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Enterprise hits and misses - CIOs reckon with AI use cases, and bring on the agentic substrate debate

This week - CIOs know that AI adoption isn't optional, but how should they play it out? Salesforce makes headless noise at TDX - but the headless stakes have changed. Agentic substrate is a brutal catchphrase, but the stakes are high there too; I'll explain why. Your whiffs are, well, doozies.

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Vector search is table stakes - OpenSearch Foundation bets on data sovereignty and enterprise trust instead

OpenSearch Software Foundation Executive Director Bianca Lewis and Governing Board Chair Carl Meadows on why the new Long-Term Support accreditation program matters for enterprise AI infrastructure - and why the industry's obsession with vector search benchmarks is chasing the wrong metric.

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Can AI infrastructure costs be a value driver? Hot topics and customer views from Oracle AI World 2026

Oracle recently launched 22 agentic apps. Meanwhile, the markets do their pinball thing, and software stocks rise (a bit) amidst the noise. But what does this mean for customers? At Oracle AI World New York City, I dug in. What follows is a best-of from those talks, along with my hot takes.

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Why is enterprise AI stuck? OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 says the bottleneck has moved from the model to the data

Three keynote speakers, one consistent argument. The hard part of enterprise AI in 2026 is not the model – it is getting the right data, with the right context, into the right place at the right time. OpenSearch thinks it has an answer.

Bianca Lewis at OpenSearchCon Europe

Qlik's most important AI feature is knowing when to say nothing . Boring is brilliant

Qlik has made its agentic analytics experience and MCP server generally available, and announced a new ServiceNow partnership at Qlik Connect this week. The reason it holds together has less to do with agents and more to do with a decade of unglamorous governance work.

Martin Tombs of Qlik during a video call

Executive Intelligence podcast - why does Zoho approach AI differently? With Raju Vegesna and Ram Ramamoorthy

We are in dire need of fresh approaches to enterprise AI - and details on how they work. Time to dig in with two Zoho executives, both of whom bring the issues of privacy, data sovereignty, and customer control over "intelligence" to a head.

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Enterprise hits and misses - time for an enterprise data health gut check. Plus: are context graphs a trillion dollar enterprise play?

This week - time for a diginomica research reveal: enterprise data health is the topic, and the wake-up call is now. Are context graphs a trillion dollar opportunity - and what we can take from this debate? A couple rants, a few whiffs - and it's another spunky week in the enterprise.

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