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🗞New article alert: Five steps to meaningful data monetisation. Transform your data into a valuable asset that drives innovation, enhances customer experiences, and boosts business growth with our experts Kallol Dutta and Evan Wilson.

Five steps to meaningful data monetisation Transform your data into a valuable asset that drives innovation, enhances customer experiences, and boosts business growth with these 5 steps from Insight Engine by Spark.

Majorly shift the dial of your CX journey with a few key changes, find out more in our latest article: https://t.ly/WT-2R

Check out our latest Insight Engine article where Benjamin Somerset, Qrious Managing Consultant, shares insight on how optimising customer journeys can boost sales, increase loyalty, and improve brand perception. You'll also find the latest from Gartner® in their report ‘Predicts 2024: Data and Analytics Governance Requires a Reset’.​ Read more:

Creating seamless customer experiences – A data-driven approach Delivering the right message and the right time starts with bringing together the right capability. Learn how investing in CX pays back in boosting sales, customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Our webinar delves into the latest trends and solutions in Certificate Lifecycle Management. Explore strategies to navigate Google's proposed 90-day TLS/SSL certificate validity period and understand the implications.

📆 Join us for 30min on the 31st July by registering: https://t.ly/wm5uk

Next month Chris Brace and Murali Palanisamy explore the intricacies of Certificate Lifecycle Management and offer practical solutions to tackle the proposed changes of Google's 90-day TLS certificate validity.

📆 Join us for 30min on the 31st July by registering: https://t.ly/wm5uk

Registrations are now open! Chris Brace and Murali Palanisamy dive into the emerging trends shaping Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), including Google's proposed 90-day TLS certificate validity period. Learn strategies to streamline CLM process, enhance security, and maintain operational efficiency.

🗓 Join us 31st July and register here: https://t.ly/wm5uk

The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework improves connectivity and security for hybrid technology architectures. However, implementing SASE isn't a universal solution. Our network and security experts highlight 12 key factors for IT leaders considering SASE.

Planning your path to SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) | Spark NZ Control Centre is a cellular IoT management platform that enables businesses to manage their IoT ecosystems effectively and securely.

We're proud to launch the first cohort of our Executive AI for Business Mini-MBA today, in collaboration with Section CEO Gregory Shove and his esteemed team. Over the next four weeks, we'll be delving into AI strategy and project development, paving the way for innovation in our Aotearoa businesses.

See how Fidelity Life transformed their IT service management with Spark's ServiceFlex. Here are the results:
🔵 Time to resolve incidents and fulfil service requests halved
🔵 97% of service desk calls were answered within 20 seconds
🔵 20% reduction in contact points per ticket

Read the full success story here: https://www.spark.co.nz/.../customer-stories/fidelity-life
Andrew Haycock - Head of Tech

🚀Good morning from us here at Future State: The Radical Festival of Innovation. Are you here today? If you’re not, stay tuned for more updates.


📷 Our CEO Jolie Hodson

🎙️ Listen up and get ready for Future State. Catch our keynote speaker, Håkan Nordkvist, former Head of Sustainability Innovation for the IKEA Group, as they discusses how businesses can utilise innovation to function more sustainably in an exclusive conversation with RNZ's Jesse Mulligan.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018935476

New article alert👇 Generative AI is a powerful tool that can benefit businesses, but it also significantly boosts the attacker's toolkit. Don't let cybercriminals get the upper hand. Learn how generative AI can be used for both good and evil with Insight Engine from Spark.

Generative AI enables both sides of the cybersecurity game While AI in general, and generative AI in particular, is a huge enabler for legitimate businesses, it is also a boon to cybercriminals. In the game of cat and mouse that is cybersecurity, generative AI has put both sides on steroids. But rather than shy away from this technology – and risk losing ...

At Spark, Zero Trust isn't just a product; it's a cultural shift. Shawn Wang, our Governance, Risk and Architecture Chapter Lead, shares how we're implementing a multi-year journey toward Zero Trust to bolster our security posture and achieve enterprise-level maturity in our latest article.

On the road to Zero Trust At the airport, at home, in a hotel room, on the road – the number of places from which people access business data and applications to get work done, are as many and varied as the cyber threats that are out there lurking, waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting user.

Congratulations to Cecilia Robinson for taking home the 2024 New Zealand Innovator of the Year award presented last night by Spark Marketing and Data Director, Matt Bain.

We're proud to sponsor the Innovator of the Year award as part of Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards, and congratulate our finalists Stefan Powell, James Powell & Brianne West.

Cecilia is a champion for women in business and the visionary founder of Tend, My Food Bag and Au Pair Link. As the Founder & Co-CEO at Tend Cecilia seeks “to help New Zealanders be the healthiest people in the world”. Cecilia’s passion for empowering individuals to seek healthcare assistance and fostering strong doctor-patient relationships has helped make Tend one of the largest primary healthcare organisations in Aotearoa.

Balancing her roles as a devoted mother to three children, Cecilia is dedicated to supporting women in business and addressing the challenges faced by working parents. We can’t wait to see what Cecilia does next 🙌