Today's Enterprise Pulse
Workday launches Adaptive Decision Intelligence AI layer
Workday unveiled Adaptive Decision Intelligence, an AI‑driven layer that unifies planning questions, scenario modeling, and decision execution in a single interface. The cloud add‑on lets users pose natural‑language queries across finance, HR and operations data, delivering real‑time insights and recommended actions. It is offered as an optional upgrade for existing Workday customers.
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By the numbers: Fortress acquires IP licensing firm IPValue
Krikey AI Achieves SOC2 Compliance, Strengthening Security Assurance for Its Professional AI Animation Generator
Krikey AI announced it has earned SOC2 Type II certification and Amazon Web Services Nonprofit and Education competency badges, confirming its 3D animation generator meets rigorous security and operational standards. The certifications validate institutional‑grade data protection for enterprises, schools, and nonprofit organizations using the platform to create high‑fidelity explainer videos. CEO Jhanvi Shriram highlighted that the achievement lets users focus on storytelling while trusting the platform’s privacy safeguards. Krikey AI also touts one‑click translation and scalable AI‑driven production, positioning it as a secure, enterprise‑ready video creation tool.
Bell Cyber and Radware Expand AI-Driven, Cloud-Delivered Security Services
Bell Cyber and Radware have launched an AI‑driven, cloud‑delivered security service that merges Radware’s machine‑learning application protection with Bell Cyber’s fully managed SOC operations. The offering safeguards web applications, APIs, bots and DDoS attacks for ERP and SaaS environments while...
Service Is Everyone’s Problem Now – Why the Atlassian Service Collection Matters
South African tech leaders are grappling with rising service expectations while keeping teams lean, and the problem now spans IT, HR, facilities and customer service. Fragmented onboarding and ticket handoffs create visibility gaps that slow resolution. Atlassian’s Service Collection bundles...
Telefónica Accelerates Its Transformation to Autonomous Networks
Telefónica announced that its Autonomous Network Journey (ANJ) programme has far exceeded its original expectations, delivering twelve Level 4 use cases that are now fully operational. The company measures autonomy across six network domains and aims for an average maturity of...
B Contact Center WFM Maturity Assessment Framework
The B Contact Center WFM Maturity Assessment Framework provides a structured, evidence‑based method to gauge workforce management capabilities across ten weighted domains. It combines a multi‑rater scoring model, configurable domain and assessor weights, and a five‑point rubric to generate a...
Zoho Showcases Top SaaS Defense Against AI
Zoho just delivered the best SaaS defense vs. AI |- @LDignan with his takeaways from @Zoho Analyst Day #1 @ConstellationR https://t.co/U74M6lfkGv #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/y1mE1x4fZi
Thomas Peer on Building Long-Term Relationships and Trust
Thomas Peer Solutions has teamed with Wasabi to deliver immutable cloud‑based backups that protect enterprise data against ransomware and other disruptions. CEO Udara Dharmadasa emphasizes selling the solution to C‑suite executives by framing it in terms of risk mitigation, ROI...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blogs: Keyboard Access Keys; Basic Auth SMTP Going Away; Accounts Payable; Posting Dates
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central highlighted four recent blog topics: keyboard access keys that speed navigation, the upcoming retirement of Basic Authentication for SMTP in Exchange Online, streamlined accounts‑payable processes, and stricter posting‑date discipline for month‑end closes. The access‑key feature...
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 Brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 now officially supports Oracle Database Appliance, extending enterprise Kubernetes to Oracle’s engineered on‑prem system. The integration lets organizations run containerized workloads directly on ODA, combining Red Hat’s orchestration with Oracle’s optimized database hardware. By unifying the application and...
Supply Chain Attack Secretly Installs OpenClaw for Cline Users
Dark Reading reported that the npm package for Cline version 2.3.0 was compromised, causing it to silently download the OpenClaw tool during an eight‑hour window. The breach stemmed from a prompt‑injection flaw that allowed an attacker to steal release tokens and...
