Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were the payoff in product velocity as a result of a broader cloud and data transformation.
Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
Conga said it will acquire the B2B business of PROS Holdings, which is being acquired by Thoma Bravo. Congo is also a Thoma Bravo portfolio company.
UiPath expanded its UiPath Platform, which is aimed at agentic AI automation and orchestration, and lined up a bevy of partners including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Snowflake as it solidified its integration strategy.
Sunil Karkera, Founder Soul of the Machine, is leveraging agentic AI to outpace much larger companies. "We solve boring problems and it's exciting," said Karkera.
Peter Danenberg is a senior software engineer at Google's DeepMind, leads rapid prototyping for Gemini and has to think through more than a few big ideas. Here's a look.
The IT department is where agentic AI goes to die--or at least never make it out of proof of concept. Agentic AI needs to be driven by outcomes, returns and benefits to the business instead of technology. That's a big takeaway from Boomi's Chris Hallenbeck, SVP and GM of AI & Platform
ServiceNow launched AI Experience (AIx), a multimodal interface that will serve as a user interface for the company's platform. Enterprise users will be able to access ServiceNow apps, data and workflows with AI agents.
Large language model providers are rapidly building in agentic AI tools to handle tasks autonomously over time. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, Microsoft sees Office as a way to vibe work and OpenAI is open sourcing Agentic Commerce Protocol to give ChatGPT a commerce boost.
Here's a look at a few scenes from the data and enterprise AI transformation front where thinking three- to five-years pays off big.
Steve Lucas, Mark C. Crowley & Wendy Lipton-Dibner dig into what really moves the needle when balancing automation, human wellness, and growth inside enterprises.
