Software, Cloud & SaaS

NOIDA -- November 13, 2026 -- Only 41% of software teams run any automated check on AI-written code before merge, while 44% report more escaped defects or production incidents as AI-written code has grown, according to the State of AI in Quality Engineering 2026 report from TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest).

By our calculation, 59% of the teams surveyed merge AI-written code with no automated pre-merge check. At 40% of teams, AI now writes more than half of production code, the report says. Overall, 97% of teams use AI in testing or plan to, which leaves about 3% outside the trend.

Teams without separate CI tests report rising escaped defects 11 points more often

Manual review is the most common safeguard, used by 55% of teams. A QA hand-off after the code is written follows at 51%. Both checks happen after the code exists, and the shares overlap, so some teams use both.

SAN FRANCISCO -- November 13, 2026 -- Software companies selling AI as their primary product reported median ARR growth of 34% in 2025, 12 percentage points ahead of peers embedding AI in broader products, according to KeyBanc Capital Markets' 17th annual AI x Software Benchmark. The same core AI companies reported a median EBITDA margin of negative 12%, against negative 1% for the embedded group.

KeyBanc Capital Markets, the investment banking unit of KeyCorp, has renamed the survey, previously the SaaS Survey, and widened it to cover AI's effect on product strategy, monetization, unit economics and operating models. The bank did not disclose how many companies responded.

PITTSBURGH – November 13, 2026 -- Mindmatrix, maker of the GTMOS go-to-market operating system, has partnered with San Francisco-based consultancy Bodine and Co. to combine the software with Bodine's Partner Experience (PX) services, the companies announced on Nov. 12, 2026. The announcement comes no more than six weeks after Mindmatrix introduced GTMOS in October 2026.

The offer pairs a software vendor headquartered in Pittsburgh, which says it serves enterprise and midmarket customers in more than 25 countries, with a consultancy that sells partner program design and optimization. Bodine and Co. was founded by Kerry Bodine, author of the book Outside In. The companies say the combination is meant to increase the number of partners that contribute to pipeline, revenue and customer success.

ARLINGTON — November 13, 2026 -- Infotech, a research and advisory firm, is telling CIOs not to declare normal operations restored after the Microsoft 365 outage that began on November 12 until they have verified business-critical workflows, integrations and security controls. As of midday ET on November 13, according to the firm's research note, Microsoft had given no restoration time, so the outage had run into a second calendar day.

FRANKFURT – November 13, 2026 -- Two German states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein, are moving their IT overhaul to open-source software and ending their use of Microsoft, according to a Frankfurter Rundschau commentary published after worldwide disruptions to Microsoft services.

The newspaper's politics desk presents the two states as proof that alternatives to Microsoft already exist. It says open-source, decentralised approaches underpin many foundations of the internet and are not new territory. The text is an opinion piece, not a government statement. It gives no outage date or cause, and no contract values, migration timelines or product names for either state.

The author warns against treating an "EU version" of a large technology group as the solution to digital European sovereignty. A "European Palantir" would be hardly less problematic than the US original, the commentary says.

HOMER GLEN – November 13, 2026 -- Richards Building Supply has opened a free pilot program for roofing, siding, window and door contractors who want a say in the insurance tools planned for its RBS CRM platform. The company plans to release the features between Q1 and Q3 2027. The distributor set no cap on participants and no enrollment deadline. According to the company, it operates more than 60 branches across 16 U.S. states.

RBS CRM has no insurance-specific tool among its eight listed functions

The release names eight current RBS CRM functions: proposals, material estimating, lead management, financing, project management, scheduling, invoicing and homeowner communication. None of them is built for insurance claims. The 2027 roadmap also contains eight items, and the company says all are planned, not guaranteed:

Campbell — November 12, 2026 -- Goldwin Inc., the Tokyo-based sports and outdoor group that recorded net sales of ¥137.5 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, has selected Centric Software's Centric PLM to centralize product data now held in spreadsheets and separate systems. The first phase covers selected product categories at only two brands, THE NORTH FACE and Goldwin, or 40% of the five brands the company names in its portfolio (by FairsOnline's calculation).

Goldwin starts with two brands and extends later

Goldwin markets THE NORTH FACE in Japan and South Korea. Its other named brands are HELLY HANSEN, Canterbury and Speedo, and none is part of the first phase. The company sells through 160 directly operated stores, e-commerce and wholesale in Japan.

WILMINGTON — November 12, 2026 -- EnterpriseDB (EDB) has hired the agent-native engineering team formerly of CMRD, which built the audit and evidence layer of EDB's agent governance for EDB Postgres AI, to take that work in-house. Christopher Mitchell, CMRD's former managing partner, is now a principal engineer at EDB.

IDC's agent forecast sets the enforcement workload EDB cites

EDB bases the hire on an IDC projection of more than 1 billion AI agents actively deployed worldwide by 2029, executing over 217 billion actions per day. At those floor values, the figure works out to about 217 actions per agent per day. EDB says each action must be permitted or blocked before it runs, recorded as it happens and explainable afterward, on both Postgres and ClickHouse software.

TAMPA -- November 12, 2026 -- Squeez, a loyalty and experience commerce platform, has taken a $1 million investment from Qentelli, a digital engineering and enterprise AI company, and agreed a strategic partnership with it. The money comes in two parts: a corporate investment from Qentelli and a personal investment from Sanjay Jupudi, who is Qentelli's founder and CEO.

The release does not say how the $1 million divides between the corporate and personal portions. It also gives no valuation or ownership stake.

Qentelli will act as Squeez's technology and engineering partner. According to the companies, the work covers enterprise integrations, platform development and commercial expansion across travel, hospitality, entertainment and lifestyle. Squeez CEO Chris Ogboke says the company is moving from building the platform to scaling it with enterprise brands.

NEW YORK – November 13, 2026 -- Mark43 has been named "Law Enforcement Technology Platform of the Year" in the 2026 GovTech Breakthrough Awards, the first edition of a program that drew hundreds of nominations from more than 15 countries. The company says its public safety platform serves more than 300 state, local and federal agencies.

The award is a third-party designation from a program with no earlier winners to compare against. The announcement does not give the number of nominees in the law enforcement category.

Mark43 adds ForceMetrics search to its dispatch and records platform

Mark43 sells a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS) built on a shared data platform. The company says the platform covers dispatch, patrol and investigations in one environment, with mobile tools, analytics and an open API for third-party systems and hardware.