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
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 and data back to Navigator. Bonterms claims the solution can close NDAs in under five minutes and commercial contracts in under twenty minutes. The extension is now available through the DocuSign App Center.
Using AI to Generate Passwords Is a Terrible Idea, Experts Warn
Cybersecurity firm Irregular found that popular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini generate highly predictable passwords with low entropy. Tests showed repeated strings and narrow character selection, yielding only about 27 bits of entropy for a typical...
ZoomInfo vs UpLead: 2026 Data Comparison
ZoomInfo and UpLead are the two leading B2B data platforms, each catering to different buyer priorities. ZoomInfo boasts the largest U.S. contact database, intent signals, and deep workflow integrations, but its pricing is custom, contract‑based, and credit‑heavy. UpLead offers real‑time...
Pan American World Airways® Chooses Amadeus Technology
Pan American World Airways has signed a Letter of Agreement with Amadeus to serve as its strategic technology partner for the airline’s comeback. Amadeus will provide integrated IT and distribution solutions, covering everything from booking and inventory management to day‑of‑travel...
Why Traditional Upskilling Strategies Fall Short in Cybersecurity
Traditional cybersecurity upskilling programs are losing relevance as threats and technologies evolve rapidly. Ha Hoang, CIO of Commvault, argues that organizations now need hybrid talent that blends security fundamentals with automation, cloud, and data‑governance expertise. Conventional certification‑centric paths are too...
Carbon-Aware Scaling: The Next Competitive Edge in SaaS
SaaS founders must now measure the energy and emissions each customer generates, not just revenue and cloud spend. Continuous workloads, AI inference, and data pipelines are turning software into a major energy consumer, making carbon a direct cost driver. Tools...
UKG and Ellucian Announce Strategic Higher Education Technology Partnership
UKG and Ellucian announced a strategic partnership that links UKG’s Workforce Operating Platform with Ellucian’s ERP and student information systems. The integration enables real‑time data exchange, streamlined workforce operations, and AI‑driven insights for faculty, staff, and student employees. Mutual customers,...
Dayforce Unveils New Brand Campaign That Shrinks the Weight of Work
Dayforce, a global HCM provider, launched the “Tiny Briefcase” brand campaign to illustrate how its AI‑powered platform reduces the burden of fragmented HR systems. The visual metaphor shows professionals weighed down by oversized bags that transform into a tiny briefcase,...
Paine Schwartz Partners Chooses Intapp DealCloud to Accelerate Firm Growth Through AI Innovation
Private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP) has selected Intapp DealCloud to modernize its data, relationship, and pipeline management. With $6.5 billion in assets under management, PSP will use DealCloud’s AI‑driven relationship intelligence, sourcing, and Microsoft SharePoint integration to centralize deal...
How the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill Could Impact MSPs
The UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill (CSRB) cleared its first two parliamentary readings, extending the 2018 NIS Directive to cover Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with at least 50 employees and €10 million turnover—roughly 1,100 firms. The legislation forces these MSPs to...
Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare Launched a Pay-per-Crawl Model
In this episode, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang chat with Cloudflare VP Will Allen about the newly launched pay‑per‑crawl model that lets publishers charge crawlers for access. They explain how AI‑driven content scraping has upended the traditional open‑versus‑block...
More Than 40% of South Africans Were Scammed in 2025
South Africa experienced a staggering 77% scam victimization rate in the 12 months to early 2025, with 42% of adults losing money, averaging $130 per incident. GASA estimates scammers extracted roughly $2.3 billion from over 17.5 million South Africans, equating to about...
Ericsson Strikes Microsoft, AWS Deals for Enterprise 5G
Ericsson announced strategic deals with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services while unveiling a new telecoms innovation R&D centre in Yokohama, Japan. The Microsoft partnership embeds AI‑driven 5G laptop management into Windows 11, using Intune and Ericsson Enterprise 5G Connect to automate connectivity, eSIM...
DBT Increases Adoption of Data Hub
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has lifted adoption of its central CRM platform, Data Hub, through a focused digital‑adoption programme. By aligning the tool with user workflows and delivering on‑demand training, email guidance and a performance dashboard, the...
Customers Have New Expectations. Is Your CX Ready?
Customer experience is evolving as technology delivers practical benefits through better design, integration, and intent. Modern voice bots, unified CX platforms, and structured knowledge bases enable faster, more consistent service while reducing pressure on agents. Proactive, AI‑first approaches shift support...
EGI Innovations Hires Jon Hatchuel as First Aussie Country Manager
eG Innovations, a US‑based software vendor, has appointed Jon Hatchuel as its first country manager in Australia, marking the firm’s first dedicated employee in the market. Hatchuel, who brings over 20 years of senior IT experience, will focus on expanding...
South Africa’s Cybersecurity Challenge Is Not a Tool Problem
South African enterprises are pouring significant budgets into cybersecurity tools, yet breach rates keep rising. The core issue is execution: security teams are overwhelmed by data and lack the capacity to turn visibility into action. Unified platforms like Rapid7’s Command...
