At bbcon 2025, Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) announced a sweeping expansion of AI capabilities across its product portfolio, along with the launch of a sector-wide AI coalition aimed at helping nonprofits and mission-driven organizations harness AI responsibly.
Global management consultancy Argon & Co is predicting that traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS) models may be obsolete by 2028, according to its new white paper, IRIS. Enlightened AI with real ROI. The report explores how AI agility, customisation, and economic pressures are forcing enterprises to rethink legacy software and embrace a new era of Industry 5.0.
Experience management (XM) leader Qualtrics has announced a $6.75 billion agreement to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, a provider of experience measurement and analytics. The deal aims to create a unified AI-powered platform for customer, employee, patient, and market research experiences, combining Qualtrics’ technology with Press Ganey Forsta’s deep industry data and expertise.
Datamonk, an agentic AI-powered platform for automating medical imaging data migrations, has raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding to tackle one of healthcare IT’s most persistent challenges: moving and cleaning decades of imaging data. The round was led by Healthy.Capital and Nina Capital, with notable angel investors including Jeroen Tas, former Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Philips, and Harm-Jan Wessels, serial healthcare entrepreneur. Early support also came from Antler and Rabobank.
Yotta Data Services, a provider of AI and cloud infrastructure solutions, has introduced Shakti Studio, an enterprise-grade AI cloud platform designed to eliminate infrastructure complexity and accelerate AI adoption. Built in partnership with NVIDIA, the platform offers serverless GPUs, fine-tuning, and production-ready AI endpoints for LLMs, vision, and speech models.
Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, and network solutions provider, has launched AI Cloud Stack, a next-generation platform designed to help cloud service providers (CSPs), telcos, and large enterprises transform raw NVIDIA GPU clusters into fully operational, hyperscaler-grade private AI clouds.
IBM kicked off TechXchange 2025, its annual developer and technologist event, with a suite of AI, hybrid cloud, and infrastructure tools aimed at moving enterprises from experimentation to production-ready AI. Drawing thousands of attendees, the Orlando-based conference showcased IBM’s vision for agentic AI, intelligent infrastructure, and developer productivity at scale.
The AI inference server market is on track for explosive growth, projected to expand by USD 94.16 billion between 2024 and 2029 at a robust CAGR of 22.6%, according to a new report from ResearchAndMarkets.com. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of market size, emerging trends, growth drivers, challenges, and vendor landscapes, covering roughly 25 key players.
ToltIQ, a leading provider of AI-powered private market due diligence solutions, has inaugurated a new AWS region in Dublin, Ireland, enabling UK and European private equity firms, limited partners, advisory firms, and family offices to leverage ToltIQ’s advanced AI capabilities while maintaining full data residency.
