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Appwrap: DoD IBM ERP deal expands, CBA backtracks on AI job cuts and Uni breaches privacy with wifi
AppWrap aims to help you keep up to date with an easy to read collection of news and snippets published by other leading tech media publications that we trust. AppWrap August 2025 25.08 The Department of Defence has inked a new $18.7m deal with IBM r
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Pronto goes big for AI and agentic
ERP info, Pronto!…
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Workers optimistic about AI’s role in work
But what about the regulation needs?…
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High performance IT to beat the chaos
A hero’s weapon for leaders…
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The efficiency imperative
Phased, right-sized transformation leads the way…
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Asset management leaders share AI insights
Getting practical on building AI maturity…
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Digital embassies and a data centre hub for SEA
Scott Farquhar’s ‘bold and novel’ vision…
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The challenge of AI in the doctor’s office
Unregulated, but time-saving and what about consent?…
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Unpacking AWS’ local data centre and training claims
Do data centre claims really stack up?…
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Execs highlight revenue, developer productivity wins from AI
But human still beats AI…
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AI and agentic: Tokens are the superpower
Changing the capital allocation equation…
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The tech jobs that pay
And the staff gearing up to walk…
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SMBs reticent on AI
But ROI for other digital adoption shows promise…
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ASIC turns up the heat on financial sector cybersecurity
Sues Fortnum; cyber risk is a compliance issue…
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Data centre – and power – projections ‘not credible
When the chips are down…
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NZ aims for advanced tech with new institute
AI, quantum hopes…
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Selwyn Water rolls out Datacom ERP for new water utility
Datascape’s new game…
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Worker panic over automation? Nah mate, we’re all good
But reskilling crucial…
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Social commerce doesn’t close the deal
Poor user experience and data loss hinders…
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Doing a premortem: Failure is an option
And riding the ERP hype cycle…
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The challenge of innovation on the farm
Shit in, shit out, and more automation, less features…
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New ERM in the frame for NZ Police
SAP and UKG line up…
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Public secrets and toxic cloud trilogies
The threat of cloud security gaps…
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New ERP provides help with the heavy lifting
Victor Hydraulics leverages Abel ERP for system replacement…
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NZ secret squirrel data gets new home in spy data centre
Industry reaction…
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Employees raise red flag on AI agents
While ‘silicon ceiling’ sees frontline AI adoption stagnate…
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Taking finance AI and automation end-to-end
It’s a dance of three parts…
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AGL powers up for data and AI future
Plugging in a literacy program
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AI is not doing its job
While agentic projects get cancelled…
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Apps and data centres key to local AI success
But worker ‘reallocation’ could be blocker…
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Data sharing at scale
Critical success factors…
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AI more than just another tech
Meeker’s take: It’s reshaping our world forever…
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AI opportunity for ANZ grocery loyalty
Grocery retailers can drive profits and increase engagement with AI tools…
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SMEs eye tech on back of Investment Boost
Tax incentive benefits…
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Identity security as a business transformer
More than just cybersecurity…
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Cakes and donuts get a sweet ride with new ERP
Mitigating recall risk just one factor in new system for Original Foods Baking Co.…
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Don’t run before you can walk with AI
Asset-centric industries are ripe for an AI revolution, but without the hype…
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Retailers line up for facial recognition
Foodstuffs NI trial opens floodgates…
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AI ambitions at stake as NZ business failing at cloud
Just 34 percent ‘truly cloud ready’…
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Agentic AI to take over customer service
But don’t rule out the human factor…
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Tapping behavioural outcomes for AI success
And GenAI’s growing buying influence…
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ATO’s $69m advisor cost blowout + conflict of interest
Audit highlights big deficiencies in IT program…
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Security agencies team up in enterprise cybersec push
‘Proper’ SIEM and SOAR implementation urged…
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Workplace surveillance and biometrics overreach
Orwell’s 1984 in 2025…
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Hi-tech Awards winners: Big things from small places
Hi-tech, highly diverse and taking on the world…
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Z Energy banks on Eagle Eye for loyalty
Eye on the prize…
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The OpenAI deals: AI companions and Stargate UAE
Hedging oil with data…
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You can’t patch your way out of threat debt
And maybe you can ignore some of that patching…
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AI in recruitment
Discrimination and beyond…
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Tech procurement: Faster, smaller, better
Businesses revamp purchasing in response to AI…
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How to win at vendor negotiation
If you don’t ask, you don’t get…
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Vibing with the coding
Good vibrations, but is handsfree dev really that easy?…
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Govt harnessing AI and low code for official information
70 percent decrease in time spent reporting…
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The Trump effect: Tech’s mixed fortunes
Tariffs, AI, cloud and antitrust…
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Fintechs head to FMA regulatory sandbox
Playtime begins…
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AI power struggle in electricity demand
The wildcard that is AI…
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ERP buyers prioritising immediate, tangible value
Show me the returns…
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GenAI in the supply chain
Value-clearing opportunities across the value chain…
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Lack of leadership, cyber and talent concerns for Kiwi leaders
Invisibility and stagnation…
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Thriving in volatile times
And a Southern Hemisphere Ireland…
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The high stakes of selecting the right genAI use case
And the fear of getting it wrong…
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Cybersecurity gets legal
Interim injunctions, class actions and ransomware payments…
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Traceability adds unique factor for NZHF honey
Manuka honey exporter NZ Health Food Company has embraced ‘all-in-one’ ERP solution Abel…
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AI in the boardroom
You can’t delegate your fiduciary responsibilities to AI…
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The state of startup funding
Cleantech cleans up + 2025 off with hiss and roar…
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Defence Force gears up for spending spree
$1b+ for ERP, and a tech accelerator for Kiwi tech…
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Tariffs an ‘unprecedented opportunity’
Trading on up: The tariff impact…
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AI approach matures, but ROI struggle continues
As OpenAI clocks US$40b raise…
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Developers feel weight of AI demands
Biggest users, sharpest critics…
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Unisphere looks to bridge document-data gap
M-Files deal serves up ‘knowledge work automation’…
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Air NZ seeks tech blue skies
New deals for digital innovation take flight…
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Copilot’s ‘productivity paradox’
CSIRO trial highlights gap between marketing and reality…
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Taking industrial digital twins to the masses
The Waikato Uni project decarbonising industry through tech…
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Dealing with the ‘uranium’ that is data
Three IT leaders talk data protection in a new era…
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Immigration NZ’s $336m visa rebuild
More automation planned for single system…
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Employers in unsustainable AI hiring spree
AI hype hits recruitment…
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Pronto goes true blue with ‘Australian Owned’ credentials
As AU government defines local…
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Having cybersecurity conversations
Translating FUD into meaningful risk…
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Public service preps for tech exodus
Succession planning needed…
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Kiwi hackathon to develop NZ DOGE
Plus decentralised welfare distribution and tax collection system…
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The evolving role of AI in business technology
Are buyers looking for AI features? Or is the reverse more true?
