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Global analytics software provider FICO's FICO Platform has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2025 report, receiving the highest score in the Current Offering category among all evaluated platform providers, and the highest marks possible on 13 scorecard criteria. According to the Forrester report: “AI decisioning platforms transform how organisations operationalise both human intelligence and AI at scale, enabling faster, more accurate decisions across complex business processes”. AI decisioning is also an important enabler for agentic AI. The report goes further to say: “Modular architecture allows organisations to build AI decisioning agents that autonomously adapt to real-time data and maximise decision intelligence for specific use cases”. The FICO Platform is designed to revolutionise AI-first transformation for businesses worldwide through an end-to-end integrated solution. It supports smarter decision-making across the entire cus...

Boomi, the AI-driven automation provider, has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for the 11th consecutive time. This streak is the longest in the report’s history. According to the company, its continued industry recognition reflects its unwavering commitment to innovation, customer success, and ecosystem growth. Over the past year, Boomi has accelerated its investments in AI agent management, API management, and data management to help enterprises connect everything with one platform and drive intelligent automation at scale. Key advancements include: - Boomi Agentstudio : Boomi recently introduced the only full agent lifecycle management solution that allows organisations to simply design, govern, and orchestrate all AI agents at scale, helping unlock hyperproductivity responsibly. - API management: Boomi’s expanded API management capabilities provide cloud-scale application programming interface (API) m...

SAS Intelligent Decisioning , available on data and AI platform SAS Viya , empowers organisations to design, deploy and scale AI agents with balanced human and AI autonomy, embedded governance and explainability of decisions. “SAS' approach to agentic AI strikes the critical balance between autonomous decision-making and ethical governance,” said Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, Artificial Intelligence Software and Tools at The Futurum Group.  “Its intelligent agents represent not just technological advancement but a pragmatic framework for responsible enterprise AI adoption – precisely what organisations need as they navigate this rapidly evolving landscape to gain a competitive advantage.” According to SAS, true enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya ’s agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered: Decisioning Applying a...

PSSI Global Services, a world leader in broadcast transmission solutions, has made another significant investment in state-of-the-art video delivery technology, purchasing a large complement of advanced transmission hardware from Appear, a global leader in media processing and delivery technology. The new Appear equipment will play a central role in supporting upcoming major live events, including the FIFA Club World Cup and FIFA World Cup.  The investment marks a major step forward in PSSI’s continuing evolution toward next-generation workflows, reinforcing its position at the forefront of live event production and transmission services. The acquisition includes multiple X20 chassis, HDR HEVC encoder and decoder cards, and multiple hardware-accelerated Secure Reliable Transport SRT cards, representing a significant expansion of PSSI’s IP and HEVC infrastructure.  In addition, PSSI has procured corresponding BISS-CA addressable encryption licences, enabling robust, secure, ...

Canva, the Australia-based visual communication platform, is leveraging Snowflake to enhance both the user experience for its global community and drive significant growth in its B2B segment as it expands its relevance and impact across the enterprise. By harnessing the power of Snowflake's platform, Canva is accelerating the delivery of new features, optimising its marketing and sales operations, and personalising the design journey as it continues to scale globally. Canva exemplifies how data-driven decisions can fuel growth. The company has over 230 million monthly active users and generates over US$3 B in annualised revenue today. It has relied on Snowflake's scalable data platform to transform user insights into innovative products throughout its journey. Source: Snowflake. Still capture from the associated customer video .   "As our user base expanded, so did the complexity and volume of data," said Moe Kiss, Director of Data Science at Canva. "Snowf...

Source: TCVGH, Foxconn, Kawasaki Heavy Industries via NVIDIA. TCVGH is conducting a field trial with Nurabot. Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH), Baishatun Tung Hospital – Mazu Hospital, and Cardinal Tien Hospital are some of the Taiwan-based healthcare institutions using Foxconn’s smart hospital solutions to support clinicians and advance patient care. “Taiwan has a highly developed healthcare infrastructure with a strong push toward digital health transformation, creating the ideal environment for robotic integration,” said Shu-Fang Liu, Deputy Director of the nursing department at TCVGH, which is currently conducting a field trial with Nurabot, a collaborative nursing robot. The hospital began working with Foxconn in 2024 to codevelop the Nurabot robots as part of itssmart healthcare initiative led by Dr Shih-An Chen, Honorary Superintendent at TCVGH. Liu added:Robots are augmenting our capabilities so we can provide more focused, meaningful care.” Recogn...

Source: Google blog post . Google has introduced its newest generative media models at Google I/O . Google has introduced its latest video and image generation models, Veo 3 and Imagen 4 . Veo 3 introduces the ability to generate videos with audio. It represents improvements over Veo 2 for text and image prompting, real-world physics and lip-syncing accuracy. "It’s great at understanding; you can tell a short story in your prompt, and the model gives you back a clip that brings it to life," said Google Deepmind VP Eli Collins in a blog post . Veo 3 is available today in the US, and also to enterprise users on Vertex AI. Imagen 4 offers finer detailing for images of intricate fabrics, water droplets, and animal fur, and excels in both photorealistic and abstract styles, Collins said. " Imagen 4 can create images in a range of aspect ratios and up to 2K resolution - even better for printing or presentations. It is also significantly better at spelling and typogr...