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Global professional services firm Accenture has acquired Australia’s Electro 80, a leading provider of operational technology (OT) for resources clients in Australia, including mining, energy, engineering, construction and utilities companies.

GUEST OPINION by Byron Yeung, Vice President APAC, Data Integration Division at Qlik: Data is critical to local government operations. It helps them allocate resources, address pressing issues facing the community, and so on. Ultimately, data helps local governments better serve communities through data-informed decision-making. Unfortunately, it’s not utilised nearly as much as it can and should be.

Enterprise software provider Micro Focus has announced it is to invest heavily in the channel for its Application Modernisation and Connectivity (AMC) portfolio, including funding resources at multiple partners in Australia and New Zealand.

The Salvation Army Australia has deployed technology from global software and spend management company Coupa to help manage its resources cost-effectively and for greater effect in undertaking its humanitarian work.

GUEST OPINION by Mark Lukie, sales engineer manager – APAC for Barracuda: If anyone had predicted half the things that happened in 2020, we should be paying them a lot to give us predictions for 2021! Going into 2021, we should expect many of the key cybersecurity trends from this year to continue in Australia. 

Effective data management systems are key

GUEST OPINION by Kathryn Ramanathan, ANZ Channel and Distribution Manager, Cohesity: Within most Australian businesses, the volume of data that needs to be managed, stored and protected is rising at an exponential rate. Finding effective ways to deal with this challenge has become a top priority.

Canberra-based technology company archTIS has entered into a contractual agreement with professional services firm KPMG to provide resources to conduct a number of specialised security services for a Commonwealth national security agency.

An exploration renaissance is underway at Alaska’s North Slope basin — a region boasting a long history of successful oil discoveries.

SPONSORED NEWS: An exploration renaissance is underway at Alaska’s North Slope basin — a region boasting a long history of successful oil discoveries.

Many of Australia’s small businesses have not fully realised their potential because they lack the skills, time or resources to invest in digital technology - or because they lack knowledge of the opportunities that technologies provide.

The CSIRO has developed a new groundwater sensor system to monitor the environment faster and provide more reliable and less labour-intensive detection for the resources industry.

Global spending on regulatory technology (regtech) is forecast to exceed US$127 billion by 2024, up from US$25 billion in 2019.

Nokia sees Australia taking a lead in this year’s annual global Open Innovation Challenge competition by building on strong IoT momentum in the country’s industrial sectors like mining and resources, transport, utilities and agriculture.

Australian stands to add $45 billion to the country’s GDP by 2021 from digital transformation, according to a new study which also estimates it could increase the nation’s growth rate by 0.5% annually.

Backup and recovery vendor Dropsuite is set to list on the Australian Securities Exchange after raising the minimum subscription of $5 million in a capital raising which sought up to $8 million to fund investment in technology and the creation of new software solutions.

IBM’s cognitive computing system Watson will be deployed by oil and gas company Woodside as part of the resource giant’s strategy to use predictive data science to leverage more than 30 years of collective knowledge and experience as a leading liquefied natural gas operator.

Despite avoiding a drop off in October, demand for executives in the IT sector dropped 9% in November, continuing a three-year period of generally flat demand in the technology industry.

Australian and New Zealand businesses are spending a paltry amount of their digital marketing budgets on optimisation, despite evidence showing those who optimise are reaping thousands of dollars return for every dollar spent.

A surge in demand for Australian senior executives has pushed one national job index to its biggest monthly gain in 12 months, with Victoria and New South Wales outperforming the two big resources states of Western Australia and Queensland, and with IT one of the best performing sectors.

Motorola Solutions has signed a AUD$14.4 million contract with Queensland Gas Corporation (QGC)for the supply of radio communications infrastructure for QGC's liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in southern Queensland.