NAIROBI, KENYA: In a landmark move to advance Africa’s digital transformation agenda, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), Sybyl, and IXAfrica Data Centre Limited (iXAfrica) have announced a strategic partnership to establish and scale sovereign cloud infrastructure in Kenya and other East African countries. Through a Memorandum of Understanding with both Sybyl and iXAfrica, TCS aims to empower governments, enterprises, and innovators with secure, locally hosted cloud offerings that comply with national data residency and sovereignty requirements, marking a major milestone in Africa’s journey towards digital independence.

TCS, Sybyl, and iXAfrica will combine their strengths to build a robust foundation for digital transformation in East Africa. TCS will bring its sovereign cloud and global cloud expertise, Sybyl will bring its regional engineering and customer support expertise, and iXAfrica will provide secure, scalable AI-ready data centre infrastructure. With complementary strengths, the trio will ensure enterprises benefit from world-class technology, local implementation, and resilient data hosting. As Africa doubles down on its digital transformation agenda, data sovereignty has become a defining issue across the continent. Several national governments and enterprises are increasingly seeking solutions that ensure data is housed within a country’s borders, regulated as per regional laws, and managed through secure and robust infrastructure. This partnership directly addresses that urgent need by offering a trusted, built-in-Africa cloud environment.

TCS will deploy TCS Sovereign Secure Cloud, a bespoke offering for government, public enterprises, and regulated industries, that offers a sovereign cloud with integrated AI to drive data, operational, and digital sovereignty. It will provide the sovereign cloud architecture, deployment frameworks, and security expertise, drawing from its global leadership in IT services, consulting, and digital transformation.

Satishchandra Doreswamy, Vice President & Head, Cloud Unit – Growth Markets, TCS, “We offer a resilient and future-ready cloud infrastructure, powered by AI-driven intelligence, that can be tailored to the specific needs of our customers. With built-in compliance to global and local regulatory authorities, our sovereign cloud fuels future-forward business models while meeting the most stringent standards for privacy and regulatory requirements. It is the ideal solution for countries and enterprises that are looking to safeguard their digital sovereignty through robust cloud technology.”

Sybyl, one of East Africa’s leading systems integrators, will lead local implementation, support, and customer enablement, leveraging its deep regional expertise in enterprise technology solutions and managed services. Shailendra Yadav, CEO, Sybyl Kenya & Tanzania, said, “Digital independence must deliver real gains. By running sovereign cloud in iXAfrica’s AI-ready campus along with TCS’s cloud expertise, we cut currency exposure,  foreign policy risks, keep services reachable on local routes during outages, and create skilled jobs for Kenyans and Africans as a whole.”

Home to East Africa’s leading carrier-neutral and AI-ready data centre campus (NBOX1), iXAfrica will provide the secure, scalable, and energy-efficient infrastructure hosting the Sovereign Cloud. Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica, said, “Data sovereignty is the cornerstone of Africa’s digital future. By hosting Sovereign Cloud infrastructure within iXAfrica’s AI-ready campus, we are ensuring that African data stays in Africa, secure, sustainable, and ready to power the next generation of innovation.”

A sovereign cloud infrastructure leverages economies of scale of cloud computing while strictly protecting data, complying with privacy needs, ensuring operational sovereignty, and enabling easy access to the full range of cloud services with powerful computing. It has applications across sectors such as banking, telecom, the public sector, and the enterprise sectors. By leveraging locally hosted and globally secure cloud environments, both public and private enterprises are empowered to operate within a framework that fully supports compliance with national data protection laws. This ensures that sensitive data remains within the country’s borders while adhering to rigorous regional and international security standards.

