Digital Transformation

Chicago – September 25, 2026 -- Keeper Security has launched a zero-knowledge Google Chat integration that lets organizations approve privileged access requests, retrieve credentials and manage secrets without leaving Google Workspace.

Integration eliminates tool-switching for privileged access approvals

The new Google Chat App allows teams to submit vault access requests with justification and custom permission levels, retrieve secrets, and approve just-in-time elevation requests directly within chat channels. Administrators can enforce time-limited access windows and policy-driven approval routing without requiring users to navigate separate systems, while full audit trails and reporting remain intact.

Paris – September 25, 2026 -- BNP Paribas has signed a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to expand its access to AI-optimized infrastructure, Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise, the companies announced.

BNP Paribas will integrate Gemini models into its internal AI assistant used by 65,000 employees

The bank's Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) division plans to fold Gemini models into LLM@CIB, its generative AI assistant, and deploy agentic AI across sales, trading, research and structuring workflows, including the preparation of corporate credit memos.

Gemini already powers customer support for 200 advisers at Nickel

Google Cloud and Gemini technologies are already live at Nickel, BNP Paribas' payment account business within its Commercial, Personal Banking & Services division, where Gemini underpins Nickel Assist, a tool helping 200 customer advisers resolve client requests based on operating procedures.

Menlo Park, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- MyOme, Inc. has made its predictive genomic insights platform and testing services available worldwide by running them on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the companies announced.

MyOme joins Oracle PartnerNetwork to widen healthcare distribution

The clinical whole-genome analysis firm has also joined Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), enabling distribution of its capabilities through the Oracle ecosystem and Oracle Marketplace to a broader base of healthcare organizations.

San Diego – September 25, 2026 -- ACROBiosystems has launched CHO-Direct, a rapid high-throughput affinity validation service that delivers antibody affinity data in as little as four days from sequence submission, alongside a broader infrastructure platform called ACRO AIx aimed at AI-driven drug discovery (AIDD).

CHO-Direct compresses antibody validation timelines to four days

Using an optimized CHO cell system, CHO-Direct converts computationally generated antibody sequences into structured affinity data within days, addressing a bottleneck where AI tools generate candidate sequences faster than labs can validate them. The service leverages the protein-folding and post-translational modification environment of mammalian cells while maintaining compatibility with CHO systems already used in downstream development and manufacturing.

Dallas and Tel Aviv – September 25, 2026 -- Enterprises have working detections for only 63% of the cyber threats they have already identified as relevant, leaving more than a third of known risks operationally uncovered, according to new research from Conifers based on an analysis of 14,652 detections in live enterprise environments.

The report, titled The Detection Blind Spot, found that detection coverage extended to just 64% of the MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to each environment studied. Nearly half of all detections examined, 47%, required attention before they could be trusted to function as intended, despite appearing as deployed or healthy in standard inventory-based reporting.

West Chester, Ohio – September 25, 2026 -- E Tech Group will present on the compliance and data integrity risks of scaling laboratory automation from pilot to full production at the ISPE Boston Area Chapter 2026 Product Show on October 7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Session targets the gap between pilot success and regulated production failure

Sura Hadi, Director of Laboratory Automation and Industrial Robotics (LAIR) at E Tech Group, will lead the 3:00 p.m. ET session, "From Pilot to Production: Scaling Lab Automation Without Breaking Compliance, Data Integrity, or Teams," in West Red Level, Suite 81. The talk addresses why automation pilots that succeed in contained workflows frequently break down when expanded into regulated manufacturing environments, where instruments must connect to scheduling systems, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), and other enterprise platforms.

Durham, N.C. – September 25, 2026 -- The International Society of Automation (ISA) has released the Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge, the sole officially authorized text mapping ISA's core competencies for automation professionals.

Nearly 30 experts update the industry's reference text for certification exams

The revised guide was edited and written by close to 30 leading automation specialists and covers process instrumentation, control valves, discrete and batch control, digital twins, cybersecurity, safety systems, and asset management. It is designed to prepare candidates for ISA's Certified Automation Professional (CAP), Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST), and the Professional Engineer Control Systems Engineer (PE CSE) exams.

Atlanta – September 25, 2026 -- LexisNexis Risk Solutions and IMS have integrated the LexisNexis Drive Metrics scoring model into IMS's EdgeSDK, enabling U.S. auto insurers to cut usage-based insurance (UBI) operational costs by up to 50% to 80% through on-device processing that eliminates cloud storage fees.

On-device computing eliminates cloud costs for insurers

The integration moves driving behavior data processing directly onto consumers' smartphones rather than through cloud infrastructure, addressing a cost barrier that has historically limited UBI program growth. LexisNexis states the approach can generate savings of 50% or more by removing cloud processing and storage fees tied to traditional telematics programs.

St. Cloud, Minn. and Marietta, Ga. – September 25, 2026 -- GeoComm and SCENA have formed a partnership to deliver indoor mapping at scale for organizations managing large, distributed, or complex facility portfolios, combining public safety grade location intelligence with national reality-capture capacity.

SCENA adds national field capacity and multi-technology capture to GeoComm's mapping pipeline

SCENA brings LiDAR scanning, Matterport-based digital twins, 360-degree imagery, point clouds, drone capture, and as-built documentation to the partnership, expanding the range of capture approaches GeoComm can deploy across a project. GeoComm contributes public safety grade location intelligence expertise and GIS data quality standards required to prepare indoor data for mission-critical use.

Austin, Texas – September 25, 2026 -- T3 Sixty and Real Estate News have named nine finalists for the 2026 Edge Pitch Battle, a live proptech competition set for Oct. 28-29 in Dallas as part of Edge: The Tech and Data Forum.

Nine early- to growth-stage firms will compete across the full real estate transaction lifecycle

The finalists include 10xSearch, Agent Buddi, FIJIapp, homhub, Open Houses Direct, Pairgap, Purlin, RealAnalytica and VIZO. Collectively, the companies address discovery, client matching, deal closing and business operations for agents, brokerages, teams, MLSs and associations. Purlin was cited as the most scaled competitor in this year's field, offering an end-to-end platform spanning search to close.