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  • Groove Launches the First Sales Engagement Platform for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud

    New platform enables banks and wealth management advisors to strengthen customer relationships and accelerate sales productivity post COVID-19

    December 7, 2020 – San Francisco, CA – Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced general availability of their first industry-specific product, Groove for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. The new sales engagement platform is currently in use at a major multi-national bank to help them accelerate sales productivity and build stronger relationships across their retail and commercial banking operations in the United States.

    According to the Salesforce State of Sales 2020 report, 82% of salespeople in Financial Services say that their digital transformation has accelerated since 2019.  The COVID-19 pandemic has further fueled this trend, as banks and wealth management advisors look to quickly transform their old way of doing business into a digital-first world, with fewer in-person meetings, fewer branches, and fewer retail locations.

    “2020 will be remembered as a watershed moment when B2B buying and selling changed forever,” wrote Mary Shea, principal analyst for Forrester Research in the recent Wave report on sales engagement. “While the digitization of the buying and selling process has been underway for some time, the hardships from COVID-19 have dramatically accelerated this trend.” According to the report, “sales engagement is poised to meet the moment.”

    Twenty of the top twenty Financial Services companies use Salesforce, according to the CRM industry leader. Built on the word’s #1 CRM solution, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud comes out of the box with all the core features of its Sales Cloud, plus new custom fields and objects modeling financial accounts, assets, liabilities, and goals for both individual clients and across entire households. This means advisors no longer have to spend time and money customizing their CRM to speak the language of their firm.

    “Salesforce Financial Services Cloud provides an integrated platform that can be tailored to any financial services organization’s high-touch relationship model,” said Chris Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of Groove. “We are aligned with Salesforce Industry Clouds’ vision to help their customers accelerate digital transformation and realize time-to-value as quickly as possible. This is why we are bringing to market the first sales engagement platform that has been tailored to meet the specific needs of the financial services industry.”

    Groove for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is unique in that it aligns with the custom data model and hundreds of industry-specific workflows in this cloud, so that banks and wealth management advisors can quickly realize time-to-value, without a heavy lift from their IT team. Groove’s unique architecture is also highly secure and ensures that sensitive client data remains in Salesforce as the system of record.

    Key capabilities of the new platform include:

    • Information technology teams can centrally manage an automated system for multi-channel communications around loan disbursement programs, mortgage lending, and other common workflows. Unlike marketing automation systems, all communications can be highly personalized and 1:1 in nature.

    • Relationship managers, advisors, and teams can deliver personalized advice at scale across any channel or device, surfacing real-time CRM information in the inbox.

    • Sales management benefits from real-time visibility into activity levels and outcomes, instantly logging emails, calls, SMS messages, and LinkedIn correspondence to custom objects and industry-specific workflows.

    Over two-thirds of US workers are now remote post COVID-19, and with the economy and a path to a viable vaccine still unclear, it’s critical that financial services companies adopt technology systems that will enable them to manage important customer relationships regardless of where relationship managers, advisors, or customers are located.

    Forrester Research recently published The Forrester Wave™: Sales Engagement, Q3 2020, an independent assessment of the top vendors in the market. Groove was among the select sales engagement platforms that Forrester invited to participate in the evaluation and received the second-highest Current Offering score of all vendors evaluated as well as the highest possible scores in the Workflows, Service and Support, and User Experience – Interface categories.

    According to the report, “Groove’s 92% renewal rate is among the highest in the industry.” The report also states that “its architecture eliminates data latency and sync errors and supports customized workflows. The platform is designed for full-cycle reps and has a UI that can adapt to role, division, team, and other unique requirements.” And that “Groove is an ideal fit for global companies that want platform customization and a high-touch customer experience.”

    About Groove

    Groove is the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, specializing in ease-of-use, ease-of-administration, and cross-team collaboration. Built for the needs of full-cycle sellers, Groove automates non-sales activities so that pre- and post-sales reps can spend more time building relationships and generating revenue. On average, Groove gives revenue teams 20% of their time back to focus on higher-value activities. Groove’s Salesforce-native architecture can be customized to align with industry-specific workflows while ensuring more accurate reporting and forecasting, lower compliance risk, and streamlined administration.

    Over 50,000 account executives, sales development, and customer success representatives use Groove at some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies, including Google, Uber, and Capital One. Groove has earned the highest customer satisfaction rating on G2 in the sales engagement category for over two years in a row.

    Groove was named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2020 and is one of the 2020 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. Groove also ranks #16 on the San Francisco Business Times’ “fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area in 2020” and #191 on the Deloitte 2020 Technology Fast 500 list. Founded in 2014, Groove is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in San Diego and Seattle. To learn more, visit groove.co.

  • OctoML Announces Early Access for Its Machine Learning Platform for Automated Model Optimization and Deployment

    SEATTLE, Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today at the Apache TVM and Deep Learning Compilation Conference, OctoML, the MLOps automation company for superior model performance, portability and productivity, announced early access to Octomizer. Octomizer brings the power and potential of Apache TVM, an open source deep learning compiler project that is becoming a de facto industry standard, to machine learning engineers challenged by model deployment timelines, inferencing and throughput performance issues or high inferencing cloud costs.

