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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9 Ways to Ensure Regulatory Compliance in Cloud Storage
Cloud storage compliance has become a top priority for IT leaders in 2026 as organizations increasingly rely on remote data repositories. Rising regulatory scrutiny—spanning GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CCPA and others—means non‑compliance can trigger hefty fines, reputational harm, and operational disruption. The article outlines nine actionable steps, from mapping regulations and selecting certified providers to encrypting data, enforcing RBAC, and centralizing policies across multi‑cloud environments. Continuous monitoring and vendor risk management are emphasized to keep compliance programs agile and audit‑ready.
Agentic Cloud Operations: A New Way to Run the Cloud
Microsoft introduced Azure Copilot’s agentic cloud operations, an AI‑driven model that embeds intelligent agents into the entire cloud lifecycle. The agents translate telemetry from health, cost, performance, and security into coordinated actions, covering migration, deployment, observability, optimization, resiliency, and troubleshooting....
HG's Acquisition of OneStream
Hg has completed the acquisition of OneStream for $6.4 billion, paying $24 per share—a 31% premium to the prior market price. The deal positions Hg as a major player in corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence, leveraging its software expertise...
Republic Power Group Partners with NVT to Bridge ERP Platforms and Blockchain-Based Capital Markets
Singapore‑based Republic Power Group Limited (RPGL) has signed a non‑binding MOU with Hong Kong fintech NVT to integrate NVT’s regulated real‑world asset tokenization platform with RPGL’s ERP solutions across Asia. The collaboration aims to embed blockchain‑enabled capital‑market services into existing...
Review: Box Facilitates Secure Collaboration for Healthcare Workers
Box Intelligent Content Management delivers a cloud‑based, zero‑trust platform tailored for healthcare’s strict security and compliance needs. The solution unifies over 1,500 integrations, enabling seamless collaboration between Office 365, Google Workspace and other systems while providing built‑in e‑signatures and workflow automation....
SmartBear Partners with Carahsoft
SmartBear announced an expanded partnership with Carahsoft, designating the latter as its Master Government Aggregator for federal, state and local agencies. The agreement routes SmartBear’s API development, automated testing and application monitoring solutions—including ReadyAPI, TestComplete, Swagger, Reflect, BugSnag and Zephyr—through...
Forterro Defies European IT Spending Caution with Strong Cloud and AI-Driven Growth in 2025
Forterro posted €375 million in 2025 revenue, delivering double‑digit growth in sales, recurring revenue, and bookings despite a cautious European IT climate. Cloud bookings surged 30% year‑over‑year, pushing recurring revenue to 74% of total. Net revenue retention hit 114% and gross...
Three Strategies for Designing an E-Procurement System: Lessons Learned in Nuevo León, Mexico
Nuevo León’s Ministry of Administration, with the Open Contracting Partnership, launched a three‑stage e‑procurement redesign that began with a deep, collaborative diagnosis of existing processes, moved to a data‑driven functional and modular design, and concluded with a market‑engagement phase using...
CVE-2026-21514: Actively Exploited Word Flaw Evades OLE Security
Microsoft disclosed CVE‑2026‑21514, an actively exploited vulnerability in Word that bypasses Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) security controls. The flaw lets specially crafted documents execute code without triggering Protected View or enable‑content prompts, requiring only a user to open the...
CGI Expands Global Alliance with Google Cloud to Help Businesses with Gemini AI
CGI has broadened its multi‑year alliance with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Gemini agentic AI platform. The expansion equips tens of thousands of CGI consultants with Gemini Enterprise and funds joint workshops, hackathons, and training programs. It...
Big Bang Vs. Phased ERP Implementation: Which Is Best?
Choosing between a big‑bang and a phased ERP implementation is a pivotal decision for C‑suite leaders. A big‑bang rollout delivers the entire system at once, eliminating interim integrations but carries high risk of cost overruns and delayed user feedback. A...
Black Duck Signs MSSP Agreement with Accenture
Black Duck announced a managed security service provider (MSSP) agreement with Accenture, designating the Black Duck Polaris platform as the standard tool for Accenture’s Application Security Practice. Polaris combines static, dynamic, and software composition analysis into a single SaaS offering,...
Scaling Generative AI Requires Strategy, Governance, and Skills
Scaling generative AI requires more than technical ambition, because impact grows when strategy, data discipline, governance, and skills evolve together, allowing experimentation to mature into reliable systems that support durable business value. @Gartner_inc via @antgrasso https://t.co/Wq5F95ZYJs
Chatbots Automate UI, Not Experience; Orchestration Is Key
Chat agents automated the interface, not the experience. The hard part isn’t the conversation. It’s workflow orchestration. https://t.co/FfdWO6WYov
Complyance Raises $20M to Help Companies Manage Risk and Compliance
Complyance, a Boston‑based AI‑native governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform, closed a $20 million Series A round led by GV. The solution embeds AI agents into existing tech stacks to automate continuous data‑compliance checks and third‑party risk assessments, cutting audit cycles from...
