Google sets its sights on another vertical to dominate: it plans to start offering checking accounts, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The service, code-named Cache, will be available next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford Federal Credit Union.

Salesforce is a juggernaut in the customer experience solution space – at Dreamforce 2019, it announced a strategic partnership with Amazon to bolster their respective plays in the contact center space.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will suffer a slow death as applications evolve to run on cloud platforms. The IaaS/PaaS/SaaS model of cloud services will die with it.

Google has access to personal medical data of up to 50 million Americans through its partner Ascension, the second-largest health network in the US. The information about “Project Nightingale” has come from a whistleblower, reports The Guardian.

Google has been accused of secretly collecting sensitive patient data in the US on behalf of the healthcare provider Ascension. While most of the criticism has been about data privacy, we should also consider what Google intends this data for.

Artificial intelligence continues to fuel the arms race among ERP vendors. Earlier this year, Oracle announced that it has extended the AI (machine learning, to be more precise) capabilities within the ERP Cloud and EPM Cloud products.

Google is acquiring Fitbit, a leading wearables brand, for $2.1 billion. Google says the motivation is to “help more people with wearables,” expand its vision of “ambient computing,” and, of course, grab a share of the fast-growing $8-billion digital health market.

HPE has ported over InfoSight Predictive Analytics platform from its 2017 acquisition of Nimble to its SimpliVity line, adding AI to the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), as announced in an Oct. 28 press release.

Bonitasoft, an open-source business process management (BPM) vendor, is now offering implementation of its low-code automation software via the cloud.

Darktrace introduced a “Cyber AI Analyst” in September 2019 as a means of offloading incident management responsibilities from InfoSec practitioners. This new feature functions as an “extra body” to intelligently create reports of suspicious activity on the company network.

Finastra launches securities financing transaction regulation (SFTR) support ahead of the European Union’s April 11, 2020 deadline.

With many video management system (VMS) vendors adding automatic license plate capture capabilities, the uses for this technology are expanding rapidly.

Cloud-based video surveillance and video analytics are growing. How will this affect privacy?

Microsoft Teams received a bevy of new capabilities that focus on new ways to customize the experience for users and manage the workflow for administrators, all announced at Microsoft’s annual infrastructure-focused Ignite conference in Orlando on Nov. 4.

Krow, a customer-centric professional services automation (PSA) solution, announced new features in its fall 2019 release, improving its customer experience and extending service delivery.

A Microsoft Teams client for Linux has been confirmed, with a preview becoming available by the end of 2019.

Google continues to be an ally in the war against deepfake deception, releasing a large dataset of video deepfakes that it has produced with the intent of helping researchers detect visual deepfakes.

To make machine learning (ML) repeatable and scalable, you need to invest in serving infrastructure (the “last mile”), ML operations, and governance, says Cloudera’s Sr. Product Manager Alex Breshears in the MIT-Cloudera webinar “How to Scale Production Machine Learning in the Enterprise.”

Databricks, a data processing and analytics platform with a strong focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), is investing 100 million euros (US$111 million) in its European Development Center to take advantage of the European pool of talent and cutting-edge research.

Fluid Framework, unveiled in May at Microsoft’s Build 2019 company conference, lets developers rally the help of near real-time coauthoring, reusable mix-and-match document components, and digital assistants like translator aids in the content creation experience at speeds and scale not available before.

WISE Employment, an Australian nonprofit work placement organization, has selected Nintex Promapp BPM as the tool to replace SharePoint for business process management (BPM).