The Ultimate Guide to Digital Transformation
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Digital Transformation.
What to know about Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation is a pivotal topic shaping the future of business, technology, and society. This extensive collection of stories highlights how organisations across industries and regions are navigating the complexities of digital change, leveraging emerging technologies such as AI, cloud computing, IoT, and automation to enhance operations, customer experiences, and competitive advantage.
From global expansions and strategic partnerships to AI-driven innovations and challenges involving legacy systems, skills gaps, and cybersecurity, the narratives offer deep insights into the multifaceted nature of digital transformation. Readers can explore case studies of enterprises revamping their infrastructure, government initiatives accelerating digital services, and the evolving roles of leadership in driving technology adoption.
Engaging with these stories will provide readers with a broad understanding of current trends, practical strategies, and forward-looking perspectives essential for thriving in an increasingly digital world. Whether you’re a business leader, IT professional, or technology enthusiast, this tag offers valuable knowledge on embracing transformation to foster resilience, innovation, and growth.
American Digital Transformation News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
AI fraud fears rise as payment scams hit finance teams
Finance teams are losing money to payment scams as generative AI makes fake invoices, emails and voice requests harder to spot.
Constructor wins trio of Stevie Gold awards for eCommerce
Recognition for its AI shopping tools highlights growing retailer demand for tech that lifts conversion, revenue and customer satisfaction.
SMBs take cautious approach to AI adoption, study finds
Security and compliance worries are slowing AI rollouts at smaller firms, even as most report business gains from targeted use.
Verizon tops US business internet satisfaction study
Rising AI and real-time data demands are making network reliability a bigger procurement concern for large US companies and mid-sized businesses.
Grata brings private market data to Perplexity Computer
Dealmakers can now query verified data on 22 million private companies inside Perplexity Computer, avoiding separate database searches.
Virtana & Carahsoft expand observability for agencies
Agencies handling hybrid and air-gapped systems could get fuller visibility into IT faults as the platform is made available through Carahsoft's contracts.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Digital Transformation
Gartner: firms shift growth to monetisation & platforms
Gartner sees securing AI market hit USD $4.8bn in 2027
Certinia study finds integration key to AI success
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Finance teams adopt AI faster than controls, Medius says
SRE teams take on wider AI oversight in production
Featured News
Mimecast CEO: Agentic AI threat novel but not entirely new
Hidden AI risks are already widespread in workplaces, with Mimecast saying users are driving shadow tools and most exposure still starts with people.
The internet times are a'changing Fastly
Bot traffic is forcing Fastly to adapt its edge cloud tools as publishers and AI firms battle over caching, access and data protection.
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Autonomous IT boom fuelling LogicMonitor's APAC growth
APAC customers are fuelling LogicMonitor's AI growth, with Australia among the earliest adopters of its Edwin AI platform.
CrowdStrike report: AI is rewriting rules of cybersecurity
Organisations now have just 48 hours to patch most flaws, as AI helps attackers weaponise vulnerabilities far faster than before.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Cohesity mitigating shadow AI by empowering staffers
Approved AI tools are cutting shadow use by staff, but Cohesity warns the bigger risk is corrupted enterprise knowledge and weak governance.
AI arms race forcing businesses to rethink cybersecurity
Security teams are racing to shrink exposure windows as AI makes newly disclosed vulnerabilities exploitable almost immediately.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
TrustedTech report warns of 'AI Skills Underclass' gap
Nearly half of U.S. workers lack AI training, widening a skills gap that leaves the most exposed employees to fend for themselves.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Check Point: Be the best, or get out the way
Rising AI-driven attacks are compel security buyers to cut vendor sprawl, though Check Point warns over-consolidation can still raise risk.
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Check Point: Hackers are already in. Act accordingly
Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in hours or minutes, leaving many organisations compromised before defenders spot the breach.
Future of enterprise software is agentic apps, says Oracle
Oracle is targeting a common blocker to AI adoption by adding governance, human checks and audit trails to its agentic app builder.
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OnBoard says board AI policy key, but lags behind in adoption
Most boards are using AI, but formal guidelines are still missing as adoption races ahead of governance, OnBoard's survey found.
Agentic AI creates enterprise challenge beyond LLM boom
Enterprises face rising costs and governance gaps as thousands of AI agents begin operating alongside staff across multiple systems.
The new workforce: AI agents to work in concert with humans
AI agents are set to reshape hiring and team structures, pushing firms towards global talent pools and outcome-based work.
Data storage gets profitable as Exaba targets US expansion
Exaba's local cloud storage pitch could give US managed services providers higher margins as it challenges AWS and Azure in a crowded market.
Storage to strategy: Everpure pivots to data intelligence
Enterprises wrestling with AI readiness and data sovereignty may gain clearer governance as Everpure adds a new intelligence layer.
How the 'human hour' mentality influences the future of tech
AI pilots are faltering where firms still judge success by hours saved, leaving customer value and workforce design unresolved.
