Stephanie Simone
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Qodo 3.0 Delivers Scalable Quality Control to Agentic Software Development
Qodo is releasing Qodo 3.0, the next generation of its AI Code Quality and Governance Platform, expanding its quality infrastructure to enterprises building agentic software factories, automatically connecting agent workflows to enterprise codebase knowledge, architectural standards, and governance requirements.
Acumatica’s Latest Cloud ERP Release Empowers Businesses to Work Smarter with Embedded AI
Acumatica is announcing the general availability of 2026 R2, the latest release of its cloud ERP platform for mid-market businesses—featuring embedded AI, modern analytics, streamlined user experience, and industry-specific enhancements designed to help organizations improve productivity, make faster decisions, and scale more efficiently.
With Policy Agent Trust Bigeye Enables Enterprises to Define AI Policy Once and Enforce It Through Inaugural AI Gateway Partners
Bigeye, the AI Trust Platform for the enterprise, is launching Policy Engine in Agent Trust Hub, enabling enterprises to control what their AI agents are allowed to do at runtime. It also introduces an integration framework that lets AI gateway providers bring Bigeye's data context into their own policy decisions. Kong, TrueFoundry, OpenLLM, Bifrost (by Maxim AI) Solo.io, and Gravitee are the inaugural partners, according to the company.
Luware NimbusOne Client is now available for contact centers following Microsoft Unify certification
Luware, a leading provider of Microsoft-native customer service solutions, is offering the Luware NimbusOne client for its contact center platform Luware Nimbus. Additionally, Luware also announced that Microsoft has certified Luware Nimbus for Unify, the integration model behind the new client. With the new client, the contact center lives where teams already do work—directly in their CRM (Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics 365) or in a customizable agent desktop.
Kantata and Pine Services Group work together to help services organizations scale expertise
Kantata, a leading provider of Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions, and Pine Services Group, a company dedicated to the growth and legacy of premier ERP service partners and global business application companies, are partnering to help professional services organizations unlock the power of their expertise.
Industry Leaders, Including AMD and Intel, Establish SCMP OCP Workstream for Open and Secure AI Infrastructure Management
Lattice Semiconductor, the low power programmable and platform firmware leader, and AMI, a Lattice company, announced the creation of SCMP (Secure Control and Management Plane), a new Open Compute Project workstream. The group launches with AMD, AMI, Arm, ASPEED, Intel, Jabil, Lattice, Microsoft, and NXP as founders, each of whom bring core competencies and expertise to strengthen the workstream’s mission and success.
Cloudflare Basin Gives Developers a More Open and Accessible Data Platform
Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, is releasing Cloudflare Basin, a data platform for developers and enterprises offering a simpler, more affordable way to build applications powered by their data. Built on Apache Iceberg and Cloudflare R2, Basin gives teams an open, serverless way to ingest, store, catalog, and query analytical data across the tools they already use, according to Cloudflare.
Sumo Logic DojoAI Now Previewing Root Cause Agent for SRE and DevOps Teams
Sumo Logic, the Intelligent Operations Platform, is introducing the preview of its Root Cause Agent (RCA), an autonomous investigator for SRE and DevOps teams that alerts, inspects logs and metrics, and returns an evidence-backed assessment of what caused the incident.
Impelsys introduces variety of AI investments to help publishers acclimate to AI
Impelsys is introducing a series of initiatives in AI across its portfolio, spanning framework development, its publishing super-agent KAI, independently certified AI governance, and strategic partnerships with multiple AI technology companies. Together, these investments are aimed at helping publishers move from isolated AI use cases to AI-native operations by embedding AI across their existing applications, processes, and enterprise infrastructure, according to Impelsys.
Kore.ai Announces General Availability of Autoloop, the Optimization Engine That Continuously Improves Agents
Kore.ai, a global leader in enterprise AI platform and agentic applications, is providing the general availability of Autoloop, the optimization engine of the Kore.ai Agent Platform, Artemis edition—enabling enterprises to set the goals while Autoloop builds the agents, measures them against those goals, and keeps optimizing them automatically.
CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering Accelerates AI Access of Data for Enterprise Deployments
CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, is launching CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering, a new service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to operationalize specific AI use cases on the organization's unstructured data. According to CTERA, each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, works against real enterprise file data, and is designed to leave the customer's team able to run and extend what was built.
Hitachi Vantara Granted Common Criteria Certification for VSP One Block, Enhancing Data Resilience for Regulated Enterprises
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., announced that its Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block platform has achieved Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) certification, providing independent, internationally recognized validation of critical security capabilities.