    Industry analysts estimate that machine learning model costs will double from $50 billion in 2020 to more than $100 billion by 2024. Many machine learning models put into production today cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to train, and training costs represent only a fraction of the ongoing inferencing costs that businesses take on to provide cutting-edge capabilities to their end users.

    “In our early engagements with some of the world’s leading tech companies, they’ve been excited about our ability to provide unparalleled model performance improvement,” said Luis Ceze, OctoML co-founder and CEO. “Now we’re excited to open the Octomizer up for early access to a select set of customers and partners with similar model performance, inferencing cost savings or edge deployment needs.”

    OctoML has demonstrated the potential of the Octomizer with early customer engagements across model architectures and hardware targets. OctoML’s early partners include Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) machine learning teams focused on improving model performance on various targets such as NVIDIA’s V100, K80, and T4 GPU platforms, Intel’s Cascade Lake, Skylake, and Broadwell x86 CPUs, and AMD’s EPYC Rome x86 CPUs. Model performance improvements were at an order-of-magnitude level – for example, a Computer Vision based team worked with OctoML to decrease model latency from 95 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds, unlocking higher throughput and enabling new product feature development.

    Accessible through both a SaaS platform and API, the Octomizer accepts serialized models, enables users to select specific hardware targets, and losslessly optimizes and packages models for the selected hardware. By making use of TVM’s state-of-the-art technical performance capabilities, the Octomizer can deliver up to 10 times model performance improvements, enabling deep learning teams to improve model performance, cut inferencing costs, and reduce time and effort for model deployment.

    The Octomizer currently makes available all cloud-based CPU and GPU as well as ARM A-class hardware targets, with additional hardware targets identified for early 2021.

    As part of its enterprise offerings, OctoML also provides customer-specific hardware target onboarding, which enables internal performance testing and benchmarking and vendor-specific model optimization.

    About Apache TVM
    Apache TVM is an open source deep learning compiler and runtime that optimizes the performance of machine learning models across a multitude of processor types, including CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and mobile/edge chips. It uses machine learning to optimize and compile models for deep learning applications, closing the gap between productivity-focused deep learning frameworks and performance-oriented hardware backends. It is used by some of the world’s biggest companies like Amazon, AMD, ARM, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and Qualcomm.

    About the Apache TVM and Deep Learning Compilation Conference
    The 3rd Annual Apache TVM and Deep Learning Compilation Conference is covering the state-of-the-art of deep learning compilation and optimization and recent advances in frameworks, compilers, systems and architecture support, security, training and hardware acceleration. Speakers include technology leaders from Alibaba, Amazon, AMD, ARM, Bosch, Microsoft, NTT, OctoML, Qualcomm, Sima.ai and Xilinx, as well as researchers from Beihang University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell, National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan), UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, University of Toronto and University of Washington. The free virtual conference is taking place Dec. 2-4: https://tvmconf.org.

    About OctoML
    OctoML applies cutting-edge machine learning-based automation to make it easier and faster for machine learning teams to put high-performance machine learning models into production on any hardware. OctoML, founded by the creators of the Apache TVM machine learning compiler project, offers seamless optimization and deployment of machine learning models as a managed service. For more information, visit https://octoml.ai or follow @octoml.

  • Centrify Momentum Fueled by Digital Transformation Including Secure Cloud and DevOps Acceleration

    Double-digit year-on-year, quarterly growth empowered by solidified partner ecosystem, delivery of market-defining product innovations, and industry analyst recognition of market leadership

    SANTA CLARA, CALIF. (PRWEB) DECEMBER 03, 2020

    Centrify, a leading provider of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, today announced significant sales momentum across all regions and industries as organizations seek to secure privileged access to an increasingly decentralized modern attack surface driven by digital transformation.

    Centrify saw double-digit year-on-year growth in Q3 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, led by strong new business bookings and competitive replacements. The company has seen significantly increased bookings in international markets and the U.S. public sector throughout the past 12 months. In addition, Centrify unveiled a consistent stream of product innovations, solidified new relationships with a number of key distribution and channel partners, experienced an upward trend in customer deals and new logo additions, and was recognized for its market leadership by notable industry analyst groups.

    “This year has presented a challenging environment for organizations across all industries around the world, as new attack vectors are emerging and security is more critical than ever before. Even in the midst of the pandemic, our team has worked tirelessly to serve the PAM needs of modern IT environments and support market-leading IT teams in their efforts to secure privileged access,” said Flint Brenton, President and CEO of Centrify. “Our recent research shows that since March 2020, nearly half of organizations have accelerated their cloud transformation efforts. In response, we have continued to increase the availability and flexibility of our solutions so they can be utilized both in the cloud and with traditional infrastructure, while also expanding our capabilities to build security into the DevOps pipeline.”

