
Health systems are realizing significant cost savings by consolidating their IT application portfolios. Emplify Health eliminated over 30 applications, cutting $3 million in direct costs and $1.3 million in soft savings, while Providence reduced its portfolio by more than a third, saving millions and streamlining caregiver workflows. A recent CHIME survey shows 76 % of CIOs view application rationalization as critical, yet only one‑in‑five have formal programs. Organizations such as UVA Health and Sharp HealthCare are launching multi‑year “Smart Subtraction” initiatives to embed rationalization into their digital strategies.
Torii’s 2026 SaaS Benchmark Report reveals that large enterprises now run an average of 2,191 applications, with more than 61% of those tools operating without formal IT approval. AI experimentation is intensifying the problem, as employees juggle roughly 40 apps...

Solutions Review is hosting a free Solutions Spotlight webinar with Nexthink on March 10, 2026. The session will demonstrate how Nexthink’s AI‑driven Infinity platform—specifically its AI Drive and Adopt features—can monitor real‑time application usage, steer employee behavior toward approved tools, and turn...

The PCI Security Standards Council published its inaugural 2025 annual report, the first since its 2006 founding, outlining a surge in payment‑system threats and the council’s expanding role. The report highlights accelerated attacks leveraging AI, ransomware incidents such as BridgePay,...

JPMorgan Chase disclosed a $19‑$20 billion annual technology budget, earmarked for AI, cloud infrastructure, and data integration. More than 80% of its applications now run on modern platforms, with over 70% in public or private clouds, enabling real‑time processing and automated...

NASA has issued a request for information (RFI) to find an IBM Platinum Partner that will manage its extensive software portfolio. The agency intends to establish a five‑year blanket purchase agreement covering licenses, subscription support, expert lab services, and remote...

Rootstock’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey shows five pivotal shifts in tech priorities. Workforce talent shortages have risen to become the leading barrier, increasing from 25% to 33% of respondents. AI investment is moving sharply toward supply‑chain execution and...
Anthropic announced an Enterprise Agents program aimed at embedding agentic AI into corporate workflows. The offering extends the Claude Cowork platform with pre‑built agents, a plug‑in framework, and a private software marketplace that provides controlled data flows and centralized admin controls....
SPS Commerce has launched MAX, an AI‑driven set of capabilities embedded in its supply‑chain network that currently operates in an advisory mode, surfacing anomalies and recommending actions within existing EDI workflows. The system is designed to improve supplier compliance, order...

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) is paying women $500 to $1,000 per call to conduct voice‑phishing attacks against IT help desks. The group supplies pre‑written scripts and leverages legitimate proxy services and tunneling tools to evade detection. These vishing campaigns aim...
As enterprises scale, HR departments need software that can handle growing employee data, complex contracts, and diverse work patterns. The article outlines four essential features—centralised data management, intelligent workflows, employee development tools, and self‑service portals—that enable large organisations to maintain...

The article outlines five common triage failures that inflate business risk, from decisions made without execution evidence to manual, error‑prone processes. It shows how interactive sandboxes—exemplified by ANY.RUN—provide rapid execution evidence, enabling analysts to reach evidence‑backed verdicts within seconds. Reported...

SAP announced that Joule, its generative‑AI platform, is now generally available integrated with SAP Signavio. The solution adds a natural‑language conversational layer to process models, allowing users to query owners, flow descriptions, and regional variations instantly. Joule orchestrates workflows across...

Veza announced the launch of Veza Access Agents, AI‑driven tools that automate identity and access governance for both human users and autonomous AI agents. The agents, built on AWS Bedrock, provide natural‑language interfaces for risk queries, permission visualizations, and AI‑assisted...
Retail and e‑commerce leaders are repeatedly overspending on warehouse and fulfillment platforms because they mistake a technology business case for a supply‑chain strategy. Vendor‑supplied ROI models promise payback in 12‑18 months but ignore data quality, process complexity, and organizational readiness....

CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...

The Deep Current survey of 600 freight decision‑makers shows decision density rising despite AI adoption, with 74 % making over 50 operational choices daily and half exceeding 100. System fragmentation forces professionals to juggle five or more disconnected platforms, leading to...

KoreTech unveiled a suite of updates to its Kore Integrate platform, adding new connectors for Canals.ai, Blue Yonder WMS, LeadSmart CRM, FieldPulse and Housecall Pro. The release also upgrades security protocols and promises support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Kore Integrate already...

Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
TCN’s cloud‑based contact‑center solution Operator has earned Arum Approved System status after an independent assessment, confirming it meets rigorous operational, compliance and scalability standards for regulated credit and collections environments. The certification highlights Operator’s omnichannel capabilities, rules‑based automation and configurable...

London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
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The Operational Technology Incident (OTI) Impact Score, unveiled at the S4x26 conference, offers a Richter‑scale‑style metric for gauging OT cyber‑attack consequences. It combines severity, reach, and duration into a single figure, with assessments delivered via an online portal within 12...
Agentive announced that former Google Cloud executive David Keene will serve as co‑founder and chief revenue officer. Keene brings more than three decades of leadership at Google Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and recent CMO roles at Wipro Europe and Speechmatics....

More than half of national‑security agencies still move classified data by hand, a practice the CYBER360 report flags as a strategic liability. Manual transfers introduce human error, audit gaps, and exploitable seams that adversaries can weaponize. Legacy platforms, protracted procurement...
The article introduces the concept of Agent Experience (AX), a discipline for preparing enterprise systems so AI agents can discover, invoke, and manage tools reliably. It stresses that agents require precise, structured documentation, robust API specifications, and context‑engineering such as...
Graphite Connect has moved from the Hackett Group’s 50 To Watch list to the elite 50 To Know roster, reflecting rapid expansion and product innovation. Its Supplier Network now hosts over 700,000 suppliers, generating more than one million data updates each month, which are...

EnforceAuth announced a free tier of its AI Security Fabric, giving enterprises a vendor‑neutral platform to govern AI agents, automated workflows, and machine identities. The solution shifts from traditional access control to decision‑centric authorization, evaluating each action with full context...
Penny Software, the Saudi‑based AI procurement platform, has opened a new office in Derby, UK, to serve as a regional hub for its growing European client base. The move follows rapid adoption of its cloud‑native solution across more than 75...

Cezanne HR has introduced Cezanne Expenses, an integrated expense‑management module that promises up to three hours saved per claim. The solution combines mobile OCR receipt capture, mileage calculation and real‑time dashboards within the existing HR platform. Powered by Webexpenses, it...
Security teams flood boards with counts of attacks, patches, and alerts, but executives need signals that translate those numbers into business risk. Experts argue that time‑based metrics like detection and containment speed, and financial exposure indicators, better reveal whether risk...
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimental pilots to a core, existential priority in enterprise resource planning, with Aptean positioning its AppCentral platform as the foundation for industry‑specific AI integration. The platform embeds AI agents, natural‑language queries and intelligent workflows directly...

RWS Global partnered with Box to embed AI‑driven tools into its contract lifecycle, leveraging Box Enterprise Advanced, Box Doc Gen, and Box Sign. The new no‑code workflow automates document generation, legal approval, and e‑signature, cutting processing time from roughly 20 minutes to...

Salesforce remains the leading CRM platform, reporting FY 2025 revenue of $35.7 billion and serving over 150,000 customers, including 90 % of the Fortune 500. The consulting ecosystem around Salesforce has ballooned to more than 3,800 partner firms and 170,000 certified experts, generating revenue...

A financially motivated group called Diesel Vortex has been running a phishing campaign against freight and logistics operators in the U.S. and Europe since September 2025. Using 52 domains and Cyrillic homoglyph tricks, the actors stole 1,649 unique credentials from...

