Extending ERP to the Frontline: Why AI-Powered HR Kiosks Are Becoming a Critical Enterprise Layer
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human capital management (HCM) platforms now handle payroll, compliance, and analytics, yet frontline workers remain disconnected from these systems. AI‑powered self‑service HR kiosks embed intelligence at the point of interaction, enabling real‑time attendance validation, policy enforcement, and schedule access. By feeding accurate data directly into ERP, organizations cut manual corrections, lower compliance risk, and improve labor forecasting. The emerging architecture positions kiosks as a critical layer linking frontline operations to enterprise intelligence.
Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi Drives Over 100 Million USD in Savings
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) partnered with Ivalua to overhaul its procurement function, delivering over 400 million AED (more than 100 million USD) in savings across 2024‑2025. Streamlined contract‑lifecycle management and a centralized repository cut procurement cycle times by 23 %...
Oracle Red Bull Racing Partnership with Oracle Extended to Power AI-Driven F1 Performance
Oracle has extended its title partnership with Red Bull Racing, deepening the use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and Fusion Cloud Applications across the team’s race strategy, engineering, and business functions. The deal supports the development of a next‑generation hybrid...
From Humble Beginnings to Industry Leaders
Epicor’s authorized partners ComTec Solutions and 2W Tech have transformed from modest operations into leading ERP service providers. ComTec, now a Platinum partner, expanded from manufacturing ERP implementations to distribution with Prophet 21, growing to 60 staff and over 300 clients....
Microsoft Testing Windows 11 Batch File Security Improvements
Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview builds that add a new batch‑file security mode, letting administrators lock batch files in use via the LockBatchFilesInUse registry key or the LockBatchFilesWhenInUse manifest control. The change reduces the need for per‑statement signature validation, boosting script...
Sweep Launches Multi-Org Agent for Salesforce
Sweep introduced its Multi‑Org Agent for Salesforce, a tool that automatically maps dependencies, automations, and rules across fragmented Salesforce environments. The solution helps enterprises compare configurations, spot redundant or conflicting automations, and surface technical debt at scale. Sweep plans to...
CISA Warns that RESURGE Malware Can Be Dormant on Ivanti Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has detailed how the RESURGE implant silently resides on Ivanti Connect Secure appliances, exploiting the zero‑day CVE‑2025‑0282. The 32‑bit Linux shared object libdsupgrade.so remains dormant until it detects a specific inbound TLS...
What Secure Digital Work Looks Like Next: Omnissa CEO Takes the Stage at IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026
Omnissa CEO Shankar Iyer will headline IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026, showcasing the company’s AI‑driven digital work platform that merges endpoint management, virtual desktops and security into a single control plane. The platform is positioned as a frictionless, adaptive...
AWU by Salesforce: A Shiny New Metric that Tells CIOs Little of Value
Salesforce introduced the Agentic Work Unit (AWU) metric on its earnings call, positioning it as a way for CIOs to quantify the output of AI‑driven agents. The metric pairs the number of discrete actions performed with token consumption to suggest...
The Copilot Reality Check: What Enterprise Adoption Data Reveals About The AI Boom
Forrester’s Q1 2026 Wave reveals that enterprise adoption of Microsoft Copilot remains cautious, with most organizations still in pilot phases across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365. CIOs demand concrete, outcome‑based use cases rather than generic productivity promises, emphasizing ROI, data readiness,...
FDB Vela Integrates With Photon Health Digital Prescription Marketplace
First Databank’s cloud‑native ePrescribing network, FDB Vela, has integrated with Photon Health’s digital prescription marketplace. The partnership combines FDB Vela’s HITRUST‑certified, redundant cloud infrastructure with Photon’s consumer‑focused platform that lets patients compare pharmacy options by price, location and availability before...
ScarCruft Uses Zoho WorkDrive and USB Malware to Breach Air-Gapped Networks
North Korean APT ScarCruft launched the Ruby Jumper campaign, employing a chain of malware that includes RESTLEAF, SNAKEDROPPER, THUMBSBD, VIRUSTASK, FOOTWINE and BLUELIGHT. The first‑stage payload uses a malicious LNK file to execute PowerShell, which carves and runs additional components....
