Capgemini Joins OpenAI's Frontier Alliance to Scale Enterprise AI
Capgemini has joined OpenAI’s newly launched Frontier Alliance as a founding partner, creating a dedicated delivery function to scale AI agents for enterprises. The firm will deploy OpenAI‑certified professionals to tackle data readiness, integration, operating‑model design and governance challenges. Capgemini targets consumer products, retail, financial services, life sciences, and energy sectors, positioning 2026 as the “year of truth for AI.” The move mirrors Accenture’s similar partnership, underscoring a broader consultancy‑model‑developer collaboration trend.
Solid Launches $20M Seed Financing Round
Solid, an enterprise software startup, announced its public launch alongside a $20 million seed financing round backed by Team8 and SignalFire. The capital will accelerate the company’s mission to make AI and analytics trustworthy by automating data semantics across organizations. Solid’s...
Microsoft: Securing AI Agents and Human Teams Crucial for Success
Microsoft’s inaugural Cyber Pulse AI Security Report reveals that over 80% of Fortune 500 firms already deploy low‑code AI agents, and the company forecasts 1.3 billion autonomous agents operating by 2028. Financial services account for roughly 11% of global agent activity, underscoring...
New Observability Features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 introduces the Cluster Observability Operator 1.4, delivering customizable Perses dashboards and an AI‑powered trace summarizer integrated with LightSpeed. The release also upgrades the Prometheus‑based monitoring stack with performance‑focused PromQL enhancements, UTF‑8 support, and tighter OpenTelemetry integration....
How Gremlin Makes Disaster Recovery Testing Easier and Faster
Gremlin has introduced a Disaster Recovery Testing feature that lets organizations simulate catastrophic failures across all services with a few clicks. The tool builds on pre‑built test suites to establish baseline reliability scores, then supports regular weekly testing of individual...
How UL Solutions and Emerson Cracked the Oracle Testing Code with Tricentis
At Oracle AI World, UL Solutions and Emerson revealed how they leveraged Tricentis automation to overhaul Oracle testing. UL cut weekly manual testing from 40 hours to six, while Emerson streamlined a 17,000‑case suite using a modular repository and risk‑based...
Indian APT 'Sloppy Lemming' Targets Defense, Critical Infrastructure
India‑linked APT group Sloppy Lemming has accelerated its campaign, expanding its command‑and‑control infrastructure to over 112 Cloudflare‑hosted domains and deploying custom Rust‑based tools. The group now targets nuclear regulators, defense contractors, and critical infrastructure in Pakistan and Bangladesh, using phishing...
FourKites Launches Loft: AI Platform to Orchestrate Enterprise Systems with Real-World Intelligence
FourKites introduced Loft in February 2026, an AI‑driven orchestration platform that links internal ERP, CRM and ITSM systems with its Intelligent Network of over 500,000 trading partners. The platform centers on Sophie, an AI developer agent that converts natural‑language requests...
Top 5 ERP Software for Singapore’s Building Material Businesses in 2026
Singapore’s building‑material sector is entering a digital modernization wave, making ERP systems mission‑critical for finance, logistics, and compliance. A recent e27 report ranks the top five ERP platforms chosen by local distributors, emphasizing deep integration with Singapore’s GST, InvoiceNow e‑invoicing,...
IT Governance Operating Model Framework
The IT Governance Operating Model Framework offers a direction‑level architecture that translates governance intent into daily operational discipline. It defines six interdependent components—including decision architecture, layered accountability, and embedded risk—aligned with standards such as COBIT, ISO 38500, ITIL 4, NIST CSF 2.0, and...
Cisco: AI Is a Double-Edged Sword in Industrial Networks
Cisco’s 2026 State of Industrial AI Report reveals AI is a double‑edged sword for industrial networking teams, simultaneously creating security challenges and offering defensive benefits. While 40% of surveyed professionals cite cybersecurity as a major barrier and 48% list it...
EY Hit 4x Coding Productivity by Connecting AI Agents to Engineering Standards
EY’s product development team boosted coding productivity four‑ to five‑fold by wiring AI coding agents into its engineering standards, code repositories, and compliance frameworks. The initiative required an 18‑ to 24‑month effort to embed cultural acceptance and technical integrations, moving...
