The report from 22Miles and Emergen Research estimates the market will exceed $7 billion in the next decade.

22Miles, a global leader in experiential 3D wayfinding and digital signage technology, has partnered with Emergen Research, a leading market research company specializing in emerging technologies, to produce a comprehensive trend analysis and forecast for the digital signage software market.

This unprecedented report presents a broad survey of the digital signage software competitive landscape from 2023 to 2032, as well as growth predictions by region and vertical market; analyses of market drivers, restraints and opportunities; and technology trends. The report also explores the adoption rates of various pricing models and deployment types within the digital signage software marketplace and the market size for digital signage software support and professional services.

"Innovations in CMS solutions are accelerating digital signage adoption at a dizzying pace. We worked with Emergen to give our integrator partners a comprehensive understanding of the digital signage software landscape so they can capitalize on the opportunity," said Thuy LeDinh, Director of Product Marketing for 22Miles. "This study will give solution providers the data they need to scale their portfolios, establish benchmarks, validate sales objectives and evaluate their own pricing and service strategies for a range of customers and projects."

Key Findings

Emergen finds that the digital signage market for the North American, European and Asia Pacific regions was valued at US$1.67 billion in 2022 and predicts the market will exceed $7 billion by 2032. The company forecasts an annual growth rate of 21.3 percent through 2032.

The report offers regional and country-by-country forecasts, including vertical market segmentation for each area. North America remains the largest market, with over 40 percent of the market value. Though Europe is the smallest market currently, it is also the fastest growing, with a forecast annual growth rate of 17.3 percent.

Today Domo (Nasdaq: DOMO) announced it has achieved the Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery designation, following successful partner integration tests conducted by Google Cloud engineers.

Offered as a qualification program to improve customer confidence in vendors’ integration solutions, Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery designation means Domo customers can seamlessly integrate with BigQuery and begin effectively analyzing data across multiple environments.

“Furthering our relationship with Google Cloud is a critical piece of bringing the most comprehensive cloud capabilities to the industry,” said Daren Thayne, Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Product, Domo. “Achieving this recognition is confirmation of Domo’s ability to deliver strong integrations that help to drive successful data experiences for all of our customers.”

Google Cloud’s designation process includes three phases to establish that Domo has reached all functionality and interoperability requirements to successfully integrate with BigQuery:

• A series of data integration tests that compare results against benchmarks
• Working closely with partners to fill any gaps
• Refining documentation to benefit mutual customers

“The Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery designation gives customers confidence that solutions have gone through a formal certification process and will deliver the best possible performance with BigQuery,” said Ritika Suri, Director of Technology Partnerships at Google Cloud. “With Domo, customers can connect all of their data and metrics with BigQuery to more easily optimize their business performance.”

As part of the designation, Domo can collaborate more closely with Google Cloud partner engineering, as well as work with BigQuery teams to create more comprehensive integration solutions. This partnership builds on Domo’s multi-cloud data offering, Cloud Amplifier, announced at Domopalooza 2023, which is aimed at helping customers unlock data across multiple cloud data platforms through a single virtual layer.

Partnership Provides Joint Customers in Technology, Retail and Financial Services With Comprehensive 24/7 Security That Maximizes Customers' Existing Security Investments

Ontinue, a leading provider of AI-powered extended managed detection and response (MXDR) services and winner of the 2023 Microsoft Security Services Innovator of the Year award, and its partner AVANT, a premier technology distributor and channel sales enablement company, have strengthened the cybersecurity protections of several joint customers by maximizing their existing Microsoft 365 Defender investments with the Ontinue ION MXDR service. Together, they provide a tailored security service that combines AI and human intelligence to address customers' most urgent security issues while reducing their total cost of ownership.

Despite increasing vulnerabilities caused by digital transformation efforts, many organizations underutilize the extensive security capabilities of their Microsoft 365 Defender investments, instead engaging with MSSPs and MXDR providers. However, the majority of providers use too many toolsets and do not effectively employ AI to gain a meaningful understanding of their customers. This makes these providers notoriously poor at distinguishing true positives from false and benign positives, which results in lost time, wasted effort and distracts from real threats. 

Ontinue ION MXDR overcomes these issues by optimizing Microsoft 365 Defender, leveraging Microsoft security and collaboration portfolios, and uniquely combining AI and human intelligence. This allows Ontinue to truly understand customers' environments, workflows, risks, objectives and tools and deliver tailored security built around customers' organizations, critical assets and business needs for faster and more effective response.

