Industry Insider

  • Iron Mountain ACCC deadline approaches

    Monday March 21 looms as the closing date for submissions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Iron Mountain’s planned divestment of its existing Australian business, designed to overcome the regulator’s concerns over its A$2.7 billion buyout of Recall Holdings.

  • KPMG turns to IBM Watson

    Consulting firm KPMG has announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to its professional services offerings. The agreement, including a focus on auditing services, builds on several recent KPMG initiatives demonstrating the promise of cognitive technologies.

  • When the PDF will be a thing of the past

    Anyone working in today’s business world is familiar with the Portable Document Format (PDF), and for good reason. PDFs offer a great convenience. They can be taken on the road, read on any device, emailed to other people and easily printed.

  • Man or machine: The rise of automation in business

    We now live in what Gartner calls an ‘algorithm driven’ world. Everything from ordering a taxi to finding a date involves complex algorithms, whether you know it or not. The world is shaped by algorithms which predict and execute against defined rules in order to automatically carry out every day processes.

  • Deloitte wants to drive workplace AI

    Deloitte has announced an alliance with Kira Systems to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation it believes could help free workers from the tedium of reviewing contracts and other documents. 

  • Defence needs $A5B IT fix

    A White Paper produced by Australia’s Department of Defence has identified a need for $A5 billion in additional funding over previous plans to meet Defence’s information and communications technology needs across the next decade.

  • Road data harmonisation project

    Austroads is undertaking an ambitious project to establish a harmonised road asset data standard for use in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Law firm speeds up audit process with Nikec

    Leading independent Australian law firm Hall & Wilcox, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth and Canberra, has implemented Nikec Binder and Nikec Docstore to improve the efficiency with legal document bibles and audits.

  • Iron Mountain ACCC deadline approaches

    Monday March 21 looms as the closing date for submissions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Iron Mountain’s planned divestment of its existing Australian business, designed to overcome the regulator’s concerns over its A$2.7 billion buyout of Recall Holdings.

  • KPMG turns to IBM Watson

    Consulting firm KPMG has announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to its professional services offerings. The agreement, including a focus on auditing services, builds on several recent KPMG initiatives demonstrating the promise of cognitive technologies.

  • When the PDF will be a thing of the past

    Anyone working in today’s business world is familiar with the Portable Document Format (PDF), and for good reason. PDFs offer a great convenience. They can be taken on the road, read on any device, emailed to other people and easily printed.

  • Man or machine: The rise of automation in business

    We now live in what Gartner calls an ‘algorithm driven’ world. Everything from ordering a taxi to finding a date involves complex algorithms, whether you know it or not. The world is shaped by algorithms which predict and execute against defined rules in order to automatically carry out every day processes.

  • Deloitte wants to drive workplace AI

    Deloitte has announced an alliance with Kira Systems to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation it believes could help free workers from the tedium of reviewing contracts and other documents. 

  • Defence needs $A5B IT fix

    A White Paper produced by Australia’s Department of Defence has identified a need for $A5 billion in additional funding over previous plans to meet Defence’s information and communications technology needs across the next decade.

  • Road data harmonisation project

    Austroads is undertaking an ambitious project to establish a harmonised road asset data standard for use in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Law firm speeds up audit process with Nikec

    Leading independent Australian law firm Hall & Wilcox, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth and Canberra, has implemented Nikec Binder and Nikec Docstore to improve the efficiency with legal document bibles and audits.