LiveRamp, Chalice AI Partnership Offers Growth Scored Audiences
LiveRamp and Chalice AI have formed a strategic partnership that embeds Chalice’s Growth Scored Audiences directly into LiveRamp’s data collaboration ecosystem. The offering assigns a predictive growth score to every U.S. household, reflecting its likely impact on a brand’s specific business outcomes, rather than relying on traditional trait‑based segments. Marketers can activate these individualized, outcome‑driven audiences across major ad platforms within days, leveraging LiveRamp’s identity infrastructure without rebuilding data pipelines. Early deployments report roughly a 20% lift in core performance KPIs.
Zoho Books Review: Affordable, Easy-to-Use, but Is It the Best Choice in 2026?
Zoho Books is positioned as the top accounting solution for UK sole traders and micro‑businesses, highlighted by its completely free plan and intuitive interface. The platform offers six pricing tiers, scaling from a free tier to a £199‑per‑month Ultimate plan,...
Ringover Launches Ask Empower 2.0
Ringover unveiled Ask Empower 2.0, an AI assistant that can ingest and analyze every historical voice and video conversation on its platform, delivering concise briefs in seconds. The upgrade adds immersive call‑simulation training via Pitch Room and real‑time, contextual coaching through...
GPT Proto Expands AI Model Catalogue with Support for Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT Proto, the Hong Kong‑based multi‑model AI API platform, announced the integration of Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, its most advanced multimodal model to date. The addition expands the platform’s catalogue, which already includes offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and...
Agentic Hospitality Launches AI Connectivity Platform for Hotel Reservations
Agentic Hospitality unveiled the TravelOS Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an AI connectivity platform that links hotel central reservation and property management systems directly to AI assistants and conversational interfaces. The middleware streams real‑time availability, rates, and policies into AI...
LightningChart Introduces No-Code Visualization Platform Dashtera
LightningChart unveiled Dashtera, a no‑code, web‑based analytics platform that leverages GPU‑accelerated rendering to display up to 100 million data points in real time. The solution removes the need for extensive implementation projects, data reduction, or custom integration, delivering instant zoom and...
AWG Deploys AI-Powered Shopping Assistant
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has rolled out SmartMeals, an AI‑powered meal‑planning and shopping assistant developed with Breez AI. The tool is now live in nearly 100 independent grocery stores and offers personalized recipes, budget‑smart recommendations, and custom‑branded experiences. SmartMeals has driven...
Emporix and ACR Deploy AI-Driven Commerce Automation – Reducing B2B Order Processing Time by Up to 87%
Emporix has deployed an AI‑driven orchestration layer for ACR that automatically reads, validates and processes PDF purchase orders. The solution slashed average order‑processing time from roughly eight minutes to under one minute, an 87% reduction, and lowered error rates. Implementation...
CivicPlus Brings AI to Building Plan Review with CodeComply.Ai
CivicPlus announced a partnership with CodeComply.Ai to embed AI‑driven plan‑review tools into its Community Development platform. The solution automates code compliance checks, version comparisons, and comment management, aiming to shrink review cycles from months to minutes. It supports a wide...
SD Worx Pays a Fifth of Ireland’s Workforce
SD Worx Ireland announced that its MegaPay payroll software now processes pay for 17% of the Irish workforce, roughly 400,000 employees. The company reported a 26% revenue increase in 2025, a 99% customer‑retention rate, and serves 450 businesses. It is...
Cleavr Raises €1M to Develop an AI Solution for Accounts Receivable
Cleavr announced a €1 million funding round led by Kima Ventures and other investors to accelerate its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable platform. The solution automates reminders, reconciliation, dispute handling and multi‑channel communication, aiming to cut late‑payment losses for finance teams. Already deployed with...
Viagogo Launches AI-Powered Tool for Artists, Teams, Venues
Viagogo unveiled Distribution Manager, an AI‑powered self‑serve platform that lets artists, sports teams and venues list official tickets directly on its global marketplace. The tool is built on Viagogo’s Open Distribution model, which has already driven an 84% year‑over‑year increase...
