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Budget wins praise but business warns of skills gaps

Business groups welcomed the Budget's productivity push, but warned small firms and agencies still lack the skills to deliver it.

By Sean Mitchell • 9 min read • Wed, 13th May 2026

Digital Transformation

Exclusive: Autodesk's Daron Green warns of AI 'disintermediation'

Autodesk is harnessing AI to reshape design workflows, boosting productivity and user experience amid rising digital disruption across industries.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Mon, 1st Sep 2025

Global Stories

Autodesk stories

Software-as-a-Service

Australia second in construction tech adoption survey

A skills shortage and tight budgets are slowing gains as Australian builders boost weekly use of construction tech to 48 per cent.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Last month

Cisco

inDrive names Abhey Lamba as Chief Financial Officer

As inDrive expands beyond ride-hailing, the new Chief Financial Officer will steer finance after gross bookings rose 30% to USD $6.4 billion.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

Data Protection

Amazon adds OpenAI models to Bedrock for AWS users

AWS customers can now run OpenAI's latest models in production without leaving Bedrock, with pricing and governance folded into existing commitments.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Software-as-a-Service

Autodesk names Dr. Haren Samarasekera as ANZ director

The appointment comes as construction, infrastructure and housing demand keep pressure on software suppliers serving Australia and New Zealand.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 26th May 2026

Storage

McClure deploys PeerGFS to steady multi-office file access

Instability at McClure’s offices has been removed after the firm replaced a strained managed file-sharing setup with PeerGFS.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Fri, 8th May 2026

Marketing Technologies

Anthropic links Claude to Adobe, Blender & Ableton

Creative professionals can now use Claude inside Adobe, Blender and Ableton to automate tasks, search docs and move work between apps.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 30th Apr 2026

Smart Cities

Autodesk launches Forma Building Design for Revit links

Architects can now carry schematic building models into Revit without rebuilding them, cutting rework as projects move from concept to detail.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Apr 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Anthropic plugins accelerate the shift to AI agents

Anthropic adds Claude plugins to Cowork, fuelling investor fears that agent-style AI could undermine traditional seat-based software.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Fri, 6th Feb 2026

DevOps

Dynatrace unveils agentic AI system for autonomous ops

Dynatrace launches an agentic AI operations layer to automate cloud and AI-native workloads, aiming for self-healing, autonomous observability.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Thu, 29th Jan 2026

EduTech

Autodesk expands free access to pro software for 150m global learners

Autodesk now offers free professional software to over 150 million students worldwide, boosting skills in design, engineering, and AI to tackle talent shortages.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Thu, 20th Nov 2025

Virtualisation

Crossplane graduates CNCF, ranking in top 10% of projects

The graduation marks a milestone with widespread enterprise adoption and over 3,000 contributors supporting multi-cloud platform engineering.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Nov 2025

Data Protection

Qualtrics bolsters AI leadership team & pledges USD $500 million

Qualtrics appoints AI veterans and pledges USD $500 million to advance purpose-built AI for transforming customer and employee experience management.

By Melvin Hipolito • 4 min read • Wed, 5th Nov 2025

Digital twins

Autodesk unveils AI-driven updates for design, construction & media

Autodesk launches AI-powered updates across design, manufacturing, construction, and media, enhancing collaboration and productivity with new cloud tools.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Wed, 17th Sep 2025