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Exato Technologies Limited (“Exato” or the “Company”), a leading provider of AI-powered customer experience, workforce management, and digital transformation solutions, today announced the appointment of Dr. Milind Raman Godbole as a Non-Executive Director on its Board.

Dr. Godbole is a distinguished business leader with over three decades of experience in scaling global enterprises, driving business transformation, and leading technology-enabled services organizations across international markets. His appointment marks an important milestone in Exato’s journey as the Company continues to strengthen its leadership and governance framework while accelerating its growth ambitions.

Profile Snapshot

Dr. Godbole most recently served as Investor, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, and Board Member at GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, an EQT portfolio company. During his tenure, he played a pivotal role in transforming the organization, growing revenue by 18x, while expanding the workforce from 2,300 to nearly 14,000 employees.

Prior to GeBBS, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Aditya Birla Minacs Worldwide, where he scaled the APAC business from 3,200 to over 12,000 employees. He has also held key leadership positions at MphasiS, including Chief Delivery Officer and Chief Operating Officer, contributing significantly to the company’s global growth and operational excellence.

Dr. Godbole holds a PhD in Technology Management from NMIMS with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Modeling, and Prescriptive Analytics. He also holds a Master’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. In recognition of his contributions to the industry, he was named an “India BPO Think Tank Visionary” by SSON and was among six leaders recognized for shaping India’s outsourcing sector.

Strategic Value to Exato

Dr. Godbole’s appointment brings significant strategic value to Exato at a time when the Company is expanding its footprint across Artificial Intelligence, Customer Experience Management, Workforce Management, and Digital Transformation services.

His proven ability to scale businesses from early-stage operations into globally recognized enterprises, coupled with his expertise in digital transformation and operational excellence, will provide valuable guidance to Exato’s leadership team. His deep understanding of AI-driven business models, enterprise technology adoption, and global client engagement is expected to further strengthen the Company’s long-term growth strategy and international expansion efforts.

Management Commentary

“The appointment of Dr. Milind Godbole marks an important milestone in Exato’s growth journey. His deep expertise across technology, operations, AI, and enterprise transformation aligns perfectly with our long-term vision. We are honored to have him join our Board and look forward to leveraging his insights as we accelerate our global growth and innovation agenda.”

– Mr. Appuorv K. Sinha

Promoter, Chairman & Managing Director

“What impressed me most about Exato is its entrepreneurial mindset, ambitious vision, and focus on building differentiated technology solutions. The Company has established a solid foundation and is operating in markets that present significant growth opportunities. I am excited to be part of this journey and look forward to working with the Board and management team as Exato scales its capabilities and expands its global presence.”

 

– Dr. Milind Godbole

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NetApp^® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), today announced an expansion of their collaboration to help customers strengthen defense-in-depth strategies for customers. Combining Intelligent Data Infrastructure with advanced analytics and observability capabilities, NetApp and Splunk have delivered deep, real-time visibility into storage and infrastructure health. Together, they are helping customers turn operational data into actionable insights that improve reliability, security, and business outcomes. By expanding their collaboration with the new NetApp Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbook, NetApp and Splunk are helping joint customers contain ransomware attacks and limit data loss at the storage layer, enhancing the containment of the blast radius of cyberattacks while increasing the speed and reducing the cost of recovery.

 

“With AI accelerating both the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, the window to respond has never been smaller,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Platform at NetApp. “To limit the cost and impact of ransomware, organizations must act the moment a threat is detected, which means extending security automation into the storage layer where data lives. As the company delivering the most secure storage on the planet, NetApp is uniquely positioned to make storage an active part of a defense-in-depth strategy. By working with Cisco to enable Splunk SOAR workflows to take direct action on data stored in NetApp ONTAP^®, we’re helping make a defense-in-depth security strategy simpler and more effective.”

