Informatica and Salesforce move data platforms into the decision layer

For years, enterprise data conversations centered on platforms. Which warehouse? Which lakehouse? Which cloud? In my recent Forbes pieces, “Beyond The Enterprise Data Platform: Why Ecosystems Win” and “How ERP Data Fits Into The Enterprise Data Ecosystem,” I argued that the more important question is no longer which platform wins. It is how the enterprise…

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AWS boosts CloudWatch Logs query limits by 10x to ease debugging for developers, SREs

AWS has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query result limits from 10,000 to 100,000 rows and added pagination support for its GetQueryResults API to help developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) troubleshoot and debug large-scale distributed applications more efficiently. The update to the monitoring and observability service, according to an AWS blog post, will reduce…

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AWS adds Advanced Prompt Optimization tool to Bedrock

AWS late on Thursday added a new prompt optimization tool to Amazon Bedrock, its fully managed service for building, deploying, and scaling generative AI applications. The tool, Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization, can be accessed through the Bedrock console, and is designed to automatically refine prompts for better accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across multiple large…

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Capacity markets could reshape cloud computing

An article from AI CERTs reporting on the Anthropic-SpaceX capacity arrangement caught my attention because it highlights a possibility the cloud market has been moving toward for years but has never fully embraced. The traditional assumption has always been simple: If you need elastic infrastructure at scale, you go to a hyperscaler such as AWS, Microsoft,…

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Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions

The era of “all-you-can-eat” AI coding and agent subscriptions may well be ending. Beginning June 15, Anthropic will separate programmatic Claude usage from standard chat subscription limits, introducing a dedicated monthly credit system, billed at API-style rates, for tools including its Agent SDK, GitHub Actions, and third-party frameworks such as OpenClaw, the company wrote in…

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Notion courts developers with a platform for AI agents and workflow automation

Notion is expanding its collaborative workspace software with a developer platform for building AI-enabled workflows around enterprise data and workspace content. The Notion Developer Platform adds custom code execution, database sync, external agent support, and workflow triggers, allowing developers and coding agents to extend Notion beyond its traditional role as a workspace app, the company…

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Evidence-driven workflows: Rethinking enterprise process design

From runtime architecture to process design In a recent InfoWorld article, I introduced the concept of the Agent Tier — a runtime architecture that separates deterministic enterprise execution from contextual reasoning. The core idea was straightforward: as enterprise workflows incorporate more signals and adaptive models, embedding contextual judgment directly inside branching logic leads to increasingly…

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A better way to work with SQL Server

Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data Studio, its development tool for the SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Part of a range of tools designed to work with Microsoft’s on-premises and in-cloud SQL databases, Azure Data Studio focused on building and testing queries rather than database administration. In other words, it was a developer-focused,…

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