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Netball Victoria wins award for analytics-led digital overhaul
Data Analytics

Netball Victoria wins award for analytics-led digital overhaul

Netball Victoria won the 2025 Qlik ANZ Digital Transformation Award for overhauling its data strategy, boosting insights for 119,000 participants across Victoria.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Fri, 17th Oct 2025

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AI deployments grow as banks realise the potential benefits
Fintech

AI deployments grow as banks realise the potential benefits

Banks are moving beyond AI pilots to integrate intelligent systems across operations, boosting efficiency and personalising customer engagement sector-wide.

By Jeremy Thomas • 4 min read • Wed, 19th Nov 2025
Voyado's UK customer base grows 40% amid AI retail demand
Customer Experience

Voyado's UK customer base grows 40% amid AI retail demand

Voyado's UK customer base grows 40% as retailers boost AI-driven engagement to meet rising costs and evolving consumer expectations.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Nov 2025
VDURA V12 boosts AI data speed, cuts storage costs by over 20%
Data Protection

VDURA V12 boosts AI data speed, cuts storage costs by over 20%

VDURA's V12 Data Platform speeds AI data processing by up to 20 times, boosts throughput 20%, and cuts storage costs by over 20% for large-scale workloads.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Mon, 17th Nov 2025
Emirates Flight Catering transforms data management for efficiency
Data Analytics

Emirates Flight Catering transforms data management for efficiency

Emirates Flight Catering adopts Informatica's cloud-based data platform to boost efficiency, supplier collaboration and sustainability in its meal production.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Oracle expands AI, multi-cloud & local partnerships in ANZ
Multi-cloud

Oracle expands AI, multi-cloud & local partnerships in ANZ

Oracle is broadening its AI and multi-cloud partnerships in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on data sovereignty and sector-specific cloud solutions.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Snowflake & SAP unite to offer real-time AI data integration
Data Analytics

Snowflake & SAP unite to offer real-time AI data integration

SAP partners with Snowflake to integrate real-time AI data capabilities, launching extensions for SAP Business Data Cloud in 2026.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Wed, 5th Nov 2025
Cloudera named leader in Forrester Wave amid ANZ AI spend
Edge Computing

Cloudera named leader in Forrester Wave amid ANZ AI spend

Cloudera named leader in Forrester's Data Fabric Platforms report, highlighting its strength in data management amid growing AI spend in Australia and New Zealand.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Nov 2025
Paytronix unveils AI tool to boost hospitality marketing campaigns
Customer Experience

Paytronix unveils AI tool to boost hospitality marketing campaigns

Paytronix launches Journey Builder, an AI tool that automates personalised marketing campaigns for restaurants and convenience stores in real time.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Thu, 30th Oct 2025
Couchbase 8.0 boosts AI scalability with advanced vector search
Hybrid Cloud

Couchbase 8.0 boosts AI scalability with advanced vector search

Couchbase 8.0 enhances AI scalability with new vector search options, boosting speed, accuracy, and AI data management across hybrid cloud environments.

By Kaleah Salmon • 6 min read • Mon, 27th Oct 2025
Dell unveils major AI Data Platform upgrades with NVIDIA & Elastic
Storage

Dell unveils major AI Data Platform upgrades with NVIDIA & Elastic

Dell Technologies upgrades its AI Data Platform with NVIDIA, Elastic and Starburst, boosting storage and data engines for faster, scalable enterprise AI workloads.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Couchbase 8.0 accelerates enterprise AI with faster vector search
Virtualisation

Couchbase 8.0 accelerates enterprise AI with faster vector search

Couchbase 8.0 launches enhanced vector search and security features, boosting AI applications with faster, scalable data management and developer-friendly tools.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Taboola expands Realise platform, unlocking new ad inventory & AI
Marketing Technologies

Taboola expands Realise platform, unlocking new ad inventory & AI

Taboola expands its Realise platform, offering advertisers new display ad inventory across major publishers like TIME and USA TODAY via AI-driven tech.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Twilio unveils new data features to boost enterprise engagement
Customer Experience

Twilio unveils new data features to boost enterprise engagement

Twilio launches new data features like Granular Observability and expanded APIs to help enterprises boost trusted customer engagement globally.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Oracle unveils Autonomous AI Lakehouse for seamless open data
Software-as-a-Service

Oracle unveils Autonomous AI Lakehouse for seamless open data

Oracle launches Autonomous AI Lakehouse, enabling secure, open data access and AI analytics across multicloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Wed, 15th Oct 2025
Oracle unveils AI Data Platform with partners investing USD $1.5bn
Hybrid Cloud

Oracle unveils AI Data Platform with partners investing USD $1.5bn

Oracle launches its AI Data Platform, backed by USD $1.5bn from partners, to simplify AI integration and boost enterprise data use securely.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 15th Oct 2025
Adobe unveils Real-Time CDP updates to boost data insights & ROAS
Customer Experience

Adobe unveils Real-Time CDP updates to boost data insights & ROAS

Adobe updates Real-Time CDP with new features for real-time campaign insights, Amazon integration, and easier collaboration, boosting privacy and ROAS.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Mon, 13th Oct 2025

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