Opinion stories - Page 273

IBM positioned Watson as a product in what is now a competitive artificial intelligence (AI) market and offered solutions across four business areas.

The cloud brokerage market is reaching an inflection point, with pure plays being acquired and multilines building out their brokerage platforms.

While CSOs probably don't need to be reminded of the extensive damage that can be inflicted through vulnerabilities, the numbers speak for themselves.

Australians will spend around $7 billion online in the lead-up to Christmas. With this much money on the line, security is essential.

While the smart home is becoming more and more present and understood, OEMs and service providers still have a long way to go before it's ubiquitous.

Research suggests that there are significant educational benefits to some old-fashioned analogue skill sets that can be critical to the way we think.

The Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell, has launched an inquiry into the late payment of small businesses.

While it's still very early in this journey, we're inspired by the good our community already does and we are committed to doing more to help people.

The distance between thinking about that first step and actually taking it is a chasm that many customers view as extremely challenging.

Someone recently asked me if we shouldn't adopt a new name for the Internet of Things (IoT) because the existing term is too vague.

If you are an established provider, preferably a mega vendor, then your goal is not to differentiate (in most cases).

Diving into cyber security careers, industry experts reveal the skills needed to fight cybercrime and the dynamic nature of this ever-evolving field.

Data scientists and vendors must acknowledge that the future remains unpredictable, despite advances in analytics and big data, claims analyst.

One of the primary roles of any service provider is to help their customers break through the top barriers to enterprise cloud adoption.

In an era of unprecedented change, Google's Education Symposium emphasises transforming education to prepare students for jobs and technologies of the future.

There's what we know about the cloud, and there's what we think we know. That's just to say that a lot of assumptions about the cloud.

Facial recognition technology could remove the need for paper-driven and time-consuming processes, and shorten the entire sales cycle.

Bad customer service may not just be poor training, but a deliberate shield for systemic business flaws, a troubling report suggests.

Microsoft champions cloud stride, using AI to lift lifetime value, harnessing partnerships for full portfolio prowess.

Here's the lesson for everyone: pay attention to what's happening in the real world. Keep an eye on the news for geopolitical events.