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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Cynomi Unveils CISO AI Agents, Go-To-Market Academy As CEO Pushes To Become ‘AI-First Company’
Cynomi announced a major platform upgrade that adds AI‑driven CISO, auditor, analyst and communicator agents, effectively creating a virtual security team for managed service providers (MSPs). Simultaneously, the company launched a Go‑to‑Market Academy to help partners package, price and sell cybersecurity services as recurring revenue. CEO David Primor framed the moves as a shift toward an AI‑first model that embeds Cynomi’s deep security knowledge directly into MSP workflows. The combined offering promises to automate incident response, compliance checks and client communication, reducing the need for multiple staff members.
AI Unifies Finance Tools, Turning Chaos Into Clarity
there are a lot of finance tools out there. quickbooks, xero, netsuite, salesforce, hubspot, stripe, petadocs, dropbox sign, common paper, avalara, slack, campfire, rillet, numeral, sage intacct, the list keeps growing. the problem is not having tools. the problem is getting them to...
Clear’s Reusable Biometric Digital ID Platform Joins FedRAMP Marketplace
Clear’s reusable biometric digital ID platform, CLEAR1, has been listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace with an “In Process” designation at the Moderate impact level, signaling progress toward full federal authorization. The platform, already certified for IAL2 and AAL2 under NIST...
Enterprises Must Revamp IAM for Comprehensive Security
Enterprises are confronting a surge in credential‑based attacks that bypass traditional identity and access management (IAM) controls. A new Omdia white paper, commissioned by ID Dataweb, argues that legacy IAM frameworks can no longer protect customer, workforce, and third‑party environments. It...
Seeking Real-World Feedback on SAFE GRC Platform
Do you use the SAFE GRC platform? Had a chance to see it at RSAC and was impressed but don't hear from many folks using it. Would love to hear real-world feedback from current users.
Context Graphs Are A Convergence, Not An Invention
ServiceNow’s new Context Engine has revived talk of “context graphs,” but the idea is not new. For four decades enterprise architecture, APM, process mining and other IT disciplines have been building fragmented graphs of assets, dependencies and workflows. The emerging...
Enterprise AI Agents Must Integrate, Not Operate Alone
Claude Cowork and software vendors The latest agentic AI tools like Claude Cowork are powerful desktop assistants that can handle multi-step knowledge work i.e. researching, synthesising data, creating documents, managing files and running workflows autonomously on your machine. But here's the...
Oracle AI Database Redefines Mission-Critical Architecture Standards
Analyst Perspectives on @Oracle AI Database Mission-Critical Capabilities https://t.co/SxxjXWkJrC "This clearly raises the bar for what a true mission-critical data architecture needs to resemble in the AI era…” @holgermu @ConstellationR https://t.co/ViUk7IWbvp
Sierra Unveils Ghostwriter, AI Platform That Builds SaaS Agents for Enterprises
Sierra announced Ghostwriter, an AI‑agent‑as‑a‑service that builds other SaaS agents for enterprise customers. The tool, showcased at the HumanX conference, already delivered a Nordstrom‑specific agent in four weeks, underscoring Sierra’s $100 million ARR and $10 billion valuation after a $350 million funding round.
Bangladesh’s Digital Tax Push Reshapes Compliance for RMG Supply Chains
Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue has moved corporate tax, VAT, customs and payments fully online, automating returns, audits and refunds. The shift targets a tax base where fewer than 25,000 of roughly 288,000 registered firms file returns, exposing a compliance...
MediStreams Achieves Clean SOC 2 Type II Certification, Strengthening Security in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management and Payment Automation
MediStreams announced it has received a clean SOC 2 Type II audit for the full 2025 calendar year, covering Security, Availability, and Processing Integrity. The unqualified opinion was issued by independent CPA firm Aprio LLP after a year‑long assessment of its payment‑posting...
How SAP Concur Automates Expense Reporting with Agentic AI
SAP Concur has upgraded its ExpenseIt platform with an agentic AI layer that goes beyond OCR, using Google Cloud’s Gemini models to infer missing receipt details. The new Receipt Analysis Agent applies routing, reflection, and tool‑use design patterns, automatically pulling...