    Centrify Summer Product Release Innovations for Hyper-scale, DevOps

    Over the past six months, Centrify unveiled a consistent stream of product innovations to address customer needs. In Q2 2020, the company released version 20.3 of Centrify Privileged Access Service (PAS), which included:

    • Client-Based Password Reconciliation ensures that passwords in the vault always match those on the target resource without interruption, once the Achilles heels of traditional password vaults
    • Delegated Machine Credentials support “infrastructure as code” to seamlessly incorporate PAM into the DevOps pipeline, significantly reducing the attack surface
    • Hyper-Scalable PAS revolutionizes the traditional approach to customer-managed environments by offering a “shared-nothing” architecture with all the benefits of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

    Partner Ecosystem Cohesion Drives New Customer Growth

    Centrify announced its Reliance Partner Program earlier this year, and has signed on new distribution and channel partners around the world, including Arrow ECS in EMEA and Australia/New Zealand and Carahsoft Technology Corp. for U.S. public sector. The company also strengthened and expanded relationships with global system integrators (GSIs) PwC and Deloitte.

    “The public sector is one of many industries that took major staffing hits in 2020. With cybercrime quadrupling during the pandemic and trimmed down IT teams scattered between home and offices, these organizations are more prone than ever to internal and external privileged access risks,“ said Michael Shrader, Vice President of Intelligence and Innovative Solutions at Carahsoft. “By offering Centrify’s PAS based on Zero Trust principles, we are helping our government customers centralize and orchestrate fragmented identities; improve audit and compliance visibility; and reduce risk, complexity, and cost. We are proud to partner with Centrify and our reseller partners to help secure the public sector and look forward to extending this great momentum into 2021.”

    Centrify Solidifies Privileged Access and Identity Management Leadership

    In August 2020, Gartner published its second Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. In addition to being named a Leader once again, Centrify believes that the report validates the flexibility of its cloud-architected SaaS-based solution and support for modern cloud identity infrastructures that empower federated access.

    Centrify was also most recently named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave for Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Centrify received the highest possible score in seven of the 24 evaluation criteria and was the only vendor to receive the highest score possible (5.00) for the “Least privilege access control” criterion. The Centrify vendor profile in the report summarizes, “Centrify leverages SaaS, shifts focus to DevOps and cloud PIM.”

    Centrify’s innovative new cloud-ready password vault capabilities and expanded PAM offerings also led to a flood of new customers in the third quarter, looking to capitalize on the reliability and flexibility of cloud architecture. This aligns with its latest study that revealed 1) maintaining flexibility and security for remote workforces and 2) digitizing more processes using cloud-native services, as IT professionals’ top modernization priorities for the next 12 months.

    To learn more about Centrify and its PAM offerings, visit http://www.centrify.com.

    About Centrify
    Centrify is redefining the legacy approach to Privileged Access Management by delivering multi-cloud-architected Identity-Centric PAM to enable digital transformation at scale. Centrify Identity-Centric PAM establishes trust, and then grants least privilege access just-in-time based on verifying who is requesting access, the context of the request, and the risk of the access environment. Centrify centralizes and orchestrates fragmented identities, improves audit and compliance visibility, and reduces risk, complexity, and costs for the modern, hybrid enterprise. Over half of the Fortune 100, the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies, all trust Centrify to stop the leading cause of breaches – privileged credential abuse.

    ©Centrify is a registered trademark of Centrify Corporation in the United States and other countries.

  • Copado Launches Value Stream Management for Salesforce™, the Cloud Industry’s First Complete DevOps Platform

    Copado’s Winter 21 release includes integrated value stream analytics to demonstrate ROI within 100 days on any Salesforce deployment

     

    Chicago – Dec. 3, 2020 – Copado, a leading DevOps platform enabling the world’s largest digital transformations on Salesforce, today announced the industry’s first end-to-end DevOps value stream management platform for Salesforce. Its Winter 21 release unleashes the value locked inside digital transformation projects by redefining the way companies plan, build, and deliver customer experiences with Salesforce. With new major innovations across all five DevOps stages, Copado Winter 21 enables customers to accelerate Salesforce time-to-value and demonstrate positive business value within 100 days.
    Today’s digital imperative means software delivery performance is the leading indicator of a company’s ability to deliver business results. Yet only 10% of CIOs say they are successful at rapid software deployment. As many companies struggle to accelerate their digital transformation projects, Copado offers a fully integrated DevOps value stream platform that replaces fragile and fragmented custom tools while optimizing and measuring the positive business impact of a transformation project.

     

    Customers using the Copado DevOps 360™ platform report an average of 46% increase in yearly Salesforce ROI from delivering 40% more features, 75% faster lead times, and 100% higher user adoption. Project risk is mitigated with increased governance and compliance resulting in 94% fewer production bugs, 192% faster time to recover, and thousands of delivery hours saved per year.

