ROI stories

AI agents are rapidly transforming sales teams in Australia and New Zealand, slashing grunt work and reshaping how sellers prospect and close deals.

Mailchimp expands eCommerce tools and AI-driven automation, rolling out SMS to 34 new EMEA markets to boost small business marketing ROI.

Celonis touts digital twins and process data as the missing link to turn scattered enterprise AI experiments into measurable business gains.

AI tools save hours at work but Workday finds nearly 40% of those gains are wiped out as staff redo, check and correct low-quality outputs.

Airstride launches Carmen AI, an autonomous agent that scouts, scores and contacts B2B channel partners, claiming up to 80% time savings.

Fico says by 2026 banking AI will be standard infrastructure, heightening fraud risks and putting CIOs and human cyber oversight centre stage.

NeuBird AI appoints Venkat Ramakrishnan president and COO to scale its agentic AI SRE platform and expand global commercial operations.

YubiKey rollout boosts ROI by 265% and slashes breach exposure 99.99%, Forrester study finds, delivering multi-million USD $ gains.

AI is deployed everywhere but embedded deeply in fewer than half of firms, as leaders warn integration and skills gaps risk a two-year setback.

Banks worldwide pour billions into AI, but Dyna.Ai warns only a small minority are turning pilots into tangible, scalable revenue gains.

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.

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

Weak data governance is squandering an estimated $154bn of global AI investment each year, Hitachi Vantara warns in new research.

Cognizant and Adobe are deepening their AI alliance to speed and govern large-scale content creation for heavily regulated global enterprises.

Global business travel spend hit USD $1.57 trillion in 2025, with AI-driven, intentional trips set to power faster growth into 2026.

Enterprises ringfence AI spend as core infrastructure, racing from pilots to orchestrated, governed systems despite economic headwinds.

WEL launches a digital approvals platform that greenlights most home solar and battery connections across its NZ network in under five minutes.

Analytic Partners named a Leader in Forrester’s 2026 marketing measurement Wave after topping current offering and scoring highly on strategy.

Summize raises USD $50m to accelerate its AI-powered contract platform, targeting rapid expansion across the UK and US legal markets.

Pearson says US could gain up to USD $6.6 trillion from AI by 2034, but only if employers urgently invest in reskilling and task-level redesign.