Vertafore Cuts Clicks with Project Impact Workflow Gains
Vertafore’s Project Impact initiative has achieved its target of returning up to two hours a day to account managers by streamlining agency workflows. The program eliminated redundant steps, cut manual work and reduced clicks in high‑volume servicing tasks. Improvements to direct bill entry, policy renewal and journal entry saved nearly 20 minutes per user daily, translating to more than 33 hours of extra capacity for a 100‑user agency. Project Impact now underpins the AgencyOne unified platform, with AI‑powered features slated for the Accelerate 2026 showcase.
Oracle’s AI Pivot Is Reshaping How It Builds Software, Staffs Teams, and Funds Growth
Oracle is repositioning AI from a product add‑on to the core engine of its operating model, coupling a record AI backlog with a $50 billion capital‑expenditure plan. The company announced thousands of layoffs, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 30,000 jobs...
Why IT Teams Shouldn’t Build Financial Crime Risk Platforms
Financial institutions often attempt to replace spreadsheet‑based financial crime risk assessments with in‑house IT solutions, only to encounter soaring budgets, missed deadlines, and incomplete functionality. The article explains that these platforms require constant regulatory updates, extensive governance, and deep domain...
Variance Bags $21.5m to Power AI Compliance Agents
Variance, a developer of agentic AI tools for risk and compliance, secured a $21.5 million Series A round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. The funding will accelerate its platform that automates KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring and fraud detection for financial institutions...
Inside Intelligent Enterprises
Wipro and Intel have launched the WINGS.OTNxT.AI platform, an end‑to‑end managed service that unifies operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments for manufacturers. The solution, already deployed by more than 40 customers, combines device inventory, secure networking, vulnerability...
OpenNebula Systems Launches OpenNebula 7.2 to Power Sovereign Clouds and AI Factories at Scale
OpenNebula Systems released OpenNebula 7.2, a minor update aimed at production‑scale sovereign clouds and AI factories. The version adds a gRPC‑based API, deeper NVIDIA integration, and hardware‑rooted security features such as confidential computing and virtual TPM. It also expands storage mobility...
Asylon and Thrive Logic Bring Physical AI to Enterprise Perimeter Security
Asylon and Thrive Logic have partnered to embed physical AI into enterprise perimeter security, combining Asylon’s autonomous robotic patrols with Thrive Logic’s AI‑driven analytics and automated incident workflows. The integration streams video from mobile robots to the AI platform, which...
Artifact's Omni AI Uses Plain Language to Automate Workflows
Artifact unveiled Omni, an AI‑driven agentic workflow platform designed for accounting firms. Users describe tasks in plain language and Omni automatically creates GAAP‑compliant, API‑based workflows that span tools such as QuickBooks Online, Bill.com, Gusto and Outlook. The solution requires no...
DXC Partners with ServiceNow on a New Wave of AI-First Enterprise Transformation
DXC Technology announced a multi‑year partnership with ServiceNow to deploy the company’s Core Business Suite as “Customer Zero,” embedding agentic AI across its Global Business Services. The collaboration will use ServiceNow’s AI Platform to automate high‑volume processes, improve cross‑functional visibility,...
Automation Anywhere Reports 61% of Q4 Software Bookings From AI as Enterprises Deploy Agentic AI to Run Core Business Functions
Automation Anywhere reported that AI‑powered offerings accounted for 61% of its Q4 software bookings, signaling a decisive shift from AI pilots to production‑scale deployments. The company saw double‑digit growth in non‑GAAP ARR and RPO, and its $1 million‑plus ARR customer base...
Why UiPath Is Re-Designing Its Platform Around Agents that Build Automations, Not Just Run Them
UiPath is redesigning its automation platform around coding agents that create, deploy, and self‑heal workflows, shifting the focus from execution to design. The new approach embeds AI‑driven agents into the development lifecycle, expanding the user base beyond specialist RPA developers...
GrafanaGhost: Attackers Can Abuse Grafana to Leak Enterprise Data
Security researcher Noma Security disclosed a critical Grafana vulnerability dubbed GrafanaGhost, which lets attackers exploit the platform’s AI features to exfiltrate enterprise data via crafted image prompts. By injecting a hidden “intent” keyword, the flaw bypasses Grafana’s image URL validation...
