Claire Connelly

How The Fred Hollows Foundation uses cloud technology to run a global not-for-profit
The Fred Hollows Foundation is an Australian not-for-profit organisation with a core mission to treat and prevent avoidable blindness in the poorest communities around the world. Luke van Leeuwen, Associate Director of Technology & Business Services tells Which-50 that expanding into a global organisation has required a digital transformation that

Apple braces for turf-war with ad-tech community over Safari privacy upgrade
Apple appears to be bracing itself for a turf-war with the ad-tech community, stepping in to protect its users from Facebook’s increasingly nefarious privacy practices via an upgrade to its Safari browser across mobile and desktop. At this week’s annual WWDC conference, Apple’s SVP of software, Craig Federighi announced that

Qlik expands its Academic Program to Australian universities to drive data literacy
US-based software company, Qlik today announced its intention to drive data literacy in Australia by partnering with more than 20 educational universities across the country. The Qlik Academic Program will provide educational institutions including Macquarie University, Monash University, Swinburne University, the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales,

Sydney Airbnb hosts stand to lose income under new regulations
After more than two years of delay and political indecision, the NSW government finally laid out its plan to regulate Airbnb today in what has been described as “a party-room compromise“. Airbnb’s global head of policy, Chris Lehane welcomed the regulations, as “fair and innovative” at a press conference in

Regulation is limiting data sharing across the entire energy grid, says SAS exec
SAS and Cisco have an ambitious plan to uncomplicate Australia’s energy sector using their Edge-to-Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform. Grant Dyer, General Manager of Telecommunications, Energy and Utilities at SAS Australia and New Zealand tells Which-50 that the regulatory environment of Australia’s energy grid is a ‘key constraint’ to data sharing.

Okta unveils plan to set global identity management standard
As companies, businesses, governments and consumers grapple with the challenges of security and identity management, the world is swiftly moving towards global standards for data protection and regulation, epitomised by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (or GDPR for short) which comes into effect today, effecting its 28 member states,

Okta Pushes For A Post-Password World
One of the world’s leading independent provider of enterprise identity management software announced today its intention to kill the password as the dominant form of authentication. At the Oktane 2018 keynote in Las Vegas, Nevada, CEO, Todd McKinnon launched Okta’s new ThreatInsight feature which eliminates the password as the primary

As devices join the digital ecosystem, Salesforce gets ready for really big data
Do you ever wonder where your data goes, once it is posted on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and all the other usual social suspects? Do consumers know which big marketers out there sucking up every thought, movement and status update they post in their never-ending quest to jam up the

One year after ExactTarget acquisition, Salesforce.com upgrades Salesforce One
Global computing company Salesforce celebrated the one-year anniversary of its $US2.5 billion acquisition of ExactTarget by releasing a dramatic upgrade of its Marketing Cloud. At the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday, Saleforce rolled out the Salesforce One enhancements, bringing together the company’s Sales and Service Clouds, AppExchange and Marketing

Data privacy and increased sales go hand in hand says McKinsey & Company
Employees across all levels of the business need to be trained to understand what data the company uses, how that information will be stored and how it can be used to enhance the customer experience to drive sales, according to management consultants McKinsey & Company This was a key conclusion