B2B service providers must be innovative in how they develop solutions that enable online gaming companies to optimize customer experiences, Playtech US Chief Commercial Officer Marcus Yoder tells Bloomberg intelligence. He joins Brian Egger, BI’s senior gaming and lodging analyst, to discuss the company’s player account management (PAM) solutions and online gaming services. The two also discuss how Playtech’s SaaS business model has enabled it to bring game content to operators with their own platforms, as its machine learning-based predictive models help gaming companies detect and prevent problem gambling.

Driving intelligence and monetizing enterprise data depends on the underlying data architecture, query engines and storage resources. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Dremio cofounder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran joins BI senior software analyst Sunil Rajgopal, to discuss the evolving data-management architecture and technologies and how the company is working to curtail bottlenecks and enable business-intelligence analysts and data scientists to query and draw insights at scale and at high speed. They also discuss how the platform differs and competes with bigger data-management platforms, such as Snowflake, MongoDB, the movement toward Zero ETL and potential implications of AI and how that’s likely to shape jobs.

Accelerators and compute are becoming technology’s picks and shovels for processing artificial-intelligence workloads. Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman joins the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the dynamic AI-server market and how its Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip and Super Computer could offer a more cost-effective and powerful alternative to today’s cluster-based infrastructure to run AI models. Woo Jin Ho, BI’s hardware and networking analyst, explores Cerebras’ growing opportunities, AI server and super computer market demand, the evolution of large language models and the systems that will support it.

One of the critical components of the software value chain is resiliency, or how quickly a system can recover with the fewest people affected or noticing, says PagerDuty Chief Technology Officer Tim Armandpour. He joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software analyst, to discuss the IT operations landscape, key changes in incident-response software and the importance of integration with the broader software value chain, including observability and IT-service software platforms. The two also discuss the potential impacts of artificial intelligence, focusing on demand dynamics and potential opportunities.

Coupling AI with more complex workflows is where companies such as Canva can differentiate themselves, Cameron Adams, co-founder and chief product officer of the graphic-design platform, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In his second appearance on BI Tech Disruptors, Adams joins senior technology analyst Anurag Rana for a conversation on innovations in AI and how the technology is shaping privacy and copyright concerns. Additionally, they discuss how Canva is trying to create value across its 170 million customers and drive greater usage through additional features.

Vaccine-maker Moderna is also a data company, and that’s enabling it to use AI to drastically reduce drug-development times, Chief Information Officer Brad Miller tells Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sam Fazeli and Mandeep Singh. This episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast looks at a wide range of related topics, from the use of mRNA technology, to applying data for speeding up R&D for rare diseases. The discussion also touches on the deployment of generative AI across different parts of the Moderna platform tech stack.

Cato Networks is looking to challenge network security incumbents including Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet by deploying its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform offering to enterprise customers. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, CEO Shlomo Kramer sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the convergence of point products such as secure web gateway, SD-WAN and endpoint detection with a SASE approach.

Vast Data is quickly reshaping the AI-infrastructure providers landscape by breaking down the silos of structured and unstructured data to reach smarter generative-AI results. In this Tech Disruptors podcast, Vast CEO Renen Hallak speaks with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence hardware and networking analyst, about how its differentiated storage approach has allowed it to move up the AI stack to the data layer and possibly to compute, resulting in several high profile customer wins and a multibillion valuation.

Enterprise data architecture is highly complex, databases deeply fragmented and demand for high-speed information flows continues to grow. In this edition of the Tech Disruptors podcast, SingleStore CEO Raj Verma joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst, to discuss the convergence of transactional and analytical databases, enterprises’ need for real-time data and analytics and the changing competitive landscape. The two also talk about potential impacts of AI on productivity, the job market and the company’s long-term ambitions.

Automating the collection of dispersed, divergent and disjointed pools of enterprise data on to a single repository to drive analytics and build applications remains complex. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Fivetran cofounder and COO Taylor Brown joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI’s senior software analyst, to discuss the evolution of data integration and management platforms in light of the explosion in enterprise data and shift to the Cloud. They also talk about product differentiation against rival platforms such as Informatica, potential disruption from Zero ETL initiatives and AI and overall market prospects.