Enterprise Technology News for the Week of June 13th
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Keeping tabs on the most relevant enterprise technology news can be time-consuming. To help, the Solutions Review editorial team has summarized some of the week's top headlines in the marketplace from various categories, including cybersecurity, data management, ERP, marketing technology, and more.
Enterprise Technology News for the Week of June 13th
Accenture Unveils Distiller Agentic AI Framework
Accenture has announced its AI Refinery distiller agentic framework alongside accompanying software development kits (SDKs). The new offering will provide developers with an enterprise-grade platform for rapidly building, deploying, and scaling advanced AI agents. Leveraging NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, the framework is highly extensible and designed to be deployed flexibly across multiple architectures, from public cloud to private cloud, on-premises, and sovereign infrastructure. Accenture is also announcing a physical AI SDK, which enables AI systems to process real-world signals from cameras and sensors.
Amplitude Unveils AI Agents for Continuous Product Innovation
Amplitude, a digital analytics platform, has launched Amplitude AI Agents, a suite of generative AI-powered tools designed to drive always-on product innovation. These agents are configured for a collection of specific use cases, including agents for website conversions, onboarding, feature adoption, monetization, and more. Spenser Skates, CEO and co-founder of Amplitude, says, "With Amplitude's AI Agents working around the clock, product development shifts from a slow, step-by-step process to a high-speed, multi-track system."
Anaconda and Databricks Partner to Secure Enterprise AI
Anaconda has announced a go-to-market partnership and native integration with Databricks, the Data and AI company. By combining Anaconda’s AI Platform with the scale, performance, and governance of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, organizations can experience a new standard of enterprise-ready AI development with enhanced governance. Stephen Orban, SVP of Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks, says, “Together, we’re removing key barriers around Python package governance and open-source security for enterprises seeking to accelerate AI adoption.”
Ataccama Forms Partner Advisory Board for Data Management
Ataccama, a data trust company, has announced its inaugural Partner Advisory Board, a global cohort of data management leaders. The board aims to deepen alignment across Ataccama’s technology and services ecosystem and give market-leading partners a formal seat at the table to shape product direction and platform strategy. It will complement Ataccama’s existing customer and strategic advisory boards by offering a comprehensive approach to shaping the company’s ecosystem and long-term strategy in the evolving data management landscape.
Binary Defense Announces a Partnership with Palo Alto Networks
Binary Defense, a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and enterprise defense provider, has partnered with Palo Alto Networks to deliver managed detection and response (MDR) services powered by Cortex XSIAM. The collaboration will enable Binary Defense to offer 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and responses directly from customers' XSIAM environments by leveraging AI-driven analytics and automation.
Cisco Integrates Security Deeper into Networks for AI Era
Cisco, a worldwide technology leader, has announced several innovations to its security portfolio. These updates embed advanced security features directly into its networking infrastructure to address the challenges of the "agentic AI era." The advancements include Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions that simplify policy management, enhance visibility, and enable enterprises to scale securely without adding complexity to their security stack.
Cymulate Debuts an AI-Powered Detection Engineering Assistant
Cymulate, a threat exposure validation solution, has released a new AI-powered detection engineering assistant for security information and event management (SIEM) rule threat coverage validation. With this feature, the Cymulate Platform can automate and streamline the detection engineering process for blue teams and SecOps. This will make it easier for those teams to identify coverage gaps, tune rules, and build, test, and optimize threat detection with AI-assisted live-data attack simulations and customized threat detection.
Databricks Unveils Databricks One for Enterprise-Wide Data & AI Access
Databricks, the Data and AI company, has launched Databricks One, a new experience that gives all business users simple and secure access to the data and AI capabilities offered by the Data Intelligence Platform. The update enables business users to interact with AI/BI dashboards, ask their data questions in natural language through AI/BI Genie, quickly find relevant dashboards, and use custom-built Databricks apps, all from a code-free environment built for their needs.
Freshworks Introduces New Features and Updates for Freddy AI
Freshworks, an enterprise-grade service software provider, has announced the "next generation" of the Freddy Agentic AI Platform. The latest release introduces multiple Freddy AI agents for various use cases, including email support, unified search, and root cause analysis. Other updates include new enhancements for Freshworks' Copulot capabilities and the Freddy AI Agent Studio launch, a no-code platform designed to simplify the creation and deployment of autonomous AI agents.
Gartner Releases Its Inaugural Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response
Analyst house Gartner recently released the inaugural edition of its Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response, identifying eleven of the marketplace's most effective robotic process automation (RPA) vendors. The researchers behind the report—Thomas Lintemuth, Esraa ElTahawy, John Collins, Charanpal Bhogal, and Nahim Fazal—evaluated each listed vendor's strengths and weaknesses and ranked them on the signature "Magic Quadrant" graph.
Hitachi Launches EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service
Hitachi Vantara—a data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi—has introduced Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service. The new AI Data Hub as a Service offering represents a fully managed, all-in-one infrastructure consumption service that addresses AI data preparation challenges by providing a modern data lakehouse with integrated workbench capabilities for AI, business intelligence (BI), and data needs. Jeb Horton, SVP of Global Services at Hitachi Vantara, says, "Through this new offering, we're helping customers integrate, prepare, and gain more control over relevant data despite the ensuing boom of unstructured data created by AI."
