Swinburne University has partnered with IBM Research Australia to deliver a unit on artificial intelligence (AI) as part of Australia’s first Master of Financial Technologies.

Fast-growing companies face security challenges in overwhelmed HR departments, with a myriad of challenges that didn’t affect them as much when they were smaller – creating pressure which can potentially open up cyber security vulnerabilities while staff are distracted by the various administrative and compliance tasks associated with onboarding and offboarding employees.

The quality of customer service delivered by Australian professionals is being impacted by an average of two hours of wasted time every week as they try to track down the right information internally they need to do their jobs, but despite this many professionals say that collaboration technology would help them do their job more efficiently.