Enterprise Applications

On the heels of Google announcing half a billion people talk to its voice assistant every month and the rise of business voice apps like Alexa for Business and Oracle AI Voice, there is now a global surge towards voice in the workplace. In Australia last month, Telstra signed a deal with ASX listed voice AI platform Dubber enabling business customers to monitor calls across any device, joining Optus, Cisco Webex calling and over 100 global telcos offering customers this AI monitoring service.

Employers have managed employees for many years relying on the employee records exemption contained in the Privacy Act. However, in the recent case of Lee v Superior Wood [2019] FWCFB 2946, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) turned the common understanding of the employee records exemption on its head.

Australian technology start up NoahFace has announced the general availability of its eponymous time and attendance technology platform, NoahFace, which enables organisations to accurately track and report employee attendance and comply with the new Fair Work Act Award changes which will come into force on March 1, 2020.

Over 40% of privacy compliance technology will rely on artificial intelligence (AI) by 2023, up from 5% today, according to analyst firm Gartner, Inc.  

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.

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