G‑STAR’s move to embed an AI assistant directly inside Microsoft Teams is a practical, culture-first example of how retailers can turn routine IT friction into a long‑term productivity platform—and a useful case study in designing enterprise AI that tries to be a colleague, not a gimmick...
OnePlan’s February 2026 product update delivers a clear, practical set of enhancements aimed at reducing everyday friction for enterprise portfolio teams: no‑code Work Plan automations and stricter baseline governance to protect schedule integrity, a centralized Plan Files App with Microsoft...
Microsoft’s decision to surface Viva Engage communities directly inside the Teams Chat experience shifts one of the last major employee-experience boundaries into the place where people already do their work — and it matters. The public-preview rollout that began in early 2026 folds community...
Huddly’s argument — voiced by CEO Rósa Stensen in a recent interview — is simple and urgent: the next wave in collaboration technology is agentic, AI-native collaboration that amplifies human intelligence in the room rather than automating people out of the loop. Her company’s roadmap, she says...
eMazzanti Technologies today introduced eBot, an AI-driven IT support assistant built on Microsoft Copilot Studio and embedded inside Microsoft Teams, promising instant, 24/7 troubleshooting and guidance designed to cut ticket volumes and speed employee productivity. The vendor frames eBot as a...
Visual Studio 2026’s Insiders release is a careful, pragmatic step forward — a familiar IDE with a sharpened UI, faster underpinnings, and AI more tightly woven into everyday workflows rather than a radical reinvention of how developers write and ship code. The experience I tested reads like...
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Levi Strauss & Co. has chosen Microsoft to build an Azure‑native, Teams‑embedded “super‑agent” — a hierarchical, multi‑agent orchestration system that will route employee queries to specialized subagents and is slated for corporate rollout in early 2026 as part of Levi’s broader...
Sunrise Technologies has rolled out a production AI agent, named Sales Order Assistant, for Jaipur Living — an in‑house Copilot agent built and deployed with Microsoft Copilot Studio that surfaces order queries inside Microsoft Teams and is designed to sit on top of Jaipur Living’s Dynamics 365...
At the 2025 Bentley Illuminate conference an engineer from VHB demonstrated a deceptively simple application of generative AI—an internal Copilot agent that learns the software so engineers don’t have to—and the result is already saving real time while pointing to how design offices and...
There’s a simple reason event professionals call their work high-adrenaline: the stack is brittle. One unsynced calendar, one missed CRM update, or one streaming outage can ripple into a crisis that eats hours and damages relationships. Now, a visible partnership between InEvent and Microsoft...
CBIZ today announced the commercial launch of Vertical Vector AI™, a new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence platform aimed at accelerating AI adoption in middle-market businesses by combining secure integration with existing Microsoft ecosystems, workflow-oriented features, and a...
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Microsoft’s new Access Review Agent for Entra ID promises to turn one of the most tedious and error-prone identity-governance chores into a guided, AI-assisted workflow inside Microsoft Teams — but the convenience comes with clear prerequisites, operational trade-offs, and governance...
Microsoft has opened the Live Interpreter API in public preview, a new Azure Speech Translation capability that promises continuous, real‑time speech‑to‑speech translation without requiring developers or users to preselect an input language. Background
Microsoft’s Azure Speech Translation has...
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Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and...
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Microsoft and Cerence’s announcement at IAA Mobility 2025 that a voice-first, Microsoft 365 Copilot–powered assistant will run inside vehicles marks a decisive push to turn the car into a secure mobile office — but it also raises urgent questions about safety, privacy, enterprise governance, and...
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Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides...
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Microsoft’s push to put Copilot everywhere just took another step into the enterprise social layer: Microsoft 365 Copilot is now integrated with Viva Engage, turning the platform formerly known as Yammer into an AI-assisted hub for composing posts, catching up on conversations, and surfacing...
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Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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A wave of innovation has arrived for Microsoft 365 users as Crow Canyon Software unveils NITRO Studio AI, a transformative update to its acclaimed business process automation platform. Designed specifically for organizations leveraging Microsoft 365, Teams, and SharePoint, the latest version...
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Crow Canyon Software has unveiled NITRO Studio AI, a comprehensive update to its automation platform for Microsoft 365 environments. This next-generation release is packed with artificial intelligence-powered features, integrating dynamic advancements across forms, workflows, and communication...
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