For years, one of the practical constraints in software testing was time. Writing test cases takes time, preparing data takes time, regression takes time and analyzing what happened after an incident can take even more time. AI is changing this very quickly. Today, a QA engineer can generate test data, write scripts, analyze logs or…
10 types of ambidextrous leadership required in the AI era In the world of corporate management, we face questions every day that don’t have easy answers. We want to accelerate digital transformation, but we absolutely cannot neglect security. We want to pursue company-wide optimization, but we also want to leverage the strengths of each business…
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has removed an Accenture contractor working on its PeopleSoft installation over their role in a data breach that exposed personal details of FBI employees, Reuters reported Monday. This is the first time that anyone other than the hacker group Shinyhunters that claimed responsibility for the breach has linked it…
SAP has launched new AI agents and assistants across multiple domains at its SAP Connect event, saying that its October update is fulfilling the promises it made around its vision of the Autonomous Enterprise at Sapphire in May. The SAP Autonomous Enterprise comprises capabilities in Joule Work and SAP Autonomous Suite, built on the SAP…
For years, cybersecurity has been measured largely through an IT lens: protect data, prevent intrusions, and keep business systems available. While that framework still matters, it does not fully account for the systems that keep physical operations resilient in the event of an incident. Operational environments rely on connected technologies that monitor, control, or support…
ServiceNow has launched two AI solutions that can help enterprises identify business processes ripe for automation, build the workflows to address them, and continuously improve them with AI agents. AI Workflow Factory and Autonomous Engineer, announced on Tuesday, will bring process discovery, AI-assisted development and workflow execution into a single system that ServiceNow says can…
Google is overhauling its cloud modernization portfolio by bringing its existing migration and modernization tools along with new agentic migration tools and a new Modernization Hub under a new Google Cloud Modernize umbrella to accelerate infrastructure and application transformation at enterprises. The new agentic tools include an EKS-to-GKE Migration Agent, designed to help enterprises move…
Many organizations have licensed language models, tested AI agents, and asked DevOps teams to develop code-generation standards. But production deployments are still a work in progress for CIOs, with only 50% of organizations moving more than half of their AI projects from pilot to production, according to Outsystems’ State of AI Development 2026 report. Increasing…
A senior executive at a large enterprise recently described a capital allocation review to me. The committee had spent two hours deciding where the next tranche of maintenance capital should go. The discussion drew on last year’s budget, a regional presentation and the persuasive advocacy of a plant head who had been escalating the same…
What if the most disruptive change to enterprise software is not another application, but needing fewer humans to operate the applications we already own? For decades, we digitized work, integrated systems and moved applications to the cloud. Now we are entering a different era: software is beginning to participate in the work itself. This changes…