09 July 2025

Retail Express has released a new whitepaper to help retailers plot a path to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in retail. Titled ‘Retail’s Journey To AI’, it provides a comprehensive guide to AI integration in retail, presenting AI as a journey that retailers can undertake to gain critical advantages in efficiency, customer experience, and market competitiveness.

AI represents a transformative opportunity for retail, enabling better decision-making and operational efficiency. AI will provide the analytics that will support and even secure retail's future with a new way of doing business. However, AI adoption isn't optional but essential for competitive survival, with the guide emphasising that it is critical for retailers to take those first steps, however small, towards AI today.

10 June 2025

Given the emergence of AI over the past year or so, the introduction of the European Union NIS2 Directive in late 2024 was not a moment too soon. Just like in the latest installment of Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, IT teams are now having to deal with their own “mini-Entity” as they attempt to stay ahead of hackers.

In fact, one could argue that the original Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive was already somewhat out of date when it became effective in 2018 in that it only applied to limited types of organizations and left too many implementation details to individual member states. These among many other shortfalls.

03 June 2025

The NIS2 Directive, currently be implemented across EU member states will impose stricter requirements on cybersecurity practices, asset visibility, and risk management. This will take on higher urgency at the network perimeter, where IT resources are in the greatest state of flux.

Currently, as of May 2025 nine member states have fully transposed the NIS2 Directive into national laws for their countries. The heat is on for the remaining 18 to get it done sooner rather than later. Regardless of which country (or countries) your organizations reside, it’s time to begin thinking right now about how you will comply to avoid potential fines.