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. The company launched Autonomous Security and Risk, integrating 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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By the numbers: Informotion acquires inReach Software's product suite
Fortis Solutions Unveils Integrated Intelligent‑Infrastructure Platform for Enterprise Automation
Fortis Solutions announced the launch of an integrated intelligent‑infrastructure platform that merges its NetRaven visual layer with the Source of Truth intelligence engine. The system promises real‑time visibility, automated remediation and vendor‑agnostic translation, targeting the consistency and scalability goals of modern DevOps teams.
Microsoft Adds Anthropic’s Claude to 365 Copilot, Lifts Research Quality 13.8%
Microsoft announced that its 365 Copilot suite now uses Anthropic’s Claude to critique and improve GPT‑generated drafts. The new Critique feature lifts the DRACO benchmark by 13.8%, a move aimed at accelerating Copilot adoption among its 15 million paid enterprise seats.
Fortis Solutions and PG&E Deploy AI Platforms to Modernize Critical Infrastructure
Fortis Solutions introduced its NetRaven and Source of Truth AI-driven platforms, and PG&E began using Atomic Canyon's Neutron generative AI tool at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Both moves aim to cut manual effort, improve compliance, and boost operational agility...
Wiise Boosts A/NZ Partner Program with AI and Product Additions
Wiise has revamped its Australia‑New Zealand partner program, adding AI‑focused training and new prospecting tools. The initiative includes an AI Academy of practical webinars and AI‑powered utilities to help partners qualify opportunities faster. It also introduces partner community days, roadmap visibility,...
The Power BI Crash That Sparked a Data Revolution at Dodge Industrial
Dodge Industrial’s reliance on a 20‑year‑old SAP BW system forced business users to build a shadow data warehouse in Power BI, which ultimately crashed the company’s entire tenant. The outage prompted Data & Analytics Manager Daniel Garrett to partner with Protiviti...
Demystifying SAP Business Suite and Cloud ERP with SAP Transformation Leader Anurag Barua
SAP transformation deadlines are tightening as SAP pushes customers toward its cloud‑first Business Suite, with AI increasingly embedded in core processes. Anurag Barua, SAP’s Transformation Leader, explains the suite’s role as a unified digital backbone and clarifies when to adopt...
Cultivating Twin Transformation in Manufacturing
Mid-sized manufacturers must pursue Twin Transformation—simultaneous digital and sustainable change—by integrating SAP S/4HANA migration, Digital Manufacturing, and Sustainability Footprint Management. The article maps this journey into three phases (landscape analysis, strategic choices, sustaining value) and applies three Sustainable Gardener principles:...
APRA Pulls Data Submission System After Security Pentest
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) decommissioned its legacy Direct To APRA (D2A) data‑submission system after a routine penetration test on March 19 uncovered unnamed vulnerabilities. The regulator took the system offline on March 20 and urged all banks, insurers and superannuation funds to...
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon Unveils AI‑Powered Agent Identity Platform
Okta chief executive Todd McKinnon introduced an AI‑powered agent identity platform that will manage credentials for autonomous software agents. The move targets growing security concerns as enterprises deploy more AI tools, and it reflects Okta’s effort to stay ahead of...
Bureau Veritas and Trade Technologies Link Compliance and Finance Workflows
Bureau Veritas and Trade Technologies have formed a partnership to embed inspection and conformity documents directly into trade‑finance workflows. The integration targets document‑heavy markets in the Middle East and Africa, aiming to speed up letter‑of‑credit (LC) processing and reduce compliance...
Taking the Private Cloud Modernization Journey with VMware by Broadcom
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is driving a major overhaul of the company’s private‑cloud strategy. At Cloud Field Day 25, VMware showcased a shift from fragmented, VM‑centric virtualization to a unified, automated platform built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The new...
Salesforce Data Cleansing Best Practices: Beyond Dedupe to Lasting Clean Data
Modern enterprises rely on Salesforce as the core of their revenue engine, but rapid scaling introduces fragmented, outdated, and duplicate records that erode efficiency. The article highlights that 28% of business email addresses expire within a year and sales teams...