App Spotlight: Relationship Tracker for Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM’s Relationship Tracker adds a network‑style layer that lets users link a contact to multiple accounts and define custom person‑to‑person connections. The tool visualizes these links in a single interface, turning fragmented data into a clear map of client...
How Agentic AI Is Rearchitecting Enterprise Workflows
In 2025 enterprise AI agents moved from pilot projects to core infrastructure, with companies deploying hundreds of thousands of agents across back‑office functions. The conversation shifted from building agents to managing their full lifecycle—optimizing, securing, and governing them at scale....
Emerson Delivers Next Step in Enterprise Automation Support with Enhanced AI Capability
Emerson announced a major upgrade to its Guardian™ Digital Platform, adding expanded artificial intelligence features and a fully customizable dashboard. The AI‑powered Virtual Advisor now offers natural‑language guidance across Emerson’s AMS, Ovation and DeltaV automation suites, while the refreshed Knowledge...
Zero‑click Grafana AI Attack Can Enable Enterprise Data Exfiltration
Security researchers have uncovered GrafanaGhost, a chained exploit that leverages indirect prompt injection in Grafana’s AI dashboards to exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data without user authentication. The attack persists malicious prompts, tricks the AI model into generating outbound image requests, and...
The Next Evolution of ERP - Intelligence Built Around People
Traditional ERP systems are being re‑engineered into AI‑enabled platforms that deliver real‑time, role‑specific intelligence. While 88% of organizations have adopted AI in at least one function, only a third have scaled it enterprise‑wide, often due to trust and data fragmentation....
Vertex Advances AI-Powered Capabilities to Improve How Enterprises Execute Compliance
Vertex announced the next phase of its AI‑first strategy, embedding artificial intelligence directly into the Vertex Cloud platform to automate and orchestrate tax and compliance workflows. The new capabilities let users express intent in plain language, surface anomalies early, and...
Circularo Partners with T Cloud Public to Expand Sovereign Digital Trust Services Across DACH and the Netherlands
Circularo has teamed up with Deutsche Telekom’s T Cloud Public to launch its digital‑trust platform on the German‑Austrian‑Swiss‑Netherlands marketplace. The partnership offers both sovereign, dedicated deployments and multi‑tenant options, guaranteeing EU data residency, GDPR and eIDAS compliance. Powered by OpenStack...
Supply Chain Security Is Now a Board-Level Issue: Here’s What CSOs Need to Know
Supply chain security has moved from a niche technical issue to a board‑level priority, driven by stringent regulations like the European Cyber Resilience Act and U.S. EO 14028. Open‑source components now appear in 97% of commercial applications, with 86% harboring vulnerabilities,...
Felix Raises $1.7M to Build Hyperautomation for Professional Services
Felix, an AI workflow platform for professional services, announced a $1.7 million pre‑seed round led by XYZ Venture Capital. The funding will accelerate product development for legal, finance and insurance firms. Felix’s deterministic automation helped a New York risk‑management firm clear a...
Comp AI: The Open-Source Way to Get Compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR
Comp AI launches an open‑source compliance platform that automates SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR readiness. The tool combines an AI‑driven policy editor, automated evidence collection, and a device‑agent that monitors encryption, antivirus, password and screen‑lock settings. Core code is released...
Maidar Secure, Strike48 Bring Agentic AI to the SOC
Maidar Secure has teamed up with Strike48 to embed the latter’s agentic AI platform into its managed security services and SOC operations. The integration promises autonomous threat detection, real‑time attack simulation and machine‑speed incident response, turning traditional reactive defenses into...
Esetrix Launches to Power the Next Generation of Marketplace Infrastructure
Esetrix, formerly Avasam Enterprise, has rebranded to offer enterprise‑grade marketplace infrastructure. The platform lets retailers, brands and distributors launch multi‑seller marketplaces, automating seller onboarding, order sync, payments and fulfillment. By removing the need for inventory ownership, Esetrix aims to help...
