Gartner

Gartner Announces Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference 2024

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Consulting, Professional Services, Other Professional Services, Technology, Software, Organization, Conference, Growth, Social media, Travel, CP/M, Gartner

Details: Today’s chief sales officers (CSOs) and sales leaders must find innovative ways to exceed revenue targets despite the unrelenting uncertainties caused by inflation, talent scarcity and supply chain disruptions.

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  • Details: Today’s chief sales officers (CSOs) and sales leaders must find innovative ways to exceed revenue targets despite the unrelenting uncertainties caused by inflation, talent scarcity and supply chain disruptions.
  • At the Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference , sales leaders and their teams will gain unique actionable insights, practical tools and innovative guidance to acquire new customers and drive growth, transform their revenue organization, and learn from the most progressive sales organizations to accelerate commercial performance.
  • Audience and Topics: The conference is expected to feature 25+ Gartner experts and 50+ research-driven sessions, with an audience of CSOs, heads of sales, sales operations leaders and sales enablement leaders.
  • The conference agenda will consist of four main tracks, focused on helping sales leaders overcome their biggest challenges and tackle their most pressing priorities:
    Gartner Opening Keynote: “Cracking Chaos: Your Winning Advantage” with Alice Walmesley , Director Analyst at Gartner, and Dave Egloff , VP Analyst at Gartner
    Exhibit Showcase: The Exhibit Showcase onsite at the Gartner CSO & Sales Leader Conference will bring together leading technology and service providers highlighting the next steps in sales through live demonstrations, use cases/client success stories, and information-packed presentations.

Gartner Announces Inaugural Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo in London

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Technology, Consulting, Marketing, Communications, Professional Services, Software, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Social media, Gartner, Travel, CMOS

AI is turbocharging transformation, turning tech from an enabler powering an efficient marketing machine into a disruptor.

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  • AI is turbocharging transformation, turning tech from an enabler powering an efficient marketing machine into a disruptor.
  • Successful CMOs embrace their role as transformation leaders, enabling their teams to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency.
  • At the Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo 2024 conference , CMOs and their teams will learn the insights they’ll need to create and lead a successful marketing strategy in this shifting landscape.
  • Audience and Topics: The conference is expected to feature more than 100 research-driven sessions, with an audience of CMOs, digital marketing leaders, customer experience and loyalty leaders, marketing operations and analytics leaders, and brand marketing leaders.

Gartner® Names Juniper Networks a Leader in 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for Fourth Time in a Row

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Monday, March 11, 2024
Networks, Internet, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Technology, Mobile, Wireless, Security, Automation, Growth, JNPR, Q/Q, Quadrant, Fintech, Mist, Network, Y/Y, Calendar, Gartner, Magic Quadrant, Magic

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure AI-Native Networking, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named it a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the fourth time in a row.

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  • Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure AI-Native Networking, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named it a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure for the fourth time in a row.
  • In addition, Juniper was once again positioned highest for “Ability to Execute,” a Gartner rating criterion that evaluates vendors on their product/service, market responsiveness and customer experience.
  • As Gartner explains , “Magic Quadrants offer visual snapshots, in-depth analyses and actionable advice that provide insight into a market’s direction, maturity and participants.
  • And Juniper’s public customer wins continue to expand across all verticals, with a host of new public success stories, including:

Staffing Software Veteran Vinda Souza Joins RefAssured as Chief Marketing Officer to Drive Customer-Centric Growth

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
PR, Pedigree, Megaphone, Software, Vinda, Trust, HCM, Love, Ecosystem, Data management, Gartner

BOSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- RefAssured, Inc., a leading provider of automated reference checking solutions, today announced the appointment of Aravinda (Vinda) Souza as Chief Marketing Officer. With almost twenty years running corporate marketing and PR for leading tech companies – with a fifteen-year focus on the human capital management (HCM) ecosystem – Vinda's strong industry pedigree, narrative storytelling ability, and deep appreciation for the needs of staffing firm executives and operators will deliver immediate value to RefAssured and its rapidly growing customer base.

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  • RefAssured, Inc., a leading provider of automated reference checking solutions, today announced the appointment of Aravinda (Vinda) Souza as Chief Marketing Officer.
  • BOSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- RefAssured, Inc., a leading provider of automated reference checking solutions, today announced the appointment of Aravinda (Vinda) Souza as Chief Marketing Officer.
  • "Over the course of a nearly two-decade career working across almost every sector within or adjacent to tech," said Vinda, "I fell in love with staffing."
  • As RefAssured's Chief Marketing Officer, Vinda will lead the company's corporate and industry marketing efforts, as well as being a strong partner to RefAssured customers and prospects in navigating challenges and capitalizing on opportunities within the broader HCM landscape.

Allure Security Closes $10 Million Series A to Help Companies Protect Their Brands Online

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Automation, Trust, Social media, Research, AI, Fintech, Fraud, Machine learning, Gartner, Writing, Cryptocurrency

BOSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The leader in online brand protection-as-a-service Allure Security today announced the completion of a $10 million Series A funding round. Curql, a fintech strategic investment capital firm, led the round joined by new Allure Security investor Datatec Founder and CEO Jens Montanana and existing investors Glasswing Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, Gutbrain Ventures, and PBJ Capital.

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  • BOSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The leader in online brand protection -as-a-service Allure Security today announced the completion of a $10 million Series A funding round.
  • Cybercriminals impersonated twice as many financial institutions online seeking to defraud consumers during the first two months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.
  • Allure Security's massive, proprietary data set also reveals a 43 percent uptick in the frequency of online brand impersonation scams in the same period.
  • Further corroborating the continued increase in online imposters, the Anti-Phishing Working Group called 2023 , "...the worst year for phishing on record."