Exclusive: Winn.ai Raises $18M Series A For AI-Powered Real-Time Sales Assistant
Winn.ai, a Tel Aviv‑based AI sales‑assistant startup, closed an $18 million Series A round. The financing was co‑led by Insight Partners, S Capital and Mangusta Capital, raising total capital to $35 million since its 2022 launch. Winn’s real‑time AI co‑pilot guides reps during...
Beyond Chatbots: How Cara Becomes Your Best CSR
In this episode, Nikhil Kansal, Co‑Founder & CTO of Cara, explains how AI can move beyond chatbots to act as a reliable Customer Service Representative (CSR) that completes end‑to‑end insurance service tasks. He highlights Cara’s role as a coordinating layer...
Cisco Looses Splunk to Probe and Tame Its Growing Agentic Menagerie
Cisco announced an AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk Observability Cloud, visualising LLM and agent workflows while tracking performance, cost, and behaviour. The tool integrates with Cisco's AI Defense suite, which just became generally available and now includes Model Context...
February Patches for Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft released February 2026 patches for its self‑hosted Azure DevOps Server suite, covering the core product and the 2022.2, 2020.1.2, and 2019.1.2 releases. Each patch is available via direct download links and includes detailed release notes. The company urges all...
When AI Writes Code, Who's Accountable for Quality? | Mabl
AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Copilot now generate features and tests in minutes, dramatically boosting engineering velocity. However, when test outcomes become the sole decision signal for autonomous agents, organizations face hidden risks like logic drift, excessive manual...
Kong Launches Context Mesh
Kong introduced Context Mesh, a new component of its AI Connectivity platform that automatically discovers enterprise APIs, converts them into Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolkits, and deploys those tools through the AI Gateway with built‑in governance. The service leverages existing...
Planview Releases Connected Work Graph to Provide Insights Into Relationships Across Teams and Initiatives
Planview unveiled its Connected Work Graph, an AI‑driven module embedded in the Planview Anvi platform. The solution maps relationships across OKRs, initiatives, teams, and resources, delivering real‑time visualizations of dependencies. By continuously analyzing millions of work connections, it flags bottlenecks...
GitLab CEO on Why AI Isn’t Helping Enterprise Ship Code Faster
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says AI coding assistants haven’t accelerated enterprise software delivery because developers spend only 10‑20% of their day writing code. The remaining 80‑90% involves reviews, pipeline runs, security and compliance checks that remain untouched by AI. GitLab’s...
Oracle Expands Cloud SCM Capabilities to Address Complex Needs of Process Manufacturers
Oracle announced new capabilities in its Fusion Cloud SCM suite tailored for process manufacturers. The updates introduce AI‑assisted recipe synchronization, dynamic batch sizing, and granular yield modeling to handle blending, mixing, and batch‑based production. Enhanced traceability features include lot‑specific unit‑of‑measure...
SITA Unveils Flight Delay Solution
SITA launched an Advance Flight Delay Notification API that leverages live departure data and flight‑duration logic to predict delays and push alerts to destination airports. The service automates early warnings, enabling airlines and ground handlers to adjust turnarounds, crew schedules,...
What CFOs Can Do to Close the Cyber-ERM Integration Gap
A new APQC study shows only 41% of firms integrate cybersecurity into enterprise risk management (ERM), leaving a critical visibility gap. The report highlights that merely 23% apply unified risk structures to suppliers, despite third‑party breaches rising. CFOs can close...
NinjaOne Adds IT Asset Management to Close Cost, Risk, and Visibility Gaps
NinjaOne has launched a native IT Asset Management (ITAM) module that is built directly into its existing platform rather than as a separate add‑on. The integrated solution gives IT teams a real‑time, unified view of hardware, software, SaaS and cloud...
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock has launched Vela, a self‑hostable platform that provides instant, Git‑style branching for PostgreSQL databases without copying data. The solution leverages copy‑on‑write on local NVMe storage and deep Kubernetes integration to deliver high‑performance, low‑latency environments. Vela targets AI workloads that...
Health First’s Carr Weaves Tapestry for Integrated Payer-Provider Platform
In this episode, Michael Carr, VP and CIO of Health First, discusses the organization’s integrated payer‑provider platform built on Epic’s suite, including the provider rollout and the Epic Tapestry health‑plan implementation. He highlights how consolidating nine disparate systems into a...
ARC Forum Day One: Why Assisted Supply Chain Operations Are Reaching Their Limits
Day one of the ARC Forum highlighted that assisted supply chain operations, while delivering improved visibility and faster alerts, are hitting practical limits. Decision support tools generate actionable insights, yet translating them into coordinated actions remains slow due to functional...
