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Author: Archie Villaflores

In a rewind to the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Chartered Accountants Ireland, Kinore, and Quantmatix were shortlisted for the Best Digital Transformation — Financial & Professional Services award, each recognised for demonstrating excellence and commitment to transforming their operations through the adoption of digital methodologies and technologies within Ireland's financial and professional services sector. Quantmatix ultimately claimed the award for its Smarter Investing, Stronger Returns initiative, setting a compelling standard for how digital transformation can redefine the delivery of financial services when built around a clearly evidenced business case.

Author: Archie Villaflores

The global AI infrastructure wave represents the supply-side transformation that will determine which Irish enterprises can deploy AI at scale and at what cost. Goodbody’s April 2026 analysis finds Ireland well positioned to capture a disproportionate share of the $650 billion (€560 billion) global AI infrastructure investment cycle now underway.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Colombian food company Alpina Colombia has signed an agreement with US enterprise technology company Kyndryl to modernise its core IT infrastructure through a RISE with SAP migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private on Amazon Web Services. The project also includes a data factory and AI-powered platform implementation.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Enterprise IT management software company ManageEngine has rolled out its Zia Agents across its digital enterprise management suite, extending autonomous AI capabilities across service management, observability, endpoint management and security operations. The platform supports both prebuilt and custom agent deployment.

Author: Archie Villaflores

NHS England has announced a rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, following a trial across 30,000 workers that found the tool saved an average of 43 minutes of administration time per person per day. The deployment is described as the largest implementation of its kind in the healthcare sector.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Belfast-based software company Kainos is set to create 341 new jobs across Northern Ireland over the next three years, spanning AI, software engineering and data science roles with an average salary of £58,000. Invest NI has offered £1.5 million in support towards the expansion.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Canadian enterprise data management company OpenText has announced a €105 million investment in Ireland, creating 400 high-skilled jobs across Cork and Galway over three years to expand agentic AI, sovereign cloud and cybersecurity capabilities for EMEA markets. The commitment doubles OpenText's existing investment in Ireland.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Looking back to the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, HEINEKEN, Keltech, and Kinore were shortlisted for the Best Operational Impact Award, each recognised for leveraging digital transformation to drive measurable improvements in operational excellence and advance their respective business goals through technology-led change. Kinore ultimately claimed the award for its Better Onboarding initiative, setting a compelling standard for how targeted digital transformation can produce significant operational gains when built around a clearly defined business objective.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish enterprise investment in AI and digital transformation is accelerating, yet the existing R&D tax credit framework excludes the very categories where that investment is growing fastest. The IRDG/KPMG Ireland Innovation Index 2026 finds 71% of Irish companies support a dedicated Innovation Tax Credit covering digitalisation, AI, and design-led innovation.

Author: Archie Villaflores

US data centre company Digital Realty has established its Malaysia platform, planning to develop approximately 32 megawatts of data centre capacity anchored in Cyberjaya to support enterprise digital transformation and AI-driven use cases across Southeast Asia. The launch marks a key milestone in the company's Asia Pacific expansion.