Check Point Wants AI Agents to Do What Security Teams Can’t: Manage Networks at Machine Speed
Check Point unveiled its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, an AI‑driven system that converts business intent into real‑time firewall policies and automatically tightens configurations across multi‑vendor environments. The platform relies on a continuously updated Network Knowledge Graph that models each customer’s topology, traffic flows and asset dependencies, enabling agents to reason about the live network rather than generic data. Check Point also announced the acquisition of Deepchecks, a LLM‑evaluation startup, to add a robust monitoring layer for autonomous agents. Early‑access features ship now, with broader rollout slated for the second half of 2026.
Monday's Musings: Future of ERP In An AI Age
Constellation Research warns that AI‑enabled, agentic ERP cannot replace core ERP systems without deep modernization. While agents add intelligence, the data, distribution channels, relationships, and experience embedded in legacy ERP remain critical moats. The firm outlines seven 2027 trends—including deterministic...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Blogs: Product Receipt and Invoice Matching; MRP in the Age...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM) continues to attract attention as analysts dissect core functionalities. Recent blog posts highlight the complexity of product receipt‑invoice matching, the need for disciplined MRP amid market volatility, persistent payment‑processing bottlenecks, and...
AI Tollgates Could Kill the SaaS Seat Model Forever
The enterprise software sector faces a fundamental shift as AI agents replace human users, threatening the traditional per‑seat pricing model that has powered SaaS giants for decades. Vendors are responding with "AI tollgates"—new pricing structures that charge for machine‑driven activities...
Open Source ERP and CRM in 2026: Best Platforms, Tradeoffs, and How to Choose – Shopify
The Shopify guide maps the 2026 open‑source ERP and CRM landscape, explaining how businesses must move beyond popularity metrics to assess fit, licensing models, and internal capabilities. It distinguishes true open source, open‑core, edition‑split and source‑available approaches, then profiles leading...
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Drata is a compliance‑automation platform that connects to over 130 SaaS tools, enabling continuous evidence collection for more than 25 regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI and GDPR. The solution provides a library of 40+ auditor‑approved security policies that...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blogs: Manage D365BC Updates; Email for Guest Users; Integrating with Non-Native CRMs; Financial...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365BC) is rolling out Release Wave 1, version 28, but Microsoft paused the rollout after early bugs surfaced. Administrators can now manage and postpone updates through the admin center, protecting environments from unstable releases. Andy Wingate highlighted a...
Impact of "The Agentforce World Tour" 2026
The Agentforce World Tour 2026 in New York showcased the shift to an “Agentic Enterprise,” where autonomous AI agents collaborate with humans on a single platform. Vendors demonstrated rapid process automation that turns complex diagrams into orchestrated workflows in minutes,...
From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Blogs: Email Notification Type; Account Reconciliation Agent; Integrating with B2B...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management blogs highlighted four practical enhancements. First, a new email notification type lets users configure event‑driven messages without writing custom code. Second, an AI‑powered account reconciliation agent automates matching subledger entries to the general...