As Claude Expands Into Finance, Outage Raises Risk Questions
Anthropic’s Claude suffered a widespread login outage early this week, while the API remained functional. The disruption arrived as Claude topped Apple’s App Store and the company amplified its "Claude for Financial Services" push, embedding the model in Excel, PowerPoint,...
Propel Software Marks Best Year in Company History Fueled by DesignHub, Propel One Solutions
Propel Software reported a record‑breaking fiscal year ending January 31, 2026, with bookings up 42% year‑over‑year and a strong Q4 surge. Growth was powered by its DesignHub multi‑CAD integration and Propel One agentic AI platform, which attracted manufacturers seeking to replace legacy...
Insightsoftware Launches AI Analytics Platform
Insightsoftware unveiled Simba Intelligence, an AI analytics platform that delivers deterministic insights directly from live enterprise data. The solution supports cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments through a zero‑data‑movement architecture, eliminating the need for data replication. It embeds audit trails, enterprise...
Deloitte and ServiceNow Outline Five Trends Shaping the AI-Fueled Enterprise in 2026
Deloitte and ServiceNow released the 2026 Workflow Automation Outlook, highlighting a move from siloed automation projects to unified, AI‑enabled workflow ecosystems. The report identifies five trends—AI‑ready architecture, AI‑core process redesign, governance as a growth engine, service‑led CRM, and outcome‑focused transformation—that...
Unlocking Document Understanding with Mistral Document AI in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry now offers Mistral Document AI 2512, a hybrid OCR and document‑understanding model that combines high‑precision text extraction with layout and multilingual awareness. Benchmarks show roughly 95.9% overall OCR accuracy and 99%+ accuracy on many languages, surpassing competing platforms....
The Hidden Price Tag: Uncovering Hidden Costs in Cloud Architectures with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Organizations adopting AWS often overlook hidden costs tied to security breaches, downtime, and over‑provisioned resources. The AWS Well‑Architected Framework, together with the Cloud Adoption Framework, offers a structured set of best practices across six pillars to identify and remediate high‑risk...
LexisNexis Confirms Data Breach as Hackers Leak Stolen Files
LexisNexis Legal & Professional confirmed a breach after hackers exploited an unpatched React frontend, using the React2Shell vulnerability to access its AWS environment. The threat actor FulcrumSec leaked over 2 GB of data, including 21,042 customer accounts, 45 attorney password hashes,...
Optimizing MCP for Production: 10 Proven Performance Techniques
CData has published a guide outlining ten proven techniques to optimize the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for production AI workloads. The recommendations focus on reducing latency, increasing throughput, and improving scalability through strategies such as global caching, batching, parallel tool...
Zero Trust Implementation Roadmap: 5 Stages From Legacy to Modern Security
The article outlines a five‑stage roadmap for Zero Trust adoption, beginning with a thorough identity assessment and progressing through identity foundation, device trust, application access modernization, network segmentation, and continuous validation. Each stage includes concrete milestones such as 100% MFA enforcement,...
Demystifying the Smart Hospital at HIMSS26
Cleveland Clinic CIO Sarah Hatchett will lead a HIMSS26 panel that offers a practical roadmap for building new IT infrastructure and retrofitting existing hospital spaces to accommodate emerging technologies. The session targets health‑system leaders seeking concrete steps to transition toward...
Josys Centralizes Identity Data to Replace Manual IT Oversight with Automated Governance
Josys has evolved into an autonomous identity governance platform that centralizes identity data from any source into a single AI‑driven system. The solution automates access reviews, lifecycle updates, and over‑permissioned user remediation, eliminating manual IT oversight. Its AI Integration Builder...
Shiji Expands Move Mobile Experience With Unified Platform
Shiji announced that its Move framework now spans the entire hotel ecosystem, linking Daylight PMS, Infrasys POS, and Meridian Experiences on a single mobile device. The cloud‑native platform lets staff handle check‑in, dining, spa bookings, upsells and payments in real...
