Berlin – November 03, 2026 -- Seventy-two percent of German civil society organizations look to their future with confidence, even as 73% name bureaucracy and administrative burden as a key obstacle, according to the first Zuversichtsbarometer ("confidence barometer") from the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

St. John's – November 03, 2026 -- Annual trade in goods and services between Africa and the Caribbean could reach up to $1.65 billion by 2030, excluding mineral fuels, according to a report from the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The two institutions launched the study on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda.

Hamburg – November 03, 2026 -- Hamburg data strategist Ole Albers has launched the "Data Fitness Check," a three-minute anonymous online survey of how German companies and institutions manage their data, with first results due in the Data Fitness Report 2026.

The survey is the first wave of a multi-year research series. Albers plans to track changes in data management over several years and to repeat selected questions regularly to show which organizational and technical problems persist.

Stuttgart – November 03, 2026 -- Some 86 percent of surveyed manufacturers name missing internal resources as a hurdle to modernizing or introducing ERP systems, making it the most frequently cited obstacle in a new Planat GmbH study, even as 51 percent report high or very high pressure to upgrade.

Frankfurt – November 03, 2026 -- Payments with Germany's girocard cost transit operators just under 1% of turnover on average, against 2.2% for international debit cards and 2.5% for credit cards, according to a Deutsche Bundesbank study cited in a new girocard public transport survey.

LUXEMBOURG – November 03, 2026 -- Asset managers' profit per unit of assets under management has fallen 19% since 2018 and is projected to drop another 9.1% by 2030, according to PwC's Global Asset Management Infrastructure report. Decisions on what to build, buy or access through partners now shape how firms compete.

Sheridan, Wyoming – November 02, 2026 -- The global industrial automation market is valued at USD 266.7 billion in 2026 and will reach USD 410.3 billion by 2031, a CAGR of 9%, according to a new study by Wissen Research. The market is moving from isolated, hardware-oriented machine control toward connected, software-based production that combines control hardware, robotics, industrial software and real-time analytics.

Hamburg – November 02, 2026 -- Only 9% of food and beverage professionals say their organization runs fully connected processes across departments, while 40% name disconnected systems and data as their biggest operational hurdle, according to a new TraceGains survey.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- Nearly two-thirds (63%) of customer success (CS) leaders have no consistent method to track AI performance, according to ChurnZero's 2026 Customer Success Leadership Study, which surveyed nearly 600 CS and revenue leaders.

Only 21% of CS leaders link AI to revenue, versus 57% in sales

Almost all respondents use AI to automate administrative work such as logging tasks, summarizing calls and researching accounts. Yet only 21% of CS leaders can tie AI to revenue outcomes, compared with more than half (57%) of sales leaders.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- Sixty-five percent of strategic and AI-driven customer success teams report net revenue retention (NRR) of 100% or higher, versus 39% of the least mature AI teams, according to ChurnZero's 2026 Customer Success Leadership Study.

SaaS NRR stays flat from 2024 through 2026

ChurnZero polled nearly 600 customer success (CS) and revenue leaders. Reported NRR has not moved across the three-year period, while the 26-point gap between the most and least mature AI teams on the 100% threshold stands out.