TCS’s sovereign cloud offering is designed to future-proof companies by providing access to advanced AI and analytics capabilities. Enterprises will also gain the advantage of end-to-end managed services and local technical expertise. This comprehensive support enables organisations to seamlessly adopt, operate, and scale their cloud solutions, fostering confidence and resilience in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

This initiative is aimed at creating jobs that will employ local talent, strengthen local digital infrastructure, and position East Africa as a strategic technology hub for Africa as a whole. TCS has operated in Africa for almost two decades and has over 50 clients in the region. It serves most of the region’s large enterprises, including top telecommunication companies, leading banking and insurance firms, as well as utilities and public enterprises. Additionally, TCS has been awarded the Top Employer Award for nine consecutive years in the region.

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The mission of this center is to develop and deploy future-ready cloud solutions for Pharmaceutical, Medtech, Biotech, Healthcare, Animal Health, and CDMOs to help them address the specific compliance & life science industry-related nuances, enabling regulatory compliance, real-time insights, seamless data integration, and enhanced collaboration across the global value chain. This will allow Life Sciences companies to accelerate breakthroughs and improve patient outcomes. These cloud solutions are becoming specifically relevant in the new therapies, Biotech and Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products, the new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), as well as in the next generation of CDMOs.

The latest state-of-the-art facility at Baner was inaugurated by Mr. Michael Schmidt, Founder and Member of the Executive Board of Tenthpin, in the presence of Ms. Stephanie Marx, Partner and Key Account Delivery Lead, and Sachin Bhure, Partner and Managing Director, Tenthpin India.

Speaking on the occasion, Michael Schmidt said, “Opening of our new office in Pune marks an important milestone in Tenthpin’s global growth journey. Pune plays a pivotal role in delivering innovative, high-quality solutions for our Life Sciences clients around the world. With deep expertise in SAP Batch Release Hub (BRH), SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management (ICSM), and SAP Cell and Gene Treatment Orchestration (CGTO), and our own AI-powered, GxP-ready Tenthpin software solutions, this center will strengthen our ability to accelerate digital transformation in the Life Sciences industry.”. He also stated, “Our team in India embodies our commitment to excellence, innovation, and partnership — ensuring that Tenthpin continues to set the global benchmark for SAP S/4HANA transformations and Life Sciences cloud solutions.”

“The expansion of our presence in India underscores Tenthpin’s strong belief in the power of Indian talent and innovation. India has proven to be a cornerstone of our global delivery model — combining exceptional expertise, technical excellence, and a deep commitment to quality,” said Stephanie Marx, Partner at Tenthpin. “With this step, we are further strengthening our capability to deliver high-value services and next-generation digital solutions to our life sciences clients worldwide.“

Tenthpin Solutions, a group company of Tenthpin, is also expanding its footprint in India. The new Pune center will serve as a global hub for innovation — further enhancing next-generation cloud-based products and accelerators that help Life Sciences companies simplify complexity, ensure regulatory compliance, and scale efficiently in a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem. This center will also collaborate with local research institutions, universities, and industry partners to drive advancements in Life Sciences in India.

“We also aim to help Indian Life Sciences companies to become global leaders in innovation with the help of local talent,” said Sachin Bhure, Partner and Managing Director India for Tenthpin. “Pune possesses world world-class talent pool, and the augmentation of this talent and practitioners will help in the speed to market and innovation to a great extent. We plan to expand our India footprint to double of current team in the next year, across all locations.”.

Jürgen Bauer, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Board of Tenthpin, says, “Establishing our new office in Pune is more than an expansion — it’s an investment in the future of Life Sciences innovation. India’s exceptional talent and deep technology expertise align perfectly with Tenthpin’s mission to redefine how global Life Sciences organizations run their businesses. Together with our teams in Bangalore and Hyderabad, our Pune team will be at the heart of co-creating intelligent, compliant, and transformative solutions for our clients worldwide. We are excited to build a center that not only delivers excellence but also fosters collaboration, creativity, and long-term value for our clients and partners.”

