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Parsec Automation has launched a Connected Worker solution that runs natively on its TrakSYS manufacturing execution system (MES). The offering embeds real‑time, context‑driven workflows directly into the operational platform, allowing tasks to be generated and adapted based on live production conditions. It is positioned as a quick‑to‑deploy, subscription‑based tool that can scale into broader MES capabilities without re‑platforming. An IDC study of TrakSYS users reports a 454% three‑year ROI and a nine‑month payback period.
Suade Sets the Standard for Agentic AI as the only AI-Native Regulatory Reporting Platform
Suade has launched the first AI‑native regulatory reporting platform, positioning itself as the sole solution built for the agentic AI era. The platform uses an API‑first, open architecture that lets financial institutions embed their own AI models while maintaining full...
AI-Assisted, Human-Led: The Future of Higher Education Advancement
AI is reshaping higher‑education advancement by embedding analytics, recommendation engines, and autonomous agents into Blackbaud's Raiser’s Edge NXT and Enterprise Fundraising CRM. The technology surfaces likely donors, flags portfolio risk, and can initiate routine follow‑ups, dramatically speeding workflow. However, the...
Mecalux Highlights AI-Driven Warehouse Systems as Logistics Digitalisation Accelerates
Mecalux has been listed for the fifth time in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, underscoring its standing among global WMS vendors. Its cloud‑based Easy WMS platform now incorporates generative AI, enabling natural‑language queries, dashboard creation, and automated...
SAP Npm Package Attack Highlights Risks in Developer Tools and CI/CD Pipelines
Supply chain researchers have uncovered a coordinated attack on SAP‑related npm packages, dubbed “mini Shai‑Hulud.” Malicious versions of mbt and several @cap‑js modules were published on April 29, embedding pre‑install code that harvested developer credentials, GitHub and npm tokens, and cloud...
How Procurement Automation Creates Audit-Ready Supply Chains in Manufacturing
A tier‑two automotive parts supplier found it could not trace approval history for 40% of its procurement transactions, putting its preferred‑supplier rating at risk. The audit exposed a common manufacturing gap: production lines are fully automated while procurement still relies...
Sardine and Modulr Unite on Real-Time Fraud Detection
Sardine has partnered with payments‑automation platform Modulr to embed AI‑driven fraud and anti‑money‑laundering tools into Modulr’s real‑time payment flows. The integration will sit inside Modulr’s Risk & Compliance Hub, covering card and instant‑payment rails across use cases such as payroll,...
Appian World 2026 - Why Appian Says Serious AI Needs Serious Process
At Appian World 2026, CEO Matt Calkins argued that generative AI remains a breakthrough without the process infrastructure needed for enterprise‑critical use. He likened AI to the early light bulb, useful only when wired into reliable grids of standards, guardrails,...
UK Firms Left in the Dark over What Workers Are Sharing with AI
A SailPoint survey finds 67% of UK enterprises cannot track what employees share with AI, and 35% rely on external tools, creating shadow‑AI risks. Gartner predicts 40% of firms will suffer a breach from shadow AI by 2030. Despite heavy...
Securing the Last Mile with Local Account Password Rotation
IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0 launches a dedicated plugin that rotates passwords for local operating‑system accounts on Linux servers such as RHEL and Ubuntu. The feature treats each local credential as a managed secret, delivering unique passwords, SSH‑based rotation, and API‑driven...
Identity Continuity for Epic EHR
Strata Maverics provides an identity‑orchestration layer that sits between Epic’s EHR and external identity providers, allowing Epic to remain unchanged while providers are swapped or fail. The orchestrator continuously health‑checks a primary IdP (Microsoft Entra ID) and a warm standby...
Islington Adopts AI for Finance Modernisation
Islington Council has signed a deal with TechnologyOne to deploy its Plus platform, an AI‑enabled enterprise suite for finance and operations. The solution lets staff query systems in natural language and receive real‑time insights, promising faster decision‑making with little training...
Addovation and Snowfox Bring AI-Driven Invoice Automation Into IFS Finance Workflows
Addovation has partnered with Snowfox to embed an AI‑driven invoice automation platform directly into IFS Finance environments. The solution claims to automate more than 90% of invoice coding without requiring system redesign or large implementation projects. By learning from historical...
ERP Overspending Is Being Driven by Governance Gaps, Not Just Software Pricing
Enterprises are overspending on ERP not because of license prices but due to governance gaps. Over‑provisioned licenses, unchecked customizations, and uncontrolled cloud subscriptions cause spend to balloon after go‑live. Studies from KPMG, Statista, McKinsey and Capgemini show average cloud waste...
Carnival Advances Fuel Procurement Modernization With New Digital Platform
Carnival Corporation has fully deployed Inatech’s Shiptech, a cloud‑native digital platform that manages marine fuel procurement across its eight cruise lines and 94 ships. The solution unifies data, provides real‑time visibility, and streamlines purchasing, compliance, and audit processes. Early results...
Transformation Capability Management: Why ERP Programs Drift Even with Good Change Management
ERP programs often drift despite strong change‑management because leaders make weak structural decisions early on, leaving capital, capability and capacity constraints unmanaged. The article introduces Transformation Capability Management (TCM) as a governance layer that surfaces these constraints before they derail...
Official SAP Npm Packages Compromised to Steal Credentials
Security researchers have identified a supply‑chain breach affecting four official SAP npm packages that support the Cloud Application Programming Model. The compromised versions—@cap-js/sqlite, @cap-js/postgres, @cap-js/db-service, and mbt—were altered to include a malicious preinstall script that pulls the Bun runtime and...
Australia Post Focuses on Cyber Security with Alpha Level
Australia Post has partnered with US‑based AI security firm Alpha Level to enhance its cyber‑defence capabilities. The collaboration will apply machine‑learning models to the roughly four billion data points generated each month across the postal network, accelerating threat identification and reducing...
Wiz Finds AI Has Moved From Tool to Infrastructure, Broadening the Attack Surface
Wiz’s State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report shows AI has moved from a niche tool to a core layer of cloud infrastructure, with 81% of surveyed environments running managed AI services and 90% hosting self‑installed AI software. The...
Cisco Bolsters Security, AI Support in Latest SD-WAN Release
Cisco released SD‑WAN software version 26.1.1, introducing a suite of security hardening and AI‑focused capabilities. The update adds a centralized Insecure Configurations dashboard, blocks legacy CLI commands by default, and enables organization‑wide firewall policies for Meraki sites. Enhanced TLS decryption...
The Hidden Tax on Security: How Data Costs Are Eating Your Controls Budget
Security leaders are confronting a hidden budget drain: the cost of moving, normalizing, and ingesting massive volumes of telemetry before any detection occurs. As data sources proliferate across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, and IoT, ingestion expenses—both vendor fees and engineering labor—are...
Reverse Engineering With AI Unearths High-Severity GitHub Bug
GitHub disclosed CVE‑2026‑3854, an 8.7‑score remote‑code‑execution flaw in GitHub Enterprise Server that could be triggered by malicious git push options. The vulnerability also affected GitHub.com, Enterprise Cloud, and related hosted services, all of which were patched within hours. Cloud‑security firm...
Rockwell Automation and Cytiva Launch Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation for Biopharma Companies
Rockwell Automation and Cytiva have launched Figurate, a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform aimed at streamlining digital integration in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The system combines Cytiva’s bioprocessing hardware with Rockwell’s FactoryTalk software, offering an open‑architecture layer that connects third‑party...
Xactly and ServiceNow Unveil AI Integration for RevOps to Boost Sales Productivity
Xactly and ServiceNow have introduced a Dispute Management AI Agent that links Xactly’s revenue platform with ServiceNow’s Now Assist conversational AI. The agent uses the Model Context Protocol to automate compensation inquiries and dispute resolution in real time, turning a...
AWS Quick's Personal Knowledge Graph Is Making Orchestration Decisions Most Control Planes Can't See
AWS Quick has expanded into a desktop‑native agent that continuously builds a personal knowledge graph from a user’s files, calendar, email and SaaS apps. Unlike session‑based chat copilots, Quick maintains state and can proactively trigger actions across local and cloud...
