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Shorter certificate lifespans are a warning shot for quantum readiness
I’ve sat in enough security roadmap meetings across Australia and New Zealand this year to notice a pattern: quantum computing gets a slide, everyone nods, and then the conversation moves on to whatever’s actually on fire that quarter. That’s fair enough — it’s easy to file quantum risk under ‘2030 problem’ and get back to patching. Except one part of that timeline just stopped being theoretical, and I don’t think most ANZ security teams have clocked it yet.
What Celonis executives expect to see in 2026
GUEST OPINION: Last month, Celonis held its highly anticipated flagship event, Celosphere, in Munich - an amazing gathering of more than 3,000 changemakers including customers, partners and employees. One particular moment stopped everyone in their tracks - this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado - shared a powerful reminder that transformation, in business or in society, always starts with people brave enough to lead it.
Andy Gilroy: Why now’s the time for agencies to zoom out, not add on
As agencies lock in their 2026 plans, a familiar pattern is playing out. Everyone is scrambling to “do something with AI”, bolt on another integration or spin up a new dashboard to show they’re keeping up. Tool first, strategy later. After a few frantic years of that approach, it’s time for a reckoning. The question isn’t “What’s missing from our stack?” anymore.
Closing the Gap in Enterprise AI with Process Intelligence
In the rush to embrace AI, enterprises have encountered a harsh reality: transformation takes more than technology. Two years ago, generative AI promised to revolutionise operations and decision-making. Yet today, many organisations find themselves with pilot projects that are failing to scale, and AI investments that are falling short of expectations. The fundamental issue? AI lacks the operational context to deliver on its potential.
How manufacturers can improve uptime and reduce outages with AI-powered unified observability
Article By Richard Gerdis, VP APAC, LogicMonitor Unplanned downtime costs Australian businesses an average of $349,000 AUD per hour, significantly surpassing the global average of $194,000 AUD. Despite this substantial financial impact, many manufacturers continue to rely on reactive maintenance strategies, leaving their operations vulnerable to unexpected disruptions.
Why Process Intelligence is vital for success with Agentic AI
GUEST OPINION: The pace of change in AI shows no sign of slowing, with new technologies emerging and seemingly being usurped on a weekly basis. For decision-makers, this can be a daunting challenge. However, the encouraging news is that AI development is largely iterative, each new tool builds on the foundations laid by its predecessors. This has brought us to the next phase of the AI revolution, Agentic AI.
Redefining Workforce Management: Empowering the Frontline in a Post-Pandemic Era
GUEST RESEARCH: The pandemic catalysed a seismic shift in the expectations employees have of their workplaces-especially those on the front lines. Once celebrated as the backbone of our transport, hospitality, and services (THS) sectors, frontline workers are now rightfully demanding more than just a regular salary. They want engagement, flexibility, and purpose-and they want tools that make their work more manageable and meaningful.
The invisible backbone: Why technology choices matter in convenience retail
I recently joined key industry players from all over the globe at the NACS Convenience Summit Asia in Tokyo, Japan. I wanted to share a few thoughts that have been top of mind since I experienced this event and site visits with PDI customers in APAC. For more details on the experience, you can read MobilityPlaza’s event report. I realized how easy it is to forget about the sheer complexity of our industry ecosystem.
Grounding AI in reality: Why High-Quality Data and Process Intelligence Matter
GUEST RESEARCH: The race to leverage the capabilities of AI to achieve tangible benefits for business is continuing at light speed, but business leaders need to ensure they are armed with the right tools. The power of AI is clear, from making complex data sets accessible through natural language prompts to not only automating but predicting processes. Businesses can see that implementing AI successfully has huge benefits, however, the fact that many can only "see" it right now is a problem.
How intelligent will the future be?
GUEST OPINION: At Celonis we're actively shaping the future. Our mission is to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet. And by making processes work, we create value. Not just financial value, but greater customer and employee satisfaction, increased market share for our partners and clients and reduced environmental impacts. Our Process Intelligence platform identifies where and why bottlenecks and risks arise in processes, revealing improvement opportunities.