Executive Intelligence Podcast - Certinia Founder Deb Ashton on the Changing Services Business, Learning From Customers, and Seizing Opportunities as...
Deb Ashton, founder of Certinia (formerly FinancialForce), explains how services firms are shifting from traditional time‑and‑materials and fixed‑price contracts to recurring revenue models driven by customer success metrics. She highlights AI’s role in automating routine work, forcing new pricing and...
DeepKeep Launches AI Agent Attack Surface Scanner to Map Enterprise Risk
DeepKeep Ltd. unveiled its AI Agent Scanner, a tool that maps the attack surface of generative AI agents within enterprise workflows. The solution provides instant visibility into agents' tool and data access, visual risk maps, and identifies potential vulnerabilities. It...
Secure by Design: Building Security in at the Beginning
Secure by Design is a holistic methodology that embeds security from the earliest stages of system and software conception, shifting protection from a reactive afterthought to a proactive design principle. CIS and SAFECode collaborate to provide measurable guidance, translating standards...
Finally, CTEM and MITRE INFORM Without the Jargon
The new "CTEM + MITRE INFORM Guide for Dummies" offers a jargon‑light introduction to Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and its integration with MITRE’s INFORM maturity model. It explains how CTEM shifts security from point‑in‑time assessments to continuous validation of...
Coforge Advances Data Cosmos, a Next-Gen AI-Enabled, Cloud-Native Data and Analytics Platform Designed to Accelerate Enterprise Transformation
Coforge has launched Data Cosmos, an AI‑enabled, cloud‑native data engineering and analytics platform designed to unify fragmented enterprise data. The solution is organized into five portfolios—Supernova, Nebula, Hypernova, Pulsar, and Quasar—that address modernization, governance, DataOps, and GenAI adoption across the...
Teramind Launches the First AI Governance Platform for the Agentic Enterprise
Teramind unveiled AI Governance, the first platform that extends enterprise‑grade oversight to every AI tool and autonomous agent used by employees, from ChatGPT to shadow AI. Internal research shows over 80% of workers use unsanctioned AI, with 49% hiding this...
Generali Launches Core Tech Software Factory
Italian insurer Generali has unveiled Generali Core Tech, a dedicated software factory aimed at speeding its digital transformation under the “Lifetime Partner 27” strategy. The factory will manage the “Insurance in a Box” platform, already live in Spain and Switzerland...
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[Business Case Builder] The High Cost of Doing Nothing
Food manufacturers facing the FSMA 204 deadline are urged to modernize legacy ERP systems, which silently generate costs in inventory waste, recall exposure, compliance labor, manual workarounds, and slow financial closes. QAD’s sponsored Business Case Builder provides fill‑in worksheets, KPI‑to‑dollar translation,...
ZohoDay 2026 - How Newcross Healthcare Builds AI Apps on a Governed Platform - While Keeping AI Hype at Bay
At ZohoDay 2026, Newcross Healthcare showcased how it built a mission‑critical care‑management application on Zoho’s governed platform, unifying CRM, finance, workforce and analytics. By leveraging Zoho Creator, the team delivered a fully integrated solution in six months, cutting licensing costs...
Automation Anywhere and EvolutIA Deliver Next-Generation AI Agents that Reason and Decide for Enterprises
Automation Anywhere announced a strategic partnership with AI‑automation consultancy EvolutIA, leveraging its Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform and Process Reasoning Engine to create autonomous agents that can understand context, make decisions, and act without continuous human input. EvolutIA will use...
AI Agent Overload: How to Solve the Workload Identity Crisis
Zscaler will address the growing workload identity crisis at RSAC 2026, focusing on AI agents and other non‑human identities that span multi‑cloud and on‑prem environments. The session will expose prevalent insecure practices such as static IP mapping and unrotated keys, and...
What Is Digital Employee Experience — and Why Is It More Important than Ever?
Digital employee experience (DEX) measures how workers interact with the myriad digital tools they rely on, from devices to cloud services. By aggregating telemetry, sentiment data, and AI‑driven analytics, DEX platforms identify and remediate digital friction that hampers productivity. Gartner...
