The days of pick, shovel and a map marked X are long gone; mining today is transforming into a high-tech business, leveraging computing, communications, sensors – even autonomous vehicles – in order to optimise operations and enhance productivity. Analysing the post-mining boom environment Deloitte’s latest Innovation in Mining report notes; … Read more »
16, November 2016 – Sydney, Australia – Artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud computing are combining to deliver a new class of intelligent solutions able to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing society and business. During his first official visit to Australia since becoming CEO, Satya Nadella on Wednesday … Read more »
An island-nation, Australia’s trading success has always been intertwined with the efficiency of its ports. Now the Port Authority of New South Wales is upping the efficiency ante – planning a wholesale migration to cloud computing, kicking off with disaster recovery. The strategy of the Authority is to move away … Read more »
Sydney, Australia 10th November – IT leaders in Asia Pacific are taking firm steps towards transforming their approaches to their organisation’s digital transformation requirements despite having to also manage legacy IT infrastructure. Forty-nine per cent of IT leaders in the region are prioritising hybrid cloud over public only or private … Read more »
10 November, 2016 – Melbourne, Australia – The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) is modernising the way technology is used across the organisation, moving toward a suite of cloud-based services from Microsoft to create a business and people centred platform that will deliver significant operational efficiencies. Responsible for regulating the … Read more »
A garage in suburban Canberra is an unlikely setting for a manufacturing business – a public service town far away from the industrial heartlands of Sydney and Melbourne. But by their own admission, Duncan Amos and Phil Preston are unlikely designers. “We’re a pair of creatives who got into manufacturing,” … Read more »
8 November 2016 – Sydney, Australia – Webjet today announced it has built a first-of-a-kind blockchain proof-of-concept (PoC) solution with Microsoft that has the potential to transform the way the entire travel industry processes and manages online payments for hotel bookings. Responsible for managing thousands of hotel bookings daily across … Read more »
Cale Maxwell, Senior Manager Digital, PR and Content, Royal Agricultural Society of NSW When you have two centuries worth of information about the best food, wine and fresh produce in Australia, what do you do with it? As Senior Manager of the Digital, PR and Content team at the Royal … Read more »
New breakthroughs in technology can often present innovative new ways for organisations to learn more about their target audience. Such was the case for South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC), which recently discovered the benefits of data analytics, and how it can help shape its calendar of events. Step forward one … Read more »
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled Microsoft Teams, a new chat-based workspace that further enhances the collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based productivity offering with more than 85 million monthly active commercial users. Microsoft Teams brings together people, conversations, content and the tools teams need to collaborate. “At Microsoft … Read more »
