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One of the latest offerings from Esri Australia, the Smarter Planning Perth platform, provides a visual representation of scheduled works from multiple government agencies allowing them to come together to plan, schedule, and collaborate on project work, saving time and cutting costs.

Use cases demonstrating the successful merger between Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are scarce today, but some fast-moving companies are changing that. Hollard, South Africa’s largest privately-owned insurance group, is one such audacious organization where the transformation journey has not only begun, but is already showing the benefits.

If you are one of 2.2 billion Facebook users worldwide, you have probably been alarmed by the recent coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a story that began when The Guardian revealed 50 million (now thought to be 87 million) user profiles had been retrieved and shared without the consent of users.

Queensland updated its Ministerial Code of Conduct last month, which reflects the state’s legislation regarding official accountability. The Code now bans Ministers from using private email and messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Wickr and Snapchat, for ministerial business.

A flurry of cloud activity in the nation’s capital this week has centered around the certification of Microsoft’s Azure platform for secure government hosting, based on a new offering known as as Azure Australia Central.

“Digital transformation” is a collective term that suggests action being taken by an organisation. While there are different definitions of the term, generally speaking, it entails an organization taking on a strategy, applying tactics, and changing from some versions of “analogue-ness” to being digital. This can be in terms of business model, operations, technical underpinnings, etc.

Scientists from Australia and China have drawn on the durable power of gold to demonstrate a new type of high-capacity optical disk that can hold data securely for more than 600 years. The technology could offer a more cost-efficient and sustainable solution to the global data storage problem while enabling the critical pivot from Big Data to Long Data, opening up new realms of scientific discovery.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most comprehensive overhauls of privacy regulation in recent history, and represents a significant expansion of the territorial scope of European privacy regulation. With less than two months to go until the scheme commences, Australian businesses should be asking the question: do I need to comply?

Dunedin City Council supports a population of 120,000 and is one of New Zealand's largest territorial authority areas. Environmental Health staff at Dunedin City Council (DCC) are charged with protecting and improving the health of the city’s residents.

Australian solution provider Informotion is now one of the largest Micro Focus Secure Content Management Solutions reseller in the world – after taking onboard a nationwide team of consultants specialising in the iconic HPE TRIM/CM platform.