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Master data management (MDM) and integration

• December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24

  Google Cloud’s Agentspace to unlock enterprise data

  Agentspace uses AI agents to automate workflows and connect to multiple data sources to perform tasks and deliver insights, boosting enterprise productivity and efficiency

• December 09, 2024 09 Dec'24

  Post Office senior leadership warned of IT project data safeguarding risk

  Post Office board members and senior executives have been made aware of the risk to data related to its ill-fated Horizon system replacement project

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  User group chair recommends long-term SAP Rise strategy

  Independent UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair describes upgrade as a marathon, not a sprint, but says SAP Rise is also inevitable

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Interview: The importance of building a data foundation

  We speak to Terren Peterson, Capital One’s vice-president of engineering, about how data pipelines and platforms are essential for AI success

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How Kong is driving the future of APIs

  From its open-source API gateway to a full platform play, Kong is orchestrating the future of APIs with a growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Qlik expands cloud footprint to India

  The data analytics and business intelligence software supplier is bolstering its presence in Asia-Pacific with a cloud region in India

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split

  The Post Office will no longer rely on Fujitsu for Horizon data past and present once cloud migration project is complete, in a major uncoupling of the 30-year relationship

• October 18, 2024 18 Oct'24

  How Philippine Airlines is transforming customer experience

  The flag carrier of the Philippines discusses how its digital transformation journey has improved customer experience and streamlined internal processes

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  APAC organisations embrace generative AI

  Study reveals a surge in GenAI adoption across APAC, with businesses looking to train their own models, likely to address specific regional needs and market dynamics

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation

  CRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Chief data officers highlight data integrity woes

  In a report from the company co-founded by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, CDOs discuss the challenges of artificial intelligence and using increasing amounts of personal data

• July 28, 2024 28 Jul'24

  Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC

  At least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  IBM: Reimagine processes to unlock AI’s value

  Asia-Pacific organisations must reimagine processes for AI success, says IBM’s general manager for the region, Paul Burton

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  How IAG is tapping data streaming

  The insurance group is using Kafka’s data streaming capabilities to integrate disparate data sources and provide real-time data services to support its business

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN

  Kyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  TDCX and Supa team up on data labelling

  TDCX has teamed up with data labelling firm Supa to speed up data labelling with up to 98% accuracy using the human-in-the-loop approach

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Kmart taps event streaming for real-time insights

  Retailer’s Hamilton event streaming platform delivers real-time insights on container shipments, sales and customer interactions to support its online retail business

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Digital leaders spending more on tech for efficiency gains

  In spite of the economic slowdown, IT budgets are on the rise, but GenAI deployments are being marred by poor corporate data

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

  Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  Google Cloud accelerates asteroid discovery for US-based non-profit

  Google Cloud opens up about the work it is doing with a US-based planetary science non-profit to help map the solar system

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Case study: Seeing clearly with data at Specsavers

  Helen Mannion, director of global data and business transformation at high street opticians firm Specsavers, opens up about the importance of data to the organisation

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CW Innovation Awards: Gleaning data insights with AI

  Hong Kong-based Citic Telecom CPC has built a data platform that leverages large language models to generate insights and speed up data retrieval and analysis

• April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

  Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy

  Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan

  Masterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms

  The Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan

  The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap

• December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

  Top 10 information management stories of 2023

  Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Boomi doubles down on AI and automation

  Boomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney

• October 20, 2023 20 Oct'23

  CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters

  The news and information provider places a premium on responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence, and central to that is the governance of data and the models surrounding it

• October 13, 2023 13 Oct'23

  CDO interview: Andrew Curry, manager of the Central Data Office, ExxonMobil

  The head of the oil and gas giant’s data organisation is leading a strategy to establish enterprise-wide principles for the use of data as part of a unified corporate ecosystem

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  UK emphasises EU split by kicking digital trade scheme into long grass

  Former Gaia-X CEO talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about UK inertia on cross-border data tech

• September 22, 2023 22 Sep'23

  How Confluent is tapping the groundswell in data streaming

  Confluent CEO Jay Kreps talks up the misconceptions of Kafka and what the company is doing to help customers better leverage the capabilities of the technology

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy

  Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Finland’s VTT partners Nokia on data market

  Finish state’s involvement in Nokia project will add weight and capital to work on creating a market for data

• July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

  How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

  Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services

• June 25, 2023 25 Jun'23

  Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut

  MongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service

  NHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS

  BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  How Pendula is driving customer communications

  The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention

• May 29, 2023 29 May'23

  Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

  Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Business automation intensifies as data governance returns

  Business automation and a renewed focus on data governance to get more value from data have attracted more interest for UK enterprise software investment, says the TechTarget IT Priorities 2023 survey

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023

  Australia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative

  Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  QlikWorld 2023: Capone asserts expanded economic mission for data analytics

  Mike Capone, chief executive of data analytics supplier Qlik, marks company’s 30-year anniversary with claim for a mission expanded beyond data visualisation, at the supplier’s global conference in Las Vegas

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  How APAC organisations can harness the power of IoT

  In a panel discussion moderated by Computer Weekly, industry experts from across Asia-Pacific discussed the use cases, challenges and future developments in the internet of things

• February 21, 2023 21 Feb'23

  UK finance firms short of data skills

  Financial services companies in the UK lack the data skills they will need to succeed in an increasingly digital world

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  How Syniti is honing its chops in data management

  A move to shed its back office image and a laser focus on data migration has been fuelling Syniti’s growth in data management

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  CDO interview: Very’s Steve Pimblett on finding UB40

  The chief data officer of online retailer Very, Steve Pimblett, explains the place of data cataloguing in its data strategy, both for governance and innovation