Lio Raises $30M From Andreessen Horowitz and Others to Automate Enterprise Procurement
Lio announced a $30 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The startup’s AI‑agent platform automates the entire procurement workflow, from contract review to supplier negotiation. Early customers report that processes once taking weeks now finish in minutes, with a global manufacturer automating 75% of its outsourced procurement in six months. Lio positions its technology as a direct challenge to legacy ERP and procurement vendors such as SAP Ariba and Oracle.
Affirm’s Full-Stack Ambition Is Bigger than Consumer Finance Alone
Affirm kicked off 2026 with a flurry of strategic announcements, including a rent‑payment partnership with Esusu, a bank‑charter filing, and a debit‑card‑embedded BNPL solution via Fiserv. The firm also secured default checkout status with Bolt and integrated its BNPL service...
Lack of Regulatory Action on Hyperscaler Dominance Prompts Inquiry Chair to Quit
Kip Meek, chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority's cloud inquiry, resigned in protest over the regulator's sluggish response to hyperscaler dominance. The CMA’s report highlighted that Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services control roughly 70‑90% of the UK...
Your AI Agents Can Talk to Each Other - but Are They Saying Anything Useful? Confluent Intelligence Aims for Insight
Confluent announced that its Streaming Agents now support Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, creating a dual‑layer for real‑time data ingestion and inter‑agent coordination. The platform also introduced multivariate anomaly detection powered by Apache Flink, offering...
Where Multi-Factor Authentication Stops and Credential Abuse Starts
Multi‑factor authentication (MFA) is effective for cloud and federated apps, but many Windows authentication paths—interactive logons, RDP, NTLM, Kerberos tickets, and service accounts—remain outside its protection. Attackers exploit these gaps using stolen passwords, pass‑the‑hash, or forged tickets, gaining lateral movement...
M3ter Expands Integration With Salesforce to Support Advanced Usage Monetization in Agentforce Revenue Management
m3ter announced that its Connector for Salesforce now integrates with Revenue Cloud Advanced and Revenue Cloud Billing, extending support beyond Agentforce Sales and CPQ. Salesforce has appointed m3ter as an advanced metering and rating partner for both RCA and RCB,...
HD Hyundai Selects Siemens Xcelerator for Integrated Digital Shipbuilding Platform
HD Hyundai’s shipbuilding arm, HD KSOE, has selected Siemens’ Xcelerator platform to create an integrated digital shipbuilding environment. The platform will provide a unified data backbone linking CAD, PLM, digital manufacturing, automation and simulation, eliminating data discontinuities from design through...
The Great Security Culture Shift: Building a Proactive Defense in an Era of Advanced Threats and Social Engineering
The article highlights a surge in DLL side‑loading attacks delivered through LinkedIn Messenger, where malicious PDFs bypass traditional endpoint defenses. It reveals that 66% of malware infections occur on devices already equipped with endpoint protection, exposing gaps in reactive security...
How to Build Trust Into Automation at Scale
Autonomous robots are moving from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments across warehouses, retail and healthcare, turning robotics‑as‑a‑service into a core managed‑service offering. As fleets grow, each additional machine widens the attack surface, blurring IT and OT responsibilities and exposing misconfigurations,...
A QUICker SASE Client: Re-Building Proxy Mode
Cloudflare has rebuilt the proxy mode of its Cloudflare One client, swapping the WireGuard‑based L3 tunnel for direct L4 proxying over QUIC. By leveraging HTTP/3 CONNECT and MASQUE, traffic remains at the transport layer, eliminating the smoltcp conversion step. Internal...
Post Office Awards Non-Horizon Modernisation Work to Accenture
The Post Office has awarded a £45 million three‑year contract to Accenture to modernise its back‑office IT applications, covering finance, HR, data management and process automation via cloud solutions. The agreement, running from 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2029, excludes the controversial Horizon system....
AI Operating Model Overlay Playbook
The AI Operating Model Overlay Playbook introduces a plug‑in framework that adds AI‑specific decision points, controls, and evidence requirements to an enterprise’s existing IT operating model. It defines tiered delivery pathways, standard artifact sets, and post‑go‑live monitoring to make AI...
