data governance

Data teams are emerging as early leaders in AI agent adoption because, as Microsoft argued on June 29, 2026, structured data work gives agents bounded tasks, measurable outputs, and enough observability for organizations to trust delegation before handing over messier business processes. That is...

Kasikorn Asset Management, Thailand’s largest mutual fund manager, signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Thailand on June 29, 2026, to expand its use of data and artificial intelligence across operations, fund management, investment research, employee workflows, and investor-facing...

The leading Hadoop vendors for 2026 are Cloudera, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, and Oracle, but the real choice is less about Hadoop itself than about where an enterprise wants its data, AI, governance, and cloud operating model to live. That is the uncomfortable truth...

Cohesity spent mid-June 2026 promoting Maestro, Gaia, Microsoft 365 protection, and event demos as one connected AI-era cyber resilience strategy spanning agent-driven recovery, governed enterprise search, ransomware defense, and backup for cloud productivity tenants. The pitch is not merely...

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Purview integration for Azure AI Foundry in worldwide standard multi-tenant clouds, letting Foundry administrators enable Purview at the subscription level so interaction data from apps and agents can flow into centralized AI compliance and governance systems...

Microsoft has launched Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 559995 in June 2026, giving Global admins and Viva Insights admins the ability to enable additional organizational attributes as filters in Power BI reports for Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot analytics. That sounds like a small reporting switch...

Daloopa announced on June 25, 2026, in New York that it has launched a Model Context Protocol connector for Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing its structured, source-linked financial data into Copilot workflows across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The headline is not simply that another data vendor...

Infrastructure as a Service in Tanzania is a small but strategically important public-cloud market in which businesses, government agencies, and digital service providers rent compute, storage, and networking capacity from global cloud platforms rather than buying and operating their own...

On June 21, 2026, Kalkine Media published three UK market pieces arguing that Sage, Kainos, Arm, Renishaw, RELX, and Experian are being pulled into the AI trade because infrastructure spending now reaches software, chips, engineering, data, and analytics. That framing is useful, but incomplete...

Small businesses can now turn ordinary spreadsheet exports into interactive dashboards in minutes by uploading clean sales data to tools such as Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or ChatGPT and asking, in plain English, for charts, summary cards, and filters. That is the practical promise behind...

Microsoft said on June 18, 2026, that it consolidated data from more than 70 internal sales systems into a governed Microsoft Fabric model, layered Power BI and Copilot experiences on top, and saved 100,000 seller hours annually. The more interesting claim is not that AI made sellers faster. It...

Tom Holland said on Spain’s El Hormiguero this week that artists are “safe” from AI because creativity depends on human experience, emotions, and understanding, remarks reported June 17 by Variety and Deadline as Hollywood’s AI fight keeps widening. His line is comforting, and in one important...

Keep Microsoft 365 Copilot Search enabled only if you have already tightened Microsoft 365 permissions, audited overshared mail and files, reviewed Copilot activity, and blocked obvious data-exfiltration paths; otherwise, pause or limit rollout now while security teams validate controls. On June...

Logicall is building a unified data and AI logistics platform on Microsoft Azure with HSO, using Microsoft Fabric, Purview, Power BI, Entra, and integration services to create a governed operational datastore, customer portal, near real-time APIs, dashboards, and future AI agents. The company’s...

Google Research unveiled Gemini-SQL2 in June 2026 as a Gemini 3.1 Pro-based text-to-SQL system that converts natural-language questions into executable database queries and, according to reported BIRD benchmark results, reached 80.04 percent execution accuracy. That score puts Google’s system...

TeamCentral, a Cincinnati AI software company, is positioning its Central AI Hub and governed data infrastructure strategy around MCP-aligned enterprise agents in June 2026, arguing that manufacturers, distributors, and logistics firms need normalized, secured operational data before copilots...

Microsoft and Databricks will use Data + AI Summit 2026, running June 15–18 in San Francisco and online, to position Azure Databricks as the governed enterprise platform for data engineering, analytics, AI applications, and agents. The pitch is not subtle: if AI is becoming a production...

Stibo Systems said on June 9, 2026, that it built Orion, a governed enterprise data platform on Microsoft Fabric with Microsoft Purview and Power BI, to standardize business KPIs, consolidate data from systems including Salesforce, Workday, STEP, and legacy platforms, and prepare its operations...

EPC Group announced on June 9, 2026, from Houston that it ranked first in favorable AI sentiment and AI share of voice among Microsoft-focused consulting firms in Semrush’s U.S. AI Brand Performance Index, while also touting a sixth consecutive G2 Leader recognition in business intelligence...

NHS England has announced a national rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, giving workers across English trusts access to Microsoft’s AI assistant for administration, analysis, document drafting, workflow automation, and internal service support. The stated...