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Global business value derived from artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to total $US1.2 trillion in 2018, an increase of 70 percent from 2017, according to analyst firm Gartner, Inc. AI-derived business value is forecast to reach $US3.9 trillion in 2022.

Supporting enterprise digital transformation ranks the No. 2 top budgeting objective for today’s finance leaders, according to a report by The Hackett Group. But for many, this buzzword comes across as vague and intimidating. What exactly does a successful digital transformation entail? And how can the average business achieve it?

A survey of over 570 cybersecurity and IT professionals found compliance challenges continue to haunt organisations, with 44 percent of respondents claiming they have visibility into external sharing and DLP policy violations in their cloud application and environments. More shocking was the fact that 85 percent of organisations acknowledged they were unable to identify anomalous behaviour across cloud applications.

As we generate more and more data, the need for high-density data storage that remains stable over time is becoming critical. New nanoparticle-based films that are more than 80 times thinner than a human hair may help to fill this need by providing materials that can holographically archive more than 1000 times more data than a DVD in a 10-by-10-centimeter piece of film.

Every election is critical, but a complicated set of requirements will add up to a unique challenge for the 2019 Local Government Elections in New Zealand. A new customised scanning and processing system supplied and configured by ABBYY will help to automate and simplify the task for electionz.com, the organisation that will be handling the bulk of processing.

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