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Custom Digital Solutions | An Accelerated, Value-Driven Alternative to Traditional Enterprise Software
Many companies rely on spreadsheets, email, shared drives, and disconnected legacy systems to perform work that is too important to remain manual. These tools often become the operational backbone for planning, reporting, approvals, scheduling, purchasing, and exception management — even when they were never designed to support enterprise workflows.
Agentic AI Will Not Fix Broken Work. It Will Do Broken Work Faster | Part 4
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents and applying them to workflows that were never redesigned for such optimization. RAND found that more than 80% of AI projects fail, roughly twice the rate of ordinary technology projects, and that the causes are overwhelmingly operational rather than technical. Gartner now predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – October 9, 2026
Malware Activity PoeLLM Botnet Turns Exposed AI/LLM Servers into Cryptomining Launchpads A financially motivated campaign dubbed Canto Incognito is targeting exposed AI and LLM infrastructure with a new malware family called PoeLLM, turning compromised servers into cryptomining nodes, scanners, and exploit launchpads. Lumen Black Lotus Labs reports more than 3,400 victim servers, mostly in the ...
The Healthcare Crisis No One is Ready For
The demand for post-acute care is rising rapidly, but the workforce needed to support it is not. In our latest episode, John Frehse and Ankura Healthcare Transformation expert Christine Ishack discuss one of healthcare's most pressing challenges: how organizations can prepare for growing demand without losing the human element that sits at the heart of care.
Football’s Financial Shake-Up
A new era of football finance has begun. In this episode, Ankura experts Ben Johnson and David Dearman join Jonny Gray to unpack one of the most significant regulatory shifts in English football, drawing on their experience advising on high-profile football accounting and financial matters.
Digital and AI Leaders Perform Better: How Connected Capabilities Convert Technology Investment Into Financial Performance
A growing body of independent academic research points to an increasingly consequential performance divide. Organizations with mature digital and AI capabilities tend to outperform less digitally mature companies across revenue growth, profitability, productivity, innovation, asset performance, and enterprise value.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – October 6, 2026
Malware Activity Fake Zoom Installer Deploys New CloudSyncD macOS Backdoor Jamf researchers have identified a new macOS backdoor called CloudSyncD that has recently moved from development into active deployment. The malware is delivered via social engineering as a fake Zoom installer where victims are lured into downloading a disk image that mounts as “Zoom” and ...
Beneath the Headline Numbers: Why Strong Consumer Spending May Be Masking Growing Financial Stress
Demand holds, pressure builds. Consumer spending and hiring remain surprisingly resilient, but the financial cushion supporting households continues to erode.
Private Equity Gains Ground in a Fragmented Market: Q2 2026 Wealth and Asset Management M&A Activity
Ankura actively monitors wealth and asset management acquisitions and divestitures across the market to identify emerging themes, track the most active participants, and provide insights for advisors, platforms, and investors.
Payroll Assessment Primer: Making Sense of Multi‑Layered Wage and Hour Regulations
An exploration of how differing wage laws across municipal, state, and federal regulations create compliance challenges for employers. Understanding these variations is essential to conducting a thorough assessment.
