Microsoft's new AI agents can automate accounts payable from end to end, but finance leaders must decide where to draw the line, says Claire van der Merwe, practice head for Dynamics 365 Business Central Consulting at Braintree.
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2026
August
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May
- 21. DaaS removes hardware refresh cycles, eliminates over-provisioning, shifts power and cooling costs to the provider and aligns licensing with users rather than infrastructure, says Chris Badenhorst, head of Azure core services at Braintree.
April
- 8. Licensing models and costs have undergone changes over the past year, leaving companies at an expensive crossroads if they don’t modernise and manage their licensing effectively, says Chris Badenhorst, head of Azure core services at Braintree.
March
- 26. AI has become a more grounded and capable technology that has the potential to change the business at the infrastructure level, says Braintree.