SAIC Awarded $95M GAO IT Modernization Contract
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) secured a $95 million contract from the U.S. Government Accountability Office to overhaul its Technical Information Services IT environment. The agreement calls for end‑to‑end services that modernize applications, platforms, and operating models while embedding security, automation,...
Why Application Security Must Start at the Load Balancer
Application security should begin at the load balancer, not deeper in the stack. Organizations often treat load balancers solely as performance devices, leaving encryption, protocol hygiene, and abuse controls to downstream tools. This architectural gap lets attackers exploit weak TLS...
Munro Footwear Group Goes Live with Fluent Order Management, Supported by Amblique
Munro Footwear Group (MFG) has launched Fluent Order Management, backed by Amblique, to unify inventory and fulfillment across its 240+ stores, digital channels and distribution centres. The Distributed Order Management system provides a universal inventory view, ship‑from‑store capability and configurable...
Vibhor Kumar: Open Source, Open Nerves
At last year’s CIO Summit in Mumbai, senior leaders from banking, fintech, telecom and manufacturing debated the growing risk profile of open‑source databases, with PostgreSQL emerging as the focal point. The conversation has moved from pure performance to trust, encompassing...
Illumio Insights Brings Agentless Visibility and Breach Containment to Hybrid Environments
Illumio announced Illumio Insights, an agent‑less solution that ingests real‑time telemetry from Check Point and Fortinet firewalls to create live traffic maps across data‑center and cloud environments. The platform converts existing firewall data into visibility without installing software agents, extending...
Five Questions to Ask Before Renewing or Expanding Enterprise AI Platforms in 2026
Enterprise AI platform decisions in 2026 are shifting from new deployments to renewals, consolidations, and selective expansions, especially across Asia‑Pacific where cost pressures demand measurable ROI. Leaders must move beyond model accuracy and user adoption, demanding concrete economic proof that...
5 Ways to Free Your Manufacturing From Inefficient, Outdated Processes
Manufacturers are turning to integrated ERP systems to break free from legacy, paper‑based processes. By consolidating production data, ERP delivers real‑time visibility, precise job costing, and customizable KPIs that drive faster, data‑backed decisions. The article outlines five pillars—visibility, metric improvement,...
CRM Driven Personalization: Moving Beyond Automated Messages to Predictive Guest Experiences
Hospitality operators are shifting from generic automated messaging to predictive, intelligence‑driven guest experiences powered by integrated CRM and PMS data. Fragmented guest information has limited personalization, but unified profiles enable real‑time segmentation, tailored offers, and on‑property service alignment. Hotels that...
CMMS Deployed to Drive Downtime Reduction, Boost Productivity
DLG Group, a leading Northern European feed manufacturer, has deployed the Fiix cloud‑based CMMS to modernize maintenance across its plants. Within the first month the rollout delivered measurable improvements in mean time between failures and set a target of cutting...
Wildix Looks to Bring Conversations Under Enterprise Control with eSIM
Wildix has introduced Wildix eSIM, an AI‑powered extension of its Mobility Cloud that routes business mobile calls through the enterprise system of record. The solution embeds a single business identity into the SIM, allowing native dialer use while preserving routing,...
Exclusive! Visibility That Pays: Unlocking the Full Value of Cloud Investment
Leaders at the OpenGov Breakfast in Singapore warned that cloud migration alone fails to deliver value without end‑to‑end observability. They emphasized that real‑time visibility across infrastructure, data pipelines, and workflows enables proactive, insight‑driven decisions, reduces risk, and fuels trustworthy AI...
DoD Replaces Paper-Based Access Requests with Automated ICAM Workflow
The Department of Defense is phasing out the decades‑old DD Form 2875, replacing it with an automated Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) workflow. The new system will provision, authorize, and revoke user access within hours, generate immutable audit logs,...