Deltek Vantagepoint Recognized as a Top ERP Solution in G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards
Deltek Vantagepoint has been named a G2 Best ERP Software Product for 2026, based on verified customer feedback. The award highlights the platform’s strong adoption among architecture, engineering, and professional services firms. Vantagepoint unifies CRM, project management, resource planning, financials,...
Dock Health Introduces Its Productivity Platform at Mayo Clinic to Modernize Operational Workflows
Dock Health announced that its productivity platform is now deployed at Mayo Clinic to automate referral and specialty workflows across cardiovascular, e‑consult and contract programs. The solution creates structured, real‑time workflows that trigger when orders enter the EHR, automatically assigning...
Homeostatic Third-Party GRC in GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate
GRC is evolving from static third‑party risk management to a homeostatic, ecosystem‑wide approach that treats suppliers, cloud providers and partners as living nodes within an extended enterprise. GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate introduces a digital twin that maps interdependent relationships, objectives and...
How Insurers Scale Agentic AI Safely Across Their Operating Model with Orchestration
Insurance carriers are moving from isolated AI pilots to enterprise‑wide agentic AI, but they lack a coordination layer that embeds agents into core workflows. Agentic orchestration merges deterministic process control with dynamic AI behavior, enabling safe, regulated automation across claims,...
Komprise Accelerates Agentic AI With Serverless Compute for Unstructured Data
Komprise unveiled KAPPA, a serverless compute service that lets enterprises enrich metadata for unstructured data with just a few lines of Python code. The offering automates scaling and execution across petabyte‑scale datasets, eliminating the need for traditional ETL pipelines. KAPPA...
Accenture Wins Competition-Free £54m From Post Office
The UK Post Office has awarded Accenture a £54 million, competition‑free contract to manage its back‑office IT services from April 2026 through June 2029. The deal covers finance, ERP, HR, process automation and application modernisation across more than 11,500 branches, but excludes the...
WaveMaker Fuses Design and Development with Architecture-First Agentic Application Generation System for Enterprise Dev Teams
WaveMaker unveiled an agentic application generation system that blends AI‑driven code creation with a design‑first, architecture‑first methodology for enterprise developers. The hybrid IDE accepts Figma files and natural‑language prompts, producing tech‑stack‑agnostic markup that is validated before deterministic code generation. By...
KPMG Launches Tax AI Accelerator Program to Advance Generative AI in Corporate Tax
KPMG has introduced a Tax AI Accelerator Program that equips corporate tax departments with generative‑AI skills and a custom Digital Gateway deployment on Microsoft Azure OpenAI. The initiative blends technical training, prompt‑engineering workshops, and a secure sandbox where participants test...
Moderne Expands Agent Tools Platform with Python Support
Moderne announced Python language support on its Agent Tools platform, integrating the language into the OpenRewrite Lossless Semantic Tree. The addition extends deterministic, recipe‑driven automation—previously limited to Java and JavaScript/TypeScript—to Python codebases. Enterprises can now coordinate large‑scale runtime upgrades, API...
Google Blocked over 1.75 Million Play Store App Submissions in 2025
Google reported that in 2025 it blocked more than 1.75 million app submissions and denied 255,000 apps access to sensitive user data on the Play Store. The company also banned over 80,000 developer accounts and added 10,000 new safety checks powered...
Saving Banks From Technical Debt: How Atruvia Built Secure, Self-Service Infrastructure
Atruvia, the backbone of over 900 German cooperative banks, tackled massive technical debt by adopting HashiCorp Terraform and Vault. The shift to infrastructure‑as‑code slashed cluster provisioning from three months to two hours and cut network setup from weeks to minutes....
How to Create a Mobile Device Management Policy for Your Org
Mobile device management (MDM) policies are now a core governance tool for protecting data across corporate, BYOD, and hybrid workforces. The guide outlines five essential steps—defining purpose, engaging stakeholders, drafting usage rules, setting enforcement, and ongoing review—to build a robust...