Agentic AI Era: Cloud Security Shifts From Asset Protection to Identity-First Zero Trust
At the ETCIO Cloud Summit, leaders from Starbucks India and Jio argued that cloud security must shift from protecting static assets to continuously validating identities, especially as AI agents and autonomous workloads proliferate in hybrid environments. They emphasized that bots,...
Agent Identities Demand New Sandboxing and Access Controls
Agent identities is going to be a super fun and hard problem for software in the coming years. Most agentic systems today assume that the agent can do everything the user can do, and just operate as an extension of...
From Migration to Monetisation: Enterprises Reimagine Business Models on Cloud
Enterprises are moving beyond cloud migration to re‑engineer business models around platformization, monetisation and ecosystem scale. Leaders at the ETCIO Cloud Summit highlighted how insurers, manufacturers and service firms are using APIs, data and product‑centric thinking to unlock new revenue...
AI's Easy; Scaling Software 100x Faster Is the Real Hurdle
What people seem to be struggling with the most is not the truly novel parts of building with AI, it's the table stakes. It's not the AI part that's so hard (turns out systems have never been wholly deterministic 😉), it's...
Expose All Product Surfaces to Empower Agentic Users
How well are you surfacing your product experiences to agents? Enjoying this Bengaluru Builder Day talk from @Swiggy's CTO that's looking at making all their surfaces available to agentic users. https://t.co/o6lDaMS5wd
The Multifamily Operations Tip of the Day: Why Judgment Still Wins in an Automated World
The article argues that while automation can scale multifamily property operations, human judgment remains essential for handling nuance, edge cases, and unpredictable behavior. Operators must balance trusting automated systems with overriding them when necessary. Technology should amplify good decisions rather...
Automated GuardDuty Feature Audit and Enablement in Hours
Vibe coded 🤖 a script to list which AWS GuardDuty features are enabled in minutes. Took 15-30 minutes to correct it. The script to enable disabled features, sub features, and create an s3 malware scan plan took about two hours. See blog...
Perfect Salesforce Data: My Superintelligence Benchmark
Test for superintelligence: when the data in Fivetran’s salesforce is 100% accurate and up to date at all times, I’ll know we’re there.
GlassFish 8 Java Server Boosts Data Access, Concurrency
The Eclipse Foundation announced the final release of GlassFish 8, the reference implementation for Jakarta EE 11. The server now includes Jakarta Data repositories, allowing developers to work with JPA and NoSQL entities through a unified repository pattern. It also...
Smashing Security Podcast #455: Face Off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s Internet Kill Switch
In episode 455 of the Smashing Security podcast, host Graham Cluley and journalist James Ball examine the growing threat of tech sovereignty, questioning whether the United States could effectively shut down Europe’s internet by leveraging Gmail, cloud services, and critical infrastructure. They also...
Transforming Dynamics 365 Marketing Engagement Into Automated Business Workflows
Most firms still rely on manual follow‑up after marketing emails, causing delays and missed opportunities. Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys centralizes interaction data in Dataverse and automates lead scoring using custom triggers linked to Power Automate. By mapping email opens, clicks, form submissions, and event...
Track Vulnerability Remediation with the Updated GitLab Security Dashboard
GitLab’s updated Security Dashboard, now in the 18.9 release, adds advanced filters and visualizations that let teams track vulnerability trends, remediation velocity, and risk scores across projects and groups. The dashboard calculates risk using vulnerability age, EPSS, and KEV data,...
From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Check Batches; Use Copilot in GP; What's Next in Reporting; GP Limitations Slowing Finance
Microsoft Dynamics GP users are confronting three intertwined challenges: check‑batch processing is degrading, Microsoft Copilot is now accessible within GP, and reporting capabilities are evolving while legacy limitations hinder finance teams. A slowdown traced to the PM20100 remittance table can...
Multi-CDN: A Critical Decision for a Resilient Architecture
Recent high‑profile cloud outages have exposed the risks of relying on a single CDN, prompting enterprises to adopt multi‑CDN architectures for resilience and performance. By distributing traffic across multiple providers, companies can automatically reroute around regional failures, maintain SLA compliance,...
Agentic AI, Enterprise Control: Self-Hosted Duo Agent Platform and BYOM
GitLab 18.9 launches a self‑hosted Duo Agent Platform for online cloud license customers, enabling AI‑driven automation while keeping models on‑premise or in approved clouds. The new offering uses a usage‑based billing model powered by GitLab Credits, delivering transparent per‑request metering...
Workiva Inc (WK) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Workiva reported Q4 2025 revenue of $239 million, up 20% year‑over‑year and surpassing the top end of its guidance. Subscription revenue rose 21% to $219 million, driven largely by new customer additions, while non‑GAAP operating margin expanded to 19.1%, beating expectations by...