 

 

To give customers the resiliency and flexibility they need to protect their data, Cisco and NetApp are releasing the NetApp Splunk SOAR playbook. Splunk Enterprise Security is already integrated with NetApp Ransomware Resilience to collect analytics from the data layer, enhancing incident triage and prioritization. With the new playbook, Splunk SOAR users can now use those signals as well as signals from other solutions to automatically take incident response actions directly on NetApp ONTAP storage as an integral part of their incident response. These actions include blocking a suspicious user, taking snapshots of the data and taking data volumes offline to protect against further infection. As a result, customers will be better able to contain ransomware attacks and limit data loss at the storage layer. Utilized as part of the organization’s defense in depth security strategy, the NetApp Splunk SOAR playbooks help to strengthen collaboration between security and storage teams.

 

 

Automating the response and recovery actions against cyber threats with the NetApp Splunk SOAR playbook improves security team metrics like mean time to contain (MTTC) and reduces the manual effort and skills required to protect data. As a result, NetApp and Cisco are making it faster and more efficient for enterprises to achieve cyber resilience.

 

 

“Effective security strategies require visibility and action across the entire technology stack, including the data layer,” said David Dalling, GVP, Splunk Security at Cisco. “With the new NetApp Splunk SOAR playbook, ONTAP storage becomes an active participant in the security ecosystem, enabling organizations to contain threats directly targeting enterprise data. By connecting NetApp storage into Splunk SOAR workflows, we’re helping security and storage teams collaborate more seamlessly and respond to incidents with greater speed and confidence.”

 

 

“The partnership between Splunk and NetApp helps customers run their businesses more securely and effectively, connecting operations across storage and security teams,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “By giving customers real-time visibility into what’s happening across their environments, NetApp and Splunk enable enterprises to reduce disruption and optimize performance so they can use their data to drive measurable business outcomes.”

 

 

The NetApp Splunk SOAR playbook is now available to download from SplunkBase.

 

 

Additional Resources

 

 

• Aligning Storage and Security to Strengthen Cyber Resilience
• Cyber Resilience: The Most Secure Storage on the Planet
• Ransomware Resilience: Ransomware Protection Using AI-Based Detection

 

About NetApp

 

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

 

 

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

 

 

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

 

 

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

 

 

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NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

 

About Cisco

 

 

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco.

 

 

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco’s trademarks can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word ‘partner’ does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.

 

 

 

 

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A pilot study published today in Communications Medicine demonstrates the potential of a new approach to treating anorexia nervosa — a disorder for which effective treatments have been significantly limited. The research from UC San Diego School of Medicine reports that a ketogenic nutritional intervention — a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, moderate-protein diet — was feasible and safe for patients with weight-normalized and mildly underweight anorexia nervosa. The ketogenic intervention was well-tolerated by participants, with high adherence rates and no significant weight loss observed throughout the program. Furthermore, significant improvements were observed in eating disorder symptoms, with nearly 3 in 4 of study completers in the recovered range at study end, no longer meeting criteria for an anorexia nervosa diagnosis, and all completers experiencing an improvement in depression scores.

 

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Anorexia nervosa is a devastating psychiatric disorder with among the highest mortality rate of any mental illness; in the United States, a death occurs every 52 minutes as a result of this disorder or its complications. Even after successful weight restoration, patients often struggle with persistent psychological symptoms — including body dissatisfaction, an intense fear of eating, and a preoccupation with shape — that drive an alarmingly high risk of relapse.

 

Study lead Guido Frank, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, who has been studying and treating anorexia patients for over 25 years, launched this study to broaden treatment options for this high-risk population. “We urgently need new approaches to anorexia nervosa. Our work with ketogenic therapy looks beyond standard therapies and potentially at the underlying physiology of the disorder,” states Dr. Frank. “Growing evidence links anorexia nervosa to neurometabolic dysfunction, and we are hopeful that direct metabolic intervention can regulate neural function and address the psychological symptoms patients experience.”

 

 

The outpatient, nationwide, single-arm clinical study delivered a supervised 14-week ketogenic intervention, with 18 of the 22 enrolled participants (82%) completing the study. No significant change in weight was observed throughout the program (as measured by BMI). By the end of the study, 72% of study completers reached the recovered range of eating disorder symptoms as measured by eating disorder scales (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, EDE-Q, and Eating Disorder Inventory-3, EDI-3) and all showed improvements in depression scores (as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory, BDI), with 72% within normal range.

