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BARC Perspective on SAP’s Dual Acquisition of Prior Labs and Dremio

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What happened? SAP intends to acquire Prior Labs, a research lab and provider of tabular foundation models for predictive AI on structured data, and Dremio, an open data lakehouse platform enabling high-performance federated queries across SAP and non-SAP sources without data movement. Acquisition 1: Prior Labs: Betting on Tabular AI Prior Labs will strengthen SAP’s […]

Agentic AI in IP&A: What gets automated first and what should stay manual

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AI is part of almost every software demo in 2026. In practice, though, a “feature” is not the same as productivity. The BARC Score Integrated Planning & Analytics (IP&A) 2026 makes two things clear: So the question is not whether AI will be used in IP&A. It is where can it deliver measurable value first […]

Single source of truth in planning: why IP&A often fails in practice

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Many organizations agree on the goal: one platform, one data model, one set of numbers. Then quarter-end arrives, a forecast update is due, and the “single source of truth” quietly becomes a chain of exports, manual reconciliations, and spreadsheet patches. The BARC Score Integrated Planning & Analytics (IP&A) 2026 describes this gap clearly: many organizations […]

From Hype to Production: How Merck, Siemens and Google Engineer Reliable AI Systems

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This article synthesizes insights from three sessions at the DATA festival Online 2025: "Generative AI @ Scale for Enterprises" by Dr. Harsha Gurulingappa (Merck), "From Concept to Factory Floor: Designing Robust AI Architectures for Industrial Applications" by Dr. Nikita Golovko (Siemens), and "Reliability-first Generative AI: Turning Models into Business-Ready Systems" by Nitesh Singhal...

Anthropic’s 10 AI Agents are Redefining Finance Work

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The headline may sound extreme here. Of course, Claude is not replacing CFOs tomorrow morning. But with the debut of Claude’s new Financial Services Solution by Anthropic, it has clearly moved to a new direction in the world of finance, one where AI does way more than crunch numbers or explain stuff. Think specific financial […] The post Anthropic’s 10 AI Agents are Redefining Finance...