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Gartner Group: Lawmaker, Judge and Executioner?

08.21.26 10:51 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)
Gartner Group: Lawmaker, Judge and Executioner?

Gartner rewrote the CRM rules this year. It was probably right to. Buyers still need to read the fine print.

Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for CRM Sales Platforms is likely the most consequential edition in years. But it isn't because of the vendor movements. It's because of the rule changes that cau...

Usage-Based Pricing for Copilot Is Good for Microsoft's Investors. Read That Sentence Again.

06.20.26 2:52 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

TheStreet ran a piece this week arguing that, of Microsoft's two Copilot announcements, the shift to usage-based pricing matters more to investors than the DeepSeek flirtation. That read is correct. It is also the tell.

Here is what Microsoft actually did. Copilot Cowork, the agent that reaches acros...

Don't Step Into The Platform Trap: What Microsoft Build 2026 Could Mean for Your Next AI Stack Decision

06.06.26 5:04 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Microsoft Build 2026 produced two announcements that, read together, describe something more interesting than the usual conference launch cadence: a plausible scenario in which enterprise AI stack decisions made in the next 12 months could become significantly harder to reverse. The operative word i...

The Orchestration Layer in Enterprise AI Just Got Named. It Has a Gemini Logo on It.

04.27.26 7:30 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

What Google Cloud Next 2026 actually told us about the titan pecking order

Google Cloud Next 2026 wrapped last week. The official version of the story is the one Google wanted you to read: 260 announcements, 1,302 customer use cases, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs, a $75...

The Agent Wars Are Over. The Substrate Wars Just Started

04.19.26 4:27 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Three titan announcements in two weeks reveal what enterprise software vendors are actually fighting over in 2026, and it is not agents.

If you have been tracking enterprise AI announcements through 2025, you have been watching a race about agent counts. How many prebuilt agents. How many industry-sp...

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