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Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has completed a global study which found that organisations worldwide are inclined to invest in hybrid and multi-cloud information technology (IT) environments that can support users, applications, and data spread across diverse locations.

Australian organisations are a soft target for ransomware attacks, say experts who have issued a fresh warning that the government needs to do more to stop agencies and businesses falling prey to cyber-crime. But in truth, the danger has been growing worldwide for more than three decades.

Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research study examining providers of intelligent automation solutions and services at a time when companies are beginning to leverage these technologies to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer experience.

According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of the digital association Bitkom, an average of 26 emails are received per professional mailbox in Germany every day. Processing them takes up a large part of working time. In addition, emails are an integral part of processes.

With due acknowledgement of the disease’s tragic impact, the COVID-19 outbreak proved a boon for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams users soared from 20 million to 145 million between November 2019 and April 2021.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has a rich and unique archive that captures almost two centuries of primary source material about Australia’s economic, financial and social history. While the RBA itself was actually created in 1960, it emanated from the original Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which was founded in 1911 and had absorbed other colonial era banks.

A five-year quest by the Department of Finance to implement a whole of government solution for next generation records management appears to have reached its de facto conclusion with a contract between the Digital Transformation Authority (DTA) and RecordPoint, which now enables all Australian Government agencies to purchase its Records365 solution without an Approach to Market (ATM) through a “piggyback” clause.

Sixty-three percent of financial services organisations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region report that investments in automation have helped them gain a significant competitive edge in the market. This data comes from a new global survey conducted by Longitude, a Financial Times company, and commissioned by Appian.

Concentric Inc., a vendor of  AI-based solutions for protecting business-critical data, has released its Q1 2021 Data Risk Report, which highlights a continued rise in oversharing of business-critical and sensitive documents. The report revealed the number of overshared files rose 450 percent compared to the same quarter in 2020, highlighting the significant impact of the pandemic and remote work on data security.

An Australian survey conducted by technology consultancy DiUS has found there’s a strong appetite for Machine Learning (ML) in the Australian market with 82% of organisations interested in ML, but only 21% have an ML project in production.