Leading provider of open platform video management technologies, Milestone Systems Announces Genea's integration with Milestone XProtect and Milestone Kite.

Milestone Systems, a leading provider of open platform video management technologies, is announcing Genea's integration with Milestone XProtect and Milestone Kite. Genea has successfully integrated Milestone XProtect video management and Milestone Kite cloud native Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) with Genea's cloud-based access control to provide users with a centralized security solution in a single pane of glass. With these integrations, IT and security personnel can easily connect and view their facility's surveillance video alongside the corresponding access event, such as a door held open, or door forced open.

Genea access control uses cloud-based technology to help IT and security teams monitor and secure their facilities. By integrating Genea access control with video management systems (VMS) like Milestone XProtect and with Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) like Milestone Kite, users can quickly and efficiently respond to unauthorized access attempts and other emergency situations.

Milestone XProtect and Milestone Kite are distinct solutions, each providing seamless integration capabilities with Genea access control. XProtect is an on-premises video management solution, while Kite is a cloud-based VSaaS. The Genea integration provides real-time confirmation of access control status with visual monitoring in Genea's access control. Genea's flexibility with both XProtect and Kite extends Milestone's rich ecosystem, affording end-users the freedom to choose the ideal solution for their unique needs.

"As leaders in our respective fields, we saw a mutual opportunity to combine our strengths and deliver an unprecedented open platform security solution," said Tim Palmquist, Vice President, Americas, Milestone Systems. "The fusion of Genea's cloud-based access control and our XProtect and Kite video technologies truly amplifies security options and capabilities for our customers."

The Genea bi-directional integration with Milestone XProtect offers functionalities such as automated responses to alarms, remote door operations, including Lock, Unlock, and Quick Grant access can be performed from the Milestone Smart Client to Genea hardware. The integration also pulls lists of active users from Genea into the Milestone application, facilitating efficient user profile management.

"We are thrilled to have these integrations with Milestone," said Mike Maxsenti, General Manager of Access Control at Genea. "We firmly believe that cloud-based integrations like this will help our current and future customers not only improve their security but give them the flexibility and scalability they need over the long run.

By integrating Milestone on-premises and cloud-based video management technologies with Genea Access control, users will have a highly flexible, efficient and scalable solution to meet their security needs.

Companies partner to unleash power of generative AI, enable industry transformation and drive business reinvention

Deloitte announced an expansion of its strategic alliance with NVIDIA to help enterprises around the world use generative AI to reinvent how they conduct business.

Deloitte will use NVIDIA AI technology and expertise to build high-performing generative AI solutions for enterprise software platforms to help unlock significant business value.

"The fever pitch of excitement around generative AI speaks to its potential to elevate how businesses are run and reinvent how work is done," said Joe Ucuzoglu, Deloitte Global CEO. "Building on our successful relationship with NVIDIA, and leveraging our extensive AI services, talent, and deep industry experience, we are in a unique position to help our clients and our people harness the power of this disruptive new technology and achieve their full potential."

Deloitte is working to enable generative AI business solutions, powered by the full stack of NVIDIA hardware and software, across each of the major enterprise platforms to enhance the value that businesses gain from these systems. These generative AI business solutions will span multiple use cases, including automated coding, self-configuration, workflow automation and industry-specific insights. Ultimately, Deloitte aims to democratize the usage and application of generative AI across enterprise systems and significantly enhance human potential.

As part of their expanded strategic alliance to unlock the value of generative AI across enterprise software platforms, Deloitte and NVIDIA will establish an Ambassador AI program to help clients advance their AI journey using NVIDIA AI Foundations and NVIDIA NeMo™ LLM software.

"Enterprises everywhere are looking to generative AI to transform their business," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "We are deepening our strategic alliance with Deloitte by combining NVIDIA's generative AI technologies with their extensive industry expertise and service offerings to establish the AI Ambassador program, which will provide enterprises a faster route to adoption."

Deloitte's AI services, talent and industry proficiency draws on the power, performance, and scalability offered with NVIDIA DGX™ AI supercomputing and NVIDIA DGX Cloud.  

