data governance

Microsoft is preparing a significant upgrade to Excel that brings an agent-driven workflow — Agent Mode — and a new worksheet function, =COPILOT, designed to let Copilot act directly inside workbooks and formulas, accelerating everything from data cleanup to report generation while introducing...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu has won a decisive early foothold at La Trobe University, with the institution committing to a campus‑wide deployment of 40,000 licences by the end of the 2027 financial year and an initial tranche of 5,000 licences to be rolled out in the current year — a move that places...

The conversations at Microsoft Security Summit Days make one thing unmistakably clear: future-proofing enterprise security is no longer a checklist—it's a strategic operating model that must knit people, data, identity, tooling, and governance into a single, resilient fabric. Microsoft’s...

LG owners woke up to find Microsoft’s Copilot sitting on their home screen — and in many cases there’s no easy way to make it go away. What started as a software update and a few angry Reddit threads has become a wider consumer story about who controls the software on devices you already own...

YASH Technologies will be on the FABCON & SQLCON 2026 expo floor in Atlanta to demonstrate a packaged approach for building an “AI‑ready data foundation” powered by Microsoft Fabric — a move that crystallizes how systems integrators are positioning themselves around Fabric’s OneLake, Fabric...

Customer relationship management is no longer a static ledger of contacts and notes — it’s become a living, AI‑driven system that predicts, personalizes and in some cases acts autonomously on behalf of sellers, marketers and service teams. The industry shift from manual pipelines to AI‑native...

Microsoft’s internal Copilot usage study — an analysis of roughly 37.5 million anonymized conversations — and today’s avalanche of product announcements from Shopify and Adobe together make one thing unavoidable: conversational AI is no longer an experiment contained to code generation and...

A recent security analysis has found that Microsoft Copilot Studio’s no-code AI agents can be coerced into leaking sensitive customer data and performing unauthorized actions with trivially simple prompt injections, exposing a new class of operational and regulatory risk that teams must treat as...

Microsoft’s own data, shared exclusively with Axios, shows a clear behavioral pivot: millions of Copilot users are no longer treating the assistant as a one-off productivity tool but as a conversational confidant — asking about health, careers, relationships and even philosophy during late-night...

The data are merciless: an MIT study of enterprise generative-AI efforts found that roughly 95% of pilots and internal projects delivered no measurable P&L impact, and that organisations that did break through overwhelmingly did so by partnering with outside specialists rather than trying to...

UK Power Networks’ decision to weave Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI into day‑to‑day operations has accelerated productivity, streamlined knowledge work, and seeded new operational uses — from speeding SharePoint reporting to triaging safety alerts — after a focused pilot and a rapid scale-up...

The Property Council’s new half‑day course, Copilot Essentials for the Property Sector, packages a practical, role‑focused introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and is explicitly built to help property managers, asset teams and shopping‑centre administrators apply AI to reporting...

Google’s Workspace Studio pushes agentic AI from pilot projects into everyday work by letting non‑developers build and run no‑code AI agents inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Chat — a shift that promises major productivity gains but demands a new operational discipline from IT and security...

Microsoft’s shift from single‑user assistants to coordinated, enterprise‑grade agents is no longer a roadmap prediction — it’s a production reality IT teams must plan for now. Copilot Studio’s multi‑agent orchestration and the growing “Agent Store” transform Microsoft 365 from a suite of...

AI is finally moving beyond pilot projects in trade finance and risk management — and that shift matters because it reframes AI from a productivity overlay to an operational capability that can change how banks handle documents, detect fraud, and prioritise true risk. Background / Overview Over...

CompTIA has launched CompTIA AI Essentials (V2), a concise, scenario-driven training bundle intended to give non-technical, desk-based employees the practical skills to use generative AI assistants—covering ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini—while also supplying a quick competency...

University of Phoenix’s new Center for AI Resources announced on December 1, 2025, delivers a centralized, student‑facing hub that pairs practical how‑tos, academic expectations, and privacy guidance with institution‑provisioned tools such as Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Copilot—an effort the...

Expedia Group’s hire of Xavier Amatriain as its first Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer marks a decisive shift in how one of the world’s largest online travel agencies intends to compete in the coming era of generative and agentic AI. The appointment — confirmed by an Expedia Group...

eMazzanti Technologies’ new eBot arrives as a practical example of how Managed Services Providers (MSPs) are packaging Microsoft Copilot Studio into ready-to-deploy, tenant‑scoped AI assistants that promise faster user support, lower ticket volumes, and 24/7 guidance inside Microsoft Teams...

Microsoft’s recent Excel updates bring four practical changes this December that aim to speed data work, tighten collaboration, and — unsurprisingly — fold AI more deeply into everyday spreadsheet tasks. The headline items are expanded Agent Mode with live web search and optional Anthropic...