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Cloud infrastructure services continued to be in high demand in Q2 2022. Worldwide spending increased 33% year on year to US$62.3 billion, driven by a range of factors, including demand for data analytics and machine learning, data center consolidation, application migration, cloud-native development and service delivery.

Badger Technologies has deployed a pilot program with Vallarta Supermarkets, a chain of 53 full-service markets throughout California, to reinforce operational and customer-service excellence. Badger Technologies multipurpose autonomous robots support the retailer by identifying hazards at five Vallarta Supermarkets in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Vallarta also is testing the robot’s inventory management capabilities at a sixth location aimed at improving on-shelf product availability.

As data alone is unlikely to drive decisions, chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) need to learn to design better decisions and make change in three ways, according to Gartner. The three ways are: improving the timing of decisions, accelerating decisions and connecting decisions. This means they need to work better with machines to achieve results.

 “Getting value from data” has been a common mantra in automation for some time. But providing insight into really large amounts of data has always been a problem. Holograms now appear to be ideally suited for this. The Dutch Tekle Holographics has quickly grown into a worldwide forerunner in the field of data visualization with its holographic technology. Following a notable presence at CES this year and partnerships with Nvidia and SAS, organizations from a wide variety of industries are showing interest in the business use of holograms.

The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team has continued its partnership with TIBCO. Over the past season, the F1 team has used TIBCO Spotfire in race simulations that influence up-to-the-minute car setup and configuration decisions. The team also used the TIBCO Cost Visualizer Tool for detailed cost-value analysis across engineering and finance data sources to comply with FIA cost cap regulations.

The pandemic has opened a Pandora’s box of global fraud. Faced with a seemingly endless onslaught of schemes and scams, anti-fraud pros have doubled down on analytics, finds the latest anti-fraud technology study by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and SAS.

In a recent edition of CxO Stories for the Nordics (Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) C-level executives discussed trends and made some predictions for next year about what lies ahead for the CIO. At the heart of it all is the ever growing importance of data, and the way automation can help in successfully leveraging these data. A prima example of this is healthcare.

McLaren Racing today announced a new partnership with AI Cloud platform DataRobot, as an Official Partner of the McLaren Formula 1 team. DataRobot delivers a unified platform for organisations across industries to unlock the full potential of AI and deliver clear impact for their business goals, powering over a trillion predictions for leading companies around the world.

UiPath announced a partnership with Snowflake that integrates UiPath Insights with Snowflake’s platform. UiPath Insights is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) analytics solution that measures, reports, and aligns enterprise automation operations with strategic business outcomes. This combined offering of UiPath with Snowflake’s compute, elastic scaling, and enterprise-grade secure data sharing capabilities provides customers with faster data processing, while enabling them to perform long-term historical analysis.

Bright Data, has released new research that highlights the increased role bots are playing in automating key corporate functions, including customer service, web data collections and more. The research, carried out by Vanson Bourne, surveyed US and UK decision-makers from financial services, IT, and technology organizations. It uncovered clear demand in both regions for enhanced regulation to drive effective, compliant and responsible bot usage.