Cessnock is the first and only Council to have near realtime integration with the NSW Planning Portal via an API and according to Cessnock Council’s Business Support and Customer Relations Manager, Roslyn Ashton, “it will provide significant productivity savings for Council along with further improvements in application processing times”.
Gartner, Inc. has released a list of its top 10 data and analytics (D&A) technology trends for 2020 that can help organisations prepare for a post-pandemic reset.
The global volume of data continues to grow strongly. Above all, unstructured data in the form of photos, audio files and videos as well as presentations and text documents will grow disproportionately - according to the market research institute IDC by an average of 62 percent annually. By 2022, this data type is expected to account for around 93 percent of the total volume.¹
Dropbox reports that there are five billion PDF files in its service alone. Consider what that number would be if you included all the other file sharing and cloud storage services.There is no escaping the simple fact that PDF is everywhere and that every business needs a PDF tool. How else would you package multiple file formats into a single file for easy and secure email distribution?
The stunning successes of artificial intelligence would not have happened without the availability of massive amounts of data, whether its smart speakers in the home or personalized book recommendations. And the spread of AI into new areas of the economy, such as AI-driven marketing and self driving vehicles, has been driving the collection of ever more data. These large databases are amassing a wide variety of information, some of it sensitive and personally identifiable. All that data in one place makes such databases tempting targets, ratcheting up the risk of privacy breaches.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that Australia is under mass cyber-attack from a foreign state targeting all levels of government, industry and business. The attacks are not new but have been increasing in frequency over recent months.
Australian Law firm Madgwicks has made the switch to pdfDocs and compareDocs for PDF workflows after finding its previous editor was not compatible with the newly introduced iManage Work 10 cloud-based document management system.
Shine Lawyers, an Australian law firm that specializes in class action and civil damages lawsuits, has implemented K2's intelligent process automation platform with UiPath's robotic process automation, to help the law firm drive operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and transform the client experience.
New Zealand’s largest captive finance company, Toyota Finance New Zealand, has implementing intelligent automation in its local operations using the UiPath RPA platform.
ABBYY has announced the launch of NeoML, an open-source library for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. Available now on GitHub, NeoML supports both deep learning and traditional machine learning algorithms.
