Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of enterprise connectivity. What began as a wave of automation and analytics has become a test of structural integrity: Can the network handle the complexity and velocity of AI-driven operations without breaking under its own weight?

After a decade of nonstop investment in digital platforms, marketers are discovering that technology itself has become their biggest problem. The sprawling marketing technology stack—meant to integrate channels, data, and creative workflows—has morphed into an expensive patchwork of disconnected systems.

The speed of AI adoption has upended long-held assumptions about enterprise infrastructure. What once functioned as a passive transport layer is now a dynamic, decision-making environment that determines how securely and efficiently organizations can train models, move data, and deliver insight at scale. 

i2 Group today announced record-setting results for its fiscal year, highlighted by a 40% year-on-year increase in bookings and continued double-digit organic growth across all business segments. The surge reflects rising global demand for sophisticated intelligence and investigative analysis solutions that help organizations identify and pursue bad actors threatening national and international security.

By 2030, preemptive cybersecurity solutions will account for 50% of IT security spending, up from less than 5% in 2024, replacing standalone detection and response (DR) solutions as the preferred approach to defend against cyberthreats, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

The ISG Buyers Guides for Contact Centers, produced by ISG Software Research, provide the rankings and ratings of 40 software providers across four software categories and three vertical industries, assessing products that support automated and intelligent contact centers. The research finds that many enterprises are overhauling contact centers that have remained largely unchanged for decades.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.0% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.24 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This represents an improvement from the previous forecast of 0.6%, driven by 3.9% growth in iOS this year.

The ISG State of the Agentic AI Market report says enterprises must overcome two foundational constraints to enterprise-wide AI value realization: data that is unfit for dynamic decisioning, and operating models that were not designed for the decision velocity of an AI-driven enterprise. Organizations need to redesign critical processes, rethink how tasks are done and change the way data is incorporated into workflows.

Cloud Adoption Trends in Asia/Pacific — Industry View, shows enterprises across Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare accelerating cloud adoption to meet business, technology, and regulatory demands.

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025 according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. "The forecast assumes continued investment in AI infrastructure expansion, as major hyperscalers continue to increase investments in data centers with AI-optimized hardware and GPUs to scale their services,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner.

The global smart vacuum market recorded shipments of 6.17 million units in the second quarter of 2025, reflecting a 20.5% year-over-year increase, according to the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker.

The 2025 ISG Provider LensPrivate/Hybrid Cloud — Data Center Services report for France finds that growing enterprise investment in AI-ready infrastructure is reshaping the country’s hybrid cloud market. Companies are adopting sovereign cloud solutions and high-performance data centers to comply with regulations, optimize AI operations and become more sustainable.

Cloud security investments continue to be prioritized as Asia/Pacific enterprises ramp up migrating workloads and data on multiple cloud environments. Organizations are investing in solutions that support business continuity and digital resilience strategies, implementing security tools, such as disaster recovery solutions, data security, governance, and incident response to minimize downtime and faster response and recovery from potential cyber threats.

Fifty-three percent of consumers distrust or have a lack of confidence in the reliability and impartiality of AI search and summaries, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. This concern is reflected in user frustration, with 41% of consumers reporting that generative AI overviews make the search process more frustrating than traditional search methods.

PwC’s alliance with Harvey is exclusive among the Big Four and combines its deep domain expertise in M&A, tax and legal with Harvey’s advanced AI capabilities to deliver a platform that streamlines document review and analysis, and optimises workflows by collecting, processing and interpreting large and complex datasets to produce recommendations, predictions and data-backed insights.

The report draws on BCG's proprietary Global Payments Model and includes forecasts and market dynamics across more than 60 economies accounting for more than 90% of global GDP. It identifies five structural forces reshaping the payments landscape: the rise of agentic AI, digital currencies such as stablecoins, fintech disruption, real-time account-to-account (A2A) systems, and the enduring importance of cost transformation.

India’s tablet market shipped 2.15 million units in the first half of 2025 , marking a 32.2% year-over-year (YoY) decline, according to International Data Corporation‘s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. While the detachable tablet segment grew by 18.9% YoY, the slate tablet category declined sharply by 44.4% YoY, pulling down overall volumes.

The 2025 ISG Provider Lens Cybersecurity — Services and Solutions report for France finds that enterprises are adapting to a complex security landscape influenced by new regulations, cloud adoption and a shortage of skilled professionals. They are adopting integrated services that improve their confidence and visibility by reducing reliance on individual tools. Enterprises are seeking providers that can help their security teams overcome the challenges of merging operations and technologies.

Datacenter semiconductors remain the primary growth driver for 2025. Demand for AI infrastructure and accelerated computing as well as datacenter networking is fueling significant semiconductor revenue expansion. Other sector, including clients experienced a pull-in of demand ahead of tariff uncertainty, resulting in a stronger first half of 2025.

Worldwide end-user spending on generative AI (GenAI) smartphones is projected to total $298.2 billion by the end of 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. It will represent 20% of total AI end-user spending in 2025.