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AsiaOne
4 days ago
- AsiaOne
Vivo X Fold5: A foldable contender with a few class-leading surprises, Digital News
Not the thinnest, not the cheapest, but the Vivo X Fold5 still makes a case for itself as a safe, all-rounder choice, scoring some points of its own. Samsung dominates the high end while Honor's hyperaggressive pricing makes everyone else sweat. With a weight of 217g, the Vivo X Fold5 is one of the lightest book-style foldables around. It packs the biggest (among foldables) 6000mAh semi-solid state battery, a triple-camera array (all with autofocus and OIS), both bright displays rated at 4500 nits (brightest among the foldables by far), and the most durability among foldables with a triple IP rating (IPX8, IPX9, IP5X). Its AI suite-Origin Workbench, DocMaster, Smart Call Assistant-focuses on core productivity needs, and Gemini integration via Google adds a familiar assistive layer. Among the three major foldables, it's the most basic in execution, but functional enough. Foldables are no longer experimental — in 2025, they're judged on how well they hold up as daily drivers. Vivo is offering a reasonable alternative with a handful of class-leading specs, aimed at buyers who want enough of everything without glaring trade-offs. That said, the Honor Magic V5 clearly undercuts it in value, and Samsung's Fold still has the strongest hold on public perception when it comes to software and ecosystem polish. At the end of the day, unless you have a specific feature need that is non-negotiable, it all comes down to which phone you prefer for everyday use. The Vivo X Fold5 is priced at $2,499 for the 16GB + 512GB variant and is available now through major retailers and telco partners in Singapore. [[nid:718576]] This article was first published in .
Associated Press
6 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
KPMG Accelerates Agentic AI and Enhances Enterprise Data Solutions with Oracle
New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - August 7, 2025) - KPMG LLP has announced new initiatives to help customers deploy and manage AI agents that transform enterprise data management and business processes. KPMG is making significant investments in AI and helping organizations create and deploy AI agents to fit their unique business needs with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI Service and Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, comprehensive platforms for creating, extending, deploying, and managing AI agents and agent teams across the enterprise. The new initiatives follow KPMG's recent launch of Workbench, a global AI platform designed for interoperable agent-to-agent communication. Workbench integrates AI capabilities from Oracle platforms that allow clients to select the AI model or agent for the right task. Oracle AI services play a pivotal role in this ecosystem by providing robust data management, cloud infrastructure services, and agent orchestration capabilities to help improve agent connectivity and accelerate AI adoption. Tailored Agentic Solutions to Drive Productivity and Efficiency KPMG's innovative approach leverages OCI Generative AI Service and Oracle AI Agent Studio to build custom AI agents and agent templates designed to cater to the complex needs of enterprises, starting with a need for improved data management. According to the latest KPMG AI Quarterly Pulse Survey, 64% of leaders feel organizational data quality will be their biggest challenge in 2025. AI agents focused on data management are critical for productivity and operational efficiency and will extend automation with easy-to-use tools. By analyzing and managing enterprise data across multiple platforms, AI agents can significantly reduce the time and resources required for data integration in everyday processes. A New Horizon: Generative AI Data Management Solution The introduction of a KPMG generative AI (Gen AI) data management solution enhances accessibility and provides businesses with a comprehensive, intuitive approach to data management. OCI serves as the platform for hosting KPMG's Gen AI data management solution, which includes a prebuilt datastore, a system prompt management layer, a data management application, pre-built agents for common business processes, a user interface, and an agent scheduling function. Additionally, it offers the capability to create agentic workflows by enabling agents to call other agents. Key features of the KPMG Gen AI data management solution: Empowering Enterprise Transformation for Specific Industries KPMG is actively delivering on multiple projects with customers to develop AI agents and agent templates that meet unique industry-specific needs and accelerate AI adoption. This KPMG initiative is designed to deliver fast deployment of AI solutions that improve business outcomes, enhance resource management, and elevate customer experience. KPMG's custom agent solution utilizes a flexible data model designed to accommodate data from multiple ERP systems. By adopting an 'ask anything' approach, the solution can extract information from several tables or business objects based on a single user query, providing unified answers accompanied by an associated dataset. This capability enables trend analysis and insights using potentially thousands of records, rather than single-record replies. The custom agent supplies comprehensive datasets, serving as an alternative to traditional reports and simplifying information access by eliminating the need to navigate through multiple forms. These agents offer a tailored user interface with features like agent scheduling for proactive monitoring and security measures to restrict certain users to a specified list of prompts. With this, KPMG will help businesses to quickly build enterprise-ready agents for their unique challenges, leveraging Oracle AI Agent Studio to create industry-specific agent templates. For example: KPMG is dedicated to continuously evolving its AI capabilities and will leverage OCI