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IT Operations

NetSuite Separates AI Access From AI Choice; That Is Worth Attention in Any ERP Evaluation

Every ERP vendor is now promising AI. The real question for a CIO is not whether the ERP has AI features, because they all do, but whether those features lock you into that vendor’s AI platform or let you use tools your organization already has. At SuiteConnect London in March 2026, NetSuite gave a clear answer to that question. This brief explains what they announced, what it means practically, and what to press on before you sign.

ERP and Supporting Systems

Conga Acquires PROS as Part of Rebrand and Expanded Commerce Coverage

Big change is at hand for CPQ vendors Conga and PROS, as the former acquired the latter in early 2026. Catering to different markets, the two products will remain distinct within the Conga Advantage platform. Conga intends to provide robust functionality across the commerce chain by rounding out existing CLM, CPQ, and document generation capabilities with strong pricing technology and new AI capabilities.

IT Operations

ServiceNow Makes Its Bid to Own Enterprise AI Execution

In a world where understanding of the power of AI is still confusing, ServiceNow has excellent messaging on what AI can actually achieve in an enterprise. Through TV ads and ads in the Wall Street Journal, the messaging has been clear: AI can assist and improve efficiency. With their recent announcement (February 2026) of two major launches – Autonomous Workforce and Employee Works – ServiceNow underscores the shift of AI from “answer engines” to “actually finishing the job.” With this announcement their message is clear: the era of AI experiments is over; AI operations at scale have begun. And ServiceNow wants to be the control tower that runs all of it.

Application Development & Management

Can OfficeSpace Break Real Estate’s Resistance to Modernization?

OfficeSpace Software is repositioning itself as an AI operating system for the built world, backed not by generic LLM wrappers but by domain‑specific models through their acquisition of Dojo. These models automate high‑value workflows such as restacks, occupancy forecasting, adjacency optimization, and asset planning – the tasks that currently live in spreadsheets and company knowledge. The claim is ambitious, but the underlying technical foundation is materially stronger than what most workplace vendors are offering. The real story is whether this can break through a category long resistant to modernization.

Real Estate & Property Management

Datamotive’s Strategy to Address Cloud Lock-In and Disaster Recovery Costs

Datamotive is a workload mobility and disaster recovery platform designed to help enterprises move virtual machines, applications, and their associated data across clouds and on‑prem environments without extensive refactoring. The platform currently supports environments such as AWS, Azure, Nutanix, and VMware. The company stated that its approach allows migration between heterogeneous cloud and hypervisor platforms by replicating full virtual instances at the block level, aiming to reduce the need for format conversions.

IT Operations