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  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 30, 2025
    In May 2025, Google Cloud expanded its sovereign cloud offerings to address increasing demands for data sovereignty and operational autonomy. It launched Google Cloud Air-Gapped, a fully isolated environment designed for sectors with stringent data security requirements, such as defense and intelligence. This solution operates without external network connectivity and is authorized to handle US government Top Secret data. Google Cloud Dedicated, developed in partnership with Thales, a French leader in cybersecurity, offers region-specific services operated by local partners to meet national compliance standards, such as France’s SecNumCloud. The Google Cloud Data Boundary service expansion now offers customers granular control over data residency and access, complemented by the User Data Shield, which incorporates Mandiant’s security assessments to validate application security postures. While these initiatives demonstrate Google Cloud’s commitment to offering flexible, secure, and compliant cloud solutions, challenges remain. These challenges include the limited geographic availability of certain services and complexities in integrating sovereign solutions with existing multi-cloud architectures. Enterprises must carefully assess these factors when considering Google Cloud’s offerings for their sovereignty objectives.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 30, 2025
    In April 2025, IBM unveiled the latest evolution of its mainframe portfolio with the introduction of IBM Z17, advancing its long-standing leadership in mainframes. IBM has long been a cornerstone in the evolution of enterprise computing, with its mainframe systems being vital in supporting mission-critical operations across industries. Known for their reliability, security, and performance, IBM has consistently adapted its mainframes to meet changing business needs. IBM Z17 focuses on delivering alignment with enterprise hybrid cloud and sustainability goals. It stands out with features such as quantum-safe encryption through Crypto Express 8S, Watsonx Assistant for Z, Operations Unite, and AI-enabled processing at the core. It introduces enhanced security features and hybrid cloud readiness, offering enterprises a flexible, future-ready solution to modernize while empowering mission-critical workloads in a rapidly transforming digital landscape. This evolution in the Z series reinforces IBM’s commitment to autonomous IT, streamlining operations, enhancing user experiences, while addressing long-standing challenges such as talent shortages and legacy system constraints.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 30, 2025
    In this report, we assess SentinelOne’s evolving cybersecurity portfolio, emphasizing the strategic innovations showcased at the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2025. SentinelOne introduced Purple AI Athena, an agentic AI that autonomously triages, investigates, and remediates security incidents. It also enhanced Singularity Hyperautomation, a no‑code workflow engine that converts analyst actions into reusable playbooks and integrates with third‑party Security Information and Event Management  (SIEMs) and data lakes for a unified security‑operations view. These enhancements aim to tackle persistent Security Operations Center (SOC) challenges by filtering alert noise, expediting investigations, and orchestrating cross‑tool responses at machine speed. SentinelOne also strengthened its multi‑cloud workload‑protection capabilities and highlighted interoperability across containerized and serverless environments. However, the expanded automation features may overlap with established Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms, and large enterprises will scrutinize Purple AI’s explainability and guardrails before adopting autonomous response at scale. SentinelOne’s future roadmaps must clarify integration depth with legacy security stacks and outline a robust AI governance framework.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 26, 2025
    In this report, we evaluate Saviynt’s product innovations announced at RSA Conference (RSAC) 2025, particularly focusing on its AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) capabilities. Saviynt’s product launch builds on its identity cloud platform by introducing features designed to provide real-time visibility into identity posture, risk signals, and governance maturity. Core capabilities include auto-generating role descriptions, identifying orphaned accounts, and improving ownership clarity of service identities, addressing long-standing challenges in identity data hygiene. A key strength is the platform’s application-owner-centric approach, which enables business teams to directly access and analyze access control and usage data. Built upon a zero-trust-aligned architecture, the offering leverages an AI-enabled data lake to enforce continuous verification principles. Despite these enhancements, the launch reveals some gaps that enterprises may need to explore further. These include limited disclosure around integration with broader security ecosystems, such as security information and event management and threat intelligence platforms, a lack of clarity around pricing/licensing models, and insufficient transparency into the AI algorithms used. Saviynt’s ISPM solution, while promising in its conceptual direction, will benefit from better articulation of deployment strategies and industry-aligned use cases.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 26, 2025
    As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, organizations are ramping up investments in infrastructure capable of supporting a broad spectrum of AI workloads, from training to inference, across data center, cloud, and edge environments. AI is fueling demand for high-performance, low-latency network fabrics, streamlined operations, open, and secure architectures, and infrastructure that is energy efficient and sustainable. This report comprehensively analyzes Cisco’s networking infrastructure for AI announcements made at Cisco Live 2025. It examines Cisco’s current strategic positioning and highlights key innovations across switches, routers, and access points designed to enable AI-native infrastructure. The report also evaluates how Cisco is addressing key enterprise priorities such as operational simplification, architectural openness, extensibility, and sustainability. The report is intended to help infrastructure and technology leaders, architects, and ecosystem partners in evaluating Cisco’s portfolio strategy and its alignment with the evolving demands of future-ready, AI-powered enterprise environments.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 26, 2025
