IT, AI & Telecommunications

Campbell, Calif. – November 05, 2026 -- Unbound Merino, the Toronto-founded direct-to-consumer Merino wool apparel brand, has selected Centric Software's Centric PLM to replace disconnected spreadsheets, emails and shared files as it manages about 40 new styles and 200 repeat styles a year.

Unbound Merino's decade of growth outpaced its manual workflows

Founded in Toronto in 2016 by three friends, the brand sells worldwide. The United States and Canada are its largest markets, and its customer base is growing in the UK, Europe, Australia and Asia. It runs quarterly collections and monthly special launches.

As volume and complexity rose, disconnected systems and manual workflows created duplicated work, version-control problems and limited visibility across product development and supplier activity.

Chicago – November 05, 2026 -- bswift has made its Emma Intelligence benefits engine available to all existing clients as a plug-in for the workplace AI assistants employers already run, so employees can get answers based on their own enrollment, claims and eligibility data within a single conversation.

Emma connects to employer assistants through Model Context Protocol

The integration uses Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI assistants access information and capabilities from other services. bswift calls the design "headless": Emma's benefits intelligence works independently of its own chat interface, while the employer's assistant keeps its familiar experience and names Emma as the source. An employee can ask which medical plan they are enrolled in and receive an answer drawn from actual enrollment records.

Arlington, Va. – November 05, 2026 -- RocketLane scored 8.8 in Infotech's 2026 Professional Services Automation Data Quadrant Report, the highest of five vendors named Champions on the basis of verified end-user reviews.

Five vendors earn Champion status with Composite Scores between 8.0 and 8.8

Infotech drew on user feedback collected through its SoftwareReviews platform. The Champions and the capability each ranked highly for:

MUNICH – – November 05, 2026 -- Industrial Defender has added internal network security monitoring (INSM) and a remediation tool called Risk Signal to its OT cybersecurity platform, targeting critical infrastructure operators in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The release pairs the company's endpoint visibility with network traffic monitoring. It gives OT and ICS operators one workflow from anomaly detection to prioritized remediation. The platform is aligned to IEC 62443 and NIST CSF. Industrial Defender positions it for operators working under the EU's NIS2 Directive and Saudi Arabia's NCA Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC).

St. Cloud, Minn. – November 05, 2026 -- GeoComm has launched a four-tier Partner Program that gives technology, data, and channel partners a defined route from first conversation to certified integration to co-selling of public safety grade location intelligence.

Four cumulative tiers move partners from visibility to strategic growth

The tiers build on one another. Partners can start with visibility and relationship-building, then advance to certified integration, co-selling, and strategic growth as their work with GeoComm deepens. According to the company, each step carries clear commercial terms, so partners can start small and add capabilities over time.

Waterloo – November 05, 2026 -- OpenText posted $339 million in Core Cloud Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 11.2% year over year, while total revenues fell 4.0% to $1.237 billion. Adjusted EBITDA reached $442 million, a 35.8% margin, for the quarter ended September 30, 2026.

Core business grows while divestitures weigh on the top line

Core Revenues rose 2.4% to $864 million, or 2.7% in constant currency. Core Cloud Revenues grew 11.7% in constant currency. Total revenues declined 1.7% in constant currency excluding divestitures.

Total cloud revenues came in at $505 million, up 4.3%, marking 23 consecutive quarters of organic cloud growth. Annual recurring revenues stood at $1.040 billion.

GAAP net income climbs 5.9% to $155 million

GAAP net income rose 5.9% to $155 million, a 13% margin, with diluted EPS of $0.64. Non-GAAP net income fell 4.5% to $254 million, or $1.05 per diluted share.

Montreal – November 05, 2026 -- Quebecor Inc. raised third-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA by $78.6 million (12.5%) to $706.7 million, while mobile telephony added a net 136,700 subscriber connections, the largest quarterly gain since the service launched in 2010. Revenues rose $49.2 million (3.5%) to $1.45 billion, and adjusted cash flows from operations climbed $67.3 million (14.6%) to $529.7 million.

Telecommunications segment lifts revenue 4.2% on mobile growth

Telecommunications revenues grew $51.4 million (4.2%). Mobile telephony service revenues rose $43.1 million (9.6%) and Internet access revenues rose $9.3 million (3.0%). Segment adjusted EBITDA increased $45.0 million (7.5%), and adjusted cash flows from operations gained $34.7 million (7.9%).

Bielefeld – November 05, 2026 -- NTT DATA's AI agents automate more than 90 percent of supplier order confirmations at Lemvigh-Müller, a result that helped the company win two SAP awards at the SAP TechEd partner summit in Berlin at the end of October.

SAP named NTT DATA an SAP Business AI Platform Validated Partner. The company also took part in SAP's "partner agent race to SAP TechEd", which recognizes autonomous agents built on the SAP Business AI Platform that customers already use in production.

Customer deployments report 98 percent matching accuracy and 50 percent time savings

At Lemvigh-Müller, the Purchase Order Confirmation Matching Agent processes over 90 percent of supplier confirmations fully automatically, with a hit accuracy of around 98 percent.

At zeb, the Project Staffing Agent cut the time needed for individual time entries by 50 percent.

WASHINGTON – November 05, 2026 -- Cogent Communications Holdings (NASDAQ: CCOI) reported third-quarter 2026 service revenue of $231.2 million, down 1.8% from Q2 and 4.4% from Q3 2025, while cost cuts lifted its adjusted EBITDA margin to 32.0% from 30.2% in the prior quarter.

Adjusted EBITDA rises 3.9% to $73.9 million on lower operating costs

EBITDA, as adjusted for cash payments under the T-Mobile IP transit agreement, reached $73.9 million, up from $71.1 million in Q2 and $73.8 million a year earlier. Network operations expenses, excluding equity-based compensation, fell 3.1% sequentially to $121.0 million. Selling, general and administrative expenses, on the same basis, declined 5.1% to $61.3 million. Capital expenditures fell 5.8% to $36.3 million.

Montreal – November 05, 2026 -- BCE Inc. grew third-quarter revenue 2.2% to $6,182 million, but free cash flow fell to $854 million as spending on Bell AI Fabric data centres and Ziply Fiber's U.S. fibre network increased.

Adjusted EBITDA edges up 0.9% while earnings drop on prior-year MLSE gain

Service revenue rose 1.6% to $5,412 million and product revenue climbed 6.9% to $770 million. Adjusted EBITDA increased 0.9% to $2,786 million, helped by Bell CTS U.S. and an 8.0% gain at Bell Media. A 0.8% decline at Bell CTS Canada partly offset those gains.

Operating costs rose 3.3%, reflecting a full quarter of Ziply Fiber expenses versus two months in Q3 2025, plus higher content costs at Bell Media.