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Construction firms have invested heavily in technology to connect project information. Drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, BIM models, photos, and field reports are increasingly accessible from anywhere, helping office and field teams work from the same information. Connecting project information is a critical first step. It improves collaboration, reduces rework, and helps office and field teams work from the same information.

In a recent announcement, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) suspended Phase II of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Since we’ve received questions from our customers about the announcement's impact, I’ve recapped the latest updates below. Remember to always consult your DoD contracts for the latest provisions and review these program updates with legal counsel, technology consultants, and third-party CMMC assessors, as appropriate.

We ran an AI-native SDLC—here's what it changed about how we lead engineering. Egnyte's Search team serves 22,000+ enterprise customers across petabytes of content, and like every engineering org right now, we're figuring out how deeply AI tools should reshape how teams actually build software.

In the world of life sciences, data is the lifeblood of discovery. But today, that lifeblood is more like a tidal wave. We’ve moved far beyond simple spreadsheets—there’s now an explosion of unstructured data with variety, velocity, and volume that’s daunting, even for large companies. According to some estimates, unstructured data now accounts for nearly 80% of all data generated by organizations. For a research team, this isn't just a storage problem; it’s a massive roadblock to innovation.

Construction projects depend on timely decisions. When a superintendent needs the latest drawing set, a project engineer must review submittals, or a project manager wants to reference lessons learned from a past project, access to accurate information directly impacts project outcomes. Yet many construction firms still struggle with information scattered across jobsite photos, RFIs, specifications, BIM models, emails, and project management systems.

Egnyte AI surfaces insights from an organization's documents for regulated industries—life sciences, financial services, architecture, engineering, and construction—and does that within existing permissions and compliance controls. Our AI Assistant is the conversational front door. Ask a question about your documents in plain language, summarise a contract, find the latest version, pull a compliance clause, and get an answer grounded only in the files you're permitted to see.

88% of organizations are running AI in at least one workflow, yet nearly two-thirds report more rework than savings. The model is rarely the bottleneck. Everyone has access to the same frontier models now. The difference is what sits underneath: content that's unstructured, ungoverned, and disconnected from the workflows that need it. Fixing the content problem usually means giving AI broad access to content, and that's where governance breaks down.

By Rick Mounfield MSc CSyP FSyI, Director, Optimal Risk Group Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting an AI governance-focused webinar with my colleague Neil Jones at Egnyte. In the session, we discussed many ways to improve AI governance, and you can watch and share the complete session replay here. During the session, we discussed the importance of responsible AI usage policies.

One month ago, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) leaders gathered for the Egnyte AEC Summit 2026. By the end of the summit, the message was clear: AEC is moving past AI experimentation and into operational change. Three takeaways defined the day. 1. AI Won't Disrupt AEC—Firms That Redesign Work Will AI dominated the conversation at the Egnyte AEC Summit 2026, but not in the way many expected.

If you've built an integration with Egnyte, you know the process: register at developers.egnyte.com, create an account, wait for approval, and get your credentials. It works, but for admins who simply want to start making API calls against their own domain, the process isn’t simple or fast enough. Starting today, that changes. Egnyte admins can now generate Collaborate API credentials directly from the Egnyte App Store—no external registration, no approval wait, no context-switching.