governance and compliance

Marc Kermisch’s central prescription for enterprise AI is disarmingly simple: stop treating generative AI like a finished product and start treating it like a new, junior employee who needs onboarding, coaching, and measurement. That framing—delivered on the CAIO Connect podcast and amplified in...

Microsoft’s pitch that an AI assistant can “help you stay consistent without burnout” is more than marketing copy — it’s the opening of a practical playbook for creators who want to scale social media output without becoming a one-person sweatshop, while also raising real questions about...

Microsoft’s pitch is simple and urgent: use AI-powered, omni‑channel citizen engagement to give residents and caseworkers immediate access to services and information — across web, phone, messaging and in-person kiosks — so people can connect when, how and where they want. This is not a...

Newport City Council’s draft policy on artificial intelligence and automation frames the change as a practical effort to empower staff and speed services — “not about replacing people with computers” — while promising human oversight, data-protection compliance and a ban on automated...

Reply’s renewed recognition as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (Azure Expert MSP) — reportedly for the sixth consecutive year — is both a commercial milestone for the Reply network and a practical procurement signal for enterprises that run mission‑critical workloads on Azure...

Telecom’s control plane is shifting from spreadsheets and email threads into a single, governed collaboration fabric — and that fabric increasingly looks like Microsoft Teams for Telecom, a platform that now sits at the centre of partner orchestration, sales enablement, and customer lifecycle...

Bosses are turning to bonus pools, spot cash awards and small prize schemes because paying workers to try sanctioned AI tools is a fast, measurable way to break behavioural inertia, curb risky shadow‑AI use and force executive teams to see a return on expensive enterprise AI investments...

IBM Consulting’s decision to surface Consulting Advantage inside Microsoft 365 via Microsoft Copilot marks a concrete step toward “agentic” enterprise work—putting IBM’s repository of assistants, assets, and industry templates directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook so...

Microsoft’s latest one‑day push of AI partnerships and product updates marks a clear strategic acceleration: from a retail “superagent” pilot with Levi Strauss to observability and security tie‑ups with Dynatrace and NVIDIA, plus meaningful product expansions for Copilot in advertising and...

Since the European Union has moved from discussion to codified obligations, employers that let humans and bots work side‑by‑side now face a concrete compliance landscape — and a hard choice: design AI‑augmented workflows that preserve worker rights and legal defensibility, or risk costly...

Microsoft’s latest AI push is less a single product launch and more a comprehensive ecosystem play: massive infrastructure, a family of copilots, sector-focused agents, and tooling that lets enterprises build, govern, and scale AI solutions — a combination that is already reshaping how global...

Microsoft Teams is no longer just a chat and video app — when planned, instrumented and governed as a platform it becomes a measurable source of cost avoidance, productivity and customer‑facing value that CFOs and boards can understand and defend. Recent market studies and enterprise rollouts...

CPA Practice Advisor’s 2025 Innovation Awards make a blunt, industry‑shifting statement: artificial intelligence has moved from “useful” to essential for modern accounting, audit, and tax practices—an assertion reflected in this year’s winners and finalists, nearly all of which embed agentic or...

The webinar “HITS in the cloud: elevate your SQL Server strategy with Azure Arc” delivered a practical, business‑focused playbook for modernising SQL Server estates across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments — emphasising unified management, automated compliance, flexible licensing, and...

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...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...

Microsoft, Nvidia and Google now sit at the center of the agentic AI conversation — and if your organization is planning to deploy autonomous, task‑completing agents at scale, you will almost certainly be doing business with one or more of them. Background / Overview Agentic AI describes systems...