Informatica Adds Microsoft Fabric Support and Opens Swiss Data Center
Informatica announced general availability of Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring within its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and launched a new Azure‑based IDMC delivery point in Switzerland. The Open Mirroring feature lets customers synchronize data between OneLake and Fabric Data Warehouse...
Palantir and Moder Partner to Transform Mortgage Industry
Palantir Technologies and Moder announced a strategic partnership to co‑develop an AI‑powered mortgage operations platform, with Freedom Mortgage as the first pilot customer. The solution uses Palantir’s Ontology to translate regulatory guidelines into configurable, testable, auditable rules that integrate with...
Tonic.ai Announces General Availability of Tonic Textual for Microsoft Fabric
Tonic.ai announced the general availability of Tonic Textual within Microsoft Fabric, bringing AI‑powered entity detection, redaction, and high‑fidelity synthetic text generation to the platform. The integration lets data teams process contracts, transcripts, clinical notes and other unstructured text directly in...
SparrowDesk Launches Startup Program with Up to 90% Off on Enterprise Plan
SparrowDesk unveiled a Startup Program that grants early‑stage companies access to its full Enterprise support platform at up to 90% off for the first year. The offering bundles an AI‑driven ticketing system, omnichannel inbox, knowledge base, and automation tools, all...
How a Vancouver Legal-Tech Pioneer Is Fending Off the AI Giants and Pressure to Move to the U.S.
Clio, the Vancouver‑based legal‑tech platform, has become a $5 billion AI‑first company after a $1 billion acquisition of Spain’s vLex and a series of other deals. The firm now serves 400,000 lawyers in 130 countries, generates over $400 million in revenue and is...
Carroll University Goes Live with Ellucian Student, HCM and Finance, Unifying Core Technology Systems on a SaaS-Native, AI-Powered Platform
Carroll University has gone live with Ellucian’s Student, Human Capital Management and Finance solutions, unifying its SIS and ERP on a SaaS‑native, AI‑powered platform. The deployment was completed in less than 12 months, replacing legacy systems and delivering role‑based self‑service...
Unily Announces Availability of Unily Glass, Reinventing Enterprise Productivity for the AI Era
Unily announced that its AI‑native conversational execution layer, Unily Glass, will be generally available on March 31, 2026, after early demos at UNLEASH America and Gartner Digital Workplace Summit. The new feature transforms the Unily employee experience platform from an...
Accedo One and Magine Pro’s Leyra Delivers Unified OTT SaaS Platform
Accedo One and Magine Pro have launched Leyra, a joint‑venture SaaS platform that unifies their respective OTT technologies. The new offering blends Magine Pro’s subscriber‑lifecycle management with Accedo One’s streaming stack and Marketplace, delivering a single end‑to‑end solution. Leyra promises...
"Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft’s Cloud a “Pile of S**t,” Approved It Anyway"
Federal cyber officials publicly disparaged Microsoft Azure, calling it a “pile of s**t,” yet still granted the cloud service a FedRAMP authorization. The panel’s criticism centered on long‑standing vulnerabilities and inadequate supply‑chain controls, but the agency ultimately approved Azure after...
ThoughtSpot Looks To Eliminate The Vertical Industry ‘Context Gap’ In AI Analytics With New Offering
ThoughtSpot introduced Spotter for Industries, an extension of its Spotter agentic analytics platform that delivers industry‑specific AI agents across ten verticals, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The offering tackles the “context gap” by embedding sector‑specific language, data models, and regulatory...
Testing the Impact of Adaptive Pricing Across 1.5M Subscription Checkout Sessions
Stripe introduced Adaptive Pricing for subscriptions, letting merchants display prices in a shopper’s local currency while handling FX conversion and renewal stability. In a test of 1.5 million checkout sessions, the feature lifted sign‑up conversion by 4.7% and authorization rates by...
Code Review without the Bottlenecks or the Bill
GitLab introduced Code Review Flow, an AI‑driven automated code review feature within its Duo Agent Platform. The service scans merge requests, incorporates repository context, security findings and compliance rules, and delivers structured inline feedback. It can run hundreds of reviews...
