Industry Insider

  • IoT uptake varies across APAC: survey

    Digitally ambitious enterprises across all the industries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are betting big on Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to achieve operational efficiencies and cost reduction, says data and analytics company GlobalData.

  • Driving content intelligence opportunities with RPA vendors

    Robotic process automation is one of the more promising and exciting tools in an organisation’s digital transformation tool bag. Early uses have delivered a strategic impact on meaningful business processes innovation, and as a result, it’s getting C-suite level interest.

  • ASIC wants to talk a new language with NLP

    The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) wants to learn if Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology can assist it in regulating the corporate landscape. It has issued tender that focusses on a specific subset of AI, natural language processing (NLP), to help with tasks such as drafting correspondence, monitoring text translations of sales calls and reviewing Product Disclosure Statement documents.

  • Gartner Says Nearly Half of CIOs Are Planning to Deploy AI

    Meaningful artificial intelligence (AI) deployments are just beginning to take place, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey which found that four percent of CIOs have implemented AI, while a further 46 percent have developed plans to do so.

  • Data Professionals Waste Half their Time: Survey

    Data professionals are wasting half of their time each week finding, protecting, or preparing data -costing organisations significant amounts of money based on a survey of 400-plus individuals performing data functions across North America and Europe.

  • Artificial Intelligence is Dumber Than a Bee. For Now!

    The nervous system of a mosquito consists of about half a million neurons. That of a bee – of 800,000 neurons, of a dog – of 160 million neurons. A human has 85 billion neurons in the system. Modern computer systems contain only a few hundred thousand neurons and in rare cases, a few million, which, in terms of intelligence, is comparable to a bee. Bees are technically 100 times dumber than dogs and 100,000 times dumber than humans.

  • Finance says Digital 2020 timetable still on track

    The Department of Finance has denied its Digital Records Investment Moratorium for non-corporate Australian Commonwealth agencies will impact the government’s Digital Continuity 2020 Policy, despite its own timetable admitting a proposed Whole-of-Government platform will not provide full record-keeping capability for another six years.