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• Interview: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO, Software AG

  CIO Australia sat down with Software AG’s new CEO, Sanjay Brahmawar to discuss his plans for the 49-year-old German enterprise software giant.

• How Data School Australia aims to train next generation of data analysts

  A new Sydney training college for data analysts and data scientists is set to open in Pyrmont in August, a move that aims to address the skills crisis in Australia.

• AI jobs market heats up, listings and searches on the rise

  The number of artificial intelligence related jobs listed on Australian jobsite Indeed has doubled since 2015, according to data released today by the company.

• 5 (more) reasons to be a data scientist

  "Data scientist" has already been declared this year's hottest job, and now a new report offers several more reasons to consider it as a career.

• Most big firms to be data-driven by 2019

  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.
  

• CIO Insights: What not to do when hiring talent

  It’s the same old conundrum: You need a particular skill but it's not in abundance in the market. This means how you go about sourcing talent is crucial, especially if you are planning to have it in-house.

• 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.

• The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists

  CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data.

• Deloitte taps Kaggle's data scientist network

  Deloitte Australia has entered into a partnership with Kaggle to tap its network of data scientists.

• EMC tackles Big Data, Cloud skills gap among IT business leaders

  Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and Cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers.

• Hurdles for Hadoop

  "Big data" is the buzzword of the day, and learning to manage it and extract value from it is top of mind for executives across industries. A contributing factor to the surge in big data is a shift in prevailing corporate data management philosophies.