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Orbits Blog

January 12, 2026

Fiduciary Duty in the Gray Zone: What Boards Must Know About Converging Geopolitical and Technology Risks

Board Strategy

While Davos leaders debate cooperation, corporate Boards face immediate, high-stakes threats: hardware vulnerabilities exploited by 15-year-long systematic campaigns, fragmented AI...

Dr. David Bray

Insight News

January 11, 2026

Google launches agentic commerce tools, Universal Commerce Protocol, Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience

Data to Decisions

Google is making its play to lead agentic AI commerce across its units as it combines AI Mode commerce features and agents with a new end-to-end commerce protocol and Google Cloud'...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

January 11, 2026

Why enterprise AI leaders need to bank on open-source LLMs

Data to Decisions

Nvidia, which is quickly becoming the champion of AI open-source models in the US, argues that open AI models are roughly six months behind more expensive proprietary frontier mode...

Larry Dignan

DisrupTV

January 09, 2026

Leadership in the Age of AI-Driven Cyber Threats | DisrupTV Ep. 423

Tech Optimization

How leaders can prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks, quantum disruption, and converging risk. ...

R "Ray" Wang

Elle DeRosa

Insight News

January 09, 2026

NRF 2026: Agentic AI commerce, frontline workers, customer experiences

Data to Decisions

Retailers are busy trying to figure out agentic AI driven commerce and keep frontline workers engaged so they can drive customer experience. Those are the key themes from the Natio...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

January 09, 2026

OpenAI doubles down on health, targets providers and patients

Data to Decisions

OpenAI is planning on being a healthcare industry AI player with the launch of OpenAI for Healthcare, a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians, just days after debuting ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

January 08, 2026

Snowflake acquires Observe, expands into telemetry data observability

Data to Decisions

Snowflake said it will acquire Observe to integrate observability tools into its platform. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

January 06, 2026

Epicor set final on-prem release dates for Kinetic, Prophet 21 and BisTrack

Data to Decisions

Epicor outlined its schedule of final releases for on-premise versions of Epicor Kinetic, Epicor Prophet 21 and Epicor BisTrack. Future versions of three enterprise resource planni...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

January 06, 2026

AMD previews Instinct MI500 GPUs, physical AI, Helios integrated racks

Data to Decisions

AMD teased its Instinct MI500 GPUs, which will launch in 2027, gave an early look of its Helios rack scale platform and touted the need for yotta-scale infrastructure. ...

Larry Dignan

Analyst Blog

January 05, 2026

Monday's Musings: Davos 2026 - In A Spirt of Dialogue, Conversation Starters For Debate (Part 1)

Data to Decisions

Another year, another Davos. With 3000 official and 5000 unofficial attendees at UnDavos and a host of amazing side events, the beginning of the year marks a rite of passage for th...

R "Ray" Wang

Insight News

January 02, 2026

DeepSeek's paper latest evidence AI muscle head era coming to end

Data to Decisions

DeepSeek published a technical paper co-authored by co-founder Liang Wenfeng that argues for a new architecture to train foundational models. DeepSeek's paper is just another devel...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

December 30, 2025

Meta hopes to accelerate its AI agent plans with Manus acquisition

Data to Decisions

Meta acquired Manus in a deal that aims to give the company a rare win in artificial intelligence after a year of revamping. Manus is critical to fleshing out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerb...

Larry Dignan

Analyst Blog

December 29, 2025

News Analysis: Why 2025 Became The Age of AI

Data to Decisions

lt;pgt;From AI breakthroughs to infrastructure investments, 2025 reshaped the tech landscape. CGTN's Sally Ayhan spoke to Ray Wang, Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, abo...

R "Ray" Wang

Insight News

December 29, 2025

2025 year in review: Quantum computing development accelerates

Data to Decisions

Quantum computing hogged the headlines in 2025 and it was ok to say it was the year of quantum--or maybe qubits--after just a few months. The quantum computing developments were fl...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

December 24, 2025

Nvidia's Groq deal: Acquisition, acquihire or creative licensing deal?

Data to Decisions

Groq announced it has entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology. Groq CEO Jonathan Ross and team will join Nvidia, but Groq will opera...

Larry Dignan

Analyst Blog

December 24, 2025

News Analysis: ServiceNow Buys Armis, Top 5 Trends For 2026

Data to Decisions

lt;pgt;Five Market Trends for 2026 and the ServiceNow Armis Deallt;/pgt; lt;pgt;Today on Fox Business Network with Ashley Webster on Varney and Co, 5 Market Trends for 2026 were...

R "Ray" Wang

Insight News

December 23, 2025

ServiceNow makes its cybersecurity move, acquires Armis for $7.75 billion

Data to Decisions

ServiceNow acquired Armis, a cybersecurity exposure management company, for $7.75 billion in cash in a move that will triple the company's addressable market in security. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

December 22, 2025

Alphabet buys Intersect for $4.75 billion to boost its data center energy options

Data to Decisions

Alphabet said it will acquire Intersect, a startup focused on energy for data centers, for $4.75 billion and the assumption of debt. Google, a unit of Alphabet, owns a minority sta...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

December 22, 2025

Paychex: How it's playing AI on multiple fronts

Data to Decisions

Paychex is betting that its proprietary data sets in human capital management and adjacent markets will make it a winner in AI via productivity and new products. ...

Larry Dignan

DisrupTV

December 19, 2025

DisrupTV’s Top 25 Books of 2025: Leadership, AI, and the Ideas Shaping What Comes Next | DisrupTV Ep. 422

New C-Suite

What the Top 25 leadership and business books of 2025 reveal about AI, courage, mission, and the future of work. ...

R "Ray" Wang

Elle DeRosa

Analyst Blog

December 18, 2025

HOT TAKE: Salesforce Solidifies Agentic Sales Engagement with Qualified Pickup

Next-Generation Customer Experience

lt;pgt;Salesforce has made some big MA investments to make its agentic vision a reality. But sometimes, the smaller deals that actually play into core go-to-market motions can have...

Martin Schneider

Insight News

December 18, 2025

Zoho launches Zoho Spend, Zoho Billing Enterprise Edition

Data to Decisions

The applications are designed for larger companies and enable smaller ones to scale without leaving the Zoho platform. In addition, Zoho added a series of AI tools in applications ...

Larry Dignan

ConstellationTV

December 17, 2025

2025 Enterprise Awards | CRTV's Best & Worst in Enterprise Technology

Future of Work

The results are in! We are excited to announce the 2025 Enterprise Awards, recognizing the standout leaders, innovations, breakthroughs, and yes, a few unforgettable flops that sha...

Chirag Mehta

Esteban Kolsky

Holger Mueller

Larry Dignan

Martin Schneider

Michael Ni

R "Ray" Wang

Insight News

December 17, 2025

IFS acquires Softeon to expand into warehouse management

Data to Decisions

IFS said it will acquire Softeon, a cloud native software provider for warehouses. IFS, which provides an industrial AI platform, will use Softeon to expand into warehouse manageme...

Larry Dignan

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