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
Pilot Turns to NCR Voyix in a POS Modernization Move
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, improving performance, uptime, and security for its 1.2 million daily customers. NCR Voyix, newly independent after its 2023 spin‑off, will provide its Voyix Commerce Platform to power the transformation. The deal follows recent POS upgrades by NCR Voyix for other large retailers, signaling a broader push into the convenience‑store market.
No‑code AI Agents Abstract Engineering, Not Eliminate It
🚫 “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...
AWS Model Privacy: Risks of Insider Access and Data Leakage
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...
“If You Wanted to Have Civil Disobedience and Start the Process of Unraveling a Society, We're a Pretty Big Target”:...
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...
Agent Development Kit Unlocks Powerful Cross‑tool Automations
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
Build Efficient Multi‑Agent Workflows with Kiro CLI
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
Why Warehouse Insight Is the Go-To Mobile WMS Solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central Users
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...
Building the ROI Case for AP Automation – Webinar Highlights
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...
New Google Workspace CLI Gains 9k Stars in Day
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
80% of Fortune 500 Deploy Low‑Code AI Agents
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
Codenotary Trust Delivers Autonomous AI Security for Linux and Kubernetes
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...
Exclusive: IManage Expands Insight+ with Enterprise‑wide Context and Data Warehouse Connectivity
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 Closes $30M Series A to Address Enterprise Data Quality Challenges
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 Built a RAG Agent It Says Can Handle Every Kind of Enterprise Search
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 Adds Malicious Browser Extension Detection to Block Threats in Employee Browsers
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...
How Ledge Reached $1M ARR with 24 Customers Paying $3K/Month | Tal Kirschenbaum
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 Announces 6 New Agentforce Health Agents and Integrations with Verily, HealthEx, and Viz.ai
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,...
Ending the "Silent Drop": How Dynamic Path MTU Discovery Makes the Cloudflare One Client More Resilient
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 Launches Qmatic Aiva – AI Voice Agent for Enterprise Customer Journeys
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...
How 1,000+ Customer Calls Shaped a Breakout Enterprise AI Startup
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 Team up to Bring Verifiable AI Analysts to Enterprise Cybersecurity Operations
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 Raises $30M From Andreessen Horowitz and Others to Automate Enterprise Procurement
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’s Full-Stack Ambition Is Bigger than Consumer Finance Alone
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...
Lack of Regulatory Action on Hyperscaler Dominance Prompts Inquiry Chair to Quit
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...
Your AI Agents Can Talk to Each Other - but Are They Saying Anything Useful? Confluent Intelligence Aims for Insight
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...
Where Multi-Factor Authentication Stops and Credential Abuse Starts
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 Adds AI Intelligence Layer to SAP SuccessFactors
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 Joins the Workday Innovation Partner Program
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...
M3ter Expands Integration With Salesforce to Support Advanced Usage Monetization in Agentforce Revenue Management
m3ter announced that its Connector for Salesforce now integrates with Revenue Cloud Advanced and Revenue Cloud Billing, extending support beyond Agentforce Sales and CPQ. Salesforce has appointed m3ter as an advanced metering and rating partner for both RCA and RCB,...
HD Hyundai Selects Siemens Xcelerator for Integrated Digital Shipbuilding Platform
HD Hyundai’s shipbuilding arm, HD KSOE, has selected Siemens’ Xcelerator platform to create an integrated digital shipbuilding environment. The platform will provide a unified data backbone linking CAD, PLM, digital manufacturing, automation and simulation, eliminating data discontinuities from design through...
The Great Security Culture Shift: Building a Proactive Defense in an Era of Advanced Threats and Social Engineering
The article highlights a surge in DLL side‑loading attacks delivered through LinkedIn Messenger, where malicious PDFs bypass traditional endpoint defenses. It reveals that 66% of malware infections occur on devices already equipped with endpoint protection, exposing gaps in reactive security...
How to Build Trust Into Automation at Scale
Autonomous robots are moving from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments across warehouses, retail and healthcare, turning robotics‑as‑a‑service into a core managed‑service offering. As fleets grow, each additional machine widens the attack surface, blurring IT and OT responsibilities and exposing misconfigurations,...
Homeostatic Compliance Management in GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate
GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate introduces a homeostatic compliance model that turns compliance from a periodic check into a continuous, adaptive system. It integrates regulatory intelligence, structured obligation management, digital twins, and agentic AI to sense, interpret, and orchestrate changes across...
