What Australian IT Leaders Need to Focus on Ahead of Privacy Act Reforms

Sonia Sharma, Maddocks partner Australian organisations are showing varying levels of preparedness when it comes to data privacy, with Maddocks partner Sonia Sharma saying they need to get ahead of…

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Capital One/Forrester Study: Deploying Self-Service Data Strategies Is Fraught With Challenges

Try and imagine businesses operating without data. Then try to imagine how much productivity levels could improve if employees were given self-service data strategies. A new study from Forrester Consulting…

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What Are Data Governance Tools, and How Do They Work?

ProsCons Improve data accuracy and consistency.Identify and rectify data errors.Enforce data access policies and control who can access what data.Support various data sources and formats.Employ auditing and tracking.Help businesses meet…

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Australia’s Telecommunications Industry Following Global Peers on Generative AI

Image: immimagery/Adobe Stock Australia’s telecommunications industry is set to follow the global telecom market in adopting generative AI use cases, as local providers face the prospect of losing ground to…

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Australian organizations Battling Tool Sprawl on Quest for Full-Stack Observability

Image: conceptcafe/Adobe Stock Australian organizations have reported seeing a healthy two-times return on investment from their efforts to improve tech stack observability, but they’re struggling under the weight of too…

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Accenture’s Kelly Brough Says IT Is Bringing Pragmatism to Australia’s AI Projects

Image: ArieStudio/Adobe Stock Kelly Brough, director of applied intelligence at Accenture Australian enterprises are moving into a “readiness” phase of generative artificial intelligence adoption and will be relying on IT…

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