Digital Transformation

Düsseldorf – October 29, 2026 -- Germany scores 5.1 out of 10 on the Educate to Empower Index, a measure of how well schools balance new technology with traditional learning tools, according to a study commissioned by Epson. The result reflects a gap between classroom hardware and its teaching value: 59% of surveyed teachers and 67% of school IT leaders say investment in digital devices and applications moved faster than schools could find sensible pedagogical uses for them.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Broadridge has made Kalshi event contracts tradable through the front ends and APIs of its CQG unit. Access also extends to more than 1,700 buy-side clients on the NYFIX network through the CQG-NYFIX integration.

Brokers and futures commission merchants (FCMs) can offer clients direct trading access and market data for the contracts. Traders can fold event contracts into broader portfolio and hedging strategies alongside futures, options and equities on a single platform. CQG's trading, risk management and portfolio monitoring tools cover the new contracts.

Broadridge extends its multi-asset offering to prediction markets

The launch expands Broadridge's multi-asset trading offering and extends Kalshi's reach among CQG technology users. Broadridge ties the rollout to client demand in the United States and EMEA. Access is subject to applicable eligibility and jurisdictional requirements.

BENGALURU – October 29, 2026 -- Qorus and Infosys Finacle named 37 financial institutions as winners of the 13th Banking Innovation Awards, selected from 538 projects submitted by 206 institutions in 68 countries.

Winners selected across ten categories by peer vote and 81-member jury

The awards span ten categories: Business Model Innovation, Product and Service Innovation, Business Banking Innovation, Predictive, AI-led Value Creation, Operational Transformation and Customer Experience Innovation. They also cover Social, Sustainable & Responsible Banking Innovation, Modern Tech Innovation of the Year, Neobank and Fintech Innovation, and Transformative Innovator of the Year.

Selection combined voting by a community of industry peers with evaluation by a jury of 81 senior global banking executives.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Historians that stamp MQTT messages with broker arrival time can display an old pressure reading as a new process condition, distorting aggregates, alarms and event order during outage replays.

Plain MQTT defines no process-time field

MQTT specifies only the transport of an application message. It prescribes no timestamp field, industrial clock model or time semantics. The publisher's application contract decides whether a payload carries a time, in what format and with what quality.

OPC UA's SourceTimestamp and ServerTimestamp concepts do not carry over to ordinary MQTT payloads. Broker receipt time and connector receipt time are useful operational observations, but they do not prove when a machine produced a measurement.

CUPERTINO – – October 29, 2026 -- Constellation Research named seven winners of its 16th annual SuperNova Awards, with ABB Ltd, Lumen Technologies and Picarro, Inc. among the honorees for technology-led business results.

Winners span seven enterprise technology categories

The awards were revealed at Connected Enterprise, Constellation Research's flagship executive conference. The winners by category:

Las Vegas – October 29, 2026 -- Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) named Beazley, Definity and RCIS winners of its 2026 Innovation Awards at its Connections conference. The wins include Beazley's consolidation of more than 200 marketable products and Definity's first production agentic AI tool for claims intake.

Beazley consolidates 200-plus products on a Guidewire Cloud platform

Lloyd's syndicate and global specialty insurer Beazley implemented Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter with Capgemini. The European solution was delivered in approximately eight months.

The program rationalized more than 200 marketable products into a condensed, streamlined set, which cut complexity and improved speed to market. Capgemini's AI-enabled delivery model and Guidewire's Advanced Product Designer (APD) established a repeatable "Product Factory" approach for rapid development.

Basel – October 29, 2026 -- Genedata, a Danaher company, launched an electronic lab notebook (ELN) built natively into its biopharma R&D software platform, replacing standalone notebook tools with a single scientific record spanning discovery and development.

Genedata embeds the ELN in its existing platform data model

The ELN links directly to molecules, samples, process parameters, and assay and analytics results already managed in the platform. This cuts manual data transfers and inconsistencies between applications. It supports workflows for biologics and complex modalities including ADCs, bispecifics, cell and gene therapies, and peptides.

Experiment documentation stays tied to a candidate's full development history. That history runs from design and molecular biology through screening, engineering, expression, purification, and analytics to upstream and downstream process development, formulation, and analytical development.

MILWAUKEE – October 29, 2026 -- SoftwareOne Holding AG (SIX: SWON) has been named the Global Channel Sales winner in the 2026 GitHub Services and Channel Partner of the Year Awards.

SoftwareOne expands GitHub offering across four service lines

The company has built out its GitHub capabilities across advisory, implementation, managed services and specialized delivery. SoftwareOne says its global delivery network lets customers roll out GitHub solutions at scale and tie software development to business goals. Its stated customer benefits are more productive developers, stronger DevOps practices and faster digital transformation.

Services director describes a shift from internal initiative to strategic partnership

Kiril Izov, Global Services Director at SoftwareOne, said the GitHub work began as a focused initiative driven by colleagues and has become a strategic partnership.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Havas has promoted W. Joe DeMiero to CEO of Havas North America, Creative and Media, effective immediately, placing both its creative and media networks in the region under a single leader.

DeMiero reports jointly to the global heads of both networks

DeMiero reports to Donna Murphy, Global CEO of Havas Creative Network, and Peter Mears, Global CEO of Havas Media Network. His remit covers senior leadership across both networks in North America, with a mandate to strengthen collaboration and help clients access the full range of Havas' expertise.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Reindeer, an enterprise agentic AI company, has made its platform available on Microsoft Marketplace, letting Azure customers buy it against existing Azure Consumption Commitments and run its AI agents in a single-tenant Azure environment. The company also joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program.

Eligible purchases count toward Azure Consumption Commitments

Enterprise buyers can purchase Reindeer through their existing Azure account and receive one consolidated bill. Eligible purchases count toward the customer's Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.

Reindeer runs as a managed, single-tenant application in Microsoft Azure, with Azure Private Link available. Co-CEO Yoav Naveh said security and procurement teams can buy "through the account they already have" and deploy agents where their data already sits.