CIOs have a significant opportunity to drive a transformation and innovation agenda in 2023. Despite the global economic outlook pointing to ongoing market disruption, inflation, and recession in many parts of the world, organisations are going to want to continue to invest in technology, and this will benefit both employees and customers. Research in the…
DetailsFlexibility and lifestyle are critical concerns for the modern employee. While the “Great Resignation” – a trend that has caused unprecedented rates of employees quitting and churn over the past few years – looks like it is finally starting to ease, the changes it drove in how business is done will persist. Companies were incentivised…
DetailsCIOs have always had to find a balance between the need to deliver innovation and the need to establish operational excellence. However, this tension has become even more challenging in recent years. After several years in which businesses of all sizes and across all sectors were forced to transform rapidly in response to the pandemic,…
DetailsACS (Australian Computer Society) is the professional association for Australia’s technology sector. With 40,000 members, ACS is dedicated to growing the nation’s digital skills and capacity. ACS members benefit from professional training and skills certification, networking and events, liability insurance cover and access to technology and innovation hubs. In addition, ACS has developed a Professional…
DetailsAccording to Infosys research, data and artificial intelligence (AI) could generate $467 billion in incremental profits worldwide and become the cornerstone of enterprises gaining a competitive edge. But while opportunities to use AI are very real – and ChatGPT’s democratisation is accelerating generative AI test-and-learn faster than QR code adoption during the Covid pandemic –…
DetailsSAP’s Data Warehouse Cloud is evolving, gaining new features and a new name, Datasphere, as the company addresses continued diversification of the enterprise data. It’s part of SAP’s move to become a more significant player in the business data fabric space, said Irfan Khan, SAP’s chief product officer for its HANA database and analytics. Khan…
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Over the past few years, technological and business advancements have created increasingly grand expectations. Your customers expect an “always on” experience. (Today, you can also add “always fast,” “always intuitive,” “always successful,” and so on.) Fundamentally, if customers find it too difficult to engage digitally with your business, they’ll engage elsewhere. Digital transformation: The implications…
DetailsAs organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model. Outsourcing IT operations…
DetailsEnterprises driving toward data-first modernization need to determine the optimal multicloud strategy, starting with which applications and data are best suited to migrate to cloud and what should remain in the core and at the edge. A hybrid approach is clearly established as the optimal operating model of choice. A Flexera report found the shift to hybrid…
DetailsMany people associate high-performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, with far-reaching government-funded research or consortia-led efforts to map the human genome or to pursue the latest cancer cure. But HPC can also be used to advance more traditional business outcomes — from fraud detection and intelligent operations to digital transformation. The challenge: making complex…
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