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The changes aim to make enterprise software easier to buy through Oracle channels, as partners seek closer sales support and flexible contracts.
The move ties AI more tightly to HR workflows, with Oracle aiming to automate staffing, hiring and pay tasks under human oversight.
Customers will be able to buy Snowflake through Oracle's cloud, simplifying billing and data access for AI and analytics workloads.
Funding will support more than 10,000 jobs as AirTrunk expands its Western Sydney data centre campus with low-carbon construction by mid-2028.
Australian and New Zealand finance teams could cut manual close work as NetSuite rolls out AI tools, but only if data and controls are ready.
Governments and defence operators could gain tighter control over sensitive systems as the two groups target regulated customers with sovereign cloud services.
More than 100 meetings in Singapore showed buyers want AI tools that solve specific problems, as Australian firms sought regional contracts.
Businesses can now let AI agents query company data with more context, as Zoho Analytics gains semantic and ontology layers plus workflow tools.
Australian partners will get higher rewards for landing new customers as Hitachi Vantara broadens its FY26 incentive scheme and pushes AI-ready storage.
Developers can now provision object, analytics and vector storage from Vercel without leaving the platform, with AWS billing unchanged.
Analysts can now cap BigQuery AI spend before it runs away, as Google adds daily token quotas for generative functions across projects and users.
The trial showed tokenised deposits can move money instantly between Swiss bank customers while settlement and liquidity stay under existing rules.
Open-source maintainers can now spot stolen build secrets sooner, as Tracebit removes repository limits for public projects and widens free coverage.
Banks are backing one of Asia's largest AI infrastructure financings, as ZanKore funds 100 MW of GPU capacity for Indonesia and the region.
Aged care operators under tougher reporting rules are turning to connected systems as Southern Cross Care links finance, assets and care data.
Smaller businesses can add tri-band WiFi 7 without a full network overhaul, as Zyxel targets easier deployment and lower power use.
Growing AI demand could leave Australia's data centres constrained unless fibre routes are planned earlier and shared across the industry.
Progressive accounting firms in the US are generating 28% more revenue per employee, according to a Karbon study of 1,200 survey responses.
Public bodies could cut admin and free staff for frontline cases if ministers back AI tools with stronger oversight and safeguards.
Businesses adopting AI agents could cut rework by up to 40%, as WORK-SELF expands Maya Enterprise across more than 12,000 applications.
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