Auvik Bets Agentic AI Can Fill the Networking Skills Gap
Auvik introduced Aurora, an agentic AI platform that moves network management from passive alerting to automated remediation. The system prioritizes alerts, tracks device lifecycle, monitors CVEs, and generates remediation scripts via natural‑language queries. Aurora draws on Auvik’s 15‑year data set—over...
PTC Launches Windchill AI Assistant for Natural Language Search
PTC announced the Windchill AI Assistant, a generative‑AI chat plugin for its Windchill product‑lifecycle‑management platform. The tool lets engineers and manufacturers ask natural‑language questions and receive contextual answers drawn directly from PLM documents, complete with source citations and governed by...
Cleveland-Cliffs Partners with Palantir on AI-Driven Steelmaking
Cleveland‑Cliffs announced a three‑year partnership with Palantir Technologies to embed its AI platform into the company’s flat‑rolled steel production, planning, and order‑entry workflows. The AI integration aims to provide real‑time data coordination across the firm’s 32 North American sites, boosting...
Introducing Governance in Dynamics 365 Customer Service: A New Era of Policy-Driven Communication
Microsoft has launched a public preview of Governance for Dynamics 365 Customer Service, targeting the email channel where compliance risk is highest. The new feature adds an administrator‑configured, policy‑driven layer that validates every outbound email—whether human‑written or AI‑generated—against custom rules....
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HubSpot CRM: How to Align Marketing and Sales for Smoother Leads
HubSpot’s CRM consolidates marketing and sales data into a single source of truth, using Breeze AI to surface buyer intent and automating lifecycle stages. This unified view eliminates handoff gaps, speeds up lead qualification, and lets both teams track revenue impact...
Korcomptenz Expands Agentic AI Capabilities to Power Autonomous ERP and CRM Workflows
Korcomptenz, a Microsoft‑focused transformation partner, announced expanded Agentic AI capabilities that embed autonomous agents directly into Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM workflows. The new offering moves AI beyond copilots and pilots, enabling agents to handle approvals, exception management, reconciliation,...
Rippling Rolls Out Automated Compliance Tool for SOC 2 Audits
Rippling, the San Francisco‑based workforce platform, unveiled an automated compliance tool that streamlines SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 audits. The solution leverages existing HR, device‑management and identity data to recommend controls, collect evidence in real time, and automatically remediate gaps. It consolidates...
Northern Re to Scale Capital Intelligence via Palantir Platform Selection
Northern Re, a collateralized reinsurance firm, announced the selection of Palantir Technologies as its core data platform to enhance capital intelligence. The integration will give underwriting and capital teams a shared, real‑time view of portfolio performance, improving governance and decision‑making....
EDiscovery Impact of Advanced Indexing in M365
Microsoft’s default ambient index in M365 often leaves items partially indexed, raising compliance concerns under FRCP 26(g). Premium (E5) customers can enable Advanced Indexing, which automatically re‑processes those items, runs OCR, and generates detailed reports. The feature activates when custodians...
Nintex Debuts New On-Premises AI and Simplified Identity Management for Nintex K2
Nintex announced the release of Nintex K2 5.9.1, an on‑premises version of its business orchestration platform that now embeds a locally hosted AI engine. The update also introduces automated OIDC‑compatible identity federation and a suite of WCAG‑aligned accessibility enhancements. By keeping...
CallRail Connects Voice Assist to HubSpot, Bringing Real-Time Customer Context to Every Call
CallRail announced an upgrade to its HubSpot integration, enabling the AI‑powered Voice Assist to pull CRM data in real time as a call begins. The assistant instantly matches returning callers, delivers personalized greetings, and skips questions already stored in HubSpot,...
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations to Automate Back-Office Work
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Operations, an AI‑driven platform that automates back‑office tasks across email, ERP and collaboration tools. The solution promises to halve or even cut cycle times for processes such as auditing and onboarding by 50‑70% and reduce manual data‑entry...
AI Is Everywhere, but That Doesn’t Mean It Belongs in Your ERP
AI is ubiquitous, but most hype centers on generative, stochastic models that excel at language tasks. In food‑manufacturing ERP, only deterministic AI—built on structured, rule‑based data—can reliably handle inventory, costing, and compliance. Generative AI belongs in the user‑interface layer, helping...
