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Following an extensive early adopter program, ERP vendor SYSPRO has launched its Cloud ERP deployment option to Australian manufacturers and distributors. This provides businesses with the agility to meet evolving market demands amidst ongoing supply chain disruptions.

GUEST OPINION: Australian businesses of all shapes and sizes need to be more proactive about identifying and preparing for major crises.

GUEST OPINION: There's no doubt the last couple of years have been interesting ones for ICT channel businesses. The curve ball that was COVID-19 brought unprecedented uncertainty to the market and triggered a tsunami of digital transformation. So, what does the remainder of the year hold in store? Here are five security-related trends your channel business should be across in 2022.

iTWireTV speaks with SYSPRO chief product officer Paulo de Matos about how technology will help build our sovereign manufacturing capability to ensure supply chain resilience, a topical issue right now as businesses of all sizes and reach struggle with supply chain challenges.

2021 began with the SolarWinds supply chain attack and ended with the Log4j vulnerabilities, with vastly increased levels of ransomware in between. Cybercriminals are on the rise and 2022 shows no sign of abating. SonicWall’s comprehensive 66-page report brings you research, trends, and insights that make it a must-read for all CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs.

COMPANY NEWS: HID Global, the worldwide leader in trusted identity and physical security solutions, outlines and discusses important trends that are set to reshape the security industry in 2022 and beyond.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Industry 4.0 and CFO 4.0 are instrumental in building the factories of the future, with manufacturing CFOs now taking on the dual roles of financial decision-maker and business navigator, so what defines the 4.0 designation, what are details of SYSPRO's new CFO 4.0 report, and what else does Sanjay have to say?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Industry 4.0 and CFO 4.0 are instrumental in building the factories of the future, with manufacturing CFOs now taking on the dual roles of financial decision-maker and business navigator, so what defines the 4.0 designation, what are details of SYSPRO's new CFO 4.0 report, and what else does Sanjay have to say?

GUEST RESEARCH: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its annual State of Encrypted Attacks Report, which tracked and analysed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over networks. This year's study found an increase of more than 314% year-over-year across geographical areas that include APAC, Europe, and North America, underscoring the need for a zero trust security model and greater traffic inspection than most companies can achieve with legacy firewall-based security models.

The US is considering the use of a national security law harking back to the Cold War-era to force companies that are part of the semiconductor supply chain to provide confidential data about their operations if they do not respond with answers in 45 days.

Supply chain issues have affected global shipments of traditional PCs — desktops, notebooks and workstations — in the third quarter, but despite this there was 3.9% year-on-year growth to mark a sixth consecutive quarter of growth, the technology analyst firm IDC says.

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.

GUEST RESEARCH: More than half (57%) of local consumers would never buy from a brand again if it was accused of working with unethical suppliers, according to research findings by OpenText.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Manhattan Associates is a technology leader in supply chain, retail and e-commerce, working with some of the world's biggest brands. Some of these span from Adidas to Renault Nissan, from Dell to DHL, from GM to Walmart, from Nike to Sysco and plenty more.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Manhattan Associates is a technology leader in supply chain, retail and e-commerce, working with some of the world's biggest brands. Some of these span from Adidas to Renault Nissan, from Dell to DHL, from GM to Walmart, from Nike to Sysco and plenty more.

While the world scrambled to be GDPR-compliant it appears companies are barely striving to do the minimum when it comes to modern slavery laws and disclosure. The legislation might be considered the GDPR of the supply chain but is becoming little more than a box-ticking exercise by big Australian corporates.

The existing global shortage of semiconductors is expected to last through this year and into the second quarter of the next, the technology analyst firm Gartner has said, adding that normal levels of supply would resume after that.

Global end-use of public cloud services is expected to boom this year, with technology analyst firm Gartner predicting a 23.1% rise in spending and reach US$332.3 billion (A$428.7 billion) from US$270 billion in 2020.

Retail giant Woolworths plans to invest more than $50 million over the next three years to help equip its team with new skills and capabilities for the retail industry of the future.

GUEST OPINION: Nine months since the COVID-19 outbreak was formally declared a pandemic, with close to 50 million individuals infected, and the global economy experiencing its worst recession since the Second World War, the impact and associated costs of a healthcare crisis cannot be underestimated.