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Rediscovering the value of information

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In his dissertation at Stanford in 1976, smartphone pioneer and founder and CEO of General Magic Marc Porat correctly prophesied that the future would be defined by “ information machines, information workers, and information companies.” It is high time to get serious about information management.

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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO

What is a business analyst? Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

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TransUnion transforms its business model with IT

CIO

The information and insights company’s foundation remains ensuring that every consumer is accurately represented in the market. But following its $3.1 billion acquisition of data and analytics company Neustar in 2021, TransUnion has expanded into other services such as marketing, fraud detection and prevention, and robust analytical services.

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Salesforce Data Cloud updates aim to ease data analysis, AI app development

CIO

Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. Answers comes with semantically relevant information, citing the knowledge sources used to craft the answers, the company said.

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Re-imagining Business Workflows with AI-Powered Automation

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. The integration of AI into Tungsten Automation’s service offering is organised around three key pillars.

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Future-Proofing Your Business with Hyperautomation

CIO

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a well-established means of automating repetitive business processes implemented in software. Combined with RPA tools they enable much greater levels of automation of many business processes. It enables businesses to be more flexible and decrease their spending. This is hyperautomation.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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