From its statistical roots to the AI era, SAS celebrates 50 years of trusted AI innovation and a culture that powers confident decisions DALLAS, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SAS INNOVATE — For 50 years, SAS has proven that when companies invest in people, prioritize customers and innovate with purpose, trust follows. This philosophy has guided SAS from its origins in academic research to its role as a global leader in data and AI. In a 1985 letter to employees, SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight wrote, “Our users are at the top of any SAS organization chart. In every conversation, every letter, every contact with a SAS user, keep in mind…
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New tiered TPRM solution replaces manual assessments with evidence-based risk intelligence, reducing review time and delivering visibility across the vendor lifecycle BELLEVUE, Wash., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hyperproof today announced the launch of its AI-native Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) platform that redefines the standard for vendor oversight. Engineered to eliminate the friction of manual, questionnaire-driven reviews, the platform replaces static assessments with evidence-based risk intelligence. The launch builds on Hyperproof’s 2025 introduction of Hyperproof AI and its strategic acquisition of one of the industry’s leading AI-native vendor management products. Together, these investments expand Hyperproof’s platform from its strength in compliance automation…
Actian VectorAI DB gives developers data ownership across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At AI Dev 26 x SF today, Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, announced Actian VectorAI DB, a portable vector database purpose-built to power production AI in regulated, disconnected, and edge environments where cloud-native solutions fall short. In initial performance benchmark testing using the VDBBench methodology against 10-million vectors on identical self-hosted hardware, Actian VectorAI DB outperforms leading open-source vector databases by more than 22 times on throughput (queries per second).1 Gartner® predicts “33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI…
Platform brings insurance agentic intelligence to deliver transparent, auditable, and extensible decisioning and experiences across core P&C workflows BOSTON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Duck Creek, the intelligent core of insurance, today announced the launch of Duck Creek insurance-native Agentic AI Platform, a purpose-built platform enabling insurers to deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents across the insurance lifecycle. The Duck Creek Agentic AI Platform is designed to help insurers unlock the significant value opportunity of AI by embedding intelligent automation directly into core insurance workflows, with Boston Consulting Group projecting up to $80 billion in annual impact in the U.S. alone. Alongside the platform, Duck Creek introduced two new agentic experiences, Agentic Underwriting Workbench and Agentic First Notice of Loss…
New SuiteCloud Agent Skills enable developers to build, review, and deploy customizations faster using natural language and AI coding agents SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SuiteConnect San Francisco — Oracle NetSuite, the #1 AI cloud ERP, today announced new NetSuite knowledge packages for AI coding agents that will help customers and partners accelerate and de-risk the creation of NetSuite applications and customizations. The new NetSuite SuiteCloud Agent Skills will make it easier for developers to create customized vertical and industry-specific applications by giving AI coding assistants a better understanding of the conventions, patterns, and best practices in SuiteCloud – NetSuite’s standards-based AI extensibility and customization…
New AI-driven AMS model for SAP solutions helps enterprises prevent issues proactively, free capacity to drive innovation, and continually optimize their SAP operations MONTRÉAL, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Syntax, a leading global technology solutions provider driving enterprise transformation in the cloud, today announced the launch of its AI-First Application Managed Services (AMS)—a next-generation support model that delivers proven AI-driven efficiency from a reliable, traceable, secured, and fully integrated AI platform. The AI-First AMS combines AI innovation with Syntax’s deep SAP expertise to help enterprises run their SAP environments more efficiently and focus on innovation and growth. As SAP landscapes grow more complex across…
New MCP plugin provides governed, real-time intelligence layer securely connecting enterprise AI and GRC data. LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Optro (formerly AuditBoard), the leading AI-powered GRC platform empowering enterprises to transform risk into opportunity, today announced its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, seamlessly connecting customers’ enterprise AI directly to their GRC data. The integration establishes a universal API for AI, enabling organizations’ preferred LLMs to securely speak to their live Optro GRC environment. This eliminates the need to manually switch between platforms or build custom workarounds. The launch of MCP, combined with Optro’s comprehensive AI governance capabilities, provides enterprises…
xAI’s frontier models will supercharge Gen’s AI-native products, Norton Neo and AI Assistants, bringing safe and simple autonomous AI to everyone. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Gen (NASDAQ: GEN), the company behind Norton, Avast, LifeLock and MoneyLion, and xAI today announced a partnership to bring xAI’s frontier Grok models into Gen’s consumer platforms. xAI and Gen will collaborate to rapidly advance their technologies for the next wave of AI-powered consumer products. Through this collaboration, Gen’s AI Foundry will use xAI’s unique access to coherent compute, data, and technology to bring Grok frontier intelligence to the next generation of secure and trusted consumer…
Pioneering the first AI-driven runtime access control engine, designed with the context and speed to protect all human, machine, and agentic identities DALLAS, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Silverfort, the leading Identity Security company, today announced its acquisition of Fabrix Security, a cutting-edge AI-native Identity Security company. Together, Silverfort and Fabrix will be the first to deliver autonomous Identity Security at runtime, protecting identities and access at a speed and scale humans can no longer handle. With Fabrix’s identity-centric AI decisioning engine that can handle the speed of non-human and agentic identities, and Silverfort’s unique Runtime Access Protection (RAP) technology that can continuously enforce those decisions everywhere,…
PolicyGuard gives enterprises complete control over how AI policy is defined and enforced across agents, models, and applications, with explainable, audit-ready decisions. SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Virtue AI today announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to quickly and easily define, edit, and enforce custom AI runtime protection guardrails across models, agents, and applications. Most organizations have “AI acceptable use policies.” When they need to enforce those policies, however, the tooling is static, fragmented, and generic: built for no industry in particular and no organization specifically. Policies vary across teams and are hard to translate into adaptive, enforceable controls. At the same…