Enterprise Applications

Why sovereign cloud is harder than it sounds

Gartner analyst Douglas Toombs warns that 80 years of globally interconnected trade will not unbundle neatly in 18 months, and that much of what passes for ‘sovereign cloud’ today is little more than ‘sovereign washing’.

Most AI Initiatives miss Expected ROI - ISACA

Artificial intelligence is now embedded almost everywhere in business, but the returns and the guardrails are not keeping pace, according to new research from professional association ISACA. Ninety percent of digital trust professionals say employees in their organisation are using AI, yet only 22 percent report that AI return on investment has met or exceeded expectations.

NSW Police Force Needs $A493m to Finish Tech Reset

A report by the NSW Auditor-General has found the NSW Police Force needs four extra years to complete its core technology upgrade, requiring $A493 million in additional funding. The agency has spent $155 million while delivering only one of five core systems.

AI Agents: Productivity, Promise and Real Questions for D&A Leaders

AI agents spark big productivity hopes and tough questions for Data & Analytics leaders 

Rossum IDP Joins Coupa Source-To-Pay Stack

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.

SAP Bets ERP Future On Agentic Workflows

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.

AI Workflows Get New Visibility from Honeycomb

Engineering teams running AI agents in production have a new way to see what those agents are actually doing, after observability vendor Honeycomb introduced a set of agent-focused features built on OpenTelemetry standards rather than proprietary SDKs.

WEF Report Maps AI's Role in Cybersecurity

Organisations that deploy AI extensively in security operations have reduced the average time to contain a data breach by approximately 80 days and cut average breach costs by $US1.9 million, according to a new white paper published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with KPMG.

Panzura Targets Copilot Data Readiness for Enterprise

A persistent barrier to Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption in enterprise environments is the volume of unstructured file data that sits outside the system's reach - project files, engineering drawings and records stored in hybrid cloud file platforms that Copilot cannot natively query. Panzura's new product targets that gap directly.

SAP Targets Data Fragmentation With Dremio Acquisition

SAP has agreed to acquire Dremio, an open-source data lakehouse platform, in a bid to solve the data fragmentation problem that the enterprise software giant says is the primary reason AI initiatives fail in large organisations. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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