SAP digital assistant, BI system for B2B and AI regulation
The last spring month inspired technology vendors to share their latest updates on innovative features in their platforms. Let’s see how SAP, IBM, Tableau, SAS enhanced the functionality of their products to make analytics more efficient and more precise.
To start with, SAP and IBM announced that IBM Watson platform is to be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation to help accelerate innovation and create more positive and effective user experiences across the SAP application portfolio. SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in SAP Start, a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP.
ThoughtSpot is expanding to match human behavior in terms of how people do analysis. That is why ThoughtSpot has launched ThoughtSpot Monitor for Mobile, a new mobile application that works with the ThoughtSpot analytics application to deliver key performance indicators and other metrics to users. The vendor also unveiled a major update to its flagship ThoughtSpot Analytics system with connections to additional data sources and new ways to interact with and share data. Additionally, its new AI-based search tool, ThoughtSpot Sage, is now in the private preview stage.
Tableau has held its annual conference, assuring the public that its customer base has grown massively. When Salesforce bought Tableau three years ago, the vendor had 86,000 clients. That number had increased 126,000 now. Tableau launched Tableau GPT and Tableau Pulse, a new user interface. As GPT Tableau uses in fact Salesforce’s Einstein GPT and GPT-3.5 language models, to deliver a Q&A style experience for users.
SAS has also provided major insights to Viya, the company’s consolidated AI and analytics platform. SAS Viya compiles the company’s experience and innovation into a single, modern, cloud-native platform, which in turn enables organizations to turn conceptual models into working solutions.
In recent years, the term “Internet of Things” (IoT) has become one of the most popular in the tech world. It promised to connect billions of devices. The next stage was the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which brought revolutionary changes to production processes. Today, a new term is coming onto the scene – AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things), combining the capabilities of the Internet of Things with the power of AI.
Sixty-eight IT executives from 15 countries, including Brazil, India, USA, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia participated in the project.
June 2024 was a very dynamic month for AI and data analytics market, marked by significant events, product launches, and industry insights.
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