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Australia will see 11% of jobs lost to automation by 2040, according to the latest jobs forecast for the APAC region by global research and advisory firm Forrester.

Data has never been more important than ever before. With a pandemic, supply chain issues, a climate crisis, and a rising cost of living businesses cannot operate on intuition alone. Yet Tableau research finds that 70% of companies believe they provide their workers with sufficient data training, while only 33% of employees share this view.

COMPANY NEWS: WalkMe, a leading provider of digital adoption platforms, today announced its inclusion in the New Tech: Digital Adoption Platforms, Q2 2022, Forrester's first market scan of the DAP category.

GUEST RESEARCH: BigCommerce, a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established B2C and B2B brands, today announced it was named a Strong Performer by Forrester Research in both The Forrester Wave: B2C Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022 and The Forrester Wave: B2B Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022 reports.

GUEST OPINION: With data dependency at an all-time high for businesses, almost every company is looking to establish themselves as a technology-first company, similar to Amazon or Netflix.

Unified customer experience platform Emplifi has launched Emplifi Social Care, part of the its Unified CX Platform. Emplifi Social Care is aimed at powering teams outside of the service centre to help support the volume of customer requests that come in across social media channels.

GUEST OPINION: Soprano Design, a global communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) leader, today announced its key predictions for 2022.

Zero Trust segmentation provider Illumio has announced a new Technology Alliance Partner Program (TAP).

COMPANY NEWS: The Forrester New Wave: Edge Development Platforms Q4 2021 report named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly a Leader as its Compute@Edge was given differentiated scores, the highest possible, across six criteria, including vision, roadmap, developer experience, platform execution model, and day-two-plus experience.

GUEST RESEARCH: Marketplacer, a global technology platform that enables brands, retailers, suppliers, communities and innovators to easily build and grow successful online marketplaces at scale, announced today that it has been named a Leader in the Forrester Research October 2021 report The Forrester New Wave: Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2021. This independent international review by leading Forrester analysts evaluated 14 vendors based on a range of criteria including current product offering, strategy and market presence.

Facebook. The company has been on an apology tour for most of its existence, mostly for invading people's privacy in different ways, and hot on the heels of a whistleblower exposing Facebook's allegedly dodgy algorithms comes the now resolved outage that affected Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Oculus Web.

GUEST RESEARCH: Businesses in Australia and New Zealand are having difficulties on how to leverage their data due to lack of literacy, according to a study. The study describes this as Data Paradox, that instead of using data to improve business operations, it has become a burden.

According to a Forrester report, 5G plays an important role in delivering government priorities that encourage citizen welfare and strong economic growth. The report also has identified a gap: only 34% of decision makers recognise its return on investment and 32% are unconvinced of its potential.

More companies are becoming prey and victims of ransomware attacks. Research firm and security company Forrester gives advice to companies on how to thwart threats.

SOC and IT security teams feel burned out after working hours, a Trend Micro study has discovered, and managers are overwhelmed with high volume of alerts.

A new global study has revealed IT leaders have increasing impact on employee experience and business resilience, because by empowering, inspiring, and enabling employees to work flexibly and remotely, they will improve resilience, competitive sdvantage, and scale in times of disruption. 

Database giant Oracle is buying TikTok to increase its relevance in the cloud market by demonstrating the scalability of its cloud platform, and also increase its "hip factor" with brands like Zoom, analysts from the American market research company Forrester claim.

The Australian Computer Society has appointed ICT industry veteran Todd McGregor as General Manager for Startup Catalyst.

Growth in the Asia Pacific technology market will slow to 4% in 2020 as conditions become stormy, the American market research company Forrester has predicted.

Online retail sales in the Asia Pacific region are set to almost double in the five years from 2019, growing from US$1.3 trillion in 2018 to US$2.5 trillion in 2023, the American market research company Forrester says, adding that would represent a compound annual growth rate of 14% and account for 28% of global sales.