Agentic AI and shifts in persona experiences made S/4HANA migration more critical for PwC

Over the last seven years, PwC has made significant investments in digital transformation. Our business urgency was driven by the need to scale global delivery, reimagine operations to manage costs, and empower our people with powerful digital experiences. The firm made significant investments and innovations in cloud, advanced analytics, and GenAI. But we recognized that…

Beyond the CFO’s dashboard: How operational AI is reshaping executive decision-making

For decades, the CFO has been the C-suite’s designated data interpreter, the executive who transforms raw numbers into strategic narratives that guide board decisions. This role emerged from necessity: financial data was complex, accounting standards were intricate and someone needed to translate business performance into language that stakeholders could understand and trust. But artificial intelligence…

HARTING hones competitive edge and sustainability with one-click carbon tracking

From a small mechanical workshop in 1945 to a global leader of industrial connectivity solutions, today HARTING provides connectors, network components, and cable harnesses for machinery, transportation, and telecommunications.  As a pioneer of sustainable industry practices for decades, HARTING realized some of its practices were lagging behind. HARTING’s manual calculations to provide CO₂ product data for customers was slow and…

Rethinking environment management: How flawed architecture begins with property files

In large organizations, environments go way beyond just dev, test, QA and prod environments; they typically exist as parallel streams of work, as staggered release trains and as complex branching structures. In my experience, maintaining legacy systems while also operating newer transactional platforms requires multi-year, multi-track programs with different business lines. In these architectures, environmental…

Why CIOs need to respond to digital sovereignty now

The digital sovereignty movement is gaining momentum. Around the world, governments are introducing regional laws requiring local data residency or processing. Take Europe’s Gaia-X sovereign cloud initiative, or the string of increasingly common hyper-local data laws like the EU’s GDPR, India’s DPDP Act, Canadian provincial rules, California’s CCPA, and many others. While data sovereignty has…

소프트뱅크, 인텔에 20억 달러 투자··· 미국 반도체 혁신 지원

이번 투자는 양사가 미국 내 첨단 기술 및 반도체 혁신에 대한 장기적인 비전을 공유하며 진행되었다. 양사는 19일 보도자료를 통해 “소프트뱅크가 인텔 보통주를 주당 23달러에 매입하는 조건으로 총 20억 달러 규모의 투자를 진행한다”라고 밝혔다. 소프트뱅크 손정의 회장 겸 CEO는 “반도체는 모든 산업의 기반”이라며 “50년 넘게 혁신을 이끌어온 인텔은 신뢰받는 글로벌 리더”라고 강조했다. 이어 그는 “이번 전략적…

오픈AI, 사용자 반발에 GPT-5 대화 스타일 개선···‘더 친근한 톤’ 적용 추가

오픈AI가 최신 인공지능 모델 GPT-5의 대화 스타일을 다시 손질했다. 회사는 이번 업데이트를 통해 지나친 아부 대신 따뜻하고 친근한 톤을 더했다고 밝혔다. 약 2주 전 공개된 GPT-5는 “가장 똑똑하고, 가장 빠르며, 가장 유용한 모델”이라는 설명과 함께 “내장된 사고 기능”과 “전문가 수준의 지능”을 내세웠다. 그러나 출시 직후부터 한 가지 이유로 적지 않은 비판을 받았다. GPT-5는 이전 모델에서…