Enterprise Applications

Data intelligence is the foundation of digital transformation—which means there’s a lot riding on the shoulders of today’s IT leaders. In addition to supporting business goals for speed and agility, they must ensure data is properly secured, governed and compliant. Yet this task becomes increasingly complex as the volume of data continues to explode in an ever-changing regulatory environment.

Regardless of which industry you are in, when you are working at the leading edge of innovation you can’t help but be inundated with the latest jargon surrounding the emerging technologies. To make matters worse, there is often very little consistency or agreement around the definitions of these terms. 

At its recent annual Australian customer roadshow, Realize, Micro Focus polled attendees to gauge their opinion on key digital transformation challenges including barriers to IT delivery, changing key performance indicators (KPIs), and emerging technology. According to 61 per cent of respondents, the top barrier to IT delivery is legacy systems and processes.

Software solutions provider Kiandra has collaborated with Western Australia’s (WA) Health Support Services (HSS) to successfully deliver a critical application replacement to enable the WA health system to process up to $100 million of invoices every year.

Digital transformation is somewhat of a buzzword, but that doesn’t mean it’s a fad. The need to facilitate change in the supply chain isn’t going to diminish, if anything it is only going to grow as new and exciting technologies start to move into the mainstream. 

A major privacy fault line has just been revealed as “anonymized data” is now exposed to be not so anonymous after all. An article published by the New York Times reports that new technology can frustrate present efforts to keep data private in a July 23, 2019 article, Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You.

Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI will either solve all our problems or destroy us or our society, and the press frequently report on how AI will threaten jobs and raise inequality, there’s actually very little evidence to support these ideas. What’s more, this could actually end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt.

Dynamsoft has introduced version 7.0 of its Barcode Reader software development kit which adds a Scan Directly mode and an entirely new framework to prepare it for future enhancements.

The City of South Perth has begun an eight-year digital transformation project with the implementation TechnologyOne’s OneCouncil SaaS solution.

Civica has announced its new Health & Care software portfolio for Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific markets. This follows Civica’s late 2018 acquisition of Geelong-based cloud software company Carelink, now Civica Care.

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