Digital Transformation

CHICAGO – October 29, 2026 -- Machine Tool Bids (MTB) will begin closing 61 lots of CNC machining, fabrication, EDM and laser cutting equipment at 11:00 AM Central Time on Wednesday, October 28, in its Open CNC & Fabrication Auction.

Lineup features Mazak, Haas, Mitsubishi, BLM, Bystronic and Amada machines

The equipment comes from facilities in the US and Canada. Featured lots include a 2018 BLM LT5 tube laser, a 2016 Mitsubishi EA28VM Advance EDM sinker, a 2014 Mazak VCU 500C 3X vertical machining center and a 2008 Mazak Variaxis 500-5X II 5-axis machining center. A 2008 Mazak QTN 450II CNC lathe and a 2019 Haas VF-2SS vertical machining center are also listed.

Essen – October 29, 2026 -- Hieber's Frische Center, Denns BioMarkt and EURONICS won Gold at the 2026 Deutscher Prospekt Award, which drew 130 corporate entries, the German free-newspaper association BVDA said at its annual conference in Essen.

The association presented the awards before about 170 invited guests. The prize honors mainly printed advertising inserts judged on relevance, design, sensible extension into digital channels and sustainability.

Three Gold winners span regional, food and non-food retail

Hieber's Frische Center won Gold in the Regional category. Denns BioMarkt took Gold in Classic Food, and EURONICS won Gold in Classic Non-Food.

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.

BERLIN – October 29, 2026 -- Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) and contract research organisation PSI have taken a live AI-powered process orchestration solution for clinical trial site identification and selection into operation, the first joint project between the two companies.

The solution covers therapeutic areas, indications and geographies. It moves previously manual, decentralised steps into a single digital process, from project initiation through the later stages of site selection.

Solution orchestrates site selection across teams and countries

Site selection involves multiple stakeholders, large volumes of documentation and parallel activities across regions. The new tool connects people, data, systems and AI in one workflow, and coordinates activities across teams and geographies. It automates information and document processing, manages routing and exceptions, and provides real-time insight into process performance.

Paderborn/Ulm – October 29, 2026 -- Neue Pressegesellschaft (NPG) has moved the job markets of Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Schwarzwälder Bote onto its bluum platform and signed Jobware as a cooperation partner covering both Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg.

Three newspaper job markets have joined bluum since October 2026

Listings from the three titles are now available on the platform's Baden-Württemberg site. As NPG's job board, bluum now covers two regions: Brandenburg, through Märkische Oderzeitung and Lausitzer Rundschau, and Baden-Württemberg, through StZ/StN, SÜDWEST PRESSE and Schwarzwälder Bote.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Bloomberg launched BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding assistant that lets Bloomberg Terminal subscribers write Python code and query financial data across more than 22,000 fields using natural-language prompts. The tool is built into both BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise.

BQuant Assistant generates BQL and PyBQL queries across all major asset classes

The assistant produces Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) and PyBQL queries covering equities, funds, fixed income, FX, commodities, indices and derivatives. The fields span reference, pricing, returns, derived analytics, fundamentals, valuations, sustainable finance data, risk metrics, estimates and economic data. It also writes code for screens and universes, and for visualizations using open source libraries such as Plotly and Jupyter Widgets.

Chicago – October 29, 2026 -- EVERSANA has acquired London-based health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) technology company Estima Scientific, adding generative-AI tools for economic modeling, systematic literature reviews and network meta-analysis to its market access offering. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Estima's web-based generative-AI applications integrate proprietary code. Its consulting expertise and software will be folded into EVERSANA's market access and value & evidence solutions. The aim is to help pharmaceutical companies show a drug's clinical and economic value to payers more efficiently and transparently.

New York and Berlin – October 29, 2026 -- Parloa and McKinsey & Company have formed an alliance to address a governance shortfall: roughly one-third of enterprises lack the operational governance needed to sustain deployed AI agents, according to McKinsey research.

Parloa survey finds fewer than 25% of CX operators are confident managing AI agents

Parloa's own survey of customer experience operators found that less than 25% of respondents felt confident designing and evaluating AI agents. The alliance targets that gap by combining McKinsey's operations expertise with Parloa's AI Agent Management Platform.

BOSTON – October 29, 2026 -- G-P (Globalization Partners), an AI-driven global employment platform, has been named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner in the HR & People Operations category, adding to a run of recognitions for its G-P Gia HR agent.

Inc. honors B2B providers that help companies hire, comply and scale

The annual Inc. Power Partner Awards recognize B2B companies with a track record of helping entrepreneurs and businesses build and grow. Covered areas include hiring, compliance, technology, infrastructure, fundraising and marketing.

Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc., said this year's winners have customers who act as "superfans and evangelists." She cited winners across marketing, financial services and technology.

BOSTON – October 29, 2026 -- Stockpress, a Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform for marketing, brand and creative teams, has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects customer content libraries to AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. The server is available now.

MCP server lets AI tools work with assets without migrating files

MCP is an open standard for connecting AI applications with external systems. Compatible AI tools can access and act on content already stored in a Stockpress workspace, so customers do not have to move files to another platform. The server respects existing workspace permissions.

Teams can search, organize and audit libraries in natural language

Stockpress lists five use cases for the server: