data governance

Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical talking point for marina operators — it showed up in force at the Association of Marina Industries Conference & Expo in Daytona Beach, drawing packed rooms and sparking practical conversations about how AI can cut paperwork, improve safety, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly added a toggle that allows the assistant to harvest “Microsoft usage data” from other Microsoft properties — and that toggle appears to be enabled by default for many users, meaning Copilot can seed its Memory and personalization features with signals from Edge...

Microsoft’s framing of a single, unified security platform as the antidote to AI’s expanding attack surface is no longer rhetoric — it’s rapidly becoming product strategy, roadmap, and go‑to‑market reality for enterprise defenders. At a recent Microsoft AI‑focused event, senior product leaders...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly added a default-on privacy toggle that lets the assistant pull product usage signals from other Microsoft services — and anyone who values control over their data should treat that change as a wake‑up call and audit their Copilot settings right now. Background /...

The government’s plan to roll Microsoft’s Copilot and other AI tools deeper into England and Wales’s courts marks a decisive shift: routine tasks from transcribing hearings to summarising judgments and scheduling cases will increasingly be handed to algorithms as ministers promise faster justice...

Advocate General Athanasios Rantos told Europe’s top court on February 26, 2026 that the European Commission’s sweeping document demands in its probes of Facebook are lawful, proportionate and properly safeguarded—an opinion that, if adopted by the Court of Justice, will hand regulators a major...

Kagool today announced that SparQ (Version 2.3) is SAP‑certified for clean core with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, a development the vendor says will let organisations automate governed SAP→Azure data pipelines while preserving the integrity of the SAP digital core. This certification — presented by Kagool...

CData’s recent stretch into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem marks a clear pivot: the company that spent years building universal connectors is now selling not just access to data, but the context that makes that data usable by agents and AI assistants in production. The launch of...

Microsoft’s February 2026 wave of Excel updates cements the spreadsheet as Microsoft’s primary battleground for embedding AI into everyday knowledge work, with a steady stream of Copilot improvements, new import and data functions, and developer-facing enhancements that push Excel from a...

Kagool’s SparQ has been formally recognised by SAP’s Integration and Certification Center as SAP‑certified for clean core with SAP S/4HANA Cloud — a milestone announced on February 24, 2026 that positions the platform as a governed bridge between SAP’s digital core and Microsoft Azure analytics...

Anthropic’s latest push into the workplace is not another flashy chatbot — it’s a practical redesign of how an AI assistant plugs into the systems people already use every day, and that shift changes the calculus for enterprise IT, legal, and productivity teams alike. Background Anthropic...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio now offers xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast in preview, opening a new lane in the multi‑model ecosystem for enterprise agent builders. The addition—available today in early access environments for United States‑based makers and off by default until an organization administrator...

Employers are waking up to a new kind of workplace hazard: AI notetakers that keep listening after people have left, create searchable transcripts of casual or sensitive remarks, and then disseminate those records automatically — sometimes to the entire team. Background AI notetakers — services...

Jena Zangs’s short, practical recommendation — summarize before you upload — is the clearest, most actionable piece of AI safety advice a campus administrator can hear right now. As universities rush to fold generative AI into advising, administration, research and classroom workflows, the...

Enterprise AI’s most consequential lesson in 2026 is surprisingly old-school: start small, stitch carefully, and govern deliberately. Background / Overview Enterprises are not failing to adopt artificial intelligence because the technology is immature; they’re choosing restraint because the...

Australian small businesses have moved decisively past curiosity: a fresh survey from Small Business Loans Australia finds four in five firms are now using AI tools, and many claim these tools are cutting labour time by meaningful margins. The headline numbers are straightforward: of 200...

Data strategy is no longer a back-office concern — it is a board-level, revenue-driving imperative that decides who scales, who stalls, and who survives in the next decade of digital competition. Background Across every industry, business processes now produce continuous, high‑velocity streams...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly labeled “Confidential,” exposing a gap between automated AI convenience and long‑standing enterprise access controls...

For weeks this winter a server‑side logic error in Microsoft 365 Copilot quietly undermined a core pillar of corporate data governance: emails explicitly labeled “Confidential” were indexed, read and summarized by Copilot Chat’s “Work” experience, bypassing organizations’ sensitivity labels and...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly broadening the sources it uses to personalize your experience — and unless you turn a buried setting off, it may be drawing on your activity across other Microsoft services such as Bing, MSN, and Edge to feed its “memory” feature. Background Copilot’s memory and...