"MXDR providers are not created equal, and in today's cost-conscious and serious threat environment, companies must ensure the security service provider they choose can maximize their existing security assets, particularly ones as capable as Microsoft 365 Defender. Working with AVANT, we are reaching such Microsoft 365 Defender customers and providing them with the security that allows them to focus on business and not putting out fires," said Pedro Vidal, Vice President of North America Sales for Ontinue. "AVANT is a perfect partner for us in this effort, with an outstanding reputation for excellence and its army of well-respected Trusted Advisors whose customers rely on to address their IT and security needs."

"Ontinue's ION MXDR service is an ideal solution for our Trusted Advisors, which represent a growing number of Microsoft 365 Defender users who recognize they need to engage a security services provider for around-the-clock protection against increasingly sophisticated threats," said Stephen Semmelroth, Senior Director of Security Engineering at AVANT. "Complementing ION is Ontinue's deep Microsoft expertise, which helps our partners fully leverage their Microsoft investments. Together, we can assist AVANT Trusted Advisors in providing their customers with comprehensive 24/7 protection that improves their security postures through automation, collaboration and faster Mean Time to Respond and strengthens their ongoing security maturity."

Ontinue ION sets new standards for MXDR services. It uniquely delivers Nonstop SecOps with 24/7, always-on protection while increasing overall security program maturity, efficacy and scalability. ION overcomes the shortcomings of traditional MDR solutions in several ground-breaking ways, including the first Microsoft Teams-based collaboration model for seamless real-time communication between SecOps, IT and all other security stakeholders. Ontinue is also pioneering the use of generative AI and automation to enable localized insights and protection tailored to customers' unique environments and accelerate the detection and response to threats faster than ever before. Complementing these advanced capabilities of the ION service is the deep Microsoft security expertise of Ontinue's ION staff, which enables customers to maximize the capabilities of their Microsoft security investments.

New Availability will help accelerate Retailer New Revenue Streams and Scale Personalization Strategies

NIQ, the leading global provider of measurement and analytics, today announced the Activate Platform will be available on Google Cloud and available on the Google Cloud Marketplace this Fall. The new offering will combine NIQ’s industry-leading data and insights with Google Cloud’s powerful Infrastructure, Data and AI Cloud capabilities to help businesses make better decisions.

NIQ's Activate Platform is a comprehensive SaaS, AI-based collaborative platform solution that provides businesses with a single view of their customers across all channels. The platform includes data from NIQ’s vast measurement and analytics portfolio, with data that can be used to analyze customer behavior, identify trends, inform assortment rationalization, and identify cross-sell opportunities. The platform offers users the Full View into Supply Chain Analytics, Assortment & Promotion Analytics, Category & Customer Analytics, Personalized Offer Management, and Retail Media Intelligence.

“We are excited to partner with Google Cloud to make our Activate Platform available on Google Cloud and Google Cloud Marketplace,” said Jamie Clarke, Head of North America Retail, NIQ. “This relationship will give our customers the ability to access our data and insights on the platform of their choice, while also benefiting from Google Cloud’s world-class data and analytics capabilities. Together, we can help businesses make better decisions faster and create engagements that matter to retailers, suppliers and customers.”

NIQ Activate enables retailers to create incremental value and accelerate growth through retail media, personalized experiences and actionable category and customer insights. The agreement combines Google Cloud’s industry-leading capabilities in data and AI with first-party customer and sales data to improve customer engagements for retailers. With NIQ Activate on Google Cloud, retailers can create more sustainable revenue streams by monetizing their data assets with hyper-targeted audience building, easily creating impactful offers and ads, and accessing end-to-end measurement reports.

“As a part of their digital transformation strategies, many enterprises are seeking solutions that help them modernize and accelerate their most critical operations with Google Cloud," says Jose Gomes, Managing Director, Retail Customers, Google Cloud. “With its solution coming to Google Cloud this fall, NIQ Activate will enable teams to unlock the full power of their data by combining NIQ’s insights with Google Cloud’s leading infrastructure and BigQuery technology."

The first two modules (Category & Customer Insights, and Personalization), of the Activate Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace will be available in the fall of 2023. Google Cloud customers can achieve benefits including simplified procurement, consolidated billing, and financial incentives. The platform will be fully integrated with Google Cloud products, such as BigQuery, Dataproc, and Cloud Dataflow. This integration will allow businesses to take advantage of Google Cloud’s BigQuery and AI technology to accelerate enterprises’ data driven transformations.

New Canva survey indicates optimism and interest amid pressures – 60% agree AI will make them more productive at work

Canva, the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, has released new data on professionals’ understanding of AI as its presence in the workplace and culture expands.

