NinjaOne hits $500M ARR and launches no‑credit‑card free trial
NinjaOne, the Austin‑based unified IT operations platform, announced a free trial that requires no credit‑card, aiming to lower entry barriers for large enterprises. The cloud‑native solution bundles endpoint management, patching, remote access, backup, mobile device management, asset tracking and vulnerability detection into a single console. The company reported surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue in January 2026.
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Microsoft Dynamics GP’s blog roundup spotlights three key updates: SmartList Favorites, a built‑in feature that lets users save and instantly rerun customized reports, promises to slash reporting time; GP Power Tools version 2 introduces six new item‑category fields, expanding inventory customization; and a reminder that running legacy GP versions exposes firms to audit complications and hidden security flaws. The posts urge organizations to leverage existing functionality, adopt the latest Power Tools enhancements, and prioritize system upgrades to mitigate compliance and cybersecurity risks.

Contributor Spotlight: Shantae Hansen (p. 34) — as AI gets embedded into MES/ERP + IIoT + plant networks, cybersecurity has to be “built-in,” not bolted on. Practical moves: segment OT/IT, least-privilege + MFA, disciplined patching and tested offline backups. #Cybersecurity https://t.co/zvLr3eVkMd
Annual reviews are crucial, especially during big transformations like digital, ERP, or AI projects. It's easy to get lost in the work, but stepping back annually to assess changes is vital for navigating your journey effectively. #DigitalTransformation #BusinessStrategy https://t.co/g1MFz8gYum
MSDW and ERP Software Blog are hosting a virtual showcase on March 24, 2026, featuring demos of five leading AP automation tools for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central—Zetadocs, Datahaven 365, TrinDocs, BILL, and Rillion. The session offers live product walkthroughs and...

Salesforce has launched three Slack‑native features—Slackbot, Activity Timeline, and Agentforce Sales—to embed CRM data directly into Slack conversations. Slackbot delivers AI‑driven answers from Salesforce records, Activity Timeline streams emails, calls and tasks into the chat view, and Agentforce autonomously monitors...

Chinese state‑linked APT group UAT‑9244 has been compromising telecom service providers across South America since 2024. The campaign deploys three previously undocumented malware families—TernDoor, a Windows backdoor using DLL side‑loading; PeerTime, a multi‑architecture Linux ELF backdoor that leverages BitTorrent for...

Enterprise Security Operations Centers face overwhelming alert volumes—averaging 4,484 alerts daily, with 67% never investigated. Autonomous triage platforms such as D3 Security's Morpheus use AI to ingest, investigate, and respond to 100% of alerts, cutting false‑positive handling by 99% and...
Tufin has appointed HAT Distribution as its official distributor for Australia and New Zealand, expanding the vendor's footprint in the region. The partnership stresses technical enablement and architectural alignment rather than a purely transactional sales model. HAT will embed Tufin’s policy‑management...

Nauta’s AI‑native operating system overlays existing ERP, TMS and WMS platforms to turn fragmented supply‑chain data into a single, live source of truth. By ingesting emails, PDFs and spreadsheets, the platform eliminates “data graveyards” and delivers SKU‑level visibility and automated...
EY announced the launch of EY.ai Agentic for Sales, an AI‑driven sales orchestration platform built with Snowflake’s data cloud and Canva’s design automation. The solution integrates real‑time data intelligence, automated content generation, and EY’s consulting frameworks to streamline prospecting, outreach,...
So here’s a couple of fun things I tried that show how counting on AI 🤖 to do the right thing can go terribly wrong if you are not testing and paying attention. I tested automatically creating some AWS infrastructure scripts...

Traditional data protection programs are fragmented, leading to gaps and compliance risk. PKWARE advocates a policy‑based approach that centralizes discovery, classification, encryption, masking, and redaction across all environments. By automating controls with customizable policies, organizations can scale protection, maintain productivity,...

📊⚡️The enterprise technology agenda just shifted again in a very fast-paced market: My latest @TheFuturumGroup 1H 2026 CIO & Tech Buyers Global Enterprise Decision Maker Survey reveals a set of structural changes happening inside enterprises right now. Across three quarterly waves of...

Cisco disclosed 48 vulnerabilities across its ASA, Secure FTD and Secure FMC firewall portfolio, including two CVE‑2026‑20079 and CVE‑2026‑20131 that received a perfect 10‑out‑of‑10 CVSS rating. The critical flaws affect the FMC web interface, enabling authentication bypass and remote code execution with...