DTCC, SSImple Partner to Automate Standing Settlement Instructions for Custodians
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has teamed up with fintech firm SSImple to automate the flow of Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs) into DTCC’s ALERT database. The partnership leverages SSImple’s SSI Comply platform to validate, normalize and transmit SSI data...
Salesforce Expands Beyond the Front Office with Agentforce Operations
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Operations, an AI‑driven platform that automates back‑office tasks such as auditing, onboarding, and invoice processing. The company says the solution can cut cycle times by up to 70% and eliminate 80% of manual data‑entry work. Built on...
Gros and Amazon Grocery Delivery Service in Rome: Fruit, Vegetables
European and American grocery retailers announced a wave of strategic moves in April 2024. Sweden’s ICA will deploy RELEX’s promotions platform, while Italy’s Gros teamed with Amazon to launch a 10,000‑product delivery service in Rome. In the UK, Lidl and...
What to Look for in an Exposure Management Platform (And What Most of Them Get Wrong)
The article dissects exposure‑management platforms, outlining four architectural approaches—stitched portfolios, data aggregators, single‑domain specialists, and fully integrated solutions. It argues that only integrated platforms can correlate diverse exposure types, validate exploitability, and map realistic attack paths across on‑prem, cloud, and...
MPs Call on UK Government to Learn From Central Bank’s IT Project Success Story
The UK Public Accounts Committee highlighted the Bank of England’s nine‑year, $547 million Real‑Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system replacement as a rare success in public‑sector digital transformation. The project, which now settles roughly $1.0 trillion of payments daily, delivered value for money...
Brands Being Blindsided by Lack of Clear Vision for CRM
The 2026 CRM Maturity Index, based on a survey of 100 UK marketers, finds that 41% consider their CRM platforms inadequate, largely due to strategic and execution gaps rather than technology flaws. Over half (56%) lack a clearly defined CRM...
Oracle NetSuite Announces AI Coding Skills for SuiteCloud Developers
Oracle NetSuite unveiled SuiteCloud Agent Skills, an AI‑powered extension that lets developers generate custom ERP code using natural‑language prompts. The new skills embed NetSuite‑specific guidance—such as UI framework references, permission codes, SuiteScript migration paths, and OWASP security best practices—into more...
Your AI Agent Is Ready to Go. Is Your Infrastructure?
TransUnion has spent $145 million building the OneTru platform, a hybrid architecture that couples traditional expert systems with generative AI, and has already generated $200 million in cost savings. The platform powers the AI Analytics Orchestrator Agent, leveraging Google Gemini to let...
How IFS Softeon Plans to Use AI to Help Manage Stock Within the Warehouse and Beyond
Industrial software vendor IFS completed its acquisition of warehouse‑management specialist Softeon, bringing AI‑enhanced WMS capabilities into the IFS Cloud. CEO Jim Hoefflin says the combined suite will link real‑time inventory visibility with distributed order management, allowing dynamic allocation, SLA‑aware routing...
Exclusive: Vanta Hits $300 Million ARR as ‘Shadow AI’ Explodes Across Corporate America
Vanta, the San Francisco‑based security and compliance platform, announced it has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue, a three‑fold increase over the past two years. The company now serves more than 16,000 customers, including Snowflake, Atlassian and Duolingo, and reports...
Sage Expands Sage Intacct Advisory with New AI-Powered Capabilities
Sage has launched AI‑enhanced capabilities for its Sage Intacct Advisory platform, extending the Sage Intacct Accountants Program. The new tools provide industry‑specific templates, AI‑driven workflows and automation to speed client onboarding and reduce manual effort. Accounting firms can now deliver...
Press Release: ION and KPMG Bring EU Payee Verification Live at Scale, Preventing Disruptions to Critical Payment Flows
ION Treasury announced that its treasury management suite now includes Verification of Payee (VoP) capabilities, meeting the EU Instant Payments Regulation’s mandatory requirements. The company launched VoP in its ITS platform, making it the first ION solution live in production...