Enterprise
Read the latest news on enterprise, from new products to large SaaS providers like Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow and Atlassian to funding for small SaaS companies and new products that help startups build their own SaaS.
The buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google’s lightweight Linux-based operating system, by giving ChromeOS users greater access to Windows apps “without the hassle of complex installations or updates.”
ClickUp Knowledge Management combines a new wiki-like editor and with a new AI system that can also bring in data from Google Drive, Dropbox, Confluence, Figma and other sources.
Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service
Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing.
Asana is using its work graph to train LLMs with the goal of creating AI assistants that work alongside human employees in company workflows.
Taloflow puts AI to work on software vendor selection to reduce costs and save time
Taloflow, an early stage startup changing the way companies evaluate and select software, has raised $1.3M in a seed round.
Ashkenazi will start her new role at Google’s parent company on July 31, after 23 years at Eli Lilly.
Tobiko aims to reimagine how teams work with data by offering a dbt-compatible data transformation platform.
SAP sees WalkMe’s focus on automating contextual, in-app support as bringing value to its own enterprise customers.
Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. (CNBC reports that Databricks paid over $1 billion.) According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue,…
When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But…
Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes.
GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI.
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy rights nonprofit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data…
Cloudera, the once high-flying Hadoop startup, raised $1 billion and went public in 2018 before being acquired by private equity for $5.3 billion in 2021. Today, the company announced that…
Ashby consolidates existing talent acquisition tools and leans heavily on AI to automate the more repetitive steps in the recruitment pipeline.
Canva’s rap battle is part of a long legacy of Silicon Valley cringe
You thought the hottest rap battle of the summer was between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. You were wrong. It’s between Canva and an enterprise CIO. At its Canva Create event…
Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service.
Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components
Microsoft, Meta, Intel, AMD and others have formed a new group to design next-gen interconnects for AI accelerator hardware.
Salespeople live and die by commissions. It’s no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that simplifies managing commissions.
A startup called Firefly that’s tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding. That comes on…
Harness snags Split.io as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
DevOps startup Harness has shown itself to be an ambitious company, building a broad platform of services while also dabbling in M&A when it made sense to fill in functionality.…
JFrog and GitHub team up to closely integrate their source code and binary platforms
Among other things, this includes the ability to trace code from source to binary packages across both platforms, single sign-on support and unified project structures.
OpenAI signs 100K PwC workers to ChatGPT’s enterprise tier as PwC becomes its first resale partner
PwC, the management consulting giant, will become OpenAI’s biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users.
LumApps, the French ‘intranet super app,’ sells majority stake to Bridgepoint in a $650M deal
The deal will give LumApps a big nest egg to make acquisitions and scale its business.
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