data governance

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...

Microsoft’s Edge for Business is moving from a traditional browser to an active, permissioned assistant that can read and reason across your work—including Office documents and dozens of open tabs—bringing powerful summarization and automation to enterprise workflows while forcing IT teams to...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

Microsoft has acknowledged a software bug that allowed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails explicitly labeled as confidential, bypassing organizations’ Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitivity-label protections — a lapse that underlines the hard trade-off between...

Canadian Tire’s announcement that it is scaling a Microsoft-built, Azure-hosted AI platform to detect “micro-occasions” in customer demand marks a clear accelerating point in the race to operationalize AI across North American retail — not as a flashy storefront assistant, but as a...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, mistakenly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly marked as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and triggering an urgent reassessment of how cloud AI features interact with...