CIOs Agree Variability the Enemy of Large-Scale IT Shops
At a ViVE conference, CIOs from Christus Health, SSM Health and HCA Healthcare warned that variability, not scale, is the primary cost driver for large health systems. They highlighted governance gaps that allow endless project approvals but few rejections, leading...
Source Of Truth Vs System Of Record: Why Neither Is Enough
Revenue teams are shifting from static systems of record and single sources of truth toward a "system of context" that blends real‑time signals with trusted data. Traditional CRMs and data warehouses store information but fail to interpret it quickly enough...
AND Digital Fuels US Expansion with New Leadership Appointment
AND Digital announced Catherine Rousseau as Technical Solutions Director to accelerate its U.S. expansion and strengthen AI‑enabled digital transformation services. Rousseau joins from Valsoft, where she led an AI business unit, and will define technical strategy, solution design, and architectural...
Intuitive Signals Next Phase of Platform Capabilities
Intuitive celebrates one year under Banyan Software, highlighting major upgrades to its iVector reservation platform. The system now features an open, extensible architecture that supports AI‑driven integrations and faster supplier onboarding. A new cruise‑booking module adds pricing and group allocation...
Open Cyber Standards Key to Cross-Platform Integration
Enterprises are turning to open cyber standards to break the cycle of vendor lock‑in that has plagued multi‑year managed service contracts and early hyperscale cloud deployments. By adopting protocols such as OAuth, OpenID and RESTful APIs, organizations can achieve true...
Making a Reservation for an Agent-First Business Model - Wyndham Hotels CEO Explains Why He's Checking-In on an AI Future
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has deployed Salesforce’s Agentforce in over 5,000 instances across its 8,300 properties, creating a unified Guest 360 platform that merges reservation, loyalty, and CRM data. The AI‑driven Agent Foundry gives human agents real‑time guest insights, slashing front‑office labor...
DMWF Spotlight: Stop Personalising More. Start Thinking Better.
The article argues that CRM success isn’t driven by more personalization or automation, but by better judgment and restraint. Companies often assume that increasing messages boosts engagement, yet customers feel overwhelmed and ignore the noise. Atombit advises focusing on what...
East Cheshire Shares Five Aims for 2026 and Beyond Following EPR Rollout
East Cheshire NHS Trust announced five strategic aims for 2026 following a smoother‑than‑expected Meditech EPR go‑live in June 2025. The plan includes a major system upgrade in March, digitising the top 50 high‑priority clinical documents, and expanding internal referral orders...
How PMI’s Outcome‑Driven EA Practice Won the 2025 Forrester EA Award
Philip Morris International (PMI) won the 2025 Forrester EA Award after its Enterprise Architecture & Technology Transformation team built an AI Factory, deployed generative AI tools to 35,000 employees, and delivered over 450 AI use cases. The team rewrote the...
Microsoft Warns OAuth Redirect Abuse Delivers Malware to Government Targets
Microsoft warned that threat actors are exploiting OAuth redirect functionality to deliver malware to government and public‑sector targets. The attackers create malicious applications with rogue redirect URLs, send phishing emails containing crafted OAuth links, and use an invalid scope to...
YAROOMS Introduces Yarvis: Not an App. A Colleague.
YAROOMS has launched Yarvis, an AI‑powered workplace assistant that lives inside Microsoft Teams and email, turning natural‑language requests into coordinated actions such as desk and room booking, visitor management, and facility tickets. The tool aims to cut through the average...
Cloud Architects Earn the Highest Salaries
Cloud architects remain the most in‑demand cloud role, commanding total compensation often exceeding $200,000. Their core value lies in translating business intent into secure, cost‑controlled designs that scale across dozens of teams. While many organizations can spin up workloads quickly,...
Third-Party AI Agents Can Now Plug Into LiveRamp’s Platform
LiveRamp announced that third‑party AI agents can now plug directly into its data collaboration platform, removing the need for custom API calls. The integration enables agents to automate audience planning, segmentation, measurement and to interact with partner and proprietary agents....