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LAS VEGAS: CrowdStrike announced innovations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, and Salesforce to secure the future of enterprise AI. By embedding protection with the world’s AI leaders, CrowdStrike is uniting the ecosystem to innovate with AI, secure AI, and lead cybersecurity into the AI era with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.

AI is transforming every industry – but it also creates new attack surfaces. Models can be stolen, data poisoned, agents manipulated, and cloud workloads hijacked. The Falcon platform delivers the foundation for securing AI – protecting the environments and models where AI runs, preventing sensitive data from leaving endpoints and cloud workloads, uncovering shadow AI apps and risky integrations, and securing AI agents across the SaaS stack.

Securing AI With the World’s Leaders

CrowdStrike is extending Falcon protection across the AI ecosystem through innovations with the world’s AI leaders:

• AWS – Securing the full cloud AI lifecycle, from build to test, deployment, and runtime, with native integrations in Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and AWS Marketplace.
• Intel – Protecting data at the source with Falcon® Data Protection on Intel NPU technology, and with Dell’s trusted AI PCs, providing a stronger foundation for secure AI adoption.
• Meta – Launching CyberSOCEval, a new suite of benchmarks for evaluating how AI systems perform in real-world security operations.
• NVIDIA – Securing the full AI lifecycle for LLMs and Enterprise AI Factories – from build to runtime to posture management – with the Falcon platform and NVIDIA AI.
• Salesforce – Integrating Falcon® Shield into Salesforce Security Center and bringing Charlotte AI into Agentforce for Security to help customers protect their AI agent, workflows, and applications – uniting business and security teams on a foundation of trust.

“Securing AI is not just about technology – it’s about securing the full ecosystem where AI is built, deployed, and used,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “By embedding protection with the world’s AI leaders, we’re giving enterprises the confidence to adopt AI, innovate with AI, and secure AI, all while delivering revolutionary outcomes.”

CrowdStrike Secures the AI Ecosystem

AI doesn’t live in the network; it lives across the ecosystem where models are built in the cloud and AI Factories, where adoption happens on PCs and endpoints, and where autonomous agents take action. As AI transforms how work gets done, adversaries look for every weak point in the enterprise. By embedding unified protection with the companies driving the AI revolution, CrowdStrike is the cybersecurity center of the AI ecosystem.

To learn more about how CrowdStrike secures AI, visit here.

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SAN FRANSISCO, CALIFIORNIA: Qlik^®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, today announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2025, that it has been named the 2025 Data Integration Data Cloud Product Partner of the Year award winner by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company.

Qlik was recognized for its achievements in helping joint customers accelerate trusted, AI-ready data pipelines on the Snowflake platform. Through innovations like native support for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables and the introduction of the Qlik Open Lakehouse architecture, Qlik empowers enterprises to scale high-volume ingestion, optimize cost and performance, and unlock greater value from SAP and other enterprise data sources.

“This award is a reflection of how well-aligned Qlik and Snowflake are in delivering modern, trusted, and governed data engineering at scale,” said David Zember, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Qlik. “We’re proud to help customers harness more value from their SAP and operational data through faster pipelines, Iceberg optimization, and SAP data products tailored for Snowflake environments. Together, we’re redefining what’s possible with AI-ready architecture.”

“The integration between Qlik and Snowflake has transformed how we manage and operationalize data,” said Michael Benassi, Vice President of Enterprise Analytics at United Federal Credit Union. “With near real-time ingestion and streamlined engineering pipelines, we’re able to scale insights across the business and support faster, more trusted AI initiatives.”

“The transformative results Qlik has achieved for our joint customers exemplify innovation in action,” said Kieran Kennedy, Global Leader for Data Cloud Product Partners, Snowflake. “Naming them as our 2025 Data Engineering Partner of the Year is not just recognition of their technical excellence, but of their vital role in shaping how modern enterprises harness the AI Data Cloud.”

