Business Performance

73% of security buyers put vendor staying power ahead of price and performance

Genetec's 7,368-respondent survey finds vendor stability outranks price and performance, unified systems pass 70%, and AI interest more than doubles.

MAI keeps buying RIAs, and the integration work is now the real product

MAI’s Halpern and Concentric deals highlight a roll-up playbook where HR, ops, and marketing scale matters as much as AUM.

IOI’s SAP-linked platform posts 60% fewer manual entries, a benchmark for multi-entity operators standardizing finance and supply chain

IOI says its SAP-based ONE IOI platform cut manual entries 60% and doubled decision speed, putting concrete metrics on what “single instance” can deliver.

AI is delivering 180 basis points of margin growth for S&P 500 companies that quantified it

Q2 earnings confirm AI is moving margins at scale, while enterprises shift to model-mixing strategies to control costs.

Wesco's data center sales jumped 45% in Q2 as AI infrastructure demand reshapes B2B distribution

Wesco's data center segment surged 45% in Q2 2026, a signal that AI-driven infrastructure buildout is now a primary revenue engine for industrial distributors.

Professional services EBITDA fell to a five-year low of 9.8% in 2024, and firms are still closing the gap

The SPI Benchmark Maturity Report reveals EBITDA at 9.8%, billable utilization at 68.9%, and revenue growth at just 4.6%, all five-year lows.