governance

Microsoft used Web Summit Qatar 2026 to put a clear stake in the ground: agentic AI, governed enterprise platforms, and partner-built solutions on Microsoft Azure are the practical pathway Microsoft wants governments and large organizations in Qatar to follow — but the announcements also...

Glartek’s new AI agent, Gil, arrives as a tightly packaged promise: bring frontline safety intelligence out of siloed EHS systems and into the same Copilot-driven workflow where managers, engineers, and contractors already work. Announced on January 31, 2026, Gil is presented as an “AI EHS...

Enterprises quietly hiring an “AI productivity director” are not chasing moonshots — they’re hiring an operator to turn costly generative‑AI licenses into measurable time savings, safer workflows, and repeatable business outcomes. view Generative AI has moved from curiosity to boardroom...

Enterprises that want AI to deliver measurable throughput are quietly hiring a new kind of operator: the AI productivity director — a pragmatic, cross‑functional leader whose job is not to chase model research or declare a new C‑suite title, but to convert existing generative AI licenses into...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly graduated from “help me write this” to “join my team and get things done,” and the implications for Windows users, IT leaders and enterprise architects are as profound as they are practical. What began as an in-app drafting assistant is now a platform-level...

Microsoft’s latest push turns Excel from a formula tool into a task‑oriented assistant that can plan, build and validate multi‑step solutions inside workbooks — generating formulas, creating PivotTables and charts, running Power Query transforms, and even inserting Python analysis based on a...

Two years ago, a handful of CEOs made a decision that reads today like a strategic hinge point: treat generative AI not as a bolt-on efficiency toy but as the company’s operating fabric. The consequences are already visible — from network-platform vendors embedding agentic architectures into...

Microsoft’s latest Planner updates push the app from a lightweight task board into the centre of its Teams-first, AI-assisted work-management story — but they also shift important capabilities behind Copilot licensing and change how organisations must handle comments, compliance, and governance...

As 2026 opens, the conversation about corporate AI is shifting from breathless experimentation to hard questions about accountability, measurable impact and risk — and those questions land squarely on the CFO’s desk. Recent industry research and reporting show that worldwide AI budget lines are...

Visionet’s confirmation as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (AEMSP) is the kind of industry credential that carries real operational weight for enterprise buyers — and it arrived with clear strategic timing as organizations move from experimentation to production with cloud and...

I used to think “copilot” was a marketing word for a fancy autocomplete box. I was wrong — and the quiet, steady arrival of AI copilots inside the apps you open every morning has, for many solo founders and small teams, become the difference between grinding to burnout and reclaiming creative...

Microsoft’s Copilot cannot be judged by prompts alone; what matters to finance, IT, and users is measurable impact — fewer minutes spent on email, fewer unnecessary meetings, faster document cycles, and demonstrable reductions in governance risk — and the 90‑day playbook framework reframes...

IBM’s Enterprise Advantage packages IBM Consulting’s internal deliveryivery platform and playbooks into an asset‑based consulting service designed to help large organizations build, govern and operate internal AI platforms at scale, while explicitly supporting multi‑cloud environments and both...

Success in enterprise AI now hinges less on novelty and more on operationalization: the ability to scale models, embed them into everyday workflows, and govern them across hybrid and regulated environments — a reality underscored by recent industry lists and vendor metrics that place Microsoft...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage service is a clear bid to turn the consulting playbook that IBM used internally into a packaged, multi‑cloud offering for enterprise customers trying to move from pilots to scaled AI — a platform‑first, agent‑centric approach that promises speed, governance and...

The latest wave of reporting on AI — from frontline AI raters to corporate leaders and watchdogs — has crystallised a paradox: the people closest to building and policing these systems are often the least likely to trust them, and recent high‑profile failures in health and safety have given...

The AI era is not merely another technological phase; it is a structural shift that is already remaking how societies produce value, organize labor, and design institutions. last two decades produced a familiar progression: industrial productivity lifted output by mechanizing physical labor...

Relativity’s investment in generative AI for legal data intelligence is a study in disciplined product engineering: the company built Relativity aiR on a Microsoft Azure foundation to accelerate e‑discovery and investigations while prioritizing defensibility, auditability, and enterprise trust...

SAS’ cloud-native analytics platform Viya is now officially available to U.S. public sector organizations and the partner ecosystem through Microsoft Azure Government, opening a new on-ramp for agencies that need advanced analytics and AI inside a U.S.-sovereign, contractually isolated cloud...

ESW’s announcement that it is launching Copilot Ascend™, a role-based Microsoft Copilot and AI training program designed to move organizations from experimentation to consistent, measurable Copilot use, lands squarely on a practical problem many IT and HR leaders are confronting today: licenses...