Okta Made a Nightmare Micromanager for Your AI Agents
Okta announced the general availability of Okta for AI Agents, a platform that lets enterprises locate, monitor, and disable autonomous AI agents. The solution offers a discovery dashboard that continuously inventories agents from services like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google and AWS....
Microsoft Promises All-in-One Database Wrangling Hub on Fabric
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub, an early‑access tool built on the Fabric data platform that consolidates management of Azure SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Azure Arc‑enabled SQL, and other services. The hub offers a single pane of glass for on‑premises,...
Druva Delivers Critical Identity Intelligence?for Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID
Druva launched Identity Resilience, extending its SaaS platform to protect identities across Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. The solution unifies protection, cyber‑recovery and threat detection, using a graph‑based engine called Dru MetaGraph to map relationships in real...
Small Team, Big Game: How We Built Mr. Beast’s AI-Powered Puzzle in 27 Days
Salesforce built an AI‑powered puzzle for MrBeast’s $1 million game in just six weeks, handling over 275,000 registrations and processing 4.5 billion tokens. The team deployed 78 production orgs and engineered a multi‑org sharding architecture capable of 1.5 million concurrent users without downtime....
AI Apps Generate Revenue but Struggle With Retention
AI‑powered subscription apps are generating 41% more revenue per user than non‑AI counterparts, yet they suffer markedly lower retention. RevenueCat’s State of Subscription Apps report shows AI apps retain only 21.1% of annual subscribers versus 30.7% for non‑AI apps, and...
Product Management Principles I Learned Building 80+ Enterprise APIs
CDK Global launched over 80 enterprise APIs to modernize automotive commerce, learning that product‑centric decisions trump technical completeness. By focusing first on high‑value, read‑only APIs like the Vehicle Inventory endpoint, the firm achieved rapid dealer adoption and sub‑200 ms response times....
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", Yet Approved It
Federal reviewers harshly criticized Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High (GCC High), calling it a “pile of shit” due to missing security documentation and unclear encryption practices. Despite these concerns, the FedRAMP program granted the cloud suite an authorization, effectively giving it...
Commvault Extends Enterprise Resilience to Structured and AI Data with Real-Time Governance Controls
Commvault announced an expansion of its Cloud platform to include data security posture management for structured data and real‑time access governance, leveraging its recent acquisition of Satori. The new features automatically classify sensitive information, monitor usage of structured and vector...
ANNA Money Secures HMRC Making Tax Digital Approval, Launches Free Auto Accountant Tool
ANNA Money has received HMRC certification as a Making Tax Digital (MTD) software provider for Income Tax, allowing its users to file quarterly returns directly through the platform. The fintech also launched Auto Accountant, a free AI‑driven tool that prepares...
Industrial ERP at a Turning Point: Dean Forbes on Cloud Adoption and Pragmatic AI
Forterro’s CEO Dean Forbes says the company’s 2025 momentum stems from a decisive shift to cloud‑based ERP, which has unlocked confidence, stability and faster upgrades for mid‑market manufacturers. Recurring revenue now accounts for 74% of sales and net revenue retention...
Deskpro Now Available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Deskpro announced its integration with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, making its AI‑powered help‑desk platform available on a cloud environment that is physically and legally confined to the EU. The move guarantees full data residency, catering to organizations that must...
Papa Johns Selects Deliverect to Modernize U.S. Delivery Operations with AI-Powered Unified Ordering Platform
Papa Johns announced a strategic partnership with Deliverect to roll out its Smart Dispatch & Delivery Management platform across all U.S. restaurants by the end of 2027. The AI‑driven system unifies first‑party and third‑party delivery channels into a single orchestration...
Torq Unveils Agentic Builder to Automate Security Workflows From Natural Language Intent
Torq Ltd. introduced Agentic Builder, an AI‑driven add‑on to its SOC platform that converts plain‑language security intents into fully tested, production‑ready workflows and custom AI agents. The system leverages the Torq Socrates engine for validation and continuous performance monitoring, enabling...
