AI Strategy stories - Page 5

Firms spent USD $252 billion on AI in 2024, yet only 4% report repeatable, scalable value as governance and skills gaps hold back returns.

As AI quietly accelerates inside core systems, many firms risk mismatched governance that leaves them both behind and overexposed at once.

ERP vendors are turning AI from decorative dashboards into agent-driven operating layers that reshape finance and operations work in 2026.

Samsung is adding Perplexity as a system-level agent on upcoming Galaxy flagships, deepening its shift to a multi-assistant AI strategy.

New Relic launches an agentic AI platform and SRE Agent to shift observability from reactive monitoring to automated incident resolution.

Workday names veteran tech leader Yen Yen Tan to its Asia-Pacific advisory board to sharpen its AI and cloud push in Southeast Asia.

EY urges tech leaders to pursue AI-fuelled deals, agentic systems and sovereignty-by-design as 2026 competition and security pressures grow.

Unilever taps Google Cloud's AI and data platforms in a five-year deal to build an enterprise-wide digital backbone for its global brands.

Asia-Pacific organisations hit steeper technical hurdles than global peers as they try to scale agentic AI from pilot projects to production.

Liverpool John Moores University launches AI Academy with Multiverse to upskill 134 staff and free hours weekly for teaching and research.

V2 AI names new Asia Pacific leaders as it doubles consultants and rides surging enterprise demand for large-scale agentic AI projects.

New research finds 85% of firms trial AI but only 17% use it daily, with weak knowledge governance blamed for stalled adoption.

OpenNebula links its cloud orchestration with Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet to power multi-tenant AI Factory infrastructure at scale.

Enterprises rush to adopt agentic AI via external platforms, but few have standardised, organisation-wide deployments in place yet.

GitLab unveils agentic AI strategy to orchestrate software delivery, adding governance tools, maturity assessments and a developer hackathon.

Celonis touts digital twins and process data as the missing link to turn scattered enterprise AI experiments into measurable business gains.

Agentic AI is shredding seat-based SaaS models, sparking a wave of 'zombie' vendors, valuation shocks and leaner, AI-native rivals.

Forrester warns firms chasing AI hype risk failure and rising costs if weak IT foundations, governance and data are left unresolved.

Most firms plan agentic AI within three years, but Celonis finds clunky processes and poor context threaten ROI and slow deployment.

Celonis hires veteran software leader Ewan Henderson as North America GM to tighten AI's link to day-to-day operations and measurable ROI.