FortiClientEMS Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation, Expose Systems to RCE
Fortinet disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its FortiClientEMS endpoint management platform that are already being exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-21643 is a SQL injection flaw in the admin interface of version 7.4.4, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. CVE-2026-35616 is an...
BlueDolphin Launches as the First AI-Powered Business Transformation Platform, Marking Strategic Rebrand From ValueBlue
BlueDolphin, formerly ValueBlue, has rebranded and launched an AI‑powered business transformation platform that unifies strategic planning, architecture management, and solution design. The platform tackles the industry‑wide problem of fragmented tools, offering a single AI‑driven workflow that coordinates strategy, design and...
How-To Guide to Planning Your Next AP Automation Project
The guide outlines a step‑by‑step methodology for finance leaders to launch an accounts‑payable (AP) automation project, emphasizing strategic alignment with broader business goals. It recommends a phased rollout—starting with invoice capture and validation before adding approval workflows and payment automation—to...
SAP Business Data Cloud Explained: A New Model for ERP Data and Analytics
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS that unifies data management, governance, and analytics across SAP and non‑SAP systems, tackling the fragmentation that still plagues most ERP environments. A recent SAPinsider benchmark shows only 3% of organizations...
Building Smarter: The ERP Transformation in Construction
Construction firms are moving from fragmented spreadsheets and siloed tools to unified ERP platforms that combine project management, procurement, finance, and equipment tracking. Integrated systems now deliver real‑time financial visibility, allowing cost overruns to be spotted early and corrected promptly....
Ohpen Forges Strategic Technology Partnership with ASN Bank
Dutch lender ASN Bank has entered a strategic technology partnership with cloud‑native core banking provider Ohpen. The deal will replace ASN Bank’s legacy mortgage systems with an integrated SaaS platform covering origination, servicing and credit management. Ohpen’s solution promises higher...
Miebach and Solventure Partner to Address the Execution Gap in Supply Chain Planning
Miebach Consulting and Solventure have formed a strategic partnership to close the execution gap that many firms face after investing in advanced supply‑chain planning tools. The collaboration shifts focus from technology deployment to strengthening data, orchestration, and decision‑making layers that...
Digital Identity Research Warns of ‘Password Debt’ as Enterprises Delay IAM Rollouts
Enterprises recognize identity threats but large‑scale passwordless rollouts are stalling. Hypr’s State of Passwordless Identity Assurance 2026 report shows only 43% of firms use passwordless methods while 76% still rely on passwords, with 32% citing legacy‑app incompatibility as a barrier....
MODEX 2026: Rockwell Automation to Highlight End-to-End Autonomous Operations Platform
Rockwell Automation will unveil its end‑to‑end autonomous operations platform at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta, the first time the company presents a fully connected production logistics solution on the Material Handling Industry stage. The platform ties digital‑twin simulation, orchestration software, OTTO...
Vectra AI Supercharges Network Observability with Proactive Exposure Management
Vectra AI unveiled new exposure management capabilities on its platform, targeting AI‑driven enterprises operating in hybrid, multi‑cloud environments. The suite adds continuous, agentless asset inventory, proactive detection of security and compliance gaps, and broader environment observability covering zero‑trust and post‑quantum‑crypto...
Application-as-a-Service Pushing ERP Toward Composable Stacks
Application‑as‑a‑Service (AaaS) is moving from a niche buzzword to a mainstream architectural choice, with research forecasting robust growth through 2033. Enterprises are abandoning monolithic ERP suites in favor of composable stacks that stitch together best‑of‑breed SaaS applications for CRM, HR,...
Hormel Modernizes Supply Chain with AI Planning Platform
Hormel Foods has rolled out the o9 artificial‑intelligence planning platform across more than 70 of its facilities, linking demand, supply and inventory in a single system. The deployment, completed between March and December 2025, aims to shift the company from...
RevOps Roundup: Week 14, 2026
This week’s RevOps roundup highlights Salesforce’s Open CTI sunsetting with full end‑of‑support slated for February 28 2028, urging sales teams to begin migration to alternatives like Service Cloud Voice or Revenue.io’s RingDNA. It also spotlights three approval failures that cripple deal velocity,...
