Business Intelligence

B2B SaaS teams are replacing descriptive dashboards with prescriptive intelligence, and the gap is widening fast

From Crayon's 9th annual CI report to SentinelOne's 86% token reduction finding, B2B operators are trading rearview analytics for forward-looking playbooks.

Meta is building a cloud business to sell AI compute, putting pressure on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Meta is forming a cloud unit to sell excess AI computing power to enterprise customers, setting up a direct challenge to the hyperscaler incumbents.

Amazon Business reaches $60 billion in annualized gross sales as agentic AI rewrites B2B discovery

Amazon Business hits $60B in annualized gross sales while agentic AI agents begin replacing human-driven B2B product discovery.

Enterprise AI is delivering business insights but not the cost savings CIOs expected

AI ROI is shifting: enterprises gain customer insights and operational intelligence, but money and time savings remain elusive, exposing a governance gap.

Only 26% of enterprises say AI governance keeps pace with deployment, Smarsh study finds

A Smarsh study conducted by FTI Consulting finds 55% of enterprises are deploying AI but only 26% have governance that matches the pace.

Microsoft launches Frontier Co. with $2.5B and 6,000 engineers to embed AI into enterprise operations

Microsoft's new Frontier Co. subsidiary will embed 6,000 engineers and consultants directly with enterprise clients to accelerate AI deployment.

A Practical Guide to Modern AI Architecture, Workflow-First Thinking, and Scalable Business Value

Artificial intelligence has already moved beyond the hype cycle and into the day-to-day reality of business operations. Companies across industries are rushing to integrate AI into their workflows, but many are running into the same challenge: it’s relatively easy to build something that works in a demo, and much harder to make it reliable…

From Procurement to AI: Coupa’s London Stop Charts the Future of Business Agility

Coupa’s London World Tour stop highlighted how digital transformation is reshaping the intersection of procurement, finance, AI, and supply chain management. In an era where disruption is constant, the ability to integrate intelligence and agility across these domains is becoming a defining advantage for global enterprises. By fostering dialogue among industry leaders in an intimate…

Explaining Robotic Process Automation

With this edition of the Mecca Minute I’d like to talk a little robotic process automation or RPA. RPA is hyperautomation that takes automating processes to the next level. Like many other subjects I’ve shared in the past, this concept is not new. But the big reason that it has evolved from a dream…