Commvault Expands Resilience Capabilities to AI tools, Giving Better Visibility into Shadow AI
Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, is enabling IT and Security teams to discover, protect, and recover agent configurations and other AI data in Claude Cowork by Anthropic, Claude Code by Anthropic, and OpenClaw (agentic AI tools). According to Commvault, for workers and IT leaders, this can be a game-changing development.
Assemble trustworthy AI with KM and RAG
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has gained much attention lately with its promise to reduce, or even eliminate, hallucinated information from search results. By combining language models with contextually relevant, organizationally verified knowledge stores, retrieved data is transparent, accurate, and reliable, with underlying sources identifiable.
Profisee Anywhere Enables Organizations to Manage Data Directly in Microsoft Fabric OneLake
Profisee, a leader in master data management (MDM), is offering new innovations for Microsoft Fabric that further its strategy to make trusted master data a natural part of the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem. According to the company, its Profisee Anywhere capability allows organizations to use Profisee’s SaaS MDM service to manage master data directly in Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
GitLab Builds the Foundation for the Governed Software Factory with Enhanced Capabilities
GitLab Inc., the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, is rolling out new capabilities for the governed software factory, a connected system for moving software from idea to production under an organization's own policy and standards. According to the vendor, these new innovations are designed to help organizations ship more AI-generated software to production without taking on more risk or cost.
Clinisys brings laboratory document intelligence to scientific workflows
Clinisys, a global leader in laboratory informatics, is enhancing its innovation portfolio with integrated document intelligence capabilities in Clinisys Laboratory Solution (CLS), helping laboratories capture, govern, search, and activate information across scientific and operational workflows to connect laboratory intelligence.
Enhancing AI Reasoning With Knowledge Graphs and GraphRAG
There is a disconnect happening with AI that cannot be ignored. A model can retrieve information, summarize it, or generate an answer, but it cannot determine whether the answer reflects how the business works or if it’s truly correct. The limitation is not model intelligence but missing context. Using connected data, semantic relationships, and graph-based retrieval improves AI reasoning, contextual understanding, and decision making.
Apollo Launches Enhancements Across GraphQL, Including GraphOS Agent Services, and GraphOS MCP Server
Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration leader, is introducing Apollo GraphOS Agent Services, giving AI agents secure, governed, and auditable access to an enterprise’s systems and APIs. Built on GraphOS, Apollo’s platform for connecting and orchestrating enterprise APIs, Agent Services extends that infrastructure to AI agents, so companies can control what each agent can access and do, according to the company.
Percona to Offer Valkey-proxy, an Open Source Project to Simplify Migration to Valkey
Percona, a provider of open source database software, support, and services, is unveiling Valkey-proxy, a new open source project that helps enterprises adopt Valkey and migrate from Redis. Valkey-proxy, developed by Percona engineers and now accepted as an official project under Valkey, will provide a proxy layer that lets applications built for a single, standalone Valkey instance run across a horizontally scaled-out cluster, according to the company.
Progress Software Unites Knowledge Across Business Systems with New Agentic RAG Abilities
Progress Software, an AI infrastructure software leader, is adding new capabilities within Progress Agentic RAG, an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platform for AI agents and LLMs that connects enterprise knowledge to AI-powered experiences. The release also includes a native Microsoft Teams application, a new Smart Agent for autonomous multistep retrieval, and a WordPress plugin that improves content ingestion, fidelity, and governance.
Casepoint enhances Casepoint IQ with purpose-built AI agents for legal and compliance workflows
Casepoint, a leading provider of secure, unified government, legal, and compliance solutions, is releasing a portfolio of purpose-built agents powered by Casepoint IQ, including the Relevance Determination Agent and the Issue Coding Agent.
Precisely Unveils New Unified Data Management Platform to Make Data Accessible, High-Quality, Governed, and Enriched
Precisely, a leader in unified data management for AI-ready data, is debuting the Precisely Platform, a unified data management platform designed to make enterprise data AI-ready. Built on a single metadata and semantic foundation, the Platform provides data integration, quality, governance, location intelligence, master data management, and customer communications capabilities to create the trusted data layer that AI demands, according to Precisely.
Frontline Managed Services acquires KL Software Technologies to forward intelligent applications for law firms
Frontline Managed Services, a leading global provider of advisory-led business and IT managed services purpose-built for law firms, is acquiring KL Software Technologies Inc. and its affiliate KLoBot, Inc., collectively known as “KL Software.” Additionally, the company is launching as Frontline Intelligent Applications, a new business designed to help law firms accelerate how they use technology, data, and AI to improve operations and business performance.
meshIQ AgentIQ Acts as an Autonomous Trust Layer to Help Enterprises Govern AI Agents
meshIQ, a leader in unified infrastructure management, visibility, and tracking, is launching AgentIQ, a new solution that provides real-time governance for AI agents operating across enterprises. Designed for AI and governance leaders across highly regulated sectors, AgentIQ lives inside agents’ execution flow, giving organizations visibility into, and control over, agent actions across different agentic frameworks.
