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• How Roy Hill is using IoT to manage lighting towers

  Western Australian mining giant Roy Hill had a problem: A significant number of vital lighting towers that illuminate mining tenements were simply being lost between shifts.

• LINX backs Boomi to glue its clouds

  Young Australian logistics company, LINX Cargo Care Group, has deployed a new integration platform to connect its cloud infrastructure and support the creation of a data lake that provides more visibility into its supply chain.

• Children’s Cancer Institute’s Elaine Neeson eyes analytics

  Newly crowned Children’s Cancer Institute CIO, Elaine Neeson, is setting her sights on delivering an analytics strategy across the organisation.

• Rambo and the machine learning models helping Sportsbet up its games

  ​A Netflix-style recommendation engine on steroids, a Google AdWords beater and a souped-up game simulator are among a number of machine learning models at work behind the scenes at online bookmaker Sportsbet, the company has revealed.

• Transurban takes express route to smart roads and driverless vehicles

  The price you pay for not using the tolled express lane on Washington DC’s Interstate 95 highway is frustratingly apparent.

• Machine learning to save fuel and fixes on Navy vessels

  ​An analytics application developed by CSIRO’s Data61 will be used to predict engine failure and reduce fuel consumption on Royal Australian Navy vessels.

• Smiles all round as dental group appoints inaugural CIO

  ASX-listed dental practice group Pacific Smiles has appointed its first chief information officer.

• Catholic Education Western Australia to apply data science to school life

  In industry there are countless examples of how data analytics have helped businesses gain insights into their operations, in order to find efficiencies, increase productivity and improve the experience of their customers.

• BUDGET 2017: Government's legacy IT overhaul and digital drive

  ​The government has set aside millions of dollars in funding for legacy ICT modernisation projects in an effort to boost data sharing across agencies and improve public access to services.

• FM giant Sodexo taps data in tech transformation

  ​Out in mining country the distances are long and the reception is lousy. It’s the last place you’d want a bus carrying a service crew to breakdown.

• At home with Airtasker: The start-up's CTO Paul Keen on building for hypergrowth

  Airtasker is a company in hypergrowth. Last year the job outsourcing marketplace hit half a million members, secured $22 million in a funding round led by Seven West Media, recorded its fifth year of consecutive revenue growth and ran ads during the AFL grand final half-time break.

• Woodside beefs up tech play

  Australian oil and gas giant, Woodside, has embraced a range of technology from data analytics and cognitive computing to 3D printing and artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to deliver greater insights, help reduce costs and ensure high production performance and reliability.

• All ANZ staff encouraged to become 'their own little data scientist'

  ANZ bank's 48,000 global staff are each being encouraged to become "their own data scientist" and being provided with tools to draw value from the company's fast-growing data lake.

• Dominello: NSW Government agency funding to be data-driven

  The New South Wales government's new Minister for Finance, Services and Property, Victor Dominello MP, will use his place on the Expenditure Review Committee (ERC) to push for a data-driven approach to financing agencies, he said today.

• Rinehart's Roy Hill mine digs deep into the data

  ​Relatively speaking, the neighbourhood around the Roy Hill mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is getting crowded.