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GUEST OPINION: Data Protection Day, impending in Europe, serves as a global reminder of one of the most important responsibilities for any organisation: keeping sensitive data secure.

GUEST OPINION: The past two years have been an extraordinarily unique moment for enterprise technology. According to a McKinsey & Company study, Covid-19 accelerated business’ digital transformation efforts by seven years in just a matter of months. Throughout the pandemic, businesses have had to rely heavily on digital tools to keep workplaces running smoothly. Even the government had to quickly adopt new technologies to roll out their initiatives including everything from vaccination passports to digital YouGov accounts, contact tracing apps and more.

GUEST OPINION: Pandemic restrictions have caused big changes within many Australian businesses, and one of the most significant has been a rapid increase in the adoption of cloud resources and services.

New Zealand’s consumer competition regulator The Commerce Commission has recommended that consumers buying online for Christmas do their research before using an online store for the first time and check any statements on the website about when the goods will be delivered. 

Mobile and Internet plans provider Belong has deployed the Appian low-code platform to intelligently automate key customer service actions, manage fraud identification and to enable it to rapidly respond to changing demands, including COVID-19.

Global ICT giant Fujitsu Fujitsu has announced a COVID-19 Vaccination Roadmap for its Australian and New Zealand operations.

Early education provider Affinity Education has deployed SAP SuccessFactors’ Employee Central vaccination portlet to achieve compliance with mandatory state-based COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Equinix says 58% of IT leaders are investing in technology to make their businesses more agile. Here are findings from Equinix to help inform your own digital transformation strategy.

GUEST OPINION: Threat detection isn’t getting any easier. Today’s hackers are escalating the number of attacks they launch, going after more targets, using increasingly sophisticated techniques, and achieving their goals through a surreptitious approach.

GUEST RESEARCH: Nitro Software, a global document productivity software company accelerating digital transformation in organisations around the world, today released its 2022 Productivity Report, which explores how the pandemic has transformed productivity, workflows and digital initiatives, as well as the trends and technologies shaping work in 2022 and beyond.

Demand for RMIT Online’s master programs has jumped during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the biggest increases for logistics and data science degrees reflecting the explosion of ‘big data’ and the movement to online purchasing away from in-store sales, while lockdowns have boosted overall demand for online learning.

The annual Call for Code challenge. launched by IBM with support from the Linux Foundation and United Nations, invites the world's software developers and innovators to address climate change with open-source technology. This year four Australian teams are in the finals and one of these projects may well be the winner.

For some, the 19 in COVID-19 refers to the number of kilograms they’ve gained under months of lockdowns. Australian fitness expert and cancer survivor Matt Fox has teamed up with Huawei to share top home workouts that help people keep active during stay-at-home orders.

Qualtrics has announced the expansion of its public sector operations to help governments across Australia and New Zealand improve the experiences they deliver to residents and employees. Qualtrics is used by over 150 government departments and agencies in ANZ, and over 750 globally.

GUEST INTERVIEW: The Rashays cachet isn't just for top quality dining across an incredible 30 Rashays Family Restaurants, but now extends into bringing two game-changing products to help stop COVID super spreaders so Australia can lose the lockdowns and restaurants can rock.

GUEST INTERVIEW: The Rashays cachet isn't just for top quality dining across an incredible 30 Rashays Family Restaurants, but now extends into bringing two game-changing products to help stop COVID super spreaders so Australia can lose the lockdowns and restaurants can rock.

A series of participating Telstra stores in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne are letting customers take advantage of Telstra's new two hour delivery service to coincide "with the latest handset launches," but Canberrans, who are also in lockdown, miss out.

Intelligent workforce management Humanforce launches a software solution to assist businesses in managing complex workplace vaccination issues and help organisations communicate effectively their policies.

A third of financial institutions are accelerating their AI and machine learning (ML) adoption for anti-money laundering (AML) technology in response to COVID-19, according to a new AML technology study by software company SAS, accounting organisation KPMG, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (Acams).

New South Wales residents were the most financially impacted by scams in July, accounting for 37% of the total amount lost in the month.