Enterprise Applications

NZ Healthcare provider tackles Digital Transformation

MercyAscot, one of New Zealand’s leading private healthcare providers, has signed contracts with two IT providers, InterSystems and Umbrellar, in a major step towards replacing and extending its existing patient administration and clinical information systems.

All those emails on privacy mean nothing

If you’re like me, you’ve no doubt received hundreds of emails in recent weeks from organisations around the world wanting to update you on their privacy policies. They were all rushing to meet a deadline of Friday 25 May. While for most people they were just more emails for the trash, there was, nonetheless, an important reason behind them.

Top 3 Blockchain and Data Management Myths

When you look at what is ultimately stored on a blockchain - data  - it makes sense that data and analytics leaders should take a leading role in their organisation’s blockchain experiments. They are uniquely equipped to capitalize on the early state of blockchain, after years of transforming how their companies use and value information, according to Nick Heudecker, research vice president at Gartner.

Maddocks adopts Luminance AI in latest APAC win

Australian law firm Maddocks has adopted Luminance’s machine learning technology to streamline the due diligence processes. The firm selected Luminance due to its ability to significantly reduce the amount of time spent on a due diligence review compared to typical manual methods.

Dynamic Authorisation Extension for SharePoint

Software developer Axiomatics has collaborated with consultancy firm Knowit Secure AB to release the Axiomatics Extension for SharePoint allowing a policy-based approach to SharePoint access control.

Gartner Survey Reveals Scarcity of Blockchain Deployments

Only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey. Furthermore, 77 percent of CIOs surveyed said their organization has no interest in the technology and/or no action planned to investigate or develop it.

Linguamatics enhances automatic text analysis

Linguamatics, a  developer of natural language processing (NLP) text analytics technology, has announced the latest release of its I2E AMP platform to automate the discovery of critical insights from text using NLP.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 takes on the cloud

ABBYY has announced the launch of FineReader Engine 12, its next-generation software development kit (SDK) that can now be applied to applications running in virtual and cloud environments, along with those running on premise, providing intelligent OCR for 208 languages, PDF conversion, and data capture.

Kx provides rapid access to unstructured data

First Derivatives, a developer of time-series analytics for streaming, real-time and historical data, has announces that its Kx technology now supports rapid access to unstructured data with the release of kdb+ 3.6, the latest version of its database and analytics technology.

Hope and fear surround emerging technologies, all of us must contribute to stronger governance

It’s been a big year for companies pushing the boundaries of technology – and not in a good way. The Cambridge Analytica scandal led to a public outcry about privacy, the Commonwealth Bank’s loss of customer data raised concerns about cybersecurity, and a fatal self-driving car crash put the safety of automated systems in the spotlight.

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