Redgate Expands Database Change Control to Databricks and Snowflake
Redgate Software is expanding Redgate Flyway Enterprise, further extending its advanced database change control capabilities to Databricks and Snowflake. According to Redgate, the move enables enterprises to apply a consistent standard of governance across both operational databases and modern analytics platforms.
InfrOS Debuts Evolving Architecture Capabilities to Seamlessly Update Cloud Infrastructure
InfrOS, a leading cloud infrastructure operating system, is launching Evolving Architecture, a new capability that helps organizations continuously adapt their cloud infrastructure as AI transforms workload demands. As AI use accelerates, workloads are changing faster than traditional infrastructure planning can accommodate.
Tungsten Automation applies agentic AI from capture through payment reconciliation
Tungsten Automation is introducing InvoiceAgility+, the AP automation engine of its AI-native invoice-to-pay platform—which runs accounts payable from invoice receipt through payment execution. Building on Tungsten’s proven AP automation success, InvoiceAgility+ delivers end-to-end invoice-to-pay automation, driven by agentic AI that captures, matches, codes, and reconciles invoices automatically, according to the company.
Aerospike Rapidly Scales Operational AI with New Features to Reduce AI’s Exploding Tax
Aerospike, Inc., the real-time state, context, and decisioning platform for operational AI, is broadening network efficiency advantage for enterprises running AI inference workloads at scale. According to the company, Aerospike’s architecture already minimizes the data it sends across the network, and new in-cluster wire compression and delta replication extend that advantage.
Devart dbForge 2026.2 Makes Database Development Faster and Easier to Troubleshoot
Devart, a leading developer of database management software, is releasing dbForge 2026.2, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools—adding a brand-new embedded PostgreSQL Debugger and visual object editors to dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL. According to the company, dbForge AI Assistant gains broader context awareness through file attachments, supports models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and is now available in a free Express edition.
InfluxDB 3.12 Shows Databases a New Way to Scale
InfluxData is introducing InfluxDB 3.12, building on the major performance upgrade in 3.11, bringing faster bulk imports, distributed compaction, per-database schema enforcement, and generally available role-based access control to InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. According to the company, InfluxDB 3.12 makes bulk import from Parquet roughly three times faster. Imports now run in parallel, so they scale with the hardware given.
Synopsys and OpenAI Form Strategic Partnership to Dramatically Advance and Accelerate Semiconductor Innovation
Synopsys and OpenAI are partnering to bring together OpenAI's advanced AI capabilities with Synopsys' industry-leading EDA tools and agentic AI capabilities to revolutionize the design of semiconductors. The companies signed an expansive, multi-year agreement to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized model, optimized to use Synopsys EDA tools to perform semiconductor design workflows.
M-Files introduces manufacturing solution for governed, AI-ready manufacturing information
M-Files, the leader in context-first document management, is launching M-Files for Manufacturing, a new purpose-built solution that gives engineering-intensive manufacturers a governed foundation for trusted enterprise AI that reduces risk and accelerates execution. According to the company, the solution works alongside PLM and ERP applications, to connect critical documentation to the products, parts, processes, and suppliers it impacts.
CData Connect AI Gateway Enables One Control Point Between AI and the Systems That Run the Business
CData Software, the data layer for AI, is introducing CData Connect AI Gateway, the next evolution of the Connect AI platform designed to give organizations a single control point for the models, tools, data, and actions used by AI agents and the individuals who work with them.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Now Delivers Direct Querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet Data in the Data Lake
AWS is announcing that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now enables users to utilize direct query operational data together with data stored in the data lake in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats, using existing PostgreSQL applications and tools. By eliminating the need to extract, transform, and load (ETL) structured data from data lakes into the operational database, users can reduce operational complexity and simplify application development, according to AWS.
New Postgres Cloud Platform Bridges the AI Prototype to Production Gap with pgEdge Starfleet
pgEdge, a leading open source Postgres company for agentic AI and enterprise applications, is launching pgEdge Starfleet, a new Postgres cloud database platform built to bridge the gap between enterprise AI prototypes and actual AI production applications.
WisdomAI Releases Live Apps to Replace Traditional Dashboards with Governed, Interactive AI Applications
WisdomAI is introducing Live Apps, a new way for data teams to build and deliver governed AI applications across the enterprise. Built from a prompt and connected to live enterprise data, Live Apps turn business questions and workflows into interactive applications in minutes, giving data teams a faster alternative to traditional dashboards without giving up accuracy, governance, or control, according to the company.
