Meet the French Startup Fixing the Guardrail Gap Holding Enterprise AI Back
Enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents face escalating risks such as hallucinations, security breaches, and regulatory violations. French startup Giskard has launched Giskard Guards, Europe’s first sovereign guardrail platform that monitors the entire agent execution chain and blocks unsafe behavior in real time. The solution embeds policy‑as‑code, allowing companies to enforce compliance rules directly within AI workflows. Early adopters include Mistral, DeepMind, BNP Paribas, AXA and Doctolib, positioning Giskard as a key player in the emerging European AI security market.
Iress Partners with Thoughtworks on AI and Platform Push
Iress has struck a strategic partnership with technology consultancy Thoughtworks to modernize its wealth‑management platforms and embed artificial‑intelligence capabilities. The collaboration will streamline Iress’s technology architecture, starting with its flagship Xplan platform, and aims to deliver a more modular, AI‑enabled...
Zero Trust in the IT Ops Stack: Securing Hybrid Workloads
Zero‑trust operations are moving from a perimeter mindset to an identity‑centric model, driven by the expansion of hybrid and multi‑cloud workloads. Executives gain stronger risk governance, reduced blast radius, and clearer visibility by embedding continuous verification and least‑privilege controls into...
Kloudfuse 4.0 Delivers AI-Governed Observability and Scalable Workload Isolation
Kloudfuse announced the general availability of version 4.0, a platform that combines AI‑driven observability with production‑grade governance while keeping all telemetry inside the customer’s cloud. The release addresses three urgent pressures: the 2026 FIPS 140‑2 sunset, the surge of AI agents...
Is the AI Infrastructure Layer Now More Valuable than Software? Boomi CEO Steve Lucas Raises the Stakes with Boomi World...
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas used Boomi World 2026 to argue that AI infrastructure now outweighs traditional software in enterprise value. He introduced the concept of an "active data foundation"—real‑time, contextual data that fuels AI agents across a four‑layer stack: connected,...
Airtel’s Enterprise Arm Launches DPDP Act-Compliant Security Solution
Bharti Airtel’s enterprise division has launched Airtel Secure Workforce, a zero‑trust, fully managed security platform designed to meet India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act requirements. The solution secures endpoints, devices, networks, applications and data while promising up to a...
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Vulnerabilities Expose Cross-Tenant Subscriber Data Risks
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) disclosed a series of vulnerabilities affecting AMPScript, CloudPages, and email‑rendering workflows. The flaws allowed template injection, unauthenticated decryption of query‑string tokens, and exploitation of legacy XOR encryption, potentially exposing subscriber lists and email content across tenants....
France’s OpsMill Raises €11.9 Million to Help Enterprises Prepare Infrastructure Data for AI and Automation
Paris‑based OpsMill announced a $14 million Series A round to accelerate its AI‑ready infrastructure data platform, Infrahub. The funding, led by IRIS with participation from BGV, Serena and Partech, will expand engineering and product teams. OpsMill’s graph‑based, version‑controlled platform transforms fragmented IT...
Automating SAP Batch Genealogy, Material Certificates Through EDI Integration
A global manufacturer automated its material certification and batch genealogy processes by linking SAP ERP, Microsoft SharePoint, and the Seeburger BIS Integration Suite via EDI. The middleware orchestrates document ingestion, metadata extraction, and SAP document linking, creating a single source...
Thomas Peer Solutions Unveils Data Cloud Platform and Executive Leadership Forum for 2026
Australian IT services firm Thomas Peer Solutions announced the Thomas Peer Data Cloud, a unified platform that bundles backup, cyber‑vault, infrastructure, security and observability services from partners such as Dell, NetApp, Veeam, Wasabi, Datadog and CrowdStrike. The cloud delivers 24/7...
Why Point-in-Time Assessments Fail and What Must Replace Them
Point‑in‑time security assessments such as annual SOC 2 reports are increasingly out of sync with the rapid code deployments, AI integrations, and configuration changes that characterize modern SaaS environments. The article explains that static questionnaires capture a snapshot, not the continuous...