 

 

For co-author Barbara Scolnick, MD, an internal medicine physician in Waban, Massachusetts, this study is the culmination of a decade-long personal journey. “The scientific inquiry that led to this research began in search of answers for my niece, Caroline Beckwith,” Dr. Scolnick shared. “Ketogenic therapy, a standard in epilepsy care, was the major catalyst, when combined with other interventions, that allowed Caroline to achieve remission after a 15-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. I am encouraged by these preliminary findings, which indicate that this treatment may provide a path forward for others like Caroline.”

 

 

While the authors acknowledge the clinical sensitivities of dietary interventions in this patient population, this study builds on priorpreliminaryevidence to provide proof of concept. The findings indicate that, when delivered with specialized medical supervision and trained support, ketogenic therapy holds potential for those who have failed to respond to traditional treatments.

 

 

“This study highlights the promise of dietary interventions that target normalizing underlying neurometabolic function for even the most intractable psychiatric conditions like anorexia nervosa,” said Jan Ellison Baszucki, co-founder and president of Baszucki Group, who funded the study. “We hope this work drives awareness and support for researching and delivering ketogenic therapy for eating disorders, providing new hope for patients and their families.”

 

 

A current extension of this study, for patients with both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa diagnoses, is underway and recruiting participants nationally. Those interested in learning more or joining the study can find more information at the study site.

 

 

About Baszucki Group

 

 

Launched in 2021 by Roblox founder and Chief Executive Officer David Baszucki and best-selling author Jan Ellison Baszucki, Baszucki Group leverages grantmaking, impact investing, advocacy, storytelling, and community building to drive foundational change in science, medicine, farming, food, and environmental ecosystems. A primary focus of Baszucki Group is supporting initiatives at the intersection of metabolism, psychiatry, and neuroscience with the goal of improving mental health outcomes. To learn more about metabolic approaches to mental disorders and brain health, including ketogenic therapy, visit Metabolic Mind, a nonprofit initiative of Baszucki Group.

 

 

 

 

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LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, launches its new Managed Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution at Cisco Live 2026. Built directly upon Cisco Secure Access- Cisco’s dedicated SSE solution, this offering is designed for cloud-first and hybrid work environments. By combining the robust security of Cisco Secure Access with LTM’s AI-powered managed services, the solution secures access to applications and enables secure use of AI applications and models for the modern enterprise.

Cisco SSE brings networking and security together in a cloud-native, zero-trust framework, enabling identity- and context-aware access with consistent protection across users, devices, and locations. By unifying Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Web Gateway and Cloud Access Security Broker capabilities under centralized policy control, the solution simplifies security operations while delivering end‑to‑end visibility at enterprise scale.

In addition to Cisco SSE capabilities, LTM’s managed SSE offering combines deep cybersecurity domain expertise with AI-led managed services, ensuring seamless transformation and robust operations. Backed by 4,000+ security professionals and nine Cyber Defense Resiliency Centers, LTM delivers 24×7 AI‑driven threat detection and optimization.

“Modern enterprises need AI-powered security that adapts to how people work today, anywhere, on any device, at any time. Our partnership with Cisco delivers a unified, cloud-native SSE solution that simplifies protection, improves visibility, and empowers organizations to operate securely at scale,” said Chandan Pani, Chief Information Security Officer, LTM.

“By combining Cisco’s world-class innovation with LTM’s deep technical expertise, we are making enterprise-grade security more accessible for today’s organizations. LTM’s managed SSE solution balances business agility with a seamless user experience. Cisco’s security portfolio—including Secure Access—has been purpose-built to be consumed as a service, enabling organizations to adopt and scale modern security with greater simplicity and speed,” said Raj Chopra, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco Security.

Cisco Live 2026 is Cisco’s premier global event, bringing together industry leaders and technology experts to explore the latest innovations in networking, security, and cloud through keynotes, technical sessions, and live demonstrations. [https://www.ltm.com/services/cyber-security/secure-service-edge]

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NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that they have collaborated to offer new validated solutions for secure, scalable, and simplified AI. Expanding the proven success of FlexPod, the new solutions provide a simple, reliable path for enterprises to address the specific challenges AI workloads place on compute, network, and storage infrastructure.

