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A new global survey shows that nearly every company uses AI, while very few can quantify its contribution to profit. Here is why, and what follows from it.

More than a hundred technology companies jointly warn about AI-driven cyberattacks. The appeal targets critical infrastructure, yet smaller firms are especially exposed.

A large corporation halted its programme for an AI-native organisation shortly before announcing it. The published figures are instructive for any rollout.

A recent hands-on test shows what language models on your own hardware can do today. For companies handling confidential data, a second look pays off.

SAP shares gained roughly a third within a month. The more telling figure is the gap between booked cloud volume and the AI agents actually available to customers.

Market data, cloud momentum and embedded AI point in one direction: the core system of enterprise IT is not disappearing, it is gaining importance.

A major CRM vendor is opening its data and functions to an AI assistant. For ERP users, that turns one question into a selection criterion.

A flaw in a widely used AI assistant shows why permissions and connections become the real security question in day-to-day operations.

Artificial intelligence speeds up existing routines in both directions. Why clean data and clear responsibilities in the ERP decide the return.

Enterprise software specialists remain scarce and expensive. We show how a standard-based cloud architecture structurally reduces dependency on rare experts.

Digital assistants are taking over more and more business communication. We show what current figures and trust research mean and which rules prove effective.

AI now writes large parts of new software. We explain why system knowledge is becoming more important and which guardrails prove effective in the ERP context.

Since 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act requires transparency in AI use. We outline which duties now apply to operators of ERP systems with embedded AI functions.

Requirement catalogues generated and answered by AI are losing their value. What matters instead when mid-sized companies choose a new ERP system.

The old website is history: we have completely replaced our presence with a modern solution, vivid design, interactive content, an AI assistant and an editorial pipeline that delivers fresh insights.

Copilot Chat in Outlook now answers questions across the entire mailbox and calendar instead of just the open thread. And it needs no paid add-on.

Nineteen days without access to two leading models: the June 2026 incident shows what a serious AI strategy for mid-sized Swiss companies now has to cover.

Voice and text questions to our website assistant are now processed entirely in Swiss data centres, faster than before and without your question ever leaving the country.

What Copilot creates from confidential sources now automatically carries their protection level. Watermarks for generated video and audio come too. But are off by default.

Microsoft has introduced an approval process, lifecycle management and a licence requirement for security functions around self-built agents. Tinkering becomes operations.

Anyone asking a question on the website now reaches us directly, during the day a real person responds, around the clock our speaking assistant does.

The agentic workspace in Microsoft 365 has left free preview and has been billed by consumption since 1 July. Anyone who used the preview should now set spending limits.

Microsoft has expanded regional data processing for Copilot, and Copilot Chat now falls under the EU Data Boundary. One function remains outside it: web search.

In June 2026 two frontier models had to be switched off by official order. The incident shows where the real operational risk in using AI actually sits.

Since June, Copilot features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote have been limited to licensed users. Since July there are business bundles with Copilot permanently included.

For ongoing conversations, we provide individual, access-protected pages: documents, points of contact and next steps all in one place.

Ready-made assistants, a knowledge graph as a guardrail and one common governance model: a sober look at what actually becomes usable from Q3 2026 onwards.

At the May 2026 conference the autonomous enterprise was declared. Behind the term sits more engineering than marketing and a question of governance.

A fast close is not a question of effort but of order. What it actually takes and why management benefits from it far more than accounting does.

Since April 2026 freely licensed language models have been available that run locally and work multilingually. For sensitive data that opens a serious alternative.

Processes and interfaces take centre stage. The lasting value arises somewhere else: in a continuous, machine-readable picture of the whole company.

Modern rollouts reverse the calculation: the standard stays untouched, while a large share of the funds flows into processes, training and people.

The shift to subscription models does not only affect user organisations. It fundamentally challenges the business model of many implementation partners.

The major cloud outage of October 2025 showed how tightly modern services are nested. The lesson is not to abandon the cloud, but to spread the risk better.

The digital workplace decides whether an ERP rollout is accepted. Why a role-based entry point achieves more than any additional specialist function.

Many still see their own hardware as the safest option. Practice suggests otherwise: location, access paths and a workable exit strategy are what count.

Results from language models depend less on the model than on how the task is phrased. Which prompting techniques hold up in ERP settings, and why documentation decides.

Announced a year ago as the foundation for data-driven decisions. Today we can check which connections actually work and what that means for mid-sized firms.