Humanoid robots, 0-day defence among Info-Tech trends for '27
Agentic AI, zero-day surge, sovereign cloud, and humanoid robots will define IT strategy in 2027, Info-Tech Research Group warns.
Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
New Zealand 'ingenuity' driving Lightspeed's global success
Auckland's engineers are shaping Lightspeed's products worldwide, as the company expands AI tools and keeps key leadership in New Zealand.
Exclusive: Reco COO on securing the AI inside your SaaS stack
Reco COO Zoe Hillenmeyer says enterprises typically underestimate their AI agent exposure by a factor of ten and that gap is widening.
Expert Columns
The future of autonomous security
5 common data governance pitfalls and how to fix them
Modern data teams: key roles, structures and data quality
Why maritime and offshore leaders are sinking physical SIMs for global connectivity
The psychology of better decision-making in the real-time enterprise
AI can produce the work, it can't produce the lawyer
Translation over technology: The channel's most undervalued skill
Supercharged security: Cyber risk in the age of frontier AI
What Role Does Data Quality Play in Data Governance?
The Hidden Cost of Identity Friction in Retail
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Digital Transformation News
Omnissa ONE 2026 to focus on trust in workplace AI
Enterprises face a growing oversight gap, as Omnissa says 75% of managed devices carry unsanctioned AI tools before policies catch up.
Socotra launches open AI skills for insurance core
Insurers can now use familiar AI coding tools to build and manage policies in Socotra's platform without bespoke integrations, the company says.
Alkami tops credit unions in FI Navigator rankings
For smaller lenders, the rankings offer evidence that digital banking spend can translate into faster customer and deposit growth against larger rivals.
Uber uses Google Cloud to prioritise critical traffic
The move should reduce congestion risk and cut the cost of shifting data-heavy workloads as Uber expands its migration to Google Cloud.
Current picks Aiwyn for network-wide platform overhaul
The overhaul could standardise systems across nearly 30 partner firms, giving Current better data, billing control and faster client onboarding.
Nordis launches ExpressoPay One-Click for payments
It could reduce friction for bill payments and refunds by letting consumers act from the same message instead of logging into a portal.
Cognida buys Automate platform to boost finance AI
The deal gives Cognida a software foothold in finance automation as businesses demand AI tools that are auditable, controlled and accurate.
Forcepoint appoints Vincent Merlin as Marketing Chief
As AI security spending rises, the cybersecurity company has hired a veteran marketer to shape its pitch on data control and governance.
Global Payments launches Genius World in Las Vegas
Merchants may gain a clearer view of how Global Payments links hardware, software and payments as it takes Genius on a 40-stop US tour.
Litera to add Hotshot legal training to CE Manager
Law firms will get practical training and CLE tracking in one system as Hotshot's courses move into Litera CE Manager from Q4 2026.
US workers fear AI dependence more than job losses
Dependence on artificial intelligence is now a bigger worry for US workers than layoffs, with many fearing it could erode creativity and skills.
Baton Rouge Telco calculators drive USD $4m in loans
The tools have already started 150 loan applications and delivered a 17.7% conversion rate, giving the credit union new visibility into lending demand.
Rillet raises USD $100 million at USD $1 billion valuation
The funding doubles the accounting software group's total raised to more than USD $200 million as customers adopt AI tools for finance teams.
CleanStart expands Middle East, Africa security push
Rising use of AI coding tools is widening software supply-chain risks for businesses across the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa.
1Kosmos brings identity checks to EpicCare Link users
The integration could cut onboarding delays for hospitals while reducing the risk of unauthorised access to sensitive patient records.
Pricefx adds bring-your-own AI to pricing platform
Customers can query live pricing data in Microsoft Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT as Pricefx opens its platform to approved enterprise AI assistants.
Brinqa buys PlexTrac to broaden exposure management
The combined group now serves more than 3,000 customers in 57 countries as Brinqa adds validation tools to close the remediation gap.
M&T Bank & RDC.AI win Banking Tech award for credit insight
The award highlights how predictive analytics is helping M&T Bank spot credit risks earlier and cut alert noise for commercial lenders.
Sauce Labs lets enterprises bring their own model to AURA
Enterprise software teams can switch large language models without changing release checks, reducing lock-in as AI coding outpaces testing.
Adobe says AI travel traffic to US sites jumps 119%
Travellers are increasingly starting searches with AI, and travel sites that are hard for models to read may miss out on bookings.
Job Moves
Forcepoint appoints Vincent Merlin as Marketing Chief
Diversified launches global managed services practice
Zingtree appoints Venkat Iyer as Chief Technology Officer
Ondaro promotes three to vice president in ServiceNow shift
Jazz appoints six senior leaders as DLP push scales
Corsha appoints new chief operating & product officers
Zayo appoints Verizon's Sampath as Chief Executive
Verizon programme helps Florida optician grow revenue
1Kosmos names Roger Hale as Chief Information Security Officer