 

“As IT teams are tasked with delivering reliable, consistent performance across environments, AI workloads are placing increasing demands on their data infrastructure,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “NetApp and Cisco’s longstanding partnership on FlexPod has already proven effective, saving customers up to 20 percent of their time in infrastructure management and maintenance. Now, we are applying our combined expertise to modern challenges to accelerate AI adoption while reducing risk with built-in security.”

 

 

NetApp and Cisco are expanding FlexPod to support AI adoption across different organizational sizes and maturity levels, using pre-tested, validated architectures and enterprise-grade data management as a consistent foundation. These solutions support use cases such as:

 

 

• Enterprise AI Deployments: Enterprises can simply and quickly deploy high-performance infrastructure for AI use cases including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search using this validated architecture. FlexPod reduces integration complexity while allowing AI capabilities to run directly where the data resides, with built-in, end-to-end security. This architecture includes disaggregated storage for independent scaling of performance and capacity with NetApp AFX; future functionality of data discovery, preparation and governance capabilities from NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) which integrates the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design; and distributed security and Zero Trust-aligned controls across the AI pipeline for AI-specific risks from Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. Underpinning the Secure AI Factory, Cisco AI networking infrastructure with Nexus One transforms the network into a deterministic, high-performance fabric to maximize XPU utilization, reduce job completion times, and deliver predictable AI outcomes at scale. Targeting full-stack enterprise AI use cases, NetApp and Cisco have collaborated with NVIDIA to build FlexPod Solutions based on NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures, enabling organizations to design, deploy, and scale high-performance AI factories.
• AI Inferencing and RAG Workflows: To enable teams and departments to tap into the benefits of AI with their existing data, this simplified, pre-integrated solution is designed to lower the cost, complexity, and specialized skill requirements associated with deploying AI infrastructure.
• Edge Computing: This solution enables enterprises to support AI inferencing, containerized, and virtualized workloads at the edge while maintaining low latency and operational consistency. By extending proven FlexPod architecture to remote and edge locations, customers benefit from faster time to value and reduced operational complexity compared to bespoke infrastructure or isolated IT stacks at each site. Combining Cisco Unified Edge with flexible NetApp storage options delivers a flexible, validated converged solution. Centralized fleet management, policy-based configuration, and automated orchestration enable repeatable deployments and simplified operations across highly distributed environments.

 

“As organizations move from AI experimentation to real‑world deployment, security can’t be an afterthought. It has to be built in from the start,” said Jeremy Foster, GM and SVP at Cisco. “By collaborating with NetApp to extend Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to our validated FlexPod solution, we’re helping customers address AI‑specific risks such as data exposure, governance gaps, and compliance challenges while simplifying how AI infrastructure is deployed and operated.”

 

“Enterprises are sitting on vast amounts of data, but without the discovery, governance and preparation built into the infrastructure itself, enterprises will struggle to power production AI,” said Jason Hardy, vice president, Storage Technologies at NVIDIA. “NetApp AI Data Engine, co-engineered on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform and validated with the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, gives organizations the secure, AI-ready data foundation to deploy AI factories on FlexPod infrastructure at scale.”

 

 

“The new AI capabilities in FlexPod expand our ability to help customers navigate the AI era with confidence,” said Brian Bartell, Practice Manager, Compute & Storage at WWT. “Through our long-standing partnerships with NetApp and Cisco, the introduction of NetApp’s AI Data Engine, and the ability to validate these architectures hands-on in WWT’s AI Proving Ground, we can compress the time from concept to execution, giving our customers a pre-tested, industry-leading foundation to move at the speed of the market and unlock the power of their data.”

 

 

To learn more about NetApp’s partnership with Cisco, visit the NetApp booth #7414 at Cisco Live!, May 31-June 4 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

 

 

Additional Resources

 

 

• FlexPod: A Secure, Smart, Sustainable, Hybrid Platform
• NetApp AI Data Engine: An End-to-End, Storage-Integrated AI Data Service
• NetApp AFX: The Best Data Infrastructure for AI
• NetApp Collaborates with Cisco on Enterprise-Grade Converged Infrastructure with Disaggregated Storage for AI
• Cisco & NetApp: Powering Enterprise Data Centers with AI Networking and Storage

 

About NetApp

 

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

 

 

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

 

 

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

 

 

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

 

 

Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

 

 

NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

 

About Cisco

 

 

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco.

