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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By the numbers: Fortress expands IP portfolio with acquisition of IPValue
NSW 20-Year Core Policing System Debacle Panhandles for Another $500m
The NSW Police’s two‑decade effort to replace its legacy mainframe system, the Computerised Operational Policing System (COPS), has been pushed back another four years and now requires an extra $500 million (≈ $330 million USD). The NSW Audit Office flagged governance gaps and two prior botched migration attempts as key causes of the delay. Funding for the additional spend remains uncertain, leaving the force reliant on an outdated green‑screen platform. Officials say the revised schedule targets full implementation by 2030 if the money is approved.
NightBeacon Slashes Detection to Seconds, Cuts False Positives 87%
NightBeacon is changing the game for us @Binary_Defense - we have this technology so dialed into every aspect of what we do. Our MTTD and MTTR has drastically been reduces to seconds and minutes, not multiple minutes or hours....
KPMG Survey Shows 93% of US Firms Set to Scale Finance AI, Spotting Talent and Trust Gaps
KPMG released a new survey indicating that 93% of U.S. companies will deploy or scale AI in finance over the next 18 months, with half planning multi‑agent systems. The report flags acute talent shortages, unclear use cases and a growing...
ProcurePro Secures $11 Million US Funding to Accelerate AI in $13 Trillion Construction Procurement
ProcurePro, the Brisbane‑based construction procurement platform, closed a $11 million US (AU$15 million) round led by QIC Ventures with French builder Bouygues joining as a backer. The capital will fund a global AI product roadmap, a new US office and the hiring...
Keel Launches Profitable BaaS Platform, Secures 750k‑User Client Base
Manchester‑based fintech Keel has emerged from stealth after achieving profitability with its Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) platform. The company now serves a growing roster that includes a Southeast Asian platform with over 750,000 users and venture‑backed fintechs across Europe and the US....
Federal Agencies Can Maximize OneGov for Enterprise Platform Consolidation
Federal agencies are using the GSA’s OneGov program to obtain bulk‑discounted licenses for major enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, Salesforce and Microsoft. While the initiative cuts per‑license costs, many agencies continue to pay for overlapping niche and legacy applications, missing...
Red Hat Embraces MCP to Enable AI Agents to Automate IT Operations
Red Hat is previewing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Satellite management framework, and the Lightspeed automation platform, allowing AI agents to invoke these services via natural‑language workflows. The company also announced container‑based...
Even Top-Tier ERP Systems Fail over 80%
Best-of-breed systems offer flexibility, but ERP implementations commonly fail, with over 80% failure rates regardless of system tier. If the tech is robust, why the high failure rate? #ERP #SystemImplementation #TechFailures https://t.co/b3vaiWnMXP
From Loyalty Programs to Leadership: What 20 Years in CRM Taught Me About Organizational Growth
A veteran of two decades in CRM and loyalty programs argues that the same principles that keep customers returning can be used to retain top talent. Drawing on experience at Marriott, Amazon, American Express and a $3 billion customer platform, the author...
A Practical Guide To Hosted ERP for Commerce Leaders (2026) – Shopify
Shopify’s 2026 guide clarifies the distinction between hosted, cloud and on‑premise ERP for commerce brands, outlining how a hosted model runs on dedicated servers in third‑party data centers while retaining license ownership and configuration control. It highlights that a quarter...
AI Agents Are Running Hospital Records and Factory Inspections. Enterprise IAM Was Never Built for Them.
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents for tasks like medical transcription and factory‑floor inspection, but 85% remain in pilot mode while only 5% have moved to production. The bottleneck is not model capability but identity governance—traditional IAM systems can’t inventory,...
Iran-Linked Media Proposes Data Tax on Hormuz Cables, Threatening $10 Trillion Daily Digital Flow
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps‑linked media outlet announced a plan to levy licensing fees and tolls on submarine fiber‑optic cables crossing the Strait of Hormuz. The proposal targets more than $10 trillion in daily financial transactions and could force multinational enterprises...
BofA Cuts HubSpot to Underperform, Slashes Price Target to $180 After Q1 Earnings
Bank of America downgraded HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) to underperform and cut its price objective from $300 to $180 following the company's first‑quarter earnings. While revenue and earnings beat estimates, the bank warned that HubSpot's shift to an AI‑agent‑first sales model...