Würth Expands E-Procurement Integration to Streamline B2B Purchasing
Würth Group is broadening its integration with SAP Business Network to automate B2B indirect procurement across its extensive sales and distribution footprint. By linking purchase orders, delivery confirmations and invoices, the company aims to replace fragmented, manual processes with a...
Interact Rolls Out Agentic AI Employee Listening Platform in Autumn Launch
Interact announced its Autumn 2025 release of an agentic AI‑powered employee listening platform, integrating Microsoft Copilot, SAP SuccessFactors and ServiceNow to unify tools and surface sentiment. CEO Simon Dance said the AI “turns raw data into human insight,” aiming to...
Microsoft Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, marking its eighth consecutive year in the Leader quadrant. The recognition underscores Azure Integration Services’ expanded capabilities that now blend AI, real‑time...
Percona and Chainguard Partner to Deliver Secure Open Source Software
Percona has teamed up with Chainguard to offer secure, production‑ready container images for its open‑source database portfolio, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and others. Chainguard builds minimal, provenance‑verified images that aim for near‑zero CVE exposure, while Percona provides enterprise‑grade support and...
SAP Migration Advances Even as Complexity, Cost Weigh on Enterprises
Enterprise migration to SAP S/4HANA is progressing, but companies are proceeding cautiously due to cost pressures, skill shortages, and operational risk. The ISG 2026 SAP Migration Report, based on 200 senior executives, finds many firms treating the move as a...
Goldman Sachs CIO Argenti Discusses Accelerated AI Rollout
Goldman Sachs chief information officer Marco Argenti said the firm is moving quickly to embed AI across its operations and to build internal tools, though the bank did not disclose specific budgets or timelines. The comments underscore the growing pressure...
Palantir's Blockbuster Earnings Week Fueled by DoD, FCA & Golden Dome Wins
Palantir Technologies posted a surprise earnings beat and announced three marquee contracts—a Department of Defense program‑of‑record designation for its Maven system, a UK regulator pilot, and a software role in the $185 bn Golden Dome missile‑defense initiative—signaling accelerating AI‑driven revenue growth...
WorkDrive 6.0: Advancing Toward Intelligent Enterprise Content Management (Phase 1)
Zoho unveiled WorkDrive 6.0, an AI‑enhanced enterprise content management platform that turns static files into interactive, searchable knowledge assets. New features let users ask natural‑language questions within PDFs, images, audio and video, while Zia automatically transcribes and summarizes media. The...
FAB Hosts Virtual AI Agentathon with Presight and Microsoft to Boost Enterprise AI
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) convened a virtual AI Agentathon on March 30, 2026, partnering with AI specialist Presight and tech giant Microsoft. The one‑day sprint brought together four cross‑functional teams to prototype AI‑driven solutions for real banking challenges, marking...
DoD Expands Software Factories to Embed DevOps Across All Services
The Department of Defense announced the expansion of its software factories to embed DevOps practices—continuous integration, automated testing and rapid deployment—across the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. The move formalizes soldier‑developer pipelines and aims to curb duplication while accelerating...
Granola Secures $125 Million Series C at $1.5 B Valuation
Granola announced a $125 million Series C round that lifts its valuation to $1.5 billion. The round was led by Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins joining, signaling continued investor enthusiasm for AI‑driven productivity platforms.
RedotPay Earns ISO/IEC 27001 Certification, Bolstering Stablecoin Payment Credibility
RedotPay, the Hong‑based stablecoin payment fintech, received ISO/IEC 27001 certification from SGS, confirming its information‑security management system meets global standards. The audit highlights robust encryption, data‑access controls and a security‑first culture, positioning the firm for deeper institutional partnerships.
JSW Motors Partners Dassault Systèmes to Boost Design and Manufacturing
JSW Motors, the new‑energy vehicle arm of India’s JSW Group, has signed a long‑term strategic partnership with Dassault Systèmes. The automaker will adopt the DELMIA 3DExperience platform, including CATIA and ENOVIA, to digitize vehicle design, engineering and manufacturing. The collaboration also...
