Your MCP Server Is a Resource Server Now. Act Like It.
The March 26 2025 revision of the MCP specification reclassifies MCP servers as OAuth 2.0 resource servers, demanding a formal identity layer. The article walks through building an identity gateway that uses Keycloak, Maverics, OPA policies, and RFC 8693 token‑exchange to give Claude‑style AI agents per‑tool scoped tokens with five‑second TTLs. It highlights that 43 % of MCP servers tested have OAuth flaws, exposing enterprises to data exfiltration, audit gaps, and lateral movement. A GitHub example shows the full Docker‑based stack, from discovery metadata to auditable delegation chains.
‘We've Always Been About Democratizing Technology’: NetSuite CEO Tells Us Why Even Your Most Crucial Business Data Can Benefit From...
Oracle NetSuite’s CEO Evan Goldberg announced that the ERP platform is being rebuilt from the ground up around artificial intelligence. At SuiteConnect London 2026, he introduced the AI Connector Service, enabling secure integration of tools like Claude directly into NetSuite’s...
SAP Shifts to AI Consumption Pricing as Agents Threaten Saas Revenue Model
SAP announced a transition from its traditional per‑user and subscription pricing to a consumption‑based model that charges customers for AI usage. CEO Christian Klein said the change, coupled with new forward‑deployed engineering teams, aims to embed AI agents directly into...
Dynamics 365 Wave 1 Puts Agentic AI at the Heart of ERP
Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 2026 Wave 1 transforms Copilot from a passive assistant into an agentic operating layer embedded across finance, supply chain, HR, commerce and core ERP functions. The release introduces autonomous agents that execute tasks—such as account reconciliation, invoice capture,...
Planning Your Upgrade Path to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
Red Hat released Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, the final version using an RPM‑based installer and the last to support RHEL 9 only. The upcoming 2.7 release will drop RPM installs in favor of containerized, OpenShift operator, or cloud‑service deployments, making 2.6 a...
Nutanix Goes From HCI Provider to Platform Player
Nutanix announced a strategic pivot from pure hyper‑converged infrastructure to a full‑stack, multi‑tenant platform that spans AI services, Kubernetes, and bare‑metal edge solutions. At .Next 2026 CEO Rajiv Ramaswami unveiled the AI factory stack and Service Provider Central, a control...
Western Union Zaps VMware and Moves to Nutanix
Western Union has begun moving 900 to 1,200 applications from VMware to Nutanix, targeting a 3,900‑core server fleet that supports operations in over 200 countries. The shift follows friction with Broadcom’s post‑acquisition licensing model for VMware, which Western Union deemed...
How Data Center Location, ESG Regulations, and AI Infrastructure Are Reshaping Risk
Data center location has moved from a purely technical choice to a core governance decision, as it directly influences energy costs, cooling requirements, water usage, and grid reliability. Climate stressors such as heat and drought are concentrating in key hubs,...
In the AI Age, Java Is More Relevant Than Ever
Java remains the backbone of enterprise software, powering ERPs, e‑commerce, analytics and logistics. New AI frameworks such as Spring AI, LangChain4j and embabel now give Java first‑class access to large language models, turning the JVM into a cost‑efficient AI runtime. While...
Project Glasswing Shows That AI Will Break The Vulnerability Management Playbook
Anthropic and 11 other industry leaders launched Project Glasswing, a coalition aimed at securing critical software using the new Claude Mythos Preview AI model, which claims to discover zero‑day vulnerabilities faster than existing tools. The initiative signals a potential shift...
Rest Super Simplifies Staff Access to IT, HR and Information
Rest Super, Australia’s fast‑growing superannuation fund, has rolled out ServiceNow as a unified front‑door portal for IT, HR and information services. The platform supports a workforce that has expanded from about 200 staff five years ago to roughly 1,100 employees...
BILL Expands Supplier Payments Plus Solution
BILL announced an expansion of its Supplier Payments Plus platform, adding automated card straight‑through processing, intelligent payment preferences, payment links, off‑network digitization, and a unified dashboard. The new features combine payment orchestration, routing, remittance capture, reconciliation and settlement controls into a...
