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Duck Creek Technologies partners with Worldpay to enhance payments solutions
Duck Creek Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with Worldpay that sees Worldpay ’ s global payments capabilities embedded in Duck Creek Payments .
“ By joining forces with Duck Creek , we are realizing our shared goal of modernizing payment solutions for the insurance industry ,” said Jason Pavona , General Manager of North America , Worldpay .
The addition of Worldpay ’ s payments capabilities fortifies Duck Creek ’ s ability to serve carriers worldwide with its payments platform while ensuring scalability and futureproofing through continued technology investments .
“ The integration of our advanced payment technologies into Duck Creek Payments gives insurance carriers the tools they need to reduce complexity , deliver a better customer journey , and navigate an increasingly dynamic marketplace .”
Allan Lacoste , Chief Payments Officer , Duck Creek Technologies , said : “ Through this partnership , Duck Creek Payments becomes even more robust , eliminating the need for costly , bespoke integrations while embedding industry-leading payment processing capabilities directly into Duck Creek ’ s core technology .”
Worldpay annually processes over 50 billion transactions across 146 countries and 135 currencies . Duck Creek Technologies is a global intelligent solutions provider pitching itself as defining the future of the property and casualty ( P & C ) and general insurance industry – as the platform upon which modern insurance systems are built .
The partnership also reflects Duck Creek ’ s commitment to expanding its Marketplace , where strategic payment partnerships empower carriers to access a comprehensive suite of innovative payment solutions tailored to their unique needs .
Worldpay ’ s technology is a critical , component of the Duck Creek Payments solution , emphasizing its role within the company ’ s ecosystem .
DataRobot acquires Agnostiq to accelerate Agentic AI application development
DataRobot has acquired Agnostiq and its open-source distributed computing platform , Covalent .
With this acquisition , DataRobot continues to accelerate agentic AI application development with advanced compute orchestration and optimization .
“ Businesses are eager to move into an era of agentic AI but are limited by siloed infrastructure and tooling . This operational complexity is not sustainable or scalable ,” said Debanjan Saha , CEO , DataRobot .
“ By integrating this acquisition , we are empowering AI teams to intelligently and cost-effectively develop and manage agentic AI across compute environments – delivering tangible results for business .”
“ With Covalent ’ s advanced compute orchestration , we ’ re thrilled to become part of DataRobot ’ s journey , working together to help our communities rapidly build and deploy groundbreaking AI solutions with seamless scalability and efficiency ,” said Oktay Goktas , CEO , Agnostiq .
Agnostiq develops Covalent , an industry-leading AI infrastructure management and compute orchestration platform .
This acquisition will rapidly advance agentic AI development with :
• Heterogeneous compute orchestration to accelerate AI deployment .
• Reduced AI infrastructure complexity and costs .
• Open and agnostic approach for greater tool and infrastructure flexibility .
Covalent enables organizations to easily scale AI deployments with dynamic resource allocation , save costs through efficient use of infrastructure and accelerate AI application development with userfriendly infrastructure abstraction .
With over 140,000 downloads , Agnostiq says Covalent is trusted by leading teams and organizations around the world .
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