According to Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) 2026 B2C marketing, customer experience, and digital business predictions, the rapid adoption of generative AI is exposing fragmented vendor ecosystems and increasing consumer skepticism. In 2026, a third of companies will harm experiences with frustrating AI self-service. The pressure to cut costs will cause companies to deploy customer-facing genAI chatbots and virtual agents prematurely — and in contexts where they’re unlikely to succeed. This will ero...
Fortegra Insurance UK Limited, part of the Fortegra Group — a global specialty insurer — has been officially admitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers, formalized in the NAIC’s October Edition 249. The registration creates a differentiated platform that enables Fortegra’s agents and brokers in the United Kingdom to serve their customers who need specialized U.K.-domiciled capacity to address risks that require a U.S. surplus lin...
According to Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) B2B marketing, sales, and product predictions, as more B2B buyers adopt generative AI and conversational search tools to gather faster insights, marketing, sales, and product leaders are facing intense pressure to integrate genAI into their go-to-market applications to keep up. Yet 19% of buyers using these AI applications feel less confident in their purchasing decisions due to inaccurate or unreliable information provided by genAI. The explosion of new ...
Gurobi Optimization, LLC, the leader in decision intelligence technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Oliver Bastert to the role of Chief Technology Officer, leading the company’s Research and Development team. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251028639754/en/Dr. Oliver Bastert, CTO, Gurobi Optimization "We are thrilled to have Dr. Bastert onboard as our Chief Technology Officer,” said Duke Perrucci, ...
According to Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) 2026 technology and security predictions, AI will face a reckoning next year — the gap between inflated vendor promises and the value delivered to enterprises is widening, forcing a market correction to align expectations with reality. With fewer than one-third of decision-makers able to tie the value of AI to their organization’s financial growth, CEOs will lean more on their CFOs to approve AI investments based on their ROI in 2026. As financial rigor s...
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, managed services and Agentic AI ERP innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced the publication of its latest thought leadership white paper, The Rise of Agentic AI ERP. This landmark document presents a vision and roadmap for the next-generation technology and tools that will eventually replace today’s ERP Software which ha...
CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE--Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ProNav Technologies Ltd. (d/b/a ProNavigator), a knowledge management platform purpose-built for the P&C insurance industry. ProNavigator delivers precise, context-aware best practice information directly within insurance workflows, helping professionals work faster and more effectively. Its platform captures, connects, and surfaces institutional knowledge across claim...
Nine-in-10 (91%) senior legal professionals are concerned about the threat of online intellectual property (IP) infringement, according to new research commissioned by CSC, the leading provider of global business administration and compliance solutions. While 85% report an increase in IP infringements at their firms over the past 12 months, 90% are expecting more in the year ahead with 89% predicting continued escalation over the next three years. While the most common forms of IP infringemen...
As deepfakes and other impersonation attacks already hit one in three businesses worldwide, companies are resetting their defenses around biometrics. A new survey by Regula, a global developer of identity verification (IDV) solutions and forensic devices, shows that while biometrics currently ranks third in adoption, it is seen as the #1 must-have tool in the ideal future stack. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/202510289...
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has entered into a partnership with Promega Corporation, a global life science solutions and service leader based in Madison, Wisconsin in the US, to co-develop novel technologies that advance drug screening and discovery. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251028493228/en/Merck and Promega will co-develop novel technologies that advance drug discovery. The agreement unite...