Enhancing team member and customer experience. Leading retailer Coles has extended its strategic partnership with Microsoft and developed a roadmap for the latest phase of its digital journey that will transform the way its 120,000-plus team members interact with each other and the company. This agreement heralds one of the…
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Microsoft identifies threat actor as NOBELIUM. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organisations (referred to as “service providers”…
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Modern platform streamlines operations and service delivery. The Royal Society for the Blind (RSB) has completed a significant digital modernisation, replacing Salesforce with the AvantCare platform, developed on Power Platform with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications and enhanced with Azure by Microsoft partner, Illuminance Solutions. The transformation has helped the…
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NAPLAN delivery, gears for growth. In May 2021, 800,000 school students completed their NAPLAN tests online. Janison’s digital assessment platform had over 3 million tests completed in a two-week period, and at the peak, more than 195,000 students were being tested concurrently., with more than 32,000 transactions a second. This…
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Tech financial solutions firm moves from AWS to Azure. Finding the right financial product can feel a little like navigating a maze of high hedges; just when you think you’re there, another impenetrable barrier pops up and you’re back reading the fine print. Zenith Partners Group wants to simplify the…
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Increasing employability of female technical talent and nurture entrepreneurs across Asia Pacific. Across nine Asia Pacific countries Code; Without Barriers to help close the gender gap in the region’s fast-growing cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology sectors was launched by Microsoft and 13 other countries. The program provides a platform to…
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Cloud and AI capabilities will be available for patrons. Global travel technology company OYO have entered a multi-year strategic alliance to co-develop next-gen travel and hospitality products and technologies. OYO will adopt Microsoft Azure as a key enabler to drive cloud-based innovations and reimagine the hospitality and travel tech industry.…
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Adapting the most advanced technologies. CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency and Microsoft will develop an artificial intelligence and space technology-powered digital twin — a virtual replica of the landscape — to help Indigenous rangers manage feral herds on their land in Northern Australia. Unmanaged feral cattle and buffaloes have a…
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Growing businesses focus on technology strategy and recruitment. South Australia’s Department for Trade and Investment has signed an agreement with Microsoft and Nokia, with eyes firmly fixed on leveraging Space and 5G technologies to tackle the world’s most challenging issues. By fostering relationships with South Australian industry, government and academic…
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Despite COVID-19 turbulence. There has been an overall fall in scam encounters – three out of five consumers (59 per cent) were found to have been targeted by a tech support scammer in the last 12 months, a drop from 64 per cent in 2018. One out of six consumers…
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