Build a Multi-Tenant Configuration System with Tagged Storage Patterns
The post outlines a scalable, multi‑tenant configuration service built on AWS using a tagged storage pattern that directs requests to either DynamoDB or Systems Manager Parameter Store based on key prefixes. It combines a NestJS gRPC microservice, a Strategy pattern...
CISA Orders Feds to Patch Exploited Ivanti EPMM Flaw by Sunday
CISA has placed Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and issued a Binding Operational Directive requiring federal agencies to patch the critical CVE‑2026‑1340 flaw by April 11. The code‑injection bug enables unauthenticated remote code execution on...
Why Operationalizing AI Security Is the Next Great Enterprise Hurdle
NWN announced an AI‑powered managed security operations suite built on its Experience Management Platform (EMP). The offering stitches together telemetry from Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and Arctic Wolf into a single control plane, aiming to tame the 50‑80 tool sprawl...
Opkey Research Highlights “Cloud Velocity Crisis” In Enterprise ERP and Application Management
Opkey’s 2026 State of ERP Testing and Cloud Application Lifecycle Management Report warns of a “cloud velocity crisis” as enterprises grapple with faster release cycles, mounting integration complexity, and rising operational costs. Sixty‑one percent of respondents cite integrations as their...
Leverage AI in Your ERP Transformation – Just Don’t Rely on Agents
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems still process only about 30% of transactions, leaving the majority to manual workarounds and hidden shadow workflows. Agentic AI is being promoted as a solution that can reason through complex, changing processes, but it cannot...
Tennant ERP Rollout Disruption Triggers $30M Sales Hit and Investor Scrutiny
Tennant Company disclosed that its North American ERP rollout crippled order processing, resulting in roughly $30 million of lost sales and remediation expenses projected over $20 million for 2026. The disruption sent the stock down more than 23% in a single session,...
Universities Accelerate ERP Transformations to Standardize Systems and Enable AI
Higher education institutions are accelerating ERP modernization to replace fragmented, heavily customized systems with standardized, integrated cloud platforms that can support AI and automation. Central Michigan University is moving from a customized SAP ERP to a new integrated solution, entering...
BMC Expands AI-Powered Mainframe Solutions
BMC Software unveiled a suite of AI‑enhanced mainframe tools aimed at closing the growing skills gap as veteran operators retire. The new zAdviser Enterprise Application Analysis combines code scanning, telemetry and productivity data into AI‑generated risk and modernization reports. BMC...
Oracle Bets on Agentic AI for Its Procurement Solutions, Adding New App to SCM
Oracle has added a Design-to-Source Workspace to its Fusion Agentic Applications, an AI‑driven tool that translates CAD designs into qualified sourcing options. The app automates item creation, supplier identification, cost and lead‑time simulation, and RFQ generation, cutting manual data entry...
Is Adobe Bringing AI-Driven Automation to Marketo?
Adobe is expected to announce a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Marketo Engage at its upcoming Summit in Las Vegas. An MCP server acts as a bridge between AI tools and data, allowing marketers to issue natural‑language prompts to create...
Sitetracker Unveils Scout AI Platform
Sitetracker, a leading asset‑management platform, has introduced Scout, an agentic AI system aimed at infrastructure owners, operators, and contractors. Scout connects disparate data sources to create automated work packages that span the entire asset lifecycle, from planning through maintenance. The...
Planon Lists Its IWMS in AWS Marketplace, for Centralized Procurement with Full Control of Security
Planon announced that its Integrated Workplace Management Solution (IWMS) is now listed on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, allowing organizations to purchase and renew the software directly through the cloud marketplace. The move offers centralized procurement, the ability to...
Content Security Policy Drift in Salesforce Lightning: Engineering Stable Embedded Integration Boundaries
Salesforce Lightning embeds external CTI frames via iframes that depend on Content Security Policy (CSP) settings. Because CSP is evaluated at runtime, any change in the external vendor’s CDN or redirect path can cause the frame to be blocked, even...