Epic announced nine significant updates in the past 30 days, ranging from new hospital go‑lives and record‑setting lab data‑exchange deployments to the rollout of its AI Charting tool. Major health systems such as UPMC and Northwell Health are deepening their...

Anthropic announced that Claude can now switch autonomously between Excel and PowerPoint, allowing users to run data analyses and instantly generate presentation decks. The capability is released as a research preview on all paid plans. At the same time, Anthropic...

incident.io announced bi-directional synchronization with ServiceNow and Azure DevOps, extending its integration beyond one-way data pushes. The new capability mirrors comments, images, and updates from external tickets back into the incident.io dashboard, including Slack and Microsoft Teams channels. This ensures...

Workday reported $9.55 billion in total revenue for fiscal 2026, a 13 % year‑over‑year increase, driven primarily by subscription growth. The fourth quarter delivered $2.53 billion in revenue, up 14.5 %, and left the company with $5.4 billion in cash. CEO Aneel Bhusri credited artificial‑intelligence...
Aptean announced the acquisition of OpsVeda, an AI‑powered operations command center, to integrate with its recently acquired Logility supply‑chain platform. The deal adds a real‑time, agentic execution layer that bridges planning and execution, enabling continuous AI‑driven orchestration across the supply...
Aptean announced the launch of Paragon Route 360 on its AppCentral platform, delivering an AI‑native routing and scheduling solution for logistics teams. The software offers continuous schedules, an AI Routing Assistant that accepts natural‑language commands, and AI agents that automate...
Cisco launched the AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH) certification, a role‑oriented credential that validates applied AI skills for infrastructure professionals. The 60‑minute 800‑110 exam covers generative AI, prompt engineering, ethics, security, data analysis, and workflow automation. AITECH targets network engineers, AIOps...
Aptean unveiled Aptean Fashion & Apparel, an AI‑driven operations platform built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the AppCentral agentic AI layer. The solution embeds apparel‑specific intelligence, allowing brands and wholesalers to ask plain‑language questions and receive real‑time decisions...

Enterprises have poured $30‑40 billion into generative AI, yet 95% see little measurable ROI, according to MIT NANDA’s 2025 report. The failure is attributed to reliability gaps as AI moves from conversational assistance to transaction approval and workflow automation. Quarrio introduced...

Blumira has entered the Pax8 Marketplace, allowing managed service providers (MSPs) to purchase, provision, and bill a full‑stack security operations platform through the same portal they use for cloud services. The integration eliminates separate sales and onboarding steps, enabling MSPs...
Griffin Media has deployed Bitcentral’s Core News platform across its flagship stations KWTV in Oklahoma City and KOTV in Tulsa. The rollout, which began on Nov. 2, 2025 at KWTV and Nov. 16 at KOTV, includes Bitcentral’s Precis, Oasis, Create and Fusion Hybrid...
Platform teams often treat internal platforms as pure infrastructure, overlooking their product nature. By failing to define specific user personas, they ship technically complete features that see low adoption. The article stresses that rollout activities differ from genuine adoption, which...
GReminders announced an expanded integration that embeds its AI‑driven meeting assistant directly into Orion’s Redtail CRM. The new functionality lets financial advisors generate AI‑powered notes, receive pre‑meeting briefs, and schedule client appointments without leaving the Redtail interface. By consolidating the...
Terraform Enterprise 1.2 is now generally available, adding a visual UI‑driven search and import tool that lets teams bring unmanaged, brownfield resources into Terraform without writing code. The release also graduates Explorer to GA, delivering a centralized dashboard that records...

Fintech firm Marquis has filed a lawsuit against firewall vendor SonicWall, alleging that a 2025 breach of SonicWall’s cloud backup service exposed critical firewall configuration data. The compromised backup files allegedly gave threat actors the keys to bypass SonicWall defenses,...

Tetra Pak has replaced its heavily customized ERP landscape with a clean core strategy built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, leveraging SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX. The shift eliminated more than 10 million lines of custom code and drove 95 %...