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…
DetailsGoogle 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…
DetailsMany 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsWhat 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…
DetailsThe theft of FBI employee data by hacking group ShinyHunters, and the subsequent shutdown of the FBI’s Peoplesoft-based jobs portal, is causing concern for enterprise users of the Oracle product, with analysts recommending extreme measures in response. Law enforcement has made some progress in its pursuit of the cyber criminals involved, but there has still…
DetailsA recent compromise of PeopleSoft by hacking group ShinyHunters is causing new concerns for enterprise users of the Oracle product, with analysts recommending extreme measures in response. Law enforcement has made some progress in its pursuit of the cyber criminals involved. On Saturday, Reuters reported that a suspected member of ShinyHunters had been arrested by…
DetailsAWS is applying AI to the challenge of evaluating and improving cloud environments with a public preview of a new agentic service aimed at automating the discovery and optimization of architectural issues. Despite its name, AWS makes no claims for the architectural qualities of its Well-Architected Agent, the name of which refers to a long…
DetailsAt Oktane a couple of weeks ago, Okta and a group of enterprise heavyweights, including AWS, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Wiz and Zscaler, launched the Blueprint Alliance. Their goal is a shared plan for securing and governing AI agents across the enterprise. The biggest names in tech are forming bigger alliances, signing bigger…
DetailsThe latest warnings about artificial intelligence are difficult to brush aside. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned last month, walking away shortly before his equity was due to vest, and publicly argued that leading AI companies are advancing toward increasingly capable systems without adequate assurance that those systems will remain controllable. His resignation landed amid a…
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