From the boardroom to recent graduates, professionals at every level are navigating the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence at work. As businesses race to reap the benefits of AI, employees are trying to balance their performance with spending time learning new tools, though many lack the time or resources to do so effectively. The result is a collective experience in which professionals are being inundated with conversation about AI, both at work and in their personal lives, but don’t yet have a deep or practical understanding of how to best use the technology.

The survey of 1,000 professionals in a business setting, conducted by global research and data partner Sago, indicates that employees are feeling increased pressure to appear tech-savvy and up to date with the latest trends amongst peers and friends. Amid this sea change, employers have an opportunity to foster AI skill-building to prevent imposter syndrome in the workplace.

The survey unveiled a range of reactions to AI’s rise:

• Professionals feel a need to keep up appearances as they learn:
  • 26% say they have sometimes exaggerated their knowledge of AI or generative AI at work to keep up with superiors or colleagues.
  • 72% of professionals said they were familiar or very familiar with the term “artificial intelligence,” but this number dropped to 51% when asked about familiarity with “generative AI.”
• Millennials are leading the uptake and adoption of AI, having the most positive perceptions of generative AI in the workplace:
  • 59% said that they believe generative AI is part of the solution when it comes to helping humans achieve their full potential in the workplace, compared to 43% of Gen Z.
  • Meanwhile, over a third (36%) of Gen Z said they felt like AI is a problem when it comes to humans achieving their full potential at work, compared to 18% of millennials.
• AI know-how is increasingly important outside of work, too:
  • While 35% of professionals have used AI tools in the workplace, more (43%) have used AI in a personal capacity.
  • 21% of respondents say they have overstated their knowledge with friends and family. Why? 26% said it was because they did not want to look foolish for not knowing or needing to ask for clarification.
• Even senior leaders feel behind when it comes to AI knowledge:
  • More than a third of senior leaders (VPs and above) said they have exaggerated their AI knowledge in work (38%) or personal (39%) settings, suggesting that when it comes to learning AI, the playing field is level despite differences in experience.
• Despite their knowledge gaps, professionals clearly believe in the importance of learning AI:
  • 41% of professionals worry that they will fall behind in their jobs if they don’t know how to leverage AI.
  • Those who have worked to improve their AI and generative AI knowledge find it fun (44%) and confidence-boosting (35%).

Given nearly all (85%) professionals indicated they are at least somewhat interested in improving their AI and generative AI skills and knowledge, employers may be well poised to offer time for learning and access to easy-to-learn tools that best suit their teams’ needs.

“The AI space is evolving faster than any one of us can grasp alone. It’s a simultaneously thrilling and overwhelming opportunity that people are naturally reacting differently to,“ said Cameron Adams, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva. “In our product, we’ve tried to make it a no-brainer to start using AI when designing in Canva by embedding it in familiar or intuitive ways. A quick and empowering way to start learning AI is by using it for low-stakes tasks, like a meeting agenda or a lesson outline. Creating a culture of sharing AI experiences and learnings among teams can prevent people from feeling behind and spark new discoveries.”

To put respondents’ feelings about AI into perspective, Canva created five audience segments based on the data that reveal which professionals are driving – or detracting from – the conversation around generative AI:

• Emerging leaders – 23% of professionals surveyed – committed themselves to learning AI over the past 4-6 months and are leading or actively participating in AI work conversations. These are the "firstcomers" or "early adopters" of workplace technology.
• Learners – 13% of professionals – are starting to commit themselves to learning and are active listeners in AI conversations (soon-to-be emerging leaders). These are the "fast followers" of generative AI tools at the office.
• AI Curious – 28% of professionals – this is the "silent majority." They are currently non-users but already see the connection to gen AI and their careers. They know they should start learning, but there's a blocker (this is the next group to "convert") and the way we do that is largely a) making gen AI practice "fun and exciting," b) lean into curiosity at the consumer level to grow confidence for professional uses, and c) show how AI can help them do their work faster and improve quality.
• Detractors – 19% of professionals – are those actively pushing against AI tech, calling it "a fad" and believing it's "part of the problem" at work.
• Imposters – 17% of professionals – are often ambiguous, sometimes looking like emerging leaders (or other audiences), but their hallmark is that they admit they have stretched the truth about generative AI skills at work, and overreport knowing fake AI terms.

Companies will soon be Liable for the Safety of Their Software for Consumers, Companies, and Governments.

Fianu Labs, the software governance automation solution, today secured a $2 million seed investment from DataTribe, a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and data science companies.

