Digital transformation creates demand for more IT staff
Around 35,000 new IT jobs will be needed in 2019, with almost one in five Australian organisations creating new internal roles to meet the growth of digital transformation.
Around 35,000 new IT jobs will be needed in 2019, with almost one in five Australian organisations creating new internal roles to meet the growth of digital transformation.
Research shows Aussie organisations are developing software for better integration, customisation and digital product development.
Most Australian CIOs are planning to invest more money in boosting their big data analytics capabilities this year as demand for high volume processing and real-time intelligence grows strongly, says analyst, Telsyte.
Smartwatch sales in Australia have boomed in the first half of 2016, up 89 per cent on the same period last year.
Virtual and augmented reality headsets like Facebook's Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens will start to shift onto smartphones and mobile devices beyond 2017, according to Telsyte.
Enterprise resource planning software is languishing as software-as-a-service offerings become more attractive, according to Telsyte's latest research.
Only 205,000 smartwatches were sold in Australia in the first half of 2015, despite heavy promotions around the devices.
By 2019, the average household will have 24 Internet-connected devices, fuelling a $3.2 billion market, research says.
Insufficient infrastructure is preventing Australian organisations from rolling out successful big data projects, new research has found.
The trend in businesses moving their infrastructure into the cloud is forecast to continue to rise over the next few years, reaching $775 million in the Australian market by 2019, according to analyst firm Telsyte.
More than 70 per cent of Australian companies with 200 staff or more will become data-driven by 2019, up from about one-third today, Telsyte has found.
Australian tablet sales dropped by 20 per cent in 2014, impacted by increased demand for the iPhone 6, larger screen Android smartphones and wearable devices such as the Fitbit, said analyst firm Telsyte.
What makes Internet of Things special? It’s not the things, according to a Microsoft official.
Microsoft has given Windows 7 users more reasons to skip to Windows 10.
Big data projects are being held back by the high cost of setting up infrastructure to support the capturing of potentially hundreds of millions of data points each day.