeck Blitz, is primarily aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB) that typically would not have the IT resources and expertise required […]

The days when most routine requests for IT support are handled by a human may now be numbered thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Symphony SummitAI has revealed that the latest version of its SummitAI Alps platform can now resolve 30 percent of repetitive and manual IT support tasks automatically via a digital […]

Business intelligence (BI) is slowly but surely becoming a feature of most packaged applications. The latest example of this trend is customer relationship management (CRM) software from Insightly, which has been updated to include visualization tools that make it simpler to track key performance indicators across multiple geographies. In addition, the latest version of the […]

Much of the focus on cloud computing over the past several years has been simply making the transition. But as IT organizations move beyond running a handful of isolated application workloads, they are starting to discover getting to the cloud is only the first step in what is quickly becoming a career-long adventure. A survey […]

Digital business transformation is one of those initiatives that tends to generate a lot of excitement within most organizations. Line of business executives tend to envision new streams of revenue suddenly being generated, while IT leaders see a chance like never before to directly add value to the business. But now that a critical mass […]

An effort to apply blockchain technologies to create a network overlay that makes it possible to programmatically control how individual packets travel across an Ethernet-based network was advanced today with the launch of a Developer Test Network from Marconi. Peter Lai, operations lead for Marconi, says the Developer Test Network provides developers with a sandbox […]

Cinnamon AI, a provider of tools used in Japan to employ machine learning algorithms to automate the turning of unstructured data into a structured format that can be stored in a database, announced this week that it is now opening operations in the U.S. Fresh off raising an additional $15 million in funding to fuel […]

The Linux Foundation is looking to spur adoption of blockchain technologies by releasing the first long-term support (LTS) version of the Hyperledger Fabric framework along with a Hyperledger Grid reference architecture designed to make it simpler to build supply chain applications. Christopher Ferris, an IBM CTO for open technology who contributes to the Hyperledger project, […]

Digital transformation is one of those IT trends that is clearly in the eye of the beholder. In some organizations, it means modernizing every system they have on an end-to-end basis. In other organizations, it may mean something as simple as being able to send an alert to a customer’s mobile device. About the only […]