The opportunities and challenges facing women in tech today is a long-running debate, but Madeline Bennett has some some thoughts to chew over for the weekend about some of the stuff that still (yes, still) gets said and asked! bit.ly/42io9Y0
digibytes from Stuart Lauchlan features news items that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, how Anthropic lives rent-free inside OpenAI execs' heads, a load of old cobblers when it comes to AI names, and some human intelligence in action. bit.ly/4cvwKvs
"Is AI a threat, a support or an enabler to education? Undoubtedly, there is an element of truth in all of these." Mark Chillingworth sat down with Mark Bramwell CIO at The University of Oxford's Said Business School to hear how it is using AI for education, utilization and governance bit.ly/4chMW4A
Day 1 at #OpenSearchCon Europe 2026: three keynote speakers, one consistent argument. @alyx.diginomica.com on how the bottleneck has moved from the model to the data and why the hard part is getting the right data, with the right context, into the right place at the right time: bit.ly/4ubB627
Oracle recently launched 22 agentic apps. Meanwhile, the markets did their pinball thing, and software stocks rose (a bit) amidst the noise. But what does this mean for customers? At #AIWorld NYC, @jon.diginomica.com dug in. Get our best-of from those talks, along with his hot takes: bit.ly/4mBUmmG
Digital leaders are seeing an increasing amount of automated bots crawling their estates and driving up costs, as well as threats, warns Mark Chillingworth. What does this mean in terms of impact on the bottom line and on customer experience - and what can be done? bit.ly/4coYlhD
Use of agentic AI is eroding GDPR compliance as we know it. Katy Ring explains why Wipro's 'privacy by design' is coming into its own and why the EU/UK approach to data protection has implications in an agentic AI era: bit.ly/4cuuOTM
As Day 1 of this year's Salesforce TDX gathering in San Francisco came to a close, Ian Thomas was a little shell-shocked. Find out why - and get his take on the latest Headless 360 announcement and what it means for users: bit.ly/42ff4PG
Celonis President Carsten Thoma joined Derek du Preez on our podcast to discuss the missing ingredient for enterprise AI. They also delved into why vendor lock-in undermines agentic returns, and why the real impact of AI may require a renegotiation of the social contract: bit.ly/3O2fW7a
Certinia is launching its unified agent platform, Veda, promising to speed up the velocity of services organizations by automating a range of previously manual processes. Phil Wainewright analyzes this significant new offering: bit.ly/48y14Em
As AI takes on more business functions that organizations once depended upon humans to perform, why should the personal matter as much, if not more, in an automated era? Salesforce shares some relationship advice for an autonomous age from Vala Afshar, Henry King, and Dr David Bray: bit.ly/41whcT4
What separates the vendors building for production from the ones still selling demos? @alyx.diginomica.com explains why a new @servicenow.bsky.social partnership with Qlik enhances the picture they've been building: bit.ly/4tdXEyQ
HubSpot has announced a number of new platform updates, including a new answer engine optimization tool, and more AI-infused Breeze Assist. @bmzinck.bsky.social takes us through the latest offerings: bit.ly/4mxaW7l
Wolseley Group is replacing legacy green screen technology across its 700-branch network with Oracle Fusion, building a platform that its CTO believes will allow AI to transform core business processes. Derek du Preez analyzes its journey and the benefits that now lie ahead: bit.ly/4cfw4tK
"You need to take a greenfield approach, applying AI to look at the processes we have." Katy Ring hears why McKinsey advises focusing on greenfield AI-first processes to achieve value: bit.ly/4cJrMw8
85% of supply chain leaders say they need to respond to disruptions faster. But speed isn't the problem - context is.
Celonis' Christoph Schettler on why the gap between planning and reality is breaking supply chains - and how #processintelligence bridges it.
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Can preparing a business for growth help the environment? Yes - and Mark Chillingworth finds out how, in this exclusive diginomica network interview with Ground Control CIO Chris Howell, who is re-thinking quoting to drive growth and cut carbon: bit.ly/4tHlGCb
In enterprise news this week @jon.diginomica.com shares his pick of our vendor analysis, event coverage and stories you'll be talking about for more than just one week - Claude Mythos needs a reality check, neurodiverse workplaces aren't there yet, and a few choice whiffs: bit.ly/4cGUgGR
In the second part of this two-part series on neurodiversity in the workplace, Cath Everett explores the changes organizations can make to ensure their workplaces actually support neurodivergent workers effectively: bit.ly/4vrIU10
Part one of a series on neurodiversity examines a recent report suggesting that while tech firms - major employers of neurodiverse talent - often feel confident in their inclusion efforts, the lived reality falls short of the promise, as Cath Everett discovers: bit.ly/41vmYnS
Three customers, three stories. Phil Wainewright hears how Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, HubSpot and SAP are benefiting from the big unlock as Canva rolls out wider editing access: bit.ly/4cGApaM
@servicenow.bsky.social’s entire product portfolio is now AI-enabled. Every offering includes AI, data connectivity, workflow execution, security, and governance as standard. Not as an add-on or separate tier. Why reposition its foundation? Derek du Preez explains: bit.ly/3QrZe1w
The new Box Agent co-ordinates multiple AI capabilities and can be customized to perform complex or long-running enterprise content processes. Get Phil Wainewright's take as he reviews this latest offering: bit.ly/3Q2pAXS
What brings a 30 year tech veteran out of retirement? Stuart Lauchlan on why a CTO role at FedEx spin-off Fedex Freight - with the opportunity to slim down and modernize an application and tech stack, as well as dive into new agentic AI capabilities - tempted Michael Rodgers: bit.ly/4meZBs8
AI factories and Neoclouds are opening golden opportunities for Nutanix - and CIOs too, as they balance new methods, shortages, and sovereign data demands. Mark Chillingworth brings us the latest from this week’s .NEXT annual conference in Chicago: bit.ly/4slzC3K
While news shared with industry analysts at a recent Sage briefing had a heavy AI focus, there may be a bigger story emerging. @brianssommer.bsky.social discovered much AI innovation progress on show: bit.ly/4tAlFjq
And for a quick roundup from Atlanta, listen to Brian and Jon: bit.ly/4sjDWQX
We're in dire need of fresh approaches to enterprise AI and details on how they work, says @jon.diginomica.com So he caught up with @zoho.com 's Raju Vegesna and Ram Ramamoorthy to discuss privacy, data sovereignty, and customer control over "intelligence" in our latest podcast: bit.ly/3QtV0Xa
Why #EnterpriseAI demands a shift from models to systems. Itai Asseo discusses AI Foundry with @diginomica.com: bit.ly/4scZwGT
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Observability’s spent years being treated as infrastructure cost – necessary, unglamorous, you fund it just enough to avoid getting paged at 3am. The argument Elastic makes and the direction the industry is taking is this framing has always been wrong. @alyx.diginomica.com explains: bit.ly/4sWY1xz
Why do so many finance teams stay stuck in the basement of their "hierarchy of needs"? According to Planful’s Dan Fletcher, the key to unlocking a team's strategic potential lies in automating operational burdens - shifting the focus from reactive reporting to proactive value creation bit.ly/4t2AdIS