High-Severity Security Issue Affecting TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-44413) – Update to 2026.1 Now
JetBrains disclosed a high‑severity post‑authentication vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑44413) affecting all TeamCity On‑Premises installations up to version 2025.11.4. The flaw allows any logged‑in user to expose portions of the server API to unauthenticated parties. JetBrains released a full fix in TeamCity 2026.1...
Cloudera Unveils Zero-Copy Connector for ServiceNow, Cutting AI Data Movement
Cloudera announced the Workflow Data Fabric Zero Copy Connector for ServiceNow, enabling AI agents to execute inside hybrid data lakehouses without moving data. The move tackles the 80% data‑access gap cited in Cloudera’s Data Readiness Index and promises lower costs...
Salesforce Replaces Per‑Seat Pricing with Fixed‑Fee Enterprise License
Salesforce has launched the Agentic Enterprise License Agreement (AELA), a fixed‑annual‑fee model that eliminates per‑seat pricing for its AI‑centric products. The shift gives enterprise customers predictable costs for unlimited use of Agentforce, Data Cloud and MuleSoft, while exposing them to...
Temenos Unveils Composable Core Banking Suite and AI Compliance Tools
Temenos announced a dual rollout: composable retail deposit and lending products that let banks upgrade core functions incrementally, and a set of AI tools for digital banking, development and financial‑crime compliance. The moves target legacy‑heavy institutions seeking flexible, low‑risk transformation.
Data Hygiene: Checklist & Best Practices For a Clean CRM
Data hygiene has become a strategic priority for B2B revenue teams, as 70% of revenue leaders lack confidence in their CRM data and 31% report that poor data costs at least 20% of annual revenue. Gartner estimates the average organization...
VMware’s New VCF 9.1 Cuts Customer Costs For Storage, AI And Security; Comdivision CEO Explains
VMware unveiled Cloud Foundation 9.1, promising up to 40% server cost cuts through enhanced NVMe memory tiering, 39% lower storage TCO via global vSAN deduplication, and a 46% reduction in Kubernetes operational expenses. The release adds multitenant AI isolation, integrated CrowdStrike...
SAP Sapphire Highlights AI, Mid‑Market SuccessFactors Shift
At #SAPSapphire this week. Watching: 1. AI capability on stage vs. named customers in production 2. Implementation/migration break-thrus 3. SAP for mid-market (GROW) and how credibly #SuccessFactors is moving down-market. Watch live here: https://t.co/SUH5VGPxum https://t.co/GbS0z0lluX
O9 Solutions Integration with Snowflake Advances Enterprise Planning on a Unified Data Foundation?
o9 Solutions announced a deep integration with Snowflake’s Connected Application framework, linking its Digital Brain platform to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The partnership enables continuous, governed data flows between Snowflake and o9, allowing planning models to consume source‑of‑truth data...
The 4-Stage Fix for Dirty Salesforce Data
Salesforce data quality deteriorates as organizations scale, leading to duplicate records, missing fields, and unreliable reports. The article outlines a four‑stage framework—audit, deduplicate, define controls, and enforce policies—to restore data integrity. Built‑in tools like Reports, Matching Rules, and Validation Rules...
Why Changing Passwords Doesn’t End an Active Directory Breach
Password resets are a common first step after an Active Directory breach, but they don’t automatically close all attack vectors. Windows devices cache password hashes and hybrid AD‑Entra ID setups can lag in syncing new credentials, leaving old passwords usable....
China Completes First Smart Production Line for Deepwater Oil & Gas Pipelines
China National Offshore Oil Corporation's offshore engineering unit has finished construction of the country's first intelligent production line for deepwater oil‑gas equipment pipelines at its Zhuhai base. The line, featuring MES, AI vision, robotic welding and AGV transport, entered the...
New Emerson Industrial AI Platform Delivers Enterprise-Scale AI
Emerson introduced the AspenTech AVA AI platform for industrial enterprises, offering agentic, domain‑aware AI integrated with operational workflows. AVA combines large language models with Emerson’s first‑principles models and the AspenTech Inmation Data Platform to provide real‑time, data‑source‑agnostic decision support. The...