Generative AI Service and Oracle AI Agent Studio to ensure its clients consistently benefit from cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs. Prioritizing Client Success with Oracle AI KPMG is leveraging Oracle AI services to enhance its own AI tools and platforms for enhanced client delivery, including KPMG Modern Data Platform, a scalable, cloud-native solution that streamlines an organization's data infrastructure and accelerates advanced analytic initiatives, and KPMG Velocity, which combines KPMG firms' business transformation suite with AI tools and a common methodology. The KPMG AI Agent Hub experience, offered at KPMG Ignition Centers or client locations, provides tools and methodologies to identify high-impact AI agent use cases, design and customize agents using Oracle AI Agent Studio, and establish governance to scale agents across the enterprise. KPMG subject matter experts work alongside clients' business and technology teams throughout the process. By leveraging Oracle's advanced AI capabilities with Oracle AI Agent Studio and OCI to implement AI agents across all facets of client experience, KPMG can drive sustainable growth and operational excellence for its clients. Executive Quotes: 'AI agents represent the next frontier in enterprise productivity and customer experience. With Oracle we are accelerating our capabilities to the forefront of AI technology, giving our clients a significant competitive advantage,' said Jennifer Chilton, KPMG Oracle Practice Leader, KPMG US. 'With the KPMG AI Agent Hub, we empower clients to harness AI's full potential, driving substantial business results and innovation.' 'AI agents have the potential to transform entire industries, and the ability to customize agents to meet complex and specific industry needs will accelerate that impact,' said Erik Bergenholtz, vice president, strategy and operations for AI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 'Oracle's security protocols and native integration with Oracle Fusion Applications help ensure that KPMG and its clients can deploy advanced AI agents with confidence, scalability, and resilience.' 'The ability to harness advanced data and analytics to deliver powerful business insights is a hallmark of effective AI transformation,' said Matteo Colombo, Global Data, Cloud and AI Leader, KPMG Advisory. 'KPMG data solutions leveraging Oracle AI Agent Studio creates quick, clear, AI-enhanced visibility into the data landscape for value-based data modernization.' Trademarks Oracle, Java, MySQL and NetSuite are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. NetSuite was the first cloud company-ushering in the new era of cloud computing. About KPMG LLP KPMG LLP is the U.S. member firm of the KPMG global organization of independent member firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 142 countries and territories and has more than 275,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients. KPMG is widely recognized for being a great place to work and build a career. Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we do, and a strong commitment to increasing access to education and opportunity, advancing mental health, and supporting community vitality. Learn more at Media Contact: Shuvi Mitra Senior Associate, Corporate Communications, KPMG US [email protected] To view the source version of this press release, please visit
Daily Tribune
01-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Tribune
KPMG launches KPMG Workbench
KPMG International yesterday launched KPMG Workbench – KPMG's foundational and single AI platform designed to scale global adoption and integration of AI, while enhancing trust and control over AI across all geographies and teams. It is part of the global organization's multi-billion dollar investment in AI and agentic transformation and is the foundation that will underpin KPMG firms' client delivery platforms, KPMG Digital Gateway (Tax), KPMG Velocity (Advisory) and our smart audit platform, KPMG Clara. 'With KPMG Workbench, we're combining advanced AI agents with the insight, judgment and deep expertise of our people to deliver smarter solutions for clients, faster and with full confidence in their security and compliance.' – David Rowlands, Global Head of AI, KPMG International A shared vision KPMG leveraged the Microsoft Azure platform, including AI capabilities in Azure AI Foundry, as the foundation for KPMG Workbench. This investment marks the evolution of Workbench from a proven platform for KPMG's developers to the firm's central hub for delivering and managing AI, using advanced agent interoperability technology to connect intelligent tools and support throughout various stages of the client journey. With generative and agentic AI, KPMG Workbench's ability to scale and specialize helps makes it transformative. By coordinating multiple task-specific agents to collaborate and share context, KPMG Workbench enables team members to automate complex, multi-step processes from client onboarding to regulatory reporting. These agents are modular, reusable, and continuously evolving, making it easier to adapt to changing business needs. ' In Bahrain, KPMG has established an AI Lab that is working with key clients in the market on some cutting edge use cases. We are significantly investing in Bahraini talent to drive the AI agenda forward for our clients' – Jamal Fakhro, Managing Partner, KPMG in Bahrain Clients onboarded Private instances of KPMG Workbench will be available to clients from across industries to help develop and manage their digital workforce of the future.'Our AI Lab is imple menting AI solutions that are already driving tangible value for our clients in the Kingdom. With KPMG Workbench, these homegrown capabilities will be significantly amplified, allowing us to accelerate the delivery of advanced, secure, and locally relevant AI-driven services, truly complementing the human intelligence and deep industry knowledge of our professionals.' – Manav Prakash, Partner, Advisory, KPMG in Bahrain.
