Middle East stories

Zoho marks 30th anniversary by topping one million paying customers and 150 million users, with 2025 revenue up 20% year on year.

Zoho hits 1m paying customers and 150m users worldwide as the 30-year-old software group posts 2025 growth in clients and revenue.

Asia-Pacific organisations hit steeper technical hurdles than global peers as they try to scale agentic AI from pilot projects to production.

Westcon-Comstor signs first EMEA distribution deal for Meter’s NaaS platform, targeting partners seeking opex-friendly networking subscriptions.

Honeywell and TCS form an AI-driven cloud partnership to merge IT and OT, targeting autonomous, secure and efficient industrial operations.

Submer is acquiring Radian Arc to fuse its InferX platform with carrier-embedded GPU edge, pitching a sovereign telco-focused AI cloud.

FalconX rolls out up to 5x leveraged DeFi prime brokerage on Hyperliquid, unifying margin, risk and custody for institutional crypto traders.

Wesco becomes Acre Security’s exclusive US distributor, expanding cloud access control and intrusion offerings nationwide.

Submer buys Radian Arc to fuse liquid-cooled AI data centres with telco-embedded GPU edge, targeting sovereign AI at carrier scale.

DigiCert hires Christian Stanford as EMEA Partner Chief, sharpening channel strategy amid rising digital trust and compliance demands.

FiLLi Cafe adopts Oracle NetSuite to streamline finance, inventory and franchise operations as it scales to 100-plus sites in 13 countries.

Kalaam adopts Luminance AI to centralise contract data, cut review times and standardise legal work across its Middle East and UK markets.

Oracle NetSuite unveils NetSuite Next in the UAE, embedding AI assistants, agentic workflows and analytics across its cloud ERP suite.

AI tools save hours at work but Workday finds nearly 40% of those gains are wiped out as staff redo, check and correct low-quality outputs.

Writer’s Toolbox secures Singapore school contracts as the city-state boosts AI investment with SGD $1 billion for research and development.

DroneShield taps veteran executive Michael Powell as Chief Operating Officer to steer global growth and ramp up Australian production.

Bank ABC shifts ila Bank onto Temenos core on AWS in Bahrain, kicking off a wider cloud-led core banking transformation programme.

Agencies rush to adopt AI to boost efficiency and margins by 2026, yet many fear churning out low-quality ‘slop’ that could erode trust.

Westcon-Comstor unveils free Tech Insights programme to help EMEA partners assess cyber risk and AI data readiness for customers.

Celonis hires veteran software leader Ewan Henderson as North America GM to tighten AI’s link to day-to-day operations and measurable ROI.