Radicant, the first sustainable, digital and collaborative internet-based financial services company which is aligned with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, is working closely with Squirro. The integration of technology enables radicant to automate decision-making processes and improve customer understanding and service quality. The Swiss tech company Squirro, recognized as a "Visionary" in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines, links and analyzes data to provide new insights as a basis for decision-making. So far, this artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology has been made available to decision-makers in companies. In collaboration with radicant, these insights and recommendations are now offered not only within the company but also to radicant's customers.

Retail and eCommerce highlights this week include: Sportsman's Warehouse has selected Kibo Personalization, powered by Monetate and Certona, to support its testing and personalisation efforts. Salesforce and AWS Deliver Offering That Helps Content Distributors Easily Deploy, Scale and Personalize High-Quality Video Streaming Subscriptions. Squirro, is launching a series of live discovery sessions that offer practical Machine Learning (ML) training to non-technical business line employees. Nutanix has announced the global availability of their simplified product portfolio to align with rapidly evolving customer requirements. Sportsman's Warehouse has selected Kibo Personalization, powered by Monetate and Certona, to support its testing and personalisation efforts.

What is behind the rise in enterprise apps and why has the apps market suddenly been alerted to the analytic power and automation of processes that AI offers? Despite the hype, vendor noise and press column inches, artificial intelligence (AI) is yet to truly deliver on its undoubted potential. Relatively few organisations are using AI in any real or meaningful sense and for now at least, it is still mostly found within early adopters. But this will change over the coming months, as organisations begin to realise the potential for AI to transform elements of their business will ultimately outweigh any reservations that have been preventing their adoption to this point. There is one area of business however, that AI has already made a firm impression – as the technology powering the next generation of enterprise apps.

For the Winter '17 cohort in collaboration with Macquarie Group, over 800 companies were vetted and 10 were accepted. The selected scaleups cover a range of technology verticals applicable to all enterprise. Collectively, the scaleups have raised £40m to date, have between 10 and 40 employees each and have an incredible breadth of enterprise clients -- ranging from Airbnb to Aston Martin to Barclays to Compass Group to L'Oreal to Wells Fargo. Collecting leads at events is a broken process. We're here to fix it.