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Technology financing: IFS Capital’s regional programme

IFS Capital has launched a regional technology financing programme across four ASEAN markets, covering software and services as well as hardware. We look at the shift behind it — and the credit question it raises.
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Sonata Software wins a sixth Microsoft Inner Circle award

Sonata Software says it has earned Microsoft’s 2026–2027 AI Business Solutions Inner Circle award for the sixth time. We look at what the award actually measures, why the Microsoft quote is boilerplate, and what buyers should read into it.
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Agentic testing: what TestMu’s Gartner Leader placement really shows

TestMu AI is a Leader in Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Agentic Software Quality Assurance Platforms. The badge sits in a just-renamed category, the citation date is off, and governance is the real gap.
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Software supply chain: GitLab’s governed factory for AI-written code

GitLab announced a governed software factory to police the software supply chain and the code AI agents write. Independent evidence shows both problems are real and worsening. The catch is that most of the launch is pre-GA, and its headline security flows need an Anthropic model most buyers cannot access.
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Agentic ERP: SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise meets the evidence

SAP shipped agents into finance, procurement and supply chain at SAP Connect, and put 110,000 of its own staff on the new Joule Work interface. The launch is real. The evidence on agentic ERP says the hard part is not building the agents — it is proving them.
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Contingent Workforce Governance Platform Launched by ProHance

ProHance, named a Star Performer in Everest Group’s People Analytics PEAK Matrix 2026, has launched a governance layer for outsourced and contingent teams — tracking cost leakage, SLA adherence, and output in one place. As contingent labor climbs toward 26% of the enterprise workforce, the Bengaluru company is betting enterprises want proof of what they…
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greytHR NAVOS: From HRMS Answers to Agentic AI Action

greytHR NAVOS has crossed 1.4 million reported interactions as the HRMS vendor pushes AI beyond answers toward permission-aware workflow execution. TechRecast examines what the adoption numbers actually show and what the company’s productivity claims still need to establish.
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BlueBinaries MicroNova Acquisition Targets SDV Testing Infrastructure

BlueBinaries’ acquisition of MicroNova’s automotive testing business brings HiL, EXAM test automation and virtualization technology into its mobility engineering portfolio. The deal highlights how automotive validation is evolving into continuous software infrastructure for software-defined vehicles.
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Vertical SaaS as Survival Math: Zoho’s Zia Chat Is Really a Play to Own Business Context

Zoho’s Zia Chat launch looks like an AI interface story. It’s actually a bootstrapped giant building vertical moats before horizontal SaaS loses its grip.
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Partner Ecosystem Economics: o9’s Partner Pulse Is Really a Growth Story

o9’s new partner program looks like channel housekeeping. It’s actually the delivery-capacity play for the biggest planning replatforming window in a decade.