36 01732 759725 TECHDIGEST Accio, the AI-powered product sourcing search engine launched by Alibaba International in November, has reached 500,000 SME users. Designed to connect B2B buyers with partners who can turn product concepts into successful business ventures, Accio catalogues millions of suppliers worldwide in over 7,600 product categories. Based on a user’s natural language search prompts, Accio surfaces the most suitable products/suppliers, presenting product information in a consistent format to aid comparisons between similar items. Accio Agent automates the follow-up process for enquiries, payments and after-sales support, effectively acting as a professional sourcing agent. Accio.com … Templafy says the integration of its document generation platform with Microsoft 365 Copilot will enable workers to experience the productivity benefits of AI without exposing themselves to its risks by automatically applying approved layouts and ensuring compliance with company brand policies in documents created by Microsoft’s AI agent. For example, PowerPoint users will be able to create a presentation with company-approved, branded templates surfaced from centrally managed Templafy libraries and insert images pulled in by Copilot directly within the PowerPoint workflow. www.templafy.com … Rackspace Technology, a provider of end‑to‑end hybrid, multicloud and AI solutions, has reconfirmed its commitment to the Armed Forces by signing the Armed Forces Covenant and pledging to support the employment of veterans, service spouses and partners. Rackspace already supports veterans and their families through its employee resource group, RackVet; recruitment of veterans and reservists; partnerships with military charities; and tailored support programs to help former service members transition to civilian careers in technology. The signing of the Armed Forces Covenant follows the recent launch of Rackspace UK Sovereign Services, a suite of services designed to meet the specific needs of the UK public sector and regulated industries. www.rackspace.com … LG Electronics is boosting its robotics capabilities by taking a majority stake in Bear Robotics, a Silicon Valley-based startup specialising in AI-driven autonomous service robots, including indoor delivery robots. In March 2004, LG invested $60 million for a 21% stake in the business and a call option to acquire an additional 30%, which it is now exercising. Upon completion of the call option, LG will incorporate Bear Robotics as a subsidiary and bring its existing commercial robot business centred on ‘LG CLOi Robots’ into the new business. LG’s home robot and industrial robot businesses will be looked after by the LG Home Appliance Solution Company and the LG Production Engineering Research Institute respectively. … Data security and backup giant Cohesity has expanded the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) to include partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Arctic Wolf, Sophos, Fenix24 and Semperis. The partnerships will help Cohesity CERT, formed in 2021 and available to all Cohesity customers as part of an existing subscription, to work with IR providers, augmenting IR processes with rich data and backup/recovery expertise and customerapproved operational data so that shared customers can recover from incidents more quickly. https://www.cohesity.com/dm/from-chaos-tocollaboration/ … Arctera, an independent company born out of Veritas Technologies’ Data Compliance, InfoScale and BackupExec businesses, has been positioned as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions (DCGA). Organisations from heavily regulated industries, including more than 70% of the world’s top financial firms, rely on Information Governance, eDiscovery and Surveillance solutions from Arctera to mitigate data compliance risks. www.arctera.io … Synology has launched a line of data protection appliances that integrate enterprise backup software, server and backup repository into a unified solution that eliminates the need for separate hardware and software, sizing, purchase and maintenance. Designed to simplify data protection, ActiveProtect protects PCs, Macs, file and physical servers, virtual machines, databases and Microsoft 365 services with fast incremental backups and a management console that can be scaled to monitor up to 150,000 workloads or 2,500 sites. Key features include advanced iplicit to expand partner network following £25m investment Following year-on-year growth of 113% in 2024, cloud accounting software platform iplicit has attracted an investment of £25 million from technology growth investor One Peak in its first external institutional funding round. The cloud accounting platform tailored for mid-market businesses that have outgrown basic entry-level systems or become frustrated with legacy on-premises vendors currently serves over 2,000 organisations and more than 38,000 daily users. CEO Lyndon Stickley said: “Since our launch in 2019, we’ve achieved triple-digit revenue growth annually for six consecutive years. This new funding will enable us to sustain our momentum, continue delivering an exceptional experience for our customers and solidify our position as the leading cloud accounting solution for the UK mid-market.” He added: “The One Peak team is the latest addition to our all-star line-up of investors and advisors. We anticipate 2025 to be another breakthrough year as we expand our marketing efforts and partner network, recruiting top Sage and Advanced resellers and many of the UK’s Top 50 accounting practices.” www.iplicit.com Lyndon Stickley
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