How AI Is Forcing ERP Vendors to Rethink the Human Side of Transformation
A recent SAP and Wakefield Research survey of 100 U.S. CHROs reveals that 88% see AI speeding up early‑career talent readiness, while 87% expect new hires to be AI‑comfortable from day one. The findings pressure ERP vendors to embed AI...
Behind the Investment: Linx
Linx Security announced a $50 million Series B round led by Insight Partners, Index Ventures and Cyberstarts. The AI‑native identity governance platform tackles the growing gap between human users and non‑human identities such as service accounts and AI agents. By leveraging an...
Natixis CIB Adopts ISDA’s Digital Regulatory Reporting Solution
Natixis CIB has officially adopted ISDA’s Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) solution, leveraging the open‑source Common Domain Model (CDM) to automate regulatory filings. The platform translates a golden‑source interpretation of reporting rules into machine‑executable code, promising higher data accuracy and faster...
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise electronic health record (EHR) platforms are becoming the operational backbone for large healthcare systems, offering a unified, cloud‑based architecture that supports multiple facilities, specialties, and tax entities. Core capabilities include real‑time data synchronization, API‑first interoperability, built‑in HIPAA and ONC...
NWN Adds Managed Security Services With MDR Partnership, Penetration Testing, vCISO
NWN launched NWN Cybersecurity, a managed security services suite that combines in‑house penetration testing, vCISO, and MDR delivered through a partnership with Arctic Wolf. The offering integrates the AI‑driven Aurora Superintelligence platform and leverages existing Cisco and Palo Alto Networks relationships. NWN...
Inside the Push to Turn AI Agents Into Suite Functionality
Enterprises are moving from experimental AI agents to built‑in functionality across major SaaS platforms. Salesforce, Oracle, Workday and Zoom each embed agentic AI directly into their core suites, treating agents as standard productivity tools rather than side projects. The shift...
Press Release: Accor Selects Sidetrade’s Agentic AI Technology for Its Order-to-Cash Operations Across Its Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific...
Accor has deployed Aimie, the world’s first autonomous AI cash‑collection agent, across its finance teams in the Middle East, Africa and Asia‑Pacific. Developed by Sidetrade, Aimie engages customers, qualifies invoices and optimizes Order‑to‑Cash processes without human intervention. The solution leverages...
3PL Turns a Pain Point Into a Selling Point
RJ Logistics, a woman‑owned 3PL in Michigan, struggled with cross‑border shipment visibility in Mexico, relying on manual check calls that slowed response times and taxed staff. The company implemented Rectangle’s universal API, automatically feeding GPS data into its McLeod TMS...
Mastering Multi-Cloud Integration: SAFe 5.0, MuleSoft, and AWS - A Personal Journey
The article chronicles a practitioner’s evolution from early multi‑cloud curiosity at TCS in 2014 to leading complex integrations that combine SAFe 5.0, MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, and AWS services. It highlights how financial, healthcare, and e‑commerce firms leverage modular, SAFe‑guided architectures to...
The Hidden Cost of Bad Emails in Zoho CRM (and How to Prevent Them)
Zoho CRM users often overlook that a sizable portion of their contact lists contain invalid email addresses, which inflates bounce rates and erodes sender reputation. When bounce rates exceed 2% the platform flags the sender, and past 5% the account...
Maximizing Tax Transformation: A Strategic Guide for Moving to the Cloud
Vertex released a white paper guiding Oracle and Vertex customers through cloud migration, emphasizing tax transformation as a core component. It highlights mounting regulatory pressures—real‑time reporting, e‑invoicing, and digital audits—that demand integrated finance‑tax architectures. The paper argues that treating tax...
Turn Quotes Into PRs in Seconds | Precoro's AI for Intake
Precoro has added an AI‑powered Intake feature that automatically transforms supplier quotations—PDFs, spreadsheets or photos—into structured purchase requisitions. The engine extracts item names, quantities, prices, supplier details and other line‑item data within seconds, eliminating manual entry. Integrated with Precoro’s existing...
AI Agents Are Already Inside Your Systems, but Who’s Controlling Them?