From 18 to 42 Epic Modules: 7 Notes on St. Luke’s EHR
St. Luke’s University Health Network has expanded its Epic electronic health record from 18 to 42 modules over the past decade, adding extensive clinical, financial and analytics capabilities. The health system delivered more than 121,000 Epic training classes to its 41,000...
Behind the Kentucky Derby: How Churchill Downs Is Using SAP to Control Spend
Churchill Downs, the operator of the Kentucky Derby, has leveraged SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as the core of a broader digital transformation, adding SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network to tighten spend control. The cloud ERP gave the 10,000‑employee...
Channel Partners Redefined: Driving ERP Transformation Beyond Implementation
ERP channel partners are evolving from pure resellers to strategic advisors who guide customers through evaluation, implementation, extension, and long‑term optimization. Holly Oberbroeckling of Epicor highlights that partners must now deliver industry‑specific expertise, integration skills, and post‑go‑live support tied to...
AuditBoard (Now Optro), a SaaS Risk-and-Compliance Platform
AuditBoard, founded by Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, evolved from a Sarbanes‑Oxley tool into a comprehensive SaaS risk‑and‑compliance platform. Battery Ventures led its 2018 Series B, rebranded the company, and installed CEO Scott Arnold, driving ARR to $200 million by early 2024. The...
The Connected Platformfor Global Tax Compliance
Vertex Inc. is positioning its connected platform as a one‑stop solution for the wave of global tax compliance changes slated for April 2026. The company released a series of resources covering urgent e‑invoicing mandates, a Brazil tax reform that takes effect...
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 - Standard Chartered, Hitachi Energy and State of Hawaii on Why Governing AI Agents Matters More than...
ServiceNow’s Knowledge 2026 conference unveiled an expanded AI Control Tower and announced that its Autonomous Workforce will now span every major enterprise function. A customer panel featuring Standard Chartered, Hitachi Energy and the State of Hawaii underscored that governance, not just agentic capability,...
Vertex and Brinta: Advancing AI-Driven E‑Invoicing Across Latin America
Vertex announced the acquisition of Brinta, an AI‑native e‑invoicing provider focused on Latin America. The deal expands Vertex’s real‑time compliance capabilities, adding AI‑driven onboarding, data extraction and product classification. Brinta’s technology, built for the region’s complex tax environment, enables multinational...
HPE Bolsters Autonomous Network Operations for Mist, Aruba Central
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has integrated autonomous networking capabilities into its Mist AI platform and Aruba Central management suite, enabling real‑time detection, diagnosis, and remediation of network issues without human input. The enhancements include dynamic frequency selection, client roaming insights,...
Dyna Software Adds AI Agents to Customize ServiceNow Applications
Dyna Software unveiled Platform Copilot, a suite of AI agents that automatically configure ServiceNow SaaS applications from natural‑language or image inputs. Integrated with ServiceNow’s development tools and large‑language models from OpenAI and Anthropic, the agents generate configurations, preview changes, and...
Netskope Launches AI Agents for SOC and NOC Automation
Netskope unveiled AgentSkope, an AI‑driven framework embedded in its Netskope One SASE platform, to automate security and network operations. The solution targets the chronic alert fatigue in SOCs and NOCs, where 40% of alerts go uninvestigated, by deploying six specialized...
AvidXchange Expands Embedded Payments Strategy with Ministry Brands Integration
AvidXchange has launched embedded payments within Ministry Brands’ accounting platform, which serves more than 90,000 churches and nonprofit organizations. The integration embeds the full accounts‑payable lifecycle—invoice capture, approval, and payment—directly into the existing software, eliminating the need for separate tools....
Why Most Tools Fall Short for Large-Scale Information Governance and What Actually Works
Enterprise information governance projects struggle with multi‑terabyte, distributed data because most tools rely on Elasticsearch, a Java‑based, centralized index that demands massive memory, data duplication, and lengthy ingest times. The architecture forces a full copy of sensitive files, creating compliance...
Developers Will Use Whatever AI Coding Tool They Want. ServiceNow Is Building for that Reality.
ServiceNow announced at Knowledge 2026 new AI governance features, free access to its low‑code App Engine Management Center, and integrations that let developers use any AI coding tool—Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others—with its Build Agent. The Build Agent, powered...
