At Cambridge Semantics, we have watched the explosion of AI awareness in the last year with interest. Nearly every tech leader considering our knowledge graph platform, Anzo, is also actively seeking to integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning into their operations. This drive is fuelled by a growing emphasis on harnessing these technologies for enhanced insights and efficiency.
The incomplete release of 2003 Cabinet records to the National Archives of Australia by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), including many related to the Iraq war, was more a ‘stuff up’ rather than a ‘conspiracy’, an investigation has found.
Structured data in relational databases revolutionized the management of transactional data. Today, large organizations have 100’s and sometimes 1,000’s of databases and associated applications, inevitably modified over time as business requirements evolved. To make sense of structured data, every organization also uses tools to create easily understandable business objects - a software representation that has a set of attributes and values, operations, and relationships to other business objects, and models business behaviour.
Despite new updates to privacy regulations across the globe, including Australia’s Privacy Act Review Report in 2023, only 39 percent of Oceania respondents say they find it easy to understand their organisation’s privacy obligations, according to ISACA’s Privacy in Practice 2024 survey report.
In January the Australian Government released identification details and imposed financial and travel sanctions on the cybercriminal involved in one of the highest profile cyber-attacks in Australia to date. Medibank’s ransomware attack in October 2022 was among a series of high-profile breaches on major organisations in Australia. With the amount of sensitive customer information involved, Medibank were under intense scrutiny as the crisis rolled out.
In the current data management landscape, enterprises have to deal with diverse and dispersed data at unimaginable volumes. Among this complexity of siloed data and content, valuable business insights and opportunities get lost.
Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have serious consequences. And in the last few years alone, there have been a myriad of spreadsheet horror stories.
In the coming year, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to shift from a conceptual discourse to a practical reality, transforming organizational processes across various industries, including government entities. Assessing how technology will impact on the modern workplace in the year ahead, Alyssa Blackburn, predicts three areas where AI will have an impact.
In 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) truly entered our daily lives. The latest data shows four in five teenagers in the United Kingdom are using generative AI tools. About two-thirds of Australian employees report using generative AI for work.
Data silos remain a significant issue in the Australian public sector, according to a survey of 425 Australian government workers undertaken by Appian. A majority of government workers reporting that data accessibility was a problem in their workplace.
