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Enterprise Technology
8 articles from Business Services practitioners
The Early Scale: Saturday, July 11, 2026
Enterprise AI budgets are exhausted before year-end, CMA CGM drops $1.4B to triple its North American logistics footprint, and 80% of US factories still run without a single robot. Here's what every B2B operator needs to know this Saturday morning.
The Early Scale: Friday, July 10, 2026
Microsoft embeds 6,000 engineers into enterprise clients. 94% of B2B buyers research vendors inside AI tools before talking to sales. And half of all enterprises have already had an AI security incident — with half still carrying no governance plan. Friday's edition covers the three moves reshaping B2B right now.
B2B vendor research has moved inside AI tools. Here's what that means for your sales funnel.
94% of B2B buyers now use LLMs during purchasing, and Microsoft Copilot alone has 15M paid enterprise seats shaping vendor shortlists.
B2B data market heads toward $15 billion, but data quality gaps threaten enterprise ROI
The B2B data market is projected to hit $15 billion by 2030, yet persistent data quality issues are undermining the returns enterprises expect.
The Early Scale: Saturday, July 4, 2026
Microsoft drops $2.5B and 6,000 engineers into enterprise AI deployment. FedEx sells its logistics arm for $1.4B. And the White House ends a 19-day freeze on Anthropic's most powerful models. Here's what smart operators do next.
The Early Scale: Thursday, July 2, 2026
Automation crosses the rubicon, BT and Verizon bet $4B on the multinational enterprise, and a 19-day AI blackout exposes the infrastructure risk hiding in every enterprise tech stack.
Bain & Company expands enterprise technology practice as CIO role takes center stage in AI era
Bain & Company is scaling its enterprise technology consulting arm, with 300+ tech partners and ~2,000 due diligence assessments, as AI reshapes the CIO mandate
Bain & Company repositions the CIO as AI's chief enabler in enterprise technology push
Bain & Company is expanding its enterprise technology practice, arguing that modern architecture is now a strategic requirement for scaling AI at speed.