Today's Enterprise Pulse
ServiceNow pivots to AI‑driven security and governance
At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow rebranded from a workflow platform to the governance and action layer for enterprise AI agents, identities and connected assets. It launched Autonomous Security and Risk, merging Armis asset intelligence with Veza identity governance, and expanded its AI Control Tower with real‑time enforcement, cost tracking and NIST‑aligned risk frameworks.
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Matrix Chosen by Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Factory to Deploy AI Revenue Intelligence for Media
Matrix Solutions has been selected for Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerate Factory, granting the company free access to Microsoft’s architecture and development resources to build an AI‑powered revenue intelligence layer for media companies. The partnership aims to deliver a top‑down and bottom‑up analytics engine, with a baseline release slated for Q2/Q3 and full GA by the end of Q3 2026.
USDA Signs $300 Million Palantir Deal to Modernize Farmer Support Services
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has entered a $300 million blanket purchase agreement with Palantir Technologies to upgrade its IT infrastructure and data analytics under the National Farm Security Action Plan. The contract will power the “One Farmer, One File” initiative,...
Agiloft Launches Free‑tier Astra Contract‑AI Platform to Democratize Enterprise CLM
Agiloft introduced Astra, a contract‑AI platform that provides enterprise‑grade analytics with a free‑to‑start tier, aiming to cut the $2 trillion annual revenue leakage caused by poor contract management. Backed by KKR, FTV Capital and JMI Equity, the move targets the 22%...
Active Exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Hits 6,400+ Servers
Shadowserver identified more than 6,400 online Apache ActiveMQ brokers vulnerable to CVE‑2026‑34197, a high‑severity code‑injection bug now being weaponized in the wild. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has flagged the flaw as actively exploited and mandated federal...
Lean Manufacturers: You’ve Implemented Dynamics 365 F&SCM, Now Unlock Its Full Value with a Fabric Lakehouse
Lean manufacturers using Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management can now amplify their data capabilities with Microsoft Fabric lakehouse. The lakehouse consolidates ERP transactional data with shop‑floor signals, quality metrics, and operational feeds into a single, clean data environment....
Low Code in Financial Services, Part 3: A Practical Example of Internal Workflow Transformation
The article illustrates how banks can replace a traditional, 8‑12‑week custom‑coded request‑intake system with a Power Platform‑based low‑code solution. It contrasts the heavy engineering effort—frontend, backend, integration, testing—with a streamlined, governed extension layer that leverages Power Apps, Power Automate, and...
Guardrails, Not Gates: Supreet Nagi on Taming the API Jungle
Supreet Nagi’s new handbook, From Chaos to Connectivity, frames enterprise API estates as either a jungle or a highway, highlighting the chronic sprawl caused by opaque governance. He illustrates how the traditional Architecture Review Board, meeting bi‑weekly, creates bottlenecks that...
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: D365 CCaaS in New Zealand; New Execs; New AI Platform for D365 On-Prem; Updated Supply Chain...
Westpac New Zealand has become the first major bank in the country – and one of the first globally – to roll out Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) powered by AI. The platform delivers real‑time customer data...
Digital Traffic Brings Brightly and AppyWay Together
Brightly Software has teamed up with digital‑traffic specialist AppyWay to embed AppyWay’s Traffic Suite into Brightly’s Confirm asset‑management system. The combined platform lets English highway authorities create, publish and manage digital traffic regulation orders (D‑TROs) and kerbside infrastructure through a...
Zynt Secures $500K Pre‑Seed to Accelerate Signal‑Based B2B Sales Automation
Polish AI startup Zynt announced a $500,000 pre‑seed funding round led by 24Ventures and angel investors. The capital will fund development of its signal‑intelligence platform that tells sales teams when prospects are ready to buy, a shift from volume‑centric outreach...
GTT Rolls Out 2026 Strategy Emphasizing Cloud Services and AI‑Enabled Security
GTT announced a 2026 roadmap that puts cloud services and AI‑enabled security at the core of its enterprise networking offering. The plan builds on the GTT Envision platform and introduces a new AI‑driven cybersecurity framework, aiming to serve thousands of...
