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In TechTrade Asia's latest article, Ajay Patel explains how 2026 will require more CFO-CIO teamwork to combat rising #AI and #cloud costs, while Kai Wombacher predicts that cloud cost tools will become easier to use. Check it out here:

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Confluent has a new reseller program to help partners drive growth in the data streaming market. Kamal Brar and Sandeep Shirodkar share more with CRN Asia.

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Crayon’s upgraded Cloud-iQ platform experience is now available across APAC. The new platform consolidates Crayon’s partner operations under one global platform. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gfyN4ZYJ

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Francis deSouza, Chief Operating Officer at Google Cloud explains the reasons behind the successful customer deals with Meta and OpenAI. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gtsjwFe6 Francis, who is in Singapore for Google Cloud's AI Asia event, also shared why the regional partner ecosystem plays an important role in helping customers get the best ROI from their AI implementation. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gSr7Si5X (Pix by Google Cloud)

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Another gong for ServiceNow's CX Campaign! 🥳🏆 Planning, building, and nurturing the campaign has been a real career highlight. It's also reinforced some critical lessons about how brands can influence audiences that matter. To celebrate the campaign's fifth recognition from the likes of the PRCA, Mumbrella, and PRovoke Media, here are five things I've learned since launch: 1. Deeper intergration = better results When we launched the campaign in 2021, our primary distribution channels were media and social. Since then, every year we've collaborated with more internal teams, partners, and customers, like marketing, sales, digital media, government relations, executive briefings, internal comms, implementation partners, and key customers, to get the content into the hands of more people, so they can put it into the hands of more customers and prospects. Yes, more teams means more coordination, but it's also meant the research is now widely embedded across the business and everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. Each team brought into the fold has served as a force multiplier, delivering more and better results. 2. Local content wins Content that's rooted in the countries and culture where it's being shared is more relevant and relatable than anything that takes too broad a view. As we've expanded the campaign across APAC (and going global next year!), finding the local hook and angle to make it resonate has been a critical factor in its continued success. 3. B2B marcomms doesn't have to be boring Historically, ServiceNow research focused on our business decision-maker target audience, not the end-users who ultimately feel the effects of our software. By tapping into the frustrations and emotions of everyday people, we were able to show relatable and easy to understand customer pain points. Rather than selling the features of our products, the campaign showed the issues businesses need to solve (like disjointed internal systems), which perfectly set up our platform as the solution. As the cliche goes "B2B buyers are people too", and the CX campaign's first test is always - 'would my mates find this interesting?' If the answer is no, our audience won't either. 4. Consistency builds brand PR and marketing love shiny new things, and we get bored of content and campaigns FAR quicker than our audience. Incrementally adding to the core foundation every year kept content fresh, while building something recognisable. Media now come to us every year for the research, because they know what to expect. 5. Teamwork makes the dream work Big things only work if you have a big team of dedicated people bringing their a-game, fresh ideas, and critical analysis. By my calculation more than 50 people have been involved over the past few years, each adding fresh perspectives and challenging everyone to do more, and better Penny Simon Weber Shandwick Australia Kimberley Daniel Stephy Pegah Caroline Stephen Melanie Jim

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Irdeto’s holistic approach enhances #Security while also improving functionality, scalability, and resilience with lower operational costs for the all-new Astro Sooka platform. This transformation helps Astro to maintain and expand its user base while also simplifying processes, boosting profits, and strengthening its market dominance. Check out what Doug Lowther, CEO of Irdeto, has to say about this collaboration! #Irdeto #VideoEntertainment #Cybersecurity #Video #OTT #Streaming

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OCBC has spent 20 years building the foundation for AI. With Cloudera at the core, they’ve scaled GenAI, cut onboarding from 10 days to 1 hour, and run 30 apps securely on-prem. A masterclass in AI done right. Read more: https://shorturl.at/tW9rk  

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Agents are becoming commoditized as quickly as they have taken over the AI zeitgeist. So how can companies use them to differentiate, create competitive advantage, and capture market share? Dataiku teamed with The Economist to explain...

