Product Launch

Global – October 23, 2026 -- Pitcher has launched Catalyst, an enterprise AI app builder that shortens custom sales application development from weeks to minutes, according to the company.

Catalyst lets non-developers build data-connected apps in natural language

Admins, marketing managers and sales operations teams can create fully functional, data-connected applications directly inside the Pitcher platform without writing code. Users describe the application they need, and Catalyst writes the code, renders the app and deploys it to sales reps within Pitcher.

Pitcher gives one example: a view of Salesforce accounts sorted by last activity date, with search and pagination. A custom store audit dashboard is another. Users can refine either through conversational prompts before publishing.

Global – October 23, 2026 -- Whatfix is offering customers software access for the remainder of their incumbent digital adoption platform (DAP) contract under its Fast Track migration program, removing dual billing for enterprises that switch vendors.

Whatfix specialists rebuild existing DAP content during migration

Fast Track specialists manage the migration and rebuild of a customer's existing flows, assets and experiences, so internal teams do not recreate them from scratch. Customer teams still handle prioritization, reviews and validation.

A parallel-run approach keeps critical guidance live in production while the new program is built on Whatfix behind the scenes. End users stay supported throughout the transition.

GLOBAL – October 22, 2026 -- PR Newswire's Amplify platform gives communications teams access to 500,000+ newsrooms, journalists, influencers and digital media outlets, and bundles planning, content creation, distribution and reporting in a single SOC 2 Type II-compliant workspace.

Four modules cover the press release life cycle

The platform splits the campaign process into Plan, Create, Distribute and Report. Plan combines a real-time newsfeed with AI-generated ideas for press releases and full campaigns. Create supports drafting and refining releases, then converts them into campaign content such as snapshot videos and blog posts.

Distribution runs through Multichannel Amplification across digital, print and social

The Distribute module uses PR Newswire's Multichannel AmplificationTM approach. It spans digital, print, social and direct-to-journalist platforms. The solutions target earned, owned, paid and shared channels.

London – October 22, 2026 -- Allen-Vanguard is launching SECURIS, a mobile counter-drone trailer built with four partner companies, at DSEi 25 in London. The system combines RF detection, radar, optical recognition and RF jamming on one rapidly deployable platform.

Four specialist partners supply detection and defeat layers

Metis, Blighter, Openworks and EdeyFX joined Allen-Vanguard on the project. Metis contributes its SKYPERION RF detection, which the source says NATO allies use in various integrated systems. Blighter provides radar target acquisition through its A400 series. Openworks supplies the Vision Flex optical recognition system, with long-range imagers, slew-to-cue capability and twin AI modules for detection, tracking and identification.

Allen-Vanguard adds its ANCILE C-UAS RF Effectors for the defeat function. EdeyFX built the bespoke trailer chassis, with layout informed by operational input.

Irvine – October 22, 2026 -- Asuri, a platform built by Sprouter Technologies, has launched a multi-agent enterprise AI system that connects specialized AI agents to more than 1,000 existing business applications, targeting companies that want persistent AI workflows rather than prompt-based copilots.

Asuri lets nontechnical teams assign agents to business processes

Users define a business process, connect the applications involved and assign specialized agents to separate responsibilities. They also set what each agent can access, recommend or execute. The platform combines multi-agent orchestration, workflow logic, persistent context and agent-level permission controls in one environment.

San Francisco – October 22, 2026 -- Crest Data has added 15 commercial plugins to the Grafana Marketplace, more than doubling its portfolio to 25 as Grafana Labs moves the Marketplace to general availability at ObservabilityCON 2026.

Plugins query source systems via APIs without exporters or ingestion costs

All 25 plugins are native, agentless data source plugins that query their source systems through APIs. Crest Data states they require no exporters, no extra collection layer and no data ingestion costs. Each plugin ships with pre-built dashboards and was built in partnership with Grafana Labs.

The new plugins cover cloud security, virtualization and data protection platforms. IT, platform and security teams can monitor these systems in Grafana alongside existing telemetry rather than switching between separate vendor consoles.

Hanover – October 22, 2026 -- HSG Laser has delivered more than 2,000 machines in Europe and is opening a showroom in Düsseldorf on November 10, as it presents five laser systems at EuroBLECH 2026 in Hanover.

The exhibition runs October 20–23 at the Hannover Exhibition Centre. HSG is at Booth 15-F42 under the theme "Powering Productivity with HSG." The line-up includes the European debut of the new flagship GV, the launch of GFA PRO and AI CutPilot, and the European debut of the high-speed G3015T and R2 PRO.

GFA PRO targets large-format thick-plate processing costs

The GFA PRO is built for large-format metal processing. HSG says it addresses large footprints, low speed, unstable thick-plate performance and high operating costs. The G3015T and R2 PRO extend HSG's high-speed range for sheet and tube processing, with the aim of improving throughput and flexibility.

Oviedo, Fla. – October 22, 2026 -- The National Center for Integrated Emergency Response (NCIER), the services division of C3 Pathways, Inc., has updated its School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management (SSAVEIM) Train-the-Trainer course into a 16-hour, two-day program for up to 30 candidates drawn from schools, law enforcement, and fire and EMS.

Course seats roughly ten candidates from each of three disciplines

The target mix is approximately ten school personnel, ten law enforcement officers, and ten fire and EMS staff. Emergency management participants are encouraged to attend. Candidates first work through coached scenarios as students, then learn to facilitate the same scenarios in their home communities. The scenarios run from the first 911 call through reunification, the process of returning every student to the right parent.

WASHINGTON – October 22, 2026 -- Corsha has launched Folio, a module for its Industrial Identity Security Platform that automatically generates and updates maps and documentation of how operational technology (OT) systems are connected and communicating, replacing manual assessments that the company says take weeks.

Folio draws on live network and access data captured by Corsha Gatekeepers. It records which machines are communicating, when, why and how, and produces derived hardware lists, real-time connection maps and Microsoft Visio data flow diagrams. The outputs are designed for IEC 62443, NERC CIP and Zero Trust frameworks.

Folio targets documentation gaps that slow OT compliance and incident response

Corsha says OT documentation is often missing or has drifted too far from the running environment to be useful. Compliance artifacts built through manual assessments are frequently incomplete or inaccurate, according to the company.

Palo Alto – October 22, 2026 -- Epiphan Video has released read and write access for Epiphan MCP, its hosted Model Context Protocol server for Epiphan Edge. AV and IT teams can now direct Pearl encoders through Claude or ChatGPT, with the user approving each action before it runs.

Epiphan MCP write access covers recording, streaming, scheduling and firmware

Teams can query device status, storage, recording state and schedules in plain language, then act on the answer in the same conversation. Write access lets them start, stop, pause and resume recording on one channel or many. They can also create stream destinations and start or stop streaming.

Scheduled events in Epiphan CMS can be created, extended, paused and resumed. A saved configuration preset can be applied to a group of devices, and devices can be rebooted or have firmware updated.