[AI Brief] “AI Adoption Accelerates Across Asian Industry; Workforce Capabilities and Expertise Shortages Pose Challenges”

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A study released on the 28th by Octave Intelligence said that AI adoption is accelerating across Asian industry. The study showed a trend of faster AI adoption in Asia’s industrial sector.

At the same time, the study highlighted a shortage of workforce capabilities as a bigger challenge than the technology itself. It also identified the loss of specialized knowledge and trust in AI as key issues.

It also found that more than half of companies in Asia expect front-line workers’ AI-based system management and oversight roles to expand by 2028. That scope of management and oversight was projected to span multiple teams or organizations.

The survey found that the core capabilities needed by the future industrial workforce were systems thinking and operations management at 38%, and cybersecurity and data governance at 32%. As important skills in future industrial settings, communication between technical and nontechnical workers was cited by 34%, and human-machine interaction by 25%. These trends were especially pronounced in Korea, where 59% of Korean respondents chose systems thinking as the most important capability for the future workforce.

Industrial leaders are also moving faster to respond to the risk of core operational knowledge disappearing as skilled workers retire. Forty-eight percent of companies in Asia are using AI-based knowledge capture and transfer tools to preserve expertise and support the next generation of workers. Korea is leading the region in this area, with 54% of Korean companies using AI-based knowledge capture solutions.

Fabio Yada, senior vice president for Asia Pacific at Octave, said companies used to focus mainly on collecting data generated during assets and operations processes. Today, he said, attention is expanding to securing human expertise.

He also pointed to the combination of data and AI linked to operational knowledge as a condition for successful companies. He said this combination accelerates learning, improves decision-making, and strengthens workforce resilience.

Cloudera said on the 28th that it was named a Leader in IDC MarketScape’s “2026 Asia Pacific Sovereign AI Platform Vendor Assessment.” The company said the evaluation reflected high marks for Cloudera’s support capabilities.

IDC said Cloudera had the capabilities to support private, hybrid, edge, and air-gapped data environments. It also said the assessment included Cloudera’s ability to help enterprises access sovereign AI workloads, apply governance, and deploy them.

Cloudera is pushing ahead with the expansion of sovereign AI based on its hybrid data management capabilities, with the goal of supporting private AI implementations across all environments.

To that end, it proposed a configuration that combines data-in-motion processing, an open data lakehouse, enterprise AI tools, and an integrated data fabric, while integrating security and governance into the analytics environment for all data assets. The company said the setup meets the needs of hybrid infrastructure.

Cloudera recently unveiled “Cloudera Anywhere Cloud” as its latest product. “Cloudera Anywhere Cloud” is a solution for expanding sovereign AI capabilities, designed to run a sovereign AI stack within the customer’s own cloud account.

Rimini Street announced on the 28th that Yonsei University Health System had adopted “Rimini Support” to ensure stable operation of its SAP ERP system and improve IT investment efficiency.

Yonsei University Health System had been operating SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7 based on its core administrative information system (MIS), applying customization tailored to the characteristics of hospitals to support personnel, payroll, and administrative work. However, under the existing maintenance system, high annual maintenance costs and limited technical support had become a burden. Yonsei University Health System therefore chose Rimini Street as a way to meet its requirements.

Rimini Street has experience supporting numerous major Korean conglomerates and public institutions, and it has SAP ERP support expertise along with a 24/7 global engineer collaboration system. Yonsei University Health System has switched SAP maintenance to Rimini Street and expects to cut costs by about 50% compared with the previous maintenance expense. It is also operating its current SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7 environment stably without a separate large-scale upgrade.

The transition was carried out through a systematic process that included diagnosing the SAP ERP environment, analyzing costs and risks, contract conversion, transferring system access rights, and onboarding. After the transition, the hospital is operating a dedicated expert engineer support model, has unified the support channel, and continues to receive technical support from engineers who fully understand the health system’s SAP operating environment.

Photo credit: Dataiku. Dataiku said on the 28th that it plans to launch in October a new management framework called “Agent Management” to reduce the problem of AI agents operating across multiple platforms being scattered.

The service is intended to track and manage enterprise AI agents distributed across multiple platforms. Dataiku said this will allow companies to centrally manage their AI agent operations framework.

Agent Management is structured to integrate with a variety of operational platforms. Through this, it consolidates agents built on each platform into a single list.

Based on the integrated list, the service supports a unified view of AI agent status. It also provides features to jointly manage performance, risk, and business value.

Supported platforms include Dataiku’s own platform, Amazon Web Services Bedrock, Databricks Agent, Google Vertex, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure Foundry, Salesforce Agentforce, and Snowflake Cortex. Custom environments are also supported, and the support items include OpenTelemetry.

The integrated platform automatically identifies the structure of each AI agent. It also enables users to check the tools and models the agent uses. As a result, managers can understand not only whether an agent exists, but also how it actually works.

Photo credit: Shinsegae I&C. Shinsegae I&C, a general distributor for Meta’s device lineup, announced on the 28th plans to begin full-scale distribution in Korea of new Meta Glasses models.

The domestic lineup will include the new “Meta Glasses” series. It will also include the “Ray-Ban Meta 3rd generation” models and the LISA collaboration collection. The domestic distribution scale totals 9 models and 21 SKUs.

It also includes the “Meta Capri” and “Meta Nova,” products unveiled at Meta Connect 2026. Also included are the “Meta Fury” and “Meta Adventurer,” which were first unveiled last June.

The new lineup is equipped with a camera and open-ear audio. It supports voice-based information search using an AI assistant and retains the core features of existing AI glasses. By offering a variety of frame designs and colors, it is expected to broaden consumer choice.

Shinsegae I&C said it aims to expand the domestic AI glasses market based on its partnership with Meta. It added that it plans to continue cooperating to provide a range of products and advanced AI wearable experiences.

Jeong Sang-ho, head of Platform BIZ at Shinsegae I&C, said the company would quickly introduce the latest AI glasses lineup unveiled at Meta Connect 2026 to the Korean market. He added that by expanding its product portfolio with Meta Glasses alongside the existing Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta, the company hopes to offer more consumers opportunities to experience AI wearable devices tailored to their tastes and lifestyles.

Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gab
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