Executive Intelligence Podcast - Manufacturing Is at the AI Turning Point, with Debbie Baldwin of Acumatica
In a recent Executive Intelligence podcast, Acumatica’s Debbie Baldwin highlighted that manufacturers are at a pivotal AI turning point, needing solutions that combine automation with effortless human interaction. She emphasized that ERP systems must be zero‑training, mobile‑phone‑like interfaces to drive shop‑floor adoption. Baldwin also noted the shift toward cloud‑based, AI‑enabled ERP that delivers real‑time, role‑based insights and supports mass personalization demanded by online shoppers. Finally, she described how digital twins within ERP can simulate product performance before physical build, cutting waste and accelerating time‑to‑market.
Determinism All the Way Down – How UiPath's Market Bet and the Engine Beneath It Turn Out to Be the...
UiPath has woven Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex into its orchestration platform, positioning AI as a catalyst for building deterministic automation rather than the automation itself. The company’s Maestro orchestrator runs on Temporal, an event‑sourcing engine that preserves workflow state...
How Does Planful Use Its Own Platform for Finance, HR and Marketing Planning?
Planful demonstrated how it uses its own cloud‑based platform to orchestrate finance, HR, and marketing planning in a recent webinar. CFO Dan Fletcher highlighted a concentric model that centralizes budgeting, while CPO Melissa Drewth showed headcount integration with Greenhouse, and...
Agentforce and Slackbot Dominate Salesforce Q1 Successes, as CEO Benioff Forecasts Coworker Impact to Come
Salesforce reported fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $11.1 billion, a 13 % year‑over‑year increase, driven by strong performance in its Agentforce, Data 360 and Slack divisions. Agentforce annual recurring revenue topped $1.2 billion, up 205 % YoY, while Slackbot contributed 3.8 million hours of productivity and...
ICON 2026 — Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove Isn't Nervous to Say ‘the Agent Is the App’ (or that the...
Blue Yonder’s CEO Duncan Angove announced a "frictionless outcomes" manifesto at ICON 2026, pledging to deliver software deployments in 72 hours using embedded engineers and AI agents. The company plans to invest at least 40% of its R&D into this rapid‑deployment...
ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder Bets Everything on Cognitive. The Agent Is the App and the New Operating Model Is...
Blue Yonder announced at ICON 2026 that it will now sell only its cognitive, AI‑driven supply‑chain suite, ending all legacy product sales. The shift follows more than $2 billion of R&D over five years and a rebuild of its technology stack under...
Atlassian Team '26 – What Rovo Actually Does Now, and Where It Goes Next
Atlassian’s AI platform Rovo is shifting from a product‑specific tool to a shared context layer for any AI application. The Teamwork Graph, the data backbone that links work items, people and decisions, is now exposed via a Graph CLI, letting...
Accounting for an Agentic Future at Xero - a Progress Report by CEO Sukhinder Cassidy
Xero reports that 2.6 million customers used at least one AI feature between April 2025 and March 2026, with generative‑AI users climbing to 513 k from 300 k in February. The company frames its next growth phase around "agentic AI," positioning its four‑layer platform—infra, data,...
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,...
Atlassian Team '26 – Why Context, Not 'Just AI', Is the Bet Behind Rovo, the Teamwork Graph and Dia
Atlassian’s Team ’26 keynote emphasized “context” as the core of its AI strategy, built on the company’s long‑standing Teamwork Graph that unifies data from Jira, Confluence and other tools. The rollout includes a free Teamwork Graph CLI for developers, the...
You're in the Army Now! Why Trump 2.0 Is Drafting More Enterprise Tech Vendors Into Its "AI-First War Department"
The U.S. Department of War has finalized agreements with eight leading AI vendors—including SpaceX, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and AWS—to run frontier AI models on its Impact Level 6 and 7 classified networks. The contracts follow the administration’s decision to blacklist...
AmEx CEO Stephen Squeri - Why Agentic Commerce Is More Fraught with Risk than Traditional E-Commerce
American Express CEO Stephen Squeri said the firm’s AI rollout has already delivered a 30% productivity lift for its programmers, accelerating product development across its global network. He unveiled the ACE (Agentic Commerce Experiences) Developer Kit, enabling merchants to embed...
Why Agentic Data Integration Needs to Start with Meaning Rather than Automation
The article argues that enterprise data integration must prioritize semantic meaning before deploying AI agents. Traditional pipelines rely on schema‑on‑write, but emerging tools like AWS Glue crawlers and Databricks Auto Loader enable schema‑on‑read, reducing brittleness. Building a shared semantic spine—an...
How the San Francisco 49ers Uses Gen AI, Gamification and Personalization to Make Global Fans Feel Local
The San Francisco 49ers have launched an AI‑powered mobile app in partnership with PwC to deliver a hyper‑personalized fan experience for its three‑million‑strong global audience. The app leverages generative‑AI, including the Sourdough Sam chatbot, to tailor news, stats, ticketing and...
AWS on Agentic AI and Security - Why Your Existing Foundations Are Your Best Defense
At AWS Summit London, Kimberly Dickson highlighted that the security challenges posed by agentic AI are best mitigated by reinforcing classic security foundations rather than inventing new controls. AWS treats AI agents as a distinct third identity, granting them temporary,...