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
DriveWealth & IOL launch digital private banking in Uruguay
Affluent Uruguayan investors can now access global markets through a single app, as IOL Privé combines advice, planning and trading.
Strata Credit Union picks Alkami for digital overhaul
Members will soon get payments, transfers and budgeting tools in one app as Strata Credit Union upgrades its digital banking service.
LoanPro makes Inc. 5000 list for fifth time in 2026
Its lending software has helped customers scale loan volumes without adding staff, underpinning 92 per cent revenue growth over three years.
Iveda & GlobalMed partner to target government agencies
Federal buyers could gain faster access to drones and telehealth tools as the firms combine surveillance, location and care systems.
PDQ launches MCP server for AI endpoint management
IT teams can now issue endpoint tasks from AI assistants, with PDQ keeping permissions, authentication and audit trails intact.
Axle raises USD $17.5 million to automate insurance
The funding will help Axle expand beyond 50 insurance segments as businesses seek faster verification and fewer manual checks.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Digital Transformation
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to bolster AI security tools
Application modernisation services market set to soar
Infios named a leader in IDC MarketScape assessments
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
CrowdStrike named leader in IDC MarketScape MDR study
Featured News
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.
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.
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.
Riverbed says go from ticket queues to zero disruption
AI-driven support tools could cut employee downtime, as Riverbed argues that fewer tickets may still hide unresolved problems.
Dell Technologies makes all the hardware cool again
Renewed AI spending is boosting demand for Dell's secure, certified infrastructure as companies chase faster deployment and lower cloud costs.
Expert Columns
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
Global payments got faster. The last mile didn't
Why Southeast Asia is becoming a global fintech growth hub
SonicWall joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing to find flaws
Bolt-on AI is the new lipstick on a pig; the pig is still running your enterprise
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Digital Transformation News
Intuit adds AI features to mid-market finance software
Mid-market finance teams can now query company data in plain English as Intuit rolls out AI tools that automate close, reporting and payments.
Bolt launches AI platform for insurance distribution
Fragmented agency workflows could be cut as Bolt's new platform links quoting, servicing and carrier access across US insurance markets.
Modern Treasury adds cheque payments to its unified API
Businesses can now issue cheques through the same workflow as instant payments, cutting out separate printing and reconciliation systems.
Airbyte launches migration service for Core to Cloud
Customers can now shift production pipelines to the managed platform without rebuilding connectors or reloading months of data.
Xero launches US payroll service via Gusto integration
The service lets small US businesses run pay, accounting and payments in one system, cutting admin and missed-payroll risk.
SEI adds Zocks AI assistant to adviser services ecosystem
Advisers could see less admin and quicker follow-up as SEI widens its AI toolkit with software that turns client meetings into records and tasks.
CollectivIQ launches AI workers for workplace roles
Businesses could soon hand routine office tasks to named AI agents, as CollectivIQ rolls out software that works inside existing workplace systems.
Myriad360 lands 15th Inc 5000 spot after 95.8% growth
The ranking underscores sustained expansion for the New York-based systems integrator as clients shift spending towards cloud, security and managed services.
Wordly rises in Inc. 5000 as AI translation demand grows
Growing demand for live AI translation has pushed the software group up 1,186 places on the Inc. 5000 after 668% revenue growth.
Farsight deepens PitchBook data tie-up for deal teams
Deal teams can now pull PitchBook's private market data into Farsight without switching systems, cutting manual work in valuations and memos.
US accounting firms with integrated systems feel AI ready
Disconnected systems are leaving many accountancy firms short of time, even as a survey finds integrated platforms sharply boost AI readiness.
Peer Software teams with IMC for Central America push
The deal should widen access to file management tools for businesses across Central America through IMC's reseller network.
Kyndryl launches AI-driven modernisation services on Bridge
The offering aims to help enterprises update legacy systems faster while keeping human oversight and governance in place.
Payouts.com & Replit expand partnership to speed builds
The move could cut Payouts.com's product development cycle from months to days while keeping audit trails and PCI controls in place.
nCino launches Mortgage MCP for lenders' AI agents
Mortgage lenders could cut routine admin time as nCino's new tool lets AI agents act within existing permissions and audit logs.
Eltropy sets out AI playbook for community lenders
Community banks and credit unions are being urged to use AI across the customer journey to speed replies, cut calls and satisfy regulators.
Uptick opens Denver office to boost North America push
The Denver hub will help Uptick hire more staff and support growing demand as North American customers pass 200 in under two years.
PwC & Zyter team up on healthcare workflow overhaul
Healthcare payers and providers could cut costs and manual work as the alliance targets AI-driven workflows for high-volume clinical tasks.
Employees quietly using AI while teams have spare capacity
Businesses may be over-hiring while staff quietly turn to consumer AI tools outside company controls, Prodoscore data suggests.
Astraeus launches AI-native wealth platform for firms
Wealth firms could gain a governed way to use AI without replacing legacy systems, as the New York-based start-up raises more than USD $10 million.
Job Moves
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
iCOUNTER names Ali Waezzadah as Chief Information Security Officer
Pureprofile appoints Christina Statescu as US sales head