Easily sharing data has become a critical asset for driving informed decisions across any business. Still, many organizations struggle with the complexities of sharing data in a way that’s effective and compliant. Data teams often navigate challenges like unclear governance, version control issues, data silos, access restrictions, and a lack of data management skills across the broader business. Virgin Media O2 is a media and telecommunications company that relies on data sharing across the organization to optimize operations, drive strategy, and empower decision makers. From finance to marke ..read more

The UK is a hive of innovation and entrepreneurship. In fact, research reveals that the UK startup ecosystem is now worth more than £839 billion ($1.1 trillion), making it the third most valuable startup ecosystem in the world (after the United States and China).  As well as being a world leader in startup activity, the UK is also at the center of science, technology, and AI advancement. What results is a prosperous ecosystem that enables startups to not only enter the market but scale up at an invigorated rate with the support of cutting-edge tools and platforms. Helping to drive this m ..read more

Across industries and disciplines, generative AI is transforming the way we work, from sparking new forms of creativity and revolutionizing customer experiences to unlocking hidden insights within complex data. At the same time, this revolution hinges on high-quality, well-governed, and accessible data. Data may be the foundation of training and grounding AI models, but for decades, governance of that data has been an afterthought in the enterprise. With the rise of AI, however, it is now front and center of enterprises’ data strategies, even as they struggle to discover, govern, and understa ..read more

The AI era is here, and the UK is at the forefront.  Over the past year, search interest for "AI" has surged by 50% in the country, while inquiries about "how to use AI" have jumped 70%. By 2030, AI could generate more than £400 billion ($524 billion) in value for the UK economy and save more than 700,000 administrative hours annually across sectors like healthcare, education, and finance. Central to this transformation is Gemini, Google Cloud's next-generation AI foundation model, which is empowering UK businesses across all sectors to unlock new possibilities in a rapidly evolving land ..read more

As the fuel for AI, data's role in driving innovation is uncontested. However, since so much data is unstructured and unmanaged today, data accessibility can stand in the way of AI adoption. Our goal is to make data accessible, actionable and transformative for enterprises. Today, we are delivering new capabilities to help you realize this with a data cloud based on open standards, that connects data to AI in real-time, and pushes the boundaries of gen AI with conversational data agents.  An open ecosystem to work with data in real-time  Earlier this year, we announced plans to unif ..read more

Consumer expectations of healthcare have changed. Accustomed to using digital products and services in other walks of life, people now rightly demand a similar experience with their healthcare. At Bupa, we’re committed to delivering on those desires, which is why we are working with Google Cloud to build our new, cloud-first digital customer platform.  Driven by our ambition to be the world’s most customer-centric healthcare company, our Bupa Blua experience provides digital access to care when needed, and the tools to enable customers to be proactive with their health. Using Google Clou ..read more

Software development is the engine of the modern economy. However, creating great applications across the tech stack is complex because of an increasing number of abstraction levels, integrations, vendors, and a dearth of experienced developers.  IT leaders need to equip their teams with solutions that use AI to help their developers navigate complexity, so they can accelerate application delivery and keep pace with the competition. Gartner estimates that “by 2028, 90% of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants, up from less than 14% in early 2024.”1 Google Cloud believ ..read more

For much of the 20th Century and into the 21st, telecommunications companies have been at the forefront of technological growth. In 1970 only 35% of UK households had landline telephones. Fast forward to today, and more than 90% of adults in the UK have cell phones. The infrastructure required to revolutionize how people communicate took decades of building cell-phone towers, laying cables, and redefining what it means to communicate or access information. Today, our teams at EE are continuing to drive telco innovation as one of the UK’s leading mobile networks, providing solutions to more th ..read more

Big data and AI have revolutionized how businesses operate, but also present new challenges, particularly concerning data privacy and accessibility. Organizations increasingly rely on large datasets to train machine learning models and develop data-driven insights, but accessing and using real-world data can be problematic. Privacy regulations, data scarcity, and inherent biases in real-world data hinder the development of robust analytics and AI models. Synthetic data emerges as a powerful solution to these challenges. It comprises artificially generated datasets that statistically mirror re ..read more

At Google Cloud, we're always looking for ways to help our B2B and B2C customers advance their digital transformation through conversational AI, no matter their starting point. Whether you're an enterprise aiming to modernize and deliver AI-powered conversational experiences to your customers, or a leading CPG company implementing new engagement models with intelligent agents, the ideal solution seamlessly incorporates multiple best-in-class technologies into a composable yet tightly integrated whole. There's a growing need for enterprises to combine their data with powerful conversational de ..read more