Productivity stories
Its founders say the consultancy has avoided redundancies and kept growth lean, even as demand for AI transformation rises across the region.
Automation is freeing FundTap staff from manual reconciliation as late payments squeeze small firms across Australia and New Zealand.
Many firms are failing to turn AI spending into returns, as Quanton opens in Australia to help clients scale deployments and change management.
The funding will help banks and insurers automate lending, claims and onboarding while keeping AI decisions auditable and compliant.
Budget pressure and easier deployment are driving event teams to adopt AI translation, with 66% saying it beats human interpreters.
Higher profitability has helped push enterprise values up by about 15% for the average IT solution provider, according to a new report.
Rising demand for multilingual meetings is pushing enterprises towards AI tools, with 66% of event professionals rating them better than interpreters.
Gamers should see faster response times as the hosting provider adds AMD chips, cuts power use and halves its server fleet to meet demand.
Governance is lagging as Australian firms race ahead with AI, leaving many exposed to control and readiness gaps, a new study finds.
Direct-to-consumer rivals are intensifying pressure on agencies as carriers still lack market intelligence on where business is shifting.
Managed service providers could cut hours of manual vulnerability work per client as the update links scans, remediation and audit evidence.
Utilities are warning that AI-fuelled data-centre demand will strain grids, with 77% expecting growth to outpace new supply.
Stronger wholesale networks could help shield Irish consumers and SMEs from supply shocks as tighter margins and disruption bite across the food chain.
The rollout should save staff hours on internal updates as XMA uses screens to target messages across three offices and dozens of divisions.
Borrowers and brokers could see faster decisions as the lender says automated workflows have cut handling times by up to 30%.
Tourism operators could capture more bookings as an AI receptionist now answers missed calls, checks availability and takes payments automatically.
Australian airports and utilities could soon use dog-like robots to inspect risky sites, as Datacom and Lenovo roll out AI systems.
Storm-hit growers in Hawke's Bay are spending on automation and cool stores to protect exports, cut bottlenecks and lift throughput.
Adoption alone may not lift output, with only 5% of Australian small firms fully using AI despite two-thirds already experimenting with it.
The Montreal startup's software aims to close a coaching gap by showing managers how reps handle calls, not just whether they happened.