Enterprise Applications

A new Teams offering from workplace software SocialChorus promises a “Publish once” platform for Office365 that delivers content to any employee endpoint – Outlook, SharePoint or Teams – as well as to digital signage or any other digital workspace.

It seems the business community, is crying out for systems leadership in a landscape which is getting more complex each day. A recent survey shows typical mid-size companies changed 39% of their SaaS apps within the last year. The role of the enterprise architect is under threat.

Elastic N.V., creators of Elasticsearch, has announced the release of Elastic Stack 7.6.0, the latest version of the all-in-one datastore, search engine, and analytics platform. This release streamlines automated threat detection and brings performance improvements to Elasticsearch, which was launched as a beta in May 2019 and is now known as Elastic Workplace Search.

Penrith Council is undertaking a cloud-first digital transformation that will streamline the delivery of services to a rising population and at the same time lift the quality of those services.  Over the next few years Penrith is slated for massive growth with the opening of the second Sydney airport and its surrounding 'aerotropolis'.

There are many tools on the market now that can help you with your data governance initiative. In particular, there are numerous products that hold and manage your data glossary, data catalogue and data dictionaries.  These have proved very popular and the number of players in the market has increased over the last few years.

Imagine an office where the devices personalise themselves for you on-demand and repetitive tasks are completed with one click, no matter where in the world the worker is. Well, such innovations are a reality thanks to new apps developed by RBC Group, which integrate with HP multifunction devices and users it seems, could not be happier.

Why do digital transformation projects fail? Research by content capture and data discovery vendor Ephesoft suggests it is because knowledge workers are forced into being data detectives at each step of the business process, having to create their own links to contextual data as if leading a criminal investigation.

Businesses globally face a “digital ceiling” when it comes to digital transformation, according to new research from Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI), the thought leadership and research arm of Infosys. The study reveals that businesses must change their mindsets to achieve sophisticated levels of digital maturity.

Your organisation has likely gotten caught up in the world-wide trend of migrating to Office365 and SharePoint on-line.  In doing that you have probably had conversations with various IT staff where you’ve heard words and phrases like: “Teams, Dynamic Groups, Channels, AIP, Flow, LogicApps, PowerApps, evergreen” to the point where it sounds like English, but you have no idea what they’re talking about, let alone understanding the risks and advantages. 

On the eve of this new decade, it is worth reflecting on what has truly been one of the most talked about, exciting and challenging business transition of the 2010s, digital transformation.

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