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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Enterprise Applications, SAP Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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Zylo, a SaaS management platform, raises $31.5M

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Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. Fully managed apps are often a lighter load on IT teams because they’re entirely cloud-based.

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Embrace grabs a new funding round amid unveiling of new mobile data intelligence software

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Founded in 2016, the Culver City-based observability and data company launched its Data Intelligence product following the raise of $45 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Embrace has a SaaS pricing model with both free and pro/enterprise tiers. That’s where Embrace comes in.

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Generative AI is electrifying. Charge ahead or get shocked.

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cloud, mobile, social, crypto, VR), there’s a lot of noise and misconceptions to sort through. Every business today needs an enterprise-ready stack to deliver on the magic that is possible with AI. Enterprises are racing to provide this human level of interaction with their customers. But, like with any new technology (e.g.

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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

TechCrunch

Taylor spent four years at Google starting in March 2003 before undertaking an entrepreneurial journey, founding early social network FriendFeed in 2007, right after leaving Google. He would later found Quip, an enterprise document collaboration company, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 for $750 million.

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December Tech Trends Report and 2016 Enterprise Tech Projections

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The Trends To Track in 2016. Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. For 2016, expect more IT departments to be buying these small form factor cloud in a box data centers. For more see: [link] TheCyberThreat.