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North American CFOs are split on the economy yet willing to take risk as company optimism holds up, according to Deloitte's second quarter CFO Signals report.
The Deloitte CFO survey lands as the second quarter earnings season looms. A few key takeaways:
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HPE is coming off a strong quarter and its Discover conference where it launched new AI infrastructure, laid out plans to leverage networking as a differentiator and outlined how it will integrate quantum computing.
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Accenture said it is expanding its efforts to target mid-market companies with sales between $300 million and $3 billion via the launch of Accenture Edge.
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OpenAI rolled out an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launched an initiative to patch vulnerabilities and rolled out a partner program as it expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative.
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Every day, companies exchange an enormous flow of information with their partners. Purchase orders, sales orders, shipping notices, invoices, and countless other documents move between organizations in a constant stream. It is, as OpenText's John Radko puts it, the lifeblood of commerce. And most of the time, it happens invisibly.
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There is a conversation that ebbs and flows heralding the demise of categories of technology. One of the favorite tools to meet its grizzly end is CRM. During the rapid rise of digital and web in the 2000s, CRM met an early demise as SaaS solutions drafted a narrative that on-premises salesforce automation (SFA) and CRM tools of the 1990s were dead. Today, it is fair to estimate that on-premises CRM has dramatically shrunk to represent less than 20% of the CRM market.
CRM did not die. It moved.
Enterprise architecture has spent the last twenty years separating systems of record, systems of insight, and systems of execution. Applications executed business processes. Data platforms store and govern information. Analytics platforms delivered insights. Humans interpreted those insights and took action.
AI is forcing those worlds back together.
That was my biggest takeaway from Snowflake Summit 2026.
Analyst Blog
Tom Pagram, Head of AI at Virgin Australia, has a simple message for enterprises: Don't let your vendor pick your AI strategy.
"One of the fastest ways to slow down your AI transformation is to let every vendor solve it for you," said Pagram. "We could get really useful task‑level AI, but we weren’t going to get the step change that comes from connecting work across different systems, teams and customer journeys."
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Welcome to a new edition of The Board: Distillation Aftershots (*).
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Winning with AI by Becoming Data Inspired | DisrupTV Ep 443
Winning with AI isn't a technology problem. It's a leadership, culture, and strategy problem rooted in how organizations actually use data to drive change.
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Executive Brief
CxOs face pressure like they have never seen before to adopt a new technology. It is not only boards demanding AI adoption, but also customers, partners, and employees. Unlike with other technology innovation trends in the 21st century (analytics, big data, cloud, etc.), it is clear that adoption speed will be critical for the immediate well-being of their enterprise.
AWS folks are bullish about Amazon Quick and its prospects in the enterprise and possibly with consumers as well. In a land of LLM overload, AWS is pitching Amazon Quick as a front door to work that can connect multiple systems, give you a personal knowledge graph and make life easier.
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CR Pulse
Cybersecurity services are entering a new phase as enterprises face faster attacks, expanding digital environments, persistent talent shortages, and rising pressure to improve resilience. Security leaders are moving beyond traditional managed detection and response toward operating models that connect telemetry, context, reasoning, action, and verification across the security program.
Accenture is beefing up its cybersecurity business with a focus on operational technology. The company said it will acquire a majority stake in Dragos and all of runZero and NetRise in deals valued at $4.175 billion.
The consulting firm already has a $10 billion cybersecurity business and is doubling down on operational technology (OT) and securing power grids, pipelines, factories and similar infrastructure.
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Enterprise AI strategy keeps circling back to the same hard questions: where should workloads actually run, how should vendors get paid for outcomes, and how can buyers tell real AI capability from a marketing label. Episode 132 of ConstellationTV takes on all three.
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The big picture from AWS Summit and analyst meetings revolved around a systems approach to AI agents, removing bottlenecks and establishing the company's position as a software vendor with Amazon Quick as the headliner.
Overall, AWS is positioning a portfolio of agentic offerings that work together. Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller noted:
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Amazon Web Services added new tools to Amazon Quick and launched a mobile app at AWS Summit. The bet: If you try Quick you’ll find it useful.
To say AWS management is bullish about Amazon Quick would be a huge understatement. AWS is convinced that Amazon Quick will reinvent how it works as well as its customers. One executive described Quick as his soul mate. He may have been joking, but probably not.
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AWS launched AWS Transform continuous modernization in private preview. The capability, part of the Transform suite code modernization tools, will be worth watching as enterprises wrestle with technology debt.
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There is an optimist’s path and a pessimist’s path to absorbing the news that Salesforce has entered into an agreement to acquire Fin, the customer-facing AI agent that until May 2026 had been known as Intercom. But first, here is what we know about the deal.
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QuEra CEO Andy Ory said enterprises need to get ready for quantum computing and it will launch its Libra quantum computer via AWS Braket in 2028. Ory added that scalable quantum computing has moved from a science challenge to an engineering one.
Speaking at AWS' Analyst Summit in New York, Ory said "we really believe that we are going to be measured as an industry based on utility."
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HPE launched an updated AI factory stack on the latest Nvidia technologies including the Vera CPU, added features to HPE Private Cloud AI and integrated the Juniper networking portfolio as part of its self-driving network strategy.
The barrage landed as HPE Discover kicked off in Las Vegas. HPE delivered strong earnings results and is benefiting from a surge in AI infrastructure demand.
CEO Antonio Neri said HPE is looking to enable enterprises to create new architecture that can scale AI agents by delivering a full stack of infrastructure largely with Nvidia.
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Databricks is aiming to be the bridge between AI agents and enterprise data as it steps up its game to meld transactional and analytical data while providing context, control and choice.
At Databricks Summit, the company moved to position itself as the most open platform to avoid all the flavors of lock-in, including models, clouds and data platforms. Databricks Summit follows Snowflake's annual conference and the two platforms are dueling to be the AI and data layer of choice.
Here's a look at what Databricks' broad themes.
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Esteban Kolsky's June 2026 Enterprise Technology Intelligence Monthly Update argues that AI has entered a post-promise phase, where the conversation has shifted from model excitement to the harder work of infrastructure, governance, data readiness, and operating model redesign. Spending continues to climb, with Gartner projecting $2.52 trillion in worldwide AI spending for 2026, yet more than half of CEOs report no measurable revenue or cost benefits from AI in the past year.
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This month’s thread: AI has entered the postpromise stage. The conversation is shifting away from model fascination and toward infrastructure, data movement, governance, cybersecurity, workforce redesign, and operating-model control.
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