A different approach to security modernization: prevent what you can, prioritize what matters, automate what makes sense, and prove continuously that your controls are working. Ask any CISO how the vulnerability program is going, and you’ll get the same answer: ‘We’re making progress.’ Tickets are closing. Patches are shipping. The dashboard is green. And still, […]

Introduction Merchant acquiring crossed a threshold in January 2026, when Global Payments completed its $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay. The combined company now serves more than 6 million merchant locations, processing $3.7 trillion in payment volume and approximately 94 billion transactions annually across more than 175 countries. That is scale on paper. Scale in production […]

A relationship manager at a regional bank has a client meeting at 10 a.m. At 9:15, she opens Financial Services Cloud (FSC) for the customer’s household relationships, logs into the core banking system for recent transactions, and finishes in the advisor portal, checking open referrals and service cases. She arrives just in time for the […]

Most institutions have already run an AI pilot in onboarding. Far fewer have anything in production. Adoption of AI tooling in KYC and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) surged from 42% in 2024 to 82% in 2025, yet onboarding queues look much the same, because a pilot that proves extraction works has not proven the process can […]

Domestic payments settle in seconds. Cross-border payments still settle in days. The gap is no longer a technology problem  it’s an engineering backlog. Here’s what closing it actually takes. Somewhere in your bank, a customer just sent a domestic payment that settled before they closed the app. The same customer’s cross-border payment possibly initiated the […]

Altimetrik CEO Raj Sundaresan said enterprises need to avoid AI “optimizations traps,” trendy approaches that don’t age well if you don’t put architecture first.  Sundaresan riffed on AI optimization traps, token-maxxing, the penchant for forward deployed engineers and the need for multi-model approaches in a blog post.  Constellation Research caught up with Sundaresan for a […]

Governed, human-in-the-loop agentic experiences for the workflows that run a life sciences business batch release, deviation and CAPA, HCP engagement, and CSR evidence review built on Alti AIOS™ and Google Cloud, and portable across model platforms. In life sciences, the hardest problems don’t live inside a single model. They live in the space between a […]

Why Enterprise AI Won’t Be Won by a Single Model Every technology revolution creates its own optimization traps. The cloud era taught us that migrating more applications didn’t automatically make an enterprise cloud native. The AI era is teaching us something similar, and it is teaching it twice. The first optimization trap was Tokenmaxxing. The […]

Executive Summary In today’s digital economy, system reliability is no longer just an operational concern, it is a business imperative. Every moment of downtime or service degradation directly impacts revenue, customer trust, and brand reputation. Yet many organizations still rely on operational models designed for simpler systems: reactive monitoring, fragmented tooling, and manual troubleshooting. Modern […]