Acquisitions like Workday-Paradox risk fragmenting HCM with new data silos, demanding unified AI governance and local compliance scrutiny.
Neo4j’s investment highlights graph technology’s critical role in practical AI, providing essential context to unlock efficiency gains from GenAI and ML.
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Atlassian’s $610m browser acquisition is a high-stakes bet on secure, specialised AI productivity against free, embedded Microsoft/Google competition.
Modernising B2B contracts is key to value creation, shifting from time-and-materials to rewarding outcomes for sustainable, innovative partnerships.
Neo4j’s Infinigraph architecture unifies transactional and analytical workloads at scale, simplifying data ecosystems and enabling real-time insights for AI.
Microsoft is bundling its specific Copilots into the main M365 license, signaling a shift to specialised AI tools embedded in daily workflows.
Adobe’s AI agents represent the natural evolution of ecommerce, moving beyond chatbots to integrated, multi-step workflows for customer self-service.
ICT leaders must scrutinise ‘open source’ AI claims; the provided code is often a wrapper for a proprietary, vendor-controlled backend, creating vendor lock-in.
