Ascerta raises USD $18 million in Series A funding
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Banks facing expensive digital platform exits will get migration support from Plumery, which is waiving licence fees for up to 24 months.
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SAS named Leader in IDC decision intelligence MarketScape
The ranking strengthens SAS's pitch to regulated industries, where auditable AI decisions and consistent logic across cloud and on-premises systems matter most.
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Komodor launches agentic operations platform for SRE
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