Prometheus Group Acquires Tamarack to Add Procurement Services for Asset-Intensive Industries
Prometheus Group announced the acquisition of Tamarack, a procurement advisory firm serving mining, oil and gas, and construction sectors. The deal, terms undisclosed, adds a group‑purchasing model and data‑driven sourcing tools to Prometheus' enterprise asset management software, aiming to give...
W3.io and Space and Time Launch Verifiable Data Layer for Enterprise Autonomous Finance
W3.io and Space and Time announced a production partnership that provides an end‑to‑end, blockchain‑backed data infrastructure for autonomous finance. The integrated system is already handling more than 200,000 enterprise workflows per day, giving companies a tamper‑proof audit trail from execution...
Env0 Launches Self-Hosted Remote State and Remote Apply for Terraform
env0 announced two new Terraform capabilities—Self‑Hosted Remote State and Remote Apply—allowing enterprises to keep state files on their own infrastructure while running remote plan and apply jobs. The features aim to ease security, compliance, and developer‑velocity concerns in IaC pipelines.
BoQ Looks to Legacy Decommissioning as Core Consolidation Gains Pace
Bank of Queensland (BoQ) is 80‑85% through moving Me Bank customers to a new Temenos‑based core, with over 300,000 accounts and 70% of its retail base now live on the platform. The bank will begin decommissioning the Me Bank system...
Aptean to Release AI Agents on AppCentral Platform
Aptean is rolling out ten AI agents on its AppCentral platform, aimed at Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on‑premises customers. The agents, reachable through an “Agent Central” hub, can be deployed in under a week without moving data to the...
Faster Threat Detection with Boundary Session Recording + Auditbeat
Enterprises in regulated sectors must log privileged access to meet SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA and similar mandates. HashiCorp Boundary provides identity‑based access control, session brokering and video recordings of every privileged session, but security teams need structured, real‑time data for...
Ellucian and the Economics of Leaving
Ellucian argues its moat lies in proprietary campus data, claiming an AI advantage. The blog shows generative AI can slash the 7,500 coding hours and $20 million cost needed to replace its Banner system, undermining data isolation as protection. Interviews with...
Google Brings Auto Browse and Skills to Chrome Enterprise - and a New 'Gemini Summary'
Google announced three new AI‑driven features for Chrome Enterprise: Auto Browse, which lets Gemini act across open tabs to automate tasks like creating CRM contacts; Skills, a one‑click library for saving and reusing frequent Gemini prompts; and Gemini Summary, an...
Microsoft to Test Third-Party AI Models for Incorporation in Its Security Offerings
Microsoft announced it will evaluate third‑party AI models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos, to augment its security suite. The tests will pair these models with Microsoft Defender, Security Exposure Management and the open‑source CTI‑REALM framework for continuous network vulnerability scanning. A...
Salesforce Headless 360 Turns Platform Into Unified APIs
No browser required. Our API is the UI. 🔓 Salesforce Headless 360 just exposed our entire platform — apps, workflows, metadata, Agentforce & Slack — as unified APIs, MCP tools & CLI. Build on any surface. Give Agentforce deep, trusted...
SAP and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Deploy Multi-Agent AI
SAP and Google Cloud have deepened their alliance by linking SAP Engagement Cloud, SAP Customer Experience and Joule solutions with Google’s Gemini Enterprise AI platform. The integration enables marketers to deploy multi‑agent AI that accesses unified data across both ecosystems...
Continuous Identity Exposure Monitoring Stops Credential‑Based Breaches
Most security programs are sleeping on Identity Exposure Management, and hackers are cashing in. The fastest path into an environment is almost always a leaked credential or a stolen session cookie sitting in an infostealer log. MFA doesn't help when...
30% of Customers Will Stay
Gartner predicts 30% of customers will remain on-premise post-2030, totaling 10,000. This strategy could bridge the gap between ECC and S/4HANA, a move that's arguably overdue. #SAP #CloudMigration #TechTrends https://t.co/3mqBOMRPcz
Workday, Rippling, and Slack Flunk Data Access Test, Claims Fivetran
Fivetran released an Open Data Infrastructure benchmark that rates enterprise software vendors on data coverage, performance, and egress fees. The study placed Workday at the bottom for performance, Rippling as the worst for coverage, and Slack among the lowest for...
