Katy Ring

London, United Kingdom

Freelance Analyst at diginomica

Futures and Insight Research Analyst at Freelance

Research director, IT Services for The 451 Group

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Grey sky thinking - Workday’s Dublin superpower to put AI in the human loop

1 week ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. HR, along with IT support, is one of those business areas where agentic AI seems an obvious fit. There are a lot of structured processes, and repeat requests for the same pieces of information. However, of course, because HR touches on the people aspect of work, it is also a high-risk area for deploying AI agents without a lot of safeguards.
Are marketplaces the channel’s friend or foe? Westcon-Comstor has the answer

1 week ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. Technology distributors are, of course, the intermediaries between vendors and VARs, MSPs and SIs, but as more technology vendors add marketplaces to their channel capabilities, the threat of disintermediation is troubling channel players. Distributors are in a vulnerable position unless they can demonstrate the value they provide in the partner supply chain.
Why Cisco continues to bang the drum about getting the network AI-ready

2 weeks ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content We'll send you our top articles (and no marketing spam), no more than once a week. There is little doubt that data centers are having a renaissance, courtesy of AI because the nature of the software is different from that of SaaS apps. AI requires a more de-centralized architecture, placing processing closer to where the data lives, and so data centers are getting smaller as they cater for the edge.
How TCS is helping manufacturers spin digital threads to harness NVIDIA NeMo

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content TCS has been an NVIDIA partner for more than five years, and manufacturing is a sector of specific interest for growth to NVIDIA because it feels manufacturers have not yet invested in an AI platform. To help address this TCS has been working with NVIDIA in its experience centres to showcase the possibilities of gen AI to manufacturers.
How IBM is enabling back to front gen AI transformation in financial services

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content IBM recently took the time to brief analysts on its activities in Financial Services, a sector which represents roughly 30% of total revenue.. It is applying its technology and consulting assets to support the banking sector’s front-to-back transformation in terms of the customer-facing platforms it is deploying, as well as the back-to-front transformation that is being driven by gen AI.
Deloitte Digital weighs up agentic AI and gen AI for marketing

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content Agentic AI is used to create systems that can act autonomously to make decisions in relation to specified goals, while gen AI can learn to create content. Deloitte Digital is not yet using agentic AI in the marketing space for creative briefs because of legalities around copyright in terms of models and data, but it is using gen AI and, in this regard, reflects the broader market.
AI Alliance one year on - (unfashionably?) flying the flag for open and ethical AI

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content Roughly a year ago Meta and IBM launched the AI Alliance, founded with 56 other organizations to advocate for an open AI ecosystem. One year on and the AI Alliance now has 150 different organizations as members and has so far launched or participated in 96 projects. The AI Alliance was set up in response to the Frontier Model Forum that was founded by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI and which advocates for closed-source AI. Its purpose is to support open-source AI.
Infosys - an AI-First company preparing to surf waves of adoption

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content Infosys states that it is an AI-first company. First things first – what exactly is an AI-First company? Essentially it is a business building its entire business model around AI technology rather than, say, simply deploying chatbots and automation to enhance existing processes. Within Infosys all employees are eligible to take the company’s AI Aware course and, so far, 250,000 employees have completed it, which is about three-quarters of the workforce.
Cisco Live EMEA - going all in on promoting the platform vision

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Cisco is enjoying its 40th birthday this year and like many at this age is taking stock of both its past and its future. It has, arguably, become a bit bloated by its acquisitions over the past few years and has possibly become over-reliant on this influx of external talent and IP for its innovation strategy. So, how to signal its status as an ongoing successful tech company that still has the potential to be cutting edge in its own right?
Cisco Live EMEA - getting AI-ready with Cisco

1 month ago | diginomica.com | Katy Ring

Main content At Cisco Live EMEA 2025 in Amsterdam, the conference was, of course, dominated by discussions of AI. Although still a small part of Cisco’s business, it is, as CEO Chuck Robbins said at the company’s Q2 FY 2025 earnings call, driving increasing demand. The question is how best to actually embrace AI as it begins to emerge from its hype cycle. According to Cisco customer research only seven percent of companies in Europe are AI-ready compared to 13% world-wide.