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Under the AI hood: A view from RSA Conference

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are often touted in IT as crucial tools for automated detection, response, and remediation. Enrich your defenses with finely honed prior knowledge, proponents insist, and let the machines drive basic security decisions at scale. This year’s RSA Conference had an entire track…
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Walgreens used AI to optimize vaccine outreach emails

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. As of May 18, nearly 40% of the U.S. population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with close to 50% having received at least one shot. But outreach remains a major challenge. McKinsey estimated in December that vaccine adoption would require “unprecedented” public and private action and incremental investment…
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AI call center automation company Asapp raises $120M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Asapp, an AI research-driven customer experience company, today announced it has raised $120 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, double its previous post-money valuation. Asapp says it plans to use…
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Google launches Vertex AI, a fully managed cloud AI service

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During a virtual keynote at Google I/O 2021, Google’s developer conference, Google announced the launch in general availability of Vertex AI, a managed AI platform. It’s designed to help companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of AI models, Google says, by requiring nearly 80% fewer lines of code to train…
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Data and AI operations startup Coiled nabs $21M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Coiled, a DataOps and AIOps platform that seeks to increase access to scalable computing, today announced that it raised $21 million in series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Alongside the…
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SAS flexes AI ambitions with Viya platform expansion

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. During its Virtual SAS Global Forum 2021 event, SAS today announced an expansion for its SAS Viya platform, which is used for analyzing data and building AI models. The platform will now be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, along with existing support for Microsoft Azure. In addition, SAS pledged to…
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