Qualtrics Adds AI-Powered Synthetic Data and Research Tools to Speed Customer Insights
Qualtrics unveiled AI‑driven synthetic consumer panels and a Research Hub at its X4 Experience Management Summit. The synthetic panels, built on a fine‑tuned large language model trained with over 200 million respondents, claim research‑grade accuracy that is twelve times better than...
Sprout Social Alternatives: Social and Influencer Platforms for Scalable Brand Programs
Sprout Social has long served as an all‑in‑one hub for social publishing, engagement, analytics and, more recently, influencer campaign management. As brands’ influencer programs mature, many find that a single suite can’t meet the deeper relationship‑building, payment tracking, or listening...
Twirl Alternatives: Comparing Creator Marketing Platforms for Growing Brands
Twirl remains a popular choice for structured creator‑led content, but growing brands are seeking platforms that can handle larger creator volumes and more flexible workflows. Alternatives such as Modash, Humanz, Creator.co, Billo, Collabstr, Insense, Influee and Trend.io each emphasize different...
Eurobites: Orange Offers 'Sovereign' Collab Tools to Hedge Against Hyperscaler Lock-In
Orange has launched Live Collaboration, a sovereign suite of workplace tools built from European vendors and hosted on its Grenoble‑based Cloud Avenue SecNum data centre. The platform is designed to free enterprises from US hyperscaler lock‑in, lowering geopolitical and supply‑chain...
Reco Targets AI Agent Blind Spots with New Security Capability
Reco has launched a new capability called “Reco AI Agent Security” to give enterprises visibility and control over autonomous AI agents across their SaaS stack. The tool, available from March 18, expands Reco’s existing platform to cover agents such as Microsoft...
ActiveState Announced the Launch of Curated Catalogs
ActiveState launched the Curated Catalog, a private, secure repository of open‑source components built from source. The catalog draws from a library of more than 79 million vetted packages across 12+ language ecosystems and integrates with major artifact managers. It offers SLSA...
CTrack Brings AI-Enhanced Software Platform to the UK for Intelligent Fleet and Asset Management
Ctrack has launched its AI‑enhanced platform Crystal in the UK, extending a global rollout after acquiring Inseego’s telematics business. The modular solution combines telematics, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to deliver real‑time insights, driver‑behaviour monitoring and workflow automation for fleets...
The Wrong Question: Why the TMS Debate Is Distracting Forwarders From What Comes Next
Freight forwarders are fixated on the "which TMS?" debate, especially around CargoWise pricing, but industry veteran Brian Glick argues the real issue is integration and what comes after traditional TMS. He positions Chain.io as a neutral integration layer that separates...
Moving at Speed with the AI Multiplier: Cornerstone Launches AI-Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled the Spring 2026 Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy, adding an AI‑Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent. The assistive and agentic tools embed contextual intelligence into learning, letting employees ask questions in‑session and receive role‑specific content recommendations without extra...
M-Files Boosts Microsoft 365 Copilot with Context-First AI
Document management leader M-Files announced new deep integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Copilot Agent Builder. The integration embeds M-Files’ metadata‑driven, permission‑aware content directly into Microsoft 365, allowing users to retrieve and act on trusted documents without leaving the...
Rewst Launches RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, Making Automation Easier for MSP Teams to Build and Manage
Rewst introduced the RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, letting managed service providers (MSPs) craft and edit automation workflows through natural‑language conversation inside the Rewst platform. The AI generates fully configured, ready‑to‑run automations—including triggers, tasks, and code—in minutes, cutting manual build steps....
NicSRS Launches sslTrus CaaS – A Powerful SSL Automation Tool for SMBs
NicSRS unveiled sslTrus CaaS, a Certificate‑as‑a‑Service platform that automates SSL lifecycle for SMBs. The service handles application, issuance, deployment, renewal and revocation for 1‑10 certificates, with optional cloud push or on‑premise clmBot agent. It includes three‑tier monitoring (CT log, OCSP,...
Redgate Launches Monitor SaaS to Reduce Infrastructure Overhead for Database Teams
Redgate Software has introduced Monitor as a SaaS edition, delivering its proven database monitoring platform as a fully managed cloud service. The solution, already trusted by more than 200,000 database professionals, aims to eliminate the deployment, hosting, and maintenance burden...