Deloitte solutions and services cover almost every industry and domain, including areas such as enterprise software packages, tax, regulatory advice, and sector-specific use cases. Built on NVIDIA AI Foundations and NVIDIA NeMo LLM software, the new applications will leverage Deloitte's services and Generative AI Market Incubator to rapidly deploy proofs of concept, set up AI factories and help clients accelerate their enterprise transformation efforts. Clients benefit from the breadth and depth of AI capabilities and experience that span Deloitte's businesses and industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, risk advisory, and financial advisory services.

To take full advantage of the promise of generative AI, enterprises must be able to harness internal knowledge and proprietary data, and use that to reduce costs, increase productivity, accelerate innovation, and identify new revenue streams and growth areas. Deloitte will leverage NVIDIA AI platforms and tools to engineer custom-built, proprietary LLMs designed to help clients reinvent the way they do business and uncover new growth opportunities that were previously unfathomable.

In addition to its work with clients, Deloitte is infusing generative AI tools and capabilities across its organization to help its professionals become more productive and leveraging NVIDIA AI platforms to transform the way it delivers services to clients. Over 500 Deloitte AI specialists have completed NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute training. Additionally, Deloitte is increasing AI fluency and educating the next generation of AI professionals via the Deloitte AI Academy, as well as investing more than $2 billion in global technology learning and development initiatives to boost skills in key technology areas, including AI.

The expanded alliance with NVIDIA comes on the heels of several AI announcements from Deloitte, including the launch of Quartz AI, a suite of AI service offerings built on NVIDIA platforms, and the introduction of Deloitte's Generative AI practice. The practice works in conjunction with the Deloitte AI Institute, which supports the responsible growth and development of AI through engaged conversations and market perspectives. As generative AI evolves, commercial use is impacted by trust considerations such as emerging ethical, legal and policy norms. Deloitte is committed to the safe and responsible use of generative AI, guided by its Trustworthy AI^™ framework which helps users create necessary safeguards and mitigate risks during product development and operation.

The tool leverages natural language processing to provide instant written insights and analysis to inform campaigns

Sabio Holdings Inc., a leading provider of connected TV ("CTV")/over-the-top ("OTT") advertising platforms validated by performance, today announced that its wholly-owned App Science™ ("App Science") business is rolling out a new AI feature within its Insights analytics dashboard. The new addition leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) to provide automated analysis of metrics within the dashboard, making it easier for media agencies and brands to connect the dots within their data sets.

"We are excited to introduce brands and agencies to early elements of natural language AI through our App Science Insights solution, reducing their training and implementation cost," said Aziz Rahimtoola, Chief Executive Officer at Sabio. "We have been using machine learning algorithms to sort and analyze large amounts of proprietary mobile data for numerous years, making our company uniquely positioned to benefit from the efficiencies AI can bring."

App Science's Insights solution provides clients with actionable data for more effective campaign measurement across devices and publishers. Within the dashboard, clients are able to measure campaign reach, gain rich audience insights, view campaign frequency, and analyze overall campaign impact. Clients are also able to see reach among target audiences, including culturally diverse audiences.

These insights help clients monitor their campaigns, enabling them to make real-time optimizations and inform future media planning. With the new feature, clients can use the built-in AI tool to automate and further analyze the findings. The tool provides quick written analysis on campaign performance to help clients easily apply learnings.

"App Science's platform has always been AI-driven, utilizing machine learning at its core," said Helen Lum, Executive Vice President, App Science. "We're taking it a step further with natural language processing, which allows computers to process and analyze large amounts of data in real time, and provide instant natural language summaries and takeaways. We are ensuring that marketers at all levels can easily benefit from the full power and sophistication of our solution."

Powered by Oracle Cloud, Stellar Cyber Open XDR offers best-in-class cyberattack detection and response capabilities to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure users

Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR technology, announced that the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help users manage their security operations. Joint customers of Oracle and Stellar Cyber can expect to reduce cyber risk and improve security analyst efficiency and effectiveness.

We find that OCI is a user-friendly platform, which correlates directly to our commitment to making security operations simpler,” said Andrew Homer, VP of Strategic Alliances for Stellar Cyber. “We are excited to work with OCI to deliver the security solutions our shared customers require and trust.”

With integrations and support for all enterprise data sources, field-vetted AI/ML-driven correlation, and purpose-built intelligent automation, the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform eliminates manually-intensive security tasks while enabling security teams to quickly monitor, identify, and respond to threats in their cloud, on premises, OT and hybrid environments. By running on OCI, the Stellar Cyber platform offers its best-in-class security outcomes to OCI users.

