Agentic AI is the main topic at most industry events this year, with vendors adding agents to their products with gleeful abandon. NetSuite is no different; at its SuiteWorld conference this week, it is unveiling agents and AI workspaces designed to do everything from autonomous financial closing to AI-based supply chain management. SuiteExpress, announced today,…
Longtime IT leader Matt Ausman envisions a future where developers may not have any backlog because AI will let them create new capabilities as quickly as they imagine them. “The backlog will vanish because you will have infinite capacity,” says Ausman, SVP and CIO of Zebra Technologies. He wonders whether business users will be able…
An executive IT dashboard can stay green for a year while the risks it is supposed to surface keep growing. Availability above target every month. Service levels met. Patch compliance climbing quarter over quarter. Every number accurate, and every one trusted by the executive team. When trouble finally arrives, it skips amber entirely. It comes…
CIOs are dealing with a lot of change, from the rapid rise of AI and cloud modernization, to cybersecurity and workforce transformation. Many are sharing what they’re learning as they tackle these challenges, including what’s working, what isn’t, and how they’re implementing new technologies in their organizations. Here, a select group of tech leaders reveal…
When juniors take naive questions to an AI assistant instead of a colleague, dashboards record fewer interruptions and higher velocity. What they miss is the erosion of senior engineers’ architectural fluency, and the single point of failure that hardens until an outage forces someone to explain the system out loud. Over the past year, I…
Oracle has patched 1295 security vulnerabilities with its October Critical Patch Update Advisory; six of them scored the highest vulnerability rating of 10.0 on the CVSS version 3.1 scale. The company’s flagship Oracle E-Business Suite was home to one of the vulnerabiltiies, tracked as CVE-2026-101809. This enables any unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP…
The insider threat model rests on a simple premise: legitimate access to business systems is used in ways you didn’t intend. When an employee is onboarded, there is typically an access review, a background check, and least-privilege provisioning. Trust is extended, and occasionally that trust can create risk to business systems and data. This process…
SAP professionals can now renew their certifications through AI-based roleplays. The new service builds on SAP’s revamp of its certification program last year, shifting the focus from rote learning of facts towards real-world use cases. “The evolution of Stay Certified reflects a broader shift already taking place across SAP Certification: moving beyond assessing what someone…
According to a quartet of Accenture intellectual heavyweights, what CIOs need now to account for and control AI costs is tokenomics, sweet tokenomics. The idea of linking AI spend to business outcomes may be a noble one, but “Tokenomics” only pretends to do so, unless you think tallying costs and measuring business outcomes are one…
For years, enterprise AI strategy has been dependent on a small set of proprietary, closed model providers, a limitation that has carried cost, lock-in and opacity. Now, open-weight models from Meta, Google and other global competitors are challenging that default. As of July 2026, open-weight models accounted for 36% of Vercel’s AI Gateway token volume,…