CIO OPINION
Some 19 % of MNCs cited digital defences as their top technology priority heading into 2025, while 16 % place it second.
Matt Swinden, Managing
Director, Digital Connectivity, BT Business
Can telcos leverage their Goldilocks Edge location?
The telco Edge can be considered the Goldilocks location, providing ideal conditions to straddle the Edge and cloud. Providing seamless, dense interconnectivity at the telco Edge, drives improved user experience for accessing digital applications and services. However, are traditional telco networks flexible and agile enough to manage the demands of this opportunity asks Matt Swinden at BT Business.
The potential of Generative AI is no longer a distant concept – it is here, it is powerful, and it is poised to redefine how businesses operate and grow. As AI becomes integral to future strategy and operations, the discussion is shifting from if to how organisations can embed it meaningfully and responsibly into their infrastructure.
Generative AI can transform projects, augmenting people power to help individuals and teams reach their potential. Never have businesses had such control over data: envisioning it, building complex information-heavy data sets, simulating scenarios and drawing conclusions.
No wonder, then, that building AI capabilities is the top technology priority for 11 % of multi-national corporations and 16 % of UK enterprises, according to recent research into interconnectivity with ISG.
Strategies are being drawn up right now in businesses around the world to speed up time to market, create new routes to profitability, and envision alternative commercial models, proving each new strand of business against the company’ s overall revenue and profitability.
No one knows the full extent of the changes Generative AI will bring, nor the form they will take, only that
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