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Technology Insights
Agentic Software Development Created New Friction Points—Where to Find Them, How to Fix Them
As AI accelerates software development, the bottleneck doesn't disappear. It moves. Mathew Spolin, AppDirect's SVP of Engineering and Technology, maps the four friction points that emerge when coding gets fast — and the practical solutions engineering and business leaders can act on today.By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / June 3, 2026
News & Updates
The Three Reasons Enterprise AI Stalls, and How Devs.ai Clears All of Them
Your teams have been waiting for this. Devs.ai by AppDirect just expanded into a full enterprise AI platform, and what's now possible has genuinely shifted. Any team can build production-ready AI apps on their own data in days. A governed private AI store gives every employee something better than any public tool they were using before. And soon, Devs.AI will connect natively to the 2,000+ services your business already runs on. This is what enterprise AI looks like when it's built right.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 1, 2026
News & Updates
Microsoft 365 Prices Are Changing: Lock in Current Rates by June 30 and Help Customers Optimize their Microsoft Solutions.
Microsoft 365 prices are going up on July 1, 2026. But this moment is about more than a deadline. It's a chance to have a more strategic conversation: about whether customers are getting full value from Microsoft, where software waste is quietly eroding their budgets, and where AI fits into their plans.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 29, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
AI Readiness: The DOs and DON'Ts That Determine Success
Most AI initiatives don't fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations skip the readiness work. The companies getting real value from AI do the prep work first: they establish the right use cases and metrics, clean up their data, and fix broken processes. Learn what to do and what to avoid to ensure successful AI deployments.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 26, 2026
Technology Insights
Cloud Forensics and the Digital Crime Scene: How Investigation, Prevention, and Resilience Have Evolved
The digital crime scene has moved to the cloud, where infrastructure is dynamic, data is distributed, identity often defines the perimeter, and AI is rapidly reshaping both breaches and defence. Here’s how cloud forensics has evolved, and why prevention, visibility, and forensic readiness now matter as much as investigation.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 21, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
Your Mobility Data Problem Isn't What You Think It Is
Most enterprises don't have a mobility data shortage—they have a mobile data alignment problem. When carrier portals, finance systems, and IT inventories each tell a different story, teams drown in information but starve for clarity. Closing that clarity gap is what unlocks faster decisions, fewer audits, and confident mobility management at scale.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 19, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
10 Ways AI Helps You Build What Your Business Needs
AI isn't replacing human potential — it's raising the ceiling on what people can do. Here's a practical guide to where AI creates real impact across your organization, and the skills your team needs to get there.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 15, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
Quality Isn't Vibes: How We Created a Practical Framework to Measure Software Quality
Software quality often gets treated as a vibe rather than something engineered. The AppDirect engineering team made it measurable using a 5-pillar framework: Security, Reliability, Performance, Responsiveness, and Issue Detection .By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / May 13, 2026
Technology Insights
Navigating Technical Debt: How to Identify, Measure, and Manage it
Technical debt comes from taking shortcuts in software development that make systems harder to maintain, scale, and improve. Learn about the four categories of technical debt, what to watch for, how to measure it, and how to manage it before it derails your upcoming software and scaling efforts.By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / April 27, 2026
Technology Insights
What’s Slowing Your Engineering Organization Down
Is your engineering team carrying hidden organizational debt? Issues like single points of failure, misaligned teams, vendor dependencies, and knowledge and documentation gaps quietly stall progress. Learn how to spot organizational debt, why solving it is an important proactive investment, and how overcoming it will speed up delivery and boost productivity.By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / April 23, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
Take the Guesswork out of Selling Energy—A Clear Path to Recurring Revenue for Technology Advisors
Selling energy gives technology advisors a simple way to create fast, recurring revenue from existing customer relationships, while helping businesses lower one of their biggest ongoing costs. Here’s everything you need to know to get started.By Amanda Marquez / AppDirect / April 21, 2026
Customer & Partner Success
All the New Advisor Tools We Showcased at Channel Partners 2026
AppDirect brought a new suite of advisor tools to Channel Partners 2026. Explore how these new capabilities help advisors work more efficiently, strengthen customer conversations, and unlock growth across more opportunities and categories.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / April 17, 2026
Strategy & Best Practices
Get Found, Get Chosen, Get Paid on the Ultimate Partner-led B2B Commerce Platform
The rules of provider growth are being rewritten. Marketplaces are the new storefront. Partners are the hidden growth engine, and AI is the new concierge. Now, AppDirect united them all with the acquisition of PartnerStack and Tackle.io and the definitive platform to win in the AI era.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / April 14, 2026