Skills shortage stories - Page 10

Skillsoft launches an AI-driven Percipio upgrade to map, measure and manage workforce skills as employers race to keep pace with change.

AI is deployed everywhere but embedded deeply in fewer than half of firms, as leaders warn integration and skills gaps risk a two-year setback.

Fieldguide secures USD $75m Series C from Goldman Sachs to scale agentic AI for audit firms, lifting its valuation to USD $700m.

Pluralsight has hired veteran product leader Michael Ross as Chief Product Officer to steer innovation in its tech skills platform.

Enterprises ringfence AI spend as core infrastructure, racing from pilots to orchestrated, governed systems despite economic headwinds.

Contact centre staff report rising morale and stronger support, yet many remain uneasy and undertrained as AI tools spread through their work.

AI security fears and rapid release cycles are pushing firms to demand faster, deeper pentesting - and many are ready to ditch existing vendors.

Regulatory uncertainty stalls most payroll projects, yet leaders eye AI tools to cut compliance strain and sharpen workforce planning.

Consumer goods groups race to modernise fragmented data systems as they lay foundations for scaling AI and agentic tools across factories.

SonicWall warns over 95% of cyber breaches stem from misconfigured tools, as firms lean on MSPs and cyber warranties to plug skills gaps.

Pearson says US could gain up to USD $6.6 trillion from AI by 2034, but only if employers urgently invest in reskilling and task-level redesign.

Security and governance fears keep half of agentic AI stuck in pilots, even as leaders raise budgets and pursue tightly supervised use cases.

Fortinet has upgraded FortiCNAPP with network, data and runtime signals to sharpen cloud risk scoring and cut alert overload for security teams.

UK firms risk weaker AI security and wasted investment as soaring data complexity outpaces their ability to govern and protect systems.

AI ambitions are outstripping legacy IT, as Netskope finds most infrastructure leaders doubt they can meet rising performance and security demands.

AI is transforming everyday work in accountancy firms, but messy gaps between systems and people mean full automation remains distant.

AI platform Emergent raises USD $70m Series B from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank to speed global software creation for non-coders.

SonicWall launches unified automation tools to cut alert fatigue, speed cyber threat remediation and streamline overstretched security teams.

Accountants double down on everyday AI tools, as optimism stays high but scepticism, job fears and data security worries all intensify.

AI is exposing the limits of aging campus and branch networks, pushing enterprises and MSPs towards unified, cloud-managed, secure platforms.