For businesses in regulated industries, the weight of software regulation is onerous. Each software release requires hundreds of hours of manual evidence gathering, leading to longer release cycles that stifle innovation and cost tens of millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. There looks to be no relief in sight as regulators have signaled a renewed focus on software development practices in response to recent attacks on the software supply chain. Businesses are in dire need of a solution that streamlines their compliance and shortens release cycles.

Fianu Labs is pioneering the path for businesses to succeed in the era of software regulation with an intuitive approach to governance that instills confidence in each release. Fianu captures and maintains a continuous audit trail that tells the story of each code change, from commit to release and automates a once chaotic manual process with speed and clarity. At its core, Fianu bridges the gap between Security, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Risk with a shared language and a unified front to regulators and auditors. The result is reduced risk, faster release cycles, and easier audits.

"Fianu is truly revolutionizing secure software development observability," said Leo Scott, Chief Innovation Officer for DataTribe and a Fianu Board of Directors member. "Fianu gives Chief Technology Officers, Chief Security Officers, and Chief Information Officers confidence to deliver software at the speed they want and with the integrity required."

Over the last three years, the federal government has signaled increased scrutiny of software release patterns foreboding an era of crippling red tape and higher costs that could create significant challenges for companies across the regulatory landscape. Additionally, recent rulings have expanded the liability of software vendors and their executives. The message is clear: Companies that develop software will be held accountable for the security of their products. Fianu aims to reduce the weight of regulation for established companies while helping smaller and traditionally less-regulated companies transition to the new era of software development.

The company is providing visibility into the software development process in a provable way, enabling organizations to immutably attest to fundamental, sound, and secure software development best practices. Today, the demand is in regulated industries, but in the future, all companies producing custom software solutions will need to meet software governance requirements.

Fianu's platform captures evidence across the DevSecOps toolchain mapped to internal policy during real-time, continuous audits against established risk controls and compliance frameworks. Each software release is accompanied by a Software Bill of Attestations (SBOA) designed to transmit immutable, audit-worthy evidence. By using Fianu, companies can replace opaque manual processes with streamlined, intuitive automation that makes software governance and compliance easy.

"There is no better team than DataTribe to help us realize our vision of a governance ecosystem that powers a modern approach to continuous delivery under rigorous regulatory requirements," said Michael Edenzon, CEO and co-founder of Fianu Labs.

beqom, a provider of compensation and performance management solutions, has released beqom Performance Pro, a suite of AI-powered features that enhance performance by supporting intelligent goal-setting, guided feedback, and data-driven performance reviews. Performance Pro drives better business outcomes and improves efficiency in performance management workflows. The solution is one of several offerings available on beqom's AI-enabled platform.

In an effort to streamline the often arduous task of goal-setting, beqom Performance Pro introduces Goal Genius, which leverages generative AI to help employees set meaningful, individualized goals that align with company objectives, using contextual data within the beqom Continuous Performance Management (CPM) solution.

Traditionally, both employees and managers struggle to define individual and team goals that are meaningful, measurable, and aligned with driving business outcomes. The process can be time-consuming and is especially challenging for goals related to soft skills.

With Goal Genius, this complexity is replaced by a user-friendly approach that saves time and produces well-defined, measurable goals, complete with milestones and deliverables. Instead of populating a conventional goal-setting form with numerous goal attributes, users simply input a prompt that broadly articulates the goal. The solution then generates a comprehensive goal description, with a precise title, measurement criteria, and tangible key outcomes tied to a defined timeline.

A companion to beqom CPM, Performance Pro delivers two other key functions for a high-performing organization. One, it supports employees in providing regular feedback to co-workers, to help create a culture of continuous improvement. And, it aids managers in creating data-driven performance reviews by aggregating large volumes of unstructured content from various sources—such as feedback, achievements, and comments—which are difficult for one person to absorb and evaluate in a limited time. It provides a clear, meaningful summary of this information to aid managers in preparing individual reviews.

beqom's generative AI security architecture ensures that customer data remains within beqom, applying trustworthy and transparent guidelines to guarantee ethical principles and avoid putting employee well-being or corporate data at risk.

“Generative AI presents exciting new possibilities for smarter performance management, and Performance Pro is the perfect example," shares Tanya Jansen, beqom's Chief Marketing Officer. "It offers the possibility to transform the way organizations formulate goals, give feedback, and deliver performance reviews, such that they move from being an administrative burden to being true drivers of outcomes that have a real-world impact."