     

    “Companies are laser focused on accelerating their digital-first projects because of the exponential impact on real business results,” said Sanjay Gidwani, chief operating officer at Copado. “Value stream management is the new must-have for anyone under pressure to meet executive expectations on the speed, quality and visibility of technology investments. By aligning the company’s corporate strategy with the CIO and IT metrics, the Copado DevOps platform delivers a prioritized, faster and continuous stream of value from your cloud platform to your company’s bottom line.”

     

    Gartner reports that “Value Streams will define the Future of DevOps” and that “to deliver customer value faster, organizations need enhanced visibility, orchestration, integration and governance management across DevOps value streams.” By 2023, 70% of organizations will use value stream management to improve flow in the DevOps pipeline, leading to faster delivery of customer value.

     

    Copado DevOps 360 Winter 21 Features
    Copado Winter 21 introduces new features across all five DevOps stages:
    Analyze:  New Interactive Insights make Copado DevOps 360 collaborative and interactive with integration with Chatter, Slack, and detailed drill down into VSM data and multi-currency value streams.
    Plan: With new value-driven planning, Copado aligns IT with corporate strategy. Winter 21 supports application and feature-based planning, as well as the ability to prioritize projects using any objectives and prioritize features by value and impact. Copado also supports the SAFe methodology and can sync stories from Jira and Agile Planning boards.
    Build: Winter 21 focuses on the needs of Salesforce administrators with a new suite of declarative pipeline builders that allow non-technical teams to define and manage value pipelines without a single line of code. These new collaborative features enable easy version control, automation flows, and align admins and developers.
    Test: Copado added deeper integrations to leading AI testing tools and updates to its Static Code Analysis and Compliance products  to help customers deliver the highest quality releases faster than ever.
    Deliver: With Copado’s new cross-platform tracking, users can visualize work streams across all teams and products. Organizations can automate all deployments, while checking and enforcing quality at each stage.

     

    “CIOs are in the hot seat to deliver on digital business objectives at an accelerated pace with a completely remote workforce,” said Ray Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research. “At the same time, it is imperative to show the value IT is delivering to the business and ensure that software development and delivery is aligned with key business objectives. A value stream management platform offers companies who rely on Salesforce to power their digital transformation initiatives to demonstrate business value very quickly.”

     

    Copado is redefining how to achieve success on the Salesforce platform with its data-driven approach to delivering faster, higher quality releases and improving trust across customer transformation projects. Salesforce leads the market in digital transformation, and the technical sophistication and deployment agility of the customer and partner delivery teams is now mission critical to the CIO. Organizations that implement DevOps best practices have been shown to deploy more often, fail less often and recover faster.

     


    About Copado
    Copado is the leading DevOps platform enabling the world’s largest digital transformations on Salesforce. Copado accelerates Salesforce deployments, simplifies the release process, increases developer productivity and maximizes return on cloud investments. Copado DevOps 360™ includes Agile Planning, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing and Compliance. Backed by Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, more than 500 of the world’s largest digitally transformed companies run on Copado including Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Fair Trade, Linde, MassMutual, Schneider Electric and Shell. Copado processes over 50 million DevOps transactions per month and is rated with a 100% score on the Salesforce AppExchange. More information can be found at: http://www.copado.com

  • Sourcegraph Secures $50 Million in Series C Funding for Universal Code Search

    Universal Code Search Empowers Developers to Tackle Challenges of Big Code; Andrew Reed of Sequoia Joins Board of Directors

    SAN FRANCISCO — December 3, 2020 — Sourcegraph, the leader in Universal Code Search, announced today that it has secured $50 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia Capital. Sourcegraph will use the new funds to address the increasing demand for Universal Code Search, empowering developers to better manage the challenges of Big Code. Sourcegraph also announced that Andrew Reed, partner at Sequoia, has joined the company’s Board of Directors.

    “We’ll use this additional funding to ensure long-term independence and make Universal Code Search an even more powerful tool for developers everywhere,” said Quinn Slack, co-founder and CEO at Sourcegraph. “We plan to invest $10M into code intelligence for deeper analysis of the top 40 programming languages, $20M into a secure and scalable Sourcegraph Cloud for large enterprises, and make similar-sized investments into code insights and campaigns.”

    Big Code is one of the most pressing innovation blockers facing developers and enterprise brands today. According to a recent survey, 94 percent of developers are personally affected by the phenomenon. As code continues to grow rapidly in volume, variety, velocity, and value, companies’ speed of innovation becomes more and more dependent on developers’ ability to efficiently manage code across large, complex codebases. Sourcegraph’s Universal Code Search improves developer productivity with critical code navigation and contextual code intelligence that integrates with any stack, providing a single place to find, update, patch, or share code across repositories, languages, tools, and platforms.

    “Every company is facing Big Code problems, and Universal Code Search is the common solution. Sourcegraph has built a beloved product and is the emerging market leader in code search,” said Andrew Reed, partner at Sequoia. “Sourcegraph’s Universal Code Search essentially serves as ‘Google for developers,’ empowering engineering teams to quickly traverse massive codebases and find and analyze the impact of specific lines of code. Sourcegraph is a must-have productivity tool for all developers and will become the system-of-intelligence for code.”

