Enterprise Applications

Turnbull's 'agile' government borrows from his IT past

Malcolm Turnbull has had many high-profile careers, including as a barrister, merchant banker and aspiring media proprietor. By far his most lucrative, however, was in the IT industry.

Why JSON is better than XML

The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit surprising that such a multiplicity undergirds things at the moment. The internet is scarcely a generation old, while the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” more closely resemble regulative ideals than realities. But I nonetheless believe that there are strong, discernible historical tendencies currently at work in this field, tendencies that strongly favour JSON over others.

Information management for commercial drones

US firm Skyward has introduced what it described as the first information management solution designed for commercial drone operators. The cloud-based solution integrates a drone airspace map with flight planning tools and a digital system of record, supported by a team of regulatory and operational experts.

How Many of Your Spreadsheets are Topping Record Limits?

Depending on the number of columns and your version of Excel, record limits vary. But, generally speaking, in the later versions of Excel, if you’re topping 500K records, you’re starting to push limits.

RACT Insurance goes live with SSP and e5

RACT Insurance, the insurance subsidiary of the Royal Automobile Club Tasmania, has gone live with the SSP Pure Insurance offering and e5 Workflow solution after a 19 months implementation phase.

ANZ signs $A450 million, five-year strategic partnership with IBM

ANZ, one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading banks, has signed a five-year, $A450 million strategic agreement with IBM. This partnership will provide ANZ with increased capability to drive productivity and innovation across the Group, as well as improving its capacity to deal with the rapidly growing number of customers and transactions across the bank’s branch, digital and mobile channels and support ANZ’s regional expansion.

Digital transformation boosts enterprise app market

Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will grow 7.5 percent to reach US$149.9 billion in 2015, increasing to more than US$201 billion in 2019, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Analysts said that long-term growth in spending will be driven primarily by modernisation, functional expansion and digital transformation projects.

Bryte future for Big Data Analytics on Azure

Cloud Data Replication and Integration specialist Bryte Systems has announced the release of a new solution, BryteFlow CDC for Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse designed to enable petabyte scale Big Data analysis. BryteFlow CDC will enable automated, fast and continuous data transfer from various enterprise databases or files to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.   

3D printing embeds in clinical imaging

ASX Listed company 3D Medical Limited has announced a partnership with Intelerad Medical Systems (Intelerad) to develop seamless ordering of the company’s patient-specific 3D printed anatomical models and fulfilment services. Orders will be placed directly with 3DM from Intelerad’s InteleViewer software while the clinician is reviewing a patient’s diagnostic image study.

Using Open Source PDF Technology to Solve the Unstructured Data Problem in Healthcare

If there’s one major challenge to single out in healthcare IT today, it would be leveraging the growth and usage of big data. While consumer IT made big advances in the past decade to get a handle of data by marking up content, indexing it, and annotating it for use, enterprise, and healthcare IT in particular, still need to catch up on making data actionable.

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