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Five Ways to Use OpenTelemetry Beyond Observability

OpenTelemetry graduated from the CNCF in May 2026 as, in the foundation’s own words, the de facto observability standard. The JavaScript API package alone did 1.36 billion downloads in twelve months. That kind of win has a side effect nobody plans for. Once a wire format is everywhere, has a receiver for every source, a transform language, and an agent your platform team already operates, people start putting things on it that have nothing to do with knowing whether a service is healthy.

[Finance Demo] - AgentSpot Use Case - Virtual Card Spend Oversight

Manually cross-validating virtual card data across disconnected systems was a constant pain, until the procurement team built an AgentSpot agent to do it automatically. This video showcases a Virtual Card Intelligence agent that pulls PO and requisition data from Google Drive, cross-validates it against Spend Flow, flags expiring cards and utilization risks across 30/60/90 day bands, and sends personalized Slack outreach to card owners. Plus a full 9-tab Excel report covering KPIs, expiry, utilization, and reconciliation. The best part? This is all done in just 4-5 minutes.

[Finance Demo] AgentSpot Use Case - Procurement Automation: PR Approvals & Virtual Card Management

The procurement team at ThoughtSpot built two AgentSpot agents to tackle manual, time-consuming workflows — and the results speak for themselves. Agent 1 – Coupa PR Approval Nudger: Automated purchase requisition reminders that once took hours of manual chasing in Coupa and Slack. Approval cycle time dropped from 6.62 days to 2.8 days. Agent 2 – Virtual Card Intelligence: Cross-validates PO and requisition data against Spend Flow to surface budget leakage, flag expiring cards, and send personalized Slack outreach to card owners. All without manual audits.

[AgentSpot Showcase Series] Using AgentSpot to Automate Weekly Customer Status Updates

Every week, ThoughtSpot Engagement Manager MJ Densmore used to spend up to an hour per customer manually pulling notes, digging through Slack, and checking Salesforce — just to write a status update. Now, AgentSpot does it all automatically, pulling from meeting notes, Slack messages, and support cases to generate a concise summary she can review and send in minutes. Watch to see how a quick, single prompt does the work of a full hour.

SAMA's Open Banking Licence is Live. Is Your Platform Ready to Prove It?

On 26 March 2026, the KSA Central Bank moved Open Banking out of its controlled sandbox and into a formal licensing regime, granting its first licences to Neotek and Lean Technologies on the same day. For KSA banks, this was more than a regulatory milestone it marks the moment when “being innovative” is no longer enough. Since March, SAMA has kept licensing new open banking and payment companies. More approvals came through the year, including in the second and third quarters.

The Smarter Safety Net: Modernizing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with AI

Every engineering leader knows the scenario: sprint tickets are closed, unit coverage shows green across the board, API pipelines pass without a hitch, and the build is tagged "ready for release." Yet, the moment the software reaches actual business users, reality hits. A multi-tier approval workflow breaks on a regional tax calculation. An enterprise customer encounters friction during a custom bulk checkout.

Outsourcing the IT department doesn't remove the governance problem, it relocates it

A business owner decides to stop managing IT internally and hire an outside provider instead. The thinking is straightforward: technology decisions were eating time nobody had, and a specialist can handle it better anyway.

Systematizing Interface Assets Across Distributed Teams

Managing a React component library for five independent product teams reveals a specific type of asset rot. Repositories fill up with disjointed vector files incredibly fast. One squad grabs a thick-lined navigation graphic for their dashboard. Another imports a hyper-detailed two-color asset for a settings panel. Suddenly, your platform interface looks like a patchwork quilt. Users notice these inconsistencies immediately.

SpotterCode in the Visual Embed Playground: Faster Embedding, No Setup Hassle

Embedding ThoughtSpot into your application just got dramatically faster. SpotterCode is now in the Visual Embed Playground. Ask in plain language (rename an agent, apply a custom theme, configure an embed component), and SpotterCode generates exactly the code you need, right inside the ThoughtSpot app. In this video, see how SpotterCode eliminates the setup friction that slows down every embedded analytics build and what it looks like to go from question to working code in seconds.

Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake in September

The September Snow Report is LIVE Three GA launches, AI cost controls, and Expedition 2026 registration is open. What's new Per-User Quotas are GA Set daily or monthly spending limits per user for CoCo, CoWork, Cortex AI Functions, or warehouse compute — and Snowflake blocks access automatically when limits are hit. Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is GA Multiple agents analyze your structured data, unstructured content, and external context together and deliver a fully cited report with recommendations in minutes.