    In just the past two months, companies have used Sourcegraph to search across 11 billion lines of code; 5x more than the total lines of code in Google’s entire codebase. Sourcegraph signed some of the world’s largest brands in 2020, including 26 major enterprise customers, with zero enterprise churn.

    “Millions of users around the world rely on Atlassian products every day to collaborate,” said Sri Viswanath, Chief Technology Officer at Atlassian. “Sourcegraph helps our engineering teams better manage code in order to build and ship quality products to our customers faster.”

    Since Sourcegraph’s Series B in March 2020, the company has grown significantly, increasing annual recurring revenue 4x with 245 percent net ARR retention. The company also more than doubled its fully remote team, and plans to scale to 100 teammates by January 2021. Sourcegraph’s growth is fueled by rapid adoption by development teams at top companies like Amazon, Atlassian, Capital One, Lyft, PayPal, Uber, Yelp, and many others. With this round, the company has raised a total of $98 million in funding to date.

    Learn more about how enterprise organizations are driving innovation with Universal Code Search here.

    About Sourcegraph

    Sourcegraph helps companies solve Big Code problems so developers can innovate faster. Sourcegraph’s Universal Code Search is the only solution that empowers developers to easily find and understand code and fix problems across the entire codebase. Companies using Sourcegraph benefit from accelerated software iteration, improved code quality, faster bug fixes and incident response times, more effective remote coding collaboration, safer legacy code deprecation, better coding insights and more. Sourcegraph’s customers include many of the world’s leading companies, such as Amazon, PayPal, Uber, Lyft, Yelp, Atlassian, and Indeed. The all-remote company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Goldcrest Capital.

    Visit sourcegraph.com/jobs for career opportunities, follow Sourcegraph on Twitter at @srcgraph, or visit about.sourcegraph.com.

     

  • GigaSpaces Drives Digital Transformation with the Launch of InsightEdge Portfolio, a New Suite of In-Memory Computing Platforms

    Smart Platforms Accelerate and Scale Digital Applications, Analytics and Operational BI on Any Data, at Any Load, Across Any Environment with Rapid Time-To- Market and Lower Costs

    New York, NY — December 2, 2020 —GigaSpaces announced today the InsightEdge portfolio, a new suite of in-memory computing platforms, designed to drive enterprise digital transformation with unparalleled speed, performance and scale. Combined with AIOps functionality, GigaSpaces delivers the easiest to deploy, and manage, portfolio of software platforms that meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs. As more companies launch new digital services to thrive in today’s digital economy, they can drastically reduce time-to-market, ensure rapid application response times and the highest performance levels, with lower total-cost-of ownership.

    GigaSpaces’ comprehensive InsightEdge portfolio includes the following in-memory platforms:

    InsightEdge Smart Cache: The fastest, most scalable distributed caching tier on any operational data source, designed to accelerate digital applications and fuel real-time reporting and BI. Smart Cache is optimized for rapidly changing data and multi-criteria queries; and is fully SQL compatible.

    InsightEdge Smart ODS (Operational Data Store): A distributed in-memory Digital Integration Hub with unparalleled low-latency, high-performance and scale that aggregates and offloads from multiple back-end systems of record and data stores on premise and on cloud. Smart ODS delivers the agility to introduce new digital applications and the ability to deploy real-time operational analytics and BI.

    InsightEdge Smart Augmented Transactions: An in-memory translytical platform that unifies streaming, real-time transactional (ACID compliant) and analytical processing for instant insights and closed loop decision making.

    “Enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives as they move to online services, migrate to the cloud, introduce operational BI, and launch new data-driven applications,” said Adi Paz, CEO at GigaSpaces. “Our new InsightEdge portfolio redefines in-memory computing by combining the required extreme performance speed and scale with the easiest to deploy and manage platforms across on-premise, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments to support our customers’ needs – today, tomorrow and into the future.”

    The expanded GigaSpaces portfolio is powered by a unique combination of smart and autonomous data operations and management capabilities including one-click integrations with on-premise and cloud operational data stores, automatic data modeling, business-policy data tiering and dynamic scaling.

    • Unparalleled performance, speed and scale – Low latency, high-throughput transactional processing accelerates applications, analytics and operational BI. The platforms are fueled by distributed in-memory speed, colocation of business logic and data in memory, secondary indexing and server-side aggregations.

    • Optimized TCO with AIOPs for autonomous operations and management – AI-driven autonomous scaling for transactional and analytical workloads handles unplanned peak events without performance degradation or downtime; optimizing resource allocation to avoid overprovisioning on-premises and on the cloud.
      Business- driven caching based on the application’s business policy for full control over which data is saved in cache and when to evict to SSD or data stores for SLA-driven optimization of cost and performance.

    • Rapid go-to-market powered by no-code database integrations and microservices architecture – One-click database integration for faster time-to-market and ongoing data integration to radically reduce development overhead by automatically scanning the source schema and metadata and mapping them to the GigaSpaces data model.

