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Productivity stories - Page 5

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Artificial intelligence express entry underused as fans queue in heat

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AI express lanes at the Australian Open went largely unused, leaving fans queuing for hours in near 40C heat despite record attendance.
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Zendesk names Craig Flower COO to drive AI first shift

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Zendesk promotes Craig Flower to chief operating officer, tasking him with accelerating its AI-first customer service and operations strategy.
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Infor appoints Geoff Thomas to lead APJ growth drive

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Infor taps former Qlik leader Geoff Thomas to spearhead Asia Pacific and Japan expansion, revamping regional leadership to fuel cloud growth.
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Amazon threat pushes Australian retailers to speed up

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Amazon, Temu and Shein are forcing Australian retailers to speed up delivery, fix fulfilment bottlenecks and rethink toughened returns.
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Revolut unveils unified merchant payments suite in Australia

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Revolut launches a unified merchant payments suite in Australia, tying in‑person, online and A2A payments directly to its business accounts.
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SEON recognised for AI-led fraud detection leadership

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SEON wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award for AI-driven fraud and AML platform innovation.
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YubiKey study touts ROI, breach risk plunge for firms

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YubiKey deployment delivers 265% ROI, USD $5.3 million NPV and 99.99% lower breach risk in Forrester model of a 5,000-staff enterprise.
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LF taps Rimini Street for SAP, Oracle support savings

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South Korea’s LF picks Rimini Street to support SAP and Oracle systems, cutting maintenance spend and boosting data centre move resilience.
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Gr4vy unveils Silent Mode for parallel fraud testing

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Gr4vy launches Silent Mode to let merchants trial multiple fraud tools in parallel on live payments without affecting real customer outcomes.
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Australian bosses bet on AI despite patchy pay-offs

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Australian bosses double down on AI to cut costs, even as few see strong returns and rapid technological change fuels mounting pressure.
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Canadian executives back AI despite global jitters

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Canadian bosses bet big on AI for 2026 as global economic optimism lags, embracing autonomous agents while employees resist AI managers.
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Fieldguide raises USD $75m to expand agentic AI in audit

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Fieldguide secures USD $75m Series C from Goldman Sachs to scale agentic AI for audit firms, lifting its valuation to USD $700m.
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Adobe backs UK Tech Towns AI skills drive in Barnsley

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Adobe and ministers launch a Barnsley Tech Towns pilot to boost AI and digital skills, and trial AI across local public services.
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Sage X3 gains Copilot, AI agents & smarter automation

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Sage adds Copilot, AI agents and smarter automation to Sage X3, promising faster decisions for mid-sized finance and supply chain teams.
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Oracle unveils AI agentic platform for retail banks

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Oracle launches an AI agent platform for retail banks, blending autonomous agents and human oversight to automate and personalise services.
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Burnout & unfair workloads fuel UK professional exits

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Burnout and unfair workloads are driving talent out of UK professional services, as leaders admit blind spots on capacity and utilisation.
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WealthArc expands custodian network & builds AI agents

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WealthArc boosts global custodian links and builds AI agents to clean, reconcile and scale portfolio data for cross-border wealth managers.
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Security tops 2026 tech spend for Australian retailers

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Security, privacy and data protection will command the biggest tech spend for Australian retail SMBs in 2026, ahead of AI and global growth.
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Discovery Consulting appoints SAP leader for NSW push

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Discovery Consulting names SAP specialist Mark Miranda to spearhead NSW mid-market growth, targeting preferred partner status by 2028.
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OpenAI launches Australia-wide drive for AI skills & jobs

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OpenAI unveils an Australia-wide AI push, pairing a Sydney supercomputer campus with skills training and new startup support schemes.