Microsoft Research Introduces CORPGEN To Manage Multi Horizon Tasks For Autonomous AI Agents Using Hierarchical Planning and Memory
Microsoft Research unveiled CORPGEN, an architecture‑agnostic framework that equips autonomous AI agents to operate in Multi‑Horizon Task Environments (MHTEs) where dozens of interleaved, dependent tasks coexist. The paper identifies four failure modes—context saturation, memory interference, dependency‑graph complexity, and reprioritization overhead—that...
From Operations to Outcomes: The Business Value of Automation
Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform is shifting IT automation from simple time‑saving scripts to a strategic business asset that delivers measurable reliability, security and revenue protection. Industry research shows 72% of enterprises juggle 50+ tools, creating visibility gaps and governance risks...
Marquis V. SonicWall Lawsuit Ups the Breach Blame Game
Fintech firm Marquis, which serves over 700 banks, filed a lawsuit against firewall vendor SonicWall after a ransomware breach exposed client data for roughly 780,000 individuals. SonicWall later disclosed that a breach of its own firewall configuration backups affected all...
Can Agentic AI Effectively Handle Enterprise Security Needs
Enterprises are turning to Non‑Human Identity (NHI) management to close security gaps created by machine‑generated accounts and their secrets. By automating discovery, classification, monitoring and decommissioning, organizations can reduce breach exposure while cutting operational costs. Centralized NHI platforms deliver real‑time...
From ERP Go-Live to Continuous Optimization: A Post-Go-Live Framework by Techbot
Techbot unveiled a three‑phase post‑go‑live framework that moves ERP projects from initial stabilization to performance optimization and ongoing governance. The first 30‑90 days focus on system reliability, data integrity and rapid issue resolution to build user confidence. The second phase...
Building Day 2 Ops Guardrails with Terraform and Packer
The article outlines how Terraform and Packer can establish Day 2 operations guardrails that keep cloud environments secure, compliant, and cost‑effective after initial provisioning. It identifies common post‑deployment pitfalls such as manual ticketing, policy drift, orphaned resources, and misconfigurations that drive...
Low-Code by Design: A Practical Way to Modernize Identity Governance
Low‑Code by Design reframes identity governance automation by building reusable, metadata‑driven integration modules instead of bespoke scripts. The approach captures application attributes such as account models and correlation rules, allowing a single tested component to be configured for many systems....
FC Bayern Moves to SAP Cloud ERP Private to Advance Clean Core Strategy
FC Bayern has migrated its core IT landscape to SAP Cloud ERP Private, consolidating over 9.5 million fan and member records and more than 25,000 product master data entries into a single cloud system. The move supports a clean‑core architecture...
AWS Security Hub Extended Brings Enterprise Security Under One Roof
AWS Security Hub Extended introduces a bundled plan that lets enterprises procure, deploy, and manage a full‑stack security suite covering endpoints, identity, email, network, data, browsers, cloud, AI, and security operations from a single console. The offering expands protection beyond...
Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering Is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure
Santander launched Catalyst, a platform‑engineering solution built with AWS, to overhaul its cloud infrastructure. The initiative replaces a 90‑day manual provisioning process with an automated, Kubernetes‑based control plane that leverages Crossplane, ArgoCD, and OPA. By consolidating over 100 pipelines, Catalyst...
Why Inetum Sees Control — Not Infrastructure — as the Real Sovereignty Challenge
Inetum argues that true digital sovereignty hinges on demonstrable control over data and processes, not merely on owning infrastructure. As EU regulations such as the AI Act, Data Act and DORA embed accountability into system design, enterprises must prove who...
European DYI Chain ManoMano Data Breach Impacts 38 Million Customers
ManoMano, a leading European DIY e‑commerce platform, disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 38 million customers after hackers compromised a Tunis‑based third‑party customer support provider. The breach exposed personal details such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and support ticket communications,...
Google's Nano Banana 2 Takes Aim at the Production Cost Problem That's Kept AI Image Gen Out of Enterprise Workflows
Google DeepMind unveiled Nano Banana 2, a Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model that delivers Pro‑level text rendering, subject consistency, and image search at roughly half the cost of the Nano Banana Pro tier. The new offering reduces per‑image pricing to...