Gravitee’s new "AI Agent Governance Gap" report finds that 71% of large enterprises have already embedded AI agents into core finance, CRM and cloud systems, yet only 16% have effective controls in place. The study highlights that 92% of organisations...
Zscaler's AI Agent Security Push: Will It Be a New Growth Driver?
Zscaler is launching a dedicated AI‑agent security suite as enterprises rapidly adopt machine‑driven workflows, expanding the cyber‑attack surface. The company processed nearly 1 trillion AI‑related transactions in 2025 and saw ZDX Advanced Plus bookings jump 80% YoY to $100 million in Q2...
BetaNXT Wants to Move Wealth Management AI From Pilot to Production
BetaNXT unveiled InsightX, an enterprise AI platform that embeds automation, analytics, and insights directly into wealth‑management workflows via API and integrated tools. The solution combines domain‑specific data models with built‑in governance, transparency, and auditability to meet regulatory requirements. Alongside InsightX,...
Hardis Supply Chain and Pandora Partner on Global WMS Transformation
Hardis Supply Chain has entered a strategic partnership with Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry retailer by volume, to execute a global warehouse‑management‑system (WMS) transformation. The rollout will span Europe, Thailand and North America as part of Pandora’s broader modernization program...
Gartner: AI-Assistant Software Soon to Enter Fast Growth Phase
Gartner forecasts that AI‑assistant supply chain management software will surge from under $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion in spend by 2030. The market will shift from early adoption to a fast‑growth phase as providers deploy simple AI agents to automate...
UAE Approves SAP for E-Invoicing, Expanding ERP’s Role in Compliance Architecture
The UAE Ministry of Finance has pre‑approved SAP as an e‑invoicing service provider, making it the first major ERP vendor on the government’s list. The pre‑approval precedes a phased rollout that begins with a pilot in July 2026 and becomes...
Snowflake Customers Hit in Data Theft Attacks After SaaS Integrator Breach
A breach at AI‑analytics firm Anodot exposed authentication tokens used by a SaaS integration platform, leading to data‑theft attacks on over a dozen companies. Snowflake reported unusual activity in a small number of customer accounts, promptly locked them down, and...
Vertex Adds AI-Powered Capabilities to Improve Enterprises’ Compliance
Vertex announced a new phase of its innovation strategy, embedding AI directly into the Vertex Cloud platform to streamline enterprise compliance. The AI layer lets tax, finance and IT teams express intent in plain language, detect anomalies early, and maintain...
How MassMutual and Mass General Brigham Turned AI Pilot Sprawl Into Production Results
MassMutual and Mass General Brigham (MGB) tackled rampant AI pilot sprawl by imposing disciplined governance, turning experimental projects into production‑grade solutions. MassMutual reported a 30% boost in developer productivity, help‑desk resolution dropping from 11 minutes to one, and customer calls...
TradeCentric, Commercetools Partner on B2B Ecommerce
TradeCentric and commercetools have formed a strategic partnership to integrate B2B e‑procurement with AI‑first commerce platforms. The collaboration enables suppliers to connect digital storefronts directly to buyers’ procurement systems, leveraging TradeCentric’s PunchOut capabilities to slash purchase‑order processing time by 80%...
Sprinklr Unveils Spring '26 (26.4) Release
Sprinklr launched its Spring ’26 (26.4) release, adding a suite of AI‑powered features to its Unified‑CXM platform. New capabilities include Customer Feedback Copilot, Marketing Copilot, Autonomous Evaluation, and AI‑driven governance tools that promise more transparent, test‑backed automation. The update also...
From One Demo to Reliable Automation: How GPA Reimagines GUI Process Automation
Salesforce AI Research unveiled GPA, a GUI Process Automation system that learns a workflow from a single human demonstration and replays it with deterministic precision on the local machine. Unlike traditional RPA, GPA avoids brittle scripts, and unlike vision‑language models,...
OptifiNow Integrates with PhoneBurner
OptifiNow, a CRM provider for wholesale mortgage lenders, has launched a two‑way integration with PhoneBurner, a power‑dialer platform. The link lets users push contact lists directly into PhoneBurner for rapid outbound calls and automatically syncs call outcomes back into the...