As digital transformation accelerates across the financial services sector, the life insurance industry—long characterized by legacy systems, complex regulations, and person-to-person interactions—is under increasing pressure to modernize. With shifting consumer expectations, regulatory complexities, and rising cost constraints, industry stakeholders are re-evaluating how life insurance is marketed, underwritten, and administered.

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms nearly every industry, the property technology sector—PropTech—is seeing a surge in innovation across leasing, operations, asset management, and portfolio strategy. To better understand how AI is being deployed within commercial and residential property ecosystems, BizTechReports spoke with Carla Hinson, Vice President of Solution and Innovation at MRI Software. With nearly three decades of experience in real estate technology, Hinson offers grounded insight into how AI is moving from pilot to practice in a traditionally risk-averse industry.

Gartner, Inc. announced the top strategic trends in software engineering for 2025 and beyond. These trends enable organizations to accelerate innovation through AI-driven automation and adopt efficient, future-ready engineering practices.

“People talk about Q-Day like it’s a future event,” said Rebecca Krauthamer, Co-Founder and CEO of QuSecure, a cybersecurity company that provides post-quantum cryptography (PQC) solutions, in a recent executive conversation. “But from a risk management perspective, we’re already there. Data that’s being stolen now could be exposed later by quantum technology. This is worrisome for data that has a long shelf life, like medical records, intellectual property, or classified communications.”

The ISG Buyers Guides for Revenue Lifecycle Management, produced by ISG Software Research, provide the rankings and ratings of 42 software providers and their products to support revenue process needs, including configure price quote (CPQ), contract lifecycle management (CLM), revenue recognition, billing and the platforms to support these activities. The research finds that enterprises benefit from unified software platforms as they migrate from reliance on one-time sales to efficiently managed approaches that generate continuous revenue. Revenue lifecycle management platforms move beyond the outdated linear quote-to-cash process, combining processes previously carried out by separate tools. Aligning all systems allows for consistent sales and revenue engagement over time.

The property technology sector—PropTech—has entered a phase of accelerated disruption, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, legacy system modernization, and shifting economic pressures across residential, commercial, and industrial segments. What began as a fragmented landscape of point solutions is rapidly evolving into an interconnected ecosystem where strategic data access, automation, and predictive analytics define competitive advantage.

Autonomous delivery is poised to become a standard feature of logistics—but a key element of that ecosystem has long gone unaddressed: where do drones, robots, and unmanned vehicles actually deliver their payloads? According to Dan O’Toole, CEO of Arrive AI, the answer lies not in the sky, but at the curb.

The lack of intelligent, secure, and universally accessible delivery endpoints has emerged as a critical gap in the autonomous delivery ecosystem. Long overshadowed by the spectacle of unmanned aerial vehicles and sidewalk rovers, these “last-inch” infrastructure platforms may be the linchpin in the transition to autonomous delivery at scale.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens™ Aerospace and Defense Services and Solutions reports for Europe find that companies are utilizing advancements in electronic warfare, missile systems, cybersecurity and other areas to meet European defense demands. In response to the ongoing war in Ukraine, the EU is taking steps to consolidate and strengthen the region’s defense sector. The commercial aerospace industry is also growing, driven by recovering air travel demand and sustainability initiatives.

As enterprises move beyond isolated digital initiatives and begin operationalizing AI across functions, many are encountering unexpected friction—ranging from unclear project ownership to gaps in governance, security, and execution. These challenges are prompting a broader reassessment of how external partners are selected and measured.

According to International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, India’s smartphone market shipped 32 million smartphones in 1Q25, with a 5.5% decline YoY, making it the second consecutive quarter of decline in shipments. Weak consumer demand and surplus inventory from the previous quarter continue to pose challenges.

The increasing integration of applications for managing customer experience is changing how enterprises monitor, understand and improve interactions and relationships with their customers, according to new research from global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG).

The third edition of BCG's annual survey, based on responses from over 10,600 workers across 11 countries, reveals that while AI adoption is strong overall, only 51% of frontline employees are regular users—a figure that has stagnated. Meanwhile, the Global South continues to lead in adoption, with India at 92% and the Middle East at 87% as the nations with the highest levels of regular use. Yet these two high-use countries also report the greatest fear about automation's impact, far higher than the 41% of all global respondents worried their roles could disappear within the next decade.

A survey of 632 B2B buyers conducted found most buyers prefer to carry out independent research through digital channels. Although many organizations have increased investment in outreach to reach hard-to-access buyers, 73% of B2B buyers actively avoid suppliers who send irrelevant outreach.

The information technology sector led AI investment activity in Asia Pacific in 2024, according to IDC, with the majority of deals targeting cloud computing, cybersecurity, SaaS platforms, data analytics, and machine learning. Healthcare followed as a fast-rising sector, driven by breakthroughs in diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment. Regionally, China, South Korea, and Japan attracted the most AI capital, while India stood out for its software-driven, scalable AI innovation

The growing reach of AI across business operations is reshaping the demands placed on data centers in every industry. This BizTechReports briefing synthesizes insights from four recent reports to explore how data centers are evolving—consolidating platforms, securing new power sources, adopting more flexible investment models, and redesigning infrastructure to support AI at scale.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens global Life Sciences Digital Services report finds that clinical trials, manufacturing, patient engagement and other activities in the industry are being transformed to meet changing expectations. Telehealth is making some operations more flexible, while increasing regulation and sustainability goals are creating demand for new solutions. Contract research organizations (CROs) play a growing role in the industry, often at the forefront of innovation.

For decades, health benefits administration has been one of the most opaque and cumbersome functions within the enterprise. Mid-sized employers in particular—those with limited HR teams, growing workforce demands, and tight budget constraints—face steep challenges in delivering benefits that are both cost-effective and consumer-friendly.

Eighty percent of enterprise software and applications will be multimodal by 2030, up from less than 10% in 2024, according to Gartner, Inc.

For mid-market employers navigating a tightening labor market and rising healthcare costs, managing employee benefits has become an increasingly difficult balancing act. Benefits programs are often critical to employee retention and recruitment, but they remain complex to administer, difficult to personalize, and opaque in terms of cost transparency.