 

 

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco’s trademarks can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word ‘partner’ does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.

 

 

 

 

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NielsenIQ (NYSE:NIQ) today announced that it has been named the 2026 Retail & Consumer Goods Snowflake Product Partner of the Year award recipient by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company. NIQ was recognized for its achievements at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, for delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions on Snowflake that enable retailers, brands, and media partners to securely enrich data, measure performance, and unlock more precise, actionable commerce intelligence.

 

Through Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, NIQ helps joint customers collaborate across organizations, activate high-value data assets, and power advanced measurement while maintaining strong governance and data privacy controls. By embedding NIQ’s AI-driven data, models, and harmonization capabilities within Snowflake, customers can unify fragmented datasets into a trusted, scalable foundation for AI. This makes it easier to operationalize AI-powered decision-making and move faster from insight to action.

 

 

“Our integration with Snowflake has fundamentally changed how our customers access and activate commerce intelligence at scale,” said Mohit Kapoor, Chief Technology Officer at NIQ. “By building our data platforms and clean-room-enabled measurement solutions on Snowflake, we help brands and retailers turn complex, fragmented data into trusted insight and measurable growth. We’re honored to receive this award and look forward to continuing to innovate together.”

 

 

By combining NIQ’s proprietary global transaction data, granular product and location intelligence, and advanced measurement capabilities with Snowflake’s secure data collaboration and clean room technology, NIQ enables customers to move faster—from data enrichment and activation to closed-loop measurement and optimization—across the modern retail ecosystem. This recognition reflects NIQ’s vision to fuel the future of trusted AI: where commerce intelligence moves beyond measurement to orchestration. By combining proprietary data and models, AI-driven applications, and secure data collaboration, NIQ is enabling a more automated, privacy-first ecosystem where decision systems don’t just report on commerce, but actively shape it.

 

 

“NIQ exemplifies how partners can use the Snowflake AI Data Cloud to deliver real, differentiated value for retail and consumer goods customers,” said Amy Kodl, SVP, Worldwide Alliances & Channels, Snowflake. “By combining NIQ’s deep commerce intelligence with Snowflake’s secure data sharing and clean room capabilities, NIQ is enabling customers to collaborate with confidence, enhance data-driven decision-making, and measure outcomes more effectively across the rapidly evolving retail landscape.”

 

 

This achievement celebrates NIQ’s exceptional commitment to delivering innovative solutions and driving customer success with Snowflake. See keynotes from Snowflake Summit 2026 live or on-demand here and stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on LinkedIn and X.

 

 

About NIQ
NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) is a leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete and trusted understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. By combining an unmatched global data footprint and granular consumer and retail measurement with decades of AI modeling expertise, NIQ builds decision systems that help companies turn complex data into confident action.

 

 

With operations in more than 90 countries, NIQ covers approximately 82% of the world’s population and more than $7.4 trillion in global consumer spend. Through cloud-based platforms, advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, NIQ delivers The Full View™—helping brands and retailers understand what consumers buy, why they buy it, and what to do next.

 

 

For more information, please visit www.niq.com.

 

 

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The acquisition extends Aircall from AI-powered customer communications into multi-channel agentic revenue execution—automating follow-ups with prospects, CRM updates, deal scoring, and next steps after every customer interaction.

Aircall, the AI-powered customer communications platform trusted by more than 23,000 businesses worldwide, today announced the acquisition of Piper AI, a revenue intelligence and agentic sales orchestration company. With Piper, Aircall extends its platform beyond the conversation itself—giving sales teams the tools to automatically act on every interaction, across every channel, from first touch to closed deal.

 

Aircall already powers the conversations that drive revenue. Its platform unifies voice, SMS, and WhatsApp into a single workspace, with its AI Assist suite guiding sales reps before each call with account briefs, coaching them live with real-time playbooks and objection prompts, and automatically logging calls, generating summaries, and drafting follow-ups when the conversation ends.

