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AI & the Future of Tech Services: Challenges & Opportunities

IT budgets are rising again. Global technology spend is growing 7-9%, driven by data centres and the AI build-out. Yet the services business tells a very different story.

2026 Tech Trends: What Business Leaders Need to Know

By now, enterprise leaders understand how AI is reshaping work, customer decision-making, and competitive dynamics. In 2026, the focus must shift to delivering practical, measurable impact while safeguarding trust, skills, and operational resilience.

Sovereign AI In New Zealand: Global Innovation With Local Control

New Zealand’s AI strategy encourages the use of global models, but that introduces real questions around jurisdiction, service continuity, and regulatory control.

The Emerging Economics of Enterprise AI: A Practical Guide for 2026

As AI moves into production, enterprises are discovering a simple truth: AI is not just a technical challenge but an economic one. Continuous use of GenAI and Agentic AI can consume vast amounts of compute, storage, and tokens, creating the real risk of runaway operational costs.

2026 Tech Trends: CIO Playbook

AI is transforming enterprise technology at unprecedented speed. Agentic AI platforms are automating complex workflows, while domain-specific and edge AI are scaling rapidly.

Ecosystm Predicts: Resilience: Top 5 Cyber Trends for 2026

Explore Ecosystm’s top forecasts for 2026 and prepare for a year where resilience, governance, and trust become core business priorities.

IBM Think on Tour: Singapore Highlights

Ecosystm analysts share their take on the announcements, demonstrations, and messaging from the IBM Think on Tour Singapore event.

IBM Think Leader Insights: Building the AI-First Enterprise

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Australia Google Cloud Summit 2026: Highlights From Sydney

The 2026 Google Cloud Summit and Analyst Connect in Sydney highlighted a shift in how competitive advantage is being framed in the cloud market. Here are the 5 key takeaways.

Report: Right-Sizing Enterprise AI: The Rise of Small Language Models

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Modernising the Banking Core: Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Banking Platform Re-architecture

Discover how Commonwealth Bank modernised its core platform to boost resilience, innovation, and AI-ready banking capabilities.

Report: AI in Practice: How Malaysia’s Banks & DFIs are Adopting and Governing AI

Discover how Malaysia's financial institutions are scaling AI, strengthening governance, and building the capabilities needed to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption.

Feedback Disruption: Breaking Down Silos with GenAI

Customer feedback is at the heart of Customer Experience (CX). But it’s changing. What we consider customer feedback, how we collect and analyse it, and how we act on it is changing.

Resilience: Top 5 Cyber Trends for 2026

In 2026, many organisations will have agentic AI – with direct access to critical data – operating as a non-human workforce, demanding controls beyond traditional oversight.

Intelligence: Top 5 Enterprise AI Trends for 2026

AI has firmly become a strategic imperative, transforming decisions, work, and competitiveness. Yet tech and business leaders often struggle to navigate the rapid pace of innovation, emerging players, and enterprise providers layering new features – particularly around platforms and integrated intelligence.

Foundations: Top 5 Infra Trends for 2026

AI adoption is accelerating, but infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck. Legacy data centres, fragmented cloud estates, and years of technical debt are slowing innovation, inflating costs, and amplifying risk.

Key Tech Trends & Disruptions in 2026

In 2025, AI moved from content generation to autonomous action, with multi-step agentic AI workflows forcing a rethink of work, decisions, and value creation. In 2026, organisations will focus on scaling these systems – balancing speed, control, and trust – while redesigning workflows, decision rights, and value creation.

Cyber Trends & Critical Gaps

Cybersecurity cannot be just the CISO’s job; it’s an enterprise-wide priority. AI is changing the game, powering smarter defences while also driving new threats. Ecosystm research finds nearly 9 in 10 organisations are using AI to strengthen security and accelerate response.

AI Powered Customer Experience: Top 5 Trends for 2025

n 2024, technology vendors have heavily invested in AI Agents, recognising their potential to drive significant value. These tools leverage well-governed, small datasets to integrate seamlessly with applications like Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Dayforce, enhancing processes and outcomes.

AI in Banking: Faster Systems, Higher Stakes, New Risk Dynamics

Explore how AI in banking is helping Asia Pacific banks move faster, reduce costs, manage risk, and strengthen resilience.

The Small Language Model Ecosystem

How Small Language Models (SLMs) are enabling cost-effective, high-performance, and sovereign AI for enterprises.

Modernising the Banking Core: Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Banking Platform Re-architecture

This case study explores the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's core banking modernisation programme. Read the case study and watch the full conversation for insights into one of the region's largest banking platform transformations.

Rewiring Enterprise Applications AI Driven Execution

Many enterprise applications were designed to record and manage work. Today’s priorities demand something different. As organisations embed AI into business processes, applications must support faster decisions, coordinated execution, and greater operational visibility. Here is what you need to know about the forces reshaping enterprise applications.

Infrastructure Rewired: From Capacity to Coherence

The conversation around infrastructure is shifting from capacity to coherence. Here is what you need to know about the infrastructure trends emerging across Asia Pacific.

Ecosystm Podcast Episode 37- Insights from Shayan Hazir (HSBC)

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Shayan Hazir, Chief Digital Officer, ASEAN at HSBC, and Sash Mukherjee, VP of Industry Insights at Ecosystm, as they explore the profound impact of Technology on the financial landscape. In this comprehensive discussion, Shayan sheds light on the shape of innovation in today’s tech-centric world and the challenges […]

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