Recent market discussions around Salesforce have reignited a broader debate across the software industry. The issue is often framed as an “AI disruption problem,” but that framing is imprecise. What markets are reacting to is not a deterioration of software demand, but growing uncertainty around how software value will be monetized in an AI-driven operating model.
Morningstar analysts have noted that recent declines in software stocks reflect market overreaction to AI...

Technical enforcement is becoming a compliance expectation. What this shift means for enforceable digital assets and software control.
On 8 January 2026, Italy’s communications regulator Agcom fined Cloudflare over €14 million under its anti-piracy framework, after determining that the company failed to execute blocking measures required under the nation’s Piracy Shield regime. This enforcement action, grounded in Law 93/2023 and subsequent regulatory orders published...

At one of the world’s largest medical technology trade fairs, KUKA demonstrates how robot-based solutions can support doctors and therapists – and, with the KUKA Innovation Award, offers young talents a platform for their medical robotics ideas. The 5 finalist teams are guidooSpine (Germany), SERA (Canada), AUROVAS (Italy), ULTRATOPIA (Belgium, Switzerland), and Team HERMIS (Germany). To turn their ideas into reality, KUKA provides the finalists with the LBR Med – the first col...

As the Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry matures, the gap between technological possibility and industrial viability becomes ever more critical. The new VDMA whitepaper “AM in Mechanical and Plant Engineering: Know-how and Experience Determine Success” emphasizes precisely this: the most successful AM strategies are those rooted in deep domain expertise, rigorous process integration, and disciplined scaling.
VDMA’s Perspective: From Protot...

Schienle Magnettechnik stands for precise electromagnetic solutions in industrial, medical, and explosion-proof applications. With decades of experience, we develop products that meet the highest technical and quality standards.
The Clean by Design principle goes far beyond simple component cleanliness. It begins in the development phase and considers the entire product life cycle. The goal is an intelligent design that minimizes particle emissions, simplifies cleaning, and ensures ma...

Building a product that satisfies users and hits revenue targets isn’t just about cranking out features, but rather, it’s about finding the sweet spot where customer needs, business goals, and technical realities meet. Market development professionals, product managers, and other business decision makers must balance users’ needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility in developing a market winning and profitable product. A few of the several critical factors that must...

Last year, Dr. Karmen Kempka, Wibu-Systems’ Director Corporate Technology, published a post in this blog space about the various Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) initiatives brought forth by government, research organizations, and industry to stay ahead of and mitigate the pending risks of quantum computing on today’s cryptography standards.
Quantum computing brings with it enormous potential for progress across a wide range of fields. From accelerating drug discovery and o...

The flexibility afforded by a features-based licensing approach has brought significant value to both software vendors and end users.
With features-based licensing, software functionality can be segmented into separate parts that can be readily enabled by the software vendor via a license when desired or needed by the end user. This capability is particularly suited for powerful software programs where end users rarely utilize the full functionality of the software, at least initially, but can...

In November of 2024, BSA | The Software Alliance, a leading advocate for the global enterprise software industry, delivered a series of proposals to the incoming US Trump/Vance administration to address some of the most significant technology policy issues affecting economies and society. Although directed at the United States for consideration during the government transition period, the recommendations can be viewed as a foundational roadmap that can apply to all global governments a...