“With Copilot, we have united everything AI in one place,” said Andie Dovgan, chief growth officer at Creatio.” We have the ability to configure all sorts of different AI use cases, and roll them out to applications and all sorts of different things that you do with the Creatio platform.”

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Creatio Copilot comes with Copilot Studio, which is an area that includes a number of pre-built automations, such as a knowledge base assistant, appointment scheduling, and a contract renewal reminder. The pre-built automations can be further customized to better suit a customer’s specific needs, or Copilot Studio can also be used to can create new automations entirely. 

“So within our concept of Gen AI integration, we fully leverage the idea of no code,” Dovgan explained. “We allow the end user to configure use cases for Gen AI similarly to how we enable them to configure anything else in our platform. So it’s not just that we’ve developed a lot of different use cases and we kind of sprinkle them around our application as a platform; we created a toolkit to provides the end user with the ability to get into that scenario, change the prompt and additional action items, get into the advanced settings and really tweak and adjust to meet their specific requirements.”

The pre-built automations are mainly designed for development, sales professionals, marketers, and customer service agents in mind, though anyone can create their own automation to suit different needs. 

Developers can use the generative AI capabilities to describe the type of application they want to create and then have it generate the UX components. Then, they can go in and add the specific capabilities they want for their application. 

For sales, Creatio Copilot can be used to do things like identify and score engaged customers, generate conversation summaries, and get prompts for the next action to take.

For marketers, it can help design optimized campaign flows, select the most responsive audiences for campaigns, and prepare communications templates. 

And for customer service agents, Creatio Copilot can analyze customer emails, determine the urgency and category of cases, and suggest the most qualified agent to assign a ticket to. 

“We’re combining no-code and Gen AI, and we give an incredible set of opportunities for non-technical people to build those use cases on the fly,” said Dovgan. “And then we’ll also provide a rich set of out of the box and Gen AI use cases through Copilot for sales, marketing, customer service and assisted development.”

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This approach enables organizations to adapt quickly to changes, making application and workflow automation deployment faster and easier. Additionally, Creatio Quantum introduces new components, generative AI, and a governance app, providing users with greater freedom in automation, the company explained.

With the introduction of Quantum, Creatio now fully embraces a composable approach, constructing all product functionality using pre-built components and blocks. At its most fundamental level, this consists of elements like widgets or sets of fields.

Creatio has disassembled all features of its CRM suite into components, blocks, and apps. This not only allows users to construct distinctive solutions using pre-made components and blocks but also enables them to utilize pre-built apps to meet their specific needs.

A highly sought-after feature, generative AI, has now been integrated into all of Creatio’s products, using models from OpenAI. According to Creatio, generative AI complements and expedites the no-code development process by automatically generating templates, components, or entire applications based on user-provided text input. This significantly reduces the time and effort required by no-code app creators to transform basic requirements into prototypes.

The launch of Quantum takes a further step in enabling businesses to adapt, create, and innovate with unparalleled efficiency, Creatio added.

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The latest version includes a new composable architecture, which provides users with a library of ready-to-use components. All of the components are pluggable, replaceable, and reusable, which significantly reduces the amount of time spent configuring and customizing them. 

In addition to the ready-to-use components offered by Creatio, users can also turn their developed code into a composable element that they can reuse down the line. 

Another update in the version is an updated UI for both desktop and mobile. The new Freedom UI will help streamline the application design process. It includes a comprehensive library of views, widgets, and templates for building applications.

The final update in this release is the new AI-driven development capabilities. This new functionality will provide users with guidance and recommendations for building in a way that will maximize business value. 

It combines historical data with industry best practices to provide recommendations, the company explained. 

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With this, the display will be split into two sections (physical or not) and shows two fragments, one for each display area, at once. See the FoldableLayout documentation for more information. There is also a sample available for users to test out the new navigation scenarios.

Microsoft invites user feedback that can be submitted here or through a message on Twitter at @surfaceduodev. 

Creatio reveals features of 8 Atlas

Creatio, a no-code CRM platform, recently unveiled the new capabilities of its no-code platform, 8 Atlas. 

A few highlights of this release include:

• No-code Designer: A module that consolidates all application design tools and assists in the design and launch of applications
• Freedom UI Designer: A framework for UI/UX configuration that enables no-code developers to design an interface of any type
• Composable Approach: Allows no-code developers to use composable elements at each stage of the development process

This release is already available for all interested users and is compatible with previous versions.

Voltron Data launches with Series A funding

Voltron Data, a contributor to Apache Arrow and a company accelerating standards in data analytics, recently launched with an oversubscribed $88 million Series A funding round. This funding comes shortly after a seed round that grossed $22 million. 

This Series A round was led by Walden Catalyst with participation from funds and accounts managed by BlockRock, Anthos Capital, Battery, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nepenthe Capital, Redline, and The Factory. 

