Pigment boss: ‘We’re replacing legacy players at the speed of light’ Tech Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and chief executive of Pigment, said the company is replacing legacy enterprise software providers “at the speed of light”, as demand for AI-native business planning accelerates across the private sector. The Paris-headquartered platform, which helps companies including Unilever, Siemens, Anthropic and Coca-Cola run financial planning and performance management, is approaching $100m (£75m) [...]
Atlassian AI chief: Firms still aren’t making AI ‘really productive’ Tech Atlassian claims businesses are still struggling to turn the AI boom into real company-wide productivity gains, as the software giant pushes deeper into workplace automation with a new generation of AI agents. According to the software giant’s chief AI officer, Tamar Yehoshua, most companies have moved beyond simply experimenting with AI tools, yet many were [...]
2025 was set to be the year of AI agents. It was not. Tech At the end of 2024, just over a year ago today, tech behemoth and OpenAI boss Sam Altman predicted that AI agents would completely upturn the workplace before year end. AI agents are software programmes which break down any given task into smaller, more manageable steps, allowing them to devise and execute them with little [...]
With AI, ‘everything is under review’ at London-based tech firm IFS May 13, 2025 Enterprise software firm IFS, valued at €15bn (£12.64bn), is doubling down on industrial AI as it pushes toward an ambitious $100bn target by 2029. With a sharp focus on asset-heavy sectors like energy and telecoms, the firm is re-engineering its entire model around automation. At a recent IFS connect UKI event, chief executive Mark Moffat [...]