Multinational tech and digital services firms may no longer have a free tax pass to operate in New Zealand. 

Data is the fuel for the modern world, and analytics the engine. Gartner has compiled the top 10 trends to watch this year.

"If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that the role of the CIO is always changing, and that it won’t stop changing anytime soon."

“Data automation is the fastest growing app category on the Xero app marketplace so we know there is a hunger for these types of tools."

HCL announced a collaboration with IBM designed to help advance the hybrid cloud journeys of organisations worldwide. 

OVH CEO Michel Paulin explains the benefits of a multi-cloud approach to an organisations digitalisation and what to consider before implementation.

Spark is the first company to confirm the nationwide completion of a Cat-M1 network in New Zealand.

The network for commercial financing will supposedly provide participants with a single view of all the transactions happening in the network.

Palo Alto is calling it the ‘fastest-ever next-generation firewall’ with integrated cloud-based DNS Security service to stop attacks.

Adds end-to-end API lifecycle support and new capabilities for agile integration across hybrid architectures.

Big Blue has made Watson portable across any cloud with the goal to empower businesses to prevent vendor lock-in and start deploying AI wherever their data resides.

BMC Helix with IBM Watson delivers cognitive insights across structured and unstructured federated knowledgebases.

"The SIAM market is not large, but it is one of the fundamental pillars of every digital transformation strategy."

Quanton partners with ABBYY to provide Kiwi organisations content intelligence in process automation.

Despite the promises of ‘paper-free’, printing remains an important aspect of many organisations, and one of the likeliest areas to lose control.

The acquisition of Infruid Labs brings analytics and data visualisation with a simple user interface to Pega’s solutions.

Tableau Software announced the general availability of Ask Data, which leverages the power of natural language processing.

“Unbundling fibre will provide retail service providers with a flexible future-proofed platform regardless of what tomorrow brings."

Its secure data analytics platform adds this plus other new capabilities for greater business insights and data visualisation.

Oracle’s enterprise blockchain has been updated to include more capabilities to enhance development, integration, and deployment of customers’ new blockchain applications.

Red Hat announced that leading global companies are creating, extending and deploying integration services across hybrid and multicloud environments using agile integration architectures based on Red Hat technologies.

From making artificial intelligence a business reality to closer ties to human colleagues, robotic process automation is gearing up for a strong 2019.

“Through This is IT, we want to help people better understand the problem of today’s linear “take, make, dispose” thinking around IT products and its effects like e-waste, pollution and climate change."

In industrial applications digital transformation allows businesses to do more with less.

New IDC forecast expects the Internet of Things spending in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan to reach US$381.8 Billion by 2022.

Gartner predicts increased adoption of mobile-centric biometric authentication and SaaS-delivered IAM.

The Black Caps and White Ferns have implemented a data and analytics solution from Qrious to monitor and improve game strategy and player performance.

Its new solution uses machine learning to protect online and mobile channels, as well as meet compliance requirements for transactional risk analysis

ExtraHop provides enterprise cyber analytics that deliver security and performance from the inside out.

Nearly 2/3s of organisations say the tech skills gap is already impacting IT audits. A new study identifies the top five skills auditors seek.

LogicMonitor is a provider of SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring software for hybrid IT environments – and it has big plans to shake up Asia Pacific this year.

"Digital transformation is an ongoing process of leveraging digital technologies to build flexibility, agility and adaptability into business processes."

It pays to double check any email that lands in your inbox, because phishing attacks are so advanced that they can now literally originate from a genuine sender’s account – but those emails are far from genuine.

“It’s clear that a successful IoT strategy requires new technology along with new business processes and collaboration.” 

As the next-generation of workers come through, how can organisations ensure their IT environment is set to attract high performing employees?

It is believed that the eight apps were likely developed by the same person or group.

"Digitalisation has certainly made shopping much more efficient and enjoyable for consumers, but the flipside of this is that there’s an increasing demand for businesses to differentiate themselves."

“We believe this full end-to-end virtualised network will help us to shift away from reliance on dedicated hardware and legacy infrastructure.”

“With AI technology making its way into the organisation, it is crucial that business and IT leaders fully understand how AI can create value for their business and where its limitations lie."