Enterprise Applications

There is an application gold rush taking place within enterprise organisations. Business leaders in every industry recognise that automation is the key to both survival and competitive advantage. And they don’t want to get left behind.

In case you hadn’t noticed, the amount of data in the world is increasing at an exponential rate. For example, every minute there are nearly 4.2 million posts uploaded to Facebook, nearly 3 million tweets, and thousands of responses to open-ended survey questions.

So, you are going digital. You have started or completed a project or projects to implement digital solutions. You and your technology partner have analysed your requirements and worked hard to test and turn on a digital platform. But what then ....

Have you heard of the “ zettabyte apocalypse ?” It’s a term coined to describe how organisations must be prepared to increase storage to an additional 40 to 60 zettabytes of data (per most analysts’ predictions) over the next four years or risk being left susceptible to the type of “apocalyptic” disasters—compliance violations and fines, data loss and theft, etc.—that could run them out of business.

The first preview editions of SharePoint 2019 and Office 2019 are due out mid-2018, with both new editions of the venerable Microsoft products remaining available in on-premise server and desktop software editions.

The TWAIN Working Group (TWG) and the PDF Association , both not-for-profit organizations designed to foster universal public standards, have announced the joint publication of PDF/raster 1.0 , a subset of the PDF specification suited to the needs of resource-constrained imaging systems.

It’s likely that some of your financial processes are automated, but not all. With all the advances around automating invoice processing, sales orders, financial posting, payment approval, purchase requisition approval and more, one would think enterprises have this part of the business all dialled in with no manual work being performed. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Cambridge Semantics, a provider of big data management and analytics solutions, has announced the release of Anzo Smart Data Lake (ASDL) 4.0, its flagship platform product that builds a semantic layer at scale on all enterprise data.

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) is creating a new Chief Data Office as part of plans to evolve the way the regulator will capture, share and use data in the period leading up to 2020.

Civica has signed its largest ever contract, a deal worth approximately $A200 million with the Victorian State Government to support the administration of the State’s new fines system and its plan for efficient and improved service delivery.

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