SnapLogic Creates a Pioneering Generative Integration Solution to Further Customer Innovation and Productivity

SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, today announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the capabilities of SnapGPT, SnapLogic’s generative integration interface. As part of this collaboration, SnapLogic will make Anthropic’s cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), Claude 2, offered by Amazon Bedrock, available within the SnapGPT platform that was made generally available earlier this year. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to industry-leading foundation models via an API to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

SnapLogic introduced SnapGPT, an innovative generative integration solution, powered by proprietary and open source AI this spring. With hundreds of customers already experiencing its game-changing potential, SnapGPT has set a new standard for integration and automation, streamlining complex processes and powering businesses into a data-driven future. By using natural language prompts, customers are using SnapGPT to accelerate the creation of new pipelines, instantly document new and old pipelines, create sample data, and generate SQL queries, expressions, mappings, and more.

“SnapGPT has made an immediate and incredibly beneficial impact on our developer team,” said David Patterson, Head of Solutions and Delivery at Hampshire Trust Bank. “By leveraging the natural language prompts with SnapGPT, we have been able to automate up to 80 percent of common integration tasks, freeing up our skilled developers to focus on building more innovative services for our customers. We’re eager to explore the possibilities of this promising technology.”

SnapGPT will empower users to use Anthropic’s state-of-the-art LLM Claude 2 to build new integrations, define existing pipelines, create new expressions, and more using natural language prompts. SnapGPT users now have access to Claude 2’s advanced natural language processing and generation abilities that can accept prompts containing up to 75,000 words or 100,000 tokens. SnapGPT leverages the larger prompt size of Claude 2 to offer a more powerful integration co-pilot that enhances performance across a wider range of applications. SnapGPT’s ease of use will allow businesses to roll-out citizen integration to clear backlog and drive business agility.

Key benefits of SnapLogic using Amazon Bedrock include:

• Integration Pipeline Generation: SnapLogic customers can generate integration pipelines directly from natural language instructions, making integration faster and more accessible for all users
• Complex Data Mapping: Our platform can effortlessly create complex data mapping configurations using natural language inputs, eliminating the need for intricate data transformation coding
• SQL Generation: SnapGPT can generate SQL queries from natural language queries, making it easier for users to interact with their data
• Complex Pipeline Description: Users can describe intricate data pipelines in plain language, enhancing collaboration and understanding among teams
• Sophisticated Chat-based Q&A: SnapLogic's documentation now offers a chat-based Q&A feature, allowing users to find answers to their integration questions more easily and intuitively

"SnapLogic is committed to providing our customers with the most advanced language models available, and our work with Amazon Bedrock and the integration of Anthropic’s model Claude 2 into SnapGPT is a testament to that commitment," said Jeremiah Stone, CTO of SnapLogic. "This collaboration will empower our users to harness the full potential of natural language processing in their applications, making generative integration and automation even more accessible and powerful."

"We are excited to work with SnapLogic to bring the power of Amazon Bedrock to SnapGPT users," said Rich Geraffo, vice president of North America at AWS. "This collaboration will enable organizations to leverage the capabilities of Amazon Bedrock and AWS’s generative AI expertise to drive innovation and enhance their data processing workflows."

ftrack achieves significant security assurance milestone for its enterprise-grade project management and media review platforms

Global media and entertainment technology company, Backlight, today announced that its award-winning creative project management platform, ftrack, has achieved System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type I compliance. Users of the ftrack platform—ftrack Studio and ftrack Review—can now work with confidence knowing that their projects are safeguarded by rigorous data protection standards as set by American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).

“As we continue to evolve in a landscape that demands not just innovation but also trust, achieving SOC 2 compliance is a big milestone for ftrack,” said Mikael Wahlberg, CTO, Backlight Creative. “Our focus has always been on empowering creative minds to bring their visions to life, and it’s critical they can do this with confidence in the security of our products. This latest compliance, and ftrack's ongoing commitment to security, gives customers confidence that when they create, collaborate, and deliver exceptional projects with Backlight’s technology their security will be our priority.”