Don’t Forget About Your Yard
Supply chain software has surged with AI‑enhanced WMS and TMS platforms, but the freight yard between them remains largely manual. Experts warn that yard inefficiencies waste up to 75 % of drivers' idle time, cutting average driving hours to 6.5 of...
OpenAI Teams With Accenture and TCS to Speed Global Codex AI Rollout
OpenAI announced a partnership with consulting powerhouses Accenture and Tata Consultancy Services to fast‑track the global rollout of its Codex AI coding platform. The collaboration embeds OpenAI experts in client firms and leverages the consultants' integration capabilities, aiming to move...
Graphium Health Unveils Capture AI to Automate Patient Data Capture
Graphium Health introduced Capture AI, a generative‑AI platform that automates patient data capture and processing, promising to eliminate costly system integrations for hospitals and health networks. The launch targets a long‑standing bottleneck in digital health workflows.
Stable Kernel Rolls Out Bespoke CDP Services for Fortune 500 Marketers
Stable Kernel, an Atlanta‑based digital‑transformation firm, announced a new line of custom Customer Data Platform (CDP) services built specifically for Fortune 500 marketing organizations. The offering promises real‑time data unification and activation, allowing marketers to personalize experiences at enterprise scale.
Entrust Upgrades IDV as Australia Expands AML/CTF Rules to New Sectors
Entrust has upgraded its Studio biometric identity verification platform by embedding Australia’s Document Verification Service (DVS), enabling real‑time government‑backed checks of passports, driver’s licences and visas. The integration arrives as Australia expands its AML/CTF framework to include real‑estate, legal and...
Snowflake Adds AI‑Powered Coding and Workflow Tools, Targeting DevOps Automation
Snowflake rolled out major upgrades to its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code products, introducing a personal work agent for business users and new developer tools that integrate with AWS Glue, Databricks, VS Code and more. Over 9,100 customers now use the...
SAP CFO Renaud Heyd Says 90% of Forecasts Are Now AI‑Generated, Pushing 2026 Planning Revolution
SAP’s chief financial officer Renaud Heyd told The CFO that 90% of the company’s forecasts are generated by AI algorithms and that 80% data accuracy is sufficient for rapid decision‑making. He argued that integrated tools like SAP Analytics Cloud and...
Veeva Systems Beats Q4 Forecast, Posts $836M Revenue, Highlights Life‑Science SaaS Momentum
Veeva Systems reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $836 million, topping guidance and pushing full‑year revenue to $3.195 billion. The results were driven by R&D Cloud adoption and expanding Vault CRM, while the company forecast 13% subscription‑revenue growth for FY2027.
Terraform Adds Pre-Written Sentinel Policies for ISO 27001
Terraform announced a new library of pre‑written Sentinel policies that map to ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A controls. The policies are co‑created by HashiCorp and AWS and are now published in the Terraform Registry. By providing ready‑made compliance rules, the offering...
Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability Widely Exposed Across Multiple Countries
A medium‑severity input‑validation flaw in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE‑2026‑32201) has been identified across roughly 1,370 IP addresses worldwide, down from 1,745 a week earlier. The vulnerability enables network‑level spoofing and has been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known...
Over 1,300 SharePoint Servers Still Exposed to Actively Exploited Spoofing Flaw
More than 1,300 internet‑exposed Microsoft SharePoint servers are still unpatched for CVE‑2026‑32201, a spoofing flaw that was exploited as a zero‑day before Microsoft released patches in April 2026. The vulnerability affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, 2019 and the Subscription Edition,...
The AI Hype Around Salesforce Deduplication: What’s Real and What’s Not
Duplicate records are eroding reporting accuracy and pipeline visibility for many Salesforce users. While 79% of high‑performing sales teams cite data hygiene as essential for AI initiatives, the promise that AI alone can clean Salesforce data is overstated. AI excels...
