Data management stories
Only 21% of organisations in Ireland and EMEA are seeing meaningful returns from AI spending, despite a 113% rise in investment.
Healthcare providers could reduce manual administration and compliance work as FPT's new framework targets regulated workflows and fragmented data.
Businesses could cut AI data-handling costs sharply as NetApp adds DataPelago's zero-copy processing to its storage platform.
Greater AI spending is set to expose data and governance gaps unless companies first fix the operational foundations, Forrester says.
Stricter EU rules are pushing firms to prove AI is governed properly, as the new CMMI AIM framework adds assessments and certification.
Most SMBs remain stuck in AI pilots, but European firms are turning tools into routine operations faster than peers, the study found.
Boards are being urged to fix data quality, fraud controls and infrastructure before AI adoption numbers start to matter.
Attackers can now weaponise newly disclosed flaws in hours, leaving businesses exposed unless security teams move to real-time oversight.
Rising AI costs and security gaps are pushing enterprises to tighten oversight as leaders demand clearer returns from deployments.
AI is now embedded in reporting and operations across the region, but executives warn that governance, data sovereignty and shadow use lag behind.
Boards are rushing into AI deployments, but leaders say weak data governance and security gaps are now threatening trust and returns.
Australian manufacturers could slash rework and compliance time if they embed AI in daily workflows, UTS-led research says.
Fewer than 5% of Australian organisations have scaled AI, leaving data leaks, bias and compliance failures as real risks for business leaders.
Across healthcare, cyber security and data management, leaders warned that AI will stall without stronger infrastructure, workflows and trusted data.
Public and enterprise AI roll-outs are running into sovereignty, storage and data-governance problems as projects move from pilots to production.
Businesses scaling AI face greater risk of hidden errors, as Alation's new system aims to verify data, context and agent decisions in real time.
Enterprises could see better GPU use as the partnership aims to cut data delays that slow AI training, inference and analytics.
One in five large contractors have missed UK work because supplier documents could not be produced fast enough, a survey found.
Nearly two-thirds of major ERP and digital transformation programmes face critical delivery risk, with weak resourcing and planning the main threats.
Only 22% of Australian organisations say they are ready to govern AI safely, as spending and use surge across daily operations.