Achieving SOC 2 compliance is a critical step for any company entrusted with sensitive information, such as intellectual property and personal data. ftrack's customers, whether they have intricate animations or high-stakes films, can be assured that their critical data is protected by an independently audited security and risk management program.

“Our clients' projects include cinematic blockbusters for which data protection is integral to their success,” said Benjamin Desbois, Backlight’s chief operating officer. “This successful completion of our SOC 2 audit is proof of the dedication, consideration, and care we give to the security of our customer’s projects across all workflows—both creative and distribution—as also evidenced with Zype for OTT.”

GoTo, the company making IT management, support, and business communications easy with flagship products GoTo Resolve, GoTo Connect, and LogMeIn Rescue, today announced it has promoted Damon Covey to the role of chief product officer (CPO) and hired Ruth Frank as vice president, user experience (UX).

Covey joined GoTo in 2021 as the company’s senior vice president and head of product. Prior to his time at GoTo, he served as vice president of product management at Cox Automotive and held various leadership roles for 14 years at cybersecurity company Symantec. As CPO at GoTo, Damon will be responsible for leading the product teams and UX for the company’s full IT management, support, and business communications portfolio.

This month, GoTo welcomes Ruth Frank as the company’s new head of UX within the Product team, where she’ll lead the ideation, user research, and design functions for product development.

Before joining GoTo, Frank was the vice president of experience design at Pitney Bowes, where she worked for over 18 years. She has previously led UX teams at AT&T, Delta Airlines, and NCR Corporation.

“It is my pleasure to congratulate Damon on his promotion and welcome Ruth to her new role at GoTo,” said Paddy Srinivasan, CEO at GoTo. “Damon has been instrumental in GoTo’s recent product innovation, and together with Ruth’s experience in guiding UX teams, they will play a critical role in building technology that makes IT and business communications easy for our customers.”

Intellicheck, Inc., an industry-leading identity company delivering on-demand digital and physical identity validation, today announced the appointment of Jonathan Robins as Chief Technology Officer.

Robins brings more than 35 years of technological innovation and leadership with a vision for the next wave of software applications to his new position at Intellicheck. His substantial expertise includes shaping growth strategies, optimizing engineering teams and creating customer focused cultures to deliver high-value engineering solutions. Always on the leading edge of technological innovation, he successfully built and later sold his own company focused on helping enterprises with business processes and custom applications development and systems that leveraged internet technology. With the sale of his business, Robins joined the Chicago Cubs where he concentrated on architecting software applications that leveraged large data sets, statistical modeling, AI, and machine learning solutions. From that experience, Robins discovered the next wave of software applications applying machine learning and probabilities to large data sets to power a new wave of high-value software applications.

Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis said Robins appointment stands to build on the Company’s position as a best-in-class industry leader. “Jonathan has an impressive track record as an innovative technology visionary and leader who has had a demonstrated impact on strategic initiatives, leading-edge product advances, business development, and client relations. His extensive knowledge in data analytics, data science and data mining will be instrumental in leveraging Intellicheck’s data to benefit our growing clientele. We look forward to the contributions he will make as he brings modern data-driven and machine learning approaches to Intellicheck to build new techniques for stopping fraud and providing our customers with high-value insights,” said Lewis.

Intellicheck provides both digital and physical identity verification solutions to industries where speed and certainty is crucial. These include financial services, social media, automotive, insurance, law enforcement and identity access management. Our services are used by half of the top 12 banks and credit card issuers, in use at over 30,000 retail locations, two of the major social media companies, and over half of the state-level law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

First-of-its-Kind Generative Business Intelligence Feature Empowers Small and Medium Businesses with Automatic, AI-powered Insights

Akkio, the pioneer in generative business intelligence for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today unveiled Generative Reports, a powerful, first-of-its-kind AI tool that automatically turns data into decisions. Customers simply connect their data and describe their project, and Generative Reports automatically creates a real-time report. With Generative Reports, SMBs have a self-service tool to surface the information they need to optimize marketing spend, forecast revenue, score leads, improve customer experiences, or anything else they can imagine.

Data is an SMB’s competitive advantage, but without the resources of a big company, most struggle to leverage its value. Akkio levels the playing field. For the first time, AI-powered Generative Reports allow SMBs to go toe-to-toe with industry giants, letting them quickly understand their data, get insights based on their specific use case, and share live reports with their team.

