Industry Insider

  • Transforming Accounts Payable with Artificial Intelligence

    More than 20 million Amazon Alexa-powered devices were sold in 2017, and Google sold a Google Home device every second since the Mini started shipping in October, making voice-activated artificial intelligence more mainstream than ever before. The weather, a friendly joke or random trivia are easy for Alexa and Google to retrieve; and when stumped, the statement, “I can’t help you with that, but I’m always learning,” reassures us that…well, it’s always learning. Wouldn’t this same capability be great within your accounts payable department? “Okay Google, which accounts are 30 days past due?”

  • Digital Transformation to deliver $A45 billion payoff?

    Digital transformation will add an estimated $A45 billion to Australia’s GDP by 2021 and increase its growth rate by 0.5 per cent annually, according to a new study “Unlocking the Economic Impact of Digital Transformation in Asia Pacific]”, produced by Microsoft in partnership with IDC Asia/Pacific.

  • Digital transformation in Financial Services requires a rethink of identity management

    The recent Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey found that digital transformation is more important for banking than any other industry sector. The CIOs talked about enabling technologies such as AI, APIs and analytics. However, the discussion didn’t cover identity management and that’s an area that needs to be urgently addressed if Financial Service companies are to achieve their digital transformation ambitions. In this article I’ll cover what’s required for today’s digital identity management.

  • KIIDs Recognition: a real case of computer vision application in RPA

    Although 2018 is expected to be the year that Artificial Intelligence (AI) arrives in the RPA world, it is currently difficult to find many real life applications or concrete examples of robots that demonstrate such capabilities. There is still a long way to go for Intelligent Automation programs to fully adopt cognitive technologies!

  • Google Removes “View Image” Button from Image Search Results

    Google has changed the way users search for images by removing the "View Image" button from search results. This button, which previously accompanied every result, allowed users to view images directly without visiting the corresponding website from which the image was sourced.

  • RPA, the Glue for Supply Chain Management

    Within the next two years, 72% of companies are expected to be using robotic process automation (RPA) to minimize costs, reduce transaction times, increase productivity, and improve levels of compliance. At least that’s what is suggested by a 2017 study by global technology research firm Information Services Group, reported on by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply .

  • City of Darebin tames email with EzeScan Profiler

    The City of Darebin, a local government area in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, has implemented a new capture solution from EzeScan which is integrated with its Infor Pathway property management system and Objective ECM.

  • Semantic Enrichment & IM: Turning Content Into Insight

    Life sciences and pharmaceutical companies are increasingly turning to informatics teams to lead initiatives in artificial intelligence, cognitive search, and machine learning aimed at exploiting vast amounts of internal and external information.

  • Nintex previews Intelligent Process Automation

    At its annual conference, Nintex has previewed new process and machine intelligence capabilities within its no code platform designed to drive even greater process efficiencies for enterprise organisations worldwide.