Techday NZ
07-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
SAS Viya expands AI tools with new offerings & cloud services
SAS has unveiled several new offerings on its SAS Viya platform aimed at supporting greater speed, productivity, and trust in AI deployment and analytics. The latest additions to SAS Viya include the forthcoming SAS Data Maker, a synthetic data generator intended to tackle data privacy and scarcity issues within organisations. According to SAS, this solution builds on technology acquired from Hazy's principal software assets and is expected to be generally available in the third quarter of 2025. Currently available is SAS Viya Intelligent Decisioning, which allows users to construct and deploy intelligent AI agents designed to provide an appropriate balance between machine autonomy and human oversight, taking into account task complexity, risk profiles, and business objectives. SAS has also launched SAS Managed Cloud Services: SAS Viya Essentials, a managed service package primarily aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. The company says that Viya Essentials delivers the SAS Viya experience in a compact, hosted and managed service arrangement to help reduce barriers to entry for organisations seeking to implement analytics capabilities. SAS Viya Copilot, an AI-powered conversational assistant, is currently in private preview with general availability expected in the third quarter of 2025. According to SAS, the Copilot will provide assistance to developers, data scientists, and business users, enabling AI-powered model development and code support. It is built on Azure AI Services and is described as a significant outcome of the SAS and Microsoft partnership. Another recent release is SAS Viya Workbench, which offers a cloud environment for coding aimed at enhancing the speed and efficiency of developers, data scientists, and modelers. Workbench facilitates data management, analysis, and model development using SAS or Python code and integrates with Visual Studio Code or Jupyter Notebook. For 2025, Workbench adds support for R coding, SAS Enterprise Guide as an IDE option, and is expanding its availability from AWS Marketplace to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Kathy Lange, Research Director for AI Software at IDC, commented on the company's direction: "SAS is evolving its strategy and portfolio to embrace a broader ecosystem of user personas, preferences, and technologies within an enterprise's AI technology stack. SAS continues to develop offerings that streamline and automate the AI life cycle and enable organisations to make better business decisions faster." SAS highlighted a recent AI productivity study conducted by the Futurum Group in 2024, which reported that SAS Viya users were able to accelerate their AI life cycle by collecting data, building models, and deploying decisions 4.6 times faster than selected competitors. The study also found increased innovation, faster decision making, and revenue growth for users. Bryan Harris, Chief Technology Officer at SAS, addressed the pace of change in the AI sector by saying, "The current economic climate and rapid pace of AI innovation can feel intense and overwhelming. Our goal is to deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities that help organisations navigate the hype and disruption, make breakthroughs in problem solving, and gain a decision advantage." SAS also pointed to the role its technology is playing beyond commercial applications. Fathom Science, a start-up focused on creating digital twins of the ocean, used SAS Viya to address marine conservation concerns. By employing SAS Data Maker, Fathom Science generated synthetic shipping lane data to aid in the validation of its whale location prediction model, which is designed to reduce the risk of vessels striking critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. The process involved expanding available data points and utilising SAS Viya Workbench to develop machine learning models for estimating whale proximity to shore, leading to statistical and machine learning validation of their approach.