Why Workday Implementations Fail to Deliver ROI — and How to Fix It
Workday implementations often fall short of ROI because organizations neglect data integrity, fail to redesign processes, and underutilize standard configurations and pre‑built connectors. Poor data quality can trigger compliance issues, while custom integrations inflate development time and cost. Leveraging Workday’s...
Systems Design and the Semantic Revolution
The article revisits Postel’s Law—strict sending, generous receiving—as the foundation of internet interoperability and argues it now underpins the semantic revolution driven by large language models (LLMs). After costly cycles of syntax‑focused standards like XML and blockchain, LLMs are tackling...
Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkey Login on Windows 11
Bitwarden announced native support for Windows 11 passkey login, letting users authenticate with credentials stored in their encrypted vault. The feature works across all plans, including the free tier, and uses a QR‑code flow to confirm the passkey on a mobile...
Phoenix Taps Adobe DX To Unify Websites, Streamline Services
Phoenix consolidated 44 department websites into a single phoenix.gov portal using Adobe Experience Manager, completing a four‑year transformation that shifted the site to a resident‑first model. The new platform lets roughly 60 departments manage content directly, cutting page‑update times from...
Mail2Shell Zero-Click Attack Lets Hackers Hijack FreeScout Mail Servers
Researchers at OX Security disclosed a maximum‑severity zero‑click vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑28289) in the open‑source FreeScout help‑desk platform. By embedding a zero‑width space before a malicious filename, attackers can bypass recent upload filters and achieve remote code execution through a single crafted...
CMiC Launches AI-Powered Construction ERP to Improve Processes
CMiC unveiled NEXUS, an AI‑powered construction ERP that integrates more than 25 intelligent agents, natural language processing, and embedded analytics across its financial and project management suite. The platform automates document handling, drawing classification, submittal creation, and financial reporting, turning...
Microsoft Expands Sovereign Cloud Capabilities to Support AI Models
Microsoft announced a major expansion of its sovereign‑cloud portfolio, adding Foundry Local for on‑device AI inference and making Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local globally available in disconnected environments. The new services let qualified customers run large AI models and core...
Idemia Public Security, Proof Partner on Single Portable Digital Credential
Idemia Public Security and Proof have announced a strategic partnership to launch a verifiable digital credential (VDC) that merges biometric verification with PKI‑based digital signatures. The solution delivers a single, portable credential that is user‑controlled, privacy‑preserving, and revocable, leveraging selective...
Tyler Schack, Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux
Tyler Schack has been appointed Vice President of Technology & Guest Insights at Walk‑On’s Sports Bistreaux, where he will steer enterprise technology strategy and guest‑intelligence programs. His mandate includes boosting brand growth, franchisee profitability, and operational scalability across the restaurant...
The Verification Imperative: How One Framework Is Reshaping Trust in Financial Code
Financial institutions are tightening code integrity after supply‑chain attacks. Mitsubishi UFJ VP Jamshir Qureshi introduced the Hybrid Chain of Trust (HCoT), a framework that cryptographically signs and continuously validates software and container artifacts within CI/CD pipelines. The model enables compliance‑ready...
Cisco Warns of Max Severity Secure FMC Flaws Giving Root Access
Cisco has issued emergency patches for two maximum‑severity flaws in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. The authentication‑bypass vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑20079) lets unauthenticated attackers gain root access, while the remote code execution bug (CVE‑2026‑20131) permits arbitrary Java code execution as...
Motel One Innovates Operations Using Oracle Cloud
European upscale hotel chain Motel One completed a full migration of its 101 properties in 13 countries to Oracle’s OPERA Cloud PMS within a four‑month window. The cloud platform delivers a unified data foundation, built‑in analytics, and access to over...
Hacker Mass-Mails HungerRush Extortion Emails to Restaurant Patrons
Customers of restaurants using the HungerRush point‑of‑sale platform received extortion emails claiming the attacker possessed millions of customer records, including credit‑card details. The messages were sent through Twilio SendGrid, passing SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks, making them appear authentic from...
