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Gartner Says the Cybersecurity Leader’s Role Needs to Be Reframed

The role of cybersecurity leader needs to evolve, as accountability for cyber risk shifts outside IT and an increasingly distributed ecosystem leads to a loss of direct decision-making control, according to Gartner, Inc.

Quality assurance of PDF/A files? Let’s ask Beuth Verlag!

Beuth Verlag, headquartered in Berlin, is part of the DIN Group and one of Germany's largest specialist information and knowledge service providers. Beuth publishes thousands of standards every year. With the two callas products, the publisher was able to significantly reduce the manual workload through a high degree of automation. Specifically, Beuth Verlag uses pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox, which validate PDF/A files and correct them as far as possible. The solutions rely on the same validation technology that Adobe has licensed from callas for the Preflight plug-in. At the same time, it ensures that the published DIN standards are compliant with the PDF/A ISO standard for long-term archiving.

The 6 Pitfalls of Business Process Automation

McKinsey estimates that 25–46% of current work activities in Australia could be automated by 2030, helping to drive a renaissance in productivity, personal income and economic growth. Most organisations are aware of the benefits of business process automation (BPA) with over 80% of business leaders prioritising these initiatives but for every success story it seems there is a spectacular – or just disappointing – failure.

Why Context is King in Information Management

Anyone who has spoken to me for more than a few minutes <insert apology here> knows how strongly I feel about the “in-place” management of information. “In-place” means that content is managed in the same location that it was created and is not moved to another location or database for its long-term management.

Data scientists reveal roadblocks to digital transformation

Digital transformation has accelerated significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the extra demands on data scientists have revealed significant barriers to effective working and high levels of job dissatisfaction in some areas. For example, around four in 10 are dissatisfied with their company’s use of analytics and model deployment, while more than 20 barriers to effective working emerged, according to a survey of data scientists commissioned by SAS.

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