• Instant insights: Say goodbye to complex coding and formulas, Generative Reports delivers a dashboard of relevant charts to business users instantly, helping them make quick and informed decisions to support marketing operations, sales forecasts, and more.

• Built to understand business: Generative Reports goes beyond standard dashboard technology by analyzing a user’s specific project requirements, problems, and use case. It’s like speaking with an analyst. Generative Reports understands the problem users want to solve up-front and delivers a report to instantly answer questions, track statuses, and understand results.

• Live, sharable reporting: Users can connect Generative Reports to live data sources and then easily share these insights with their team, ensuring secure and immediate alignment to relevant business objectives.

The Future of Business Intelligence is Generative

Akkio is a leader in Generative BI, which stands at the intersection of generative AI and business data. With AI-powering features like automated insights, forecasting, and shareable reports, Akkio lets customers analyze the past, predict the future, and act on it.

“Generative BI is revolutionizing decision-making for small and medium businesses, and Akkio is enabling access to anyone working with data,” said Jonathon Reilly, Co-Founder and CEO of Akkio. “The introduction of Generative Reports provides SMBs with the immediate insights required to make better, more informed data-driven decisions.”

Ease of use is at the core of Akkio’s product strategy and design for Generative BI. Akkio empowers hundreds of customers to chat with their data securely, generate live dashboards, and use machine learning to forecast and predict future outcomes across their operations.

The partnership provides buyers a sustainable supply path through fully integrated carbon emissions measurement, reduction and offset capabilities.

OpenX Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading omnichannel supply-side platforms, today announced a milestone partnership with Cedara, the Carbon Intelligence Platform. With this integration, OpenX becomes the first digital advertising company to offer automated emissions measurement on campaigns, reduced campaign emissions, and a custom carbon offset portfolio solution for remaining campaign emissions via Cedara’s platform.

By pairing Cedara’s media emissions reduction and offset capabilities with OpenX’s status as the first Net-Zero adtech company, this partnership leads the industry’s sustainability initiative with best-in-class solutions for measuring and reducing emissions both at a corporate level and in media distribution.

This fully integrated solution will enable buyers to:

• sync organizational emissions data with media buys
• access highly curated and third-party certified projects
• achieve transparency and customization into how and what offsets are leveraged through the creation of custom offset portfolios
• seamlessly onboard and measure emissions from OpenX’s campaigns

Cedara provides automated omnichannel emissions measurement and deep business intelligence across both organizational and campaign-level emissions for advertisers and the media supply chain. Paired with OpenX’s comprehensive media activity data, this partnership enables transparent and accurate emissions measurement to deliver a truly sustainable supply path for buyers.

“We are thrilled to partner with OpenX, as they have a long-term commitment to sustainability and are consistent innovators. Our partnership gives buyers an end-to-end, sustainable programmatic product that they simply can’t get anywhere else,” said Eric Shih, COO at Cedara.

“With Cedara, we are able to offer an end-to-end solution that enables brands to measure the impact of their digital activity and provides control over and transparency into how and where quality offsets are used while delivering performance across our publisher portfolio,” said Joseph Worswick, VP EMEA and Head of Global Sustainability at OpenX. “In keeping with OpenX’s commitment to our own emissions reduction, we’re excited to see more businesses successfully build sustainability solutions as it shows the demand from digital advertising is growing.”

Jamison Powell has been promoted to General Manager and the company’s first SVP of Sales to oversee monday.com’s growth in North America

monday.com Ltd., a work operating system (Work OS) where organizations of any size can create the tools and processes they need to manage every aspect of their work, today announced two executive appointments and its new hybrid regional structure, effective September 1, 2023.

Established in November 2022, monday.com’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) organization ensures that from the moment a customer begins using monday.com and throughout their growth trajectory, their experience is seamless. As part of the CRO organization evolving, monday.com is establishing a hybrid regional structure to empower the regions while providing a strong connection to core global functions. North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) will be led by a regional leader who will own and be accountable for the entire revenue and retention in the region, driving annual recurring revenue and net dollar retention and ensuring all client-facing and supporting-operational functions are aligned on the regional goals.

