The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced it is investing around $A60 million on data analytics, IT systems as well as its surveillance and enforcement capabilities to be a more data-driven, intelligence-led law enforcement agency.

If you’re a CIO or senior IT manager then it’s likely you’re constantly addressing the organisational challenges of improving return-on-information, driving workforce collaboration, and making enterprise systems easier to use (or at least improving compliance in how they’re used). Like many, you may have settled on SharePoint as your preferred technology of choice to achieve those outcomes.

Australian employers will have to adopt strict safeguards and auditing measures to ensure compliance with the new corrupting benefits legislation just passed by both Houses of Parliament, according to law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP.

Accenture has acquired Search Technologies, a US technology services firm specialising in the design, implementation and management of big data and search analytics.
Search Technologies joins the existing community of data scientists and engineers within Accenture Analytics and will focus on developing and industrializing solutions that make unstructured content – from social media to video to voice and audio – easily searchable to support data discovery, analytics and large-scale reporting.