Samantha Weston

Author: Samantha Weston

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  • With over 15 years of hands-on experience in operations roles across legal, financial, and technology sectors, Sam Weston brings deep expertise in the systems that power modern enterprises such as ERP, CRM, HCM, CX, and beyond. Her career has spanned the full spectrum of enterprise applications, from optimizing business processes and managing platforms to leading digital transformation initiatives.

    Sam has transitioned her expertise into the analyst arena, focusing on enterprise applications and the evolving role they play in business productivity and transformation. She provides independent insights that bridge technology capabilities with business outcomes, helping organizations and vendors alike navigate a changing enterprise software landscape.

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Modulate Tops Hugging Face ASR Benchmark | ECI Research
AI, Application Development, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning

Modulate Tops Hugging Face ASR Benchmark | ECI Research

Modulate has claimed the top spot on Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard, ranking first out of 88 models while pricing its transcription API at a fraction of incumbent... Read more.
Flex Raises $70M to Build AI-Native Private Bank for Global Owners
AI, Application Development, Automation, Enterprise Software, FinOps

Flex Raises $70M to Build AI-Native Private Bank for Global Owners

Flex has raised $70 million in a Halo Fund-led Series B1 to accelerate Flex Global, an AI-native private banking platform targeting high-net-worth business owners... Read more.
Specops Secure Onboarding Tackles AI Impersonation Risk
Application Development, Cyber Security, DevSecOps, Enterprise IT Strategy

Specops Secure Onboarding Tackles AI Impersonation Risk

Specops has launched Secure Onboarding, bringing biometric identity verification into the new-hire process at the moments attackers exploit most. The product integrates... Read more.
Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: One Model for K8s, VMs, and LB
Application Development, Cloud, Compliance, Platform Engineering, Security

Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: One Model for K8s, VMs, and LB

Isovalent's 26.05 release promotes VM networking to GA, introduces shared load balancing for tenant clusters, and advances Hubble Timescape as a policy authoring... Read more.
PDQ Summer 2026: Endpoint Management Consolidation Arrives
Application Development, Enterprise IT Strategy

Endpoint Management Consolidation Arrives with PDQ

PDQ's summer 2026 update adds macOS Package Library support, Windows update visibility, one-click reboots, and a new insights dashboard. ECI Research analysts examine... Read more.
AI Agent Memory Governance: The Debt Enterprises Are Ignoring
Agentic AI, AI Governance, Application Development, Security

AI Agent Memory Governance: The Debt Enterprises Are Ignoring

As AI agents move from stateless tools to systems with persistent memory, enterprises are accumulating context and action histories with no governance infrastructure... Read more.
AI Translation at Events Is Becoming a Content Engine | ECI Research
AI, Application Development, Automation, Enterprise Applications

AI Translation at Events Is Becoming a Content Engine | ECI Research

Wordly's 2026 State of AI Translation & Captions report reveals a major shift: enterprise event leaders no longer want AI just for live interpretation. They want... Read more.
Google Cloud Agentic AI: From Pilots to Production in 2026
AI, Application Development, Cloud, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning

Google Cloud Agentic AI: From Pilots to Production in 2026

Google Cloud's June 2026 newsletter reveals enterprise customers moving agentic AI from proof of concept to measurable production outcomes across healthcare, retail,... Read more.
NVIDIA's Agentic AI Platform Push: What Enterprise Leaders Must Know
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Infrastructure

NVIDIA’s Agentic AI Platform Push: What Enterprise Leaders Must Know

NVIDIA's June 2026 newsletter signals a decisive shift from GPU supplier to full-stack agentic AI platform provider. From BioNeMo to Halos to a unified Microsoft... Read more.