Learn more about Qlik’s data engineering and Open Lakehouse solutions for Snowflake. Check out keynotes from Snowflake Summit 2025 live or on-demand here 

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InfRE360 is designed to empower strategic decision-making and investment planning among sponsors, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders in India’s REIT and InvIT ecosystem. Coverage encompasses road, power, telecommunication, warehouse & logistics for InvITs and REITs. The platform offers comprehensive insights backed by powerful analytical tools and real-time intelligence.

“With the rapid evolution of India’s infrastructure and real estate trust markets, there is an urgent need for a robust and reliable analytics backbone. InfRE360 bridges this gap by delivering actionable insights, transparency, and efficiency in a single, user-friendly platform,” said Madhubani Sengupta, Head- Knowledge Services, ICRA Analytics.

Key Features of InfRE360

• Extensive Data Coverage: Access up-to-date annual and quarterly financials from FY2022, covering 150+ performance parameters for REITs, InvITs at the Trust level, and their 300+ SPVs  
• Performance Assessment: Explore sector, entity, and asset-level performance through interactive visuals. Evaluate key financial ratios across diverse metrics for deep operational insights.
• Key News Tracking: Stay ahead of market developments with near real-time alerts on the REITs and InvITs landscape
• Peer Level Analysis: Compare multiple peers within specific sectors to identify leaders, benchmark performance, and uncover strategic opportunities.
• Detailed Insights: Granular SPV-level information and access to comprehensive data on shareholding patterns, debt instruments, and credit ratings.
• Valuation Simulator: Run scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to assess potential changes in valuation based on varying market conditions

Tailored Benefits for Key Stakeholders

• Sponsors & Owners
  • Strategic insights from comprehensive data sets
  • Peer benchmarking for competitive advantage
  • Time-saving automated data collection
• Investors
  • Informed investment decisions via detailed analytics
  • SPV-level risk identification and mitigation
  • Scenario-based valuation clarity
• Regulators
  • Real-time compliance tracking and market risk monitoring
  • Data-driven policy formulation and gap analysis
  • Enhanced transparency and accountability

With InfRE360, ICRA Analytics continues to redefine how India’s capital markets leverage data and technology to drive efficiency, governance, and informed growth.

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BENGALURU: Qlik^®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, today announced an expanded set of capabilities coming soon in its Qlik Cloud Analytics solution — equipping enterprises with tools to detect anomalies, forecast complex trends, prepare data faster, and take immediate action through embedded decision workflows.

While organizations continue to invest heavily in AI and data, most still struggle to turn insight into impact. Dashboards pile up, but real-time execution remains elusive. Only 26% of enterprises have deployed AI at scale, and fewer still have embedded it into operational workflows. The problem isn’t access to static intelligence — it’s the ability to act on it. Dashboards aren’t decision engines, and predictive models alone won’t prevent risk or drive outcomes. What businesses need is intelligence that anticipates, explains, and enables action, without added tools, delays, or friction.

“Enterprises struggle making intelligence accessible and actionable for their business users,” said Brendan Grady, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qlik’s Analytics Business Unit. “Too many systems deliver insights and answers after the fact. We’re building something different: a platform where AI detects what matters, surfaces it in context, and lets you act — all within the analytics environment itself.”

With these planned launches, Qlik will be introducing a new layer of intelligence across its platform — one that doesn’t just report what’s happening, but anticipates what’s next and enables action in the moment. Discovery agent, multivariate time series forecasting, write table, and table recipe work in concert to solve a singular problem: how to move from fragmented insight to seamless execution, at scale.

These launches, along with the renaming of Qlik AutoML to Qlik Predict^TM and Qlik Application Automation to Qlik Automate^TM, reflect a broader shift toward more intuitive, outcome-driven experiences across the Qlik platform. Each capability targets a critical enterprise bottleneck — from delayed awareness to inaccurate forecasting, data prep bottlenecks to disconnected workflows — delivering a cohesive solution that closes the gap between data and decisions.

