Data Strategy stories
The ranking bolsters Looker as Google pushes AI-driven analytics, with buyers weighing governance and trusted data more heavily than dashboards.
The ranking could help EDB win larger enterprises seeking to run analytics and AI closer to core data without adding more specialist systems.
Banks under regulatory pressure may be able to modernise databases without moving sensitive records to public cloud infrastructure.
Businesses can now query BigQuery in plain English, with Google adding audit trails, access controls and scheduled AI analyses.
Poor-quality data can derail AI projects, leaving businesses with biased predictions, weak insights and higher compliance risk.
Most enterprises still struggle to turn AI pilots into profit, with just 23 per cent able to link initiatives to higher revenue or lower costs.
The overhaul gives more than 18,000 vendors a single governed record, cutting duplicate compliance checks and manual re-keying across systems.
The insurer is bolstering its Asia management as it pushes harder into data, automation and AI to improve underwriting and customer service.
More firms are tying AI spending to measurable results, yet just 7% have established a return on investment, KPMG says.
Nearly half of Gen Z shoppers now use AI agents to help choose products, forcing brands to rethink how they reach buyers in peak trading periods.
Most marketers still miss growth because insights rarely turn into timely action, leaving customer decisions slow and fragmented.
Connected coolers are becoming a key source of real-world data, helping bottlers predict failures and dispatch repairs before sales are lost.
Ad-hoc data work is draining staff time and slowing AI projects, as only a quarter of large firms have structured data programmes.
Legacy systems are slowing enterprise AI gains, with only 10% of large firms saying the technology is core to operations.
A lack of live data infrastructure is leaving most Australian IT leaders unable to scale AI, according to new research from Confluent.
The carmaker aims to streamline production and back-office systems as it pushes data and AI into its Crewe Dream Factory project.
Despite widespread pilots, only 17% of Malaysian financial institutions have scaled strategic AI initiatives, a new report says.
Fans can now follow live scores, video and team news in one place as New Zealand Rugby deepens its direct-to-fan strategy.
Fragmented enterprise data is slowing AI rollouts, and the new software aims to find, classify and govern it across mixed systems.
Non-STEM graduates now make up a third of Hyundai Card's digital team, as the issuer ties hiring to its AI-led business shift.