Opinion stories - Page 3

Clean, verified customer data is the key to effective email automation, as poor records can damage deliverability, targeting and ROI.

Outdoor living boom drives homeowners to shield pricey tables and seating from sun, rain and dust, curbing repairs and replacements.

Brands urged to treat marketplace Buy Box loss as a distribution issue, after grey market sellers were found to be siphoning sales and trust.

Data quality gives banks a scalable route to digital trust, cutting fraud and false positives while speeding onboarding, KYB and AI-driven checks.

AI discovery is levelling eCommerce, with mid-sized Shopify brands gaining an edge over bigger rivals by making products clearer to generative engines.

Smarter hosting choices are becoming a key edge for Australian online retailers, as speed, stability and scalability shape sales and customer trust.

AI adoption's next phase hinges on data foundations, with enterprises needing real-time pipelines, governance and portability to scale safely.

AI is boosting developer output, but Australian firms are finding the bigger challenge is joining up fragmented tools, data and governance.

Australia's Big Four loan scandal highlights how process intelligence can expose ghost paths, bypassed checks and hidden fraud networks.

OpenAI buys TBPN, adding Silicon Valley's influential daily tech talk show to its Strategy team while pledging editorial independence.

Apograph's £60-a-month firewall plan helps clients dodge emergency refresh costs, cut downtime and strengthen security across 1,500 endpoints.

AI is moving travel from inspiration to transaction, but live inventory, accuracy and booking infrastructure still stand between chat and checkout.

Woolworths and Google push AI shopping agents into retail as loyalty schemes face a real-time test in the emerging agentic commerce era.

CFOs across Australia and New Zealand are tightening AI spending as new research shows weak returns, poor data readiness and rising demands for accountability.

Retailers warned that mobile checkout typos, duplicate profiles and recycled numbers are draining sales unless data is checked in real time.

Security teams risk sleepwalking into danger as vendors slap the SaaS label on hosted legacy tools disguised as modern cloud identity.

Old information platforms are quietly raising risk, slowing work and blunting innovation across Australian organisations, Konica Minolta Australia warns.

CSOs are shedding their purely technical image as security chiefs are pushed into the boardroom to drive sales, trust and growth.

AI security tools are only as smart as the data they see, and network telemetry is emerging as the missing piece in hybrid cloud oversight.

Once a background IT chore, data backup is now a frontline business risk as complex systems and cyber threats expose fragile resilience.