PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Digital WOW, powered by ConsultPR.net, conducted its annual member benefit webinar for M&A Source® on October 21st, 2026. The Digital WOW was selected years ago, after an intense vetting process, to serve as a member benefit for the lower middle market advisors and related firms that are members of the M&A Source® group. The lower middle market refers to advisors who specialize in selling and buying businesses between $2 million and $100 million in revenue. The recent webinar was well attended and focused almost exclusively on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the arena.

The M&A advisors in this space require very specialized and niche digital marketing, websites and software to be able to attract their ideal clients and service them to a world-class standard. The following is an excerpt of the agenda and the main points that were covered during the presentation:

Is Your Website AI Ready?Is Your Website Indexable & Searchable by AI Bots?AI Generative ContentLeveraging AI for E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness)AI’s Impact on Digital MarketingSearch Engine Result DominationAI’s Impact on SEO StrategyIs AI Always the Right Choice?Why Human-Created Newsletters, Website Content, Social Media and Videos Still Perform BetterGoogle Penalties and the Risks of AI-Generated ContentConversational Search TrendAre You Using AI in PPC Campaigns?

The webinar, led by EVP Chuck Konga and CEO Paul Ramkissoon, was followed by an excellent question and answer session. Several attendees expressed interest in following up in person by stopping by WOW’s booth at the upcoming M&A conference in Houston in early November 2026. The Digital WOW remains committed to M&A Source® and its membership and is happy to have provided this vanguard knowledge and guidance to its members at no cost as a continued member benefit.

“Not surprised at the level of engagement we saw at this year’s webinar. AI is reshaping every corner of the digital marketing, website and software landscape and the M&A advisory community is no exception. Our research and development, engineering and marketing teams have been working in concert to ensure that the advancements and efficiencies that can be gained from AI are recommended early and implemented urgently to keep clients ahead of the curve. We appreciate M&A Source® for allowing us to be a part of their illustrious roster of member benefit providers.” — Paul Ramkissoon, The Digital WOW, powered by ConsultPR.net

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International Space Station’s use of tabular AI and expanded partnerships demonstrate the art of the possible with SAP AI

BERLIN, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a series of AI innovations at its annual SAP TechEd conference that expands its portfolio for developers. The enhancements to the Joule Studio and Joule Work solutions and SAP Business AI Platform, including the latest tabular foundation model from SAP, offer new tools to build and extend AI agents, a richer data and business context for those agents to reason with, and strengthened governance controls to run them responsibly across the enterprise.

SAP Business AI Platform gives organizations one place to build, contextualize and govern AI across SAP and third-party environments. With Joule Studio, business users and developers can use no-code and pro-code tools to build and extend agents, choosing from more than 70 AI models. Customers in the Joule Studio early adopter program also can design and run n8n workflows in Joule Studio, with broader availability to follow. The SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Knowledge Graph solutions ground those agents in trusted business data and context, helping organizations select the right model for each use case and better manage AI value and consumption. Importantly, SAP customers’ data remains their data. SAP does not share customer data with anyone to train or improve large language models.

“SAP TechEd has always been where builders shape what comes next,” said Philipp Herzig, CTO of SAP SE. “This year, we are showing how we are moving from AI learning your business to running it. Joule Work is where you put your intent and get work done, in one experience across the entire SAP landscape and beyond. That is the shift we are delivering at scale. Everything underneath runs on SAP Business AI Platform, delivering faster time to value through out-of-the-box business understanding, higher accuracy, enterprise-readiness that is secure, governed and compliant from the first deployment, and a unique context layer built on over 50 years of process and industry expertise, encoded into every agent action. This is AI built where real work happens.”

Joule Work and Joule Studio Make the Autonomous Enterprise Real
New capabilities for Joule Work will help make AI agents more effective at handling complex business processes via open protocols including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). These innovations advance Joule Work to better understand context, make decisions and execute multistep business workflows across enterprise systems and business domains:

New agentic thinking capabilities that plan and orchestrate the steps assistants and agents need to reliably complete complex, multistep business workflows across SAP landscapes.New capabilities in SAP Knowledge Graph will incorporate data from additional SAP and non-SAP sources that are unique to each customer. Users can query and explore their customized data in natural language and get accurate answers grounded in their own information.Advancements in interoperability allow third-party agents to securely invoke Joule Agents through a governed agent gateway. This enforced access control enables agents from different providers to collaborate across business workflows without sacrificing governance or control.New SAP Enterprise AI Gateway solution will extend governance to AI interactions, offering a centralized way to manage AI traffic across the enterprise that will consolidate authentication, policy enforcement, routing, monitoring, usage tracking and auditing.New Joule Assistant and SAP AI Agent Hub expand governance capabilities, and a new AI Governance Assistant helps customers meet compliance requirements for the EU AI Act. These are designed to address critical barriers to scaling enterprise AI: keeping AI systems classified, compliant and operating within defined organizational guardrails and context.

