Samantha Weston

Author: Samantha Weston

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  • Samantha Weston

    With over 15 years of hands-on experience in operations roles across legal, financial, and technology sectors, Sam Weston brings deep expertise in the systems that power modern enterprises such as ERP, CRM, HCM, CX, and beyond. Her career has spanned the full spectrum of enterprise applications, from optimizing business processes and managing platforms to leading digital transformation initiatives.

    Sam has transitioned her expertise into the analyst arena, focusing on enterprise applications and the evolving role they play in business productivity and transformation. She provides independent insights that bridge technology capabilities with business outcomes, helping organizations and vendors alike navigate a changing enterprise software landscape.

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Vapi's $50M Series B: The Enterprise Voice AI Infrastructure Play
AI, Application Development, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, MarTech

Vapi’s $50M Series B: The Enterprise Voice AI Infrastructure Play

Vapi has closed a $50M Series B and crossed 1 billion calls served, with Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life among its enterprise customers. ECI Research analyzes... Read more.
Twilio Signal 2026: The Unified Communications Platform Bet
AI, Application Development, Authentication, DevOps, Events, Twilio Signal 2026

Twilio Signal 2026: The Unified Communications Platform Bet

At Signal 2026, Twilio repositioned itself from a channel API vendor to a unified communications platform with AI orchestration, cross-channel memory, and agentic... Read more.
Twilio SIGNAL 2026: A Unified Agentic AI Platform Strategy
AI, Application Development, Automation, DevOps, Enterprise Software, Events, Twilio Signal 2026

Twilio SIGNAL 2026: A Unified Agentic AI Platform Strategy

At Twilio SIGNAL 2026, CPO Inbal Shani unveiled a fully generally available unified platform built for agentic AI customer engagement. ECI Research examines the... Read more.
Twilio SIGNAL 2026: One Platform, One SDK, Agentic AI
AI, Application Development, Automation, DevOps, Enterprise Software, Events, Twilio Signal 2026

Twilio SIGNAL 2026: One Platform, One SDK, Agentic AI

At SIGNAL 2026, Twilio announced a unified communications platform consolidating voice, messaging, email, and video under a single SDK, console, and billing commitment.... Read more.
Everpure (Pure Storage) Bets on AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
AI, Application Development, Data Management, Edge Computing

Everpure Bets on AI-Ready Data Infrastructure

Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure and agreed to acquire data intelligence firm 1touch, signaling a shift from storage vendor to full-stack data management platform.... Read more.
Crogl Launches Free Agentic AI SOC Platform | ECI Research
AI, Application Development, Application Security, Compliance, Enterprise Software

Crogl Launches Free Agentic AI SOC Platform | ECI Research

Crogl has launched a free, enterprise-grade agentic AI platform for security operations, deployable in minutes with no licensing restrictions. ECI Research examines... Read more.
MinIO MemKV: Purpose-Built AI Inference Cache Storage
AI, Application Development, Data Management, Enterprise IT Strategy

MinIO MemKV: Purpose-Built AI Inference Cache Storage

MinIO has launched MemKV, a purpose-built KV cache storage product targeting NVIDIA's G3.5 memory tier via NVMe/RDMA. The product promises a 75x improvement in inference... Read more.
Acquia Source Bets on Agentic Content Governance | ECI Research
AI, AI Governance, Application Development, Enterprise Software

Acquia Source Bets on Agentic Content Governance | ECI Research

Acquia has relaunched Acquia Source as a unified digital command center with embedded AI agent capabilities and a Human-in-the-Loop governance model. The announcement... Read more.
NVIDIA Spectrum-X MRC: Open AI Networking at Gigascale
AI, Application Development, Infrastructure, Networking

NVIDIA Spectrum-X MRC: Open AI Networking at Gigascale

NVIDIA has released the Multipath Reliable Connection protocol as an open specification through the Open Compute Project, following production validation on Spectrum-X... Read more.
Pit Launches With $16M to Rebuild Enterprise Operations With AI
AI Governance, AIOps, Application Development

Pit Launches With $16M to Rebuild Enterprise Operations With AI

Pit, founded by the team behind Voi and Klarna, publicly launches with $16 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, positioning itself as an AI product team as a service... Read more.