Ask the Problem First, Then Match Tools
This is an interesting thread. Everyone is suggesting tools to solve the problem. I’d start by asking more about the data and the questions the customer is trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve first before recommending...
Associated Wholesale Grocers Adopts Forecasting and Fresh Optimization Solution
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has chosen Relex’s forecasting and fresh‑product optimization platform to improve distribution‑center planning across its extensive network. The solution targets the cooperative’s 1,100 supermarket members operating in 3,500 locations across 33 states, aiming to boost forecast accuracy,...
Mastering Serverless Data Pipelines: AWS Step Functions Best Practices for 2026
AWS Step Functions has become the backbone of serverless data pipelines, offering two workflow models—Standard for long‑running, exactly‑once jobs and Express for high‑frequency, short‑lived tasks. The article outlines best‑practice patterns such as the Claim Check for large payloads, using intrinsic...
Should Enterprises Upgrade to Windows 11 Now?
Enterprises face a critical decision as Windows 10 support ends in October 2025, prompting many to accelerate Windows 11 migration plans. The upgrade demands comprehensive hardware inventories to meet TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and higher memory and storage thresholds, as well as extensive application compatibility...
The New Geography of Enterprise Risk
Enterprises are seeing risk migrate from downstream system failures to upstream decision‑making as software adoption cycles shrink. Identity and access management, once a gatekeeper for core systems, now sits at the top of the IT stack, shaping workflows, roles, and...
Customers Pay for Best Practices, Not Just Code
This is a quick question with an equally quick answer— nothing. It’s just like what happened to the movie industry when the camcorder came out. Why? It’s not the camera, it’s where you point it. Traditional software companies do not...
ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Data Prep to Transform How Teams Profile, Mash Up, and Secure Data for AI Workloads
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....
Adronite Secures $5M Series A to Scale AI Code Platform
Adronite announced a $5 million Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, appointing Gatemore’s Liad Meidar as board chair. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered platform that scans entire software codebases across more than 20 languages, delivering deterministic, explainable...
Execution, Not Chat: How Agentic AI Changes Supply Chain Operations
Agentic AI is shifting supply chain management from advisory chatbots to autonomous execution across ERP, WMS, and TMS systems. By embedding bounded autonomy, situational awareness, and direct action authority, these agents compress the detect‑decide‑act loop and reduce the costly “execution...
London Market Brokers Favour Technologically Forward Insurers: Guidewire
A Guidewire survey of over 250 London Market brokers reveals that 78% now weigh an insurer’s digital efficiency heavily when placing risk. Brokers cite outdated technology as the top barrier to modernization, with 24% highlighting legacy cores. AI-driven automation, especially...
Kong and Solace Partner to Unify API and Real-Time Data and Event Streaming
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...
GameChange Solar Launches GeniusShip Logistics Aide
GameChange Solar introduced GeniusShip, a logistics platform that tags every delivery with a unique QR code, delivering component‑level data to site teams. The system provides real‑time calculations of installation zones, automatically adjusting to on‑site constraints. By improving material visibility and...
Urgent Buyers, Internal Use Prove True Product‑Market Fit
My top 7 takeaways from my chat with Adam Markowitz who built Drata from from zero to $100M ARR in 4 years (8,000+ customers): 1. Product-market fit shows in buyer urgency, not just signups. Adam's edtech startup took years to...
Unified Dashboard Revives Dead Brands, Eliminates Data Gaps
Are legacy methods hindering your 'Dead Brands' revival? Fragmented data creates visibility gaps. SAP Business One offers one dashboard for real-time intelligence. Book a meeting with David Strausser. https://t.co/ZsEwnG4p2n https://t.co/j2FzRIidUf
When Is Windows 10 End of Life? How to Extend Support
Microsoft will cease mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14 2025, forcing enterprises to choose between upgrading to Windows 11, purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESU), or retiring legacy hardware. ESU offers up to three years of security patches but excludes new features and...
AI Agents Trigger Enterprise Platform Reset by 2026
My latest research: The Great CIO Platform Reset: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing a 2026 Reckoning https://t.co/5nUzVNyJb8 Bottom line: AI agents are reshaping enterprise platform strategy.
