Software & Cloud

Scottsdale – November 05, 2026 -- Axon has made the largest single investment in its history, putting $1.2 billion into drone maker Skydio and raising its fully diluted ownership to 37%. The company also became Skydio's exclusive public safety distributor in the U.S. and Canada, and reported third-quarter Software & Services revenue up 43% year over year to $437 million.

Skydio deal extends Axon's reach into Drone as First Responder

Skydio expects about $1 billion of bookings this fiscal year. Axon says deployed Skydio docks through Axon Air have more than doubled year over year.

Axon acts as a direct channel partner, and revenue is recognized on a net basis in Software & Services. Axon plans to combine Skydio with Axon 911, Axon Fusus, digital evidence and Dedrone airspace security into one integrated platform. Skydio remains free to pursue aerial robotics across other industries.

CHICAGO – November 05, 2026 -- The share of enterprise software buyers allocating more than 10% of their IT budget to AI rose from 23% in 2025 to 74% in 2026, according to a new West Monroe survey that also finds sellers misreading buyer behavior on build-vs-buy decisions, AI priorities and pricing.

The consulting firm's report, The New Rules of Enterprise Software & AI Spend, adds a seller perspective to last year's buyer-only baseline. It was conducted online in Q3 2026 among 300 U.S. executives. Buyer respondents represented organizations with at least $100 million in annual revenue. Seller respondents represented technology and software companies with at least $30 million in annual revenue.

Campbell, Calif. – November 05, 2026 -- Unbound Merino, the Toronto-founded direct-to-consumer Merino wool apparel brand, has selected Centric Software's Centric PLM to replace disconnected spreadsheets, emails and shared files as it manages about 40 new styles and 200 repeat styles a year.

Unbound Merino's decade of growth outpaced its manual workflows

Founded in Toronto in 2016 by three friends, the brand sells worldwide. The United States and Canada are its largest markets, and its customer base is growing in the UK, Europe, Australia and Asia. It runs quarterly collections and monthly special launches.

As volume and complexity rose, disconnected systems and manual workflows created duplicated work, version-control problems and limited visibility across product development and supplier activity.

Chicago – November 05, 2026 -- bswift has made its Emma Intelligence benefits engine available to all existing clients as a plug-in for the workplace AI assistants employers already run, so employees can get answers based on their own enrollment, claims and eligibility data within a single conversation.

Emma connects to employer assistants through Model Context Protocol

The integration uses Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI assistants access information and capabilities from other services. bswift calls the design "headless": Emma's benefits intelligence works independently of its own chat interface, while the employer's assistant keeps its familiar experience and names Emma as the source. An employee can ask which medical plan they are enrolled in and receive an answer drawn from actual enrollment records.

Arlington, Va. – November 05, 2026 -- RocketLane scored 8.8 in Infotech's 2026 Professional Services Automation Data Quadrant Report, the highest of five vendors named Champions on the basis of verified end-user reviews.

Five vendors earn Champion status with Composite Scores between 8.0 and 8.8

Infotech drew on user feedback collected through its SoftwareReviews platform. The Champions and the capability each ranked highly for:

Bielefeld – November 05, 2026 -- NTT DATA's AI agents automate more than 90 percent of supplier order confirmations at Lemvigh-Müller, a result that helped the company win two SAP awards at the SAP TechEd partner summit in Berlin at the end of October.

SAP named NTT DATA an SAP Business AI Platform Validated Partner. The company also took part in SAP's "partner agent race to SAP TechEd", which recognizes autonomous agents built on the SAP Business AI Platform that customers already use in production.

Customer deployments report 98 percent matching accuracy and 50 percent time savings

At Lemvigh-Müller, the Purchase Order Confirmation Matching Agent processes over 90 percent of supplier confirmations fully automatically, with a hit accuracy of around 98 percent.

At zeb, the Project Staffing Agent cut the time needed for individual time entries by 50 percent.

Geneva – November 05, 2026 -- Infomaniak has launched an S3-compatible object storage service in its Swiss sovereign public cloud. It contractually guarantees 99.99% availability when customers enable automatic replication to a second Swiss data center. Without the replica, the guaranteed availability is 99.9%.

Infomaniak bills storage hourly and includes 10 TB of monthly outbound traffic

Customers pay only for the storage they use, by the hour and without contract commitments. Queries are not charged, and 10 TB of outbound data traffic per month is included. Data copied to the second data center is billed as storage. For testing, Infomaniak offers a CHF 300 or EUR 300 public cloud credit valid for three months.

Southlake – November 05, 2026 -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) has published its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, together with an earnings presentation, on its Investor Relations webpage. The earnings release is also filed on the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sabre management hosts a one-hour webcast at 9:00 a.m. ET

Management will discuss the third-quarter results and comment on the forward outlook during a live webcast of the earnings conference call. The session is expected to last approximately one hour. Access is through the Investor Relations section of Sabre's website.

Replay stays online for at least 90 days

Sabre will keep a replay of the call on its website for at least 90 days after the event.

San Francisco – November 05, 2026 -- Tessell, a multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider, has launched three specialized agents built on Google's Gemini that let enterprise teams run Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads through natural-language commands. Google showed the agents live at Oracle AI World on Oct. 28.

Database administrators, site reliability engineers, platform owners and migration teams can use the chat interface as a conversational control plane. On Google Cloud, all underlying infrastructure operations route automatically to Google hardware, including memory-optimized M4/M4N Compute Engine series and Hyperdisk Extreme/Balanced storage.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Knak, the AI production layer for enterprise marketing, has launched Mobile Message Builder, bringing SMS and Rich Communication Services (RCS) production into the same environment enterprises already use for email and landing pages.

Enterprise campaigns keep missing deadlines over production bottlenecks

Knak's study of 333 enterprise marketers found that 85% missed at least one planned campaign launch last year due to production constraints, citing approvals, creative production and cross-team coordination as the leading causes. The company argues that while AI has made drafting content nearly free, the operational work of finishing, approving and shipping an on-brand asset has not kept pace.