SAP Integrates SmartRecruiters with SuccessFactors
SAP has integrated the SmartRecruiters hiring platform, acquired last September, into its SuccessFactors HCM suite, creating a unified talent architecture. The integration provides end‑to‑end hiring with embedded AI, bidirectional data flow, single sign‑on, and combined AI assistants Joule and Winston....
Business Central AI Forecasts Now Drive Planning Parameters with Enhanced Forecasting Worksheet
Insight Works has extended its Enhanced Forecasting Worksheet to link Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central AI forecasts directly to item planning parameters such as safety stock, reorder point, and maximum inventory. Users can create expressions that combine forecast quantities, historical...
What to Expect at This Year’s Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD™ This March
Lumenia Consulting’s ERP HEADtoHEAD™ will take place on 24‑25 March 2026 at Birmingham’s Eastside Rooms. The two‑day event uses a fast‑paced, immersive format where 14 ERP vendors demonstrate identical business scenarios, allowing side‑by‑side comparison. Keynote sessions and panels will address...
RightRev Releases AI Platform for End-to-End Revenue Accounting Automation
RightRev unveiled Revi, an AI‑powered revenue automation platform, on March 4 2026. The suite embeds two AI agents—a Contract Review Agent that extracts terms and generates audit‑ready checklists, and an Anomaly Detector Agent that flags revenue schedule variances. Revi also includes a...
Stranger Things Meets Cybersecurity: Lessons From the Hive Mind
The commentary likens modern cyber threats to the "hive mind" of Stranger Things, highlighting how botnets and APTs such as Salt Typhoon exploit default IoT credentials to create sprawling, often unseen attack surfaces. It stresses that telemetry—network traffic, logs, and user‑behavior data—combined...
Enterprise AI Governance for Revenue Teams
Revenue teams are adopting AI features—email drafting, call summaries, forecasting—without a unified governance layer, leading to data leaks and compliance delays. The article outlines an operational framework: data classification, use‑case policies, platform controls, and regular review cadence. It emphasizes mapping...
Intapp's Celeste AI Aims to Automate Judgment-Heavy Tasks
Intapp unveiled Celeste, an agentic AI platform that leverages a firm’s entire data set to execute complex, judgment‑intensive workflows such as deal screening, conflict clearance, and revenue realization. The system uses firm‑specific "Playbooks" and modular "skills" to codify best‑practice methodologies...
Tabnine Fills the Organizational Context Gap for Enterprise AI
Tabnine has unveiled the Enterprise Context Engine (ECE), a platform that injects structured organizational knowledge into AI coding agents. By continuously modeling software architecture, documentation, and engineering practices, ECE moves beyond simple retrieval‑augmented generation to enable agents to reason about...
ADP’s Strategic Partnership with Pine Services Group Expands HCM Solutions
ADP has entered a strategic partnership with Pine Services Group to embed its AI‑enabled human capital management (HCM) suite within ERP and value‑added reseller ecosystems, initially targeting construction and other project‑driven sectors. Pine will act as a distribution and enablement...
Agentic Orchestration Confronts the Growing Complexity of Enterprise IT
IBM is championing agentic orchestration as the next evolution of enterprise IT, aiming to unify AI agents across fragmented applications and multi‑cloud environments. The approach moves beyond traditional digital‑transformation pilots toward end‑to‑end, outcome‑driven strategies that leverage IBM’s consulting, research, and...
Defra Nears Exit of Legacy Datacentres but Retains Capgemini for £40m Digital ‘Capability as a Service’ Deal
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is close to completing a multi‑million‑pound programme to shut down its legacy datacentres, moving services to cloud platforms such as AWS. While a £9 million, 19‑month contract with Capgemini finalises the remaining...
Pentagon Vendor Cutoff Exposes the AI Dependency Map Most Enterprises Never Built
The Pentagon’s six‑month ban on Anthropic’s Claude has exposed a blind spot in enterprise AI risk management: most firms cannot map the full chain of AI model dependencies. A Panorays survey shows only 15% of CISOs have complete visibility, while...
Over 1,200 IceWarp Servers Still Vulnerable to Unauthenticated RCE Flaw (CVE-2025-14500)
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2025-14500) affects IceWarp's business communication platform, allowing attackers to execute OS commands as root or SYSTEM. The vulnerability, rooted in improper handling of the X‑File‑Operation header, was disclosed in September 2025 and patched...
Wiss Expands NetSuite Automation Capabilities
Wiss announced its new status as a Certified Netgain Implementation Partner, giving it the authority to deploy Netgain’s native NetSuite add‑ons directly within client ERP environments. The partnership enables Wiss to embed automation across critical accounting workflows such as fixed‑asset...
Databricks Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Migration From Non‑Unity Catalog to Unity Catalog
Databricks is transitioning Delta Live Tables pipelines from legacy Hive Metastore workspaces to Unity Catalog‑enabled environments, revealing consistent code refactoring and governance adjustments. Teams must adopt three‑level catalog.schema.table references, replace input_file_name() calls with the built‑in _metadata struct, and migrate notebook...
OSPOlogy Day Cloud Native at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
OSPOlogy Day Cloud Native, hosted by the CNCF and the TODO Europe Chapter, will convene a small group of open‑source program offices at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe on March 23, 2026. The half‑day session uses lightning talks and round‑table discussions under the Chatham House...
In-House IT Builds Are Falling Flat and Going Way over Budget – Here's Why
A new Exclaimer survey reveals that fewer than three‑in‑ten in‑house IT builds are delivered on time and on budget, with 71% of leaders eventually abandoning such projects. In regulated sectors the abandonment rate climbs to 83%, while only 8% of...
LastPass Issues Alert as Customers Face Second Major Phishing Campaign of 2026
LastPass warned customers of a new phishing wave that mimics internal email threads and uses display‑name spoofing to appear legitimate. The messages, sent from unrelated domains, direct recipients to a fake verify‑lastpass.com site and its numbered variants to harvest credentials....
Njordium Vendor Management System Eliminates Duplicate Third-Party Assessments
Njordium Cyber Group unveiled its Vendor Management System (VMS), a platform that consolidates third‑party risk assessments to satisfy Europe’s overlapping regulations in a single run. The solution claims to replace up to five parallel assessments with one, automatically generating outputs...
New RFP Template for AI Usage Control and AI Governance
Enterprises are finally allocating budgets for AI security, but many lack clear requirements. A new RFP template reframes AI protection as an interaction‑level problem rather than an app‑cataloging exercise, enabling tool‑agnostic control. It exposes the blind spots of legacy CASB/SSE...
Carpentry, CapEx, and Continuing Disruption - Salesforce CDO Joe Inzerillo on the Real Impact of AI on SaaS Providers
At the Morgan Stanley TMT conference, Salesforce Chief Digital Officer Joe Inzerillo argued that generative AI is an accelerator, not a destroyer, for SaaS businesses. He likened AI to a table‑saw that lets engineers deliver features 20‑times faster, turning back‑log...
Is Microsoft Teams Tracking Your Exact Position in the Office or Not? The App Says Its New Wi-Fi Location Feature...
Microsoft Teams will add a Wi‑Fi‑based work‑location feature that automatically updates users’ presence in the app. The feature will be opt‑in and disabled by default, requiring compatible Wi‑Fi infrastructure. It distinguishes between planned (user‑set) and actual (system‑detected) locations and clears...
Rankings | Rethinking HR Technology Decisions in Europe: Lessons From the Latest Fosway 9-Grid
The latest Fosway 9‑Grid report confirms Workday’s tenth straight year as a Strategic Leader, underscoring its dominance in Europe’s HR‑tech market. The analysis highlights five trends reshaping the region: platform consolidation, heightened employee‑experience demands, AI‑driven work redesign, a pivot to...
Would You Trust an AI Pentester to Work Solo?
Security leaders face mounting pressure to outpace threats while accelerating AI adoption, yet only 36% are satisfied with current pentesting providers. AI‑powered pentesting promises unprecedented speed and scale, scanning massive codebases in minutes, but it falls short on contextual judgment,...
OpenText Ramps up A/NZ Channel Investment
OpenText is ramping up its partner ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand to accelerate AI and cloud adoption after internally deploying its AI tools to more than 20,000 staff. The company will boost marketing, sales‑enablement and training resources, and is...