Major SAP Partner Bristlecone Plans Acquisitions, New Investments To Grow Supply Chain Business
Bristlecone, a Mahindra‑owned SAP partner, announced its first acquisition plans and a major investment program to expand its end‑to‑end supply‑chain business. The firm reported 30% revenue growth last year, with 70% of earnings coming from U.S. customers. It will triple its consulting practice, double its sales force, and deepen product offerings such as the Trace.ai carrier‑visibility platform. Bristlecone aims to shift 30% of revenue to product‑based solutions while maintaining a strong services base.
This Kenyan Startup Wants to Rebuild Enterprise Software Around AI Agents
Kenyan AI startup Lua secured $5.8 million (≈ KES 748 million) seed funding to launch a platform that lets enterprises build autonomous AI agents capable of executing entire business processes. The agents operate through familiar channels such as Slack, WhatsApp and email, handling multi‑step...
SymphonyAI Helps Payments Giant Slashes Compliance
A global payments processor handling over 200 billion transactions in FY 2024 replaced its fragmented, legacy compliance stack with SymphonyAI’s cloud‑native platform. The new active‑active SaaS solution delivers 99.99% availability and leverages agentic AI to orchestrate workflows, cutting alert processing time by...
Iridius Raises $8.6M Seed Round to Build Compliance-by-Design AI Platform for Regulated Enterprise Workflows
Iridius announced an $8.6 million seed round led by Chalfen Ventures, with participation from Osage Venture Partners, Accenture Ventures, and Rock Yard Ventures. The startup is building a compliance‑by‑design AI platform that embeds regulatory rules directly into enterprise workflows, turning compliance...
85% of Enterprises Are Running AI Agents. Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Ship.
Eighty‑five percent of enterprises are running AI‑agent pilots, yet only five percent have moved those agents into production, highlighting a massive trust gap. Cisco’s President Jeetu Patel blamed the lack of a trust architecture and announced a suite of security...
Rise with SAP Vs. S/4HANA Cloud: What Are the Differences?
SAP is urging ECC customers to move to the cloud through its subscription‑based Rise with SAP program, which packages S/4HANA Cloud ERP with migration services, hosting options and the SAP Business Network. While S/4HANA Cloud is the core ERP component,...
Shadow AI Morphs Into Shadow Operations
The cybersecurity focus is shifting from data leakage in LLM prompts to the uncontrolled deployment of autonomous AI agents, termed “shadow operations.” Organizations are rapidly adopting open‑source agentic frameworks like Moltbot, often granting them high‑privilege API keys without proper oversight....
Infor Launches New AI Orchestration Tools as Research Highlights Scaling Challenges
Infor unveiled upgrades to its Velocity Suite and a limited‑release Agentic Orchestrator, aiming to move AI from pilot projects to production. The launch is backed by the Infor Enterprise AI Adoption Impact Index, which found 49% of surveyed firms remain...
Zapier Extends Enterprise AI Governance Across Every Surface Where Building Happens
Zapier announced an enterprise‑wide AI governance expansion that blankets no‑code workflows, AI agents, and SDK‑built applications with a single policy layer. The rollout introduces app access controls, action restrictions, managed connections, a BYOM option, workspace isolation, and real‑time log streaming...
GoTo Now Offers a Direct Integration with DriveCentric to Modernize Dealership Operations
GoTo announced a direct integration of its AI‑powered GoTo Connect platform with DriveCentric’s dealership engagement system. The partnership lets automotive dealers manage calls, texts and AI‑driven insights entirely within DriveCentric, eliminating the need to toggle between separate tools. Features include...
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Workato Vs. Zapier for Large Businesses: Which Is Best? [2026]
Workato and Zapier are the two leading automation platforms for large enterprises, but they cater to opposite governance models. Workato emphasizes IT‑led, centralized integration with over 1,000 deep connectors for ERP and legacy systems, using a quote‑based pricing structure that...
Neo's Integration Catalog: Give Your Agent Access to the Tools It Needs
Pulumi announced the launch of the Neo Integration Catalog, a centralized hub that connects Pulumi Neo to six major DevOps tools—Atlassian, Datadog, Honeycomb, Linear, PagerDuty and Supabase—via the Model Context Protocol. Administrators configure API credentials once, and the encrypted tokens...