Horizon3.ai Secures $100M in a Series D Funding Round
Horizon3.ai, an autonomous security company, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round. NEA led the round, which included participation from SignalFire, Craft Ventures, and 9Yards Capital. As part of the investment, Lila Tretikov, Partner and Head of AI Strategy at NEA, will join the Horizon3.ai Board of Directors. The company will use the funding to accelerate its ongoing product development efforts, expand into additional innovation markets, expand its partner ecosystem, and more.
NTT DATA Launches AI-Powered SDI Services for Cisco
NTT DATA, a global digital business and technology services provider, is expanding its 30-year collaboration with Cisco by launching AI-powered Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) services for Cisco’s infrastructure and software products. With these services, NTT DATA can provide clients with intelligent automation and real-time insights to optimize infrastructure, reduce costs, and drive business outcomes. The offering targets organizations seeking to streamline operations and future-proof their Cisco environments in the face of rapid digital transformation.
OneTrust Expands Its Partnership with Databricks
OneTrust, a company focused on helping organizations use data and AI responsibly, has expanded its partnership with Databricks, a Data and AI company. The expansion includes the launch of a new Data Policy Enforcement product integration. With that integration, data governance teams can automate data policy enforcement with Unity Catalog and keep up with the speed at which AI-driven systems process and utilize data.
Pipedrive Revamps Its Partner Program
Pipedrive, a sales CRM for small businesses, has launched its revamped solution provider partner program to continue helping CRM consultants, system integrators, and service providers expand their business offerings. The updated program introduces a three-tiered partnership model, with Authorized, Gold, and Platinum tiers available to partners at various stages of growth. Each tier will offer increasing access to tools, training, and commercial incentives, alongside access to a dedicated partner portal, onboarding support, and a collection of commission, revenue-sharing, and licensing benefits.
Precisely Announces AI Ecosystem for Data Integrity
Precisely, the global data integrity company, has announced significant enhancements that aim to advance the company's vision of an AI ecosystem for data integrity. The innovations include broader AI environment integration options and extended AI model support when managing data and delivering additional choice, control, and enterprise-scale interoperability. By combining automation with interoperability, Precisely is helping its customers unlock faster insights, govern data at scale, and support more confident decision-making.
Precisely Adds New AI-Driven Features to Its EngageOne Solution
Precisely also launched several AI-driven capabilities within its EngageOne customer communications portfolio. The latest advancements can improve customer engagement and streamline communications modernization for organizations in banking, insurance, telecommunications, and other regulated sectors. Specific additions and enhancements include an AI text-to-speech tool, conversational AI chatbots, smart escalation from AI agents to live agents, AI-powered template migrations, and AI contextual search.
Rimini Street Extends Its Support for SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA Releases
Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, management, and innovation solutions, has extended its full support coverage for all SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA releases through 2040. The coverage will not require clients to complete a migration to S/4HANA on RISE as required by SAP for clients who want to remain on SAP's Annual Support and receive full support. This announcement means that current and new Rimini Support for SAP clients will not be impacted by SAP's end-of-maintenance date.
Salesforce Reveals Details on Marketing Cloud Next
Salesforce has announced Marketing Cloud Next, the latest evolution of its marketing solution. Built natively on the Salesforce Platform, Marketing Cloud Next is designed to bring agentic marketing to life through actionable data, cross-departmental workflows, and autonomous AI agents embedded throughout the customer funnel. Additionally, those AI agents can operate across Salesforce's Sales, Service, and Commerce products, orchestrating 1:1 customer engagement across the whole funnel and handling complex tasks like campaign assembly, performance optimization, and 1:1 personalization at scale.
Supermicro Unveils Broadest Enterprise AI Server Portfolio
Supermicro—an IT solution provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge—is expanding its portfolio of solutions designed for NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture to the European market. The introduction of over 30 solutions reinforces Supermicro's industry leadership. Through close collaboration with NVIDIA, Supermicro's solution stack enables the deployment of NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design and supports the upcoming introduction of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra solutions later this year, including NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and HGX B300.
Veza Expands Its Platform with an NHI Security Product
Veza, an identity security company, has announced a significant platform expansion focused on securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs). The new NHI Security product and capabilities will deliver visibility, ownership, and governance to machine identities across SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, and on-premises environments. It provides capabilities for NHI discovery and visibility, integrated compliance control, automated risk detection and mitigation, and human-to-nonhuman ownership management. Veza's NHI Security product is now available on the Veza Access platform.
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The Empire of Presumption and the Power of Data
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What are AI Hallucinations?
As widespread as AI is, not everyone knows what an "AI hallucination" is, what causes it, and how to avoid it. In a recent article, Monica Kay Royal explains, "Many of us think of hallucinations as seeing something that doesn’t exist or hearing noises that no one else can hear. In the context of AI, hallucinations occur when the model makes a prediction that doesn’t come from the input data."