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Piramal CTO Saurabh Mittal on financial services innovation

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To create innovative products that meet the various finance requirements of the market, Piramal Capital & Housing Finance opened the Piramal Innovation Lab in Bengaluru on Dec. The 36,000-square-foot innovation hub will be led by the company’s CTO, Saurabh Mittal, and Markandey Upadhyay, head of business intelligence unit for Piramal.

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Sightfull, a startup that tracks key business activities, raises $18M

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In late 2020, developers Noam Liran and Alex Litvak were inspired to create a platform that applied automation concepts from security to the business analytics space. Sightfull falls into the category of software startups known as revenue operations and intelligence (RO&I), which has been red-hot lately.

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SAP enhances Datasphere and SAC for AI-driven transformation

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Jurgen Mueller, SAP CTO and executive board member, called the innovations, which includes an expanded partnership with data governance specialist Collibra, a “quantum leap” in the company’s ability to help customers drive intelligent business transformation through data.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

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Krishna Prasad, chief strategy officer and CIO at UST, a digital transformation solutions company, says that cybersecurity not only remains top of mind but an area of significant work for IT as it’s tasked with executing much of the risk-mitigation efforts. a real estate and parking investment, development, and operations company.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

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Her background includes two master’s degrees — in international business and marketing — and she spent 5+ years working in large international corporations. So far, the least successful has been hiring business development reps and trying out cold outreach (emails and LinkedIn) but maybe we were just doing it wrong.

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Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets

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It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing. We change the discussion from one of scale to one of speed and efficiency.”.

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Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform

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This is a problem particularly faced by financial firms, but it could also be useful in the areas of COVID contact tracing or general business intelligence. As its business model, Tilo charges a license fee based on the volume of data companies are processing through TiloRes. But it remains a big problem to solve.