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Retailers warned: identity gaps blunt AI personalisation
Data Analytics

Retailers warned: identity gaps blunt AI personalisation

Amperity warns identity gaps and flat budgets mean AI-led retail personalisation remains generic, missing high-intent moments for shoppers.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
AI CX ambitions outpace readiness for Australian firms
Customer Relationship Management

AI CX ambitions outpace readiness for Australian firms

Australian firms boost AI spending for customer experience, but skills, data gaps and staff concerns show ambitions outpacing readiness.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026

Global Stories

Data Platform stories

Qualtrics unveils AI tools to fix customer issues fast
Unified Communications

Qualtrics unveils AI tools to fix customer issues fast

Qualtrics launches AI-powered customer experience tools to unify feedback, automate analysis and fix service issues before they escalate.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Dell & NVIDIA boost AI data orchestration & storage
Storage

Dell & NVIDIA boost AI data orchestration & storage

Dell and NVIDIA deepen AI data platform to automate data prep, boost storage throughput and accelerate GPU performance for agentic workloads.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
Cloudera and Svitla Systems bring trusted AI to healthcare
Data Protection

Cloudera and Svitla Systems bring trusted AI to healthcare

Cloudera and Svitla team up to build trusted, clinician‑centric AI that unifies patient data while safeguarding privacy and consent.

By Anthony Caruana • 5 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
VAST Data unveils Foundation Stacks for NVIDIA AI OS
Hybrid Cloud

VAST Data unveils Foundation Stacks for NVIDIA AI OS

VAST Data unveils Foundation Stacks, turning NVIDIA AI Blueprints into production-ready pipelines on its AI Operating System.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
Dell expands NVIDIA AI Factory to boost enterprise ROI
Robotics

Dell expands NVIDIA AI Factory to boost enterprise ROI

Dell broadens its AI Factory with NVIDIA, touting 4,000 users and early adopters claiming up to 2.6x ROI as AI pilots scale up.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
Hitachi iQ upgrade targets on-prem agentic AI at scale
Storage

Hitachi iQ upgrade targets on-prem agentic AI at scale

Hitachi Vantara upgrades its iQ stack with new AI agents, NVIDIA GPU options and data integration to run agentic AI on-prem at scale.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
EDB tops new ranking of commercial Postgres backers
Hybrid Cloud

EDB tops new ranking of commercial Postgres backers

EDB crowns itself top commercial Postgres backer in new vitality index, as cloud and data giants ramp up investment in the database.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Sat, 14th Mar 2026
Tower raises USD $6.4m to bring AI data and code to production
Software-as-a-Service

Tower raises USD $6.4m to bring AI data and code to production

Tower raises USD $6.4m to help data teams turn AI-generated code into reliable production pipelines on an Apache Iceberg-based platform.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Fri, 13th Mar 2026
ThoughtSpot unveils Spotter Semantics AI-native layer
Data Analytics

ThoughtSpot unveils Spotter Semantics AI-native layer

ThoughtSpot debuts Spotter Semantics, an AI-native semantic layer to give analytics agents consistent, governed answers to data questions.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 13th Mar 2026
BrightEdge unveils AI tools to track search visibility
Data Analytics

BrightEdge unveils AI tools to track search visibility

BrightEdge launches AI tools to show brands how they appear in generative search answers and how AI agents crawl and interpret their sites.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 13th Mar 2026
Salesforce unveils Agentforce AI-powered contact centre
Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce unveils Agentforce AI-powered contact centre

Salesforce debuts Agentforce Contact Centre, unifying AI agents, voice, digital channels and CRM data to simplify customer service operations.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 11th Mar 2026
Denodo 9.4 boosts unified data access & AI at scale
Virtualisation

Denodo 9.4 boosts unified data access & AI at scale

Denodo Platform 9.4 targets production AI with unified governed data access, vector and MCP integration, plus a faster lakehouse engine.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 11th Mar 2026
Shopify, Klaviyo deepen tie-up for global eCommerce
Customer Relationship Management

Shopify, Klaviyo deepen tie-up for global eCommerce

Shopify and Klaviyo deepen their partnership with a new integration to power more localised, cross-border eCommerce for global brands.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Tue, 10th Mar 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Data Platform stories

Spreetail unveils BEx real-time brand performance hub
Data Analytics

Spreetail unveils BEx real-time brand performance hub

Spreetail launches BEx, a real-time performance hub giving brand partners live insight across marketplaces, ads, fulfilment and finance.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 13th Mar 2026
Hitachi Vantara debuts AI-ready storage in Singapore
Storage

Hitachi Vantara debuts AI-ready storage in Singapore

Hitachi Vantara launches new AI-ready block and object storage in Singapore to unify data platforms as enterprises scale production AI.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026