There is always an abundance of AI technology announcements, here are some interesting ones that can aid the channel.
SAP says it has a “new approach” to digital sovereignty and AI innovation. Expanded offerings within the SAP Sovereign Cloud portfolio are giving European customers access to a “comprehensive” technology stack, including SAP Cloud Infrastructure and SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site.
“Europe's leadership in the next era of digital innovation, especially in AI, will depend on how effectively we apply AI to solve differentiated industry use cases,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the executive board of SAP, customer services and delivery. "With our expanded SAP Sovereign Cloud offering, SAP is unlocking access to the full spectrum of cloud innovations and AI capabilities for all markets and industries, while ensuring these advancements are delivered in a sovereign framework and on customers' own terms."
SAP Sovereign Cloud solutions are available on:
SAP Cloud Infrastructure (in Europe): SAP Cloud Infrastructure is SAP's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform that is developed and operated with open-source technologies within SAP's data centre network. All data is stored within the EU to maintain compliance with European data protection regulations.
SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site: SAP offers SAP-operated infrastructure within a customer-owned or customer-selected data centre. This solution delivers the highest levels of data, operational, technical, and legal sovereignty, said SAP, while maintaining SAP cloud innovation and architecture.
Delos Cloud: SAP offers Delos Cloud in Germany, a secure and sovereign cloud that supports the “flexible and rapid transformation of the public sector”, to meet country-specific sovereignty requirements.
-Templafy, the AI-powered document generation platform, has announced the launch of its document agents solution. Document agents bring conversational and agentic AI to document workflows, enabling organisations to create accurate, compliant, and on-brand business content “at speed and scale”.
Built for enterprise needs, document agents offer a major enhancement to how documents are created, not only giving organisations the ability to accelerate first-draft creations, but to also undertake document orchestration to generate compliant and high-quality customer-ready outputs.
The intelligent AI-powered helpers are designed to streamline the entire document generation process for end users. The agents are preconfigured with the rules and workflows required to generate structured and branded content, ensuring organisations stay in control.
Unlike other AI drafting tools, the offering integrates directly with enterprise systems, applies strict guardrails, and uses retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to compile “accurate, polished materials”, such as proposals, presentations, and contracts.
-Accenture is acquiring NeuraFlash, a Salesforce and Gen AI consulting company that specialises in agentic solutions for sales, service, and field service operations.
The acquisition will further strengthen Accenture's Salesforce Gen AI and managed services capabilities, and also extend its footprint to mid-market industries globally, said the consulting and services firm.
NeuraFlash has so far delivered more than 1,000 implementations for over 400 customers globally. The acquisition will add approximately 510 professionals with over 2,000 certifications to Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group.
In addition to its deep Salesforce and Agentforce implementation experience, NeuraFlash also has substantial Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities, delivering personalised experiences for customers with machine learning and Gen AI in the contact centre space.
-Cykel AI has announced that crypto executive Michael Chan will be its new CEO, replacing founder Ewan Collinge who transitions to chief AI Officer.
Chan was most recently general counsel for a crypto start-up, and previously served as managing counsel and global head of corporate legal at cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
LSE-listed Cykel AI is currently scaling its digital worker platform across the sales, recruitment, and research verticals.
-Cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare has boosted its Cloudflare One zero trust platform. With new features, Cloudflare is giving customers the ability to automatically understand, analyse and set controls on how generative AI is used throughout their organisation, “enhancing the productivity and innovation of their teams without sacrificing security or privacy standards”, we are told.
Across every team, from finance and marketing to engineering and design, companies are using generative AI to work faster, streamline daily tasks, and create powerful new applications.
However, this widespread adoption is frequently occurring without security or privacy in mind. For example, employees may accidentally paste confidential company information into chatbots, or engineers may deploy AI-driven apps without the input of their security teams.
To prevent these risks, businesses need to understand and manage the use of AI so all employees can use it efficiently and safely, with security built in by default.
Cloudflare is introducing AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) into its zero trust platform to allow organisations to safeguard against a range of potential threats posed by the wide adoption of AI tools, enabling businesses to “move faster with the confidence that AI is being used safely by all teams”, it says.
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