Opinion stories
Year-end reporting and AI growth are exposing costly data sprawl, as many firms struggle to safely retire legacy systems without disruption.
Falling volumes and more than 100 shutdowns in H1 2026 are forcing exchanges to rely on interest income and institutional flow.
Auditors are finding that email verification alone leaves institutions exposed to synthetic identities, weak records and KYC compliance gaps.
Disrupted systems can quickly delay production, shipments and spare parts, exposing how tightly factory IT now underpins supply chain performance.
Bad address data can now trigger missed deliveries, compliance gaps and fraud risks across sectors from retail to healthcare.
Machine-speed discovery is shrinking defenders' lead time, as AI now uncovers obscure flaws and turns them into exploits before patches land.
Within 48 hours, the priority is restoring clarity, aligning business and technology teams and deciding what the project can realistically deliver.
Boards and regulators are being urged to prove critical services can hold up as frontier AI speeds attacks and shortens response times.
Verified records can sharpen lending, fraud and compliance decisions, while enrichment on faulty customer data can simply scale the errors.
Many change programmes stall because leaders track delivery, not whether staff have actually adopted new ways of working.
Airlines need earlier, more reliable updates to plan around late deliveries and repairs as supply chain failures cost at least USD $11 billion.
Poor communication can deepen the fallout from a workplace incident, leaving employees, families and regulators without timely, accurate updates.
Fans were spared buffering as Seven used New Relic to scale 7plus Sport for AFL demand and meet strict geotargeting rules.
For SMEs, faster lending is no longer enough as supply-chain shocks and volatile costs can make a quick answer the wrong one.
Enterprise security teams are treating women's AI scepticism as foresight, as agentic systems expose the governance risks many had flagged earlier.
Victims are being left to fend for themselves as fraud becomes industrialised, with many still blaming themselves after scams.
IAM teams are being urged to tackle AI agents, non-human identities and legacy access risks at a free London conference in November 2026.
Missed stakeholder buy-in can derail large schemes long before buyers or tenants see them, as digital scrutiny now shapes trust.
Rising eCommerce demand and higher vehicle costs are pushing Singapore SMEs to rethink whether owning fleets still makes business sense.
AI-driven automation is forcing SaaS groups to rethink licensing, as per-seat fees erode when fewer staff can do more work.