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Avantive Solutions | January 05, 2022

Avantive Solutions, a global technology and business process outsourcer (BPO) specializing in innovative customer experience (CX), strategic sales, and digital marketing solutions, today announced a partnership with Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd., a leading provider of global industry solutions powered by cloud services from Microsoft, to enhance their data analytics capabilities through improved performance of Microsoft Power BI with Azure Databricks. This will allow Avantive to drive best-in-...

WekaIO, Dasher | July 21, 2020

WekaIO™, the innovation leader in high-performance and scalable file storage, announced today that WeRide, a smart mobility company with industry-leading autonomous driving technologies, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS™), the world’s fastest shared parallel file system from WekaIO, to manage its artificial intelligence (AI) data pipeline from the edge to the core to the cloud. WeRide implemented WekaFS using a hybrid model to manage compute and storage resources both ...

Business Intelligence, Big Data Management

Accenture | November 15, 2022

Accenture is to acquire Japanese data science company ALBERT Inc. (President and CEO: Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market, Securities Code: 3906), after completing a tender offer. The acquisition will add a large team of data scientists to Accenture to further strengthen its data and AI capabilities for clients. The tender offer was launched on September 29 and closed on November 14. The number of ALBERT's common shares and stock acquisition rights tendered to Accenture signifi...

Business Intelligence, Big Data Management, Data Science

Hightouch | March 01, 2023

On February 28, 2023, Hightouch, a leading Data Activation platform, announced the launch of a new product, Customer Studio, which enables marketers to manage, access, and activate customer data straight from cloud data warehouses to over 140 marketing and business applications. Earlier, even though available on cloud data warehouses, important cloud data was only accessible to technical users capable of modeling and querying that data with SQL. Now with Customer Studio, any use...