Confluent Extends Its Reach Up the AI Stack With Agent2Agent Support

The conversation around AI agents has focused heavily on reasoning. Less attention has gone to coordination. Enterprises that have been experimenting with agents are struggling to manage agents that share context and operate across live business systems without stepping on each other. Running a single agent on streaming data is manageable. Running several agents across…

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ThoughtSpot Pushes Upstream With Agentic Data Preparation

Agentic analytics platform ThoughtSpot launched its next generation of Analyst Studio, which it claims offers a “new suite of capabilities to revolutionize how data teams deliver AI-ready data with speed, flexibility and control.” The analytics market has spent the last decade obsessing over usability. They wanted faster dashboards and queries, while keeping the interface easy…

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Context Engineering Will Decide Enterprise AI Success, Says Cognizant CIO Neal Ramasamy

Artificial intelligence dominated discussions at Davos this year, but inside enterprises the conversation has shifted from excitement to execution. Organizations are moving quickly to deploy agents and automation. However, many are discovering that technology alone does not guarantee operational value.  Against that backdrop, Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer at Cognizant, shared his perspective with BigDATAwire…

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Are Your AI Agents Actually Delivering ROI?

Agentic AI has dominated industry conversations since 2025. Adoption across enterprises is on the rise, and investment plans remain aggressive. Use cases are expanding rapidly, from simple employee assistants to advanced agentic workflows for insurance renewals or support ticket triage, to name just a few. The shift has been undeniably fast. The momentum notwithstanding, a…

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The Connectivity Paradox Holding Back Enterprise Agentic AI

AI agents have become the primary driver of enterprise productivity. According to a recent report by Salesforce, organizations currently use an average of 12 agents, with that number expected to climb 67% within the next two years.  Currently, 83% of organizations report that most or all teams and functions have adopted AI agents. However, business…

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Inside Snowflake’s Latest AI Push: New Platform Capabilities and a $200M OpenAI Deal

At its BUILD London event yesterday, Snowflake rolled out a new set of AI capabilities aimed at simplifying the development of agents and other advanced applications. The new capabilities include native integration of Snowflake Postgres, Semantic View Autopilot, and Cortex Code, among other tools.  These new capabilities come only a couple of days after Snowflake…

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