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More than two thirds agree that understanding cash flow in real time will be crucial - but just 4% of those surveyed by BlackLine are completely confident in the visibility they currently have

COMPANY NEWS: A global survey of C-suite executives and finance and accounting (F&A) professionals commissioned by BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) has revealed a significant lack of confidence among C-suite and F&A professionals when it comes to the visibility their company has over its cash flow, suggesting that many Australian organisations could be making decisions without an accurate, up-to-date view of company liquidity. This comes despite findings that suggest that visibility over cash flow and other financial metrics could be the key to businesses weathering the growing global economic storm.

Market research firm Dell’Oro Group has released the results of a new survey finding that 100 percent of respondents have either deployed or are planning to deploy some form of vCMTS architecture in their networks within the next 24 months.

GUEST OPINION by Rajith Haththotuwegama, Manager – Data Analytics & Automation at Tecala:  Automation has been on the radar of Australian organisations for some time. Though the promise of the technology is fairly well understood, it has faced some barriers to broad-scale use, particularly in the mid-market, which is home to many economically important Australian businesses. But this is about to change.

As October’s Mental Health Month and Cybersecurity Awareness Month both draw to a close, a new study from not-for-profit cyber mental health support initiative, Cybermindz.org is showing early evidence of burnout in cyber professionals, signalling a potential loss of skills to a critical part of the economy.

The vast majority of cyber security professionals (91%) reported experiencing mental health challenges over the past two years, and only 11% reported they hadn’t experienced burn out due to their job, according to a new whitepaper by cyber security and digital resiliency solutions provider Sekuro.

Barrier to getting real value from data isn’t budget or technology –– it’s the people

Economic uncertainty raises need for faster access to reliable data to drive business impact

COMPANY NEWS:  Talend, a global leader in data integration and data management, has released the results from its second annual Data Health Barometer, a survey conducted globally among nearly 900 independent data experts and leaders. While a majority of respondents believe data is important, 97% face challenges in using data effectively and nearly half say it's not easy to use data to drive business impact. The Data Health Barometer explores the disconnect between data and decision, which can impede enterprises and executives from supporting their strategic objectives through any economic conditions.

• 84% of the Australian organisations agree that automation will be a critical requirement for business excellence, customer experience, and competitive success within the next 3 years
• 74% of the organisations in Australia have increased their automation spending in 2021 (vs 2020), including 30% of the organisations that have increased automation spending by 20%.
• Over 98% of the organisations in Australia underscore their shifting focus toward Intelligent Process Automation

GUEST RESEARCH by UiPath (NYSE:PATH) a leading  enterprise automation software company, announced today the results of the Automation Survey 2022 commissioned by UiPath, revealing that 60% of the organisations in Australia will scale up their robotic process automation (RPA) initiatives or achieve an enterprise-wide RPA by 2025. The survey also shows that 84% of the Australian organisations today do not have an enterprise-wide RPA program in place despite recognising the importance and benefits.

GUEST RESEARCH: Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today launched its first State of Ransomware 2022 and Beyond report aimed at providing insights into how the threatscape is evolving and how the severity of the ‘blame culture’ in cybersecurity is escalating.

A nationwide survey of residential aged care staff has found almost one in ten works in a facility reliant on paper records for care management, while “critical digital systems” are yet to be widely implemented in a sector in “dire need of disruption”.

GUEST OPINION: Ransomware attacks continue to top the list of IT security concerns for many organisations. They can be disruptive, damaging, and very costly to resolve. Indeed, The State of Office 365 Backup survey highlighted that 67% of Australian businesses are concerned about data being backed up outside their geo residency and 69% are concerned about compliance with data privacy requirements.

The City of Sydney is urging residents and business owners to switch to GreenPower to drastically cut their emissions, after survey results showed many residents didn’t know it existed.

Thirty-four percent of 500 recently surveyed Australian and New Zealand businesses operating in a range of industries, still don’t have a climate strategy, and of those that do, 60% have not seen significant reductions in emissions levels, according to a new report from Deloitte Access Economics commissioned by Google Cloud.

GUEST RESEARCH: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched its inaugural The Digital Sustainability Index (DSI). The first Asia-Pacific framework and index has been developed in partnership with The Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE) at the University of Auckland Business School to track the adoption and leverage of digital technologies by enterprises along with their social and environmental objectives. It also evaluates and uncovers the factors critical to the pursuit of sustainable digital solutions across social, environmental, and financial outcomes. 

The past two years have spurred the greatest acceleration of digital transformation for Australian business-to-consumer companies globally, advancing their digital strategies by an average of 8 years, ahead of the global average of 6.5 years, according to new research by customer engagement platform Twilo.

Australian companies that invest in their people and foster a more curious culture experience major benefits including twice employee engagement and up to three times the turnover growth, according to research by SAP SE.

NortonLifelock has released a new poll not only showing "around 1 in 10 Australian online daters surveyed ran background checks on prospective online dates," with a range of online methods used to do so, while Aussies are also alarmed about the loss of privacy in today's world - and more.

How the world worked in 2021 and what's in store for the future is the subject of HubSpot's 2022 Hybrid Work Report, so are we in for a Future Shock as Alvin Toffler predicted, or was the pandemic the biggest unexpected shock of them all?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Although the spectre of Omicron hovers, people are nevertheless returning to work in a hybrid fashion, with the demand for modern, fast and fluid videoconferencing experiences never greater, whether at home, at work, or other remote working scenarios, so what are the trends for a world on the mend?

NetApp, data-centric software company, revealed findings from its survey assessing the adoption of hybrid cloud strategies and operational focus areas among NetApp’s global enterprise customer base.