Sovereign Stacks: Balancing Scale, Regulation, and Control
#CIOChat Q3: Data residency, sovereignty mandates, and geopolitical risk are rapidly reshaping architectural decisions right now. Are we entering a “sovereign stack” era? How are you balancing hyperscaler scale with regulatory exposure and enterprise control? https://t.co/VK5lLC7gA0
ProEnergy Supply, OpenSolar Partner on Distributor Inventory Platform
ProEnergy Supply (PES) has launched an AI‑driven transactional gateway that integrates directly with OpenSolar’s new Shop platform, allowing solar designers to purchase equipment in real time. The solution connects live inventory to distributors’ ERP systems, reaching over 28,000 active solar...
Use Your Product First; Proof Builds Trust and Growth
He refused to sell his product until his team used it themselves first. Then 100 customers signed in 6 weeks. 1,000 in year one. @markowitzadam built @DrataHQ to $100M+ ARR by proving trust with evidence - not promises. https://t.co/MZNP2TLl8H
PANW Posts Explosive Growth, $30B M&A Pending
$PANW: TR +15%, Product Rev +22%, TTM Software Firewall +42%, RPO +22% and 110 new platformization deals w/conserve but DD guides. $30B worth of M&A hasn't even kicked in yet.
Google's Air Gapped Cloud Gets "Public-Like" Networking
Google Cloud has unveiled a new networking layer that gives its air‑gapped, confidential computing environments public‑like connectivity. The feature leverages zero‑trust VPC Service Controls to keep workloads isolated while allowing them to communicate with external services as if they were...
Product-Market Fit: From Edtech Vitamin to $100M Painkiller
In this episode, Adam Markowitz recounts his transition from a decade‑long edtech venture to building Drata, a compliance automation platform that quickly proved its product‑market fit as a painkiller rather than a vitamin. He explains how rigorous validation—dog‑fooding the product...
The 'Last-Mile' Data Problem Is Stalling Enterprise Agentic AI — 'Golden Pipelines' Aim to Fix It
Enterprise AI is hitting a ‘last‑mile’ data bottleneck as messy operational data hampers model inference. Empromptu’s ‘golden pipelines’ embed automated ingestion, cleaning, labeling and governance directly into the AI application workflow, shrinking data‑preparation cycles from weeks to under an hour....
Q1 2026 ConstellationR ShortList Refreshes
The Q1 2026 @ConstellationR ShortList™ updates are live. 43 enterprise tech categories refreshed — including new lists across Autonomous IT, AI App Dev Platforms, GenAI Content, CPaaS, and Revenue Intelligence. Explore the vendors shaping what’s next: https://t.co/XJnXbGwKL7 #AI #EnterpriseTech
How MSPs Can Ensure Regulatory Compliance and Secure Sensitive Data
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) serving healthcare, finance and legal sectors must embed regulatory expertise into every service layer to meet HIPAA, SEC, FINRA and related compliance mandates. The article outlines how MSPs can implement encryption, MFA, role‑based access, documentation and...
Aurasell Launches AI-Native OS for GTM Workflows
Aurasell announced the launch of the world’s first AI‑native Go‑To‑Market Operating System (GTM OS) that layers intelligent, automated workflows onto any existing CRM such as Salesforce or HubSpot. The platform promises to double productivity and deliver measurable impact within two...
When Excellent Technology Architecture Fails to Deliver Business Results
Large enterprises now standardize clean, cloud‑first technology architectures, yet many digital transformations still miss their business targets. The piece explains that the failure stems not from technical flaws but from architecture being sidelined during day‑to‑day decision making, where cost, risk...
Bonterms Launches Docusign IAM Extension App
Bonterms has introduced a DocuSign IAM extension that links its library of standard agreements and guided‑negotiation playbooks directly to DocuSign’s webform and Navigator platform. The app enables users to launch a deal, negotiate terms, sign electronically, and automatically sync contracts...