10 January 2025

Don Valentine, Commercial Director, Absoft

AI adoption has continued at pace throughout 2024, but the vast majority of organisations have yet to embed AI enabled innovation within core operational processes. One third are engaging in limited implementation, while 45% are still in the exploratory phase. While there is no denying the power of GenAI, the majority of businesses have struggled both to identify tangible use cases for AI and determine how best to safely and effectively use the technology in customer and/or employee facing activities.

30 December 2024

Glen McCarty, Director, Velocity Smart Consulting

Trust – it takes years to build, a second to break, and a lifetime to repair. We’ve all heard this saying before, and it rings true in the world of business as much as it does in personal relationships.

Trust is painstakingly built through consistency, reliability, and hard-earned success over time. But when that trust is broken, the consequences can be devastating. It could cost a company millions, and potentially lead to job losses.

12 December 2024

Martin Smillie, SVP for Communications and Data Exchange (CDE), SITA

The airline industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation driven by digital technologies. Airports and airlines are adopting a variety of technological innovations to improve operational efficiency, passenger experience and flight safety.

However, this growing reliance on technology also brings with it significant challenges, especially in terms of information security at airlines and airports.

11 December 2024

Oskar Wierchowicz, Managing Director, Comarch UK

What are the most vital aspects of the telecom business from customers’ point of view? Seamless connectivity and efficient service delivery. The demand is ever-increasing, and keeping up with the market is difficult for small and medium-sized operators and fibre service providers. Thankfully, recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) make it possible to automate and optimise daily financial operations and service provision for an affordable price.

AI-supported OSS for RAN
The demand for mobile private networks is steadily increasing across diverse industries seeking secure, high-performance connectivity. Integrating AI into operational support systems (OSS) for the Radio Access Network (RAN) domain tackles network management issues that static algorithms cannot, such as inaccurate data interpretation and limited predictive capabilities. AI-driven OSS can provide:

10 December 2024

Jonathan Wright, Director of Products and Operations, GCX

The widespread adoption of hybrid and remote working, accelerated by the COVID pandemic, seems here to stay. For organisations globally, re-designing IT suites to support this way of work has become non-negotiable and a key principle in increasing the resilience of their IT infrastructure.

A central enabler for this has been the rise of cloud computing. Since its inception, cloud computing has become a critical component of most enterprise tech stacks, with many applications now being hosted in the cloud. While the adoption of cloud computing has brought numerous benefits, enabling businesses to leverage scalable resources on demand, it has also brought new challenges to network security. A recent report by IBM on the cost of data breaches revealed that 82% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud.