IT, AI & Telecommunications

Norwalk – October 29, 2026 -- Xerox has been named a Leader in Quocirca's 2026 Automation & AI, Cloud & Technology (ACT) assessment, which evaluates vendors across Automation & AI, Cloud and Technology Ecosystems.

Xerox applies AI across four operational areas

Xerox says it now uses AI as a foundational capability in predictive maintenance, workflow automation, intelligent document processing and production optimization. Cloud platforms and partner ecosystems support these offerings and let them scale securely across distributed environments.

The ACT assessment rewards vendors that show strategic vision, execution strength and the integration needed to move beyond standalone technologies toward enterprise-wide transformation.

Frankfurt – October 29, 2026 -- Oculeus has deployed its Oculeus Anti-Fraud System (AFS) at Palau National Communications Corporation (PNCC), adding a dedicated AI-driven protection layer to the voice network of the Republic of Palau's national telecoms provider.

Oculeus AFS screens voice traffic for fraud in near-real-time

The system uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and anomaly detection to analyze large volumes of telecommunications activity. It identifies and blocks fraudulent or abusive traffic before subscribers and operations are affected. PNCC runs the platform to maximize its automation features.

Teaneck – October 29, 2026 -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Travelport have launched the next phase of their 20-year partnership, with the stated goal of making Travelport the first AI-native platform in global travel retailing. Cognizant teams will work with Travelport across 18 countries.

Cognizant and Travelport complete first modernization phase begun in May 2026

The two companies announced their AI transformation in May 2026 alongside Anthropic. They have since built the platforms, architecture and engineering practices needed for AI-enabled delivery. AI tooling is now entering the software development lifecycle, covering code generation, test creation and pull-request review. Further workflow automation opportunities have been identified.

Charleston – October 29, 2026 -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) has received three verification badges from the Responsible AI Institute for its Blackbaud AI offering, covering agentic AI, generative AI and machine learning.

Responsible AI Institute assesses Blackbaud AI against NIST, ISO/IEC and OWASP frameworks

The badges follow an independent assessment of Blackbaud's responsible AI practices. The review was aligned to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC standards and OWASP guidance for large language models.

Carrie Cobb, Blackbaud's chief data and AI officer, said "trust matters more than ever" as organizations weigh AI's opportunities and risks. She described the company's approach as built on transparency, practical safeguards and continuous improvement.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 29, 2026 -- k-ID has launched Kai, a self-serve SDK that makes any app age-adaptive, and is offering it free for the first 10,000 monthly users of each product, every month.

Kai automates age assurance and applies k-ID's permission decisions

The SDK deploys age assurance and then applies k-ID's age, consent and permission decisions to every user. k-ID says most builders can tell users apart only by a self-declared age, which a growing number of markets no longer accept.

Kai targets the gap between fast app development and slow compliance work. According to k-ID, a small team can build a working app in hours but cannot buy the specialist knowledge to serve every age in every market. Larger companies have that knowledge but still build, review and rebuild, because the compliance answer arrives after the code. Kai delivers it inside the coding agents builders already use.

Monterrey – October 29, 2026 -- Definity has become the first strategic partner in Latin America for German software provider dab, taking the SAP-certified dab Nexus platform to enterprises that want to move SAP data into Microsoft Fabric.

dab Nexus replicates SAP ECC and S/4HANA data into Microsoft Fabric in near real time

SAP systems hold some of the most important operational and financial data in many enterprises. Making that data available across the business often takes manual exports, custom integrations and ongoing maintenance. dab Nexus replaces this with automated, near-real-time integration from SAP ECC and S/4HANA into Microsoft Fabric.

The platform supports SAP Clean Core principles. Once the data sits in Fabric, organizations can use it for Power BI reporting, process mining, machine learning and advanced analytics.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Snowflake has made automated Snowpipe setup with its CoCo assistant generally available, letting teams take raw files in cloud storage to a continuously loading Snowflake table or Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg table in a single natural-language conversation.

CoCo samples the files, infers the schema, builds the pipeline and confirms that data loads. The feature is available in Snowsight, CoCo Desktop and CoCo CLI, and anyone with the right permissions can connect a new source without waiting in a data engineering queue.

BASKING RIDGE – October 29, 2026 -- Ascendion, an AI-native software engineering company serving 250+ enterprise clients, has appointed four former senior executives from banking, retail, high-tech and industry bodies to its AI Advisory Community as it steers its AAVA platform toward governed, production-scale enterprise AI.

The appointees are Andy Gamble, Jack Madrid, Julieta Ross, Ph.D., and Joseph Sirosh, Ph.D. Their combined experience spans banking, high-tech, media and retail. Each will work directly with Ascendion's regional and engineering leaders.

SAN JOSE – October 29, 2026 -- Cavli Wireless plans to triple its manufacturing capacity and expand beyond the Indian market to meet growing international demand, according to the first edition of Cavli360, a new industry publication launched at electronica India 2026 in Bengaluru.

Cavli360 Edition 1 outlines Cavli's growth strategy after nearly a decade in cellular IoT

The magazine features John Mathew, Founder and CEO, on the company's evolution and milestones in the cellular IoT industry. The co-founders describe the strategic and operational foundations behind its growth. Cavli also plans to shift from acquiring talent to developing it internally.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- An MQTT connection can recover while the historian still has a permanent data gap, because reconnection says nothing about where each measurement was durably held during the outage. Store and forward lowers that risk by retaining data near the failure point and replaying it after recovery, but it cannot restore a measurement that was never collected or never persisted at any boundary.

Four pipeline stages each own a separate loss boundary

An industrial MQTT path commonly runs through publisher, broker, collector and historian. A source-side buffer covers a site-to-broker interruption. A broker-side queue helps an offline subscriber receive messages the broker already accepted. A collector-side buffer covers messages after collection but before the historian confirms storage. None of these mechanisms automatically covers the others.