To support this structure, monday.com has promoted Jamison Powell to GM of North America and the company’s first Senior Vice President of Sales. Over his nearly four-year tenure at monday.com, Powell served as the company’s Vice President of Sales, Americas, where he scaled the sales organization by over 10X and nearly doubled the revenue in the region each year. In addition to the above responsibilities, Powell will oversee the nearly one-third of monday.com employees, four offices, and over half of its customer base that are located in North America. Additionally, Dean Swan, previously Regional Vice President of APJ, has been promoted to GM of APJ and joined the CRO leadership team. As one of monday.com's first employees in Australia in 2020, Swan significantly scaled the local team and oversaw the opening of the company's regional headquarters in Sydney earlier this year. Powell and Swan will continue to report to CRO Yoni Osherov and monday.com is actively recruiting for the GM of EMEA role.

“This shift to a hybrid regional model is the natural next step to take monday.com and the CRO organization to the next level. While certain functions will remain global, the power behind this new structure brings a level of uniqueness to each region. This is crucial as we scale, as each regional leader will have the autonomy to create strategies that are tailored to specific market needs,” said Osherov. “Jamison and Dean have been influential leaders that have helped guide monday.com’s rapid growth in North America and APJ and we look forward to seeing their continued impact in their elevated roles.”

“It’s an incredibly exciting time to be at monday.com and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to expand my role to lead and continue to grow our presence in North America,” says Powell. “With our focus on customer centricity and efforts to bring the best, most trusted, multi-product WorkOS platform to the market, I’m optimistic we’ll continue to deliver value to our over 186,000 customers and beyond.”

In starting his new role, Powell will focus on further expanding operational excellence, as well as oversee the hiring for several key roles, including Head of Account Management, and various sales management roles in product growth areas such as monday sales CRM and monday dev.

New funding builds on industry-first innovations and rapid customer and revenue growth

Pulumi, the leading open source Infrastructure as Code platform, today announced $41 million in Series C funding led by Madrona with participation from NEA, Tola Capital, and Strike Capital. This round brings Pulumi’s total funding to $99 million. Pulumi will use the investment to make cloud infrastructure easily accessible to everyone – innovating on its open source platform, advancing infrastructure security and bringing the power of generative AI to cloud engineers and developers.

“Pulumi is critical to global enterprises now that it is the leading open source Infrastructure as Code provider,” said S. Somasegar, Managing Director of Madrona and Pulumi board member. "With the size and complexity of cloud infrastructure rapidly increasing as enterprises continue their digital transformation journey, the scale, power, and ease of use that Pulumi provides is more valuable than ever.”

The new funding builds on a strong period of innovation and growth for Pulumi, which doubled revenue over the past year and now counts over 2,000 customers and 150,000 users on its platform. New enterprise deployments in the last year include Univision, Moderna, Pinecone, the LEGO Group, and many others, all of whom are using Pulumi to accelerate their own innovation. More than half of the Fortune 50 now use Pulumi to help tame cloud complexity.

“We run due diligence calls every day, and we were awestruck by how much customers love the product,” said John Lagomarsino, General Partner at Strike Capital. “Pulumi has created incredible fans and a loyal following among cloud engineers and developers.”

Pulumi recently announced Pulumi Insights, which provides analytics and search across cloud infrastructure, and Pulumi AI, which allows developers to generate infrastructure as code using natural-language. The company has also seen mounting industry accolades this year, having been named among the top 5% of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America and listed among Redpoint Ventures’ InfraRed 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure.

Pulumi also announced the appointment of Bob Laskey as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Laskey brings more than 25 years of cloud software leadership experience to Pulumi, having led highly-successful revenue teams at Cloudflare and Microsoft. As CCO, Laskey will focus on improving the experience of Pulumi’s growing customer base, and developing its partner ecosystem and professional services.

“This funding will accelerate our growth and enable us to solve even more of our customers' toughest cloud challenges,” said Pulumi co-founder and CEO Joe Duffy.“The modern cloud changes everything and, as the leading open source Infrastructure as Code provider, we look forward to continuing to work closely with our community to reimagine how the world programs the cloud.”