Business Technology

From AI-driven inventory management to automation in logistics and checkout, there are smart ways for retailers to stretch every budget dollar.

SINGAPORE] The Business Times Budget Roundtable 2025 delved into topics ranging from the challenges of adopting digital tools and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for businesses, to cybersecurity and support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

When signals and AI come together, they give revenue teams the power to influence outcomes long before a buyer ever raises their hand.

Enterprise IT spending is in complete disarray. Despite investments in AI, cloud and modernization, enterprises are still struggling to extract real value. According to statistics from Gartner, global IT spending is expected to reach $5.26 trillion in 2024, yet BCG estimates that 70% of digital transformation projects fail.

AI offers an exciting way to address fragmented data landscapes, unlocking business value through better insights and automation.

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Businesses are using AI for more than answering the phones. Jagriti Dawar, branch president for RobotLab of Eastern Pennsylvania, said technology has been evolving over the past decade. RobotLab, which Dawar runs with her sister Kripa, offers AI robots that can do things such as take and deliver orders or clean.

The vastness and distributed nature of modern data in enterprises have given a sharp rise to the development of sophisticated business intelligence (BI) tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Sisense and more. These tools allow the gathering of data from diverse sources such as databases, file systems and application programming interfaces (API).