
State and local governments are rapidly expanding multicloud environments and adopting generative AI, yet many lack clear visibility into where sensitive citizen data resides. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) emerges as a solution, continuously discovering, classifying, and monitoring data across hybrid clouds. By shifting focus from perimeter defenses to the data itself, DSPM surfaces hidden risks such as unencrypted storage or overly permissive access. The technology also automates compliance reporting, providing real‑time audit evidence for regulators.
Red Hat’s portfolio—RHEL, Ansible Automation Platform, and OpenShift—provides a unified foundation for hybrid SAP environments spanning on‑premise, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. RHEL for SAP delivers high‑availability add‑ons, automated risk assessments, and system‑role automation, now supporting S/4HANA on RHEL 10. Ansible streamlines...

Raiffeisen Bank International is tackling its digital lag by focusing on process redesign rather than chasing GenAI hype. Vanja Tokic, head of Digital Channels and Conversational AI, stresses the difficulty of moving AI from proof‑of‑concept to regulated production. The bank...

Opkey has unveiled Release Advisor, an agentic AI platform that automates analysis of Oracle Fusion and Workday release notes. The tool promises to slash manual review time by 60‑80% and enable certification of updates in as little as three days....

CMB Monaco, a Monaco‑based private bank, has completed migration to an integrated platform that combines Avaloq’s core banking suite with BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth. The cloud‑based SaaS solution streamlines front‑, middle‑ and back‑office workflows, adds AI‑driven portfolio analytics and delivers a...
Broot.ai, a B2B contact‑management platform, has integrated Vonage Voice APIs to embed one‑click, in‑app calling and instant local‑number provisioning. The new feature lets sales and marketing teams dial prospects directly from the CRM and assign US, European, and Pacific local...

Customer experience platform Kustomer introduced Kustomer AI‑Signals, an add‑on that delivers real‑time sentiment, escalation risk, and unified context to agents and managers. The feature pulls purchase history, prior interactions, and sentiment analysis to generate a plain‑language summary as soon as...

ERP HEADtoHEAD™ 2026 in Birmingham gathered over 180 senior ERP buyers, the event’s highest attendance ever. The conference emphasized structured, script‑based demos that let participants directly compare multiple ERP solutions. Attendees highlighted AI’s evolution into an execution layer and stressed...
Oracle announced its Defense Industrial Base Isolated Cloud Environment (DICE), an air‑gapped OCI offering that meets U.S. Secret and future Top Secret classification requirements. The service, unveiled at the Oracle Federal Forum, is undergoing security assessments and aims for provisional...

Relyance AI unveiled Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that continuously monitors AI agents' interactions with enterprise data. Leveraging the company’s Data Exposure Graph, Lyo maps AI‑to‑data relationships, flags over‑privileged access, and provides real‑time contextual alerts. The platform includes a...

Schneider Electric has expanded its use of WalkMe, a digital adoption platform, from a pilot in North America to a global solution that embeds on‑screen guidance across its SaaS tools such as SAP S/4HANA and Salesforce. The rollout, backed by...

Researchers at watchTowr identified two critical flaws—CVE‑2026‑2699 and CVE‑2026‑2701—in Progress ShareFile’s Storage Zones Controller (SZC). The authentication bypass (CVE‑2026‑2699) lets attackers reach the admin interface, while the remote code execution bug (CVE‑2026‑2701) enables malicious ASPX webshell deployment. Chaining the vulnerabilities...

Box announced the general availability of Box Agent, an AI‑driven engine that processes natural‑language prompts to search, analyze, and create content across an enterprise’s unstructured data. The agent leverages large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google while enforcing Box’s...

Numos, an AI platform for enterprise finance teams, closed a $4.25 million seed round led by General Catalyst. The software integrates with accounting systems, billing tools, data warehouses and spreadsheets, delivering transparent, auditable AI reasoning for tasks like variance analysis and...

SAP’s Next‑Gen Ariba platform is rolling out this quarter, bringing AI‑driven spend management, a refreshed user experience, and SAP Business Technology Platform extensions. The migration is not a simple upgrade; it demands extensive configuration, parallel system operation, and widespread user...

Freshworks Inc. launched a redefined IT Asset Management (ITAM) module for its Freshservice platform, adding continuous infrastructure discovery and dependency mapping. The AI‑powered service operations layer unifies data from hybrid, cloud, and on‑premises environments, enabling real‑time visibility of hardware, applications,...

