Productivity stories
Rising fraud, shipping costs and AI-driven shopping are set to squeeze retailers' margins this holiday season unless customer data improves.
The clean sweep underlines Commerce's push into complex B2B selling, as buyers demand tighter pricing, procurement and integration controls.
The wellness brand has cut technology costs by 45% after replacing disconnected systems with a single cloud platform across finance and supply chain.
Growing pressure on software teams to govern AI output and costs has prompted IBM to add multi-agent tools and analytics to Bob.
Half of firms may be losing up to 20% on international transfers, with fragmented provider setups driving extra fees and slower settlement.
Australia's repair sector could see faster parts sourcing as Partly uses fresh funding to add engineers and AI specialists locally.
The framework urges finance chiefs to judge AI by completed work, reliability and total task cost rather than licence or user counts.
Only 21% of organisations in Ireland and EMEA are seeing meaningful returns from AI spending, despite a 113% rise in investment.
The funding will help Feathery expand software used by more than 300 financial firms to automate workflows and data sharing.
Frontline employers could cut payroll errors and admin time as the early access rollout targets hotels, clinics and other deskless workplaces.
Australian coal producers using the RFID system have seen average yield gains of 6%, while lab turnaround has shrunk from weeks to minutes.
A free phone service aims to help Australian small businesses move beyond early AI trials, after research found most do not know where to begin.
Investor voting and disclosures will now extend to tokenised equities on Alpaca's platform, as Broadridge adds governance controls to the network.
One in five large contractors have missed UK work because supplier documents could not be produced fast enough, a survey found.
Fragmented systems are squeezing margins and slowing decisions for most direct-to-consumer brands, according to a survey of retail leaders.
Indian SMBs can go live in four to six weeks as Salesforce bundles sales, chat and analytics tools with setup support.
Boards may question finance AI programmes unless spending shifts from efficiency gains towards better decisions and growth, Gartner said.
Businesses want clearer tax rules and broader training support as CIMA warns weak productivity could hold back UK growth.
Rising alert volumes and AI-driven threats are pushing Australian organisations towards unified security platforms, a Fortinet study found.
The expanded deal will ease pressure on Huntingdon College's small IT team as it outsources more campus network security and support.