Category: Enterprise Software, & Digital Workflows

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman take a look at Microsoft Viva, a newly launched Employee Experience Platform. Microsoft Viva is comprised of four basic components (today anyway), designed to facilitate connection, learning, topics/discovery, and insights, all designed to heighten and improve the employee experience, facilitate improved knowledge sharing, communication within the organization, teams, and groups, deliver insights designed to help employees and leaders, and provide learning management solutions that help facilitate creating a culture of continuous learning.
Poly announced a new line of personal collaboration tools along with new services to deepen its hybrid and remote work offerings.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) announced Thursday brings together a number of stakeholders including tech giants Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce, the Commons Project Foundation, MITRE, along with healthcare major players like Cerner, Epic, Mayo Clinic, CARIN Alliance, Safe Health, Change Healthcare, Evernorth to develop a vaccine “passport” that enables individuals vaccinated for COVID-19 to access their vaccination records in a secure, verifiable, privacy-preserving way.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Women in Tech Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Shelly Kramer joins forces with Oracle’s Lisa Joy Rosner to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on women in the workforce. Their conversation explores the different ways that leaders can help ease the strain that employees are feeling and what all of this means for the future of work.
IBM announced the acquisition of Salesforce service and experience designer 7Summits, expanding its global Salesforce capabilities.
This past year has been a huge catalyst for adoption and improvement of enterprise collaboration tools, and it’s only expected for tech collaboration to grow in 2021.
Scalability, enterprise-class security, geographic specificity, and data portability define Pexip’s impressive new Private Cloud for video conferencing. Every organization that was looking for a way to quickly scale its video-conferencing deployments but didn’t have confidence that public clouds could provide adequate levels of data security and privacy, no longer has to choose between scalability and security. They can have both. Here’s an overview of the specifics of the Pexip Private Cloud.
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack could be the first in a string of several deals to meant to remodel itself.
At the Cisco WebexOne event, Cisco rolled out some exciting AI-based upgrades to Webex, suggesting more smart automation in the product’s future. Combine these newest enhancements with Cisco’s commitment to security across its ecosystem, and you’ve got a real winner. If Cisco wanted to show that it too could be one of the cool kids, mission accomplished!
Oracle delivered a small YoY revenue growth result while also beating EPS expectations in its FY 21 Q2. Cloud and SaaS driving the results.

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