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Digital business transformation is an up-to-the-moment phenomenon, with leadership at different points of the digital maturity scale – if one exists.
As Microsoft Partners gathered in Auckland to celebrate the best tech projects of the year, it was also a time reflect on what the industry learnt from the Covid-19 crisis - and how to apply it to 'business as usual' in 2021.
PlaceMakers set out to fully digitise the process of buying building supplies. But that required a major transformation of its own systems and culture first.
Wherever you stand on international technology policy, its innovators and investment experts agree there’s a bright future on the cards for New Zealand.
Predictions are that New Zealanders will soon be storing most of their data on the Cloud. Will there be trade-offs?
Customers will be more protected, and non-compliant businesses will be exposed. With 1 December less than three weeks away, here’s a rundown of the new Privacy Act's key features, and why action is long overdue.
Fancy leading a cyber-rebellion through the streets of London? Then Watch Dogs: Legion is the game for you.
Yes, the PowerDollar is yet another digital currency, but PowerFinance plans to use it to let any business embed finance into their product offerings.
Some businesses struggled through the many challenges wrought by Covid-19 – and who can blame them? Here, Megaport Vice President APAC Josh Munro explains how the Australian headquartered tech company found they’d been built for a crisis like this all along – and were ready to service their clients better and faster, as a result.
The health sector wasn't prepared for a major pandemic. But it managed to mount a response to Covid-19 that has laid the groundwork for a new approach to public health.
This month, New Zealand subscription service WineFriend turns five. What started as a simple plan to deliver tasty wines to customers based on what they said they liked, WineFriend has evolved into a data-rich platform that fine-tunes and personalises selections with each bottle you try.
Government’s innovation approach won’t change overnight - at least not the way things are now, says Aware Group’s CEO.
Investments by Amazon and Microsoft point to a market with strong growth potential in the digital space, pandemic resilience and faith in our local networking infrastructure.
Strict noise regulations restrict noises in seaports above a certain decibel level – but for Port Otago, it was the noises it didn’t make that were causing a headache. Hundreds of man hours were being wasted simply listening back to recordings to check whether the noise came from inside or outside the port. Fortunately Aware Group brought real relief with its automated solution combining Microsoft’s Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Azure technology, so both neighbours and port workers can enjoy total peace.
The New Zealand government is joining a cohort of leaders in regulating AI.
Microsoft went fully virtual for Ignite 2020 which didn't stop the Redmond giant from releasing a stack of new product updates for everything from Azure to Teams to Power BI.
If its recommendations are adopted, the government commissioned review of the health sector would be groundbreaking.
As we enter what the World Economic Forum has termed the Fourth Economic Revolution, New Zealand’s future prosperity is highly dependent on its ability to adopt technology and engage with technological solutions. Government doesn’t tend to be as agile as business, but future government is being pressured to keep up.
Global shocks such as the Covid-19 pandemic have escalated calls for sensor-led, as opposed to shovel-ready, projects.
HR leaders are facing challenges, act now to resolve them.
A hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the marketplace.
The reasons for going cloud with your data really do stack up.
An upcoming live webinar will introduce you to Azure VMware Solution and outline how the offering can simplify your journey to the cloud, by enabling you to seamlessly extend or completely migrate your existing on-premises VMware applications to Azure.
The question hot on everyone's lips: Why weren’t we prepared?
It's set to be a New Zealand first – a walking robot for commercial purchase that’s being used to perform real-world jobs. Equipped with advanced sensing capabilities, Spot is designed to help perform the many unsafe and arduous jobs in the workplace. Here’s Jourdan Templeton, of Aware Group, on how they've led AI for Spot here in New Zealand.