Capella iQ Will Use Natural Language Processing to Enable Developers to Build Modern Applications Faster and Easier in Capella

Couchbase, Inc., the cloud database platform company, today announced it is introducing generative AI capabilities into its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella™ to significantly enhance developer productivity and accelerate time to market for modern applications. The new capability called Capella iQ enables developers to write SQL++ and application-level code more quickly by delivering recommended sample code. Couchbase also announced additional Capella updates that further enhance the developer experience, increase efficiency and ease operations. 

Managing the full lifecycle of an application puts pressure on developers and adds friction to their workflow, which can slow down productivity. At the same time, developer productivity has never been more important given the demand for and potential of AI applications. Powered by generative AI, Capella iQ uses foundation models to add intelligence to the Capella developer workbench integrated development environment (IDE). With Capella iQ, developers can use natural language to quickly and easily generate code, sample datasets and unit tests. Capella iQ also advises on index creation, search syntax and other programmatic access to Capella. Leveraging generative AI to build and test applications quicker in Capella delivers higher productivity and quality, resulting in faster time to market.

"The familiarity of SQL++ as the query language was already a great tool to help developers who are new to Capella get up to speed quickly. Capella iQ will take those productivity gains even further and save my team and me tons of time," said Brant Burnett, systems architect at CenterEdge. "Having a co-pilot like Capella iQ in the developer workbench makes it so much faster for teams to build modern apps on Capella so developers can do what they love, which is building amazing apps."

"Code that used to take hours for a developer to write will now be generated in a matter of minutes in sample sets from Capella iQ," said Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations at Couchbase. "This makes developers more efficient when building modern apps, ultimately accelerating innovation for customers. By incorporating generative AI into our fully managed DBaaS, we are making it easier for developers to get started with Capella and significantly boost their productivity."

For more information about Capella iQ and to sign up for a private preview, please visit www.couchbase.com/ai-cloud-services/.

Building for the Future of AI Applications

Couchbase's mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and run modern applications wherever they are. The company delivers a high performance and scalable cloud database platform upon which next-gen applications can be built, such as fraud detection, product catalog recommendations, predictive analytics and more.

"From day one, Couchbase has architected a cloud database platform that enables the most business-critical and demanding applications to perform and provide rich, personalized, differentiated experiences for end users. Combining operational and analytical capabilities, our multi-model platform also seamlessly integrates advanced services like indexing, eventing, full-text search and more in a single solution," said Matt Cain, chair, president and CEO of Couchbase. "Generative AI is the next great catalyst for modern applications and our customers are exploring ways to build AI-powered apps that can run anywhere with our platform."

For example, Capella App Services enables edge AI through a predictive query API, which allows mobile applications to use trained machine learning models to run predictive queries locally on mobile devices against stored data. Additionally, Couchbase customers can use Python user-defined functions to run models against the database.

"We are innovating and building for the exciting generative AI market opportunity by driving developer productivity with Capella iQ, expanding our multi-model functions, optimizing AI processing and enabling AI apps from cloud to edge while also building a vibrant AI partner ecosystem," continued Cain. "Couchbase has been uniquely built for this moment and we are investing in additional AI capabilities that will further extend the value of Couchbase as a cloud database platform for modern applications."

In addition to investing in product innovation for an AI-powered future, Couchbase believes that a robust partner ecosystem is required to accelerate AI for organizations. Today, the company also announced the Couchbase AI Accelerate Partner Program, designed to make it easier for customers to build AI-powered applications with Capella and support integrations with the broader AI and data ecosystem.

Additional Capella Enhancements

Couchbase today also announced several other new updates to Capella that further enhance the developer experience, increase efficiency and make it easier to operate the cloud database platform. The customer benefits include:

• Simplified developer experience: Couchbase is extending Capella to more of the developer platform ecosystem highly favored by frontend and full stack developers. New integrations with popular developer tools Vercel and the IntelliJ family of IDEs further reduce friction for developers and development teams.
• More intelligent operations: By dynamically scaling the disk storage and input/output operations per second (IOPS), Capella clusters can handle growing workloads more efficiently, resulting in faster response times with an improved user experience. The increased disk IOPS enables Capella clusters to handle higher levels of concurrent read and write operations. This ensures that applications remain highly available even during peak usage periods and contributes further to Capella's best-in-class price performance.
• Increased security and governance: Capella has achieved independent validation for PCI DSS 4.0 and CSA STAR Level 2 compliance. These enhancements complement the SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance that Couchbase Capella has already achieved, meeting broad enterprise requirements for cloud applications.