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COMPANY NEWS: Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and Knoware, a New Zealand based data and analytics consultancy, today announced a strategic partnership to empower customers in New Zealand and Australia to innovate and deliver on outcomes with their data and analytics technologies.

Tech and digital salaries continue to steady out but remain strong for key skillsets such as cybersecurity and AI, according to the latest salary guide report from recruitment sector company Talent.

GUEST OPINION:  Streaming data, advanced analytics and AI mean fresh gains are possible from operational improvement programs

GUEST OPINION: Forget the old-school job interview where candidates nervously rattle off rehearsed answers in a stuffy office. Today, hiring looks completely different. Video calls from kitchen counters have replaced stale conference rooms. Robot recruiters scan thousands of resumes in seconds. Data algorithms surface hidden gems in talent pools spanning the globe.

The total value of mobile money transactions in emerging markets will reach US$2 trillion by 2027, an increase of over $500 billion from 2023, according to a new study.

Australian-owned data consultancy Eliiza has partnered with end-to-end, full-code and low-code data science platform Dataiku in a move it says will provide Australian businesses with Artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions on the latest data science platform.

GUEST RESEARCH: 56% lack full trust in data, 51% say data quality hinders analytics and 68% lack holistic data strategy – impeding organisations’ ability to improve patient outcomes at an optimised cost

GUEST RESEARCH: 56% lack full trust in data, 51% say data quality hinders analytics and 68% lack holistic data strategy – impeding organisations’ ability to improve patient outcomes at an optimised cost

Data has never been more important than ever before. With a pandemic, supply chain issues, a climate crisis, and a rising cost of living businesses cannot operate on intuition alone. Yet Tableau research finds that 70% of companies believe they provide their workers with sufficient data training, while only 33% of employees share this view.

Tableau is on a mission to help people see and understand data and has announced new advanced analytics and automated insights features including AI-powered data stories that bring clarity and meaning out of numbers. It’s a feature sure to bring high impact and transformation to organisations of all sizes enabling them to interpret and act on data faster than ever.

The SAS chief technical officer Bryan Harris is on a personal mission. He wants humans at the centre of the innovation process, and he wants ethics in data. AI applied to healthcare and surgery may need to know someone’s gender and ethnicity, but AI applied to home loans should not use that as a factor at all. Harris is making clear irresponsible AI is right in his crosshairs.

SAS has concluded its major annual global forum event for another year, bringing with it a range of announcements including the return on investment acceleration for customers using SAS’ cloud-first portfolio, the SAS 360 Match first-party ad-serving platform for video-on-demand providers, and the batting lab showing kids the value of data and analytics.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of China’s Alibaba Group has announced plans to expand its footprint by setting up data centres in South Korea and Thailand in 2022.

Data analytics and integration solutions company Qlik has acquired no-code automated machine learning (AutoML) provider Big Squid.

Global data integration and integrity solutions provider Talend has announced the latest innovations added to Talend Data Fabric, a complete integration and governance platform designed to manage the health of corporate information.

What is Data Science?

GUEST OPINION by Chris Tucker, Vice President – Australia and New Zealand, HCL Technologies:  Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of domains. It’s certainly a lot more than reports and analysis and it’s moving from the back room to the forefront of many businesses as it gives meaning to the numbers.

GUEST OPINION: Glen Rabie, Yellowfin the CEO of an Australian-based global data analytics and business intelligence software company says that while his sector has lacked innovation over the past two decades, changes are occurring, spurred on by the global pandemic.

Data overload hits us every day - some data true, some false, some useful, some not. It's a data world and there's no going back. SAS has announced free data literacy e-learning and K-12 resources to help everyone navigate a world of data and questionable information, no matter their background.

The Malala Fund, a girls' education non-profit, with the aid of analytics vendor SAS has uncovered countries where girls are most at risk of experiencing educational interruption due to the ripple effect of catastrophic weather events.

Australian data analytics company Zetaris has appointed Martin Cerantonio to the role of vice president for global alliances.