Industry Insider

  • Capture technology helps SA Council go Digital

    The rollout of Microsoft SharePoint across a local government council in South Australia created a pressing requirement to digitize files dating back several years within the Information Records and Management Department.

  • IaaS Public Cloud Services market grew 41.4% in 2021: Gartner

    The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 41.4% in 2021, to total $US90.9 billion, up from $US64.3 billion in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS market in 2021, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei.

  • DTA joins forces with Finance

    The Department of Finance is to gain responsibility for data policy, including the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), following a Ministerial reshuffle under the incoming Labor government. The DTA will move from the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) portfolio where it was placed in April 2021.

  • How to comply with global privacy requirements

    Organisations that have customers or operations across more than one country face a spate of new and proposed privacy and data protection laws. Traditional archiving approaches often fall short of meeting the patchwork of requirements that organisations must adhere to, with this driving many to re-examine how they manage information.

  • NZ Rugby tackles digital transformation with SAP

    New Zealand Rugby (NZR) have announced a major multi-year partnership with SAP to power and accelerate the rugby union’s digital transformation across all areas of the business. SAP, which is NZR’s first-ever major technology partner, becomes an Official Premium Global Partner, Official Technology Partner and the Official Cloud Software Partner to the Teams in Black* including the All Blacks and Black Ferns. 

  • Using Notifications for More Proactive Dashboards

    As a business intelligence professional for over 20 years, I often ask myself why we create the solutions we do. The answer is, invariably, to aid our clients in making business decisions. Dashboards are a great tool for decision guidance but too often their design makes it hard for everyday users to get the information they need to make decisions and take action.

  • Financial Services Business Leaders Lack Confidence in Data

    Nearly nine of ten – a whopping 86% -- of business leaders at financial services companies aren’t confident that their data can be used for decision-making, according to research commissioned by InterSystems. The study of more than 550 business leaders across 12 countries globally revealed the problem may stem from disconnected systems and data sources, with almost all (98%) respondents saying that there are data and application silos within their organization.