Validio announced a $30 million Series A round led by Plural, bringing total funding to $47 million after an 800 % revenue surge. The Stockholm‑based startup offers an automated data‑quality platform that monitors billions of records, detects anomalies, and maps lineage in days rather...

HostMyText Pro adds native SMS capabilities to Zoho CRM, letting teams send, track, and manage text conversations without leaving the platform. The extension routes messages through secure business lines, automatically logging each interaction to customer records. Real‑time alerts, bulk messaging,...
🚫 “No-code AI agents” is not about skipping engineering. ✅ It’s about abstracting it. This visual captures a critical shift: AI agents are becoming products assembled from capabilities, not systems engineered from scratch. Here’s the executive breakdown 👇 1️⃣ Start...
Trying to change too much at once overwhelms organizations. Projects like ERP implementations never truly end because they require constant updates. Focus on manageable change. #ChangeManagement #ProjectManagement https://t.co/XgwBM8TDIa

Pilot Travel Centers, operating over 900 locations across North America, has signed a five‑year exclusive agreement to deploy NCR Voyix’s point‑of‑sale and fuel technology at every site. The move expands an existing partnership and aims to modernize Pilot’s tech stack,...
Great to join the Money Movers team at @CNBC to talk about @Okta earnings, and why customers are coming to us to help them secure and scale their AI investments. https://t.co/r2zayte2sd
Model progress continues unabated, with GPT-5.4 showing significant improvements in critical knowledge worker tasks. In our Box AI tests, we saw a 6 point jump in agentic document processing, which is upstream from most automation workflows. GPT-5.4 is now available...

National Gas, the operator of the UK’s critical gas transmission network, has partnered with Palo Alto Networks to secure its cloud‑first transformation. The collaboration delivers a full‑stack security stack covering network firewalls, Prisma Cloud, and emerging XDR capabilities while preserving...

My latest research: The Great CIO Platform Reset: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing a 2026 Reckoning | @TheFuturumGroup https://t.co/5nUzVNyJb8 https://t.co/mo0N1ROE2a
Autoscaling is a magic part of cloud platforms, and a major reason picking use one. But scaling is often based on proxy metrics decided on by the vendor. We just lit up the ability for horizontal autoscaling on @googlecloud GKE based on...

Warehouse Insight is a native mobile WMS add‑on for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that brings real‑time inventory visibility, barcode scanning, and offline capabilities to the warehouse floor. The solution offers a drag‑and‑drop App Designer, a free WMS Express tier...
.@IBM Db2 sets the new standard as the autonomous database for the agentic #AI era https://t.co/ZFKZTp30oA >> Congrats - good to see the innovation and the step-up in the competitive landscape. #NextGenApps #NextGenDB
Although I’m in 🩷 with Kiro CLI and like that AWS makes a copy of the model so your data doesn’t reach the model providers, I want to know more about AWS internal access to such things, customer segregation with...
Controllers Council hosted a webinar, sponsored by AvidXchange, on building a data‑driven ROI case for accounts‑payable (AP) automation. Speakers highlighted the hidden costs of paper‑based AP, from lost invoices to error‑driven delays, and outlined six ROI categories such as labor...
Now that the Agent Development Kit connects to dozens of dev tooling services, you can do some pretty intriguing automations. Here's one perspective: https://t.co/YscWhGxpCK

A Multi-Agent Workflow 🤖 Creating a multi-agent workflow with Kiro CLI (or any other AI tool for that matter) that processes tasks efficiently https://t.co/2gvuZWuBqj https://t.co/pYWOVMmaXe

Codenotary unveiled Codenotary Trust, a SaaS platform that leverages artificial intelligence to detect, prioritize, and autonomously remediate security, configuration, and performance issues across Linux, containers, VMs, and applications. The solution is built for junior and mid‑level administrators, addressing the talent gap...
Sheesh, the repo is just a day+ old and you've already given us nearly 9,000 GitHub stars for the @GoogleWorkspace CLI. It's got 100+ agent skills, integrates with the Gemini CLI, and even bakes in an MCP server. https://t.co/6MQwOnrDeJ

Agentic AI Surges Into the Enterprise: Fortune 500 Lead the Charge “Microsoft has revealed a very significant figure: more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies have active AI agents built with low-code/no-code tools.” https://t.co/oDaL4iJN1G @Microsoft https://t.co/kq0HBnSaeO

iManage announced a major upgrade to its Insight+ platform, adding enterprise‑wide contextual integration and direct data‑warehouse connectivity. The enhancement lets the system pull metadata from billing, practice‑management and HR systems, enriching document and email searches with matter profitability, partner responsibility,...

