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Amazon downsizes AWS in a fresh cost-cutting round

CIO Business Intelligence

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). In 2018, Amazon introduced cashier-less tech “Just Walk Out” at a Seattle store. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry The system tracks items shoppers take and charges them automatically.

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Accenture buys supply chain firm to expand Oracle business

CIO Business Intelligence

Accenture, which has been an Oracle partner for more than 30 years, has been on an acquisition spree to expand its Oracle business over the last few years. In October 2018, it acquired DAZ systems along with its 300 employees to bolster its Oracle Cloud ERP services business.

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Microsoft and FedEx team up against Amazon with new tech and logistics partnership

GeekWire

2 public cloud platform behind Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, which competes with Salesforce and other business software platforms. Amazon debuted a new delivery program in June 2018 in Seattle. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No.

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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

Cropin, an agritech startup backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday said that it was launching its industry cloud for agriculture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Founded in 2016, Malaysian startup Agritix offers a plantation workforce management solution, dubbed Agritix Workforce.

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Nasce in Lombardia la prima cloud region di Microsoft in Italia

CIO Business Intelligence

L’iniziativa è parte del programma “Ambizione Italia” che Microsoft ha lanciato nel 2018. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud e Oracle hanno, infatti, già le loro cloud region a Milano. Microsoft è l’ultimo tra i grandi fornitori di servizi cloud pubblici [in inglese] ad aggiungere una regione in Italia.

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An inside look at Tableau: What’s the future of the ‘DataFam’ at Salesforce?

GeekWire

Research firm Gartner, in its April 2023 “Magic Quadrant” report on analytics and business intelligence vendors, continued to rank Tableau as a leader in the category, with a “massive community of visual analytic developers,” but also cited customer concerns about the impact of the layoffs, and slow support times.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Some examples are originating from Microsoft , Amazon Web Service , Google , IBM , and more, plus from partnerships among players.