Semantic Sciences has published details of a Metadata Extraction Project for IP Australia, the Australian Government agency responsible for administering intellectual property (IP) rights and legislation relating to patents, trademarks, designs and plant breeders’ rights.
MercyAscot, one of New Zealand’s leading private healthcare providers, has signed contracts with two IT providers, InterSystems and Umbrellar, in a major step towards replacing and extending its existing patient administration and clinical information systems.
It’s 6:15 a.m. and my alarm clock is ringing, but 15 minutes ahead of schedule. My clock is always connected with Smart, my virtual assistant, an artificial intelligence software that autonomously manages my calendar (among other tasks) and from which it has learned that I will need to catch a flight out of town this morning.
The risk of GDPR non-compliance is decreasing company profitability, earnings per share, and loss of customer trust, even for businesses that are not ‘caught’ and fined by the regulatory authorities
If you’re like me, you’ve no doubt received hundreds of emails in recent weeks from organisations around the world wanting to update you on their privacy policies. They were all rushing to meet a deadline of Friday 25 May. While for most people they were just more emails for the trash, there was, nonetheless, an important reason behind them.
Some notable observers have declared that “knowledge management is dead,” that it is an old, tired concept that creates little to no value in organizations. This drumbeat of negativity is misguided. On the contrary, knowledge management (KM) has evolved and matters more than ever to all types of companies and organizations.
As a way of capturing, managing, storing and delivering content and documents, an enterprise content management system (ECM) can be worth its weight in organisational gold. Traditionally, document and content management was done using an on-premise ECM, but the emergence of cloud technologies expands the ECM offering to cloud or hybrid, combining the best of both worlds. You now have to choose a suitable ECM and one of two deployment options.
Australia’s weaker privacy protection laws will be unsustainable when tough new measures giving individuals “the right to virtually disappear”, come into force in the European Union tomorrow (Friday), according to a senior researcher at the University of Sydney Business School.
When you look at what is ultimately stored on a blockchain - data - it makes sense that data and analytics leaders should take a leading role in their organisation’s blockchain experiments. They are uniquely equipped to capitalize on the early state of blockchain, after years of transforming how their companies use and value information, according to Nick Heudecker, research vice president at Gartner.
Payable Automation is the process of re-engineering the accounts payable process to create and improve efficiencies. More often than not it involves digitisation and centralisation of a process that is currently manual and paper-centric. When done correctly an AP Automation project is not just automation of the current process, it is a complete re-imagining of the process.
