SAP won a Dutch military cloud deal of up to ten years. The ministry says it does not end its SAP dependence.

CANVA Canva told 1,271 staff, 22%, they face layoffs, new roles or moves. Its growth slowed for the first time in a decade. Canva CEO Melanie Perkins announced the restructuring in a memo to staff, The Register reported on 4 November.

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SALESFORCE Salesforce said Coworker had more than 185,000 users. CIOs still need savings evidence Salesforce has not supplied. Salesforce said on 4 November that usage of Agentforce Coworker, its AI assistant for staff, grew 21 times in three months.

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WORKDAY SAP offered 300 AI agents. Workday's product chief, a former SAP executive, called the autonomous enterprise idea "cold and soulless". Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product and technology at Workday, made the remark at Workday Rising, a week after SAP Connect in the same city, iTWire reported.

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ORACLE Oracle dropped an estimated $7 billion deal to rent AI chips to Tencent, the FT reported. US officials had raised concerns. Oracle had signed a five-year contract to rent AI chips to Tencent, giving it access to up to 100,000 advanced chips in several data centres in Southeast Asia.

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SAP SAP says Somerset Council moved about 8,500 staff off its 17-year-old payroll system in 13 months, on budget. Nobody named the budget. The English council moved about 8,500 employees from what its ICT director Andy Kennell called "a highly customised SAP system that had been in place for 17 years" to SAP SuccessFactors, SAP and the council said on 4 November.

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