“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."

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

“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."

"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."

Aruba and SpectroTech have partnered to bring education and training modules to Australian and New Zealand partners and customers.

The CDO title is declining, 40% of us will be working with bots, the Net Promoter Score will be key to success, and more.

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

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.

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

Hype & Dexter is an Auckland-based agency that specialises in providing organisations with marketing automation solutions.

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

The industrial control and factory automation market is expected to grow from US$160 billion in 2018 to US$269 billion by 2024.

Digital technologies and growing customer expectations mean service leaders must get the digital experience right, according to Gartner.

Half of A/NZ’s bosses have their heads in the sand when it comes to understanding the business and innovation benefits of diversity and inclusion.

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.

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

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

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

Until now, organisations have only spoken about innovative technologies somewhat theoretically. This has left people without a solid understanding of how they will ultimately manifest in our work and personal lives.

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

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

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

"Business continuity is one of the most important aspects of modern business, and it will become more so as digital infrastructures become increasingly complex."

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

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

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

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.

“Service providers seek agility, cost savings and new services from 5G networks, but capitalising on these benefits requires a complete transformation of infrastructures, operations and services."

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

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

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

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.

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

“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."

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

Customers can now use and pay for data centre hardware and services - on-premise or at a customer-preferred location - without having to purchase the equipment.

The company has made updates to its All-Flash storage system and released the ClarityNow software for data management.

Fourteen new partner and director appointments join a new wave of Deloitte leaders as the company expands its presence in New Zealand.