Hoshizaki Bets On IFS Cloud For Future AI Manufacturing Modernization
Japanese foodservice equipment maker Hoshizaki is migrating its legacy, heavily customized ERP to IFS Cloud, a standardized SaaS platform, to support over 700 users across two production sites. The move consolidates order management, production planning, manufacturing execution and inventory control...
Novvia Group: Unpacking Success Across Multisite Implementations
Novvia Group, an industrial packaging distributor, completed 14 Epicor ERP implementations across 17 of its businesses within 18 months. Six S Partners guided the rollout, emphasizing unified core processes and a single source of truth. The project leveraged automation to...
What To Know When Evaluating Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions
The Forrester Wave™ Q2 2026 evaluates the leading sensitive data discovery and classification solutions, emphasizing accuracy, scalability, and breadth of data‑source coverage. Vendors now claim 95%‑plus detection rates and support cloud, on‑prem, and in‑motion scanning, but buyers must validate performance in...
Building End-to-End Payroll Integrations in Workday Using PECI and PICOF
Workday’s Cloud Connect for Third‑Party Payroll offers two outbound formats—PICOF and PECI—to move employee data to external payroll providers. PICOF, the legacy format, delivers a snapshot of final data per employee but can miss intermediate changes and lacks automated correction...
GRC News Roundup: Drata, Diligent, HICX, Ibex & More
The GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) sector saw a flurry of product launches in April. HICX introduced a Supplier Registration platform, Drata rolled out an agentic AI TPRM assessment tool and named a new chief product and technology officer, and...
Deloitte's Rakesh Rajagopal Leads Predictive Insurance Automation Push
Deloitte Consulting’s Rakesh Rajagopal is steering AI‑driven predictive automation across major U.S. insurers, embedding intelligence into SAP financial platforms to replace manual, fragmented processes. The initiative promises faster claims handling, tighter compliance and a scalable architecture for multi‑country insurers.
ServiceNow Bakes AI Into Entire Platform, Ending Add‑On Model for HR and Enterprise Workflows
ServiceNow announced that artificial intelligence is now a built‑in component of every product in its workflow platform, eliminating separate AI add‑on modules. The move, highlighted by President Amit Zavery, targets HR, IT and other service lines, promising faster deployments and...
Marvell’s AI XPU Wins Surge, Driving $75 B Pipeline and 38% Revenue Jump
Marvell Technology announced more than 20 multi‑generational AI XPU and XPU‑attach socket wins, pushing its data‑center revenue to $1.52 billion—a 37.8% year‑over‑year rise. The company now cites a $75 billion lifetime revenue pipeline, underscoring rapid adoption by hyperscalers and enterprise data centers.
Hadrian Named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation
Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security platform, has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) released on March 24, 2026. The guide positions AEV as the successor to breach and attack simulation and...
Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Comes to Mobile, a Year After Its Web Launch
Google has extended its client‑side, end‑to‑end encryption for Gmail to Android and iOS, completing the mobile rollout that began with the web launch in April 2025. The feature is limited to Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add‑on, allowing encrypted...
ERP News Magazine April 2026 – Issue #59
ERP News Magazine released its April 2026 Issue 59, launching the Q2 editorial theme “From Cloud to Collaboration – How ERP Unites People, Platforms, and Intelligence.” The issue shifts focus from pure cloud adoption to positioning ERP as a coordination layer...
Why Your Digital Transformation Didn’t Fail. Your Data Environment Did.
Manufacturers are investing heavily in digital transformation—ERP, MES, and BI layers—but many projects stall because the underlying data environment remains unfinished. Without clear KPI ownership, reconciled metric definitions, and validated inputs, shop‑floor teams distrust system outputs and revert to spreadsheets....
Cynet Named Leader and Outperformer in 2026 GigaOm Radar for XDR
Cynet has been positioned as a Leader and Outperformer in the 2026 GigaOm Radar for XDR, landing in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant for its comprehensive AI‑driven platform. The vendor earned perfect 5/5 scores in both Agentic AI detection and ecosystem...