SAP Embeds AI and Joule Into SAP Ariba To Transform Enterprise Procurement
SAP announced the next‑generation SAP Ariba, built on SAP Business Technology Platform, that embeds its Joule AI engine directly into procurement workflows. The AI capabilities automate supplier evaluation, bid comparison and contract support, delivering real‑time decision intelligence and a unified...
States Deploy Desktop as a Service To Standardize Endpoints and Boost Security
State IT leaders in Kansas, Indiana and New Mexico are rolling out Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platforms to centralize device provisioning, patching and security across thousands of endpoints. Kansas is deploying Tanium Endpoint Management on Dell hardware, while Indiana...
3 Practical Ways AI Threat Detection Improves Enterprise Cyber Resilience
Enterprises are overwhelmed by thousands of low‑value security alerts, prompting a shift to AI‑driven threat detection. By building behavioral baselines for users, devices, identities and cloud workloads, AI reduces noise and surfaces genuine threats faster. Cross‑telemetry correlation and automated triage...
Dynamic Privilege: Balancing Access and Security
Enterprises are plagued by static permissions that linger as employees shift roles, inflating the attack surface especially in business applications. Dynamic privilege, also called Privilege Security Posture Management, replaces role‑based grants with continuous, context‑driven decisions based on identity, entitlement and...
Juniper Square Automates DDQs
Juniper Square announced the acquisition of Sightglass, a data‑analytics firm, to embed AI capabilities into its due‑diligence questionnaire (DDQ) platform. The combined solution links investor data, compliance workflows and machine‑learning models, allowing fundraisers to generate DDQs in minutes instead of...
Diligent Debuts AI Board Member, Agentic GRC Workforce at Elevate 2026
Diligent unveiled AI Board Member, a secure AI assistant for directors, and a network of autonomous agents embedded in its Diligent One Platform at Elevate 2026. The AI Board Member can instantly recall board materials, industry news, and provide specialist perspectives,...
Orkes Raises $60M to Scale AI Workflow Orchestration
Orkes announced a $60 million Series B round, led by AVP with new investor Prosperity7 Ventures joining existing backers. The funding follows a $20 million Series A in 2024 and brings total capital raised to roughly $80 million. Orkes, built by the engineers behind Netflix’s...
Google Pitches Agentic Data Cloud to Help Enterprises Turn Data Into Context for AI Agents
Google unveiled the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture that layers a unified semantic Knowledge Catalog atop its existing data services—BigQuery, Dataplex and Vertex AI. The offering adds preview tools such as a LookML‑based agent, a BigQuery feature for embedding business...
Clorox Shows What SAP S/4HANA Transformations Require Before 2027
The Clorox Company completed a five‑year, $580 million SAP S/4HANA transformation, treating it as an enterprise reinvention rather than a simple system swap. Early decisions around strategic framing, realistic benchmarking, and a built‑in adoption network shaped the program’s stability after go‑live....
How AI Orchestration Is Reshaping Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is undergoing a shift as agentic AI moves from chat‑based assistance to cross‑system orchestration. Human agents currently navigate 4‑10 applications per interaction, inflating costs and causing burnout. Gartner predicts 33% of enterprise apps will embed agentic AI by...
Joget Introduces AI Composer for Conversational Enterprise App Composition with Built-In Governance
Joget Inc. has launched Joget AI Composer, a conversational AI layer inside its Joget DX low‑code platform that lets developers and business users build or modify enterprise apps using natural‑language prompts. Unlike typical AI code generators, the tool creates governed...
Construction ERP Survey Shows Demand for Cloud, but the Gains Remain Uneven
A Lumber survey of 26 construction professionals found that nearly 70% consider real‑time data a top ERP requirement, while mobile access remains a major gap. Seventy‑three percent of respondents already use a cloud‑based, construction‑specific ERP, yet only 11% report significant...
Compare SAP Greenfield Vs. Brownfield Approach for S/4HANA
Enterprises migrating from SAP ECC to S/4HANA face a pivotal choice between greenfield, brownfield, or hybrid implementation paths. A greenfield project builds a brand‑new system, offering maximal process redesign at higher cost and potential loss of historical data. Brownfield upgrades...
