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At FabCon and SQLCon in Barcelona, Microsoft made Fabric IQ generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork, so business definitions from Power BI semantic models inform Copilot answers. It also previewed a Fabric data engineering agent, IQ sharing in OneLake, Fabric observability and Database Hub, and made BigQuery mirroring and DiskANN vector indexes generally available.

Buyer takeawayFabric customers can ground Copilot and agents in governed semantic models today, while most agent features remain in preview and need careful evaluation before production use.

Ema closed a $77 million Series B round led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis, with Accel, S32 and Prosus also participating. The company says total funding now stands near $140 million. It plans to use the capital to build out go-to-market teams and expand into APAC and EMEA, and cites Wipro, Hitachi and NTT Data as customers of its agent platform.

Buyer takeawayBuyers evaluating Ema gain more confidence in its funding runway and should expect broader regional sales and support coverage in APAC and EMEA.

Evalueserve announced a partnership with Databricks aimed at speeding data and AI programmes for enterprise clients. It released three accelerators on the platform: a private credit intelligence lakehouse for underwriting and covenant monitoring, a reusable data quality framework, and a metadata-driven generator for warehouse models. The work draws on Databricks governance and analytics tooling, with no partner tier disclosed.

Buyer takeawayBuyers running Databricks, especially in financial services, gain a domain-led option with packaged accelerators, though they should confirm the partner tier and delivery depth.

Fujitsu reworked its Uvance business model around AI transformation, organised into consulting with forward deployed engineers, applications and AI agents, and AI platforms. It plans to release a new data and AI platform in March 2027 that combines its Kozuchi and Takane technology with frontier models and supports sovereign cloud. Fujitsu targets Uvance revenue above JPY 1.7 trillion by fiscal 2030.

Buyer takeawayFujitsu clients should expect a shift toward outcome-based and usage-based pricing and can plan sovereign data and AI workloads around the platform due in March 2027.

At its Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce introduced AIforce, an interface layer that exposes its data, workflows and permissions to outside AI tools. It includes Claudeforce, built with Anthropic and now in open beta, Slackforce and Agentforce Coworker. The company also previewed Koa, a CRM reasoning model post-trained on NVIDIA Nemotron, with general availability expected in winter 2026.

Buyer takeawaySalesforce customers can increasingly reach CRM data and agents from Claude and Slack, so buyers should review governance, licensing and permission models before opening these channels.

PwC US and PwC India signed an agreement to form a jointly owned venture that merges PwC India's consulting business with the India-based capabilities of PwC US Advisory. Sanjeev Krishan, chair of PwC India, will be CEO. The platform covers strategy, technology, engineering, AI and managed services and is intended partly to support US companies running GCCs in India. Closing is expected in the first half of 2027.

Buyer takeawayCompanies with India GCCs should expect a single, larger PwC delivery entity and should review existing contracts ahead of the 2027 closing.