On June 11, 2026, ServiceNow and IBM announced an expanded multi-year collaboration aimed at clearing two of the biggest obstacles to enterprise AI at scale: brittle legacy applications and ungoverned, AI-unready data. The companies will deliver joint solutions across three pillars — application modernization, enterprise data governance, and autonomous infrastructure operations — pairing the ServiceNow AI Platform with IBM tools including IBM Bob, watsonx.data, Red Hat Ansible, Instana, and HashiCorp Terraform and Vault. The solutions are expected in the second half of 2026.
Denodo is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise software company whose flagship Denodo Platform pioneered data virtualization - a way to query data wherever it lives without copying it first. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Angel Vina out of research at Spain's University of A Coruna, the company now serves hundreds of large enterprises and has been named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools for six consecutive years.
Incorta is an enterprise data and analytics platform built around its proprietary Direct Data Mapping technology, which eliminates the traditional ETL pipeline by connecting analytics directly to raw source-system data. Founded in 2013 by Oracle veterans in Foster City, California, Incorta enables Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks, Broadcom, and Comcast to query 100% of their operational data in real time - without the 18-24 month transformation projects that conventional data warehousing demands. Its Operational Lakehouse architecture supports 240+ pre-built connectors to ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce, and has expanded into Operational GenAI with built-in RAG and LLM integrations.
Armon Petrossian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coalesce.io, a cloud-native data transformation platform built for the modern data stack. A first-generation Armenian-American from Portland, Oregon, he spent nearly a decade at WhereScape solving data warehouse challenges for Fortune 50 companies before co-founding Coalesce in 2020 with CTO Satish Jayanthi. Under his leadership, Coalesce has raised $81M+ in funding, achieved 4x year-over-year ARR growth, and grown to 140 employees, positioning itself as a leading ELT transformation platform for Snowflake, Databricks, and other cloud data platforms.
Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlan, a $750M-valued platform building the context layer for data and AI - used by Mastercard, JP Morgan, Zoom, Dropbox, and General Motors. Before Atlan, she co-founded SocialCops, which built India's National Data Platform and the UN's SDG tracker operating across 50+ countries. A TED Speaker, Forbes 30 Under 30, and Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree, Prukalpa has raised over $206M and turned a midnight brainstorm about broken streetlights into one of the fastest-growing data governance companies on the planet.
Vendia is an AI data platform that enables real-time, governed data sharing across companies, clouds, and regions. Founded by Tim Wagner (creator of AWS Lambda) and Shruthi Rao (former AWS blockchain head), Vendia helps enterprises like BMW, Delta Air Lines, and Fannie Mae break down data silos through its flagship product Vendia Share and newer MCP Gateway - allowing multiple parties to collaborate on trusted data without sacrificing security, compliance, or control.
Andy MacMillan is the CEO of Alteryx, the AI-powered enterprise analytics platform that crossed $1 billion in ARR and automates over 380 million workflows annually. A Michigan State Spartan who earned his MBA in Edinburgh, he started writing Java for General Motors and made his way through Oracle, Salesforce, Act-On Software, and UserTesting before landing at Alteryx in December 2024. He also serves as a Trade and Investment Envoy for the Government of Scotland, bridging Silicon Valley and the Scottish tech ecosystem.
Kon Leong is the CEO and co-founder of ZL Technologies, a Milpitas-based enterprise software company he built from the ground up in 1999 to tackle the problem nobody else wanted to solve: the mountain of unstructured human data - emails, documents, messages - that sits at the center of every corporate compliance, legal, and AI challenge. A serial entrepreneur who migrated from China to India to Canada to the US, Leong brought a rare mix of deep IT engineering, Wall Street M&A finance, and startup grit to a market that was just waking up to its own data problem. Today, ZL Technologies serves Fortune 500 companies and government agencies across financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, with a platform that manages data in-place at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than conventional approaches.
Ed King is the Founder and CEO of Openprise, a RevOps data automation platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. A mechanical engineer by training with an MBA from UC Berkeley, Ed spent over a decade in enterprise middleware and product management roles at IBM, Oracle, Qualys, and Axway before founding Openprise in 2013. He built the company to solve the data chaos he witnessed firsthand in go-to-market operations — enabling non-technical RevOps teams to automate complex data workflows without writing a single line of code. Under his leadership, Openprise has raised $57.93M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital in March 2024, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine Best Workplace three consecutive years.
Nick Bonfiglio is the CEO and Co-Founder of Syncari, a platform pioneering Agentic Master Data Management for enterprise AI initiatives. With 28+ years in enterprise software, he shaped product strategy at Marketo (acquired by Adobe) as EVP of Global Product, co-founded Aptrinsic (acquired by Gainsight as Gainsight PX), and now leads Syncari through a $45M total funding journey to help Fortune 1000 companies build trusted, AI-ready data foundations. A co-author of 'Mastering Product Experience in SaaS,' Nick has been a driving force behind emerging enterprise disciplines like RevOps, Marketing Ops, and Customer Success Ops.