Savage Giving Specific IT Power Back to the State Agencies
In this episode, Maryland CIO Katie Savage discusses how the state is balancing the creation of centralized enterprise IT services with the need to empower individual agencies to retain specialized technology expertise. She outlines the strategies used to standardize core...
Beyond the Hype: Finding Your AI North Star in the Enterprise
The article warns that AI hype in large enterprises has faded, leaving many learning‑and‑development (L&D) teams stuck in “pilot purgatory.” Without a unifying business objective, experiments become siloed, wasteful, and generate change fatigue. The author proposes an AI North Star—a...
From Messy to Modular: Rebuilding Filters in React
Harness rebuilt its execution‑listing filters with a modular React component built on the Context API. The new system replaces a hidden side‑panel legacy UI that lost state on refresh with a discoverable, type‑safe framework. It centralizes filter state in a...
Salesforce Puts Heroku Out to PaaSture
Salesforce announced it will cease developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service, moving the product to a sustaining‑engineering model that emphasizes stability, security and support. Existing customers can keep using and renewing Heroku, but the company will no longer sell...
Should You Really Vibe Code a TMS?
In this episode Adrian Gonzalez examines the modern "build vs. buy" dilemma for transportation management systems (TMS) in the age of AI‑driven vibe coding. He references Dave Clark’s rapid custom CRM build and recent market jitters over AI’s impact on...
Inside Microsoft’s 2026 MS365 Retirements: What MSPs Need to Manage Now
Microsoft has announced a series of MS365 feature retirements for 2026, including the removal of SharePoint Alerts and the deprecation of Exchange Web Services. These changes affect a broad set of services such as Teams, SharePoint, Entra, and pricing structures,...
Rethinking Identity Management: From Who Has Access to What Really Matters
Traditional Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) has focused on compliance, but 99% of granted permissions remain unused, creating “Zombie Access”. This compliance‑only approach leads to rubber‑stamping, with 58% of access reviews ineffective, exposing organizations to insider threats. Integrating data governance...
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Port’s View as Feature Lets Org Admins See the Product Through Any User’s Permissions to Reproduce Issues, Validate RBAC, and...
Port introduced a highly requested “View as” feature that lets organization administrators instantly experience the platform with any user’s effective permissions. The tool enables rapid reproduction of permission errors, validation of RBAC changes, and secure troubleshooting without needing screenshots or...
How CIOs Can Surface Innovation, Reduce Duplication, and Scale AI
In this episode of Technovation, Peter High interviews Sean Murphy, founder and CEO of DemoHop, about the hidden challenges of innovation in distributed enterprises. Murphy explains how weak ties and siloed work trap ideas, and how DemoHop’s science‑fair‑style demo days...
Will Oracle Offload Cerner to Fund Datacenters?
A TD Cowen note suggests Oracle could sell its health‑tech unit, formerly Cerner, to finance massive AI datacenter spend. The company faces over $500 billion in capital commitments, including a $300 billion OpenAI contract that alone may require $156 billion in capex. To free...
Federal Agencies Embrace Networking as a Service to Modernize Their Networks
Federal agencies such as CISA and the VA are rapidly adopting Network as a Service (NaaS) to replace legacy network infrastructure. By partnering with FedRAMP‑authorized providers like Cisco Meraki and Juniper Mist, they gain cloud‑native agility, scalable security, and AI‑driven...
Epic’s Infection Prevention Module Needs More TLC Than Others, KLAS Finds
The February 2026 KLAS report reveals that Epic’s infection prevention module, Buggy, lags behind all other Epic inpatient products with an overall performance score of 80.6, and shows a stark divide between IT (91.4) and infection preventionist (73.9) satisfaction. Key...
Creating a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Grounded Capability Model
The article argues that business capabilities are the foundation of enterprise architecture and must be captured in a grounded capability model. A successful model combines top‑down strategic direction with bottom‑up operational validation, creating a stable map that aligns strategy, value...
Hey, Senior PMs: Shipping Faster Won’t Get You Promoted
Senior product managers often equate speed with success, but the article shows that unchecked velocity can erode margins and stall career growth. By examining a $25 M ARR SaaS firm, the author reveals how a focus on feature output ignored the...
There Is a Lot of Knowledge and Wisdom Packed Into Speakeasy's Agent Skills
Speakeasy has released a detailed catalog of Agent Skills that codify the actions needed to generate, test, and manage SDKs and Terraform providers from OpenAPI specs. The list includes steps such as starting new projects, diagnosing failures, customizing runtime behavior,...
Where Is Governance (Guidance) Going?
The article reflects on a recent conversation with product marketer Anna Daugherty about the future of API governance, emphasizing a shift toward consumer‑first perspectives. It introduces "Spotlight rules" as the next evolution of Spectral and Vacuum linting, extending governance beyond...