Kansas Veterans Hit by Oracle‑Cerner EHR Rollout, $33 B VA Cost Overruns
Oracle’s management of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ $10 billion electronic health record contract, inherited from its 2022 $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner, has led to cost estimates exceeding $33 billion and service disruptions for Kansas veterans. The fallout includes more than 500...
Villanova Sells $2.8M of NCR Atleos Shares Amid 61% Stock Rally
Villanova Investment Management disclosed a $2.76 million sale of 66,746 NCR Atleos shares on May 8, 2026, after the stock surged 61% in a year. The divestiture, representing 4.7% of the fund’s portfolio, underscores a reassessment of legacy enterprise‑software investments even as...
Verisk Links Insurance Analytics to Anthropic’s Claude AI, Promising Faster Underwriting
Verisk has integrated its insurance data and analytics platform with Anthropic’s Claude AI through governed MCP connectors, allowing underwriters and restoration contractors to query proprietary information via conversation. The move could shave 30 minutes to two hours from each claim...
How to Secure Secrets in CI/CD Pipelines
CI/CD pipelines automate every code change but rely on a web of credentials, making them prime targets for secret leakage. Common missteps include storing plain‑text tokens in repositories, using long‑lived keys, and exposing secrets through logs or environment variables. The...
SAP and Snowflake Unleash a New Era of Enterprise AI with Zero-Copy Integration
Snowflake and SAP announced the general availability of two joint offerings that provide zero‑copy, bidirectional integration of SAP data with the Snowflake Data Cloud. The SAP Snowflake solution extension gives new Snowflake customers a fully featured, SAP‑certified environment, while SAP...
SailPoint Agentic Fabric Expands Identity Governance to Autonomous AI Agents
SailPoint unveiled Agentic Fabric, a platform that extends its Identity Security Cloud to govern AI agents and other non‑human identities. The solution provides discovery, mapping, real‑time authorization and threat response, linking each agent to a human owner. It launches with...
Checkmarx Tackles Another TeamPCP Intrusion as Jenkins Plugin Sabotaged
Checkmarx disclosed that a malicious version of its Jenkins AST plugin was uploaded to the Jenkins Marketplace, prompting an urgent advisory to users. The compromised package, part of the company’s code‑security suite, was identified over the weekend and is being...
ERP Vendors Overlook True Change Management Essentials
Most ERP vendors barely touch organizational change management, focusing only on basic training and comms. True OCM requires internal alignment, stakeholder & executive buy-in, impact assessment, and detailed frontline communication. #ChangeManagement #ERP #BusinessTips https://t.co/JD42Mz9YVh
Why Most App Modernization Efforts Fail, and How a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Can Stop the Billion-Dollar Bleed
Application modernization spending is projected to climb from $22.7 bn in 2025 to $51.5 bn by 2031, yet 79% of initiatives fail. The article attributes failures to technology‑first mindsets, oversized scopes, siloed execution, and lack of business‑value focus. It proposes a capabilities‑driven...
Solibri Launches Security+ for Air-Gapped BIM Workflows
Solibri introduced Solibri Security+, a standalone BIM validation product designed for air‑gapped, sovereign environments where cloud solutions are prohibited. The offering enables rule‑based model checking, coordination and compliance verification for defense, government and critical‑infrastructure projects. It operates offline, meeting data‑sovereignty...
Why Salesforce Professionals Are Feeling Lost in 2026
Salesforce accelerated its AI strategy in 2026, unveiling Headless 360 and Agentforce Vibes 2.0 to make the platform more API‑centric. The rapid succession of product rebrands, pricing changes, and feature deprecations has left consultants and admins scrambling to keep pace....
Pallas Capital Teams with CitoPlus to Digitize Commercial Loan Submissions
Non‑bank lender Pallas Capital has launched a digital loan application platform with fintech CitoPlus, allowing commercial‑real‑estate brokers to submit deals in a single online workflow. The partnership promises to eliminate manual paperwork, accelerate approval times and keep Pallas' relationship‑driven origination...
