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• World's central banks tackle technology with innovation hub

  The social media giant's move has helped crystallise opinion among central bankers on the urgency of coordinating regulatory responses to financial technology trends.

• The top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2019 - and how to make them work for you

  Incorporate these top trends into your strategy and roadmap, but prioritise based on business value, advises Gartner

• Spark reports IoT network now covers 98% of New Zealand

  Its first customer, intelliHUB, is switching off 2G connections in favour of the IoT network, starting in Tauranga

• Interview with a global CIO: Gerben Otter of Fonterra

  Gerben Otter reveals the nuances of holding one of the biggest ICT leadership roles in New Zealand, and why he always talks to his counterpart in competing companies.​

• Gartner: Are security analytics key to breach detection - or just hype?

  "Ultimately, how actual human users interface with the outputs of large data analytics will greatly determine if the technology is adopted or deemed to produce useful information in a reasonable amount of time," says Gartner research director Eric Ahlm.

• Cybersecurity 2014: Breaches and costs rise, confidence and budgets are low

  In 2014, it seemed that no industry went unscathed. The data breaches this year were broad and deep. Software maker Adobe was hit for 152 million records. Online marketplace eBay was drained of another 145 million; Bank and financial services firm JP Morgan Chase 76 million; retailers Target and The Home Depot for another 70.

• Why Health Data Is a Big Data Challenge

  There's no shortage of health data, and it's growing at a rapid clip, but experts in the field cite challenges around making that information useful, readable and relevant to the physicians and patients who need it most.

• 7 Ways CIOs Should Prepare for the Digital Enterprise

  The whole world's gone digital. As today's companies try to keep up, many CIOs feel like a hamster on a wheel, constantly moving but never getting anywhere. This advice from the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium could offer at least a bit of relief.

• 4 qualities to look for in a data scientist

  Every business, it seems, needs a data scientist, but not everyone knows what to look for. The four qualities of a good data scientist described here will help you first write a job description and then evaluate candidates for your data scientist vacancy.

• How to Use Analytics to Save Your IT Department

  As times change, so does the role of IT. A generation ago, it had to embrace PCs and client/server solutions. Now IT departments are faced with the consumerization of technology. Could the same analytics that helps companies predict customer behavior help IT departments stay relevant?

• MetService's forecast: Innovation

  MetService has a dual persona – a state owned enterprise with full commercial operations worldwide. It is a unique setup that keeps CIO Alistair Vickers and his team on the leading edge of business technology.

• Big data analytics: The new black magic of marketing?

  In the realm of marketing, data is definitely the new black. But to hear it spoken of at conferences, you might also assume it is the new black magic, capable of doing everything from enabling accountability of every marketing dollar spent through to predicting customer behaviour. Either concept would be considered fantastical, were they also not increasingly becoming true.