
VENDORiQ: Workday’s Sana Acquisition – A Unified AI Strategy or Incremental Advancement?
Workday acquires Sana to centralise knowledge, shifting from passive record-keeping to a proactive, AI-driven employee experience hub.

Workday acquires Sana to centralise knowledge, shifting from passive record-keeping to a proactive, AI-driven employee experience hub.

Microsoft Ignite ushers in autonomous agents, creating an immediate need for financial oversight and zero-trust security to manage unpredictable operational costs.

Artificial intelligence is moving from isolated experiments to the foundation of enterprise operations, demanding that CIOs redefine digital transformation by placing a strategic focus on data utilisation, ethical governance, and deep workforce literacy

The AI industry is experiencing an unprecedented surge, with neo-cloud firms like Iren playing a pivotal role in reshaping the AI infrastructure market.

Unsustainable AI vendor economics demand a strategic focus on governance, true costs, and open-source models for lasting innovation and competitive advantage.

Microsoft’s new sandboxed Copilot extends its reach from data synthesis to autonomous execution, creating governance and compliance challenges, especially around paywalled data and security.

Canva is challenging Adobe’s market leadership by offering free professional tools (Affinity) and launching an AI-driven Creative Operating System for enterprise content scale.

Think of ‘AI’ as pattern services, machine learning, graph, and generative AI, that orchestrate to deliver complex outcomes, with Agentic AI as advanced process automation.

Core AI will soon be embedded in core business platforms, making complex custom projects redundant and shifting ICT strategy focus to vendor roadmaps.