IBM has announced that it's acquiring Apptio for $4.6 billion. Apptio has more than 1,500 clients, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The deal is expected to close in a few months.
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At the Microsoft Build 2023 event today, Microsoft has unveiled its new unified analytics platform dubbed "Microsoft Fabric". As expected, Fabric will be a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.
After Azure Government Secret and Top Secret clouds, Microsoft has now announced Office 365 Government Secret cloud, a new US Government Cloud environment to aid in securing classified data.
With regards to its Dynamics 365 platform, Microsoft has released Connected Store in preview. Fraud Protection is available with two new capabilities, while Customer Voice has been unveiled as well.
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Amazon AppFlow automates data flow between AWS Services and Software as a Service applications (SaaS) while providing security enhancements and allowing 100 GB to be sent in a single flow.
Microsoft recently trademarked "Mixplay", which might be a play on the word Mixer- a streaming service that the company already owns. The trademark points to a video editing software for gamers.
Microsoft has announced new subscription plans that bring together Office 365 and Windows 10, along with the management and security tools that businesses need, saying it marks "a fundamental shift".
Microsoft has filed for "Delve" as a U.S. trademark under the "Software as a Service" catagory, but so far there's no evidence about how the trademark will be used by the company.