“Stellar Cyber is committed to providing the critical capabilities security teams need to deliver consistent security outcomes—all for a single license and price on a single platform,” said Jim O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer at Stellar Cyber. “This simple yet comprehensive model makes it easy for customers to measure how our Open XDR platform dramatically impacts their security ROI.”

“We designed OCI with a security-first mindset, which is one of the many reasons why enterprises continue to trust Oracle with their data,” said David Hicks, Group Vice President, Worldwide ISV Cloud Business Development, Oracle. “Stellar Cyber on OCI provides our joint customers with an industry-leading Open XDR solution to manage their cloud security posture and help protect their data.”

Stellar Cyber is a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). OCI customers now can purchase Stellar Cyber via the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, applying Oracle Universal Credits (OUCs) toward the purchase price.

Stardog, the leading Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, announced the appointment of Yoav Persky as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). With a proven track record of financial expertise and strategic leadership, Yoav brings a wealth of experience to Stardog's executive team.

"I'm thrilled to welcome Yoav as CFO," said Kendall Clark, CEO and Founder of Stardog. "His experience and clear vision for the future of data management aligns with Stardog's mission to empower the enterprise to achieve AI and automation as quickly as possible."

Prior to joining Stardog, Yoav most recently served in key financial leadership roles at Pendo and FeatureBase, where he demonstrated a keen ability to drive financial growth and operational efficiency. 

"I am honored and excited to join Stardog," said Persky. "I look forward to working hard to further accelerate Stardog's growth."

Census Collaborates with Databricks to Help Mutual Customers Activate First-Party Data from the Data Lakehouse to Drive Revenue

Census, a leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, today announced its expanded partnership with Databricks, making it easy for customers to activate data with a few simple clicks on Partner Connect. Census connects Databricks to 200+ SaaS tools without needing to build and maintain custom pipelines, so business users have a single source of truth that is current, complete, and consistent.

Teams can now sync the outputs of their AI/ML models along with other first-party data into marketing automation hubs, customer service tools, and other business platforms to help drive business outcomes. By leveraging a single source of truth in the data lakehouse, companies can build a Composable Customer Data Platform with Databricks to drive more personalized experiences and improve customer conversion and retention.

“Today’s most innovative brands are exploring opportunities to utilize first-party data in their day-to-day operations,” said Steve Sobel, Global Industry Leader for Communications, Media & Entertainment at Databricks. “Census joining Partner Connect will allow more companies to easily activate the data lakehouse and drive meaningful change in how their teams use data to connect with consumers.”

With Census now a part of Databricks’ Partner Connect program, the integration between the platforms is even more seamless. Users can now access Census directly from the Databricks UI and unlock sales and marketing use cases such as:

• Building a lead scoring model based on actions taken in your web or mobile application and automatically routing high-value leads to sales managers at the right time.
• Targeting and segmenting customers with predictive models like Lifetime Value or churnRemoving engaged customers from high-cost advertising campaigns to optimize your ad spend.
• Syncing aggregated usage metrics and customer journey milestones into customer support tools to prioritize large volumes of tickets.
• Detecting drop in product usage and alerting the assigned customer success manager to prevent revenue churn.

“We are thrilled to announce that Census now integrates even more seamlessly with Databricks,” said Boris Jabes, CEO of Census. “The data lakehouse is transforming how businesses leverage data and we are excited to see how our partnership with Databricks improves operations and impacts revenue.”

To get started with Census on Databricks Partner Connect, schedule a free demo here and start expanding the capabilities of your lakehouse.

Klaviyo CDP gives customers user-friendly ways to transform and cleanse data, run more advanced reporting to drive revenue growth, and sync data in Klaviyo with other systems at scale, setting a new standard for data-driven campaigns and personalized engagement

Klaviyo, a marketing automation and customer data platform that drives revenue growth for businesses of all sizes, today announced the Klaviyo Customer Data Platform (CDP). Unlike most customer data platforms, the Klaviyo CDP offers advanced analytics to help businesses understand their audience and performance. Plus, the CDP seamlessly connects with Klaviyo’s intelligent marketing automation applications, so businesses can store, manage, analyze and activate their customer data from a single vertically integrated platform.

