Enterprise Applications

RPA was initially invented to respond to the frustration of business people in large organixations with what they perceived, rightly or wrongly, as the inertia of their IT colleagues toward pressing business driven demands.

Enterprises looking to enact blockchain technology must now also determine whether or not the information is subject to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Further, enterprises must explore if, at its core, blockchain is fundamentally a violation of GDPR.

The Productivity Commission produced our final report on Availability and Use of Data in March last year. In the course of multiple inquiries by our organisation over the past decade, two things in the data world made it a clear priority for root and branch review.

A Senate Inquiry into “Digital Transformation” has issued a report that is highly critical of the Australian Commonwealth Government’s efforts to date, although the report’s conclusions are firmly split along party lines.

ActivePDF has announced the release of Compressor 3.1.0, a new developer API that compresses text, images, and PDF objects to reduce the size of PDF files.

Australian law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has teamed up with ConsenSys start up, OpenLaw, to achieve a breakthrough that aims to unlock the potential of the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts in the settlement of real estate and property transactions.

Industry analyst IDC has published its semi-annual estimate of spending on Digital Transformation for the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan) which it expects to reach over $US380 billion in 2018, recording a double digit increase of 15.3% against $US334.8 billion spent in 2017.

Data Scientists emerged about four years ago as THE must-have employee. Everyone in tech scrambled to brush off the old statistics books from courses they’d taken in college, spent some serious time relearning Python Pandas and R, learned the latest in Machine Learning theory, and bought new lab coats for good measure. I know I did.

As many organisations want to support mobile, team-oriented and nonroutine ways of work, an increasing number of them are looking for assistance in adopting digital workplace technology. A Gartner, Inc. survey* concluded that only 7 percent to 18 percent of organizations possess the digital dexterity to adopt new ways of work (NWOW) solutions, such as virtual collaboration and mobile work.

Intelligent technologies broaden every sphere of business opportunity, including office work. Now, never-tiring digital employees – software robots – are entering into marketing, sales, accounting and HR.

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