How to Calculate the Total Cost of Ownership of ERP Software
Calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of ERP software requires looking beyond the headline license or subscription fee. Decision‑makers must add implementation, hardware, support, training, data migration and hidden soft costs such as staff time and opportunity loss. A...
EY and Rillet Partner to Embed Risk and Controls Into AI-Native Finance Transformation
EY US has announced an alliance with AI‑native ERP provider Rillet to fuse finance transformation, automation, and risk management into a single operating model. The partnership leverages EY’s consulting and control expertise alongside Rillet’s general‑ledger‑first platform, embedding controls directly into...
MSPs Get AI Workforce to Scale Managed Security
WatchGuard unveiled Rai, an agentic AI digital workforce for managed service providers that automates detection, investigation and response tasks. Positioned as a shift from assistive to autonomous AI, Rai operates continuously, taking pre‑authorized actions and logging them via the WatchGuard...
Tennant ERP Fallout Extends Into Ongoing Securities Scrutiny as Investors Await Recovery Signals
Tennant Company’s North American ERP rollout triggered a $30 million sales shortfall and over $20 million in remediation costs, prompting a 23% one‑day stock plunge. The fallout has moved from operational disruption to a securities investigation scrutinizing the company’s earlier “on‑time, on‑budget”...
Supply Chain Interoperability Is Becoming the Foundation for AI-Enabled Logistics
AI is moving from pilot projects to operational execution, but its success now hinges on supply‑chain interoperability rather than model sophistication. The article argues that true interoperability means real‑time, trusted, contextual data exchange across ERP, TMS, WMS, and partner networks,...
AI-Native Document Automation for SAP. Global Scale. Zero IT Drag.
Rossum announced its AI‑native document automation platform is now an official SAP partner. The integration uses AI agents to extract data from invoices, purchase orders and shipping documents and feed it directly into SAP modules such as accounts‑payable, order management...
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 - Vantage Towers Adopts ServiceNow to Manage 55,000 Landlords and Redefines How It Measures Success
Vantage Towers, which operates 88,000 telecom sites across Europe, has migrated its 55,000 landlord relationships onto ServiceNow’s Lyra platform. The new system consolidates multiple communication channels and pulls SAP and asset data into a single interface, cutting resolution times from...
Tinubu Is Building the First AI-Native Surety System, Integrating and Automating Broker and Carrier Workflows
Tinubu Surety, serving over 150 agencies and 17 carriers, unveiled an AI‑native platform that unifies broker and carrier workflows across the entire surety lifecycle. The roadmap introduces a rebuilt real‑time rating engine, an AI‑powered underwriting workbench, and a digital highway...
Devicie Is Building Endpoint Security for an AI-Driven World
Devicie, an Australian‑origin startup, delivers a zero‑touch, AI‑enhanced endpoint security platform built on Microsoft Intune, automating patching, compliance and policy enforcement for laptops, tablets and phones. The solution addresses the fact that up to 90% of cyberattacks start at endpoints...
ERP Consolidation: How Finance Leaders Can Reduce Complexity and Improve Agility
Finance leaders are increasingly prioritizing ERP consolidation to curb the rising complexity of managing multiple finance systems. As companies expand through acquisitions and global operations, the average finance shared‑services organization now runs three ERP instances, driving higher licensing fees, integration...
Build the Agentic SOC to Combat AI-Powered Attackers
Splunk, now a Cisco subsidiary, is urging firms to replace fragmented security tools with an AI‑powered SecOps platform that unifies SIEM, SOAR and UEBA. At the ITWeb Security Summit 2026 in Johannesburg, VP Ahmed El Saadi will detail how this integrated...
Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They're Doing?
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents faster than identity‑security policies can keep up, creating a hidden layer of unmanaged activity that Gartner calls “identity dark matter.” Orchid Security’s new Ask Orchid AI engine surfaces these agents, evaluates NIST compliance, and...
Telenor to Have Another Go at Weaning Itself Off US Hyperscalers
Telenor will launch Telenor Sovereign Cloud in the first half of 2025 as a distinct unit within Telenor Infrastructure. The service will operate from Norwegian‑controlled data centres, fully isolated from commercial global cloud providers, to satisfy strict security and data‑sovereignty...
