Indeed, this new solution should help the VCAT resolve legal disputes in Victoria much faster and cheaper. The tribunal aims to become more digitally streamlined and contemporary as well as introduce new opportunities for client self-service.

To do so, VCAT’s Planning and Environment division started the transformation project by partnering with PwC and Microsoft to deploy a digital tribunal case management system. VCAT has then managed to digitise its paper files and processes and manage information and work processes across the division.

The new platform is stated to provide information about member availability to hear a matter, room availability, and hearing schedules.

The need to digitise VCAT’s systems was reinforced greatly following the spread of the pandemic, where it became impossible to do everything in person. Hence, the Victorian government announced it would spend AU$5.2 million to upgrade VCAT’s technology system.

VCAT thus started to use Immediation’s online video conferencing platform to host mediation and hearing sessions virtually online and will be deploying the digital platform across other divisions of the organisation.

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Application Crisis Research found organisations are planning to build more, complex apps. 50% of respondents said that, within the next 12-18 months, their company will develop more apps with IoT components; 58% believe their company will develop AI components and apps and 62% said their company will increase of amount of apps deploying machine and deep learning components.

Given the time developers get to design, develop and test apps, 42% said it is unrealistic; 36% admitted they are not given enough time to ensure apps are properly tested; 81% believe their apps would have a greater impact on the business if given more time; 58% agree that use of outdated techniques and tools is holding them back from meeting the demands of the digital world and 75% believe with better tools, apps deployed by their team would have a greater impact on the business.

‘Development teams face internal pressure’

When it comes to feeling pressurised, 60% said most pressure comes from the company, 49% said competitors pressurise them; 66% believe pressure come from their company to innovate quickly; resulting in 49% putting out apps before they go through testing and 45% knowingly put out apps that perform below its initial requirements.

Regarding specific app testing, 70% of respondents claim they are focused more than ever on automation testing, with 67% saying automation was critically challenging.

John Bates, CEO of Testplant, said: “It is reaching a crunch point for businesses, under pressure to provide the most amazing services and apps to consumers, and development teams facing internal and competitive pressures, as organisations rush towards digital transformation.

“Companies are struggling to keep up with the pace of digitalisation and there will be a quality toll unless businesses see the imperative to completely re-think their traditional development processes and move towards more automated, intelligent solutions and tools.”

Application Crisis Research is conducted amongst over 750 development team leaders in the US and UK.

Written by Leah Alger

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From Archery to Golf to Rugby to Wrestling, distributing the results of every single event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to the world in less than half a second, is a technological feat years in the making.

A truly digital Olympic Games

Driven by the maturity of mobile technology, Atos led the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) IT effort to enable Games results and other data to be shared both online and through traditional means faster, to any platform, anywhere. The IT backbone supported the running of the Olympic Games and saw competition results shared in real-time to worldwide broadcasters.

“Technology is critical to the success of each edition of the Olympic Games,” said Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee. “We are delighted that we will be able to continue relying on Atos and its vast experience to deliver flawless, innovative IT services.”

Cloud technology and cybersecurity in Rio

“I am extremely proud of the hard work and dedication the Atos teams put in to delivering successfully the technology for the Rio 2016 Games – a fantastic demonstration of Olympic excellence,” said, Thierry Breton, Atos Chairman and CEO. “For each Olympic Games, we bring innovations in technology from Cloud to Cybersecurity as well as solutions around the ever increasing volume of data, to further add to the enjoyment of fans around the world.” 

“Rio 2016 use of Cloud for the very first time at a Summer Olympic Games for key applications including managing over 300,000 accreditations for the complete Olympic family,” said, Elly Resende, Rio2016 Technology Director. “Atos has been with us every step of our IT journey to support us in creating a richer Olympic Games experience for all involved.”

 Rio 2016 IT in numbers

• 1 – first time cloud is used at a Summer Olympic Games to host the volunteer portal, the accreditation and workforce systems – reducing cost and improving efficiency.
• 2 – number of new sports added – Golf and Rugby Sevens. Golf alone generated more result data than all other sports together.
• 37 – number of competition venues where Atos installed and managed a complete IT infrastructure to ensure the events could take place as scheduled.
• 400 – number of IT security events per second (200 per second in London).
• 300,000 – the number of accreditations processed and activated using the Atos IT system (up 20% since London 2012).
• Over 100 million – number of messages sent to media customers to share the real time results and data from all 42 Olympic sports and 306 events (up from 58.8 million at London 2012).

Edited from press release by Cecilia Rehn.

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