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We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting like humans, we will increasingly be faced with the question of whether there’s really anything that special about our own intelligence, or if we are just machines of a different kind. Could everything we know and do one day be reproduced by a complicated enough computer program installed in a complicated enough robot?

Fewer than one-third of finance departments that have deployed robotic process automation (RPA) have utilized the technology for financial reporting according to a survey by Gartner, which also found that they could have saved 25,000 hours of avoidable work annually.

Accounts payable fraud can impact any business, regardless of its size. The organisations that are most vulnerable are those without robust systems for verifying invoices against purchase orders and evidence of goods or services received. When controls on invoice approvals and payments are not consistently and rigorously enforced, this creates an opportunity for financial crime.

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume your organization is like most others when it comes to AI: you know what it is, you believe in its promise and you’re eager to see what it can do for your business.

The Federal Court of Australia recently found in Luppino v Fisher that a mobile phone should not be treated as a “computer” or a “data storage device”. This had the effect of invalidating an earlier order made under s3LA of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) requiring the plaintiff to assist police to access data stored on a mobile phone, on the basis that the mobile phone was not a computer.

SA Courts Administration Authority (CAA) Records Manager Matthew Fry has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Bernadette Bean SA Records Management Service Excellence Award.

The scale and speed at which data and information is being generated today makes it challenging for organizations to effectively capture valuable insights from massive amounts of information and diverse sources.

Medical systems and processes in the healthcare sector are becoming increasingly digital and Internet technologies are being used to speed up and improve the quality of the patient care. New analysis of medical image archiving systems being used across the globe by Greenbone Networks, a German cybersecurity firm, shows where things can go wrong.

I seem to get this question a lot these days from end users, vendors, and even friends wanting to be in the tech market. “Why can’t I just build a content services platform (CSP) from scratch.” Let’s look at that same scenario but with a database.

Enterprises today are focused on ensuring robust data governance, and are exploring different tools and approaches to support their efforts. Some organizations know exactly what they need, while others can be overwhelmed or confused by all the different solutions out there that claim to support data governance.