Optimize Your Tax Stack for SAP
Vertex released a new white paper outlining how its tax technology can be optimized for SAP ERP environments. It highlights the growing pressure from frequent tax rule changes, digital compliance mandates, and cloud migration timelines that expose hidden inefficiencies in...
ImPAC Labs and Cyera Partner to Deliver Data-Aware Cloud Security
imPAC Labs announced a new integration with Cyera that blends imPAC’s cloud‑visibility and custom security controls with Cyera’s data discovery and classification engine. The partnership delivers data‑aware guardrails, allowing security teams to enforce policies based on the sensitivity of the...
Salesforce Surveys: The Zero-Cost Feedback Engine Most Orgs Overlook
Financial services firms often struggle with timely, compliant customer feedback, relying on costly third‑party survey tools. A large regulated organization leveraged Salesforce’s native Survey feature—already included in its CRM—to create a zero‑cost, automated feedback engine. By embedding surveys into case‑closure...
How AI Is Transforming Cloud-Native Identity and Access Management
AI is reshaping cloud‑native identity and access management (IAM) by replacing static rule sets with adaptive, real‑time security controls. Research shows 40% of enterprises suffered identity‑related breaches in 2024, prompting a shift toward behavioral analytics, automated least‑privilege provisioning, and zero‑trust...
Oracle Unveils Eight Fusion Agentic HR Apps, Embedding Generative AI Across HCM Suite
Oracle announced the launch of eight Fusion Agentic Applications for Human Capital Management, embedding generative AI agents directly into its HCM workflows. The new tools, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the AI Agent Studio, aim to move HR processes...
C3.ai Unveils C3 Code Platform to Accelerate Enterprise AI Production
C3.ai announced the launch of C3 Code, a natural‑language AI development platform designed to let enterprise teams generate applications by describing functionality in plain text. The tool promises to shorten development cycles and help large organizations shift AI projects from...
CrowdStrike's Identity Security Hits $520M ARR, 34% YoY Growth in FY2026 Q4
CrowdStrike announced that its Next‑Gen Identity business closed fiscal 2026 with over $520 million in annual recurring revenue, growing 34% year over year and surpassing the company's 24% overall ARR growth. The surge underscores a strategic pivot toward identity protection amid...
Oracle Taps Lucinity Tech to Enhance AI-Driven Compliance Tools
Oracle is integrating Lucinity’s AI‑native investigation technology into its Financial Crime and Compliance Management (FCCM) platform, embedding AI agents into the Oracle AI Investigator tool. The partnership aims to automate manual investigation tasks, surface relevant context, and guide decision‑making for...
Britain's Biggest Nuclear Site Skips Competition, Hands SAP £33M to Start ERP Switch
Sellafield Limited, the operator of the UK’s largest nuclear site, awarded a direct £33 million ($41 million) contract to SAP for Core HR SaaS licensing, bypassing competitive tendering. The move initiates the first phase of a four‑deal migration from legacy SAP ECC,...
Automating Financial Operations for Faster, Safer Financial Reporting
South African firms are adopting MoData’s integrated Record‑to‑Report suite—Accurate, Adra and Cadency—to automate reconciliation and accelerate the financial close. The automation cuts manual reconciliations by up to 90% and reduces month‑end close time from 10‑11 days to 5‑7 days. The...
Designing for Complexity: Lessons From Building a Digital Wallet Integration
The integration of digital wallets like Apple Pay forced banks to abandon traditional, siloed software projects and adopt an ecosystem‑first approach. By 2025 Apple Pay alone handled roughly $9‑9.5 trillion in transactions for over 800 million users, illustrating the massive scale and...
AI Process Mapper 5.0 with Generative AI Delivers Extensive New Features Including Process Analysis, SOP Generation, Web-Based Editor, and More
The Efficiency Group launched AI Process Mapper 5.0, a generative‑AI‑powered BPMN platform that creates, edits, and documents business workflows from simple prompts or source documents. New capabilities include a web‑based graphical editor, AI‑driven process analysis with impact scores, and automated...
7 Validation Rules to Get Your Salesforce Org AI-Ready
Salesforce admins can quickly harden data quality for AI and automation by deploying seven simple validation rules. The rules cover preventing future dates, enforcing conditional required fields, locking closed records, restricting negative or out‑of‑range values, ensuring logical relationships between dates,...