SAP, the world’s largest enterprise‑software provider, is tackling the massive scale of its security telemetry—over 150 TB per month—by partnering with Boston‑based Uptycs. The collaboration introduces Juno AI, an analyst platform that blends artificial intelligence with human expertise to deliver real‑time,...

Omniscient SASU announced a $4.1 million pre‑seed round to accelerate its AI‑driven decision intelligence platform. The solution consolidates fragmented data sources and replaces manual monitoring with specialist AI agents that deliver real‑time insights. Benchmarking claims the platform is up to 50...
World2Meet, the travel arm of Iberostar Group, has turned its Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) initiative into an "invisible AI" that quietly drives efficiency. Launched in 2023, the system began delivering measurable results in 2025, automatically classifying 165,000 emails in January...
Kyndryl has launched Agentic Service Management, a platform that helps enterprises shift from manual ticket‑based operations to autonomous, AI‑powered workflows. The solution assesses an organization’s current technology estate, benchmarks against standards like ISO 42001, and delivers a gap analysis with a...

UK insurer Covéa has selected Shift Technology as a strategic partner to overhaul its fraud detection and risk management across the entire insurance lifecycle. The AI‑driven platform will unify underwriting, claims and mid‑term policy adjustments, delivering explainable risk signals from...
Hybrid work models have pushed companies to replace fixed seating with hot‑desk booking platforms that can handle real‑time scheduling and fluctuating attendance. Studies show office attendance now sits between 30% and 60%, causing desk utilization to fall below 50% on...
HM Revenue & Customs has launched a £1bn‑plus (≈$1.3bn) Enterprise Customer Relationship Management (ECRM) programme that will run until March 2030. The initiative, overseen by senior responsible owner Mike Beddington, aims to give HMRC a single, unified view of every taxpayer’s...

Salesforce announced that its JavaScript‑based Open CTI framework will be deprecated on February 28, 2028, with no new feature investment. The company is steering customers toward Service Cloud Voice, its native telephony solution, as the primary replacement. Organizations using Open...

Canals has broadened its Operating AI platform to automate key wholesale distribution workflows, including purchase‑order tracking, accounts‑receivable matching, and customer‑inquiry handling. The AI layer acts as a real‑time execution engine, turning ERP data into actionable actions without manual intervention. Early...

Automation and ERP systems are reshaping finance by standardizing processes, centralizing data, and delivering real-time insights. By enforcing uniform accounting rules and eliminating manual data entry, these platforms dramatically reduce errors and improve reporting accuracy. Integrated audit trails and automated...
Dark Matter Technologies introduced Ask Aiva, an embedded AI assistant in its Empower loan‑origination system that uses retrieval‑augmented generation to answer loan officers' queries with source‑cited, conversational responses. The tool lets users click through to the underlying data, aiming to build...

Suffolk County, New York, completed a migration of its financial management system to the CGI Advantage cloud platform, marking a major upgrade of its public‑sector ERP. The cloud‑based solution promises faster processing, higher data accuracy, and automated updates, while strengthening...

Security teams face a massive investigation gap: 67% of SIEM alerts go uninvestigated, with each manual review averaging 70 minutes. While SIEMs excel at log collection and alert generation, they lack the ability to reason about attack chains. An AI...
Clorox embarked on a five‑year, $580 million ERP overhaul, migrating to SAP S/4HANA under CIO Chau Banks and Accenture partner Johan Opperman. The program was framed as an enterprise reinvention, emphasizing cross‑functional alignment, phased “waves” that respected seasonality, and a robust change‑network to...

Celigo introduced Celigo Ora, a natural‑language interface, and Agent Builder, a low‑code tool, enabling non‑technical users to create and govern AI‑driven workflows. Powered by specialized AI agents and the Model Context Protocol, the platform lets users design, modify, and troubleshoot...

Rubrik Security Cloud offers state and local governments a zero‑trust, immutable backup platform that combines data‑observability with rapid cyber‑recovery. Its architecture stores unalterable backups, detects anomalies across on‑prem, cloud and SaaS workloads, and automates restoration of clean data. The solution...

Unanet received the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for AI Orchestration, highlighting a market shift from isolated AI experiments to integrated, agent‑driven enterprise systems. The award, presented by the Business Intelligence Group, underscores the growing demand for AI that operates...