 

 

Deals don’t close on a single call. They move—or stall—across emails, video meetings, follow-up threads, and multi-stakeholder conversations that unfold over weeks. Most of that activity is invisible at the pipeline level, leaving revenue leaders to forecast on incomplete information, chase reps for updates, and discover at-risk deals too late to do anything about them. Piper was built to solve that problem.

 

 

Piper AI connects signals from every channel a deal touches—voice, video, email, text messaging, WhatsApp, and field activity—and converts them into structured revenue intelligence and automated action. For sales reps, that means every interaction automatically updates the CRM, regardless of where it happened. Meeting notes, email threads, call outcomes, and deal-stage changes sync without anyone lifting a finger—with full support for structured qualification frameworks like MEDDIC, BANT, and SPICED across every touchpoint, not just calls. Customers report cutting total CRM data entry time by more than 50% within the first month.

 

 

For revenue leaders, Piper surfaces what individual communication tools can’t: opportunity health across the full deal lifecycle. Piper scores every deal based on real cross-channel engagement signals—capturing deal momentum to flag where and how to intervene to minimize the risk of deals going cold. Customers report a 50% improvement in forecast accuracy. And Piper’s agentic workflow engine runs continuously—triggering alerts, routing handoffs, generating pre-meeting briefs, and executing next steps on a schedule or when deal conditions change, without waiting for a rep to initiate anything.

 

 

Piper also transforms your entire communication history into a searchable intelligence layer where teams can query their own pipeline data. Instead of digging through archives, users get instant answers derived from real customer interactions, turning months of unstructured conversations into a real-time playbook for what’s actually winning deals.

 

 

Together, the two platforms cover the full arc of a sales cycle: Aircall owns the conversation layer across voice, SMS, and WhatsApp; Piper orchestrates the revenue layer that connects those conversations to deals, pipeline, and outcomes. With this acquisition, Aircall unifies the platform built to connect conversations with the sales systems teams already use. Piper gives Aircall a deeper execution engine for the work that follows every customer interaction—so AI doesn’t stop at summarizing what happened, but helps teams do what needs to happen next. No competitor in the revenue intelligence space owns the communications channel itself. Aircall does, and Piper turns that structural advantage into end-to-end revenue execution.

 

 

Piper AI’s Spain-based team joins a company with deep European roots. Aircall was founded in Paris and continues to accelerate its business and investment across Europe, reinforcing its commitment to European AI talent and global customers.

 

 

“Aircall has always focused on helping teams have better conversations with customers. AI Assist Pro already guides reps before, during, and after every conversation across voice, SMS, and WhatsApp. With Piper, we are taking the next step: connecting those conversations to the pipeline signals, deal intelligence, and automated workflows that close revenue. That is where AI becomes truly valuable for sales teams — not when it stops at a summary, but when it turns every customer interaction into action, pipeline clarity, and time back for reps to sell.”

 

 

— Scott Chancellor, CEO, Aircall

 

 

“We built Piper around a simple belief: that customer conversations are the blueprint for revenue, but their value shouldn’t end in a summary. Every interaction across every channel reveals how deals are actually won. Joining Aircall lets us bring that intelligence to sales teams already running the world’s leading AI-powered communications platform. Together, we turn every interaction into action, keeping every deal moving forward.”

 

 

— Rodrigo Burillo Ocejo, Piper AI

 

 

About Aircall

 

 

Aircall is an AI-powered customer communications platform for sales and support teams. The platform helps more than 23,000 businesses collaboratively manage voice, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations, deliver real-time coaching and AI playbooks during live calls, handle high-volume inbound and outbound interactions autonomously through AI Virtual Agents, automate post-call workflows, and connect every interaction to the tools they already use across 250+ native integrations. Founded in Paris, Aircall has surpassed $200 million in ARR and serves customer-facing teams across more than 100 countries.

 

 

About Piper AI

 

 

Piper AI is a revenue intelligence and workflow orchestration company that captures customer interactions across calls, video meetings, email, messaging, and field activity, then automatically converts them into structured CRM updates, deal scoring, pipeline risk signals, and agentic workflows—giving sales teams the intelligence and automation they need to move faster, forecast accurately, and close more revenue.

 

 

 

 

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