
Use Viva Insights to build a more productive team
June 2, 2026
Microsoft Viva Insights helps organizations understand how work actually gets done, from meeting habits and collaboration patterns to broader productivity trends. With the right setup, it can reveal where teams are losing time and productivity and how they can work more efficiently. Viva Insights is part of Microsoft Viva and works with Microsoft 365 tools

Uber Burned Through Its Entire AI Budget in Four Months. The Lesson Is Cheap for You to Learn.
June 1, 2026
Uber spent its whole annual AI budget in the first four months of 2026. And when asked what they got for it, the company’s own COO admitted they can’t yet draw a clear line between what they’re spending on AI tools and the useful features actually shipping. Sit with that. Uber has hundreds of engineers, a massive budget, and access

Nearly Every CEO Is Planning AI-Driven Headcount Cuts. Here’s What That Means for a 30-Person Shop.
June 1, 2026
99% of executives say AI will lead to at least some workforce reduction at their company within two years. That’s from Mercer’s 2026 Global Talent Trends report, which surveyed more than 800 C-suite leaders and 1,600 HR leaders. Not a fringe number. Basically, all of them. If you run a small business, that statistic should land differently than it does

Transforming online retail through cloud order management systems
May 25, 2026
Managing incoming sales across multiple platforms often leads to administrative gridlock for expanding online stores. Transitioning your transaction workflows to a secure cloud platform provides the clarity needed to efficiently handle order fulfillment. When a business relies on disconnected infrastructure or legacy, on-premise hardware, keeping up with this multi-channelled demand becomes a major administrative burden.

Your Backups Won’t Save You From the New Version of Ransomware
May 20, 2026
For years, the advice was simple: keep good backups, and a ransomware attack becomes a recovery problem instead of a catastrophe. That was solid advice. Attackers noticed. Now a growing number of ransomware groups have stopped encrypting files entirely. Instead, they break in, quietly copy everything, customer records, financial data, contracts, employee information, and walk out. Then they send you a

It Cost $25 Million Because the CFO looked and Sounded Real, and wasn’t
May 20, 2026
A finance employee joined a video call with what appeared to be the company’s CFO and several colleagues. Everyone looked right, sounded right, acted right. She approved a series of wire transfers. When it was over, $25 million was gone. Every person on that call was an AI-generated deepfake. That happened at a multinational firm. But the


