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• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Agentforce London: 78% of UK companies use agentic AI, says Salesforce

  Salesforce released Digital Labour Trends survey data to coincide with its Agentforce London 2025 event that found 78% of UK organisations are using agentic AI

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT

  Legacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman

• May 16, 2025 16 May'25

  Kissflow finds its place in low-code market

  The supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft

  Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Why did IT suppliers allow Birmingham City Council to go live with Oracle?

  Councillors at the local authority’s budget setting and audit committee meetings raised questions as Birmingham faces budget deficits

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope

  While there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Software AG shrinks with sale of Alfabet and Cumulocity

  Software AG, Germany’s number two business software company, after SAP, has announced the latest turn in its shrinkage under the umbrella of private equity group Silver Lake

• December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

  Google Cloud’s Agentspace to unlock enterprise data

  Agentspace uses AI agents to automate workflows and connect to multiple data sources to perform tasks and deliver insights, boosting enterprise productivity and efficiency

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How Kong is driving the future of APIs

  From its open-source API gateway to a full platform play, Kong is orchestrating the future of APIs with a growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Barclays takes on more GreenLake

  Barclays has ramped up its HPE-powered private cloud, as it continues to modernise IT and reduce its carbon footprint

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  ServiceNow expands footprint in APAC, doubles down on AI

  ServiceNow has been building local teams, targeting customers in regulated industries and doubling down on AI to expand its presence in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation

  Akamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Innovations to power secure-by-design development

  Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN

  Kyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  How FWD is driving its digital strategy

  FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Bupa turns to data to provide personalised health services

  Private healthcare provider Bupa says a project to deploy business process automation is bringing it closer to APAC customers

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes

  Salesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes

• April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

  Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy

  Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  IT chiefs fear Kubernetes data log overload

  IT architectures are set to grow in complexity, and more mission-critical systems are being deployed on Kubernetes, meaning log files are becoming unmanageable

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration

  Microsoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  IT leaders spend on cutting-edge to refactor legacy tech

  Organisations carry around a huge amount of technical debt, which holds back innovation and limits application architectural decisions

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan

  The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  The outlook for open source? Growing, but there are challenges

  While more companies are using open source technologies, not everyone may realise it

• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF

  While artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Boomi doubles down on AI and automation

  Boomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney

• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Workato CEO calls for new automation mindset

  Workato CEO Vijay Tella urges organisations to go beyond the ‘mechanistic glue’ of automating manual processes and embrace a new automation mindset that focuses on transforming their business

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations

  SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives

• October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23

  Collaboration paramount in KPN’s successful business transformation

  KPN tells Oracle CloudWorld 2023 how it transformed when its legacy systems became obstacles to supporting its customers on their digital journeys

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  Qualcomm looks to reshape digital world through spatial computing

  Mobile tech giant announces new platforms, developed in close collaboration with Meta, to provide breakthrough performance in immersive applications such as mixed and augmented reality

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Duplicate waypoints root cause of Nats subsystem failover

  Processing of waypoints that determine when a flight enters and leaves UK airspace caused the air traffic system to report a critical error

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders

  BMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework

  NHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024

• August 02, 2023 02 Aug'23

  Wirral Council set to deploy Microsoft Fabric data platform

  The platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Simpson Associates, will be used to aid decision-making and improve operations

• July 07, 2023 07 Jul'23

  JumpCloud issues notice to customers to refresh API keys

  JumpCloud has asked its customers to update their API cryptographic keys following a security incident

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Why an ecosystem helps IT projects move forward

  It used to be the case that IT departments would build or buy, but now there’s an alternative to help organisations integrate different data sources

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023

  Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’

  Bill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  How Pendula is driving customer communications

  The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention

• May 29, 2023 29 May'23

  Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

  Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms

• May 28, 2023 28 May'23

  Australia’s Disability Trust picks Boomi integration platform

  The non-profit organisation is using Boomi’s integration platform to integrate a mix of legacy and new systems to deliver real-time data updates and improve payroll processing, among other goals

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government

  The Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  APAC is proving to be ‘substantial growth engine’ for Rimini Street

  Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin outlines growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific and discusses the company’s move up the support value chain

• February 17, 2023 17 Feb'23

  Singapore’s IHiS taps Google Cloud for API management

  Integrated Health Information Systems is using Google’s Apigee API management platform to provide access to data and applications across Singapore’s public healthcare system

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  How Indian banks can drive automation in corporate banking

  Banks should prioritise their processes for automation based on the level of human intervention, understand their processes thoroughly and put employees at the centre of their automation efforts

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  NHS data platform costing £480m to supersede Covid-19 data store underway

  NHS England has invited suppliers to tender for a data platform that will supersede the Covid-19 data store controversial for the involvement of data analytics firm Palantir

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

  Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential