Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley CEOs question AI infrastructure spending model

David Solomon and Ted Pick have both questioned whether AI infrastructure spending can justify itself without clearer returns. The concern they raised maps directly onto how data and analytics roles are being structured in financial services across the DACH region.

Just 24% of organisations have started schematising unstructured files, survey finds

Companies have invested heavily in lakehouse architectures, but the files that have accumulated over the years remain largely inaccessible to analytics teams. The disconnect is showing up in how data engineering roles are being scoped across the DACH region.

Semantic layer boosts AI accuracy up to 2.4x, AtScale finds

When AI models answer fewer than 40% of business questions correctly on raw enterprise data, the problem is rarely the model. Data leaders across the DACH region keep telling us the same thing: the architecture between the model and the business logic is where accuracy lives or dies.

SAP publishes ten-question security framework for board members

When a CFO candidate sits across the table from a board member who can ask precise questions about data residency and incident response, that candidate knows the organisation takes security seriously. We notice this dynamic in hiring conversations, and in who chooses to accept an offer.

SAP targets public sector back-office coordination at SPUBLIC Berlin

We have been watching the public sector AI conversation shift from chatbots to genuine back-office transformation. SAP’s SPUBLIC Berlin announcement signals where the SAP talent requirements are headed: consultants who can configure citizen-facing workflows while understanding the data architecture underneath.