Cloud Migration Boosts Relevance, Not Savings
Modernizing your tech stack and investing in new platforms might not save you money long-term. Moving to the cloud can keep you relevant, but expect increased costs. #CloudMigration #TechCosts https://t.co/A83D0Fky42
A QUICker SASE Client: Re-Building Proxy Mode
Cloudflare has rebuilt the proxy mode of its Cloudflare One client, swapping the WireGuard‑based L3 tunnel for direct L4 proxying over QUIC. By leveraging HTTP/3 CONNECT and MASQUE, traffic remains at the transport layer, eliminating the smoltcp conversion step. Internal...
Post Office Awards Non-Horizon Modernisation Work to Accenture
The Post Office has awarded a £45 million three‑year contract to Accenture to modernise its back‑office IT applications, covering finance, HR, data management and process automation via cloud solutions. The agreement, running from 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2029, excludes the controversial Horizon system....
544 Enterprises. One Number That Matters: 22.8%
HyperFRAME’s 1H 2026 enterprise AI survey of 544 firms shows only 22.8 % of AI/ML projects launched in the past year are successfully deployed and meeting ROI, leaving a 77 % execution gap. The data, released openly without gating, highlights that most failures...
Outdated IT Policies Still Block AI, Others Deploy Freely
It is amazing how many companies I talk to STILL have AI effectively blocked by IT & legal departments for out-of-date reasons when many companies in highly regulated industries have figured out ways to deploy enterprise ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini...
AI Operating Model Overlay Playbook
The AI Operating Model Overlay Playbook introduces a plug‑in framework that adds AI‑specific decision points, controls, and evidence requirements to an enterprise’s existing IT operating model. It defines tiered delivery pathways, standard artifact sets, and post‑go‑live monitoring to make AI...
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Telematics Integration for D365BC; Rental AI Agents; Order Management; CE Packaged Offering
RUX Software introduced RUX Telemetics, a new integration that links Samsara and Azuga telematics platforms directly with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for U.S. and Canadian customers. The solution consolidates equipment location, usage, and financial data within Business Central, enabling...
AI Accelerates Vulnerability Fixes, Sparking Dual Optimism
Being at UnpromptedAI conference in SF this week seeing extent of using AI for vulnerability discovery and for accelerating fixes has me want to make a slight correction to this post: 1. I am short term *very* pessimistic 2. I am *even...
Why Workday Implementations Fail to Deliver ROI — and How to Fix It
Workday implementations often fall short of ROI because organizations neglect data integrity, fail to redesign processes, and underutilize standard configurations and pre‑built connectors. Poor data quality can trigger compliance issues, while custom integrations inflate development time and cost. Leveraging Workday’s...
Systems Design and the Semantic Revolution
The article revisits Postel’s Law—strict sending, generous receiving—as the foundation of internet interoperability and argues it now underpins the semantic revolution driven by large language models (LLMs). After costly cycles of syntax‑focused standards like XML and blockchain, LLMs are tackling...
Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkey Login on Windows 11
Bitwarden announced native support for Windows 11 passkey login, letting users authenticate with credentials stored in their encrypted vault. The feature works across all plans, including the free tier, and uses a QR‑code flow to confirm the passkey on a mobile...
From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Impact at GTC
Heading to @nvidia #GTC. I’m looking beyond the headlines to what actually matters for enterprises: • AI infrastructure for production workloads • Model efficiency + cost economics • Agentic systems in real workflows • Governance, security, and risk • Customer deployments at scale AI is shifting...
Phoenix Taps Adobe DX To Unify Websites, Streamline Services
Phoenix consolidated 44 department websites into a single phoenix.gov portal using Adobe Experience Manager, completing a four‑year transformation that shifted the site to a resident‑first model. The new platform lets roughly 60 departments manage content directly, cutting page‑update times from...
Mail2Shell Zero-Click Attack Lets Hackers Hijack FreeScout Mail Servers
Researchers at OX Security disclosed a maximum‑severity zero‑click vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑28289) in the open‑source FreeScout help‑desk platform. By embedding a zero‑width space before a malicious filename, attackers can bypass recent upload filters and achieve remote code execution through a single crafted...
Google’s AI‑Driven Playbook for Modern Security Threats
How Google approaches critical security topics, from fundamentals to AI https://t.co/4JCmvNxF8E < we're always learning things about new threats, new (and proven) techniques to respond with. @royalhansen takes a look here.
CMiC Launches AI-Powered Construction ERP to Improve Processes
CMiC unveiled NEXUS, an AI‑powered construction ERP that integrates more than 25 intelligent agents, natural language processing, and embedded analytics across its financial and project management suite. The platform automates document handling, drawing classification, submittal creation, and financial reporting, turning...
Microsoft Expands Sovereign Cloud Capabilities to Support AI Models
Microsoft announced a major expansion of its sovereign‑cloud portfolio, adding Foundry Local for on‑device AI inference and making Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local globally available in disconnected environments. The new services let qualified customers run large AI models and core...