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IPT’s practical push to turn Microsoft Copilot into a team of specialised, role-based AI agents marks a clear and timely shift: from experimenting with chatbots to operationalising agentic AI across business processes, with measurable outcomes, governance and South African compliance...

Danone’s multi-year collaboration with Microsoft is shifting from productivity add-ons to process-level automation, rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot at scale and building agentic AI that acts across HR, procurement, shared services, and order-to-cash workflows — a transition that promises...

Simpson Associates’ announcement that it has accepted growth capital from Beech Tree Private Equity marks a decisive inflection point for a UK‑based, Microsoft‑aligned data transformation specialist — one that accelerates scale and productisation while raising the familiar governance, talent and...

Simpson Associates’ decision to accept growth capital from Beech Tree Private Equity marks a clear turning point for a Microsoft‑aligned UK data transformation specialist — one that unlocks scale and productisation potential while raising familiar questions about governance, talent and the...

Simpson Associates has secured a strategic investment from Beech Tree Private Equity that will bankroll an ambitious growth plan aimed at scaling its Microsoft-centric data transformation practice, expanding into agentic AI capabilities, and accelerating targeted acquisitions to deepen...

Simpson Associates’ announcement that it has taken a private equity investment from Beech Tree Private Equity marks a clear inflection point for a UK data specialist that has built market credibility around Microsoft-aligned data engineering, analytics and AI for regulated sectors—but the deal...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from a headline experiment to an operational platform for enterprises in 2025 — a multi‑modal, agentic suite that now spans Windows 11, Microsoft 365 apps, Azure developer tooling and browser experiences, and is explicitly positioned as both a productivity engine...

Simpson Associates’ decision to accept private equity backing from Beech Tree Private Equity is a clear inflection point for a tightly focused Microsoft‑aligned data and AI services firm — one that simultaneously unlocks fresh scale and productisation opportunities while raising the usual...

Simpson Associates has taken a decisive step toward scaling its UK data and AI services business by accepting private equity backing from Beech Tree Private Equity, a move designed to accelerate organic growth, broaden capabilities in emerging technologies such as agentic AI, and pursue...

TotalEnergies’ decision to move from pilots to production with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio is not a ceremonial IT upgrade — it’s an explicit, company-wide bet on agentic AI as a productivity and operational lever, blending large-scale employee acculturation, low‑code agent creation...

Microsoft’s Security Store is now live in public preview and positioned as a single-pane gateway for security teams to discover, procure, and deploy verified security solutions and AI-powered Security Copilot agents that plug directly into Microsoft’s security stack. The move folds discovery...

Zoho’s newest rollout stitches agentic AI directly into the apps enterprises already use, promising Zia-powered agents that can create leads from unread emails, auto-generate database schemas, match and assess candidates, and draft resolution documentation — a strategic push that places Zoho in...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview introduces Copilot Actions — an agentic capability that can actually open apps, manipulate files, click UI elements and execute multi‑step workflows on your behalf — running inside a purpose‑built, visible “agent workspace” that Microsoft says is isolated...

Microsoft has quietly — and then, in some channels, very loudly — pushed a broad set of agentic AI features into Windows 11 that move Copilot from a sidebar helper to a system-level assistant capable of seeing, hearing, remembering and acting on your behalf. The updates span everything from a...

Microsoft has open-sourced ExCyTIn‑Bench, a new benchmarking framework that evaluates how well large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems perform real-world, multistage cybersecurity investigations inside a simulated Security Operations Center (SOC) — and its design reshapes how...

Enterprise AI projects routinely blame “hallucinations” or model limits when assistants deliver wrong, incomplete, or irrelevant answers—but the deeper fault line often lies in the search layer that feeds those models. The AI Journal piece provided by Laurent Fanichet lays out a timely thesis...

UiPath’s decision to host UiPath Automation Cloud inside Microsoft Azure datacenters in the United Arab Emirates is both a tactical and symbolic move — it signals a maturing market for agentic AI in the Gulf while forcing enterprises to confront the operational, governance and cost realities of...

LSEG and Microsoft have moved from partnership headlines to practical plumbing: the two companies announced a concrete integration that will make LSEG’s licensed financial datasets directly available to AI agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio — via an LSEG-managed Model Context Protocol...

Archive360’s new collaboration with Microsoft promises to put “agentic” AI into the center of enterprise investigations — letting natural‑language agents search archived emails, Teams messages, and mobile captures to detect, investigate, and preserve policy violations while asserting governance...

Archive360’s new collaboration with Microsoft bets the future of corporate investigations on making archived data both discoverable and AI-actionable, marrying Archive360’s governed data cloud with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI and Purview compliance stack to deliver what the vendors describe as...