Liferay, a leading provider of Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs), today announced the general availability of Liferay CMS, a fully headless content management system (CMS) designed to help marketing, development, and IT teams create, manage, and deliver digital content across multiple channels from a centralized repository.

Built on the core architecture of Liferay DXP, Liferay CMS combines the agility of a decoupled system with the stability and governance required by enterprise organizations. Whether powering a native mobile app, a customer portal, or a complex web ecosystem, Liferay CMS ensures content remains consistent, reusable, and easily distributable.

“Today’s organizations need agility without losing control of their content operations,” said Julia Molano, Director of Product Management at Liferay. “Liferay CMS builds on Liferay’s decades of DXP leadership to deliver a fully headless offering. It allows developers to work with stable, well-documented APIs while empowering marketers and content creators to manage global content without heavy reliance on IT.”

Liferay CMS introduces Spaces, the platform’s primary organizational units for headless content management, enabling teams to structure asset repositories, manage access, and collaborate more efficiently across departments or projects. Each Space provides a dedicated environment for content creation and management, including support for advanced localization with AI-powered translation tools, making it easier for global organizations to manage multi-language content.

“Across the Middle East, enterprises are moving away from fragmented content systems to unified, centralized architectures that can support scale and speed simultaneously. Headless CMS is becoming a critical enabler in this shift, allowing enterprises to deliver consistent digital experiences across channels while maintaining control and governance.  With Liferay’s intuitive CMS, teams can manage content centrally, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate time-to-market and deeper customer engagement’’, noted Moussalam Dalati, General Manager of Liferay Middle East, Africa, and France.

Key features of Liferay CMS include:

• Global Content Visibility: A single view to search, review, and reuse content across regions and brands, eliminating disconnected repositories.
• Headless Architecture: Combines the flexibility of headless deployments with the governance and control of a centralized system.
• Embedded Analytics: Performance metrics like views and downloads are displayed directly within Liferay CMS, allowing teams to validate asset performance at the point of work.
• AI-Assisted Workflows: Accelerates translation, localization, and content review.
• Multi-Site Management: Ideal for franchises or organizations with multiple digital properties, allowing for centralized control while granting team-specific access.
• Unified Collaboration: Dedicated ‘Shared with Me’ areas and advanced access controls ensure all stakeholders work from a single source of truth.

The launch of Liferay CMS reflects a modular platform approach designed for organizations that prioritize an API-first strategy. Because it is built on the same core architecture as Liferay DXP, organizations can start with a streamlined headless CMS today and seamlessly activate integrated capabilities like advanced commerce, page building, or AI-driven personalization as their digital requirements expand.

Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced significant advancements to its hybrid data and AI platform. These updates help enterprises modernize seamlessly, lower infrastructure costs, and accelerate analytics and AI across their entire data estate.

Enterprises face mounting pressure to modernize data platforms while managing cost and risk, creating significant operational strain. As AI investment accelerates, PwC projects that AI could add as much as $320 billion to the Middle East economy by 2030, with the UAE expected to experience the most significant relative uplift, contributing close to 14% of its GDP. Frequent upgrade cycles, rising infrastructure costs, and growing complexity hinder innovation and divert resources from high-value analytics and AI.

Cloudera addresses these challenges by providing long-term stability and a predictable foundation for enterprise data environments. With extended support until 2032 and a unified platform experience across cloud and data centers, organizations can reduce operational overhead and focus on advancing AI initiatives.

These advancements reinforce Cloudera’s position as the only platform to offer long-term stability, elastic scale across cloud and data centers, and open interoperability in a single architecture, without requiring data movement or disruptive migrations.

Key features include:

• Guaranteed operational stability: Offers a stable, secure foundation for enterprise data environments, allowing organizations to standardize mission-critical infrastructure, reduce risk, and eliminate costly upgrade cycles while aligning platform strategy with long-term investments.
• Modernize seamlessly: Provides simultaneous updates to on-premises and cloud deployments, ensuring consistency across the entire hybrid data estate. This enables organizations to boost performance and meet changing regulatory requirements without the expense of re-platforming.

The update introduces new capabilities to enhance performance, flexibility, and data collaboration across modern data architectures. Automated optimization of Apache Iceberg tables, powered by Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer, accelerates query performance and reduces storage overhead with minimal manual effort. Organizations can also scale compute on demand with Cloudera Cloud Bursting, using cloud resources for peak workloads without moving data, improving utilization while maintaining security and governance. Expanded data sharing enables secure access to live Iceberg tables across external platforms without copying or duplicating data, reducing silos and preserving data integrity.