Process Intelligence fuelling Enterprise AI
GUEST OPINION: At Celonis, our vision is a world where processes work - for people, companies and the planet. And we're building the technology and community to make it reality. Celonis Labs plays a huge role in that mission. This "collective of innovators, researchers and concept designers" is constantly imagining and inventing new ways for the world to work. Beyond, the recently released Celonis Labs journal, is our chance to shine a light on their efforts.
the issue of hospital waiting lists
GUEST OPINION: There are not many countries which don't have long hospital waiting lists. Australia is no different. In 2022-23 in Australia 855,500 people were added to elective surgery waiting lists - an increase of 9.2% on the previous year. Unfortunately, 9.6% of patients waited more than 365 days for elective surgery, up from 6.7% the previous year.
Why you can't ignore the digital twin juggernaut
GUEST OPINION: The term digital twin is more than a decade old, but it is only in recent years with the acceleration of AI that the term has gathered pace. A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical process - an x-ray if you will. To have a better view of what's happening inside their business, companies are turning to digital twins built on process mining.
Smart Ways to Boost Grocery Loyalty With Technology
Asia-Pacific (APAC) retailers are under pressure as consumer behaviour continues to evolve in response to macroeconomic stressors. The current landscape, wrought with cost-of-living increases, soaring interest rates, a looming mortgage crisis and climbing rents has forced consumers to become more discerning in their spending habits. As a result, retailers must swiftly adapt to this changing landscape or risk being left behind.
The Customer Isn’t Always Right
By Sumit Bansal, VP APAC at BlueVoyant Fraud scams across social media sites are soaring. Only last month, UK bank TSB said there had been a huge jump in the number of scams originating from Meta-owned sites and apps, releasing research that shows they now account for 80% of cases within TSB’s three largest fraud categories: impersonation, purchase and investment.
Sustainability in infrastructure asset management
By Shaun Butler, VP APAC, Brightly Software The impact of climate change is undeniable, and its effects are being pulled into sharp focus across governments globally. The global focus on carbon is forcing asset managers to consider the long-term future of assets and plan for decarbonisation accordingly.
5 ways to create a cybersecurity-focused work culture
A blended approach to cybersecurity training is key to keeping your organization safe from bad actors, phishing schemes or misconfigurations. The importance of privacy and security cannot be overstated in an age where so much of our business infrastructure relies on technology. Unfortunately, it’s also this reliance that makes our infrastructure the perfect target for malicious actors.
2022 business imperative: optimise your processes now
GUEST OPINION: By putting process excellence at the heart of your digital transformation activities your organisation will benefit now and in the future. Is your business investing heavily in digital tools and technologies this year, in a bid to boost efficiency and productivity? If you answered in the affirmative, you're far from alone.
How The New CIO Adds Value To Smart City Projects
Fred Ellermeier, VP & Managing Director, Black & Veatch Communities all over the world are getting smarter and benefitting from greater connectivity. But an interesting trend has emerged to make cities smarter: A handful of cities in the U.S. are establishing a new kind of CIO – a Chief Innovation Officer, who is devoted solely to deploying the technology that helps communities operate more efficiently. Smart city benefits are easy enough to communicate.
Protecting Nations- How To Secure A Nation As Smart Cities Grow
The growing array of state and non-state sponsored actors who are compromising, stealing, changing or destroying information is increasingly blurred, potentially causing critical disruptions to information systems. The distinction between traditional threat actors—hackers, terrorists, organised criminal networks, industrial spies and foreign intelligence services—is also becoming more difficult to differentiate. A nation’s approach to cyber security is contained within its Cyber Security Strategy.
Looking At A Smart City Deployment Model
Scott McCarley, Sr. Director Solution Management, Smart Cities, PTC The Main Obstacles to the Deployment of Sensors in Urban Areas The main obstacles to the deployment of sensors and smart devices into urban areas can be categorized by physical world challenges and digital world challenges.
The Rise Of A Disruptive Digital Workforce
Sherie Ng, MD, Strategic Region, Asia Pacific& Middle-East, NICE We are all familiar with the concepts of robotics popularized by blockbusters movies like Matrix and Ironman. These movies articulate very vividly the power of harnessing digital technologies with cognitive processing capabilities, analytics delivering insights and process automation performing tasks for their heroic masters.
