Only 12% of organizations feel ready for agentic AI workflows, despite significant investments, underscoring critical data and infrastructure challenges
United Arab Emirates, Dubai, March 10, 2025 –Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, today announced findings from an IDC survey exploring the challenges and opportunities in adopting advanced AI technologies. The study highlights a significant gap between ambition and execution: while 89% of organizations have revamped data strategies to embrace Generative AI, only 26% have deployed solutions at scale. These results underscore the urgent need for improved data governance, scalable infrastructure, and analytics readiness to fully unlock AI’s transformative potential.
Leading analytics company strengthens its executive leadership team with the appointment of key executive leaders, reinforcing its commitment to analytics and AI innovation for global customers
10th March, 2025 – Alteryx, Inc., an AI platform for enterprise analytics, today announced the appointment of Jon Pexton as Chief Financial Officer and Steven Birdsall as Chief Revenue Officer to lead the company’s next phase of growth. These key additions to the executive team underscore Alteryx’s commitment to helping customers scale their AI and analytics automation journey.
As Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Pexton will oversee all global financial operations, including strategic planning, budgeting, and investor relations. Pexton brings more than two decades of experience in financial leadership including equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, and strategic planning at high-growth technology companies. He has been the CFO of five companies, most recently serving as CFO of Tebra, a healthcare practice automation software company. Prior to Tebra, Pexton was the CFO of UserTesting, an on-demand SaaS platform for user research and feedback.
In the role of Chief Revenue Officer (“CRO”), Birdsall will drive Alteryx’s global revenue strategy, focusing on sales and customer success, retention and acquisition, along with partnerships and market expansion. With more than 25 years of experience in scaling revenue operations in both public and private companies, Birdsall most recently served as CRO at Qlik, where he drove revenue growth and implemented data-driven strategies. He was previously Senior Vice President of HCM Cloud Application Sales at Oracle and CRO at Anaplan, leading the company’s sales organization ahead of and through an IPO. Birdsall also held leadership roles as CRO at Radial and Chief Operating Officer at SAP.
UAE 10 March 2025 – Huawei was a key participant at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest and most influential mobile event, that took place in Barcelona from March 3 to 6, garnering 33 international media awards for a diverse array of products, including HUAWEI Mate XT | ULTIMATE DESIGN, HUAWEI Mate 70 Pro, HUAWEI MatePad Pro 13.2-inch, HUAWEI WATCH GT 5 Pro, HUAWEI WATCH Ultimate, HUAWEI WATCH D2, and HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro 4. This achievement solidifies Huawei’s leading position in the smart device, health & fitness, and digital creation sectors.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – March 10, 2025 – Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft that will empower enterprises to build easy, efficient, and trusted AI-powered apps and data agents with OpenAI’s models directly in Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service. Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, making OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models available for use on Microsoft Azure regions within Snowflake, and optimised to reason across audio, video, and text in real-time.
Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry, enabling businesses to access OpenAI’s advanced models within Snowflake on Microsoft Azure regions. Optimised for real-time analysis across text, audio, and video, this integration allows enterprises to create secure, AI-powered data agents within Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud By bringing OpenAI’s models to Cortex AI through an integration with Azure OpenAI Service, Snowflake further solidifies its leadership in providing users with frontier AI models within the same unified governance framework as their data— ultimately saving businesses time and money.
Dubai, UAE, March 2025 – Axis Communications, the leading manufacturer of network security and surveillance solutions, has announced two multi-door network controllers offering complete control for up to eight doors. With onboard lock power, these all-in-one door controllers simplify installations and minimize complexity.
AXIS A1710-B offers full control for up to four doors including support for eight OSDP readers and eight locks, whereas AXIS A1810-B can control for up to eight doors and includes support for 16 OSDP readers and 16 locks. These compact barebone devices offer a smaller footprint design than most door controllers on the market. They’re designed for centralized installation with Axis and third-party cabinets, for instance, in security rooms. Thanks to built-in lock power management, they simplify complex installations. Additionally, the connectors are color-coded for easy cable management.
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