Data Strategy stories

Tata Steel deploys more than 300 AI agents with Google Cloud to speed up maintenance, customer service and back-office work worldwide.

Google Cloud study finds 52% of executives have deployed AI agents, with early adopters reporting stronger returns and wider business use.

Code and Theory names former WPP and Real Chemistry executive JJ Schmuckler as president to bolster senior client ties and integrated growth.

Snowflake broadens AI platform with new business-user agents and developer tools to move corporate projects from pilots into everyday workflows.

Dcycle broadens beyond ESG with AI system that joins finance, operations and sustainability data for quicker management decisions.

Qlik rolls out agentic AI advisory to help enterprises prioritise use cases, strengthen governance and move from ideas to deployment faster.

Denodo survey finds real-time data, security and context are the main barriers as firms struggle to trust agentic AI at scale.

WealthAi hires ex-Microsoft and Amazon executive Pratim Das as Chief Technology Officer and names Harry Kyprianou Head of Product.

Qlik adds new AI agents to its analytics platform, aiming to move enterprise users from spotting data changes to triggering workflows and predictions.

atis to launch first customer app in May as London salad chain boosts digital ordering, loyalty rewards and direct customer data control.

Qlik and ServiceNow team up to pipe governed analytics and metadata into workflows, aiming to sharpen AI agents' decisions across enterprise systems.

Valliance hires former Palantir experts and launches customer review as it seeks to close the AI deployment gap in UK and Europe.

GARR and Cubbit pilot Europe's first federated storage network for Italian universities, starting with 1 petabyte across data centres in Bologna, Rome and Bari.

UK businesses back AI and SAP transformation, but only 4% are very confident in data quality and 94% say silos hinder real-time decisions.

Private equity-backed firms use paid AI tools more than most peers, but many still struggle to turn sponsor pressure into practical finance gains.

Radix has set out a Houston industrial AI event for 2026, aiming to help energy and manufacturing leaders turn pilots into operational gains.

SAP Concur says UK firms are hampering AI and finance decisions with patchy data governance, muddled ownership and a weak culture of accountability.

Boomi gains Leader status in IDC MarketScape's API management assessment as enterprises seek tighter governance for AI-driven and hybrid systems.

Backup strategies still fail when recovery is untested, fragmented and detached from business priorities across modern IT estates.

Haleon expands SAP partnership to modernise core systems, embed AI and unify data across finance, supply chain, HR and sales.