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DCA and Dataro Discuss: Your Roadmap to AI

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“What do you need, and if you don’t have what you need, how can you get there?” Artificial intelligence is driving change across all aspects of our lives, it’s been all the buzz long before the emergence of GPT. Though, the idea of using ‘AI’-driven tools in our jobs as fundraisers still sounds a bit…

Getting Ahead of Macroeconomic Impacts

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Macroeconomic conditions impact your investments—so due diligence is more important than ever In the present moment in Australia, headline inflation is just coming down from a height that’s not been seen since the 1990s. Unsurprisingly, the blunt instrument of monetary policy has been whipped out and employed in hopes of taming it, so the cash…

Identifying Investment Risk

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The Australian Securities Exchange reports that almost 9 million Australian adults hold investments outside their home and superannuation. And yet, Australia’s financial literacy is declining. The HILDA survey measures financial literacy as part of its ‘household wellbeing’ category. In 2020, when the last financial literacy questionnaire was completed, we learnt had been a significant decline…

Supplier research 101: why should we research our suppliers?

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Supplier research 101: why should we research our suppliers? In 2022, Australian supermarkets were famously (or perhaps infamously) selling iceberg lettuce for over $10 a head because of sweeping problems in the supply chain caused by floods, war and the pandemic. Just like the supermarkets rapidly running out of fresh green veggies, if one element…

The Anatomy of a Data Migration

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Data migration means moving data permanently from one storage system to a different one. There are varied reasons for undertaking a data migration, from the obsolescence of older systems to novel marketing tools offered by a newer one that empowers a marketing strategy.

Why do organisations need data verification?

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Data verification is the process of checking data against an additional, authoritative data set to make sure the information is accurate. Often, data verification is used to check the accuracy of data before it informs any decisions or anything is spent acting on it.