“Our customers no longer accept trade-offs,” said Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera. “They want the flexibility of the cloud, the control of the data center, and the ability to scale without disruption. This update delivers all three on a single, unified platform built for modern data and AI.”

Exclusive interview with Vikas Panchal, General Manager – MENA, Tally Solutions

As a regional leader, how do you balance global product innovation with local market realities?

At Tally, we see innovation as something that must quietly add value to everyday business operations. While global advancements like AI are shaping the future, our focus remains on making them relevant and usable for SMEs. For most businesses, what matters is simplicity, reliability, and ease of adoption, not complexity. That is why we approach innovation with a strong local lens, ensuring that what we build aligns with the way businesses actually work. By combining global capabilities with practical usability, we aim to deliver technology that is not only forward-looking but also immediately meaningful for the SMEs we serve.

In your perspective, how are UAE SMEs moving beyond traditional bookkeeping to AI-driven financial intelligence?

Across the UAE, SMEs are increasingly moving beyond viewing accounting as just record-keeping. There is a growing expectation that financial systems should offer a more complete picture of the business, from receivables and payables to inventory, cash flow, and operational movement. That shift is important because business owners today need more than data; they need clarity. As markets become more dynamic and competitive, financial intelligence is becoming essential to better decision-making, stronger control, and more confident growth. The role of technology is evolving accordingly, from simply capturing transactions to helping businesses understand patterns, act faster, and plan with greater confidence. That is where the real transformation is happening. Compliance has moved from a backend requirement to a strategic priority.

How is Tally helping businesses transition from reactive compliance to proactive financial visibility?

Compliance today is no longer a backend activity, it has become central to how businesses operate and grow. The shift we are seeing is from reacting to regulations to building systems that are always aligned and ready. At Tally, our approach has been to embed compliance into everyday workflows so that businesses don’t have to treat it as a separate task. When compliance is built into the system, it naturally improves financial visibility, bringing greater clarity on transactions, cash flows, and reporting. Alongside this, we continue to work closely with chartered accountants and the professional community to strengthen awareness and preparedness across the ecosystem.

Our intent is simple, to give businesses confidence that compliance is taken care of, while enabling them to focus on running and growing their business with better control and insight. How would you describe Tally Solutions’ growth journey in the Middle East region?

Our journey in the Middle East has been shaped by listening closely to the needs of the market and evolving alongside the businesses we serve. What began as a trusted accounting solution has steadily grown into a broader business management platform for over 75,000 MSMEs across the region.

A big part of this journey has been localisation, understanding that businesses in markets like the UAE and Saudi Arabia need solutions that reflect local regulations, language preferences, and operational realities. Whether it has been adapting to VAT, e-invoicing, or broader compliance shifts, our focus has remained on making that transition simpler for SMEs.

Equally important has been the ecosystem around them. By working closely with partners, accountants, bookkeepers, and advisors, we have been able to support not just software adoption, but stronger business readiness. That trust and relevance are what continue to define our growth in the region.

The latest TallyPrime updates emphasize automation, banking integration, and compliance readiness. Which innovations are delivering the most measurable impact for customers?

What we are seeing from the latest TallyPrime updates is a clear shift from effort to efficiency. The impact is less about any one feature, and more about how everyday tasks become faster, more accurate, and easier to manage.

For instance, improvements in areas like bank reconciliation are significantly reducing the time and manual effort involved in matching transactions. Similarly, capabilities like Smart Find are helping users access information instantly across companies, even with limited inputs, something that directly improves productivity. The introduction of the updated UAE currency symbol also reflects our continued focus on localisation and compliance readiness.

At a broader level, features like the Customised Owner Dashboard are helping business owners move from tracking data to actually understanding their business. The real impact lies in giving users clarity, saving time, and enabling more confident decision-making in their day-to-day operations.

How will UAE tax changes in 2026 redefine SME accounting practices in the long run?

The tax changes expected in the UAE in 2026 will go beyond compliance—they will fundamentally reshape how SMEs approach accounting and financial management. As frameworks like e-invoicing come into effect, businesses will move towards more structured, real-time, and standardised financial processes. This will bring greater discipline, transparency, and consistency into everyday operations.

For SMEs, this means a shift from periodic compliance to continuous readiness, where systems are always aligned with regulatory requirements. At Tally, our focus has been to make this transition simpler by embedding compliance into the product experience. Having supported similar transitions in markets like India and Saudi Arabia, we understand that the right balance of simplicity, localisation, and regulatory alignment is critical. As the UAE moves toward interoperable frameworks, our effort is to ensure businesses are not just compliant, but well-prepared for a more connected and digitally enabled financial ecosystem.