    • Cloud native one-click deployment across all environments – Out-of-the-box, fully agnostic, cloud management functionality, such as hot rolling deployment, upgrade, monitoring, scaling and recovery; all with no downtime for on-premises, cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    Learn more about the new InsightEdge Portfolio at www.gigaspaces.com.

    About GigaSpaces

    The GigaSpaces InsightEdge portfolio delivers fastest, scalable and easiest to deploy in-memory computing platforms to meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs for accelerating and scaling real-time applications, analytics and operational BI on any data, at any load, across any environment.

    One-click integrations with on-premise and cloud operational data stores, automatic data modeling, business-policy data tiering and AI-driven autonomous scaling reduce time-to-market and ensure rapid response times and highest performance levels, with lower TCO.

    Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations and OEMs across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more trust GigaSpaces for powering their mission critical services to optimize business operations, comply with regulations and enhance the customer experience.  GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Israel with partners around the globe; serving customers such as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, CSX, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Avanza Bank, SITA, Avaya, Frequentis, CLSA, Groupe PSA and UBS.

    For more information visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.

  • Humio Streaming Log Management Now Available In Aws Marketplace

    Now Also a Member of AWS Partner Network Global Startup Program

    Seattle, WA – Dec.  02, 2020 – Humio, a Gartner Cool Vendor and the only log management platform enabling complete observability for all streaming logs in real time and at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud, today announced that its modern, index-free log management solution is available for purchase in AWS Marketplace globally. The company also announced its membership in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Global Startup Program. AWS subscribers can now acquire Humio to manage and observe their AWS applications and infrastructure seamlessly through their AWS account.

    “Cloud-based infrastructure and applications comprise a growing proportion of the IT environment. DevOps, ITOps, and SecOps organizations all need visibility into these systems to ensure they meet performance and security service-level agreements,” said Geeta Schmidt, Humio CEO. “Humio is dedicated to being a centralized platform that enables companies to observe all of their cloud data in real-time and at scale, across the many use cases. We are also thrilled to enable AWS users to seamlessly install and purchase Humio’s modern, index-free log management platform directly from AWS Marketplace. By joining the APN Global Startup Program, more customers will be able to discover the benefits of logging everything in real time and at scale.”

    With just a few clicks, AWS users can access Humio’s streaming observability platform to log everything and answer anything in real-time.

    Humio re-engineered log management from the ground up to build a platform suitable for monitoring and securing today’s highly complex, dynamic IT environments. Humio leverages real-time data streaming, an index-free architecture, and advanced compression technology to optimize compute resources and minimize storage costs. Humio removes the pricing barriers that often prevent enterprises from logging everything and achieving the observability that’s necessary to detect and solve issues before they impact end users or stop an attack before data is exfiltrated.

    About Humio

    Humio’s log management platform offers the lowest total cost of ownership, industry-leading unlimited plans, minimal maintenance and training costs, and remarkably low compute and storage requirements. Humio is the only log management solution that enables customers to log everything to answer anything in real time — at scale, self-hosted or in the cloud. Humio’s modern, index-free architecture makes exploring and investigating all data blazing fast, even at scale. Founded in 2016, Humio is headquartered in London and backed by Accel and Dell Technologies Capital. For more information, visit www.humio.com and follow @MeetHumio on Twitter.

     

  • Top Revenue Communities Select Chili Piper as Their Strategic Partner for Meeting Lifecycle Automation

    RevGenius and Modern Sales Pros communities gain industry leading meeting automation tool to help as pandemic restrictions have decreased the ROI and feasibility of traditional field marketing efforts

    NEW YORK — December 2, 2020 — Chili Piper, the leader in Meeting Lifecycle Automation, today announced it will provide a version of its meeting automation product to more than 29,000 members of two of the top sales/martech online communities: RevGenius and Modern Sales Pros (MSP). All members of these communities can now access the “Spicy” version of Chili Piper’s meeting automation product line for free.

    Learn more about Chili Piper and Meeting Lifecycle Automation at: https://www.chilipiper.com/.

    “Online communities are on the rise everywhere, and the lion’s share of industry leaders are members of one or another community. We want to help their members better connect with each other (and with their teams, prospects, clients, etc.) through unlimited access to a premium tier of our software offering — specifically the Spicy product line,” said Chili Piper’s Head of Community, Dan Cmejla.
    Online communities housed in Slack, email, or specialized softwares are on the rise as pandemic restrictions have decreased the ROI and feasibility of traditional field marketing efforts. Covid-19 has also deprived many of the world’s employees of “watercooler conversations” and the ability to casually access feedback on projects and ideas.

    To join RevGenius and/or Modern Sales Pros, visit RevGenius.com and ModernSalesHQ.com respectively.

    RevGenius co-founders Galem Girmay and Jared Robin have grown a Slack community for sales and marketing management, leadership, and individually-contributing practitioners to 8,000 since June. They believe their community provides a social structure beyond the current, mostly virtual, workplace. Over 2,500 messages and countless thousands of emojis are sent each day among their members via Slack.