Legora Buys Graceview, Adding AI‑Powered Regulatory Monitoring
Legora has acquired Australian regulatory‑tech startup Graceview, integrating its real‑time monitoring engine into Legora’s collaborative legal platform. The deal, announced alongside a $50 million Series D extension that lifted Legora’s valuation to $5.6 billion, aims to give law firms and corporate legal departments...
Broadcom Shifts to Enterprise Software as Goldman Sachs Cuts Stock Forecast
Broadcom announced a strategic pivot toward enterprise infrastructure software following its 2023 VMware acquisition, unveiling VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. At the same time, Goldman Sachs trimmed its price target for Broadcom, reflecting concerns over the transition’s earnings impact.
Capturing Your Invisible Market (Goodfit eBook)
GoodFit’s new 31‑page eBook reveals that B2B firms routinely miss 60% of their addressable market because CRM data is largely inaccurate. On average, 70% of accounts in a CRM never correspond to actual buyers, and market definitions rely on outdated...
Shadow AI Fuels Cybersecurity Gap as Experts Warn Systems Lag Behind Emerging Threats
Security leaders warn that corporate defenses are falling behind a surge in “shadow AI” use, with 71% of UK workers admitting to unapproved AI tools and half doing so weekly. The practice creates data leakage risks that current security systems...
Bain Sees US$100 Billion SaaS Market in Agentic AI Automation
Consulting firm Bain & Company estimates a $100 billion U.S. market for SaaS providers that embed agentic AI to automate coordination work across enterprise applications. The analysis notes that only $4‑6 billion of this market is currently captured, leaving more than 90 %...
Georgia Tech Builds Network Sandbox to Test Hospital Cyber Defenses
Georgia Tech secured up to $12 million from ARPA‑H’s UPGRADE program to launch the Hospital‑Integrated Vulnerability Identification and Proactive Remediation (H‑VIPER) project. The initiative builds a whole‑hospital network sandbox that lets IT teams test patches and remediation strategies without disrupting patient...
ServiceNow, Accenture Partner to Deliver Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
ServiceNow and Accenture have unveiled a forward‑deployed engineering programme designed to move agentic AI from pilot projects to full‑scale production across enterprises. The joint teams will embed AI workflows directly into customers' existing systems using the ServiceNow AI Platform and...
8 Guiding Principles for Reskilling the SOC for Agentic AI
Top security leaders at DXC Technology, Accenture and former Virgin Atlantic CISO are pioneering the reskilling of SOC teams for agentic AI. They combine hands‑on sandbox environments, vendor‑led expertise and formal training tracks to embed AI agents into tier‑1 and...
Accuvice Launches AI-Powered Compliance Web Platform to Simplify Data Protection and Regulatory Assessments for African & Global Businesses
Accuvice Solutions Limited has launched an AI‑powered digital compliance web platform aimed at African and global enterprises. The solution centralizes GDPR, NDPA, DPIA, ISO and other regulatory workflows into a single dashboard, adding AI‑driven guidance, real‑time collaboration, and expert auditor...
Salesforce Data Skew: What to Do When Prevention Is Already Too Late
New Salesforce admins inheriting legacy orgs often encounter data skew, where thousands of child records or ownership concentrate on a single parent or user, causing locking errors, slow page loads, and long sharing recalculations. The article outlines how to diagnose...
National Grid's Billion‑Dollar SAP Rollout Ends in Disaster
National Grid's billion-dollar SAP implementation failed spectacularly. Publicly announced results and media reports confirmed the costly go-live disaster. #SAP #BusinessFailures https://t.co/IybdVo9hla
Why Late Change Management Dooms ERP Transformation Projects
Public‑sector ERP programs are increasingly missing business‑outcome targets, with Gartner projecting that over 70% of new implementations will fall short by 2027. The primary culprit is late‑stage change management: organizations focus on technology delivery while postponing the hard work of...
Sage Future 2026: Julie Adams
At Sage Future 2026 in San Francisco, Sage SVP of Construction Julie Adams discussed how AI is reshaping construction ERP. She emphasized that AI‑driven ERP can make project planning more agile, improve communication, and boost remote collaboration. Adams also called for continuous...