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The 2026 AI Cost Crisis: The Rise of One API Aggregation Platforms and Their Potential to Deliver 80% Savings: Singapore – As the generative AI market hurtles toward a projected $1 trillion valuation by the end of 2026, enterprises worldwide are grappling with an unprecedented cost crisis. Skyrocketing operational expenditures (OpEx) for AI models—driven by rapid iterations, multi-vendor dependencies, and … Continue reading → #Business #ComputersSoftware #Services #Technology

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Exciting partnership milestone: AWS has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with DataMasque, building on their journey from APJ Rising Star Partner to now scaling globally through AWS Marketplace. This collaboration makes a real difference for enterprises investing in AI transformation - combining AWS's AI infrastructure with DataMasque's synthetically identical data solutions. It's practical innovation that addresses key data security challenges while enabling ambitious AI use cases across regulated industries. Get the details:

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As AI expectations accelerate, the wait-and-see approach to legacy systems is no longer an option. Thorsten Walther, Managing Director, CXO Advisory Asia at MongoDB, highlights in Frontier Enterprise that we are moving away from isolated AI experiments toward ambitious, full-stack modernization. For ASEAN businesses, 2026 will be about removing the technical blockers—data, apps, and infrastructure—to make innovation fast and scalable. Check out the full 2026 outlook! 👇 https://lnkd.in/gDTeCJGD

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🚀Super kicked to announce ixigo ‘s collaboration with OpenAI to accelerate AI integration across our technology stack to unlock new opportunities and drive AI-first travel experiences. At ixigo, we’ve been early adopters of AI, with 90% of our voice & chat support already fully AI-led, and AI deeply embedded across engineering, marketing, operations, and business processes. With this integration, we’re now doubling down on autonomous workflows, faster AI-powered coding, and scaling intelligent automation across the organisation. Read more : https://lnkd.in/gKda2t5F India AI Impact Summit 2026

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Can AI increase our productivity and give us back time for greater liveability? This is an interesting way to think about AI/automation at work and the promise of more free time with our loved ones after work. Naturally, job intensification will occur in almost every industry and role. New scope is expected to fill up the hours saved rather than give employees shorter working hours with the same salary. Bottom-line: #Change continues to the central theme in this grand quest. The reward depends on your mastery and the resolve to uphold boundaries between work and family commitments. I'll take any playbook that provides smart and sure-win ways to be victorious! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gk68Y64V

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Balanced piece by Jon Swartz on how agentic AI is making its way out into various industries, with Salesforce customers Regal Rexnord and Kinaxis highlighted. Not all rainbows and unicorns for agentic AI just yet though. As Jon points out, data readiness and data silos continue to impede widespread adoption. Gotta get that data house in order people. https://lnkd.in/g_7NuSEN

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Amid all the doomsday predictions and the naysayers, it's nice to get a reminder of the potential that #AI has for good, and we are just scratching the surface. However, the underlying truth remains the same - your AI is only as good as your #data. In this interview, Hitachi Vantara Chief Product Officer Octavian Tanase talks with James Maguire about the rapid evolution of agentic AI, the challenges that come with managing data at scale, and how products like #HitachiiQ make it easier for companies to implement and gain value from their AI initiatives. Watch the video below to learn more.

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Chinese New Year is usually a good moment to pause and take stock. Across Asia Pacific, the tech ecosystem feels different this year. Growth hasn’t slowed, but the conversation has shifted. Less about scale at all costs, more about capability, focus, and building sustainably. The bar is simply higher. The recent APAC Future @ Work piece this week makes a similar point, highlighting how organisations are expanding while still running into real gaps, particularly around digital and emerging technologies. It mirrors what many of us see across founders and teams: strong ambition, but a much sharper emphasis on depth and execution. What’s changed most, in my view, is the maturity of the ecosystem itself. Talent is more mobile, teams more international, and startups increasingly deliberate about how they grow. As we move into the Year of the Horse, it feels like a good time to reflect on how quickly the region has evolved, and where the next wave of innovation will come from. https://lnkd.in/gr5BJdnV

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