    “We have helped people find new jobs, get promotions, level up their skill sets, and feel connected to others in the community during a challenging time,” says Jared Robin of RevGenius.
    “A community like RevGenius is a very organic way to build new connections and relationships across the board, and we are so happy that Chili Piper is making these connections even easier,” according to RevGenius’s Galem.

    Modern Sales Pros, a Google Group and events community, has now grown past 21,000+ members. It was founded to provide an avenue for revenue leadership professionals to share best practices across companies. MSP’s specialization (now on pause) in in-person events hasn’t stymied the desire of professionals to belong in a community.  In fact, the nature of Google Groups means that MSP emails show up across all the inboxes of their subscriber network over 3.5 million times per month.

    “Our hope is that other companies follow Chili Piper in providing premium benefits to our community. Much of the development of the science of revenue is coming from communities. If companies like Chili Piper can accelerate that pace of learning, and beyond that, give our members an additional leg up, we’re all in,” says Modern Sales Pros GM Richard Sgro.

    Much of the best research and learning in our industry is collaborative, and communities foster the ultimate collaborative environment where practitioners share best practices between companies.

    Rather than paying these organizations to syndicate a webinar or hold a digital event for us, Chili Piper is involving itself directly in the fabric of these communities by providing a value-forward offering that genuinely benefits community membership.
    “Meetings are the lifeblood of revenues,” said Nicolas Vandenberghe, Chili Piper co-founder and CEO. “Using only Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar to handle them results in lost prospects and wasted time. Meeting Lifecycle Automation has proven to double conversion rates for marketers and save hours of productive time for revenue reps. We’re thrilled to partner with RevGenius and Modern Sales Pros to have their members enjoy the benefits of this new category.”
    ChiliPiper Free and Spicy offerings both help revenue professionals automate the process of booking individual or group meetings from a variety of business tools, making it easier to connect with customers:

    • Use Suggested Times to book 13x more meetings with simple one-click scheduling
    • Use Instant Booker to book automated, templated meetings from any screen in seconds
    • Use Smart Email Signatures to offer easy one-click scheduling in every email
    • Use Personal Pages to share your availability and connect with the world

    Chili Meeting’s two-way CRM integrations give you ultimate flexibility and control to build custom CRM workflows for specific teams and meeting types:

    • Create new leads and contacts
    • Create new events, related to accounts, cases or opps
    • Track and update meetings held, rescheduled, and cancelled
    • Pull CRM data into dynamic meeting templates and reminders

    About Chili Piper

    Founded in 2016, Chili Piper is the leader in Meeting Lifecycle Automation, with a mission to reinvent the system of action for revenue teams. Chili Piper automates the antiquated processes associated with scheduling, managing, and tracking meetings across the entire customer journey — resulting in increased productivity and conversion rates throughout the funnel.

    Companies like Square, Twilio, QuickBooks Intuit, Spotify, and Forrester use Chili Piper to create an amazing experience for their leads, while converting double the amount of leads into held meetings. Chili Piper is a fully distributed company leveraging global talent with employees in 50 cities across 15 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.chilipiper.com/

     

     

  • PagerDuty’s Real-Time AIOps-Powered Digital Operations Platform Integrates with Amazon DevOps Guru

    PagerDuty to action real-time critical observability data on AWS

    SAN FRANCISCO – December 1, 2020 – PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD), a global leader in digital operations management, has announced a product collaboration with Amazon DevOps Guru, an operational insight service powered by machine learning (ML) from Amazon Web Services (AWS). PagerDuty is one of four Amazon DevOpsGuru Launch Partners at AWS re:Invent 2020, further extending its longstanding relationship with AWS. Through this new integration, PagerDuty will automatically ingest observability data from Amazon DevOps Guru. PagerDuty consolidates these digital health signals and alerts, and uses AIOps to contextualize and filter out the noise so teams can remediate issues in real-time, and customers can ensure critical business services get delivered.

    As digital transformation accelerates, cloud computing adoption continues to increase; IDC predicts total worldwide spending on cloud services will surpass $1.0 trillion by 2024. This shift leaves many organizations with a complex mix of hybrid-cloud and on-premises environments. As such, observability is becoming a business requirement for digital services built on any infrastructure. Amazon DevOps Guru is a powerful yet simple to use native observability service. Tightly paired via the new integration with Amazon DevOps Guru, PagerDuty provides actionable insights and resolution, contextualized through ML algorithms, to the correct stakeholders.

    The PagerDuty platform for real-time operations was built to ingest digital signals from across the entire enterprise ecosystem, and then arm the right responders with the right insights and tools to resolve issues in real-time. PagerDuty allows operations teams to improve the optics into their AWS environment and AWS-based applications. Leveraging Amazon DevOps Guru’s ML-enabled application health information, PagerDuty provides even more real-time signal-to-resolution capabilities to our shared customers. Through PagerDuty’s ingestion of Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications on Amazon DevOps Guru, customers can seamlessly identify and  action operational issues more quickly, before they become customer-impacting outages.