N-Able Inc (NABL) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
N‑Able reported Q4 2025 revenue of $130 million, a 12% year‑over‑year increase, and ended the year with $540 million in annual recurring revenue, up 12% on a reported basis. Non‑GAAP adjusted EBITDA held steady at a 30% margin, while dollar‑based net revenue retention...
Open Source Liquibase MongoDB Native Executor by Harness
Leveraging its Database DevOps platform, Harness has released an open‑source native MongoDB executor for Liquibase Community Edition. The executor allows teams to run MongoDB scripts, generate changelogs, and embed migrations into CI/CD pipelines without purchasing commercial extensions. Accompanying the tool...
AI Won’t Kill SaaS; Governance Still Essential
Narratives can crush multiples faster than fundamentals change. Markets are pricing “software is dead” as if AI will commoditize SaaS overnight. But enterprises still need governance, permissioning, audit trails, compliance, uptime, and data orchestration. AI may change workflows, but it doesn’t...
Software Stocks Face Fear‑Driven Selloff, Not Real Decline
Software is getting hit on fear of substitution more than evidence of structural deterioration in enterprise spending. When price action gets ahead of reality, the re-rating can be violent if the narrative cools.
Opkey Launches Design Studio for ERP Implementation Planning
Opkey introduced Design Studio, an AI‑driven module within its application lifecycle automation platform that streamlines ERP and HCM implementation planning. The visual canvas embeds more than 20 domain‑specific AI agents to automate discovery, requirements capture, process mapping, and configuration design....
Semantic Layer: Serve Data Like a Menu, Hide Complexity
The semantic layer is like a restaurant menu: you know what you're ordering, but not how it's made. This analogy comes from Maxime Beauchemin and I think it's perfect. Users shouldn't need to understand your star schema to calculate revenue. They should...
Arista Hints at In-the-Works Telemetry Tools to Manage AI Fabrics
Arista Networks announced extensions to its telemetry stack aimed at AI‑driven environments, adding host‑level data such as RDMA counters, NIC buffering, and flow‑control metrics to its CloudVision platform. The new capabilities will merge in‑network and host telemetry into a single,...
Albertsons Outlines Top 4 AI Priorities
Albertsons announced four AI priorities for fiscal 2026—digital customer experience, merchandising, labor, and supply chain—backed by a full cloud migration and unified data platform. Chief technology officer Anuj Dhanda emphasized these are long‑term investments already delivering measurable impact, such as...
Forest Lawn Builds an Integrated Procure-to-Pay Backbone by Connecting Vroozi, NetSuite, and Shopify
Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries has built a fully integrated procure-to-pay backbone by linking Vroozi’s procurement platform with NetSuite ERP and Shopify e‑commerce. The integration automates inventory replenishment, accounts payable, and even service procurement, allowing real‑time updates across systems....
GRC Tools Need Business‑focused Risk, Not Spreadsheet Tickets
There are a lot of new entrants coming into the GRC market right now, which tells you something interesting is happening. But most of what I see still feels like workflow layered on top of spreadsheets. Executives do not need more...
Zoho's OS of Intelligence Unifies Data, Ensures Sovereignty
Zoho’s @rajuv just finished a great presentation describing @Zoho’s systems philosophy, summing up to following 3 key outcomes at #ZohoDay 2026 in Austin. - Operating System of Intelligence - Unified Business Context with live data - Sovereignty by design https://t.co/y6UWOmv1dv
Intel Turns To Microsoft’s Copilot Studio For Partner Support After Dialing Back Phone Use
Intel is launching "Ask Intel," an AI‑driven virtual assistant built on Microsoft’s Copilot Studio, to handle customer and partner support after scaling back phone and social‑media channels. The assistant can open cases, verify warranties and route complex issues to human...
ServiceNow’s $100B Valuation Highlights Massive ITSM Market
Even after the SaaS dip, ServiceNow's market cap is north of $100mil "largely" for internal help desk. I've always been surprised how big the ITSM market is. Am I alone on that one?
Zoho Debuts ERP Targeting Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution, Non‑Profit
It’s official: @Zoho launches Zoho ERP. Zoho is stepping into a quickly evolving space focusing on four verticals: manufacturing, retail, distribution and non-profit. #cio #erp #zohoday26 https://t.co/ZHXSetWIbM
NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2026 Opens Speaker Submission Process
The NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2026 has opened its speaker submission window, inviting senior supply‑chain leaders to present case studies at the event scheduled for Oct. 21‑23, 2026, in Nashville’s W Hotel. The conference’s theme, “Innovate. Upskill. Transform.”, signals a shift...
Zoho Accelerates Growth After Year of Deliberate Expansion
The amount of growth by @Zoho over the past year is incredible. Historically, Zoho has been very deliberate and measured with their expansion. The past year, they hit the gas...big time. #CIO #ERP #ZohoDay26
NewcrossHealth Leverages Zoho Creator for Extensive Use
Listening to @Diginomica's @JonERP interview Mo Umerji of @NewcrossHealth and their usage of @Zoho - no surprise a lot of Creator usage. #ZohoDay26 https://t.co/hhB05jxEhN