Document automation vendor Affinda has launched an AI agent that builds end-to-end document workflows through a single natural language conversation. The Melbourne-headquartered firm claims it can compress configuration cycles that previously took six to nine months.

Automation Anywhere has unveiled new platform capabilities for orchestrating AI agents, automations and human workers within a single governed enterprise process.

Nitro has launched Nitro Automate, a product designed to embed document processing capabilities into AI agents, automation platforms and enterprise applications.

OpenText has rolled out new identity, data protection and application security capabilities for Australian enterprises adopting AI. The vendor cited rising cybercrime costs and tightening regulatory expectations around AI deployment.

Data management vendor Quest Software has added AI-powered data modelling and expanded governance assistants to its Trusted Data Management Platform. The expansion targets fragmentation between modelling, governance and AI tools that the company says erodes trust in data products.

Snowflake has completed an Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) PROTECTED-level assessment for its Google Cloud Melbourne region deployment. The assessment completes coverage across the three major hyperscalers operating in Australia.

OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that pairs its frontier models with the Codex agent harness to find and patch software vulnerabilities. The move intensifies competition with Anthropic's rival Project Glasswing initiative.

Spend management vendor Coupa has acquired intelligent document processing specialist Rossum, moving a two-year technology partnership inside its own walls and extending the capability across its full source-to-pay platform.

A new alliance between document processing companies ParaScript and ABBYY brings handwriting recognition and fraud detection capabilities into ABBYY's established optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) platform.

SAP has used its Sapphire conference in Orlando to position itself as a business AI company rather than an enterprise software vendor, unveiling what it calls the Autonomous Enterprise alongside a unified AI platform, a portfolio of more than 200 agents and a €100 million fund for partner-led deployments.