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AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now provides audit history on cases
Amazon Connect Cases now provides audit history on cases, a chronological record showing which users worked on the case and what changes they made. With this launch, contact center agents and managers can more easily review case history for improved collaboration, quality assurance, and compliance, such as showing that a case was handled according to […]

GCP – Synthesized creates accurate synthetic data to power innovation with BigQuery
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing partner solutions that are Built with BigQuery. Today, it’s data that powers the enterprise, helping to provide competitive advantage, inform business decisions, and drive innovation. However, accessing high-quality data can be costly and time-consuming, and using it often involves complying with strict data compliance regulations. […]

GCP – Consuming Cloud Storage objects on GKE using the Kubernetes API – Part I
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is an interface used to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel. Cloud Storage FUSE allows you to mount Cloud Storage buckets as a file system so that applications can access the objects in a bucket using common file I/O operations (e.g., open, read, write, close) rather than using cloud-specific APIs. […]

GCP – ABAP SDK: Powering Alphabet’s AI/ML solutions on SAP S/4HANA
At SAP Sapphire last year, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, revealed that it leverages SAP S/4HANA systems on Google Cloud to manage its critical business operations, including Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Planning, and Allocations. This has allowed Alphabet to consolidate over 50 billion transactions and process multiple terabytes of data every month, and better support its […]

GCP – Moving to S/4 HANA on Google Cloud brings significant benefits for Deutsche Börse Group
As an international exchange organization and innovative market infrastructure provider, Deutsche Börse Group ensures capital markets that are transparent, reliable and stable. Our business areas cover the whole financial market transaction process and value chain. Furthermore, we develop state-of-the-art IT solutions and offer our IT systems all over the world. With our large range of […]

GCP – Automated fraud detection with Fivetran and BigQuery
In today’s dynamic landscape, businesses need faster data analysis and predictive insights to identify and address fraudulent transactions. Typically, tackling fraud through the lens of data engineering and machine learning boils down to these key steps: Data acquisition and ingestion: Establishing pipelines across various disparate sources (file systems, databases, third-party APIs) to ingest and store […]

GCP – IDC: Migrating to Google Cloud IaaS has a 318 percent ROI
Organizations worldwide continue to adopt cloud services to enable and support ongoing digital transformation. While the benefits of cloud infrastructure, including cost savings, agility, elasticity, and scalability are well understood, quantifying these benefits can be challenging. In late 2023, Google released the results of a sponsored IDC research study to gain a better understanding of […]

GCP – Heita South Africa! The new Google Cloud region is now open in Johannesburg
Today, we’re announcing the Johannesburg cloud region in South Africa is ready for customer use. Businesses of all sizes across the continent now have access to high-performance, secure and low-latency cloud services. We will host a launch event in Johannesburg later this year to celebrate the opening of the cloud region and showcase the transformative […]

GCP – Build enterprise gen AI apps with Google Cloud databases
Trained on an enormous corpus of publicly available data from a broad range of topics, large language models (LLMs) are powerful in many ways but can be improved in other areas. Due to the size of the training data, it can be resource-intensive to train them frequently. As a result, they may not have the […]
GCP – Cloud HPC made easy: A Blueprint Catalog for Google’s Cloud HPC Toolkit
High performance computing (HPC) has become an indispensable tool for scientific discovery, engineering innovation, and business transformation. However, deploying and managing HPC environments can be complex and time-consuming, often requiring specialized expertise. To address these challenges, Google Cloud has developed the Cloud HPC Toolkit, an open-source toolkit that simplifies the deployment and management of HPC […]