Facephi has signed a five‑year deal with an unnamed Central American bank to deploy its mule‑account detection and behavioral biometrics platform across the institution’s operations. The solution will monitor the full customer lifecycle, targeting synthetic identities, organized fraud networks and...

Iran‑linked threat groups have compromised Microsoft 365 accounts across more than 300 Israeli organizations, 25 firms in the United Arab Emirates, and a limited set of targets in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Europe. The campaign began in early March with...

CrowdStrike and HCLTech have deepened their alliance by launching a continuous threat exposure management service that merges CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform with HCLTech’s VERITY framework and AI Force. The solution delivers real‑time visibility, AI‑driven insights, and automated remediation across endpoints, cloud, identity,...

HYCU is embedding Halcyon’s ransomware‑detection software into its R‑Shield platform, creating a unified solution for ransomware detection, prevention, and recovery. The enhanced offering protects workloads across virtual machines, data warehouses, finance apps, storage buckets, and git repositories in hybrid and...

The eighth annual Destination CRM Top 100 spotlights the 2026 landscape of customer‑service, marketing and sales technologies, emphasizing the surge of generative and agentic AI. The report highlights how AI is moving from efficiency‑boosting to autonomous decision‑making across contact‑center, content‑creation and sales‑prospecting functions....

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud‑based workflow automation platform built into the Microsoft Power Platform, enabling users to connect apps, automate repetitive tasks, and create multi‑step processes. It offers three automation types—cloud flows, business process flows, and desktop RPA flows—and...

Upstage AI has launched Upstage Studio, an agentic AI platform that automates extraction, validation, and delivery of data from complex, document‑heavy workflows. The no‑code, drag‑and‑drop builder lets enterprises create, monitor, and continuously improve custom AI agents via a human‑in‑the‑loop feedback...

Commvault announced an expanded integration with Microsoft Security, linking its Cloud platform to Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot. The new Sentinel connector streams backup‑related alerts—such as malware detections and ransomware anomalies—into a centralized data lake for real‑time analysis. An Investigation...

Kaufman Rossin, a top‑50 public accounting and advisory firm, has partnered with Synack, the leader in penetration testing as a service, to deliver AI‑powered, continuous security testing for regulated enterprises. The collaboration blends Kaufman Rossin’s deep cybersecurity advisory expertise with...

BF Global Logistics has chosen IFS Softeon’s warehouse management system as its core platform for European facilities, partnering with Lanark for implementation. The advanced WMS offers integrated billing, labour management, and AI‑driven visibility, aiming to boost performance, scalability, and customer...

Ripple has upgraded its treasury management platform to embed digital‑asset capabilities, letting corporate finance teams hold, track, and manage cryptocurrencies alongside fiat in a single interface. The new Digital Asset Accounts and unified dashboard provide real‑time visibility across bank accounts,...

BMW Group has deployed PTC’s Codebeamer application‑lifecycle‑management platform to replace dozens of legacy requirements tools with a single, unified data model. The move consolidates mechanical, electrical and software requirements into one system, improving traceability and digital continuity. Codebeamer now underpins...

Exabeam announced an expansion of its Agent Behavior Analytics platform to monitor AI agents in ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. The new suite creates dynamic baselines, detects prompt injection and model abuse, and tracks identity, privilege, and lifecycle events...

Insight Works announced that its Warehouse Insight app now leverages Microsoft’s 2026 Wave 1 Dynamics 365 Business Central updates to streamline inbound warehouse operations. The solution adds real‑time barcode scanning, license‑plate creation and on‑the‑spot quality inspections via mobile devices, cutting receiving cycle...

SDLC Corp has introduced a free Odoo‑WooCommerce connector that provides real‑time, bidirectional synchronization between WooCommerce storefronts and Odoo ERP systems. The integration tackles common e‑commerce pain points such as inventory mismatches, delayed order processing, and fragmented customer data. It leverages...

Intellect Design Arena announced that a major Middle‑East logistics firm handling over 90 million container shipments annually has selected its Purple Fabric Accounts Payable platform. The solution will automate high‑volume invoice processing using AI and large language models (LLMs). By ingesting...
UKROEd has appointed public‑sector IT specialist Cranmore to build a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, a core component of its Management Application (MApp) modernization program. The nonprofit oversees the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme, delivering courses to more than...