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Ericsson deepens US engagement by establishing Ericsson Federal Technologies Group
5G prototype deployments and expand into additional government agencies with our innovation and leadership .”
EFTG will be led by Christopher Ling who has extensive experience in growing federal and commercial businesses in advanced technology and cybersecurity . Ling previously worked at Booz Allen Hamilton , where he held numerous positions over an almost three-decade career with the firm , most recently as the Executive Vice President and Group Lead of the National Security Business in the US .
Ericsson has established Ericsson Federal Technologies Group
( EFTG ) dedicated to delivering 5G-driven digital transformation across multiple agencies in the US federal government .
The US Government ( USG )’ s digital transformation intends to accelerate innovation by focusing on the speedy adoption of commercial technologies .
Yossi Cohen , President , and Head of Ericsson North America , said : “ We are excited to build on existing projects with the US government including the DoD where Ericsson provides the foundation for multiple
Ericsson meets USG requirements for 5G networks , including support for Open RAN-ready technologies and equipment Made in the USA from its Texas-based USA 5G Smart Factory .
In addition , EFTG will have a dedicated team who can leverage Ericsson ’ s leading technology portfolio and investment , providing capabilities to develop solutions for the USG ’ s most complex communications challenges .
EFTG will also partner with leading systems integrators , existing customers , and USG entities to analyze requirements essential for capturing new demands , driving innovation and guiding global standardization efforts that are critical in the evolution to 6G .
Matillion delivers pushdown AI platform to unlock the next wave of AI innovation
Matillion has become the first platform to unify pushdown ELT and pushdown AI to allow data engineers to build Analytics and AI pipelines faster on top of platforms like Snowflake , Databricks and AWS .
Bringing a set of integrated Generative AI capabilities to general availability , Matillion is first to market with a unified pushdown ELT and pushdown AI cloud data integration platform , enabling data teams to become more productive with AI assistance , unlock new unstructured data sources and build new AI pipelines for new business applications such as chat bots .
Ciaran Dynes , Chief Product Officer , Matillion , said : “ The opportunities for applying GenAI to build new use-cases and address long standing data management problems are almost boundless , but many barriers exist to adoption .
“ We believe we have solved many of these challenges , we are seeing customers marry unstructured text with existing data to build new apps and uncover new ways to answer business problems .”
A new RAG component enables users to load data into popular vector stores , including Pinecone , to add private structured and unstructured data to LLMs . This no-code data preparation for RAG and beyond is currently unique to Matillion .
Matillion ’ s model-agnostic prompt component , now also generally available , enables users to integrate popular LLMs directly within the data pipeline to harness generative AI within data transformations .
The much-awaited Auto-documentation feature is also made generally available , bringing the ability to automatically document notes from actions made within Matillion .
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