data governance

Enterprises reviewing the crowded field of data governance tools in early 2026 face a clear strategic choice: prioritize AI-native velocity, proven regulatory rigor, or cloud-platform alignment — and the current market leaders map to those orientations. Analytics Insight’s roundup places Atlan...

Fiserv’s new, expanded partnership with Microsoft signals a decisive push to embed generative AI across a major payments and fintech platform — combining Microsoft 365 Copilot for knowledge workers, deeper use of Microsoft Foundry for AI application development, and existing investments in...

Microsoft’s Power BI, Tableau (Salesforce), SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense, Google’s Looker + BigQuery, SAS Viya, Databricks, and TIBCO Spotfire define the business analytics landscape in 2026 — each delivering distinct trade-offs between accessibility...

TomTom’s latest announcement that it is deepening its production-grade integration with Microsoft Azure—bringing Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into its automotive stack—marks a concrete step from experimental voice assistants toward...

Guess’s pilot of an AI-driven catalog enrichment workflow is the kind of quietly consequential move that marks the difference between a marketing experiment and a foundation for long-term digital commerce transformation, and the company’s decision to run the pilot with Microsoft’s Copilot Studio...

OpenAI’s new analysis, summarized in a short Computerworld item this week, confirms what many clinicians and technologists have suspected for months: a very large and growing cohort of people now treats ChatGPT as a first-stop health resource. According to the OpenAI-backed report “AI as a...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, surreal phase: a public “bot war” in which generative AIs — prompted from a partisan archive and then set against one another — openly contradict, correct, and amplify contested claims about events that began in...

Microsoft’s pitch that unified data and AI can help colleges move from reaction to anticipation — improving student success, streamlining operations, and accelerating research — is both persuasive and practical on paper, but the reality for campus IT leaders is a complex blend of technical lift...

Microsoft kicked off the first trading week of 2026 with a pratfall: Excel's STOCKHISTORY function went dark for many users, returning connection errors and stale data at a moment when investors and spreadsheet power users expected live—or at least reliably refreshed—market numbers. Background...

Modern enterprises can only convert cloud‑era promise into reliable outcomes when IT and business agree on one thing: whose numbers count — and why. Deploying enterprise data management and data governance on Microsoft Azure, combined with disciplined master data management (MDM) and integration...

Microsoft has acquired Seattle startup Osmos and folded its team and technology into the engineering organization behind Microsoft Fabric, a move positioned to accelerate what Microsoft calls “autonomous data engineering” by embedding agentic AI directly into the Fabric data stack. Background...

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from bold experiment to enterprise mainstream, promising to reshape how knowledge workers write, analyze, meet and automate routine tasks — but the promise comes with concrete trade-offs in cost, governance and risk that every IT leader must weigh carefully...

Redgrave LLP’s webinar and white paper make a simple but consequential point for litigation teams, corporate counsel, and Windows-focused IT: the rise of workplace AI — from Microsoft Copilot to Google Gemini and tenant-grounded assistants — creates new classes of discoverable data, and courts...

Sompo’s expanded use of AI agents marks one of the most ambitious enterprise deployments in insurance this year — a multi-year deepening of Palantir’s Foundry that pushes autonomous decisioning into underwriting, claims triage and fraud detection while promising measurable financial gains, but...

Yogi Schulz’s Top‑10 reflections on information technology in 2025 crystallize a simple but profound idea: AI moved from a feature to an infrastructure layer that reshaped procurement, power planning, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations across the energy industry. Background / Overview 2025...

Paolo Bacigalupi’s biopunk fable maps unnervingly well onto the business math of modern AI: when convenience replaces control, prosperity in Year One can mean dependency in Year Two, and what looks like a crop of productivity can be a harvest that belongs to someone else. Background Paolo...

Microsoft and NASA’s new Hydrology Copilot promises to put petabytes of hydrology data into plain‑language reach for planners, emergency responders, and researchers — but the platform’s potential depends on careful validation, transparent provenance, and governance if it is to move beyond...

Insight Enterprises, working with Microsoft, HCLTech and a small integrator called Skewer, has rolled a major AI upgrade into the Cricket Australia Live App that promises on‑the‑fly, editorial‑style match insights, interactive follow‑up Q&A and access to official scorecards stretching back to...

Discovery Trust’s modest pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot has been framed as a watershed moment for classroom practice and staff wellbeing — a real-world example of how generative AI can shift time from admin back into teaching, and potentially transform assessment, differentiation, and support...

Cognizant and Microsoft have announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed squarely at the so‑called “last‑mile” problem in enterprise AI — the messy, expensive gap between model prototypes and production systems that actually run mission‑critical workflows — promising to embed agentic AI...