Big data platform MapR found a happier ending: Hewlett Packard Enterprise has purchased its technology, intellectual property and domain expertise and will continue to support existing clients. MapR announced last May that it was in severe financial straits. Total funding was $280 million.
B2B CDP Zylotech has announced an integration with intent data compiler Bombora. Joint customers will be able to use Bombora data in Zylotech analytics and campaigns. It’s a good example of adding third party data to a CDP, if you were looking for one.
MindTickle uses tech to train humans to be better at sales and service. Sounds quaint. But somebody just gave them $40 million in new funding, bringing their total to $81.3 million.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”