As consumers and regulators continue to focus on data privacy, utilizing zero- and first-party customer data is increasingly critical for businesses to understand their customer behavior and deliver personalized marketing strategies. While traditional CDPs were built to help companies collect, centralize and utilize this data for personalization and analysis, they often fall short of delivering their promised value due to steep technical complexity and lack of actionability–resulting in a tech stack that is complex, inefficient and expensive to maintain.

“We recognized that existing CDP solutions aren’t cutting it,” said Ed Hallen, co-founder and chief product officer of Klaviyo. “They force businesses to invest in point solutions which makes their tech stack complicated and inefficient, they’re expensive and require full teams to make them work and they’re too complex and technical. But more importantly – it’s not enough to just manage data. Businesses need to be able to put that data into action quickly so they can launch campaigns and analyze data as they go. We’re excited to help businesses consolidate their tech stack and replace redundant software that isn’t delivering. And most importantly, we’re excited to provide new ways to help businesses own their growth, and their destiny.”

Justin Ragsdale, VP of business development and corporate strategy at full-service digital agency IM Digital, says the biggest data-related challenges his clients face revolve around data transparency across departments.

“Within the organization, teams are collecting data from many different channels—from the website, from email, from contact centers,” he explains. “And each of these teams need that data in order to execute their function within the organization. But what we're seeing is that each team has just a fragment of the customer journey within their purview. We really need to build that 360-degree customer view so that we can understand who our customers are and what they’re doing, and then deliver them what they need.”

The Klaviyo CDP reinvents the modern tech stack–empowering businesses to consolidate tools into a single, vertically-integrated platform–accelerating speed and time to value while driving greater ROI at a lower cost of ownership. With the Klaviyo CDP, businesses will have a single platform to ingest all their customer data, unify and normalize data with transformation tooling and analyze customer cohorts with customized predictive modeling and advanced data visualizations.

InMobi, a leading provider of content monetization and marketing technologies that help businesses fuel growth, has announced the acquisition of Quantcast Choice, a consent management platform (CMP) designed to help publishers seamlessly align with the rapidly changing global privacy regulations. This strategic acquisition reinforces InMobi's commitment to bolstering its privacy management platform for mobile app and web publishers, empowering them to navigate the dynamic and intricate privacy landscape.

As privacy regulations like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) evolved, CMPs have become critical for publishers to ensure compliance and maintain ad revenue. The lack of a proven CMP often results in lost opportunities for publishers, as many of the leading demand partners require the use of a CMP that supports the latest privacy standards maintained by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Quantcast Choice supports more than 500 Google-Certified, 800 IAB-approved vendors, and non-certified vendors specific to publishers’ needs. This inclusive approach helps publishers increase monetization, higher fill rates, and sometimes up to a 35% boost in eCPMs in certain regions. As part of the acquisition, InMobi will uphold the platform's free availability for existing customers and remains committed to extending this promise to both existing and new customers.

“InMobi has always been at the forefront of building solutions that help brands and publishers alike navigate the complex global privacy landscape. This acquisition allows us to bring the power of a proven world-class CMP into the in-app ecosystem where the challenges remain enormous and unresolved,” says Kunal Nagpal, Chief Business Officer, InMobi Advertising. “Quantcast Choice is a gold standard for thousands of Web publishers; we are excited to build and extend its benefits to the 40,000 mobile apps that currently work with InMobi.”

“Quantcast Choice was born of our commitment to protecting consumer privacy and we’re proud of helping so many businesses meet the needs of an evolving regulatory landscape,” says Peter Day, Chief Technology Officer, Quantcast. “InMobi understands the needs of publishers and we’re delighted that this market leading CMP will continue to be available as a free solution. We remain committed to our customers and have formed a close partnership with InMobi to ensure a seamless transition.”

The addition of a reliable, scalable and versatile CMP aligns with InMobi's commitment to delivering comprehensive publisher monetization solutions. InMobi plans to seamlessly integrate the CMP within its extensive publisher SDK offering, delivering improved data governance, easy consent management, and heightened privacy control, thereby ensuring full compliance with global privacy regulations and fostering trust with their audiences.

The transition of Quantcast Choice customers to InMobi's offering is set to begin in the coming months, with the launch of the new publisher offering expected in the early fall.