Digital Transformation

Louisville – October 27, 2026 -- Eagleview is asking customers to redeem existing Futureview passes for Futureview East 2026, which runs September 22–25 at the Louisville Marriott Downtown.

Many customers already hold tickets through existing agreements, according to the company. Organizations can confirm their pass balance and obtain discount codes through their Eagleview District Manager.

Former NASA Webb telescope director Gregory Robinson to keynote

Gregory Robinson, former director of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Program, will give the keynote. Eagleview ties his address on leading complex, technology-enabled missions to its customers' use of high-resolution aerial imagery in property assessment, GIS, public safety and public works.

Agenda targets government workflow modernization

The program covers training, product education, customer stories and peer networking. Eagleview lists seven focus areas for attendees:

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Eagleview, which has supplied aerial imagery and property intelligence to insurers for more than two decades, argues that carriers should measure operational efficiency by how much they know before sending anyone into the field, not by expense reduction alone. Patrick Gill, the company's Senior Vice President and General Manager for Insurance & Commercial Solutions, outlines the case in a new commentary.

AI queries compress weeks of data science work into minutes

Gill says AI lets carriers merge large volumes of disparate data and query it in natural language within minutes. Claims leaders can ask which older roofs sit inside a hail path, which insured properties were already deteriorating before a storm, and where experienced adjusters should deploy first. He says these decisions directly affect claim severity, customer satisfaction and operating expense.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Co-op advertising spending in the auto industry is rising as growing vehicle inventories push manufacturers to underwrite dealer marketing and move units off the lot.

Manufacturers fund more local dealer campaigns amid market share competition

Under co-op programs, manufacturers cover part of the cost of dealership campaigns across digital, print, TV, radio and events. Competition for local market share adds to the spending increase, according to the source.

Digital channels take a larger share of co-op budgets

Manufacturers are directing more co-op funds to social media, search engine marketing and email campaigns. Digital advertising is often cheaper and delivers measurable results, which is why manufacturers prefer to fund it. Dealers can track performance and adjust campaigns in real time, and some are testing video ads, interactive content and virtual showrooms.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- COOPABLE is offering a platform that handles co-op fund management for automotive dealers and manufacturers, who split advertising costs for new vehicles, special offers and financing options.

Manufacturers set the rules and dealers choose the campaigns

Under the standard co-op model, the manufacturer writes the rules and guidelines and supplies documentation to dealers. The dealer selects which campaigns to join and how much to contribute. Manufacturer and dealer then split the cost, and the dealer runs the campaign and tracks results.

Manufacturers use the structure to build dealer relationships, support dealer marketing and lift new-vehicle sales. Dealers use it to raise brand awareness, generate leads, drive sales and improve customer loyalty.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Car dealerships can direct manufacturer-provided co-op marketing funds across seven spending categories, from digital advertising to website upgrades, according to marketing provider COOPABLE, which says many dealers still fail to use the money fully.

Digital channels and SEO take the first two slots

COOPABLE says dealers can use co-op funds for Google Ads, social media promotions and display advertising. These platforms allow targeting by demographics, interests and online behavior.

The funds can also pay SEO experts or agencies for keyword research, content optimization and backlink building. COOPABLE describes SEO as a long-term play that can raise organic traffic and conversion rates over time.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Unstructured text makes up an estimated 70% to 90% of organizational data, according to Gartner analysts speaking at the Data & Analytics Summit in London this year, and Alteryx is pitching workflow-embedded text mining as the way to put it to use.

Three paths compete for the same text-analysis budget

Enterprises can write custom code, license a dedicated text-analytics tool, or run text mining inside the workflow platform that already handles blending, joins, and reporting. Alteryx argues the deciding factor is which approach keeps running unsupervised after its creator moves on.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- No single tool replaces an Excel macro end to end: six options (Power Query, Office Scripts, Power Automate, Python, RPA and Alteryx One) each cover a different slice of the work, according to a new comparison of automation approaches.

Power Query and Office Scripts cover data preparation and workbook tasks

Power Query suits macros that mainly import files and cleanse data, and it can reshape and aggregate data before loading it. It handles button clicks, workbook events and precise output formatting poorly.

Office Scripts is the closest native Microsoft 365 option. It runs recorded or edited TypeScript in Excel for the web or the desktop app on Windows or Mac. It has no Excel-level events, and Microsoft documents that VBA offers broader desktop coverage.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- A Monday inventory consolidation that took 90 minutes of manual cleanup and cross-checking now runs unattended overnight, after its logic was moved out of one analyst's head and into documented workflow steps.

The case illustrates a point Alteryx makes in guidance for spreadsheet users: slow, error-prone reporting is rarely caused by wrong logic. It is caused by logic that exists only in formulas, tab names and one person's habits. The recommended fix is to capture the steps first and choose the tool afterward.

Key-person dependency, not formula errors, is the main failure point

Typical breakages include a renamed column that disrupts a position-based formula, a data set that outgrows a row limit, and two people editing one file so that one set of changes is lost. When the analyst who built the process changes teams or leaves, the successor must reverse-engineer each tab, often at report deadline.

London – October 26, 2026 -- The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out passkeys across GOV.UK One Login, giving more than 23 million users a faster and more secure way to sign in to government services.

GDS extends passkeys to its 23-million-user sign-in platform

The rollout covers GOV.UK One Login, the single sign-in system for UK government services. GDS describes the change as a simpler and more secure access route for the platform's user base of more than 23 million people.

GOV.UK Pay reaches its 10-year mark as a core public sector platform

GDS launched GOV.UK Pay 10 years ago. The platform is used by public sector service teams and is described by GDS as one of its flagship platforms.

Global – October 26, 2026 -- Cloudflare is pitching Cloudflare WAN, a network-as-a-service offering within its Cloudflare One SASE platform, as a way to augment or replace legacy MPLS and SD-WAN deployments with a "light-branch, heavy-cloud" architecture.

Cloudflare WAN shifts network functions from branch hardware to the cloud

Enterprises connect sites through the Cloudflare One Appliance, offered as a physical or virtual unit, which steers traffic onto the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare WAN then enforces Cloudflare One security policies and delivers traffic to other sites, Internet applications and cloud workloads. The company says traffic can be on-ramped in minutes using zero-touch configuration, with connectivity and security managed from a single interface.