Digital Transformation

CHICAGO – October 29, 2026 -- Oath CPAs PLLC, the audit arm of venture-backed fintech Oath Verified, has formed a Quality Advisory Board and named Sara Lord, former chair of the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board, as its founding member, just months after the firm launched its audit practice on May 28, 2026.

Oath describes the voluntary move as rare for an early-stage company. The board will provide external perspectives on the firm's audit methods and quality management, and will advise Oath CPAs PLLC, the separate legal entity that delivers Oath's audit services.

Toronto – October 29, 2026 -- Crown Capital, a management company for roofing-related businesses, reports 15% overall savings and $150,000 in potential fraudulent fuel spending identified over 90 days after adopting Element Pay, a cardless fuel payment solution launched by Element Fleet Management Corp. (TSX: EFN).

Crown Capital also cut the time spent helping crews resolve fuel-payment issues by 25%. Element Pay is run by the company's Element Mobility unit and is designed to replace physical fuel cards.

Vehicle authorizes each fuel transaction instead of a card

Element Pay uses the vehicle to initiate and authorize direct-pay transactions. A driver cannot independently authorize a payment unless the associated vehicle is authenticated. Drivers pay through the Element Pay app using direct pay, or use tap to pay at supported stations where direct pay is unavailable.

SUNNYVALE – October 29, 2026 -- Cresta, the AI operating system for customer experience, has opened end-to-end self-service to developers building customer-facing AI agents in-house or for clients, with enterprise developers already moving from first requirements to production in as little as one week.

Cresta Conductor routes agent builds through customers' own repos and CI/CD pipelines

Developers build agents through their own repository and CI/CD pipeline, while Cresta supplies the runtime infrastructure. That includes controlled releases, access control, and visibility into AI usage and cost. Cresta targets teams that want to treat AI agents like any other production software, subject to code review, testing, and release processes, rather than keeping them in a separate visual interface or building guardrails and release tooling from scratch on raw models.

Parsippany-Troy Hills – October 29, 2026 -- OLI has released Version 12.7 of its chemistry simulation software with Microsoft Excel import and export, removing the manual data entry that engineers previously needed to move spreadsheet data into OLI Studio.

Excel link lets engineers build and update analyses from spreadsheets

Users can create new analyses in OLI Studio directly from Excel, or update existing projects as new sample data arrives. Calculated results can be returned to Excel, where teams compare cases and feed findings into existing reporting workflows. OLI says the change cuts manual data handling and the risk of transcription errors.

The functionality initially covers selected objects in OLI Studio: Stream Analyzer and OLI Studio: ScaleChem. Supported analysis types are water, brine, gas and oil.

BOSTON – October 29, 2026 -- IANS has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Microsoft Copilot generally available, giving security teams access to peer decision data, vendor assessments and practitioner insight inside Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork.

IANS Agent delivers cited answers across three Copilot entry points

In Copilot Chat, users can select IANS as a source for a prompt and receive answers with citations linking to the underlying IANS material. In Copilot Cowork, IANS runs as a plugin for multi-step tasks. The IANS Agent offers a dedicated conversation powered solely by IANS intelligence.

A Microsoft 365 administrator enables IANS in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Each user's access follows the organization's IANS subscription.

Greenville, S.C. – October 29, 2026 -- Fort Hill LogiX, a patent-pending construction payment application review platform, now operates as a separate company from Fort Hill Associates. It is open to capital-project owners and the advisory firms that serve them, including competitors of its parent.

LogiX isolates customer data from Fort Hill Associates

The separation addresses a data-custody question that other firms raised when they saw the platform: whether submitting pay apps meant handing documents to a competitor. LogiX runs with separate staff access controls and tenant-level data isolation. Fort Hill Associates has no visibility into or access to other customers' data, and LogiX does not use owner data to train AI models.

Eschenburg – October 29, 2026 -- Software Partners Group (SPG) has rebranded as Emerion, a platform that combines companies with more than 330 employees and roughly 10,000 customers across the DACH region's mid-market.

Emerion bundles four software and services disciplines under one brand

The group covers ERP, ECM, HCM & Payroll and Managed IT, with AI as a cross-cutting technology. It operates from 22 locations and is headquartered in Eschenburg. Its stated aim is to become a leading platform for business-critical software, services and AI among DACH mid-sized companies.

The name draws on the concept of emergence: combining entrepreneurial strength, specialist expertise and technology to create more than the sum of the individual parts.

CHICAGO – October 29, 2026 -- Keeper Security released version 18.1 of its iOS app, rebuilding the vault interface on Apple's Liquid Glass design system and adding support for Apple's dual-screen iPhone Duo.

The company calls the update one of the most significant UI overhauls in its history. "Friction is the enemy of enterprise security," said Craig Lurey, CTO and co-founder, who added that the redesign keeps zero-knowledge encryption intact.

iPhone Duo support opens the vault into a side-by-side view

When the device is open, the vault expands so users can navigate folders and view detailed record entries at the same time. The app returns to a single-screen layout when the device is closed.

Liquid Glass redesign moves search, Security Audit and two-factor codes to a bottom toolbar

Account settings now sit in a central avatar menu. A new floating action button and a swipeable product tour are also included.

Raleigh – October 29, 2026 -- Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND) reported record third-quarter revenue of $234 million, up 22% year-over-year, while Adjusted EBITDA rose 43% to $35 million, an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 22%.

The cloud communications provider also guided to double-digit Cloud Communications revenue growth in 2027, driven by rising demand for voice usage. The figures cover the quarter ended September 30, 2026.

Usage growth and four $1M+ deals drive record results

CFO Daryl Raiford said growth came from customers expanding their use of the platform. The sales team added four new customer wins and expansions worth $1 million or more, which will layer into results over the next twelve months. He also cited record free cash flow, though the release gives no figure for it.

CHICAGO – October 29, 2026 -- RedMane Technology LLC has launched the Child Care Assistance Program statewide on South Dakota's Benefits Eligibility and Enrollment System (BEES), adding a second major benefit program to the platform operated by the state Department of Social Services (DSS).

Phased rollout ends with full public launch

The implementation was delivered in phases and ended with the public launch of the full Child Care Assistance functionality. The new capabilities are fully integrated into the cloud-based BEES platform, which lets DSS consolidate eligibility and benefit administration in a single system.