Atlassian Teaches Its Robots to Work the Night Shift

by Gavin Smith | Sep 12, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Atlassian has declared that the next era of software development is not a chatbot you prompt like a vending machine, but an always-on agentic AI that hums along while your stand-up meeting pretends to have a plan. The company announced new upcoming Jira features...

Kotlin Grows a Brain and Learns to Answer the Pager

by Gavin Smith | Sep 11, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

There is a moment when developers stop pretending they can manage every messy detail by hand and let the machine handle the boring heroic parts. For Kotlin, Java, and Android folks, ADK for Kotlin 1.0 general availability is that machine in a freshly ironed shirt. It...

When Developers Move Above the Code

by Gavin Smith | Sep 11, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

For decades, software development has played musical chairs. Waterfall gave way to agile, DevOps shortened distances, CI/CD sped releases, and low-code abstracted parts of coding. Now agentic coding lets AI plan, write, test and modify software. The question is not...

Small Biz, Big Algorithm: How AI Became the 2026 Office Intern Who Never Sleeps

by Gavin Smith | Sep 9, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

In 2026, small and medium-sized businesses are not waiting for AI to turn into a chrome-plated oracle. They are using it like a caffeinated intern who can read a spreadsheet without blinking. The most common moves are refreshingly mundane: automating repetitive tasks,...

Build Versus Buy: How AI Is Upending Business Software

by Marcie Terman | Sep 8, 2026 | AI Solutions, Blog

  The New Advantage That May Reshape Your Industry By Marcie D. Terman, DATAFORT founder A transition is coming in how businesses organise their work. Nimble companies led by innovative founders can increasingly choose to scope, design, develop and deploy...

Accountancy Newsletter: AI Doesn’t Replace Accountants | It Changes the Accountancy Edition

by Marcie Terman | Sep 8, 2026 | AI Solutions, Blog, Newsletter

The AI Efficiency for Accountants Newsletter V1 E5 by Marcie D Terman | Business Development Director 8 September, 2026 Accountancy practices have used technology to improve productivity for decades. Spreadsheets, Sage, Xero, cloud accounting, payroll systems and...