Transforming EAM And Business Outcomes Through Cloud
Ashish Srivastava, Senior Vice President APAC, Triterras Asia Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is must for every business these days. All businesses are dealing everyday with either physical or non-physical assets or both. EAM helps businesses by finding the appropriate assets for a particular job and also it helps to keep it functioning with regular maintenance alerts. EAM software maintains a record of all the assets one wishes to monitor.
APAC Enterprise learning trends for 2022 - ETHRWorldSEA
- By Rhys Hughes, VP APAC at SumTotal With the increasing shortage of digital skills across Asia-Pacific, combined with the unrelenting pace of digitalisation and growing demand among employees to continue to access flexible remote work options, organisations in every industry sector are reviewing their strategic priorities regarding the role of learning.
In Broadcast - July 2021 - 64
64 www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 11 - Issue 7 | July 2021 InMedia Monitoring the future of the MCR New technologies have already changed how digital terrestrial TV and OTT streams are monitored. But this may not necessarily see an end to the traditional master control room, writes Erik Otto, Chief Executive of Mediaproxy. elevision broadcast technology has developed considerably from its beginnings.
Counselling, collaboration, and virtual coffee chats: Leadership in the post-COVID era | HRM Asia
Skillsoft's Rosie Cairnes examines the role of leadership in the workforce in a post-pandemic era. To say 2020 has shaken up the workplace would be an understatement. The impact COVID-19 has had on the way we work will be felt for years to come. In the early part of the year, many businesses found themselves mobilising and managing a completely remote workplace in a hurry and making do with a ‘this will do’ approach to get the job done.
Digital Experience Platform Raydiant Raises $13 Million Series A Co-Led by 8VC and Atomic with Backing from Mark Wahlberg
The post-pandemic world requires businesses to engage with customers and distributed workforces in new ways Raydiant, the leading digital signage and experience platform provider, announced that it has closed $13 Million in Series A financing co-led by 8VC and Atomic. The new capital, which brings the company’s total funding to $20M, will be used to invest in product development and expand Raydiant’s go-to-market team.
AsiaNet - View Release
Equiteq supports VISEO on its APAC expansion with the acquisition of Cludo, a Salesforce leader in the Australian market SINGAPORE, Sept. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Equiteq is pleased to announce it has supported VISEO, a global technology company specializing in digital transformation services, in its acquisition of Cludo, a leading Australian Salesforce Platinum Partner.
TechBytes with Eyal Mekler, VP APAC at Sisense
Hi Eyal, from Tealium to Sisense – What inspired you to make the transition? Helping an organization to harness the power of data to drive business improvement and optimize outcomes has always been a passion of mine. Tealium’s focus was on Customer Data Platforms, which have significant potential for organizations that want to revolutionize the customer experience. It’s an incredibly innovative space, and it was a pleasure to be part of such a growing team.
Agility: a business strategy
Byline: Brad Newton, DocuSign, VP APAC We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, marked by extraordinary technological advances. For businesses it can sometimes feel like a bumpy road, but you really can do more than just hold on for the ride. Through economic downturn, industry upheaval, changing customer preferences or technological transformation, businesses that proactively evolve with movement in the market are the ones that not only survive, but thrive.
The Future Of Healthcare Services In Australia
Bettina McMahon, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency In 2019, most Australians are digitally connected and make everyday use of digital services—and this use of technology presents huge opportunities for healthcare. Recent Australian studies have shown that 86 percent of households now have internet access at home, and the average Australian home now has 13 connected devices, with a forecast of 30 connected devices by 2021.
A new approach to measuring academic progress
NAPLAN, the annual assessment for students in Australia, has resulted in no general improvement in math or English skills since they were introduced ten years ago. Used by governments, education authorities, schools, teachers and parents, the tests were designed to measure students’ knowledge, and enable a standard metric to compare the performance of schools. The questions raised over NAPLAN highlights the need to re-evaluate the way progress is measured in education.
Where The Rubber Meets The Road
Transportation is a global urban problem. Popula¬tions swell. Aging infrastructures cannot cope. Air quality declines. Public services are slower and continue to deteriorate as essential personnel are stuck in increasing gridlock. Before pointing to the sharing economy or autonomous vehicles to solve urban congestion, keep in mind that Uber, Lyft and their competitors actually put more cars on the road as drivers no longer go from A to B and park, but go from A to B to C throughL for the next fare.
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