Author: David Binning

Feed: CIO. Author: . Australian regulations require that banks ensure customers can access and own their data, making it easier for them to choose and move between different providers. The open banking rules are part of Australia’s consumer data right (CDR), which will eventually see energy utilities and telecommunications providers, not just banks, required to facilitate the free flow and exchange of customer data.In the runup to open banking’s deployment, the focus has been on the four biggest banks—ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), National Australian Bank (NAB), and Westpac—plus six other Tier 1 financial services companies.Australia’s 130 or ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Lying awake one night back in the early 1980s as the rain pounded the leaking corrugated iron roof of his cramped home in the São Paulo favelas (slums), a seven-year-old Jorge Silveira resolved he was going to take responsibility in striving for a better life for himself and his family. Mum was an underpaid school teacher, while Dad was an even worse-paid traveling salesman. The wolf was never far from the door, and Silveira recalls the day his family car was repossessed after his father was unable to pay the exorbitant repayments demanded by local loan ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . After spending more than 20 years in various senior tech roles with Target Australia, Andrew Macfarlane had to strap himself in after making his foray into the health sector three years ago. A year after joining Geelong-based Barwon Health as director of technology and communications, he moved just one rung from the top job after being appointed interim CIO in June 2019.In September 2019, Barwon became one of several regional health agencies in Victoria to fall victim to a sophisticated cyberattack, which caused huge disruption across one of Australia’s largest regional health consortia, the South West ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The tech sector has plenty of people who never set out to work in the industry, let alone ascend to senior roles. Yet through some twist of fate or chance encounter, that’s exactly what has happened. And in some cases, they’ve found themselves in major tech roles, with hundreds of staff reporting to them and managing massive IT budgets. People with traditional backgrounds should be on every CIO’s radar.David Jones, who is Asia-Pacific chief at global recruiter Robert Half, says now is a good time for candidates without tech backgrounds to move into tech. The buoyancy ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for a long time, but over the past few years they have become an increasingly indispensable tool for CIOs and organisations of all types.Sandeep Sharma, an Asia-Pacific research manager for software at IDC notes double-digit growth of API/integration tools across Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), particularly in Australia, which accounts for the largest share of spending on software integration via API technologies.“Banking and financial services are definitely the largest spenders on these technologies, followed by government, telecoms and media and followed manufacturing,” he says. Retail and healthcare are among the key ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The education sector has been amongst the hardest hit by the pandemic, with lessons, lectures and whole degrees disrupted, put on hold or abandoned. Meanwhile, travel restrictions have made a huge dent in university coffers by blocking the usual flow of overseas students to Australia.But many universities have stepped up to the challenge, deploying video conferencing, mobile and cloud-based solutions, as well as more sophisticated AI and other data analysis tools in quick time to keep students engaged and connected with their institutions and instructors.IDC A/NZ research director, Louise Francis expands on some of the more ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . It’s that time of year again, with nominations open for both the Australian and New Zealand ‘2021’ CIO50 lists this coming Wednesday, June 23.The CIO50 2020 was arguably the most significant recognition of how tech leaders in Australia and New Zealand helped their organisations deal with COVID-19. And as we've heard, it also resulted in five - or even 10 - years' worth of digital projects being brought forward.In this episode listen to CIO Australia editor-in-chief, Byron Connolly and CIO New Zealand editor, Sarah Putt reflect on the key moments from last year’s awards, which of ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . With great power comes great responsibility, and there are few technologies driving today’s fast evolving digital landscape as powerful as artificial intelligence (AI).From anticipating consumer buying decisions, to predicting political outcomes, speeding discovery and treatment for disease, who we should date and marry, deciding who gets a job, or a home loan, AI is on fast track to touch virtually every aspect of work, life and play.The possibilities for augmenting human capabilities and endeavour are indeed very exciting, while the potential for harm is also now an important topic of conversation.In this episode of The CIO ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Throughout 2020 and into 2021, we’ve heard of more and more organisations in Australia deciding to migrate all data, systems and workloads into the cloud.It’s a big step, especially given not so long ago there was a lively debate about the wisdom of having anything but the least sensitive, least critical data stored in a public virtual environment.As we heard in a previous episode of ‘The CIO Show’, experts feel that few organisations really need to keep anything on premise these days, except in certain cases where there’s a regulatory and/or compliance reason for doing so. But ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . One of the most hyped technologies in recent years, blockchain has so far fallen well short of its grand promise to transform businesses, industries and even society as we know it around the world.As a quick recap, blockchain is effectively a decentralised peer-to-peer ledger technology, allowing for unlimited versions of a database to exist and be connected via a network, meaning that transactions of information or assets can occur without the need for intermediaries.Assets can be anything tangible like a car or land, or intangible like IP, patents or even corporate branding.The hope is that blockchain will ... Read More