SAP also announced that Joule Studio has new observability and administrative controls to give developers and administrators visibility into agent behavior, model usage and spend. Joule Studio is SAP’s AI-first development environment that is accessible through Joule Work for building and extending enterprise agents. Joule Studio will run a time-bound promotion for select customers, where deploying and running custom agents on the SAP-managed Joule Studio runtime will remain free through December 2026. The design-time tooling for building and testing agents and n8n workflows with AI-assisted development will remain free under fair-use limits.

SAP Business Data Cloud as the Grounding Engine of the Autonomous Enterprise
SAP Business Data Cloud Ontology Manager in SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) will provide an AI-native authoring experience for building ontologies across SAP and third-party data. By helping AI understand how data from different teams, systems and applications relate to one another, AI agents can more accurately reason and make decisions across the enterprise. The solutions complement SAP Knowledge Graph, which provides rich business context for SAP data.

Additionally, SAP is expanding its lakehouse capabilities with Dremio, adding native support for Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris plus a high-performance, federated query engine that will enable unified data access without moving or copying the data. SAP expands its partnership with Databricks, bringing the full scope and latest innovations of data engineering and enterprise AI capabilities into SAP Business Data Cloud as SAP Databricks. Core innovations such as Lakeflow, Agent Bricks, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase will help customers to simplify data management and provide a strong data foundation for their AI journey. With a deeper integration to SAP Business Data Cloud, a new SAP Application Data Foundation, as well as an integration between Joule and Genie, SAP and Databricks are helping customers establish an enterprise-wide lakehouse as the foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise and Joule Work.

The SAP Reltio solution, recently announced at SAP Connect, will bring multidomain master data management to SAP BDC. It unifies and enriches customer, supplier and product records across SAP and non-SAP systems into trusted, reusable data products that can power applications and AI agents.

Tabular Foundation Model Trusted for Business, Validated in Space
SAP announced its latest tabular AI model, SAP-RPT-2.0, which will expand beyond classification and regression to support anomaly and outlier detection, and richer AI-powered analysis through embeddings. These native, multi-table capabilities will further reduce manual engineering while delivering faster, deeper insights from structured data. In addition, a new SAP-RPT-TS model will help customers predict values across time-indexed business metrics for key forecasting use cases using the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution without requiring custom machine learning.

In partnership with HPE, SAP also announced the deployment of SAP-RPT on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS), one of the most significant edge-compute validations of any enterprise AI model to date. SAP-RPT is planned to run directly onboard the ISS to support anomaly triage, predict issues before failures escalate, reconstruct missing sensor values from historical data, and generate explainable mission-health reports for astronauts and ground teams — all without requiring data to be sent back to Earth for analysis.

“The same trusted SAP-RPT model that powers global supply chains also can work in space,” said Herzig. “SAP’s deep-rooted, proven expertise has led to the International Space Station’s use of our tabular foundation model to predict potential mission-critical failures in orbit. With SAP-RPT and TabPFN from Prior Labs, we bring the unique capabilities of tabular AI into the enterprise and across every frontier.”

Out-of-the-Box Assistants and Agents Define Our Advantage
For five decades, SAP has built the systems of record that run your business. We will deliver, out of the box, a suite of assistants and agents across five horizontal domains all running on SAP Business AI Platform — with industry specialization — that provides a baseline for systems of intelligence and systems of action.

Ecosystem Partners Help Expand Platform Capabilities
The global SAP partner ecosystem brings new capabilities to the ongoing operation and extension of solutions on SAP Business AI Platform, helping customers advance toward the Autonomous Enterprise. At SAP TechEd, the following partner announcements were highlighted:    

A collaboration with Intel closes the loop between enterprise workflows and autonomous robots, bridging informational technology and operational technology through physical AI.

In addition, new SAP solution extensions with Docusign, Parloa and Redwood extend autonomous capabilities for customers, helping them run their core processes end to end, without handoffs between systems.

Beyond technology, SAP is empowering its strong developer community with new enablement and engagement with tens of thousands joining for Devtoberfest leading up to SAP TechEd, new reference architectures, tutorials and hands-on opportunities attendees can try onsite at the event and at home.

To learn more about today’s announcements visit our SAP TechEd Innovation News Guide.

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New Admin Console governs end-to-end work across encrypted files, private communications and AI – with organisation-wide policies, approved endpoints, signed receipts, audit logs and customer-controlled recovery

LONDON, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IDZ today announced the launch of IDZ Enterprise, a governed private AI workspace that brings MetaCortex, ZCloud and ZChat into one encrypted system for organisations handling sensitive client and business information.