Rubrik Introduces Cyber Resilience Protection for Google Cloud SQL
Rubrik announced a new integration that brings its Security Cloud cyber‑resilience capabilities to Google Cloud SQL, protecting managed PostgreSQL databases with immutable, automated backups. The solution adds air‑gapped backup copies, cross‑region recovery and unlimited retention without changing existing database architectures....
CPQ Vendors Face A New Test: Handling Real-World Complexity
Configure‑price‑quote (CPQ) platforms have moved from simple quoting tools to the central hub of modern commercial ecosystems. Forrester’s Q2 2026 CPQ Landscape shows that differentiation now hinges on handling real‑world complexity rather than feature breadth. Vendors that specialize by industry, embed...
Syntax Introduces GenAI-Powered Retail and Apparel Migration Offering for SAP AFS Customers
Syntax announced a GenAI‑powered migration service that moves retail and apparel firms from SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS) to SAP S/4HANA for fashion. The offering leverages the proprietary Syntax AI CodeGenie Suite to analyze legacy code, generate clean‑core replacements,...
Cytora and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Announce Strategic Relationship to Enhance Risk Selection and Automation for U.S. Commercial Insurers
Cytora and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have formed a strategic partnership to embed LexisNexis' extensive data and analytics directly into Cytora's AI‑enabled underwriting platform. The integration allows U.S. commercial insurers to automatically enrich risk submissions with firmographic and entity‑resolution data, reducing...
Goldman Sachs Backs BLP Digital with $50m Investment
Goldman Sachs Alternatives has injected $50 million into Zurich‑based BLP Digital, a startup that uses agentic AI to automate enterprise resource planning (ERP) finance workflows. The funding will accelerate BLP’s push to replace manual accounts‑payable processes with a unified AI execution...
Inogic Launches AI-Powered Solutions for Dynamics 365 CRM: Predictive Analytics, AI Document Search & Next Best Action
Inogic, a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner, unveiled three AI‑powered add‑ons for Dynamics 365 CRM—Predict4Dynamics, SharePoint Knowledge AI Search, and Next Best Action. Built on Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI, the tools embed predictive analytics, natural‑language document search, and context‑aware...
Modernizing KYC with AWS Serverless Solutions and Agentic AI for Financial Services
Financial institutions are turning to AWS serverless services and agentic AI to overhaul legacy Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. By leveraging Amazon MSK for real‑time event streaming, Amazon Bedrock for AI‑driven document analysis, and AWS Lambda for on‑demand compute, the...
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Insight Works, a top provider of warehouse and shipping tools for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, announced the launch of Dynamic Ship 2.9. The update introduces a suite of new features that let users manage outbound and inbound shipping directly...
The End of One-Size-Fits-All Enterprise Software
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping enterprise software, with spending soaring from $1.7 billion in 2023 to $37 billion in 2025. Companies are replacing standardized SaaS tools with custom AI‑built applications, driving a sharp compression in SaaS valuations. The transition creates four strategic...
Aeropuertos Mexicanos and Amadeus Strengthen Relationship to Implement the ACUS System at Saltillo International Airport
Aeropuertos Mexicanos (AME) and Amadeus reaffirmed their partnership at Routes Americas 2026 to deploy Amadeus' Airport Cloud Use Service (ACUS) at Saltillo International Airport (SLW). The ACUS platform, already active at AME’s Puerto Escondido and Tepic‑Riviera Nayarit airports, streamlines check‑in,...
“Africa Is the Next Industrial Growth Frontier” — AVEVA’s Jesus Hernandez on AI, Data, and Digital Transformation
AVEVA is positioning Africa as the next frontier for industrial growth, emphasizing the continent’s massive energy‑access gap and the need for digital infrastructure. Senior Vice President Jesus Hernandez highlighted AVEVA’s CONNECT cloud platform, which can be deployed in days to...
New Framework Allows EU Firms to Check if 'Sovereign' Cloud Services Are Truly Sovereign
The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has unveiled a Sovereign and Resilient Cloud Services Framework that issues certification badges to verify a provider’s data‑control claims. The scheme distinguishes "sovereign" services, which are owned and operated entirely within the...
Choosing the Right Tax Automation Solution for Oracle
Vertex released a white paper that outlines an executive framework for selecting an end‑to‑end indirect tax automation solution within Oracle Cloud ERP. It warns that treating tax automation as an afterthought leads to fragmented architectures, inconsistent data, and limited scalability...
Markets CRM Partners with Sumsub for Native KYC and AML Verification
Markets CRM announced a technology partnership with Sumsub to embed full KYC and AML verification directly into its broker‑focused CRM platform. The integration automates document checks, liveness detection, sanctions screening and ongoing monitoring, and will be included in the next release...
System Change Without Process Clarity: A Guaranteed Failure Point
System change projects often fail because organizations lack process clarity. Without a shared, documented understanding of workflow steps, responsibilities, and decision points, new software merely exposes existing gaps. The article outlines a typical failure pattern—from design based on assumptions to...
Merck Partners with Google Cloud in ~$1B Deal to Build AI-Enabled Enterprise Platform
Merck has signed a multi‑year agreement with Google Cloud valued at up to $1 billion to build an AI‑driven, agentic enterprise platform covering research, manufacturing, commercial and corporate functions. The collaboration will embed Google’s Gemini Enterprise and other generative AI tools...
Bridging the Trust Gap: Unified Public CA Orchestration with IBM Vault
HashiCorp Vault, now rebranded as IBM Vault, adds native public‑CA integration, allowing enterprises to manage both internal and externally trusted X.509 certificates from a single platform. The feature leverages the ACME protocol and supports Let’s Encrypt, DigiCert, GlobalSign (beta) and...
IFS Starts 2026 Strong As Industrial AI Embeds In Ops
IFS opened 2026 with a third consecutive quarter of double‑digit growth, reporting a 25% year‑over‑year rise in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and a 24% jump in cloud revenue for Q1. Recurring revenue now represents 84% of total revenue, underscoring the...
SimCorp Introduces Agent Launchpad, Agentic AI Ecosystem for Investment Managers
SimCorp announced Agent Launchpad, an agentic AI ecosystem embedded in its SimCorp One platform, enabling investment managers to deploy pre‑built and custom AI agents across front‑to‑back workflows. The launch includes a partnership with Orbit, which contributes its AI‑driven research agent...
Digital Traffic Brings Brightly and AppyWay Together
Brightly Software has teamed up with digital‑traffic specialist AppyWay to embed AppyWay’s Traffic Suite into Brightly’s Confirm asset‑management system. The combined platform lets English highway authorities create, publish and manage digital traffic regulation orders (D‑TROs) and kerbside infrastructure through a...
BoQ Looks to Legacy Decommissioning as Core Consolidation Gains Pace
Bank of Queensland (BoQ) is 80‑85% through moving Me Bank customers to a new Temenos‑based core, with over 300,000 accounts and 70% of its retail base now live on the platform. The bank will begin decommissioning the Me Bank system...
Aptean to Release AI Agents on AppCentral Platform
Aptean is rolling out ten AI agents on its AppCentral platform, aimed at Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on‑premises customers. The agents, reachable through an “Agent Central” hub, can be deployed in under a week without moving data to the...
Faster Threat Detection with Boundary Session Recording + Auditbeat
Enterprises in regulated sectors must log privileged access to meet SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA and similar mandates. HashiCorp Boundary provides identity‑based access control, session brokering and video recordings of every privileged session, but security teams need structured, real‑time data for...
Google Brings Auto Browse and Skills to Chrome Enterprise - and a New 'Gemini Summary'
Google announced three new AI‑driven features for Chrome Enterprise: Auto Browse, which lets Gemini act across open tabs to automate tasks like creating CRM contacts; Skills, a one‑click library for saving and reusing frequent Gemini prompts; and Gemini Summary, an...
Microsoft to Test Third-Party AI Models for Incorporation in Its Security Offerings
Microsoft announced it will evaluate third‑party AI models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos, to augment its security suite. The tests will pair these models with Microsoft Defender, Security Exposure Management and the open‑source CTI‑REALM framework for continuous network vulnerability scanning. A...