• See what others miss before it’s too late — with the discovery agent. Executives no longer need to manually track business changes or sift through data. Discovery agent continuously scans performance across applications and datasets, automatically surfacing critical risks and opportunities before they intensify. Insights are delivered through a personalized feed that clarifies what’s happening, why it matters, and suggested next steps.
• Forecast reality, not just trends — with multivariate time series forecasting. Built into Qlik Predict (formerly AutoML), this capability moves beyond single-variable projections to model the full complexity of business conditions. By analyzing relationships across interdependent variables — like pricing, campaign activity, seasonality, and economic signals — it delivers sharper forecasts that reflect real-world dynamics. The result: more confident planning, faster scenario testing, and better decisions.
• Annotate and update data live — with a write table. Write table enables users to add context to data records directly in analytics tables, with instant sync across sessions and no reloads required. This capability enhances in-context data review and lays the groundwork for governed writeback into systems like SAP, Salesforce, and Snowflake — part of Qlik’s long-term vision for integrated, action-ready analytics.
• Prep data faster with no code — using a table recipe. Table recipe provides a streamlined, spreadsheet-like experience for preparing single-table datasets — no scripting or complex modeling required. Users can clean, convert, and format data with over 60 visual functions, seeing changes in real time. It empowers non-technical users to prep high-quality data quickly, accelerating the path to reliable insights.

“We’ve spent too much time reacting to what already happened — and not enough time getting ahead of what’s next,” said Olga Garagonich, Lead Manager, Data Visualisation, BT Group. “With these new capabilities in Qlik, we’ll be able to catch issues earlier, forecast more accurately, and take action — all without disconnected workflows or delays. That’s a game-changer for how we operate.”

Together, these capabilities transform Qlik from a system of insight into a system of execution — building the foundation for what comes next in enterprise AI: decision-making that’s not just intelligent, but contextual, automated, and embedded at the point of need.

Discovery agent, multivariate time series forecasting, write table, and table recipe will be available for private preview for select customers this year. General availability will begin rolling out in phases starting in summer 2025.

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ORLANDO, FL: Qlik^®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg solution built into Qlik Talend Cloud. Designed for enterprises under pressure to scale faster and spend less, Qlik Open Lakehouse delivers real-time ingestion, automated optimization, and multi-engine interoperability — without vendor lock-in or operational overhead.

This marks a major step forward in the evolution of modern data architectures. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the cost and rigidity of traditional data warehouses have become unsustainable. Qlik Open Lakehouse offers a new path: a fully managed lakehouse architecture powered by Apache Iceberg that delivers 2.5x–5x faster query performance and up to 50% lower infrastructure costs, while maintaining full compatibility with the most widely used analytics and machine learning engines.

“Performance and cost should no longer be a tradeoff in modern data architectures,” said Mike Capone, CEO of Qlik. “With Qlik Open Lakehouse, enterprises gain real-time scale, full control over their data, and the freedom to choose the tools that work best for them. We built this to meet the demands of AI and analytics at enterprise scale — without compromise.”

Qlik Open Lakehouse is built from the ground up to meet the scale, flexibility, and performance demands of modern enterprises, without the tradeoffs. It combines real-time ingestion, intelligent optimization, and true ecosystem interoperability in a single, fully managed platform.

• Real-time ingestion at enterprise scale: Ingest millions of records per second from hundreds of sources — including cloud apps, SaaS, SAP, and mainframes — directly into Iceberg tables with low latency and high throughput.
• Intelligent Iceberg optimization, fully automated: Qlik’s always-on adaptive Iceberg optimizer handles compaction, clustering, and pruning automatically, delivering up to 5x faster queries and 50% lower storage costs — no tuning required.
• Open by design, interoperable by default: Access data in Iceberg tables using a variety of Iceberg-compatible engines, including Snowflake, Amazon Athena, Apache Spark, Trino, and SageMaker — without re-platforming or reprocessing.
• Your compute, your cloud, your rules: Runs natively in your AWS VPC with Bring Your Own Compute (BYOC), giving you full control over performance, security, and cost.
• One platform, end to end: From ingestion and transformation to governance, data quality, and FinOps visibility, Qlik provides a unified lakehouse experience — no patchwork, no handoffs.

