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AMD Hires Ariel Kelman as Chief Marketing Officer
AMD, announced that Ariel Kelman has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. Kelman will lead the AMD global marketing organization, overseeing brand, communications, events, developer relations and go-to-market strategy. Kelman will report to Ruth Cotter, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, and will work closely with the AMD executive…
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Fundamental Announces $255M in Funding and Publicly Launches its Most Powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM)
Fundamental, an AI company that has built its most powerful Large Tabular Model (“LTM”) to drive predictions from enterprise data, announced it is emerging from stealth with $255M in funding. Founded in October 2024, the company raised a $30M Seed round and a $225M Series A round led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from top…
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Salesforce Acquires Informatica
Salesforce, a top name in CRM and enterprise AI, has finished buying Informatica. Informatica is known for its cloud-native data management and AI-driven data infrastructure. The deal, worth about US$ 8 billion, adds Informatica’s strong data tools to Salesforce. These tools include catalog, integration, governance, data quality, privacy, metadata management, and master data management (MDM).…
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Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, and Partners Unite to Standardize Data Semantics for the AI Era
Snowflake, in collaboration with Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, RelationalAI, and a coalition of industry leaders, has launched the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative a first-of-its-kind open-source effort to create a universal semantic framework for data. The initiative aims to resolve one of the most persistent challenges in AI and business intelligence (BI): fragmented and inconsistent…
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Waii
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Waii, a leading enterprise-grade natural language-to-SQL platform. Waii’s technology translates plain-language questions into complex, production-ready SQL queries, helping users access and act on data more naturally and efficiently. Enterprises are generating more data than ever, but its value remains locked behind technical and semantic complexity. Business users…
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ZS expands partnership with Salesforce to help companies scale AI agents with Agentforce
ZS announced the continued expansion of its partnership with Salesforce to offer consulting and implementation services for Agentforce, Salesforce’s digital labor platform. With a focus on AI to help companies solve commercialization and go-to-market challenges, ZS helps clients implement and manage evolving workforces in which humans and AI agents complement each other to drive business value in sectors…
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Deluxe and Chargent Partner to Power Integrated Payments in Salesforce
Deluxe, a trusted Payments and Data company, and Chargent, the leading payment solution built natively on Salesforce, announced a strategic partnership to deliver seamless, end-to-end payment integration within Salesforce. This collaboration allows businesses to automate billing, accept payments, and gain real-time transaction insights—all without leaving the Salesforce environment. By combining Chargent’s powerful, Salesforce-native tools with…
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Tech Companies Announce Launch of AI Integrators Council
The AI Integrators Council (AIIC) announces the launch of the new coalition to advocate for companies that integrate AI into their systems, platforms, and applications. The Council is made up of leading AI companies including Alteryx, Atlassian, Box, Docusign, Peraton, SAIC, Salesforce, and Twilio. The Council aims to educate policymakers and other essential stakeholders about…
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Virtusa Bolsters Expansion Plans with Acquisition of Mav3rik
Virtusa Corporation, a global leader in digital business strategy, product, and platform engineering, announced the acquisition of Mav3rik, an Australian-owned and operated strategic Salesforce and MuleSoft advisory and implementation partner. Mav3rik is a trusted advisor to numerous Public Sector, healthcare, and enterprises in other verticals throughout the region. “Our investment in Mav3rik is one step in…
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IBM and Salesforce Activate Enterprise Data on IBM Z, Preview New Agents to Help Customers Unleash Their Data for Agentic AI
Enterprise data is a crucial source of intelligence for AI models and agents to learn from. For decades, businesses have entrusted IBM Z mainframes, renowned for their reliability and security, to run their mission-critical transactions. To use it as a catalyst for agentic AI, IBM and Salesforce are providing customers access to their business data in IBM…