    As enterprise AI adoption scales, organizations are actively investing in infrastructure that supports diverse AI workloads, from training to inference, across data center and edge environments. AI is driving demand for specialized chips, private cloud flexibility, and scalable performance aligned with governance requirements. This report reviews Dell Technologies’ AI infrastructure-related announcements made at Dell Technologies World 2025. It outlines Dell’s current infrastructure positioning and details the key products and capabilities launched across compute, storage, and orchestration layers. It further maps these announcements to broader enterprise infrastructure themes and offers a structured view of how Dell is designing products for modular AI deployments and stack extensibility. The report is intended to help technology decision-makers, partners, and infrastructure stakeholders understand the scope of Dell’s product updates and their relevance within the AI infrastructure landscape.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 25, 2025
    At SAP Sapphire 2025, SAP reinforced its ambition to lead in enterprise AI by unveiling a range of innovations under its Business AI umbrella. Key announcements include the launch of AI Foundation, positioned as the operating system for SAP’s AI strategy, enabling simplified operations, innovation acceleration, and democratized access to predictive capabilities. Expanding Joule into an omnipresent AI assistant, accessible across SAP and third-party applications, marks SAP’s move toward ambient, context-aware AI. By introducing AI Agent Hub and cross-system Joule agents, SAP is evolving toward agentic automation that spans business silos. Business Data Cloud underpins these capabilities by unifying SAP and non-SAP data to enable real-time insight and orchestration. Introducing modular business suite-as-a-service packages further supports composability and easier adoption.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 25, 2025
    FIS has introduced the Quantum Cloud Edition of its Treasury and Risk Manager platform, targeting the next phase of digital transformation in treasury operations. Designed as a cloud-native, API-first solution, the platform aims to help enterprises modernize their liquidity management, cash forecasting, and financial risk oversight. This report evaluates the platform’s alignment with enterprise expectations around agility, scalability, and automation. FIS’ Quantum Cloud Edition features embedded AI/ML capabilities, prebuilt ERP integrations, and real-time cash visibility to support complex treasury environments. Key differentiators include Treasury GPT (an AI-powered assistant), modular workflows, and integrated hedge accounting functionality. Hosted on AWS infrastructure, the platform is positioned to deliver operational resilience and deployment flexibility across global use cases. However, the report also highlights key limitations, such as the need for clearer AI/ML governance frameworks, better visibility into migration benefits from legacy platforms, and benchmark performance data. This review will help financial institutions assess the platform’s readiness to support next-generation treasury transformation efforts.
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 12, 2025
    Temenos has introduced a new AI-powered compliance solution, Financial Crime Mitigation (FCM) AI Agent, designed to address the financial services industry’s critical pain points in FCM. The platform aims to reduce false positives, screen real-time transactions, and automate manual compliance tasks, which are increasingly important as institutions grapple with high compliance costs and tighter regulatory timelines. This report reviews the platform’s value proposition and its alignment with key enterprise objectives, including improved efficiency and support for diverse deployment models. The report highlights Temenos’ strong performance, delivering false positive rates below 2% – significantly below industry averages. Real-time alert handling, explainable AI models, and flexible deployment options (on-premises, SaaS, or cloud) underscore the platform’s adaptability across different IT environments. However, the review also flags areas requiring further clarity, such as cross-platform interoperability, lack of detailed performance benchmarks, and alignment with AI governance frameworks. Financial institutions looking to modernize compliance operations will benefit from understanding these factors as they assess Temenos’ FCM AI Agent for implementation. Scope Geography: global Industry: banking and financial services Service: financial crime and compliance Contents The report outlines:: Key enterprise issues and compliance objectives in FCM Overview of Temenos’ FCM AI Agent launch Temenos’ current capabilities and market positioning Everest Group’s review of the solution’s strengths and limitations
  • Tech Launch Perspective

    June 10, 2025
    Voluntary benefits and supplemental health providers are under increasing pressure to modernize their legacy administration systems in order to meet evolving market demands, navigate growing regulatory complexities, and keep pace with rising consumer expectations. Many of the traditional platforms still in use today lack the agility, scalability, and interoperability required to support rapid product deployment, seamless system integration, and enhanced digital experiences for both employers and end users. This report evaluates Vitech’s newly introduced solution, V3locity Express, a purpose-built supplemental health administration platform designed to directly address these modernization challenges. A cloud-native offering, it is engineered for accelerated deployment, aiming to bring implementation timelines down to less than six months. It supports a broad range of supplemental health products, including accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance, with the goal of improving time-to-market, operational efficiency, and digital readiness. By examining the platform’s core capabilities, architecture, and alignment with ongoing trends in the benefits administration space, this report aims to provide a strategic view into how insurers can harness modern technologies to transform their supplemental health and voluntary benefits operations, deliver stronger customer experiences, and stay competitive in a dynamic and highly regulated market.