procurement

The Open Rights Group’s intervention ahead of the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill’s second reading frames a blunt question for Westminster: can the UK afford to let its critical digital infrastructure remain overwhelmingly dependent on US hyperscalers and proprietary vendors, or does that...

Microsoft’s Copilot initiative, once billed as the definitive productivity pivot for Microsoft 365 and Windows, is wrestling with a reality check: slower-than-expected enterprise adoption, internal sales friction, and a competitive field that is rapidly eroding the product’s perceived advantage...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the enterprise software landscape, a short list of companies is capturing the lion’s share of attention, capital, and customer deployments—and their combined influence is already rewriting procurement rules, engineering priorities, and governance frameworks...

EcoVadis’ latest recognition by Microsoft — winning the Local Partner Award FY25 in the AI Transformation — Scale category — marks a notable milestone for sustainability software vendors deploying generative AI at enterprise scale and brings renewed attention to how procurement teams will use AI...

Enterprise software vendors are quietly rewiring their pricing playbooks around generative AI — and the result is a near‑term wave of list‑price increases, new metered fees, and outcome‑based billing experiments that will materially change how CIOs budget for productivity, CRM, and creative...

Ergo’s latest partner accolade — reported as the Microsoft Ireland Azure Partner of the Year for 2025 — reinforces a long-standing narrative about the Dublin-headquartered firm’s strength on Azure, but the announcement requires careful scrutiny because Microsoft’s canonical partner records point...

The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has become the latest high‑profile example of how procurement timing, vendor lifecycles and parliamentary oversight can collide: a reported £312 million IT modernisation programme that removed 31,500 Windows 7 laptops and...

The Bureau of Meteorology’s much-criticised new website has blown out from an initially reported $4.1 million front-end redesign to a total bill of roughly $96.5 million — a revelation that has intensified political pressure, provoked alarm in regional communities that rely on the service, and...

Dublin City Council has quietly moved from exploration to procurement-stage conversations about generative AI, issuing a preliminary market consultation that seeks vendors to deliver tools “to increase staff productivity and reduce manual administrative processes.” The council’s ambitions —...

In public-sector IT, timing is everything—and the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has just provided a textbook case of what happens when procurement cycles, hardware reality, and vendor lifecycles collide: the department reports having spent approximately £312...

The Louvre’s security embarrassment has become the story’s most combustible aftershock: investigators and journalists unearthed an old cybersecurity audit showing that a server controlling the museum’s video surveillance accepted the literal password “LOUVRE,” a detail that has fuelled ridicule...

Microsoft’s plan to let Microsoft 365 Copilot interaction data be processed inside national borders — with India, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia slated for an in‑country option by the end of calendar year 2025 and a broader rollout to eleven additional countries in 2026 — is a major...

Law360’s five-step playbook for General Counsel to drive generative‑AI experimentation is both a timely wake-up call and a practical blueprint: pair executive sponsorship with measurable targets; start with narrow, high‑value pilots; build cross‑functional governance; insist on ironclad...

Generative AI is no longer a novelty for legal teams — it is an operational imperative that General Counsel must shepherd from curiosity to disciplined production use, and Law360’s five‑step playbook crystallizes the practical route: secure executive sponsorship and measurable targets, run...

Twice in ten days this October the internet reminded Europe — and the organisations that run its hospitals, courts and tax systems — that the word “cloud” masks a very simple and old-fashioned risk: most of our digital life sits on a handful of platforms that can fail, or be compelled to stop...

Microsoft’s commercial chief is urging organisations to “demand more of AI” — not as a marketing slogan but as a call to reshape how companies build products, run factories and design customer experiences. In a wide‑ranging message that frames Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack as the backbone for...

In an industry long defined by paper trails, multi‑month reviews, and opaque decision paths, a new generation of startups is rewriting the rulebook for procurement—and one of the most consequential entrants is Rohirrim. Using generative AI, knowledge graphs, and retrieval‑augmented generation...

Deloitte has agreed to repay the final instalment of a roughly AU$439,000 consultancy contract after an independent assurance report it delivered to Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) was found to contain fabricated citations, mis‑attributed quotes and other...

Logically’s LogicON 2025 keynote revealed a deliberate three‑pronged push to reposition the company from a traditional MSP into what it calls a NextGen Service Provider—announcing an UpSkill Academy training partnership, a 24/7 eCommerce procurement portal named MyShop, and a new Managed AI...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...