Validio secured a $30 million Series A round led by Plural, bringing total funding to $47 million, to scale its AI‑focused data‑quality platform. The solution automates monitoring, anomaly detection, and lineage cataloguing, replacing thousands of manual checks for enterprises in regulated sectors. Customers...
Databricks unveiled KARL, a reinforcement‑learning‑driven RAG agent that tackles six distinct enterprise search behaviors in a single model. The system matches Claude Opus 4.6 on the proprietary KARLBench benchmark while delivering 33% lower cost per query and 47% reduced latency. KARL...

Push Security has introduced a malicious browser‑extension detection and blocking feature within its browser‑based security platform. The capability leverages a continuously updated intelligence database to automatically block known‑bad extensions and provide real‑time visibility into all extensions across employee browsers. Administrators...

In this episode, Tal Kirschenbaum, co‑founder and CEO of Ledge, explains how his AI‑native financial close platform reached $1M ARR by serving roughly 24 mid‑market enterprise customers at an average of $3,000 per month. He details Ledge’s focus on automating...

Salesforce has launched Agentforce Health, a suite of six autonomous AI agents designed to relieve the administrative load on clinicians, payers, and public‑health agencies. The platform embeds deep integrations with HealthEx, Verily, Viz.ai, Informatica, MuleSoft and adheres to FHIR/TEFCA standards,...

Cloudflare One’s client now incorporates Dynamic Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD), allowing it to actively probe and adjust packet sizes instead of waiting for ICMP feedback. By testing packet sizes up to 1281 bytes and beyond, the client automatically selects the optimal...

Qmatic announced the launch of Qmatic Aiva, a multilingual AI voice agent that integrates with its appointment‑booking and queue‑management platform. The agent operates 24/7, handling inbound calls, scheduling, rescheduling, real‑time availability checks, and FAQs. Supporting over 30 languages and concurrent...

Narada, an enterprise AI startup founded by veteran entrepreneur David Park, built its product by conducting more than 1,000 customer calls to pinpoint workflow automation pain points. The team deliberately postponed fundraising, preferring bootstrapped growth to stay lean and avoid...

Uptycs and SAP announced a strategic partnership to integrate Uptycs’ AI analyst platform, Juno, into enterprise cybersecurity operations. Juno functions as a virtual analyst, using a glass‑box approach that links AI‑generated insights to a unified telemetry set of roughly 150,000...

Lio announced a $30 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The startup’s AI‑agent platform automates the entire procurement workflow, from contract review to supplier negotiation. Early customers report that processes once taking weeks now...

Affirm kicked off 2026 with a flurry of strategic announcements, including a rent‑payment partnership with Esusu, a bank‑charter filing, and a debit‑card‑embedded BNPL solution via Fiserv. The firm also secured default checkout status with Bolt and integrated its BNPL service...
Kip Meek, chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority's cloud inquiry, resigned in protest over the regulator's sluggish response to hyperscaler dominance. The CMA’s report highlighted that Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services control roughly 70‑90% of the UK...

Confluent announced that its Streaming Agents now support Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, creating a dual‑layer for real‑time data ingestion and inter‑agent coordination. The platform also introduced multivariate anomaly detection powered by Apache Flink, offering...

Multi‑factor authentication (MFA) is effective for cloud and federated apps, but many Windows authentication paths—interactive logons, RDP, NTLM, Kerberos tickets, and service accounts—remain outside its protection. Attackers exploit these gaps using stolen passwords, pass‑the‑hash, or forged tickets, gaining lateral movement...
Semos Cloud has launched an AI‑powered intelligence layer that sits inside SAP SuccessFactors, allowing organizations to quantify the business impact of total rewards and employee recognition programs. The solution converts everyday HR interactions into actionable workforce intelligence and is certified...
HR Acuity has joined the Workday Innovation Partner Program, integrating its employee relations case management platform with Workday Help. The bi‑directional sync links routine HR inquiries to complex investigations, delivering unified visibility and compliance across both systems. This partnership expands...