Emerson Announces OPTIMIZE 26 Conference for AspenTech Users
Emerson announced OPTIMIZE™ 26, a four‑day conference for AspenTech users in Houston from May 11‑14, 2026. The event expects 1,300 participants representing more than 50 nations and will spotlight industrial AI, data management, and advanced optimization tools. A new Innovation Zone will...
Trace Raises $3M to Solve the AI Agent Adoption Problem in Enterprise
Trace, a Boston-based workflow orchestration startup, announced a $3 million seed round led by Y Combinator and several venture firms. The company builds a knowledge graph from enterprise tools such as email, Slack and Airtable to give AI agents the contextual...
ServiceNow Resolves 90% of Its Own IT Requests Autonomously. Now It Wants to Do the Same for Any Enterprise
ServiceNow reports that it resolves 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, delivering solutions up to 99% faster than human agents. The company unveiled an Autonomous Workforce framework, the EmployeeWorks product, and a "role automation" architecture to extend this...
Sinch Expands Its Platform With Agentic Conversations for AI-Powered Customer Engagement
Sinch unveiled Agentic Conversations, a suite that lets enterprises deploy AI agents across messaging, voice and email channels at scale. The platform offers an open, secure infrastructure that integrates with existing enterprise systems and supports both Sinch‑built and third‑party agents....
Microsoft Expands Windows Restore to More Enterprise Devices
Microsoft has broadened its first‑sign‑in restore experience, part of Windows Backup for Organizations, to include hybrid‑managed devices, multi‑user setups, and Windows 365 Cloud PCs. The feature lets users who sign in with a Microsoft Entra ID account restore personal settings and...
Deloitte Launches Toolkit to Help Organizations Move From AI Experimentation to Long-Term Value
Deloitte has introduced Enterprise AI Navigator, an advisory and engineering software suite aimed at moving enterprises from fragmented AI pilots to measurable, organization‑wide value. The platform combines Deloitte’s Ascend project‑management tools with proprietary data to identify suitable processes, model workflow...
Beyond the Spreadsheet: Integrating Automated Accounts Payable Systems Into Your ERP
The article explains why companies are moving from spreadsheet‑based accounts payable to automated AP solutions that integrate directly with ERP platforms. It outlines the drawbacks of manual spreadsheets—errors, delays, and weak audit trails—and details how automation delivers real‑time visibility, faster...
Awery Appointed Software Provider for Group Concorde
Awery Aviation Software has been selected as the exclusive software provider for Group Concorde, India’s leading General Sales and Service Agent, delivering a total cargo management solution via its integrated Enterprise Resource Planning platform. The ERP system will centralize data...
Your Customers Aren’t Keen on that Customer Service Chatbot You Introduced – Here's Why
A YouGov survey for Pega reveals deep consumer mistrust of AI‑only customer service, with 68 % lacking confidence in how businesses use generative AI and half reporting unsuccessful outcomes. While 80 % say human agents achieve better results, only 2 % prefer exclusive...
IBM Integrates Deepgram Voice AI Into Watsonx Orchestrate Platform
IBM has partnered with Deepgram to embed its speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech engines into the watsonx Orchestrate generative AI platform. The integration adds real‑time transcription, captioning and multi‑language voice support, letting enterprises build voice‑enabled agents and workflows. Deepgram becomes IBM’s first...
Ribbon and AWS Transform Cloud Deployment for Service Providers and Enterprises
Ribbon Communications announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to deliver a cloud‑native, secure voice communications suite on AWS Marketplace. The offering bundles Ribbon’s Session Border Controller, policy routing engine, and centralized management platform as containerized services optimized for...
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Preparing for the Quantum Hangover
Quantum‑era risk is no longer a distant theory; adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data to decrypt later when quantum computers mature. This "harvest‑now, decrypt‑later" model threatens long‑life information across government, finance, healthcare and private‑sector IP. CEOs must shift focus from...
How We Engineered a Scalable and Performant Enterprise AI Platform
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...