“Voltron Data is focused on making the data science ecosystem more efficient with modular and composable analytics building blocks. Modularity and composability help us build bridges—not walls—across the analytic ecosystem. We couldn’t be more excited to be on this journey with an amazing team, leading investors and proven advisors,” said Josh Patterson, co-founder and CEO of Voltron Data.

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Microsoft encourages users to submit any feedback on the Release Candidate using the  sp-dev-docs issue list. Key features of this Release Candidate include: 

• Updated Adaptive Card Extensions scaffolding to be more succinct 
• Streamlined Yeoman generator experience further for all solution types 
• Additional issue fixes based on the customer and partner reports at sp-dev-docs issue list
• Additional fixes and adjustments on the component capabilities 

For a full list of release features, see here.

Salt Security raises $140 million in Series D

The API security company Salt Security today announced that it has closed a Series D funding round accumulating $140 million. The round was led by CapitalG with participation from all existing investors. 

Salt Security intends to use this financing to expand R&D investment, fuel sales and marketing, and more quickly grow its international operations in order to address the increasing number of cyber threats currently targeting APIs.

This funding brings the company’s total valuation to $1.4 billion and comes just eight months after it raised $70 million in a Series C funding round.

Datadog completes acquisition of CoScreen

Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the collaboration platform for technical teams, CoScreen. With this, several new capabilities are brought to Datadog’s platform, all intended to assist engineers in sharing their screens and working together during incident and security response, pair programming, prototyping, debugging, and other activities in an integrated, joint workspace. 

“Bringing teams together has always been Datadog’s core mission,” said Ilan Rabinovitch, senior VP of product and community at Datadog. “Adding CoScreen’s real-time communication capabilities helps our customers bring distributed teams closer together and move forward with in-product collaboration. The end result is higher developer productivity, faster incident response and reduced mean time to resolution.”

Creatio 8.0 Atlas released

The low code solution for process management and CRM, Creatio, released Creatio 8.0 Atlas, bringing additional tools in order to successfully build enterprise applications and workflows using no-code. 

Key features of this release include:

• Application Hub to jump start the creation of new apps 
• No-code Designer to create and modify pages, data models, workflows, and integrations 
• Freedom UI Designer to create any type of UI page leveraging tools for layout, UI actions and behavior, color schemes, and more

See here to request a free trial and get started using Creatio 8.0 Atlas. 

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The platform’s updated low-code and developer tools enable users to build apps and processes faster with an improved UI and platform enhancements for external file data storage and other backend functions.

Improvements to the BPM engine streamline the full cycle of process management with faster integrations setups and the unified CRM solution enables companies to better align their sales, marketing and service departments.

Android privacy updates

The latest Android gives more transparency around the data being accessed by apps while providing simple controls to make informed choices.

With the new privacy dashboard, users can have a simple and clear timeline view of the last 24-hour access to location, microphone and camera and they can also share more context about an app’s data usage with a new permission intent API.

The updates also include  two new controls that allow users to quickly and easily cut off apps’ access to the microphone and camera on the device, more control over location data, clipboard read notifications, nearby device permissions and more. 

Additional details on all of the latest Android updates are available here.

The future of Internet Explorer

Microsoft announced that the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired on June 12, 2022, adding that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge. 

Microsoft Edge is now capable of handling compatibility with older, legacy websites and applications with a built in “IE mode” so that users can access Internet Explorer-based websites and applications from Microsoft Edge. 

“With Microsoft Edge, we provide a path to the web’s future while still respecting the web’s past. Change was necessary, but we didn’t want to leave reliable, still-functioning websites and applications behind,” Sean Lyndersay, a partner group program manager of Microsoft Edge at Microsoft wrote in a blog post.

PDFTron announces new investment

PDFTron announced a new strategic growth investment from Thoma Bravo that is expected to drive increased innovation within PDFTron’s document processing market. 

The investment is expected to drive increased innovation in PDFTron’s document processing technology platform and to accelerate the company’s growth trajectory in the document processing market. 

The transaction is expected to close by the end of this month.

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Bpm’online employees took to the sky to make the announcement. 160 employees, including the CEO, announced the name change in an elaborate skydiving performance.

The company is holding a renaming celebration where attendees can view the footage of the stunt. According to the company, the employees volunteered to participate, and for many it was their first time skydiving.

Bpm’online explained that the reason for the name change is that they wanted a name that would better reflect their vision, which is creating a world in which any business idea could be automated in minutes.

“We wanted our renaming announcement to be truly one of a kind. While brainstorming for a creative way to reveal our new name, we came up with the idea of launching it in the sky. The whole team loved the idea so much that we accepted it immediately,” said Katherine Kostereva, CEO and managing partner at bpm’online. “We were expecting a couple of employees to want to skydive, but were happily surprised to find out that over 160 of our own staff were eager to participate. I was so inspired that I joined in too!”

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