data governance

Technology can be the multiplier that lets mission-driven organisations do more with less — but turning cloud, AI and security platforms into measurable impact for not-for-profits requires more than buying licenses; it needs strategy, risk discipline and the right delivery partner. Background...

Satya Nadella’s claim that the “Copilot Stack orchestrates the AI breakthrough” is more than a CEO soundbite — it’s Microsoft’s public thesis for turning raw model advances into reliable, auditable, and monetizable enterprise workflows, and the company has both architectural ingredients and...

Satya Nadella’s simple framing — that Microsoft’s Copilot Stack is the orchestration layer that turned isolated model breakthroughs into practical, enterprise-grade AI — captures both the company’s product bet and the strategic argument that underpinned recent investor and product commentary...

HMRC has begun what officials are calling the largest Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout in UK government — a phased deployment that starts with 32,000 licences this year and is planned to grow to 50,000 by 2026, accompanied by mandatory training, governance controls, and claims of multi‑million‑hour...

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has quietly kicked off a small-scale pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot for roughly 100 users — a deliberately cautious step that follows the department’s completion of a multi-year transition away from shared IT services...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the new Copilot-branded assistant built into the Windows 11 Game Bar — is at the center of a fast‑moving privacy controversy after multiple hands‑on reports and community captures suggested the feature may be taking gameplay screenshots, extracting on‑screen text via...

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has moved from pilot to platform: the utility announced a formal adoption and wider rollout of Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot, embedding generative AI across customer-facing channels and developer workflows as part of a broad...

Enterprises that want to turn early generative AI pilots into durable business advantage must build both a short-term playbook for rapid value capture and a long-term foundation for scale — starting with the right data, compute and governance choices and extending into integration with core...

Higher education stands at a crossroads where shifting enrollments, tighter budgets, and the rapid normalization of generative AI are forcing institutions to rethink how they manage the single most strategic asset they now possess: data. Microsoft’s new “Data-Empowered Institution” framing — and...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across roughly 90 NHS organisations has produced headline figures claiming an average saving of 43 minutes per staff member per working day — framed by sponsors as equivalent to about five weeks per person a year and modelled to deliver as much as 400,000...

Microsoft’s push to turn Dynamics 365 from a passive system of record into an active system of action marks a clear shift in enterprise software: business applications are being rebuilt as agentic systems that continuously monitor, reason over governed data, and take outcomes-oriented actions on...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...

Being “AI‑ready” is no longer marketing speak — it’s a practical, measurable condition that separates projects that deliver value from pilots that quietly die in “proof‑of‑concept” limbo. The term has become shorthand for a set of architectural, operational, cultural and governance capabilities...

The University of South Carolina Upstate’s Upstate Crime Analysis Center (UCAC) has launched an expanded, Microsoft‑backed program to bring evidence‑based crime analysis, training and free digital resources directly into community hands — a short, practical intervention that promises...

HM Revenue & Customs has started rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its workforce, a move HMRC describes as a major scaling of generative AI inside the UK civil service that aims to recover working time, boost productivity and standardise AI-aware working practices across tens of thousands of...

The alarm bells have begun to ring louder across Australia’s political, corporate and education sectors as industry figures warn that the nation is at risk of falling behind in the global race to harness artificial intelligence — and that the consequences for productivity, national...

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...

Microsoft’s Copilot is inching out of novelty mode and into practical utility, and the latest set of roadmap notes and Insider previews show real, work‑oriented features arriving that could make Copilot genuinely useful for busy knowledge workers — if organizations and users manage the...

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...

Oracle Database@Azure is expanding rapidly — adding regions, new integrations, and production customers — and the move is reshaping how enterprises plan multicloud database migrations, sovereignty controls, and AI-ready data pipelines. Background Oracle and Microsoft’s multicloud collaboration...