Master AP Complexity with AI Agents
Rossum has announced its status as an official Coupa partner, delivering a native integration that embeds AI agents into Coupa’s procure-to-pay platform. The solution automates the entire accounts‑payable paperwork lifecycle, from invoice capture and e‑invoicing to coding, matching, and exception...
FedEx and ServiceNow Expand Strategic Collaboration with New AI-Powered Supply Chain Solution
FedEx and ServiceNow have deepened their partnership by embedding FedEx Dataworks intelligence into ServiceNow’s Source‑to‑Pay (S2P) platform and new supply‑chain workflows. The integration delivers real‑time logistics data, enabling automated procurement decisions and proactive disruption management. Initial rollout focuses on a...
Workato Launches Otto, the Trusted AI Teammate that Gets Work Done
Workato unveiled Otto, an enterprise‑ready autonomous AI agent that executes work across systems while providing built‑in governance, auditability, and security. Leveraging Workato’s Enterprise Model Context Protocol, Otto connects to existing applications without new integrations or credential changes. The digital teammate...
Hamilton Medical Selects PTC Codebeamer ALM
Hamilton Medical has selected PTC’s Codebeamer Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform to replace its legacy system and paper‑based processes. The new solution will integrate with PTC’s Windchill PLM to provide a unified product data foundation, enabling automated traceability, audit readiness,...
FirstLight Broadens Partnership With ISN Across Additional Sites
FirstLight, a North‑American renewable power producer, has extended its use of ISNetworld to additional sites in Quebec and Ontario. The partnership with ISN will let FirstLight standardize contractor compliance, safety training, and insurance verification across its hydro, solar, and battery...
Workday’s Moat Is Real—But AI Is Testing Its Limits
Workday’s competitive moat rests on deep structural lock‑in, including multi‑year contracts, intricate payroll‑finance‑identity integrations, and a proprietary configuration layer that drives implementations costing up to $1 million and lasting 6‑18 months. Analyst Joe Schmidt warns that AI‑native entrants could undermine these...
Seven Ways Banks Break Their Own Compliance Software
Anandhan Kannan outlines seven common pitfalls that cause banks to undermine their own compliance software, from merely digitizing paper processes to storing policies in static documents. He shows how these missteps lead to continued manual work, fragmented systems, low user...
Accelerate Innovation and Govern Integrity with Red Hat Satellite 6.19
Red Hat unveiled Satellite 6.19, its final RPM‑based release, adding AI‑assisted management, image‑mode support, and hardened vulnerability controls for air‑gapped sites. The update introduces a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for natural‑language queries, granular RBAC, and SSH‑certificate remote execution. It also...
Megaport Launches Built-In DDoS Protection Enabling On-Demand Network Resilience
Megaport Limited announced Megaport DDoS Protection, a built‑in security layer that filters malicious traffic directly within its global network fabric. The service eliminates the need for external scrubbing centers, reducing latency and simplifying routing for enterprise cloud environments. Customers can...
Extreme Moves Toward Autonomous Networking with Advanced AI Agent, Management Tools
Extreme Networks announced its second‑generation AI agent, Extreme Agent ONE, at Extreme Connect 2026, promising proactive, autonomous detection and remediation of network issues. The company also rolled out a major update to its Platform ONE management suite, adding third‑party device...
IBM Makes Digital Sovereignty Operational with General Availability of IBM Sovereign Core
IBM announced the general availability of IBM Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises and governments build AI‑ready sovereign environments and verify control. The solution embeds a customer‑operated control plane, in‑boundary identity and encryption, continuous compliance monitoring, and governed...
CISA Boasts AI Automation Improvements to Threat Analysis, Mission Support
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reports its security operations unit has achieved the largest productivity gains from AI‑driven automation, enabling analysts to triage threats faster and focus on high‑value alerts. The technology also streamlines real‑time customer support in...
How Bissell Homecare Is Cleaning up Supply Chain Planning
Bissell Homecare teamed with o9 Solutions to replace Excel‑based processes with a cloud‑native supply‑chain platform, deploying demand planning, supply‑chain planning, supplier collaboration and inventory‑optimization modules. Three years into the rollout, the company cut scenario‑analysis time from two‑to‑three weeks down to...