automation

UiPath sits at an uncanny crossroads: once the poster child of robotic process automation (RPA) and an early AI darling, it now offers investors and enterprise IT leaders a complex trade-off — dominant market share and deep enterprise hooks on one hand, and intense generative-AI and hyperscaler...

UiPath’s share price has sunk to roughly a quarter of its IPO level even as the company still claims a dominant grip on the niche that invented the term “robotic process automation,” leaving investors and enterprises to ask a blunt question: is this a quietly mispriced gateway into enterprise...

Tier3Tech’s rise to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and its insistence on automation-first projects signals a clear ambition: turn routine IT from a cost centre into a growth engine using SharePoint, Power Platform automation and Microsoft’s emerging Copilot/agent tooling. Background / Overview...

I turned a seven‑click, half‑minute morning ritual into a single, double‑clickable action by building a small PowerShell startup script and a desktop shortcut that wakes my PC, updates apps, opens my browser with the tabs I need, and fires up chat — all automatically. What started as a tiny...

Epic Games’ RealityScan 2.1 continues the steady, professional-grade expansion of what was once RealityCapture, pushing the desktop photogrammetry tool further into hybrid LiDAR + photogrammetry pipelines, automated server-side processing, and production-ready export options — while also...

Microsoft’s latest push to make contact-center automation more deterministic and scalable is now live: time‑out rules for automatic actions let administrators define time-based triggers that send messages, move conversation state, or close tickets automatically across messaging channels —...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Microsoft Advertising mobile app will be retired early next year, with app-store removal already scheduled for November 2025 and full shutdown of functionality in January 2026 — a shift that forces advertisers to move mobile workflows to the web-based Microsoft...

I converted a regular Windows desktop into a small, resilient automation server by wrapping long‑running tools and scripts with the Non‑Sucking Service Manager (NSSM), and the result was a surprisingly robust, low‑effort way to keep background tasks alive, logged, and automatically restarted —...

Microsoft Teams is no longer just a chat-and-meetings app — it has become a programmable, AI-first work surface that can listen, summarize, automate and act across the apps and systems organisations already rely on, and CIOs must treat that shift as a strategic platform decision rather than a...

ServiceNow’s latest announcement tightens the bond between workflow automation and AI copilots by delivering a suite of integrations with Microsoft designed to turn conversational insights into governed, auditable work — not just helpful suggestions. Announced during Microsoft Ignite in...

Chemist Warehouse’s experiment with an AI‑driven HR shared‑inbox is quietly crossing the line from pilot to repeatable template — and that matters for any organisation thinking about scaling Copilot‑style agents across business functions. The retailer’s AI Human Resources Advisory (AIHRA)...

Microsoft’s Ignite this week doubled down on one thing: agents. The company used the Moscone stage to stitch together a sweeping product narrative — new infrastructure, multi‑vendor model choice, a governance control plane called Agent 365, and an expanding partner ecosystem that promises to...

Windows already includes a powerful, Linux-style package manager you can use right now to search, install, update and remove apps — and once you learn a few commands, the time you spend wrestling installers disappears. Background / Overview The Windows Package Manager, commonly known as winget...

Tessell’s latest update repositions its multi‑cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) as a practical bridge for enterprises moving large, heterogeneous database estates to Microsoft Azure while accelerating analytics and machine‑learning use through real‑time streaming and AI‑driven operations...

Eon’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake reframes a decades‑old IT pattern: instead of treating backups as inert insurance copies, enterprises can now expose them as live, governed data assets that accelerate analytics, AI/ML training, and BI while promising measurable cloud...

Accounts payable automation is no longer an optional efficiency play — it is a strategic lever that shapes working capital, auditability, and the daily rhythm of finance teams operating on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. Modern AP automation for Dynamics 365 ranges from lightweight invoice...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote and product pages have confirmed a deliberate step toward making enterprise data “meaningful” to both people and machines: Fabric IQ, introduced as a preview capability inside Microsoft Fabric, layers semantic intelligence over analytics, time‑series, geospatial and...

Zendesk’s latest push to embed its AI-first Resolution Platform directly into Microsoft’s agent and Copilot ecosystem promises to move employee service from a set of siloed tools into the very apps people use every day — but doing that safely and reliably will require careful identity-first...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 keynote showed the company taking a decisive step from conversational assistants to an enterprise-grade, governable army of AI agents — and Agent 365 is Microsoft’s answer to the operational headaches that follow when hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents start...

Microsoft’s vision of a hands‑free, context‑aware Copilot baked into Windows 11 — the kind of assistant that identifies objects on screen, edits files for you, and changes system settings at voice command — has repeatedly fallen short in real‑world tests, leaving early adopters frustrated and...