Industry Insider

  • Why a computer will never be truly conscious

    Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain functions are properly understood, it should be possible to program them into a computer. Microsoft recently announced that it would spend US$1 billion on a project to do just that.

  • CEOs in the dark on Cybersecurity

    Australian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) confidence regarding an organization's ability to detect and manage cyber concerns far outstrips that of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) – a disconnect that puts organizations at risk of cyberattacks, according to research released by Unisys Corporation

  • How to Revitalize a Stalled Digital Transformation

    A large telecommunications company is under pressure to digitalize its services and business processes, but initiatives keep stalling. The main problem sits with five of its business leaders, each with the belief that they’re primarily accountable for the transformation, and each with a different view of how it should be accomplished.

  • RACQ insures future with ABBYY and UiPath

    One of Australia’s largest insurance companies, RACQ, has completed a project to enhance its claim processing using ABBYY content intelligence capabilities in tandem with UiPath’s robotic process automation (RPA) platform.

  • How much customer data should firms be forced to share?

    Australia is on the cusp of a new era where consumers will be granted the right to access and share data about themselves and their transactions as captured by businesses they deal with, such as banks, electricity retailers, and phone and internet service providers.

  • NSW council re engineers workflows with Kodak Alaris

    Kodak Alaris partner Go Systems counts many local councils across New South Wales amongst its client base. In partnership with Kodak Alaris it has designed a technology roadmap for one of the state’s largest councils utilising its capture hardware and software solutions.

  • Al aboard the archiving Noah’s Ark

    In biblical history, Noah, his family and many animals survived a great flood. To make this possible Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is Noah's model – gathering the full diversity of file and document formats – genuinely suitable for archiving digital content?

  • The Ethics of Automation

    The Australian government is handing over $A32M to a new research centre hosted at RMIT University that will investigate how rapidly emerging autonomous decision-making technologies can be used safely and ethically.

  • Gartner predicts Collaboration boom

    The worldwide market for social software and collaboration in the workplace is expected to grow from an estimated $ US 2.7 billion in 2018 to $ US 4.8 billion by 2023, nearly doubling in size, according to Gartner, Inc.

  • Why a computer will never be truly conscious

    Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain functions are properly understood, it should be possible to program them into a computer. Microsoft recently announced that it would spend US$1 billion on a project to do just that.

  • CEOs in the dark on Cybersecurity

    Australian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) confidence regarding an organization's ability to detect and manage cyber concerns far outstrips that of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) – a disconnect that puts organizations at risk of cyberattacks, according to research released by Unisys Corporation

  • How to Revitalize a Stalled Digital Transformation

    A large telecommunications company is under pressure to digitalize its services and business processes, but initiatives keep stalling. The main problem sits with five of its business leaders, each with the belief that they’re primarily accountable for the transformation, and each with a different view of how it should be accomplished.

  • RACQ insures future with ABBYY and UiPath

    One of Australia’s largest insurance companies, RACQ, has completed a project to enhance its claim processing using ABBYY content intelligence capabilities in tandem with UiPath’s robotic process automation (RPA) platform.

  • How much customer data should firms be forced to share?

    Australia is on the cusp of a new era where consumers will be granted the right to access and share data about themselves and their transactions as captured by businesses they deal with, such as banks, electricity retailers, and phone and internet service providers.

  • NSW council re engineers workflows with Kodak Alaris

    Kodak Alaris partner Go Systems counts many local councils across New South Wales amongst its client base. In partnership with Kodak Alaris it has designed a technology roadmap for one of the state’s largest councils utilising its capture hardware and software solutions.

  • Al aboard the archiving Noah’s Ark

    In biblical history, Noah, his family and many animals survived a great flood. To make this possible Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is Noah's model – gathering the full diversity of file and document formats – genuinely suitable for archiving digital content?

  • The Ethics of Automation

    The Australian government is handing over $A32M to a new research centre hosted at RMIT University that will investigate how rapidly emerging autonomous decision-making technologies can be used safely and ethically.

  • Gartner predicts Collaboration boom

    The worldwide market for social software and collaboration in the workplace is expected to grow from an estimated $ US 2.7 billion in 2018 to $ US 4.8 billion by 2023, nearly doubling in size, according to Gartner, Inc.