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October 12, 2026

Trust, Identity & Control: Every Action Earns Authority

Board Strategy
Enterprise access was designed around a relatively static bargain. Establish an identity, decide what that identity may access, grant the permissions, and assume they remain appropriate until something triggers a review. Authentication has improved, and permissions have become more granular, but the underlying model st...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
October 8, 2026

Microsoft Brings More Agentic Intelligence into the Flow of Work for CRM Users

Instead of forcing professionals to log into a separate platform to do business, Microsoft is embedding CRM directly into everyday work tools, turning AI assistance into autonomous execution, modularizing domain knowledge into reusable skills, and opening up clear migration pathways to an agentic future....
Martin Schneider
Orbits Blog
November 25, 2014

Analytics To Guide Our Careers

Data to Decisions
It’s time to turn the focus and mechanisms of big data analytics onto the t...
Terri Griffith
Analyst Blog
November 21, 2014

Improving the position of the CISO

Data to Decisions
The Future of the Security Industry and Career Advice for Chief Infor...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
November 21, 2014

The New Collaboration UI?

Future of Work
Remember when every software product was designed to look like Facebook?...
Alan Lepofsky
Orbits Blog
November 20, 2014

Why Are Brands Anonymous?

Marketing Transformation
They may not think they are, but most brands are anonymous. ...
Analyst Blog
November 18, 2014

Introducing IBM Verse

Future of Work
About a year ago IBM first announced they would be developing their next gene...
Alan Lepofsky