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IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

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billion to help enterprises optimize their IT expenditure, particularly cloud costs, as they try to navigate uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Apptio, which has over 1,500 enterprise customers, also integrates with technology from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce and SAP.

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D-Wave puts a third quantum computer in the cloud

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While viable general-purpose quantum computing is still a way off, D-Wave Systems has just deployed its third cloud-based quantum annealing system and has updated its coding tools to tackle new categories of enterprise optimization problems.

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Google’s Contact Center AI Platform aims to optimize customer service

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In a bid to help enterprises optimize customer service, Google Cloud is extending its Contact Center AI (CCAI) service with the ability to integrate with CRM (customer relationship management) applications in order to provide real-time insights and data analytics. Modernizing the contact center with CCaS.

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Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities

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For the past decade, process mining specialist Celonis has been helping enterprises optimize processes around their ERP systems — and more recently has branched out to help them optimize their use of workflow automation platforms, too. That Microsoft user community is key for Celonis co-founder and co-CEO Bastian Nominacher.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. Atlassian buys Percept.ai.