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Teradata announced last year its competitive ambitions to go toe-to-toe with cloud-native competitors with an entirely new architecture. The future has arrived, and CEO Steve McMillan spoke with iTWire to explain why Teradata is now the most sustainable, economical, and performant cloud data platform there is.

GUEST RESEARCH: Software intelligence company Dynatrace has announced the results of an independent global survey of 1,303 (including 100 from Australia) CIOs and senior cloud and IT operations managers in large organisations. The findings showed that as the move toward cloud-native architectures accelerates, the data generated by such environments outstrips current solutions' ability to produce meaningful analytics. CIOs noted that their teams rely on multiple, disparate monitoring and data analytics solutions to maintain observability and security, making it challenging to extract answers quickly and drive digital transformation forward.

South Australian agile data intelligence company Frisk has launched its partner program, with consulting firm Agile Analytics – which is also based in SA – as the inaugural participant.

COMPANY NEWS: Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, today announced it has once again been named by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the August 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. This is the seventh consecutive time that Talend has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Have you seen the me&u QR codes at Opera Bar tables and hundreds of other venues across Australia - or even the UK and US? Delivering menus digitally on your device while letting you order instantly saves tons of time, lets venues serve more people properly even with fewer staff, dishes up delicious data and awesome analytics, and even makes leaving a venue as easy as popping out of an Uber without needing to fiddle with credit cards or bills. It's massively transformational, with me&u CEO Katrina Barry joining iTWireTV to explain it all, and more!

GUEST INTERVIEW: Have you seen the me&u QR codes at Opera Bar tables and hundreds of other venues across Australia - or even the UK and US? Delivering menus digitally on your device while letting you order instantly saves tons of time, lets venues serve more people properly even with fewer staff, dishes up delicious data and awesome analytics, and even makes leaving a venue as easy as popping out of an Uber without needing to fiddle with credit cards or bills. It's massively transformational, with me&u CEO Katrina Barry joining iTWireTV to explain it all, and more!

GUEST OPINION: Managing applications as well as the network and compute infrastructure around them used to be easy. Everything sat in a private data centre and there weren't that many applications to begin with.

Business software provider MYOB has adopted the Snowflake Data Cloud to improve data access, management and analysis.

Newcastle-based Greater Bank, otherwise known as The Greater to locals, is working with analytics and AI leader SAS to protect its 270,000-plus customers and $8 billion of assets from fraud and money laundering.

Mantel Group, through its data, analytics, and machine learning brand, Eliiza, has acquired machine learning as a service provider, otso.ai.

The SAS chief technical officer Bryan Harris is on a personal mission. He wants humans at the centre of the innovation process, and he wants ethics in data. AI applied to healthcare and surgery may need to know someone’s gender and ethnicity, but AI applied to home loans should not use that as a factor at all. Harris is making clear irresponsible AI is right in his crosshairs.

SAS has concluded its major annual global forum event for another year, bringing with it a range of announcements including the return on investment acceleration for customers using SAS’ cloud-first portfolio, the SAS 360 Match first-party ad-serving platform for video-on-demand providers, and the batting lab showing kids the value of data and analytics.

Enterprise automation provider SnapLogic has named Jeremiah Stone as the company’s new CTO.

Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure, data management, analytics, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi has strengthened its partner program with the appointment of Arrow Electronics as its new distributor for Australia and New Zealand.

GUEST OPINION: Data pipelines are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. Efficient data pipelines can be the difference between an architecture that delivers real value to the business or one that becomes a burden. Enterprises receive data 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from the web, enterprise applications, and mobile and IoT devices. Data engineers must collect, transform, and deliver data to different lines of business, while keeping up with the latest technology innovations to stay ahead of business demands. However, traditional legacy architectures create challenges every step of the way, making the task of the data engineer more complex.

Data platform provider Teradata has demonstrated that its software can deliver analytics at scale on a single system of more than 1,000 nodes with 1,023 active users submitting thousands of concurrent queries, using a diverse set of mixed workloads, and with no system downtime or outages.

Understanding how Covid has changed the way businesses deal with their suppliers will be key to winning and keeping business in 2022, writes Marcus McNamara, Head of APAC, Sana Commerce:  It’s been two years since the virus up-ended life as we knew it, here in Australia and around the world. Businesses have been on a tumultuous journey since that time, with many forced to abandon long standing processes and practices and embrace new ones. Pivoting to digital has been the common theme, with enterprises turning to online platforms and programs to maintain business continuity and interact with their suppliers and customers.

University of Melbourne analytics spinoff Apromore has partnered with Workato, an enterprise automation platform so that organisations can use Workato integration capabilities to import data from thousands of applications including Oracle Netsuite and Salesforce into Apromore process mining.

GUEST OPINION: After a year marred by disruption and uncertainty, Australian businesses in 2022 are now turning their attention to what the next 12 months has in store.

Coles plans to hire more than 70 digital professionals to join its eCommerce business, in a move the retail giant says will help to drive rapid digital transformation and shape the future of Australian retail.