Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation.
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KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider previews for early September 2025 widen the operating system’s AI footprint and polish long‑standing UI rough edges, but they also underline the strategic tradeoffs Microsoft is making as AI features move deeper into the OS: more convenience and on‑device...
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Cloud providers’ quiet September preview windows have turned into a loud signal to enterprise IT: the next phase of cloud AI isn’t just about model accuracy — it’s about network isolation, governance, flexible deployment, and measurable quality controls that let generative AI move safely from...
Microsoft’s consumer Copilot is quietly evolving into a more ChatGPT‑like assistant — one that can remember user preferences and access third‑party files — with a new memory management toggle and the promise of Google Drive as a connected data source for the assistant.
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ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, bringing the company’s continuous, algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure customers via the Azure Marketplace and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of reservations...
September’s quiet preview windows at the major cloud providers are shaping up to be one of the clearest signals yet that enterprise AI is moving from model-first experimentation into regulated, operational production—and the changes being previewed are less about raw model accuracy and more...
Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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Cloud providers’ September previews from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google offer a powerful — and practical — glimpse of how enterprise expectations are reshaping cloud AI: companies are no longer buying raw model performance alone, they are demanding network isolation, auditability...
SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...
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Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...
Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 business customers — a strategic shift that embeds a web‑grounded AI assistant directly into the places people do their daily work...
Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...
Microsoft is embedding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft 365 desktop apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — as a persistent, content‑aware sidebar that brings AI assistance to the place people actually work, reducing copy/paste, manual uploads, and app switching while...
Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Law firms are racing to adopt artificial intelligence tools—but the move from pilot projects and individual experimentation to firm‑wide, governed production deployments remains the exception rather than the rule, driven less by model capability than by the legal profession’s special duties...
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Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...
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Cloud providers’ September previews are not incremental checkbox updates; they are a clear signal that enterprises expect AI clouds to be more than high‑performance models — they must be secure, auditable, and operationally mature enough to run production workloads at scale.
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