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UiPath is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BOAT - a new category with a high bar
On 14 September 2026 Gartner published the Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. Twenty vendors were assessed and UiPath sits in the Leaders quadrant. The BOAT category has a strict entry condition: native AI agent orchestration, governance over agents and multiagent coordination. Here is what Gartner credits the UiPath Platform with, and what that position means for your automation programme.
Weekly review W38: not the tool, the route
Ten items from 11-17 September 2026: a working proof 96 hours after SAP Security Patch Day, eight unmonitored routes to change bank details, three orchestration patterns and 24 contract clauses for AI systems.
One supplier, five names - why procurement cannot see its own spend
The same supplier sits in five systems under five spellings, so procurement negotiates as five mid-sized accounts instead of one large one. Where the drift comes from, what it hides, what a governing record actually is, and how to size the problem in your own organisation without starting a project.
Secure SAP S/4HANA conversion - what the programme does to your attack surface
No steering committee ever minutes the decision to widen the attack surface for two years. That is exactly what gets approved: a change freeze on SAP ECC, production copies in project systems, emergency access for the system integrator, custom code that nobody scanned for security, and a RISE model where you raise the patch request. None of those steps is a mistake. Together they are a window.
TrustBroker 5.1 - SSO and MFA for SAP without Active Directory
For two decades, single sign-on to SAP GUI meant Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory. SecurityBridge has built OpenID Connect into the SNC library, so that dependency stops being a technical necessity - and phishing-resistant authentication finally reaches the SAP GUI login.
UiPath Delegate in public preview - a desktop agent that runs on your own permissions
Six weeks ago Delegate was an announcement on UiPath Labs. It now has a public preview, its own product documentation, an installer and a consumption meter - and UiPath has retired Task Mining in its public-sector cloud to move resources here. We take the product apart: how it works, what the profiles are, what you need in place, what it costs, and which settings to lock down before anyone sees the Autonomous switch.
Weekly Review W37: the core does not decide, what surrounds it does
Fifteen items from the window of 11 August - 10 September 2026: SAP Security Patch Day with a 10.0 note in the kernel, the network barrier in front of SAP removed, an official MCP server for BTP administration, a benchmark of eight SAP security pillars, a hidden payload in an email summary, OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, a near-autonomous agentic attack on Taiwan, the harness as the deciding layer, UiPath results, Cartographer, Daniel Dines's book, the ISO 42001 annex trap, a model at critical level in cyber, AI server price rises and Mistral's funding round.
Testing SAP S/4HANA during conversion and before go-live: what UiPath Test Cloud actually does, and where it stops
Change Impact Analysis answers one question: which SAP transactions a transport touched, and which of those have no test case assigned. That second list is the first number in any conversation about conversion readiness. A working guide to Heatmap, Change Impact Analysis and performance scenarios in UiPath Test Cloud, grounded in ISTQB and honest about the limits.
Your AI assistant refuses. That does not mean it is protecting you
The same request goes through once and is turned down the next time, depending on what happened earlier in the conversation. Three measurements show a refusal boundary that moves by tens of percentage points with no configuration change at all - which makes it unfit for the job our documents give it.
512 GB under the desk. Why, after the Lenovo ThinkStation PGX, I am seriously pricing an Apple Mac Studio as SNOK's POC machine
Apple has announced a Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra and 512 GB of unified memory at 1.2 TB/s. I have tested a Lenovo ThinkStation PGX with the NVIDIA GB10 and I carry a 128 GB MacBook every day, so I read the announcement as a purchasing calculation: is this the proof-of-concept and fine-tuning machine for a firm like SNOK? From a distance the price looks absurd. Up close it starts to make sense.
SAP Security Patch Day September 2026 - four critical notes, four different owners
20 items instead of August's 31, so the list looks quiet. It is not. The four critical notes sit in four separate layers - the kernel, inter-instance communication, an npm package and the end user's desktop - and none of them lands where ERP patching normally looks.
Agent or repackaged bot? Ten questions for your vendor
In a demo every system looks agentic, because a demo shows a case the vendor prepared. Ten questions that settle it in fifteen minutes - with scoring, an honest reading of the result, and no vendor named.
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