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European Application Management: What the Recast Survey Reveals

European Application Management: What the Recast Survey Reveals

Recast Software’s new European IT survey finds 53% of endpoint professionals cite application security and compliance as a top challenge, while 85% rely on Microsoft Intune. The findings expose a tooling gap between what native platforms deliver and what complex enterprise environments actually require. VDI and SBC transition plans signal rising application management complexity ahead.

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AI Is Breaking Open Source Trust — And Provenance Is the Fix

AI Is Breaking Open Source Trust — And Provenance Is the Fix

AI-accelerated development is flooding open source maintainers with unreviewed pull requests while cryptographic signing and SBOM adoption remain dangerously low. Timothy Lewis of tea.inc. argues that provenance and identity are the missing foundations of enterprise software supply chain security. ECI Research data shows that AI-generated package risk is now the top open-source security concern for 2026.

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AI Budget Accountability: FinOps, Tokenomics, and the Governance Gap

AI Budget Accountability: FinOps, Tokenomics, and the Governance Gap

AI spend is materializing faster than the governance frameworks needed to manage it. The FinOps Foundation’s August content cluster addresses the convergence of FinOps, Tokenomics, and ITAM, but the harder problem is organizational: nobody clearly owns AI spending. ECI Research data from the public sector illustrates how far the compliance and accountability gap extends.

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Enterprise Conversational AI: Measuring What Matters | ECI Research

Enterprise Conversational AI: Measuring What Matters | ECI Research

Druid AI CEO Joe Kim says enterprise AI accountability has replaced experimentation as the dominant market dynamic. ECI Research examines what that means for ITDMs evaluating conversational AI platforms in banking, healthcare, and beyond. The firms that can show containment rates and after-hours demand coverage will define the next phase of this market.

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