    “This integration is a sign of where the industry is headed as the demand for deep observability grows,” said Jonathan Rende, Senior Vice President of Product at PagerDuty. “For cloud native companies, PagerDuty’s combination with Amazon DevOps Guru means powerful, simple, no-configuration visibility and machine learning that ensures application uptime and instant incident response. For non-cloud native companies, it enables PagerDuty to further unify digital operations across complex, hybrid, and non-cloud-based applications as they migrate onto the cloud, with less complexity, less technology, and much faster ROI.”

    Users can benefit from better automation and a more complete picture of their environment. Health signals from Amazon DevOps Guru coupled with those from other observability tools, help PagerDuty’s AIOps noise reduction algorithms and automation capabilities to be more effective. The integration can also ensure cloud migration success by empowering teams to take real-time action on incidents that take place across your hybrid infrastructure. And, for teams who are “all in” on AWS, Amazon DevOps Guru’s out of the box app monitoring feeds can be ingested and made actionable by PagerDuty with almost no configuration needed. As a result, real-time incident response functionality is automatically added to customers’ app development lifecycle.

    PagerDuty is also adding support for two other AWS services, focused on supporting cloud migration and removing noise from hybrid infrastructures. These build on the monitoring, security, and management and automation integrations already available through the platform. The new integrations for AWS include:

    • PagerDuty for AWS Control Tower: Gives organizations the power of service ownership by applying guardrails that will either auto-remediate compliance issues or escalate to the right person to handle it.
    • PagerDuty for AWS Outposts: Extends the AWS infrastructure to virtually any datacenter, allowing organizations to manage incidents in real-time for AWS infrastructure used in a private datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility.

    For more information, visit https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/amazon-devops-guru-integration-guide

    About PagerDuty, Inc.

    PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Teams use PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them in the future. Notable customers include GE, Cisco, Genentech, Electronic Arts, Cox Automotive, Netflix, Shopify, Zoom, DoorDash, Lululemon and more. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visit www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

  • Tata Consultancy Services Partners with PagerDuty to Accelerate Digital Transformation Across Key Industries

    New global strategic alliance will help enterprises modernize operations to enable digital business success with industry-specific solutions and services

    SAN FRANCISCO–PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD), a global leader in digital operations management, today announced a global alliance with Tata Consulting Services, a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, to develop a new generation of IT solutions grounded in AI and automation and designed to accelerate digital transformation initiatives and modernize operations across key verticals.

    PagerDuty will work with TCS to build a “PagerDuty-TCS Solutions Service Center,” focusing on the development and implementation of digital solutions for joint customers across Infrastructure Managed Services, Cloud Migration, ITOps and DevOps Modernization, Customer Service, Security Operations, and Industry-Specific Operations.

    Reliance on digital services and applications to live, work, learn and connect, are experiencing rapid digital transformation across industries. For example, U.S. ecommerce experienced 10 years of innovation growth in just three months. To address the new needs and accelerated growth paths of companies worldwide, TCS established a Technology Group to work with companies like PagerDuty to devise and implement modern, innovative IT solutions across finance, retail, technology, telecom, media, manufacturing, and more.

    “TCS’ AI and automated solutions and services are helping customers digitally transform operations to modernize their business,” said Raman Venkatraman, Global Head, HiTech and Alliances & Technology Unit at TCS. “We are excited to work with PagerDuty to develop cutting-edge enterprise solutions to thrive in this new digital and distributed way of work.”

    TCS and PagerDuty will help transform customers’ digital operations by bringing PagerDuty’s Digital Operations Management platform to enterprises worldwide, providing new capabilities for event management, incident response, and AIOps, as well as advanced insights and analytics. PagerDuty enables teams to confidently scale services and accelerate digital initiatives using its AI and automation, making it possible for organizations to resolve incidents up to 70 percent faster. Working together, the two companies will help customers transform operations from slow, manual, and reactive to real-time, automated, and intelligent, which is critical for success in today’s always-on digital world.

    “Digital-first is the reality for organizations. However, the technology powering seamless digital experiences is very complex and many organizations do not have the resources and in-house expertise to drive this shift effectively,” said Dave Justice, Chief Revenue Officer at PagerDuty. “TCS is focused on solving digital transformation challenges for enterprises. The need has never been greater as a result of COVID-19 with the whole world shifting online. We are excited to have PagerDuty play a key part in TCS’ new generation of solutions that enable digital operations modernization and innovation.”

    As part of this new partnership, TCS will join PagerDuty’s Partner Program for Solution Partners and Managed Service Providers where they can provide distribution, reselling, professional services, and managed services worldwide and create new solutions for customers’ needs.

    About PagerDuty, Inc.

    PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Teams use PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them in the future. Notable customers include GE, Cisco, Genentech, Electronic Arts, Cox Automotive, Netflix, Shopify, Zoom, DoorDash, Lululemon and more. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visit www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.