Procurement stories

Colt trims ERP switchover downtime to 6.5 hours as cloud overhaul unifies systems across 40 countries and supports sustainability goals.

Master data is becoming a strategic tool as firms juggle tariffs, sustainability demands and supply chain compliance in a fast-changing trade landscape.

Payhawk survey finds 45% of self-described AI leaders in finance lack minimum use rules, exposing a wider gap between ambition and control.

Amex GBT gives Egencia agentic AI and Concur Expense integration, aiming to streamline business travel bookings and cut manual claims work.

WatchGuard and HaloPSA deepen ties to let managed service providers handle security alerts, licensing and billing from one workflow.

Doppel secures three ISO certifications for AI governance, security and privacy, as enterprise buyers demand stronger assurance against AI-driven cyber threats.

Celonis broadens Oracle cloud partnership to let enterprises run its process intelligence on OCI, linking AI tools with business workflows and modernisation.

Oracle unveils 25 AI-powered apps across finance, HR and customer service, as it pushes agentic software deeper into core business workflows.

Syspro appoints Chief Revenue Officer Leanne Taylor as Chief Executive Officer in a planned handover, as Jaco Maritz moves to a board role.

SAP will fold Reltio's master data management tools into Business Data Cloud, strengthening its bid to unify enterprise records for AI across mixed systems.

Experts are urging data centres be planned as civic infrastructure using digital modelling to balance booming AI demand.

Yubico, IBM and Auth0 unveil an AI security model that forces human approval for high‑risk automated actions using hardware authentication.

monday.com unveils Agentalent.ai, a marketplace where enterprises can recruit vetted AI agents for defined roles across their operations.

Access Hospitality appoints former Sage tech leader Aravinda Gollapudi as CTO to steer global platform expansion and agentic AI strategy.

NIIT MTS secures a sixteenth straight spot on Training Industry's Top 20 custom content developers list for 2026, citing AI-led design.

HeadBox warns that fragmented control of meetings and events spend is exposing corporates to rising cost, compliance and governance risks.

Hexaware launches Agentverse, a governed AI agent platform with 600+ prebuilt agents to scale automation across enterprise operations.

OutSystems named G2 Spring 2026 Leader for AI Agent Builders as customers push agent-based software beyond pilots into production at scale.

Contentful opens an Australian arm and expands ANZ hiring, backing rising enterprise demand for composable digital experience tools.

Synechron merges Chamonix IT, Exposé and iGreenData into a single Australian consultancy, unveiling a new national leadership team.