Pondurance Launches Pondurance Kanati(™): The Industry’s First Agentic AI SOC Designed for Autonomous Operations in a Next-Generation Managed Detection and...
Pondurance announced the general availability of Kanati, the industry’s first agentic AI‑driven Security Operations Center that powers its managed detection and response (MDR) service. The platform autonomously handles high‑confidence threats, delivering 90% faster threat analysis, sub‑two‑minute investigation times and an...
FINRA’s “Burdensome” 2.5TB Data Tamed by AWS
@FINRA 's MMAT recent BK response/filling (March 27th) states an estimated 2.5 terabyte of trading data for #MMAT / #MMTLP. They called this BURDENSOME. At first glance perhaps this may look like a big, scary dataset... But lets take a closer...
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Continuous Control Monitoring and the Power of Live Cloud Inventories
Traditional cloud inventories rely on periodic scans and manual CMDB updates, leaving dynamic, short‑lived resources invisible. Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) replaces these static methods with near‑real‑time data ingestion, creating a graph‑based, live inventory that covers every asset. By continuously applying...
ShipSec Studio Brings Open-Source Workflow Orchestration to Security Operations
ShipSec AI has launched ShipSec Studio, an open‑source security workflow automation platform that replaces ad‑hoc scripts with a dedicated orchestration layer. The visual, no‑code builder lets operators chain tools like Subfinder, Nuclei and TruffleHog into automated pipelines, compiling them into...
Salesforce AI Bots to Field Calls for U.S. Labor Department
Salesforce is rolling out its Agentforce AI platform at the U.S. Department of Labor to answer calls and triage roughly 2.8 million cases each year. The system, built on Salesforce Government Cloud, will handle everything from unemployment insurance to OSHA logs,...
Anthropic’s March Turbulence: 14 New Products, Outages and an Accidental Model Leak
Anthropic reported 14 product launches in March, alongside several service outages and an accidental leak of a model version. The incidents have unsettled enterprise customers who rely on Anthropic’s APIs for critical workflows, prompting calls for stronger reliability and security...
Cambridge Memristor Breakthrough and Huawei Atlas 350 Promise Big Energy Savings for Enterprise AI
Researchers at Cambridge unveiled a hafnium‑oxide memristor that reduces switching currents a million‑fold, while Huawei launched its Atlas 350 accelerator claiming 1.56 PFLOPS FP4 performance and 112 GB of HBM. Both advances target the soaring energy costs of enterprise AI workloads.
Nordic Hydro's Viking Digital to Deliver 1.8 GW Clean Power for Europe's Data Centers
Viking Digital, the Nordic‑based arm of Nordic Hydro, announced a 1.8 GW renewable‑energy platform to power European data centers, promising a 20% reduction in GPU‑hour costs. The move targets a projected jump in EU data‑center demand from 96 TWh in 2024 to...
Platform Teams Cut $43,800 Annual Kubernetes Control‑Plane Cost with Virtual Clusters
Modern platform engineering teams are deploying virtual‑cluster technology to eliminate a $43,800 yearly hidden tax on Amazon EKS control‑plane costs. By consolidating dozens of isolated environments onto a single host cluster, firms achieve near‑zero control‑plane overhead while preserving tenant isolation.
Oracle's Dividend Faces Threat as AI-First Cloud Strategy Accelerates
Oracle's push to embed generative AI across its cloud services has sparked analyst warnings that the company's 40‑year dividend streak could be at risk. The tension pits shareholders seeking steady cash returns against a leadership team betting on AI‑driven growth...
Podcast Explores Amazon, Meta, Oracle Strategies for Next‑Gen Agentic AI
A recently released podcast dissected the AI roadmaps of Amazon, Meta, and Oracle, assessing how each firm aims to capture enterprise AI spend. The discussion highlighted divergent approaches and the stakes for B2B customers.
Announcing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.10
Red Hat released Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes version 4.10, extending its security platform across OpenShift clusters in public, private and hybrid clouds. The update adds a technology‑preview plug‑in that surfaces real‑time vulnerability data inside the OpenShift Console, and introduces a...
MSDW Podcast: What Equipment Rental Companies Really Need From ERP - Why Industry Depth Matters
The MSDW podcast highlighted the unique ERP demands of equipment‑rental firms, emphasizing the need for solutions that manage heavy‑use assets, frequent hand‑offs, and evolving customer expectations. Guests from STAEDEAN explained how industry‑specific functionality—covering accounting, service tracking, dispatch, and inventory—addresses these...
DynamicsMinds 2026 Preview: Governing Dynamics 365 CE with Managed Environments
DynamicsMinds 2026, taking place in Portoroz, Slovenia, will feature Microsoft MVP Cole Haddock presenting three sessions on governing Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement with managed environments. Haddock explains how environment groups and action‑level connector policies give enterprises tighter control over development,...
NAB Is Co-Designing a SIEM with Databricks
National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined four other design partners to co‑design Lakewatch, a new security information and event management (SIEM) platform built on Databricks. The solution, currently in private preview, leverages the bank’s existing Databricks‑on‑AWS data lake, Ada, to...
New Tech Challenges Monolithic Cloud ERP, Offers ARR Alternatives
Investors love predictable revenue like ARR, seeing it as a cash cow for future profits. But this tech is a big deal for the industry, chipping away at the commercial cloud ERP market. These examples offer alternatives beyond monolithic ERP...
Do Emergency Microsoft, Oracle Patches Point to Wider Issues?
Microsoft and Oracle have each released emergency out‑of‑band patches this week, drawing attention to the fragility of enterprise update cycles. Microsoft’s KB5085516 fixes a sign‑in error that showed a “no internet” message for standard Microsoft accounts after the latest Patch...
Citrix NetScaler Faces Active Scans Exploiting Critical CVE‑2026‑3055 Flaw
Defended Cyber and watchTowr report that threat actors are actively probing Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway for CVE‑2026‑3055, a memory‑overread bug rated 9.3 on the CVSS scale. The vulnerability affects versions before 14.1‑66.59 and 13.1‑62.23, and experts urge immediate patching.
Novaworks Secures $8 Million Seed to Launch AI‑Native Workforce Management OS
Novaworks announced an $8 million seed financing round led by Stalwart Ventures, with participation from ServiceNow Ventures and Bell Ventures. The funding will fuel development of its AI‑native workforce management operating system built on the ServiceNow platform, positioning the startup as...
Platform Teams Slash $43,800 Hidden Tax on Kubernetes with Virtual Clusters
Modern platform teams are using API‑driven virtual Kubernetes clusters to eliminate a $43,800 hidden tax caused by traditional managed control planes. By provisioning isolated namespaces with full RBAC and self‑service APIs, firms cut control‑plane overhead while preserving isolation and scalability.
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management: VAT Matrix; Demand Planning; Accounts Payable; Exporting Large Datasets
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management continues to attract attention through a series of recent blog posts covering tax configuration, demand planning, accounts payable automation, and high‑volume data export. Paolo Cecchelli stresses early design of a VAT matrix...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE/CRM Blogs: Improve D365 CRM Performance; EWS Block; Smarter Customer Service; Strong Data Foundation
Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE users face a performance bottleneck when Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) controls invoke `dataset.refresh()`. The call forces every PCF control on the form to execute `updateView()`, leading to unnecessary re‑rendering, screen flicker, and higher CPU usage. Sam Kumar’s Inogic blog demonstrates the...
Origin Raises $30 M Series A+ to Build AI‑powered Global Employee Benefits Platform
Origin announced a $30 million Series A+ round led by Notion Capital to expand its AI‑driven benefits intelligence platform. The funding brings the startup’s total capital to more than $50 million and positions it to address fragmented benefits data for multinational enterprises.
Embed Autonomous AI Agents for 24/7 Business Automation
🤖 How to Build Embedded & Autonomous AI Agents (2026 Guide) AI agents are moving from experiments… to embedded business systems. Here’s the step-by-step framework 👇 1️⃣ Define the Agent’s Job • Clear tasks & measurable goals • Where it...