Alyx MacQueen - author at diginomica

Alyx started their comms career managing communications and leading on strategic planning and policy development, using data and analytics for c-suite dashboards and change programmes after a project with JISC Data Labs. Alyx works closely with diginomica's industry content and thought-leadership partners.

Articles by Alyx MacQueen

diginomica research - enterprises are spending millions on data. Here's what they told us in private

New independent research from diginomica and Serendipitus.io finds that enterprise data health is far worse than industry benchmarks suggest - and that the market telling organizations to deploy AI faster is the last place they should look for honest answers.

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OpenSSF's CRob on why open source security is still a people problem - and why AI is making it worse before it makes it better

Four years after Log4Shell, 14% of affected artifacts are still being downloaded in vulnerable versions. OpenSSF's Chief Security Architect explains why AI agents are compounding the maintainer burden, and what enterprises should be doing about it right now.

Christopher Robinson AKA CRob at KubeCon Europe

Observability is becoming a business language problem - and KubeCon's practitioners are re-writing the dictionary

A roundtable discussion at KubeCon Europe revealed that the biggest change in observability is not technical, it's linguistic. The community is moving from describing what went wrong to predicting what the business should do next - and not everyone has caught up with the vocabulary.

CNCF Observability Roundtable © Alyx MacQueen

Kubernetes puts ingress nginx to rest at KubeCon - 'Nobody can keep it safe'

Kubernetes formally archived one of its most widely deployed components on day one of KubeCon Europe 2026. Steering committee member Kat Cosgrove explains why the project's own flexibility became its fatal flaw - and why anyone still running it should be treating migration as an emergency.

Monki Gras 2026 - the most important thing in open source isn't the code

A conference about prepping craft turned out to be about something more fundamental - the communities that make everything else possible.

Sue Smith's slide from Monkigras © Monkchips - Bluesky

Open source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated security noise - $12.5 million is being deployed to throw them a lifeline

AI is burying open source maintainers under a flood of automated security reports they don't have the time or tools to process. The Linux Foundation's $12.5 million coalition funding aims to fix that - but not in the way you might expect.

Puppy riding on a unicorn © Michael Windser - LinkedIn

UiPath Fusion 2026 - if your data isn't ready, your agents aren't either

Chris Ashley, Director of BD & Strategy at UiPath, doesn't mince words about where most organizations actually stand on data maturity. Spoiler: it's not where they think they are. And the gap between those that are ready and those that aren't is getting wider, faster than most people realise.

UiPath Fusion London 2026 © Alyx MacQueen

UiPath Fusion 2026 - how Travelodge is scaling intelligent automation. It starts with the business owner, not the bot

Martin Oswald, Head of Operational Transformation at Travelodge, explains how a deliberate, colleague-first approach to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and intelligent automation has taken the hospitality group from a handful of pilots to hundreds of thousands of automated transactions.

Martin Oswald of Travelodge speaking at UiPath Fusion © Alyx MacQueen

UiPath Fusion 2026 - NFU Mutual's agentic AI pilot delivers results, so why is AI governance still the harder problem?

At UiPath’s Fusion London event, NFU Mutual’s automation lead explains how the UK insurer built a working agentic claims process, found overpayments humans missed, and built a credible business case. But internal AI governance is evolving as fast as the technology itself.

Katie Brown, NFU Mutual and Michael Atalla, UiPath © Alyx MacQueen

The cheaper code becomes, the more orchestration is worth, argues Daniel Dines. Yes, he would say that, but it's a thesis that just gave UiPath its first profitable full year!

UiPath closes fiscal year 2026 on a high, with co-Founder and CEO Daniel Dines making a bold case that falling AI development costs are good for the automation market, not a threat to it.

Daniel Dines, CEO of UiPath speaking at UiPath on Tour event in London © UiPath

Genesys takes a deliberate path to autonomous CX with large action models

Genesys has launched what it describes as the industry's first agentic virtual agent built on large action models (LAMs) - moving enterprise AI from conversation to autonomous action across back-office systems. Here's why the architectural approach, and the governance model behind it, deserves a closer look.

Planful's Analyst Assistant tackles Finance workflow friction - but the GENCFO Trends Report 2026 shows the real bottleneck is cultural

Purpose-built AI for Finance removes manual analysis steps and delivers governed, explainable insights. Research from GENCFO reveals why tech in and of itself may not be enough: 44% of Finance teams call themselves strategic partners, but only 17% act like it.

Finance Assistant using an AI tool © Planful

UiPath acquires WorkFusion - and takes aim at financial crime compliance. The detail matters

Financial crime compliance is one of banking's most stubborn operational problems - creating high alert volumes, scarce analyst talent and rising regulatory pressure. UiPath has acquired WorkFusion, whose purpose-built AI agents are designed to automate that work.