Why Security Researchers and Red Teams Are Turning to Workflow Automation
Security teams are increasingly adopting workflow automation to combat alert fatigue and accelerate investigations. Automated pipelines now enrich indicators of compromise, aggregate threat intelligence, and run continuous recon for red teams and bug bounty hunters. Open‑source, self‑hosted platforms such as...
The Work Beneath the Work: How J.P. Morgan, BofA, U.S. Bank, and Citi Are Rebuilding Their Internal Systems
Major U.S. banks are overhauling their internal operating platforms, shifting focus from product launches to the infrastructure that creates value. JPMorgan unveiled its American Dream Initiative, aiming to support 10 million small businesses and extend roughly $80 billion in loans over ten...
Hybrid Cloud and AI: The New Enterprise Architecture
Enterprises are shifting from cloud‑first to strategic hybrid cloud to support AI production at scale. AI‑native platforms combined with centralized governance enable modular, continuously evolving architectures that integrate with ERP, CRM, and edge systems. Deloitte and PwC research highlights that...
AI Cuts Through IT Helpdesk Logjams
Fixify’s analysis of over 50,000 tickets across 30+ firms shows AI‑driven automation resolves support requests sixteen times faster than manual processes. Average initial response fell from five minutes to four, while fully automated tickets were closed in 4.4 hours versus roughly...
Escaping the COTS Trap
Enterprise cybersecurity teams have amassed large fleets of commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) tools, driving complexity, cost, and risk. While COTS promises rapid deployment and lower upfront spend, dependence creates structural lock‑in that hampers future changes and migration. The article highlights how...
How Order.co Is Modernizing Procurement and Spend Management at Scale
Order.co, a procurement platform for distributed teams, tackled two scaling hurdles: enforcing spend controls and automating high‑volume payments. By integrating Lithic’s payment infrastructure and Mastercard network, Order.co now issues single‑use and multi‑use virtual cards at scale while applying granular, real‑time...
Chat With Your Data: Introducing AI Assistant for Web Supply Chain Defense
Reflectiz has launched AI Assistant, a conversational AI built directly into its web supply‑chain security platform. The tool lets analysts ask natural‑language questions and receive answers drawn from live security data, eliminating the need to toggle between dashboards. It also...
Inside How the World’s Largest Biscuit Brand Transformed ERP and Cut Costs 30%
Parle Products, the world’s top‑selling biscuit brand, has migrated its legacy SAP ECC system to SAP Cloud ERP Private hosted on IBM’s hybrid cloud. The clean‑core architecture and integrated AI tools have streamlined finance, supply chain and manufacturing processes. Early...
IBM and ElevenLabs Add Watsonx Orchestrate Voice AI
IBM and ElevenLabs have integrated ElevenLabs' text‑to‑speech and speech‑to‑text engines into the watsonx Orchestrate platform, delivering over 10,000 synthetic voices across 70 languages. The joint offering targets enterprise‑grade voice agents for customer service, internal support, sales and public‑service workflows. IBM...
Navigating ERP Migrations Without the Usual Pitfalls
Aptean warns that ERP migrations fail more often due to data, process and people issues than software flaws. It proposes a disciplined four‑step data migration framework—scope definition, cross‑functional team, data standardization and incremental testing—to curb scope creep and poor data...
OCSF Explained: The Shared Data Language Security Teams Have Been Missing
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is emerging as a de‑facto standard for describing security events, findings, and context across vendors. Since its 2022 launch, the community has expanded to roughly 900 contributors after joining the Linux Foundation, and major...
Keeper Security Brings Zero-Trust Database Access to Its PAM Platform with KeeperDB
Keeper Security announced KeeperDB, a new database‑access capability embedded in its KeeperPAM privileged access management platform. The feature lets developers and DBAs connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server directly from the vault, eliminating plaintext credential exposure. KeeperDB...
NinjaOne Offers a Free Trial of the IT Management Platform Trusted by 35,000 Organisations
NinjaOne, an Austin‑based unified IT operations platform, now offers a free trial with no credit‑card requirement. The cloud‑native solution consolidates endpoint management, patching, remote access, backup, mobile device management, asset tracking and vulnerability detection into a single console. The company...