data governance

The Josh Bersin Company has announced a partnership with Microsoft to fine‑tune Microsoft 365 Copilot using its Galileo HR corpus, demonstrating a tenant‑scoped “HR expert” Copilot in an early adopter program that promises a tenant‑specific digital HR business partner — but also raises immediate...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote this week repositioned Copilot from a conversation widget into the operational spine of a new “agentic” enterprise architecture, with a trio of intelligence layers — Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ — and a governance control plane called Agent 365 intended to make...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote this year introduced a deliberate and cohesive strategy for making AI agents useful, auditable, and business‑grade: a three‑tiered intelligence layer — Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ — tied together with a governance and runtime fabric that treats agents as...

Informatica and Microsoft have deepened their collaboration to speed enterprise adoption of agentic AI by connecting Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and CLAIRE intelligence directly into Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry through a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, a...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 opens this week as an unmistakably “AI‑first” conference: Nov. 18–21 in San Francisco (with an optional pre‑day on Nov. 17) and a parallel digital program, a hybrid format that promises product reveals, partner playbooks, and hard technical sessions aimed at moving agentic...

CData’s new push to wire enterprise systems directly into Microsoft’s agent ecosystem marks a consequential step for production AI: the company’s Connect AI managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform now exposes semantic, real‑time access to hundreds of business systems for agents built in...

Nexla’s newly announced collaboration with Microsoft promises to funnel a vast universe of enterprise data—over 500 pre-built sources—into Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to turn the assistant from a productivity helper into a materially richer, enterprise-aware decision aid. The partnership...

AT&T’s internal generative-AI program, Ask AT&T, is the clearest example yet of a telecom giant turning early pilot wins into a production-grade “digital coworker” platform — a platform built on Microsoft Azure that aims to shrink developer toil, speed troubleshooting, and surface operational...

Centro de la Familia’s move from a brittle, third‑party reporting setup to an AI‑augmented Power Platform solution is a practical blueprint for nonprofits that need to do more with less—dramatically faster reporting, lower recurring costs, and a clear line of sight into program outcomes...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

Enterprise technology leaders are wrestling with a widening gap between AI’s boardroom promises and the measurable returns showing up in day‑to‑day operations, according to fresh reporting that lays bare familiar obstacles: data quality, change management, legacy systems, and mismatched...

Microsoft’s latest expansion of the Azure AI platform is another clear signal that the company is aggressively bundling machine learning, data analytics, and enterprise governance into a single cloud-first toolkit aimed at speeding adoption while lowering operational friction for IT and data...

Ontario’s public service has quietly become one of Canada’s most active testbeds for Microsoft’s Copilot, with internal presentations reporting more than 15,000 weekly users and an internal “Copilot Chat InsideOPS” page recording 120,000+ pageviews—figures that the government materials describe...

The Shapiro administration has moved from pilot to partnership: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announced a newly expanded Cooperative Agreement with Carnegie Mellon University to provide ongoing AI advising, and at the same time the state is scaling enterprise-grade generative AI tools —...

Cloudforce’s claim of being named Microsoft’s 2025 Education Partner of the Year lands as a watershed moment for campus AI — but it also raises the exact questions university IT teams should be asking before they hand a single-vendor orchestration layer control over student, research, and health...

Generative assistants like Microsoft Copilot have become indispensable productivity tools — and that very usefulness is what makes them one of the most consequential insider‑risk vectors modern organizations must face. Overview Copilot and similar GenAI assistants are designed to fetch...

AvePoint’s third quarter fiscal 2025 results landed as a clear operational milestone: total revenue topped $109.7 million, SaaS revenue accelerated to $84.0 million (up 38% year‑over‑year), ARR reached $390.0 million, and non‑GAAP operating income expanded to $24.1 million (a 22.0% non‑GAAP...

Generative AI has stopped being a boardroom curiosity and quietly become a day‑to‑day tool for large organizations — nearly half of surveyed business leaders now use Gen AI daily, roughly four out of five use it weekly, and about three in four firms tracking outcomes report a positive return on...

AI is already listening, watching, measuring and learning from the devices we carry, wear and keep in our homes — and that steady stream of telemetry is reshaping privacy in ways most consumers don’t fully grasp today. Background Everyday objects — from smart speakers and fitness trackers to...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear policy imperative: governments must take the lead in preparing workers for the AI transition rather than leaving reskilling and social protection to the market alone. This message — delivered at the...