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Accenture's full year generative AI revenues come in at $300 million out of a $64.1 billion total. There's a long way to go, says CEO Julie Sweet This article is sponsored by:

Gen AI revenue has doubled in the past quarter, but projects are typically experimental and there's a lot of caution alongside the curiosity.

McAfee adopts microservices using Confluent Cloud to scale its architecture and services This article is sponsored by:

Cybersecurity giant McAfee has shifted from an on-premise monolith to microservices in the cloud, underpinned by real-time streaming data using Confluent.

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Denny’s cooks up new intelligence stack with Confluent to serve fresh data to the business This article is sponsored by:

Restaurant chain Denny’s is rethinking how it collects its point-of-sales data, as it implements new cloud-based technologies

Confluent’s data streaming platform aims to make development easier for real-time AI applications This article is sponsored by:

Data streaming vendor Confluent has also revealed its cloud-native Flink service, with the aim of making it easier to build applications with stream processing.

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Giving Dell the edge in edge - new platform capabilities offer easier data migration capabilities This article is sponsored by:

With its existing track record in establishing large data centers, Dell now feels it is well-placed to offer help to those building out their edge capabilities, and has now come up with a platform to smooth the way

Enterprise hits and misses - Cisco splurges on Splunk, enterprise LLMs get a gut check, and Oracle doubles down on healthcare (and AI) This article is sponsored by:

This week - Cisco pays a premium for Splunk, but why? Enterprise LLMs get a debunking - and a progress report. Fall events roll on, with Oracle CloudWorld reviews and analysis to peruse.

'Who doesn't want to know what's happening in real time?' - Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay on democratizing analytics This article is sponsored by:

An interview with Ryan Aytay, who became Tableau CEO in May, on the changing nature of the vendor's user base and the impact of AI on data analytics in the enterprise.

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A CPO’s perspective - real success with generative AI requires real-time data This article is sponsored by:

LLMs are bringing AI to the mainstream, but how do companies bring contextualized and current data to their LLMs? Shaun Clowes of Confluent explores how data streaming platforms can help.

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CloudWorld 23 - Larry Ellison’s Oracle AI vision extends well beyond the enterprise, it’s a vision for big world problems This article is sponsored by:

Ellison has a reputation for delivering an interesting keynote, but the past two years have felt very different for the Oracle co-founder and CTO. Generative AI is pushing Ellison’s vision beyond the four walls of the enterprise.

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Explainable AI – why humans must always be able to understand what AI is thinking This article is sponsored by:

The ability to explain AI processes is essential for business decision making. Christian Pedersen of IFS sets out the benefits of transparency at the start of AI integration.

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Enterprise hits and misses - smart cars aren't private, Dreamforce does AI, and ethical AI debt is a thing This article is sponsored by:

Dreamforce is in the books - and we've got your curated analysis. AI took center stage - but how would I grade the approach? Smart cars might be smart, but they are also data privacy sieves. Real-time is a work in progress, and ethical AI debt is real. As always, your whiffs.