data governance

ThoughtSpot’s flat-fee StartupSpot, Commvault’s Data Rooms and MCP bridge, Informatica’s expanded CLAIRE agents, Cohesity’s AWS pact, Stuut’s Series A, Precisely’s Gio, Dassault’s SOLIDWORKS 2026 and a string of agent-management plays from Rubrik and Avanade together underline a clear theme this...

Dignity has opened an in-house AI & Data Academy for 55 employees in a targeted push to convert decades of manual administration into data-driven, AI-augmented operations across more than 570 branches, aiming to cut repetitive work such as the processing of roughly 100,000 paper cheques every...

SAP and Microsoft have announced a tighter integration that promises to bring semantically rich SAP data into Microsoft’s AI-ready data fabric — Microsoft Fabric — using a bi-directional, zero-copy sharing model that aims to accelerate analytics and enterprise AI by eliminating traditional...

The short, verifiable punchline from recent reporting is this: for practical privacy in an enterprise setting, Microsoft Copilot (when deployed inside a managed Microsoft 365 tenant) currently presents the clearest path to the least intrusive data collection model; for consumer-grade use the...

Informatica’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2025 — tying its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and CLAIRE metadata engine directly into Microsoft Foundry — marks a deliberate push to make enterprise GenAI more deployable, auditable and enterprise-ready by anchoring agentic systems to...

This week’s product bulletin reads like a map of the retirement, wealth and asset‑management ecosystems shifting from static data feeds and feature updates to agent‑native services and purpose‑built investment solutions — a string of launches that underline three clear themes: data owners...

When the question is which AI chatbot “collects the least data,” the short and verifiable headline from recent comparative reporting is simple: Microsoft Copilot — when used inside a managed Microsoft 365 tenant — currently offers the clearest path to the least intrusive data collection model...

Informatica and Microsoft this week revealed a tighter integration that aims to make enterprise AI agents more trustworthy by connecting Microsoft Foundry with Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) — a move that promises governed, high-quality data for agentic applications while...

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...