Bonnie Tinder previews Oracle AI World and SAP Connect 2024, highlighting major trends including AI agents, industry-specific bundles, and a unified agent marketplace.
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Continuing a push to provide access to the best AI for a given function, Microsoft offers Claude models in Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Researcher Agent.
Addressing the rapidly expanding need for agents in software development, OpenAI updates its coding agent with unified versions, platform-specific updates, and more robust code reviews.
New agent performs classification of data, gives prompts to site owners to improve quality, and maintains hygiene for content and its associated metadata.
A deep look at AI agent usage by Google Cloud reveals telecom and manufacturing firms setting the pace, while security and customer service use cases are benefiting a range of industries.
At Workday Rising, the company announced new ERP innovations and partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks.
At Workday Rising, Gerrit Kazmaier emphasized how “ERP for the AI era” means rethinking legacy ERP: moving from function‑oriented systems to AI‑embedded workflows, experience layers like Sana, and purpose‑built agents that align with business context.
Workday, long resistant to ERP, is now embracing it with AI-powered agents, data cloud partnerships, and expanded alliances to reshape enterprise operations.
Latest Copilot rollouts deliver functions specific to finance, sales, and service, while Copilot Studio is enhanced with authentication and simplified support for MCP.
Matt Hobbs shares PwC perspective on the need for agentic AI orchestration, how agents can help address technical debt, and continued investment in cloud infrastructure to support AI rollouts.
Copilot Studio enables users to build custom AI agents across Microsoft 365 and business systems with tools suited for both beginners and developers.
Oracle’s Q1 results set records, but Ellison is focused on the future, predicting that AI inferencing will automate every major industry process and that Oracle is uniquely positioned to lead.
From purchase orders to vendor approvals, many steps in common business processes can be managed without human intervention. Microsoft is making that easier to implement in Copilot Studio.
Anthropic disclosure of several AI-powered security threats, including a ransomware development operation, shows how even non-technical users can now build and launch attacks.
Benioff’s pivot to AI and data aims to rejuvenate Salesforce growth and disrupt traditional SaaS boundaries.
Anthropic uses actual attacks against its own software to lay out specific ways that threat actors are leveraging AI to further their goals. Report serves as a troubling call to action for vendors, partners, and customers.
Models delivering voice and strong instruction-following speak to a strategy of building in-house in addition to partnerships. A call for new talent undescores internal development focus.
With support from Australia’s government, Microsoft and FSO are driving AI workforce readiness through a new skills initiative, focusing on practical, job-ready training across industries and educational institutions.
With its “Request for Information,” function in Copilot Studio, Microsoft empowers agents to proactively seek human input before taking steps required to complete complex workflows.
AI and Microsoft business apps expert explains three distinct approaches to orchestration workflows across AI agents, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each.