By keeping files, conversations, identity, permissions, processing routes and evidence in the same controlled environment, IDZ Enterprise reduces the fragmentation that often surrounds enterprise AI. MetaCortex is native to ZCloud and ZChat, allowing members to work across documents and conversations without first configuring a separate connector, while enterprise leaders control who can access information, which AI routes are permitted and how results are reviewed, without giving IDZ standing access to encrypted customer content.

The release is built for law firms, banks, wealth managers, accountancies and other professional-services organisations that want to move AI from isolated pilots into daily work without weakening confidentiality, policy control or accountability.

From information to action – with evidence

IDZ Enterprise is designed around the complete workflow, not a single AI response. A user can locate a file, folder or conversation across ZCloud and ZChat; compare, summarise, edit or turn that information into an artifact; save or share the result with colleagues; and provide the signed receipt to compliance – all without leaving the governed workspace.

For example, a lawyer can find the latest agreement and the messages that shaped it, compare revisions, prepare a client update, share it with the matter team and retain a receipt showing the sources, processing route and actions used.

At every step, the privacy boundary is visible, controllable and evidenced. Members can see what is processed locally, what sanitised context is proposed for external processing and which sources and actions formed the result; organisation-wide policies control the permitted routes, while signed receipts provide an auditable record.

One workspace. Organisation-wide control.

The new Enterprise Admin Console provides a central place to configure and govern the IDZ workspace:

Members, roles and file access: Invite users, assign Owner, Admin, Member, Billing Admin and Compliance/Auditor responsibilities, manage seats and control access to organisational files.AI and sharing policies: Set organisation-wide defaults for MetaCortex, web-assisted queries, sharing permissions and other managed controls.Approved processing routes: Permit Private mode, IDZ-managed Boost or Company AI through an organisation-approved customer-hosted endpoint.Receipts and auditability: Give compliance and security teams a signed record of how AI results were produced, while tracking administrative and security-relevant events.Usage, seats and billing: Monitor pooled usage, contracted seats and account status, with detailed payment management handled through the secure billing portal.Customer-controlled recovery: Maintain an organisation-controlled emergency recovery route without giving IDZ a recovery key or standing access to encrypted content.

Members can see the policies governing their workspace, but cannot override organisation-managed settings.

Private, Boost or Company AI

Enterprise teams can choose among three policy-controlled processing routes:

Private processes requests locally on supported desktop devices using an active local model.Boost uses IDZ-managed cloud AI with sanitised data and user consent. Users can preview and remove sources or passages before approval.Company AI routes requests through the organisation’s approved customer-hosted endpoint, subject to Enterprise policy and technical safeguards.

MetaCortex never silently moves a Private request to external processing. If a different route is needed, the user is asked before data is sent. Each result includes a signed receipt recording the processing mode, sources accessed, actions performed, whether web search was used and what data was approved for external processing.

“Professional firms should not have to trade client confidentiality for the speed of AI,” said Joseph Bara, Founder and CEO of IDZ. “IDZ Enterprise lets teams find information, take action and share results in one encrypted workspace. Organisations control the processing routes, users approve the context sent for external processing, and signed receipts give compliance teams an auditable record. The privacy boundary is visible, controllable and evidenced throughout the workflow.”

Designed for regulated and client-service work

IDZ Enterprise is built for high-frequency workflows where sensitive information is fragmented across files and conversations and where human review remains essential. Example uses include:

preparing a client, matter or account brief from files and team conversations;comparing agreements, policies and document versions with exact source references;reviewing onboarding, KYC or source-of-wealth packs for missing information;extracting and organising information from invoices, statements and supported documents;redacting sensitive information before sharing; andcreating notes, reports and other artifacts that can be saved to ZCloud or shared through ZChat.

MetaCortex cites the underlying file, page or message so professionals can verify the source, apply judgement and keep the work moving inside the same controlled environment. AI outputs remain subject to professional judgement and human review.

Built on IDZ’s privacy and security foundation

IDZ Enterprise builds on the same privacy-first architecture as the wider IDZ platform. Stored files, chats, memories and indexes remain encrypted and unreadable to IDZ. When Boost is used, users can preview and approve the sanitised context before it is sent for processing. Customer-controlled recovery provides an emergency route without giving IDZ the recovery key. The underlying IDZ cryptographic and application stack has also undergone an independent white-box security assessment by Cure53 covering cryptographic libraries, mobile and web applications, key-management architecture and backend APIs.

Enterprise agreements can include tailored commercial terms, service levels, data-processing commitments, usage allowances and approved infrastructure configurations.

Availability

IDZ Enterprise is available now by agreement for organisations seeking a governed workspace for encrypted files, private communication and AI. Member access is available through supported IDZ applications on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and the web; Private mode remains available on supported desktop devices.

Learn more at https://idz.com/.

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About IDZ

IDZ is a privacy-first technology platform that combines MetaCortex – private AI for encrypted files and chats – with ZCloud encrypted storage and ZChat private messaging. It brings files, communication and AI into one controlled workspace for individuals, teams and enterprises.

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