Syngenta Deploys Tetra OS to Accelerate Scientific Discovery Through Industrial-Scale Data Automation
Syngenta has selected TetraScience’s Tetra OS to automate data handling across its Crop Protection R&D labs. The Tetra Scientific Data Foundry will centralize raw instrument outputs—such as chromatography and mass‑spectrometry—into a single, AI‑ready repository. Tetra’s “Sciborg” scientist‑engineers will be embedded...
Claude Mythos Security Breach: Salesforce Architects Warned of Critical Danger
Anthropic confirmed that a small group of unauthorized users accessed its Claude Mythos preview model through a third‑party vendor environment, as reported by Bloomberg and supported by screenshots. The users appear to be experimenting rather than launching attacks, but the...
Lamb Weston Shares Plunge 20% Amid SAP Lawsuit
Lamb Weston's stock dropped 20% after problems were disclosed. A pension fund sued the company, CEO, and CFO, alleging they didn't fully disclose the magnitude of issues from a botched SAP implementation. #BusinessNews #Corporate https://t.co/vuGqpFaYyu
Haleon Selects SAP Solutions to Accelerate Growth
Haleon, the global consumer‑health leader, has chosen SAP Business Suite to modernize its digital backbone and embed artificial intelligence across core functions. The move will consolidate finance, supply‑chain, HR and sales processes into a single, real‑time platform, replacing fragmented legacy...
Boost.ai Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification for Enterprise Grade Conversational AI Platform
Boost.ai announced it has passed a SOC 2 Type II audit with zero exceptions, confirming that its conversational AI platform meets stringent data‑security standards. The certification joins its existing ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and ISAE 3402 credentials, creating a unified...
WD-40 Deploys AI in Supply Chain, Business Processes
WD‑40 announced the rollout of AI‑enabled platforms—including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce and John Galt Solutions' Atlas—to boost efficiency and decision‑making across its operations. The ERP system now supports U.S., Latin America, Asia distributor markets and parts of Canada, covering roughly half...
BCG Expands Google Cloud Tie‑Up to Scale Gemini AI, Targeting Billions in Client Impact
Boston Consulting Group announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise‑wide adoption of Gemini AI agents. The collaboration, unveiled at Cloud Next ’26, promises to move clients beyond pilot projects and deliver billions of dollars in measurable impact.
OpenClaw AI Agents Expose Over 28,000 Enterprise Systems to Remote Takeover
SecurityScorecard researchers identified 28,663 unique IP addresses running OpenClaw AI agents that are directly reachable from the internet. About 63% of those deployments are vulnerable to remote code execution, and public exploits for three high‑severity CVEs are already available, putting...
SkySparc Expands Treasury Suite with Covarius and Uniun Acquisitions
SkySparc announced the acquisition of Covarius Group Limited and Uniun Technology Limited, merging implementation expertise and real‑time integration tools into its OmniFi platform. The deal, terms undisclosed, deepens SkySparc’s European presence and creates a single‑partner offering for cash‑flow optimization and...
Lacoste Taps Mirakl Connect to Accelerate Premium Marketplace Expansion
Lacoste has selected Mirakl Connect, the AI‑powered SaaS marketplace platform, to speed its entry onto premium e‑commerce marketplaces. The partnership promises to shrink product‑catalog onboarding from months to weeks and leverage a marketplace segment that grows 34% annually, far outpacing...
Exabeam Extends Agent Behavior Analytics to Google Cloud’s Agent Ecosystem
Exabeam announced that its Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) now supports agents built with Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit and integrates with Google Agent Gateway. The extension covers custom agents, Gemini Enterprise, and multi‑agent workflows, providing unified visibility, behavior baselining, and...
SMBC Americas Launches Cash Management Platform
SMBC Americas has launched SMBC Connect, a digital cash‑management platform that gives corporate treasurers real‑time visibility and customizable dashboards. The solution was co‑created with input from more than 50 treasury clients, enabling widget‑based personalization and upcoming tagging features. SMBC Connect...
Contrast Security Announces Runtime ADR Integration with Google Security Operations
Contrast Security unveiled an integration that feeds its Application Detection and Response (ADR) runtime telemetry directly into Google Security Operations. The link maps verified code‑execution data—such as affected apps, execution paths, and stack traces—into Google’s Unified Data Model, automatically generating...