Topic: roi challenges

  • Insight Partners and Glilot Capital Lead $20M Way Security Investment

    Insight Partners and Glilot Capital Lead $20M Way Security Investment

    Way Security has developed an AI-powered platform to automate the operational heavy lifting of identity and access management (IAM), aiming to replace expensive consulting and implementation services without requiring companies to replace their existing IAM infrastructure. The company secured a $...

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  • AI Adoption Gap: Surface vs. Real Impact in Critical Industries

    AI Adoption Gap: Surface vs. Real Impact in Critical Industries

    While 78% of organizations use AI in 2025, only 25% see a return on investment, highlighting a gap between surface-level adoption and true transformation. Dan MacDonald warns that many companies mistakenly believe they are transforming their operations, but are only achieving incremental efficien...

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  • Building an AI strategy that pays off without risking failure

    Building an AI strategy that pays off without risking failure

    Many AI initiatives fail due to rushing to deploy agentic AI without clear business problems, leading to vague objectives and expensive experiments. Companies should focus on sustainable, repeatable AI workflows by selecting targeted use cases that directly reduce costs or improve accuracy, rathe...

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  • Highspot and Seismic Merge to Create Sales Enablement Powerhouse

    Highspot and Seismic Merge to Create Sales Enablement Powerhouse

    Highspot and Seismic are merging to form a single company under the Seismic name, with Seismic's CEO leading and Highspot's founder joining the board. The merger aims to strengthen their position in the expanding revenue enablement market, which now serves multiple business functions beyond just ...

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  • ServiceNow and Nvidia Launch Open-Source Security Model

    ServiceNow and Nvidia Launch Open-Source Security Model

    ServiceNow and Nvidia have launched Apriel 2.0, an open-source AI model designed for building custom agents and enhancing security operations in regulated environments. Built on Nvidia’s Nemotron architecture, it integrates with ServiceNow’s compliance-certified platform, allowing seamless use of...

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  • Study: Most SAP Customers Prefer Multi-Vendor ERP Strategy

    Study: Most SAP Customers Prefer Multi-Vendor ERP Strategy

    A global study shows SAP customers are increasingly favoring multi-vendor composable ERP strategies over SAP's S/4HANA migration, driven by a desire for flexibility and cost control amid policy uncertainty. Significant concerns exist about SAP's subscription model, with 83% of respondents unclear...

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  • AI Adoption Rises, But Productivity Gains Lag, Study Shows

    AI Adoption Rises, But Productivity Gains Lag, Study Shows

    Widespread AI adoption by employees has not led to significant organizational productivity gains, revealing a disconnect between individual tool usage and measurable business outcomes. Despite high employee acceptance of AI, most organizations report no major improvements in efficiency or work qu...

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  • Salesforce Launches Agentforce 360 Amid Enterprise AI Race

    Salesforce Launches Agentforce 360 Amid Enterprise AI Race

    Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, an upgraded AI platform featuring new tools like Agent Script for flexible agent programming and enhanced Slack integration, set for beta releases in November. The platform incorporates reasoning models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini to improve r...

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  • Forrester: We've Entered the Age of Frumpy, Functional AI

    Forrester: We've Entered the Age of Frumpy, Functional AI

    AI is transitioning from initial hype to practical implementation, with organizations focusing on dependable utility and governance rather than flashy promises. Companies are delaying AI spending due to a gap between vendor promises and actual business value, with many implementations failing to ...

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  • Struggling With AI ROI? The Human-Centric Solution

    Struggling With AI ROI? The Human-Centric Solution

    A recent MIT study found that up to 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver meaningful results, highlighting widespread underperformance in generating ROI. Research identifies a critical trust gap, with businesses rapidly adopting AI but lacking confidence in its reliability, exacerbated by...

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  • Experts Reveal the AI Tasks That Truly Matter

    Experts Reveal the AI Tasks That Truly Matter

    AI is increasingly seen by designers as a collaborative tool that handles tedious tasks, enhancing creativity without replacing human ingenuity, though a gap exists between tech promises and real-world adoption. Generative AI is driving a content revolution with rapid advancements in creating rea...

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  • Australia's AI Adoption Outpacing Strategy, Warns Lucid

    Australia's AI Adoption Outpacing Strategy, Warns Lucid

    While 80% of Australian workers actively use AI tools, nearly half of businesses have only partially or not integrated AI into their core workflows, revealing a strategic shortfall. Employee-led adoption leads to fragmented AI use and unclear ROI, with only 46% of businesses achieving positive re...

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  • 3 AI Debates You Can't Afford to Ignore

    3 AI Debates You Can't Afford to Ignore

    Generative AI is a uniquely disruptive technology, characterized by ongoing scientific debate, real-time best practices, and fiercely contested impacts, prompting IBM and WIRED Consulting to launch expert debates for business leaders. Corporate investment in generative AI is immense, with tech gi...

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