Unito Expands Partnership with Asana, Now Included in Enterprise Offering for AI-Driven Workflow Integration
Unito has deepened its strategic partnership with Asana by becoming the first technology partner offered directly through Asana’s procurement channel. The no‑code sync engine is now an add‑on for enterprise customers, enabling two‑way integration with more than 60 enterprise tools...
Globant and CMPC Launched an AI-Based Supply Chain Traceability Solution Compliant with EU Deforestation Regulation
Globant has deployed an AI‑driven supply‑chain traceability platform for CMPC, a global pulp, paper and packaging leader. Built on SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Clean Core, the solution automates document extraction and compliance workflows, shrinking manual traceability from up...
ServiceNow AI-Enables Its Entire Product Lineup
ServiceNow announced that its full suite of products is now AI‑enabled, adding a conversational front‑door (EmployeeWorks), a cross‑enterprise data layer (Workflow Data Fabric), and an AI Control Tower for governance. The rollout introduces Context Engine, which injects real‑time enterprise context...
RxERP Hub Targets Pharma’s Serialization Blind Spots
RxERP unveiled the RxERP Hub, upgrading its serialized platform into a full‑scale infrastructure for the pharmaceutical supply chain. The Hub adds unit‑level audit logging that records every transaction—from receiving to dispensing—creating a real‑time, immutable trail. This turns serialization from a...
How GenAI Fixed Withholding Tax at Scale, Improved Processes
A global agribusiness handling withholding tax certificates across Latin America replaced a manual, spreadsheet‑driven process with a cloud‑based automation platform powered by generative AI. The new stack ingests emails, extracts data from varied Spanish PDFs, validates against the on‑prem ERP,...
Balance Control When Negotiating With Salesforce
Since launching Agentforce in 2024, Salesforce has repositioned itself as an AI‑first, multicloud vendor, bundling AI, data and automation into larger deals—a shift analysts call “AI gravity.” This strategy often pushes buyers into higher‑tier licenses and unused add‑ons, leading to...
ServiceNow and Five9 Launch AI‑Powered Platform to Merge Employee and Customer Service
ServiceNow and Five9 announced a joint AI‑driven solution that integrates ServiceNow’s workflow engine with Five9’s contact‑center platform. The turnkey offering promises real‑time transcription, unified routing and a single‑pane‑of‑glass agent workspace, aiming to cut costs and boost productivity for high‑volume service...
AI‑Generated Phishing Attacks Surge, Prompting New Enterprise Defenses
IBM reports AI can draft a convincing phishing email in five minutes, a task that once took humans 16 hours. The Federal Trade Commission notes fraud losses jumped 25% to $12.5 billion in 2024, spurring CIOs to adopt new detection tools,...
Anthropic's ARR Tops $30 B as Managed Agents Expand Enterprise AI SaaS
Anthropic announced its annual recurring revenue has exceeded $30 billion, roughly three times its level in December 2025, as it launches Claude Managed Agents—a tool that lets businesses deploy fleets of AI agents at scale. The milestone underscores the fast‑moving shift...
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Hosting GP Doesn't Remove Risk; Rebuild GP Payables in D365BC; GP Power Tools Build...
The latest Microsoft Dynamics GP blog roundup debunks the myth that cloud hosting eliminates GP’s inherent risks, highlighting that while hosting improves accessibility and disaster recovery, it doesn’t address core system constraints. It also warns that moving to Dynamics 365 Business Central...
Start Agentic AI at ITOps‑SecOps Handoff Gaps
RT CIOs and CISOs keep asking, "Where do we start with agentic AI in operations?" My answer: target the seams between ITOps and SecOp - handoffs, ticket ping-pong, and tribal workflows. #CIO #CISO #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/e3w3lXkvfc
AI as a Tool or AI as a Product?
The article draws a clear line between low‑cost personal AI tools like ChatGPT and high‑priced enterprise AI products. It argues that integration, operational complexity, and repeatability are the three criteria that turn a simple AI assistant into a production‑grade system....