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Insights and perspectives from across the Kablamo engineering, design, and strategy teams.

33 articles

Accelerating Nonprofit Impact: Strategic Technology Solutions for the Modern Mission-Driven Organisation

Technology is now vital for amplifying social impact. Cloud computing, AI, data analytics, and automation are accessible tools for nonprofits. Kablamo has years of experience helping nonprofits transform operations and enhance service delivery through strategic technology adoption. Nonprofits face unique challenges, including limited budgets and complex stakeholder relationships. Success requires a technology partner who understands and shares the nonprofit's mission, ensuring solutions advance their impact, not just deliver features.

11 June 2025

MOVING AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT - Why Most Companies Fall Behind

Kablamo was built to operate at the speed of thought, eliminating bureaucracy and friction. Most companies fail to execute due to consensus culture, process overload, and middle management bottlenecks. Kablamo’s success lies in intelligent velocity—removing friction between ideas and execution by empowering decision-makers, fostering trust over process, and enabling seamless information flow. This approach attracts top talent, builds client trust, and drives market influence. Velocity is not optional—it's architectural. Companies must adapt or risk becoming irrelevant.

24 March 2025

Turning limitless data into life-saving decisions

How Firestory is helping harness technology to prevent devastating bushfires. Learn more in our Q&A with our Geospatial Lead, Andrew McDowell.

14 June 2023

Can technology consign mega-fires to the past?

The emerging field of bushfire intelligence comprises a nexus of cloud-based data analysis, AI, machine learning and other emerging technologies alongside the knowledge of local and regional fire agencies.

20 April 2023

Product Care Manager Melissa Swanepoel on striving for greater value for our customers

As we continue to recognise women during International Women’s Week 2022, we’re celebrating the incredible talent of the women on the Kablamo team, meet Product Care Manager Melissa Swanepoel.

14 March 2022

DevOps Engineer Elena Kosobrodova on the pursuit of constant learning

For International Women’s Week, we’re celebrating the incredible talent of the women on the Kablamo team. Meet Junior DevOps Engineer Elena Kosobrodova.

9 March 2022

AWS Global Award Wrap Up

Here’s a wrap up of our favourite takeaways from the amazing coverage Kablamo received for Most Innovative AI/ML Solution at the recent AWS Global Public Sector Awards.

9 July 2021

Kablamo wins AWS Global Public Sector Partners Award for Most Innovative AI and ML solution

16 June 2021

Tech Talk: Owen Kelly

Tech lead, Owen Kelly, and co-CEO Allan Waddell, discuss the finer points of digital transformation, solving problems, and a Moog synth.

16 February 2021

Tech Talk: Owen Kelly

Tech lead, Owen Kelly, and co-CEO Allan Waddell, discuss the finer points of digital transformation, solving problems, and a Moog synth.

16 February 2021

The Royal Commission’s Interim Report: Centralise the Data

By pointing out that “real-time decision making needs relevant real-time data”, this report specifies the need for central data management. Current data inconsistencies limit the ability of fire-fighting teams to make informed decisions.

1 September 2020

LET'S TALK CULTURE — DYNAMIC BUSINESS

Kablamo’s co-CEO Angus Dorney was interviewed by Dynamic Business about maintaining culture when you’re under the gun as a business. Here are his thoughts

16 October 2019

HAVE YOU GOT AN “INNOVATION KILLER” IN YOUR BUSINESS?

Here's five dead giveaways...

7 August 2019

KABLAMO NAMED ARN AWARDS FINALIST

We are finalists in ARN's Innovation Awards for the Smart Technology Category

30 July 2019

AMAZON AWS SUMMIT INTEL

Great to be able to share this from the AWS Summit

1 May 2019

AMAZON SUMMIT NEWS

Kablamo named finalist partner in ML

30 April 2019

OUR FRIENDLY AI SURVEY

This survey is about helping us all to understand your AI perspective a little better (and, hey, it might even be fun).

14 February 2019

WHY I HIRED A CO-CEO

It’s said to be lonely at the top when running a business, but as this business owner explains, appointing a co-CEO can be a beneficial way of positioning the company, and oneself, for growth.

5 February 2019

IN ERP NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM

Welcome to the world of ERP hostageware.

23 October 2018

IS CLOUD ALL OR NOTHING?

When it comes to cloud adoption, there’s largely two schools of thought on the best approach.

26 September 2018

BRING YOUR HUMANS...

Transformations are disruptive. I don’t mean this in the lazy, cliched, and sigh-inducing “X company is the Uber of Y industry, poised to disrupt the industry”, I mean it is a process of change that requires some adaptation.

19 September 2018

WHAT MATTERS TO YOU WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HIRING AN IT CONSULTANT?

Hiring an outside IT consultant is obviously a common business decision, but the experience can be complicated.

14 September 2018

THE (HUMAN) ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence without ethics is dangerous. Human intelligence is tempered with human empathy.

11 September 2018

ERP is dead . . . Long live ERP

Dinosaurs. Edsels. Consumer-grade Betamax players. All long gone. Is ERP about to wind up on the dust heap of history?

6 September 2018

ENGINEERING STABILITY INTO KOMBUSTION'S PLUGIN SYSTEM

Kombustion is a CloudFormation tool that uses plugins to pre-process templates. It enables DevOps to re-use CloudFormation best practices, and standardise deployment patterns.

30 August 2018

A BUSINESS-PRACTICAL WAY TO THINK ABOUT AI

Quantify It. Undersand the downside.

28 August 2018

AI - THE OUTER REACHES

We'll be the first to admit that AI is scary.

22 August 2018

SECURITY AT THE CENTRE

Security is a big challenge in enterprise. Here's how we tackle it.

16 August 2018

INTRODUCING KOMBUSTION: OUR OPEN SOURCE AWS DEVELOPER TOOL

THE TEAM IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF KOMBUSTION.

15 August 2018

BUZZWORD: DEVOPS

DevOps is overused. What does it really mean, and what's a better word for it?

8 August 2018

BUZZWORD: AI

In this week's buzzword chat the team tackles how machine learning & AI aren't going to solve your IT woes -- robust discussion ensues.

31 July 2018

YOU TALKIN' TO ME? CHATBOTS MIGHT NOT BE HERE YET.

Science fiction has had mixed results predicting the future.

26 July 2018

BUZZWORD: BLOCKCHAIN

Listen to the team tackle Blockchain as a buzzword, current industry uses, what blockchain might look like in the future and the effectiveness of distributed systems (or read the transcript)

25 July 2018