Industry Insider

  • The AI Odyssey: From Concept to Practical Reality in 2024

    In the coming year, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to shift from a conceptual discourse to a practical reality, transforming organizational processes across various industries, including government entities. Assessing how technology will impact on the modern workplace in the year ahead, Alyssa Blackburn, predicts three areas where AI will have an impact.

  • Public Sector still battling Data Silos: Survey

    Data silos remain a significant issue in the Australian public sector, according to a survey of 425 Australian government workers undertaken by Appian. A majority of government workers reporting that data accessibility was a problem in their workplace.

  • ChatGPT turns 1: AI chatbot’s success says as much about humans as technology

    ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence’s breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of conversations snowballed across social media, and the use of ChatGPT skyrocketed to an extent that seems to have surprised even its maker, OpenAI. By January, ChatGPT was seeing 13 million unique visitors each day, setting a record for the fastest-growing user base of a consumer application.

  • APAC Businesses Suffer Wasted Investments in Digital Transformation

    An IDC survey undertaken for Endava, a global provider of digital transformation, agile development and intelligent automation services, has found that an overwhelming majority (88%) said that only 50% or less of their DX projects in the past year met the expected goals or outcomes.

  • OCR with AI revolutionises label reading

    For any inbound or outbound warehouse logistics process, efficiency and profitability rely on moving items to the correct destination in a minimal amount of time. Labels help achieve this, but what if they can’t be read? In the past, manual intervention following a “no-read” was inevitable. However, optical character recognition (OCR) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) provides a modern, automated solution.

  • 87% of CIOs in ANZ will spend more on Cybersecurity in 2024: Gartner

    Eighty-seven percent of Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) CIOs and technology executives revealed that cybersecurity will receive their largest increase in technology investment in 2024, as greater regulation and threats expand leadership focus on security, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives. This is up from 62% in 2023, and compares to 80% of CIOs globally.