“Enterprises are increasingly adopting lakehouse architectures to unify data across on-premises and cloud environments,” said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data at ISG Software Research. “Qlik Open Lakehouse, which leverages open standards such as Apache Iceberg, is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for real-time data access and multi-engine interoperability, enabling enterprises to harness the full potential of their data for AI and analytics initiatives.”

As AI workloads demand faster access to broader, fresher datasets, open formats like Apache Iceberg are becoming the new foundation. Qlik Open Lakehouse responds to this shift by making it effortless to build and manage Iceberg-based architectures, without the need for custom code or pipeline babysitting. It also runs within the customer’s own AWS environment, ensuring data privacy, cost control, and full operational visibility.

“Qlik Open Lakehouse initiative is a significant development we’re keenly watching,” shared David Navarro, Data Domain Architect at Toyota Motor Europe. “Large corporations like ours urgently need interoperability between diverse business units and partners, each managing its own technology stack and data sovereignty. Apache Iceberg is emerging as the key to zero-copy data sharing across vendor-independent lakehouses, and Qlik’s commitment to delivering performance and control in these complex, dynamic landscapes is precisely what the industry requires.”

Qlik Open Lakehouse is available now in private preview and is scheduled to be generally available in July 2025. Private preview is limited — early access is encouraged for teams looking to modernize ahead of GA. To learn more and request early access, connect with us at Qlik Connect, May 14–17 in Orlando.

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HYDERABAD: Pennant Technologies, a leading financial technology company, today announced the successful completion of a landmark core lending transformation for Bajaj Finance Ltd., India’s largest non-bank lender and part of Bajaj Finserv Ltd.

The initiative transitioned from a monolithic loan management system to PennApps Lending Factory, a modern, scalable, and agile digital lending platform. This transformation has streamlined Bajaj Finance’s retail, commercial, and business loan operations, enabling it to manage over 50 million loans seamlessly while delivering enhanced agility, operational resilience, and customer-centric experiences across the lending lifecycle. The transition to a new-age, cloud-based platform is the largest of its kind implemented in the financial services sector in India.

“Bajaj Finance is driven by a vision of continuous innovation, operational excellence, and of delivering customer delight using technology,” said Rajeev Jain, Vice Chairman, Bajaj Finance. “Our partnership with Pennant is enabling us to bring this vision to life through simplified customer experiences, accelerated growth, and enhanced value for our stakeholders.”

From Complexity to Simplicity: Unifying Lending on a Single Platform

Previously, Bajaj Finance operated a long-serving loan management system that had effectively supported its growth for years. However, as the lending landscape evolved — with increasing regulatory complexity, rising operational costs, and changing customer expectations — the institution recognised the need for a more agile, scalable, and digital-first platform. This prompted a strategic transformation to future-proof its lending operations and deliver enhanced value across the board.

The transition to PennApps Lending Factory marked a significant leap forward, modernising lending operations across various loan products, including consumer finance, retail, housing, gold, microfinance, professional, commercial, loans against property, and corporate

portfolios. Today, Pennant’s robust loan management system powers Bajaj Finance’s entire

lending ecosystem with agility, resilience, and scale.

“What started as a focused engagement to modernise specific lending capabilities quickly evolved into an enterprise-wide transformation and a strategic partnership,” added Mudit Mehrish, Chief Information Officer, Bajaj Finance. “Today, our lending operations run seamlessly on PennApps Lending Factory, enabling us to innovate faster, scale effortlessly, and deliver superior customer experiences.”

