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Data collection and asset management is being improved through AI

23 March 2022

What are the challenges in collecting data for large property portfolios? What are the benefits of improving the speed and quality of asset data collection? What is the importance of linking asset registers with other systems? How can you make this kind of technology accessible for every size of practice? How will artificial intelligence improve data collection in the future?

Wayne Herbert speaks with Andrew Knight as they discuss how data and technology is improving the productivity of data collection for asset management.

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