Charli AI and FactSet revolutionise financial services sector by combining industry-leading financial data with advanced Multidimensional AI

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Synthetic media, Partnership, FactSet, Research, AI, Gartner, Generative, Medical device

VANCOUVER, BC, April 3, 2024 /CNW/ - Charli AI and FactSet have embarked on a strategic partnership to bring a first-of-its-kind financial analysis solution that consolidates leading financial data with advanced Multidimensional AI.

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  • VANCOUVER, BC, April 3, 2024 /CNW/ - Charli AI and FactSet have embarked on a strategic partnership to bring a first-of-its-kind financial analysis solution that consolidates leading financial data with advanced Multidimensional AI.
  • As the financial services sector looks to harness the power of AI to gain an edge, this partnership represents a leap forward for the industry by combining FactSet's industry-leading data with Charli AI's advanced technology.
  • Charli AI's advanced AI platform enables connections to hundreds of applications, including FactSet APIs, thereby tapping into tens of thousands of trusted data points.
  • Charli AI's Multidimensional AI encompasses many AI disciplines, such as Generative AI, Retrieval Augmented AI, Multimodal AI, Extractive AI, Predictive AI and Explainable AI, which are now all being applied to FactSet data.

SDI Announces the Launch of Its Inaugural 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Organization, Digital, Empowerment, News, SDI, Carbon, Supply, Corporate social responsibility, CSR, Front line, Gartner, 3D printing

NEWTOWN, Pa., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, SDI, a leading provider of supply chain solutions and services, is proud to announce the publication of its first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report for the year 2023, alongside the exciting news of its sponsorship and participation in the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/XPO, May 6-8, in Orlando.

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  • The 2023 CSR Report outlines SDI's efforts across various dimensions of sustainability and diversity, illustrating the small yet impactful ways SDI has begun to integrate these critical aspects into its business operations.
  • From environmental initiatives that reduce the company's carbon footprint to governance practices that ensure integrity and transparency, and social initiatives aimed at fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, the report showcases SDI's holistic approach to corporate responsibility.
  • The Company is also excited to highlight the dynamic and rewarding career opportunities within the supply chain sector offered by SDI.
  • Those passionate about making a difference and driving innovation in supply chain management are invited to explore the possibilities at https://www.sdi.com/jobs/ .

Highspot Brings AI-Driven, Personalized Coaching at Scale to Sales Enablement

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Knowledge, GTM, Synthetic media, Certification, Organization, Salesforce, AI, Workflow, Behavior, Enablement, Partnership, Gartner, Sales

SEATTLE, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Highspot, the sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, today announced its Spring '24 release, expanding its suite of generative AI capabilities for personalized, just-in-time coaching throughout a seller's daily work – scaling the positive sales behavior change that drives revenue growth.

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  • Meanwhile, Gartner data shows that organizations prioritizing revenue enablement are 80 percent more likely to exceed revenue growth targets.
  • Highspot's latest Spring Release delivers innovation to fuel enablement success by expanding the industry's only natively-built, unified, enterprise enablement platform.
  • Generative AI that coaches everywhere: Highspot is expanding Highspot Copilot's capabilities for providing sellers with personalized, just-in-time coaching wherever they are in their workflow, reducing manager overhead, and accelerating behavior change.
  • "Enablement is essential to businesses everywhere because it is the only way to scale winning sales behaviors across revenue teams," said Robert Wahbe, CEO, Highspot.

Celebrating 10,000 GitHub Stars for NebulaGraph

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Cloud, AWS, Azure, GitHub, Conference, Gartner, Growth, Feedback, NebulaGraph, Digital, Sales

Our journey commenced in October 2018, with the establishment of Vesoft to embark on the NebulaGraph project.

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  • Our journey commenced in October 2018, with the establishment of Vesoft to embark on the NebulaGraph project.
  • By October 2019, 360 Digital had incorporated NebulaGraph into their production, marking a significant milestone in the product's maturity.
  • And now, we've reached our most recent milestone: 10,000 GitHub stars!
  • "I am extremely proud and grateful to see 10,000 stars on GitHub," says Sherman Ye.

Openstream.ai Gets Key Patent for Multimodal AI-Driven Digital Twins of Humans to Scale Access to Experts

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Knowledge, Customer, Chatbot, Multimodal, Information Today, AI, Digital twin, Employment, Conversation, Patent, Language, CMO, Gartner, Magic Quadrant, Stark, Sales

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Openstream.ai, the leading provider of neuro-symbolic, plan-based multimodal Conversational AI platform and solutions for visionaries, today announced the expansion of  its multimodality patent portfolio with the issuance of the patent entitled "System and Method for Automated Digital Twin Behavior Modeling for Multimodal Conversations." This patented approach gives the visionary clients of its platform Eva™ (Enterprise Virtual Assistant)  the ability to deploy advanced virtual assistants that are digital twins of human experts with their knowledge and unique personas that can engage in empathetic, hallucination-free natural conversations with end-users.

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  • Digital Twins of Experts can take the form of AI Avatars, AI Virtual, or AI Voice agents on any channel or engage in any language to collaborate with end-users to help them achieve their goals.
  • This allows an enterprise to scale and deploy twins to support customer service, employee help desk, or co-pilot use cases as needed 24/7/365.
  • "The ability to build and deploy Digital Twins of Expert humans in the enterprise has been the holy grail of AI endeavors within the expert community for several decades.
  • The use of digital twins in various business sectors is expected to boom in the next few years.