Tangible Business Impact Across Lending Operations

The transformation has delivered measurable improvements:

• Scale & Flexibility: Managing 27+ loan product variants across 50 million+ loan accounts on a single, composable, resilient platform.
• Operational scale with cost efficiency: Significant reduction in loan servicing costs by transitioning to a unified platform.

Strategic Partnership Built for the Future

“We are proud to partner with Bajaj Finance on this transformative journey,” said Pradeep Varma, Founding Director & MD, Pennant Technologies. “In a rapidly evolving lending landscape, our mission is to equip financial institutions with platforms that power today’s operations and enable tomorrow’s growth. This transformation is a testament to the strength of PennApps Lending Factory in driving business value.”

The project involved successfully migrating Bajaj Finance’s entire lending portfolio, spanning secured and unsecured products — making it one of the most significant data migration initiatives in the global lending industry.

With this milestone, Pennant has reinforced its position as a trusted transformation partner for banks and financial institutions, helping them reimagine customer experiences, accelerate time to market, and thrive in a digital-first world.

PennApps Lending Factory has garnered recognition from prominent analysts and industry organisations, including Gartner, Everest Group, Chartis Research, and NASSCOM, for its innovation, scalability, and composability.

For more information on PennApps Lending Factory, please visit: https://www.pennanttech.com/lending-factory/

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INDIA: Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), announced the Hitachi iQ M Series, the latest addition to the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure solutions. This new solution provides a lower entry cost with built-in adaptability and scalability as customer needs evolve. Integrating accelerated computing platforms with robust networking, the Hitachi iQ M Series combines Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) storage, integrated file system choices, and optional NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into a scalable, adaptable, cost-effective AI infrastructure solution.

The rise of generative AI and the explosion in data processing power are pushing the pace of change. As more businesses adopt AI, the rapid increase in training costs and data management presents significant challenges. The Hitachi iQ M Series allows for a choice of NVIDIA accelerating computing platforms to select the most suitable GPU for specific workloads to ensure optimal performance across different AI applications. The solution allows for the scaling of compute and storage independently with the flexibility to adapt to diverse and fluctuating data sizes, data types, and workloads, meaning businesses can allocate resources efficiently, scaling compute or storage as needed rather than overprovisioning, and reducing unnecessary expenses.

Additionally, Hitachi iQ is integrating the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, created to power the era of enterprise agentic AI. Using the design, Hitachi Vantara will integrate its premier enterprise-grade storage with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, and AI software to enable AI agents with near real-time business insights. This ensures that Hitachi Vantara customers will benefit from the highest standard for performance and reliability, seamlessly powering their most critical AI applications and transforming their data into actionable insights. Through its continued collaboration with NVIDIA, Hitachi Vantara will continue to innovate its AI-ready infrastructure, reshaping how organizations manage and use data, and closing the gap between AI agents and business knowledge.

“We’re on a mission to help customers from all industries harness the power of AI regardless of the market they’re in,” said Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for artificial intelligence at Hitachi Vantara. “With the expansion of computing power from Hitachi iQ M Series and the high performance and reliability standards inherent in the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, we have created a unique opportunity for businesses to innovate, revamp user experiences, streamline operations, and optimize cost. This enables businesses to capitalize on AI without overburdening their teams or their bottom line.”

As a part of the Hitachi iQ portfolio, the M Series features flexible configurations using NVIDIA accelerated computing and a choice of a high-performance file system or a global namespace file system. There is also an optional object storage repository available within the Hitachi iQ portfolio. As a result, the M Series can handle the various data types, sizes, and workload demands, making it ideal for businesses operating in dynamic and data-intensive environments.

“Enterprises generate and store vast amounts of data, much of it unstructured and inaccessible to modern AI-driven applications,” said Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA. “With the AI Data Platform reference design, stored data is accessible in real-time on Hitachi iQ, giving applications access to full knowledge of the business and providing invaluable insights that strategically accelerate AI initiatives.”

