Samantha Weston

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  • Samantha Weston

    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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Minimus Opens Free Secure Container Image Catalog | ECI Research
Application Development, Application Security, Cloud-Native, DevSecOps

Minimus Opens Free Secure Container Image Catalog | ECI Research

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Minimus Opens Free Secure Container Image Catalog | ECI Research
Minimus is opening its entire catalog of near-zero CVE container images for free, with no registration required. ECI Research examines why the move targets the growing... Read more.
Nomerra Raises $2M to Bring AI Agents to Private Markets Ops
AI, Application Development, Automation, Enterprise Software, FinOps

Nomerra Raises $2M to Bring AI Agents to Private Markets Ops

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Nomerra Raises $2M to Bring AI Agents to Private Markets Ops
Berlin-based Nomerra has raised $2 million to make private market operations AI-native, targeting the manual back-office work still running on emails, PDFs, and... Read more.
Cequence Platform 9.0: AI-Native API Security for the Agentic Era
Agentic AI, Application Development, Application Security, DevSecOps

Cequence Platform 9.0: AI-Native API Security for the Agentic Era

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Cequence Platform 9.0: AI-Native API Security for the Agentic Era
Cequence Security has launched Platform 9.0, an AI-native API security release featuring an open MCP server, a built-in AI Assistant, and 250-plus pre-built compliance... Read more.
Baz Planner Targets AI Code Governance at the Source
AI, Application Development, Application Security, DevOps, Machine Learning

Baz Planner Targets AI Code Governance at the Source

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Baz Planner Targets AI Code Governance at the Source
Baz announced Baz Planner, a pre-code gateway that intercepts AI-generated code at the planning stage to eliminate vulnerabilities before they are written. The company... Read more.
Modulate Launches AI Music Detection API for Platforms at Scale
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning

Modulate Launches AI Music Detection API for Platforms at Scale

by Samantha Weston, Paul Nashawaty 0 comments on Modulate Launches AI Music Detection API for Platforms at Scale
Modulate has launched an AI Music Detection API that identifies AI-generated vocals and instrumentals directly from audio, without relying on uploader disclosure.... Read more.
Gurobi's Gurobean Game Makes Mathematical Optimization Accessible
AI, Application Development, Decision Intelligence, DevOps, Machine Learning

Gurobi’s Gurobean Game Makes Mathematical Optimization Accessible

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Gurobi’s Gurobean Game Makes Mathematical Optimization Accessible
Gurobi has launched Gurobean: The Coffee Optimization Game, a follow-on to its 85,000-play Burrito Optimization Game. The free educational game teaches nonlinear... Read more.
AI Code Visibility Gap Widens as Production Use Hits 44.7%
AI, AI Governance, Application Development, DevSecOps

AI Code Visibility Gap Widens as Production Use Hits 44.7%

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on AI Code Visibility Gap Widens as Production Use Hits 44.7%
Flux's AI Code Generation Reality Check finds nearly half of organizations are running AI-generated code in production, while 35% can't ship it confidently due to... Read more.
Arcova Tackles Data Center Development Delays With End-to-End Model
AI, Application Development, Cyber Security, Infrastructure

Arcova Tackles Data Center Development Delays With End-to-End Model

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Arcova Tackles Data Center Development Delays With End-to-End Model
Arcova has announced an end-to-end data center development offering that consolidates site selection, engineering, compliance, and operations under one accountable... Read more.
Couchbase AI Data Plane: The Data Layer Agentic AI Needs
AI, Application Development, Enterprise Software, Infrastructure

Couchbase AI Data Plane: The Data Layer Agentic AI Needs

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Couchbase AI Data Plane: The Data Layer Agentic AI Needs
Couchbase has announced general availability of the AI Data Plane, a unified data infrastructure layer that gives enterprise AI agents persistent memory, real-time... Read more.
Gimlet Labs Joins MLCommons to Define Agentic Inference Benchmarks
AI, Application Development, DevOps, Infrastructure

Gimlet Labs Joins MLCommons to Define Agentic Inference Benchmarks

by Paul Nashawaty, Samantha Weston 0 comments on Gimlet Labs Joins MLCommons to Define Agentic Inference Benchmarks
Gimlet Labs has joined MLCommons to contribute to new benchmarks for agentic inference through the MLPerf working group. The move addresses a real measurement gap:... Read more.