data governance

Prominent Comfort Producten’s move to Microsoft Fabric is a useful snapshot of where retail data strategy is heading in 2026: away from fragmented reporting stacks and toward a governed, AI-ready operating foundation. The Netherlands-based furniture retailer says the shift reduced platform...

Informatica’s latest expansion of its Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement. It signals that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring and...

Informatica’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft is more than a routine partner announcement: it is a signal that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring inside...

Informatica’s latest Microsoft collaboration is more than a routine partner update: it is a signal that the data-management layer around Microsoft Fabric is becoming increasingly important to enterprise AI strategy. The company says support for Fabric Open Mirroring in Informatica Intelligent...

Modern enterprises are being asked to do two difficult things at once: lock down data with stronger governance and make that same data immediately usable by more people through AI. Databricks is using its upcoming webinar on April 23, 2026, to argue that Azure Databricks can do both, positioning...

Informatica’s deeper Microsoft integration is more than a routine channel update: it signals how quickly the data-management market is converging around the Azure ecosystem, and how service providers are being positioned as the delivery engine for that change. The move matters because it ties...

Bonfy’s launch of Adaptive Content Security 2.0 lands squarely in the center of the enterprise AI security debate: how do you protect sensitive data when AI agents can read, write, and move information across email, collaboration suites, SaaS apps, browsers, and cloud storage without behaving...

Microsoft is using FabCon and SQLCon 2026 to make a blunt statement about where its data strategy is headed: the company wants databases, analytics, governance, and AI context to feel like parts of one platform rather than separate products. The March 18, 2026 announcement in Atlanta frames...

Informatica is sharpening its Microsoft strategy again, and this time the message is as much about control as it is about connectivity. The company’s newly announced Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring support and a Switzerland-based Azure point of delivery for IDMC show a vendor trying to solve two...

Gartner’s warning that Microsoft 365 Copilot carries five specific security risks arrived as a stark reminder that the promise of embedded, enterprise-grade AI does not erase long‑standing data governance problems — it magnifies them. The research, published by Gartner in August 2025 and...

Every firm that expects to survive—and thrive—in 2026 must pair an AI ambition with a concrete governance plan: the productivity upside of generative AI is real, but so are the legal, ethical and operational risks if organisations treat AI as a feature switch rather than a managed capability...

AU10TIX’s elevation to Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Industry AI — Financial Services marks a significant vendor milestone and a notable signal for banks, fintechs, and compliance teams that rely on identity verification at scale. Announced on March 11...

Perplexity’s latest push into the enterprise — an AI‑native browser called Comet Enterprise, a connector‑driven Computer for Enterprise platform, and a personal automation appliance — is not a simple product update; it’s a deliberate move to turn an AI search company into an orchestration layer...

AI is already moving finance teams from reactive bookkeeping to proactive value creation, and the latest wave of tools — led by Microsoft Copilot and integrated Dynamics 365 capabilities demonstrated in recent vendor webinars — shows how automation, generative AI, and embedded analytics can...

A top Senate technology official has quietly cleared three large, consumer-facing chatbots for official Senate use — Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Microsoft’s Copilot — a move that formalizes what many Capitol Hill staffers were already doing informally and brings Congress squarely into...

Executives are telling investors and boards that AI is already embedded in daily operations — but recent research shows a significant portion of the workforce disagrees, and that mismatch is quietly sabotaging the ability of organisations to convert AI enthusiasm into measurable productivity and...

The United States Senate has quietly moved from informal experimentation to formal permission: a one‑page memorandum from the Senate Sergeant‑at‑Arms’ Chief Information Officer authorizes frontline Senate staff to use three commercial generative‑AI chat platforms — OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise...

Microsoft’s new push to accelerate AI adoption across Africa is as much a strategic countermove as it is a development program: publicly framed as an effort to unlock economic gains, improve language access, and bolster data sovereignty, the initiative also responds directly to the rapid...

The U.S. Senate has quietly moved from informal experimentation to formal permission: a one‑page memorandum from the Sergeant at Arms’ Chief Information Officer authorizes frontline Senate staff to use three commercial generative‑AI chatbots—OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft...

A one‑page memo circulated by the U.S. Senate Sergeant‑at‑Arms’ technology office this week quietly cleared the way for frontline Senate aides to use three mainstream generative‑AI chatbots—OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini Chat, and Microsoft Copilot—for routine, non‑sensitive official tasks, a...