Hitachi iQ Powered by Hammerspace and VSP One

Additionally, to bolster the data orchestration power of Hitachi iQ, Hitachi Vantara has entered into a strategic resell agreement with Hammerspace, a fast-growing software company that is radically changing how data is used and preserved. Through the agreement, Hitachi Vantara has integrated Hammerspace software with the VSP One storage platform, expanding Hitachi iQ’s capabilities to address different data management requirements for dataset creation, processing, governance, and protection. The joint VSP One and Hammerspace solution ensures that distributed data is easily and transparently accessible from anywhere for GenAI workloads. As a result, Hitachi iQ represents a complete infrastructure solution for AI, GenAI, analytics, and data lake environments across a range of industry-specific use cases.

The Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services is among the most comprehensive, end-to-end AI enablement tools available today. The portfolio includes an AI Discovery Service designed to help customers identify the most valuable AI use cases, assess their data readiness, determine ROI, and create a strategic roadmap for successful AI implementation.

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For more information on Hitachi iQ, please visit:

https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/solutions/ai-analytics/hitachi-iq

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LAS VEGAS, NV: Qlik^®, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced strong momentum in supporting cloud migration for enterprises, allowing them to leverage AI technologies more effectively. By removing barriers to cloud adoption, Qlik is helping organizations leverage Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud computing technology to unlock greater value from their data assets and achieve better analytics outcomes.

For businesses seeking to adopt AI, a successful strategy often starts with cloud migration. Moving to the cloud provides access to a stronger technology ecosystem, including emerging AI solutions that enhance analytics outcomes. Recognizing this, Qlik has focused on simplifying the cloud journey, offering solutions that streamline the transition and support seamless cloud-based operations.

Recent features, such as the launch of PixelPerfect reporting and anonymous access in the cloud, demonstrate Qlik’s commitment to bridging the gap between on-premises and cloud functionality, making it easier for enterprises to adopt AI-ready environments.

“AI isn’t just about implementing specific AI technologies; it’s about having the right environment to support them,” said Brendan Grady, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qlik’s Analytics Business Unit. “Our focus has been on clearing the path for our customers to move to the cloud, which means providing solutions that remove traditional barriers. By continuing to enable new critical features in our cloud analytics offerings, we’re ensuring that our customers can seamlessly transition to the cloud and, in doing so, position themselves to leverage the best of AI.”

One example of Qlik’s ongoing innovation in AI is Qlik Answers, its unstructured data AI solution, launched at Qlik Connect in June 2024. Qlik Answers has garnered significant interest among customers across a wide range of industries, including logistics, financial services, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and education. Organizations across these sectors are exploring how Qlik Answers can help them unlock valuable insights from their unstructured data, highlighting the growing demand for innovative AI and analytics solutions.

Recent Qlik Innovations Supporting Cloud and AI Adoption:

• Qlik Answers: Launched in June, this AI-driven solution addresses unstructured data challenges, enabling organizations to extract valuable insights from organizations vast troves of unstructured data.
• Qlik AutoML: This year, Qlik’s predictive analytics platform has seen a 40% increase in usage and introduced enhancements such as intelligent optimization and embedded analytics.
• PixelPerfect reporting in the cloud: High-quality, precise reporting that was previously only available on-premises is now fully available in Qlik Cloud Analytics.
• Anonymous Access: Provides secure, accessible data analytics in the cloud, making it easier for businesses to share public data to anonymous users without compromising security.

Qlik’s continued investment in removing barriers to cloud adoption aligns with its broader mission to provide end-to-end data integration and analytics solutions that empower enterprises to thrive in a data-driven world. By facilitating seamless cloud transitions, Qlik ensures that companies can position themselves to leverage cutting-edge AI technologies, driving innovation, agility, and smarter decision-making. To learn more, please connect with the Qlik team at AWS re: Invent December 2-6, 2024 in Las Vegas.

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