Graphwise helps enterprises build context layers with new AI context platform updates
Graphwise, a leading provider of AI context platforms, is making major updates to its AI Context Platform, the Graphwise Platform, adding new Adobe integration, built-in evaluation tools, and broader workflow automation features. According to the company, this new release optimizes the creation of a comprehensive context layer for enterprises, which accelerates the integration of AI into multilingual content and data.
SnapLogic Expands Legacy Modernization Support
SnapLogic, the Agentic Integration Company, is adding significant enhancements to SnapLogic Intelligent Modernizer (SLIM), introducing advanced agentic capabilities to support the platform's analysis and generation engine. According to the company, this new SLIM update provides an agentic approach to workload analysis and pipeline generation, enabling organizations to evaluate and modernize complex legacy systems more efficiently.
NetApp Hybrid Multi-Cloud Capabilities Remove Borders Between On-Premises and Cloud Operations
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, is announcing new hybrid multi-cloud capabilities with autonomous controls to maximize enterprise flexibility and efficiency for any workload. According to NetApp, enterprises can now more easily adopt modern data strategies across on-premises and cloud environments leveraging new capabilities for consistent operations that account for sovereignty, governance, and controlled consumption.
New Microsoft Innovations Give Organizations a Path to Build AI Grounded in Company Data
Microsoft is unveiling a variety of enhancements across Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases that help organizations put their data estate at the heart of a successful AI strategy. Fabric IQ brings governed business context into Copilot, grounding experiences in the Power BI semantic models, metrics, relationships and business definitions organizations already trust, according to Microsoft.
DocuWare ushers in ‘A New Era of Document Management’ with DocuWare solution
DocuWare, a leading provider of document management and workflow automation solutions, is introducing a new DocuWare solution, a next-generation platform that transforms how businesses manage and use their documents. This new DocuWare platform combines three technological advancements into one connected platform: a redesigned web and mobile experience, DocuWare Aura, a built-in AI assistant for document search and analysis and expanded capabilities for DocuWare IDP, according to the company.
The Synopsys AgentEngineer Portfolio Powers Autonomous Engineering
Synopsys, Inc. is introducing Synopsys AgentEngineer solutions, a broad portfolio of domain-specific long-horizon agents that can reason, plan, and execute complete engineering workflows across verification, system validation, implementation, analog, manufacturing, and simulation and analysis domains.
LeapXpert and Carahsoft partner to deliver governed messaging solutions to the public sector
LeapXpert, a leader in Governed Communication Intelligence, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., “The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider,” are collaborating to bring governed messaging to the Public Sector. “Government agencies need secure, governed communications across the messaging channels their employees already rely on,” said Brian O’Donnell, vice president of Cybersecurity Solutions at Carahsoft.
Progress Software Unveils ShareFile Enterprise to Provide Governance Controls for Enterprise Document Collaboration
Progress Software, an AI infrastructure software leader, is offering Progress ShareFile Enterprise, a new solution that helps larger and regulated organizations scale sensitive document collaboration from a single platform with enhanced capabilities that support governance and security.
Kestra 2.0 Delivers One Governed Orchestration Layer Across Every Environment
Kestra is adding new enterprise capabilities enabled by Kestra 2.0, addressing the security, governance, and control requirements of enterprise orchestration. Released to the developer community earlier this month, Kestra 2.0 gives enterprises one governed orchestration layer across data, infrastructure, applications, and business processes, and removes the architectural constraint that has kept many regulated and security-conscious organizations from adopting one, according to the company.
Kantata releases Agent Studio, AI agents that bring professional services expertise
Kantata, a leading provider of Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions, is introducing Agent Studio, a fundamentally different approach to building custom AI agents that enables professional services firms to turn their expertise into agents.
NVIDIA Rolls Out Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents During Testing and Deployment
NVIDIA is rolling out the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment. According to NVIDIA, recent security incidents have underscored the need to equip organizations with open, customizable tools that enforce more control over long-running agents. “AI’s extraordinary potential for society will only be realized if we solve AI safety,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
Aiven Runtime and DataHub Are Now Generally Available, Enabling AI Agents to Securely Work With Live Production Data
Aiven, a provider of managed open source data infrastructure for application and AI development, is announcing the general availability of Aiven Runtime and Aiven DataHub—enabling companies, from startups to enterprises, to run applications and AI agents against production data while maintaining the complete governance, security setup, and interoperability of the data being consumed. The new services are available within the Aiven Data and AI Cloud.
IP Fabric Advances Its Network Digital Twin with Application Awareness and a Cloud-Native Model
IP Fabric, a leading network digital twin platform, is introducing a major platform expansion that adds application-aware infrastructure mapping and a redesigned cloud-native data model, both of which can be accessed via IP Fabric’s hosted MCP server.
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