Arabian Post
29-04-2025
- Business
- Arabian Post
DXC Unveils AI Workbench to Revolutionise Client Solutions
DXC Technology has launched its new AI Workbench, designed to help businesses across various industries deploy artificial intelligence at scale. The platform, a pre-built and scalable solution, aims to accelerate AI adoption and facilitate quicker and more efficient solutions to complex business challenges. Ferrovial, the Spanish multinational infrastructure company, is the first major client to utilise this cutting-edge tool. The AI Workbench is an advanced platform that integrates AI models, data processing frameworks, and cloud services, allowing companies to build, train, and deploy AI systems more seamlessly. This new offering is part of DXC's broader strategy to provide clients with a comprehensive, easy-to-integrate solution to meet their technological demands and enhance business operations. For Ferrovial, a leader in sustainable infrastructure, the AI Workbench marks a pivotal step in its digital transformation efforts. By adopting the platform, the company is looking to streamline processes, optimise resource allocation, and enhance its ability to manage large-scale infrastructure projects more efficiently. The AI Workbench is expected to play a key role in helping Ferrovial leverage data to drive insights and innovation across its various projects. The introduction of the AI Workbench comes at a time when businesses are under increasing pressure to harness the power of AI to stay competitive. From optimising supply chains to enhancing customer experiences, AI has become a crucial tool for businesses looking to scale their operations and adapt to the ever-changing market conditions. However, the implementation of AI solutions can often be complex and costly, with companies requiring significant resources to build and maintain custom AI systems. DXC's AI Workbench addresses these challenges by providing a pre-configured, flexible solution that reduces the time and cost associated with developing AI infrastructure from scratch. The platform's integration with popular cloud providers ensures that companies can easily access scalable computing power, while its modular design allows businesses to tailor the solution to their specific needs. By offering a more accessible entry point into AI, the AI Workbench could prove to be a game-changer for businesses that are looking to capitalise on AI but lack the expertise or resources to build custom solutions. The impact of this new platform could be far-reaching, as industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and finance are already beginning to explore how AI can be utilised to optimise their operations. For instance, in manufacturing, AI-powered systems can predict maintenance needs, reducing downtime and improving efficiency. In healthcare, AI can assist with diagnostics, enabling quicker and more accurate patient care. Meanwhile, in finance, AI models can analyse market trends and help companies make more informed investment decisions. DXC's move to launch the AI Workbench also signals the growing importance of artificial intelligence as a strategic tool for business leaders. The company's ability to offer a streamlined, off-the-shelf solution positions it as a key player in the evolving AI space. With businesses increasingly looking to AI for solutions to a wide range of operational challenges, DXC's new platform provides an avenue for rapid deployment that could shorten the learning curve for organisations new to AI adoption. While the AI Workbench promises to deliver substantial value, it is also indicative of broader trends in the technology sector. Over the last several years, the demand for AI capabilities has surged, with companies seeking innovative ways to integrate these technologies into their operations. The growing importance of AI has led to an expansion of the AI services market, with many tech giants, including DXC, positioning themselves as essential partners for businesses looking to leverage these advancements. The success of the AI Workbench will likely depend on how effectively it can meet the needs of businesses that require customisable solutions while offering the scalability and flexibility that many industries demand. For companies like Ferrovial, the platform offers a starting point for greater integration of AI into business processes, but the long-term impact will depend on how the tool is adapted to meet evolving needs. DXC's AI Workbench also represents a shift in the way businesses approach AI implementation. Traditionally, AI adoption has been viewed as a complex and resource-intensive endeavour. The AI Workbench seeks to change that narrative by offering a user-friendly, out-of-the-box solution that enables organisations to unlock the potential of AI without needing specialised knowledge or massive investment. This shift is reflective of a growing trend towards accessible AI solutions. As companies recognise the benefits of AI but struggle with implementation, solutions like the AI Workbench could become the norm for businesses of all sizes. The ability to deploy AI without significant upfront costs or long development timelines could open the doors to AI-powered transformation across industries, ushering in a new era of automation, innovation, and efficiency. In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, businesses are turning to technology to not only streamline operations but also drive competitive advantage. AI, once seen as a tool for the tech elite, is now becoming mainstream as companies recognise its potential to solve critical challenges across sectors. With the AI Workbench, DXC is positioning itself to be a key enabler of this transformation, making AI more accessible and easier to implement than ever before.
