Enterprise Applications

IBM announces first commercial application of Watson in Africa

Metropolitan Health, the largest medical schemes administrator in South Africa, has announced the first commercial application in Africa of IBM's Watson, the computing platform made famous by competing and winning against human contestants on the game show Jeopardy. 

Splitsville for HP and Symantec

Tech giants HP and Symantec have each announced plans to carve themselves in two to provide a better focus on the information management market.

Back to the future with Windows 10

Microsoft is attempting to placate disgruntled enterprise users by toning down its touchscreen-optimised Windows 8 Metro interface, signalling a return to a more desktop mouse-and-keyboard friendly approach with the next version of Windows due out in 2015.

Feds examine desktop cloud

The Australian federal government is exploring the feasibility of establishing a whole-of-government offering for email and desktop productivity tools.

Can you defend your decision to delete?

Can you defend your decision to delete data your organization no longer requires? That’s a critical question that every organization must address at some point.

Justice Health deploys Orion e-health technology

The NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network (JH&FMHN) has gone live with the Orion Health EMR (electronic medical record) Suite to support the organisation goal to deliver complete electronic medical records across the New South Wales public health system. 

SAP's Schwarz takes the reigns at Nuance ANZ

Nuance Communications has appointed former SAP executive Robert Schwarz as managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

Five email migration headaches

The vast majority of Australian businesses are now using some form of cloud computing and cloud-based email is a common choice for local organisations. Since the start of this year, retailer Woolworths and publishers News Corp and Fairfax have announced plans to switch their on-premises email systems to Google Apps, while Qantas and the Queensland Government said they were shifting to Microsoft’s Office 365.

Analytics8 announces unstructured data analytics challenge

Consultancy Analytics8 has announced the Contextual Intelligence Challenge (www.contextualintelligence.com.au), a competition for business intelligence professionals to submit their innovative use cases for leveraging the Squirro unstructured data analytics platform to their organisational advantage.

Bringing fax back in from the cold

The fax number may have disappeared off most business cards these days but fax technology is still a vital part of many essential business processes in 2014. The question for organisations today is whether they have optimised document automation and information capture for fax in their business processes.

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