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Planning for the unplannable
CISO’s learnings from UniSuper black swan event…
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Health minister highlights ‘dire’ need for health IT work
As HiNZ survey shows clinicians concerns over proposed cuts…
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BCG: NZ must pick some new export winners
Agtech, medtech, green tech, space and satellites…
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Getting more bang from your third-party cyber risk management buck
Our TPCM is failing, here’s why, and how to fix it…
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FENZ fighting HR & payroll fires
$30m down and nothing to show for it?…
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Turning DX and AI spend into results
For many, it’s a costly fail…
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MYOB honours enterprise and ISV partners
Stratus Consulting, Kilimanjaro among big winners…
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Agentic AI: F&P, Hipages, One NZ ride the wave
Because copilots are so 2023…
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Value leading shoppers online
But local retailers holding on to lion’s share, for now…
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Tech aiding and abetting national security threats
Everything, everywhere, all at once…
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The SMB digital gap and the Singapore solution
CPA Australia calls for NZ Govt support…
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Treasury Copilot trial: All out of love
While proposal to make HR AI high risk raises ire…
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Balancing AI innovation and responsibility
The C-suite challenge…
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Go live is not the completion of your ERP project
Changing ERP change management…
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DeepSeek: Tests, comparisons and bans
AI testing – and security – in the spotlight…
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As WFH wavers, flexibility and money demands rise
If we can’t have WFH, we better have flexibility…
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ERP Partner Guide
Leading partners providing services to design, configure and support a range of ERP solutions…
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ERP Buyer’s Guide
Welcome to the iStart ERP Buyer’s Guide. The Guide provides in-depth comparison and evaluation of the leading ERP vendors and products active in the A/NZ region, along with contact details for their local implementation partners…
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Ransomware’s true cost
The local figures…
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Govt releases Kiwi public sector AI guidance
Private sector to follow…
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SailGP on edge with private 5G
Fast racing, fast network…
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Wesfarmers restructures digital as Catch winds down
‘Increased competitive intensity’ proves too much…
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SAP’s $52m cloud migration deal
NSW goes cloud, NZ’s CCC digital work continues…
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DeepSeek, AI and crypto: It’s Davos 2025
Tech news from the WEF’s annual summit…
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Personalising loyalty the new frontier for retail tech
Tactical insights for converting loyalty to customer value…
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The A/NZ business cost of Meta’s community moderation
But ditching the platforms unlikely…
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Employment beyond borders
Kiwi companies snap up Aussie workers – and beyond…
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What’s keeping us up at night
Economics, and the AI PoC graveyard…
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Agentic AI: Building tomorrow’s enterprise
LLMs just the ‘bricks’ for a new future…
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Audit Office report highlights ERP pain points
NSW harmonisation of ERP not all smooth sailing…
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Niwa goes Vast for improved forecasts and risk calculations
New supercomputer + data platform + AI…
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Appwrap: Cybersecurity sale, Quantum Brilliance; and Woolworths algorithm sparks strike
Keeping you up to date with A/NZ and world tech news…
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Making AI human-centred
And getting the agents in on the act…
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SAP turns to AWS for bigger slice of cloud
Easier S/4Hana Public Cloud Edition – for midmarket and enterprise?…
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Fighting violence with facial recognition
Trial shows FRT reduces harm and justifies use…
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What’s keeping Amazon awake at night?
AI hallucinations, carbon burn and distilling LLMs…
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Australia increases pressure on big tech
Digital competition regime and whole-of-economy AI regulation…
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Health NZ slashes data and digital team
Cuts to continue through to 2027…
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A/NZ AI governance ‘a mess’
Adding new stakeholders to the governance equation…
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Australian social media ban passes
World-first ban moves step closer…
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The impact of a Chrome-less Google
Debundling Google, Chrome and maybe Android…
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The open banking, CDR story
A/NZ positioning and international consistency…
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Govt procurement policies out of step in loss/loss deal
Australian report and industry call for ‘urgent’ reform…
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Foodstuffs SI secures strategic objectives
Four pillars to security…
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The AI-washing danger
Time to get real on AI benefits…
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Kiwi tech sector profitability surge
But employment down – and what’s the Trump factor?…
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Suncorp talks ERP, platforms and AI
Tech modernisation program gathers steam…
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eInvoicing gains local boost
Govt, and Xero, push electronic option…
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When not to use GenAI
Know thy strengths – and weaknesses…
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The formula for high performing IT teams
F1 guides the way…
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FBNZ named Esker Partner of the Year
Evergreen Garden Care, Gallagher, PGG Wrightson, Ritchies Transport claim wins…
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The spies guide to keeping secrets
For tech startups…
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Customise vs compose: The differentiation factor
Composing a customer-obsessed business…
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GenAI reshaping responsibilities as local report flags challenges
Accelerated career progress, if adoption can be achieved…
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Growth, cybersec and IT platforms major A/NZ focus
But budgets are proving a barrier…
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1.1 million ‘near tech’ workers hold potential for skills shortages
Aussie eyes near techers, NZ eyes SFIA…
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Shrinking LLMs for AI on the PC
Lightweight and running on your CPU…
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Disrupting enterprise app resilience
Internet at risk, strangulation by regulation and serious sustainability…
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Australia opens new round of AI consultation
Evaluating impact on consumer law…
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Gen AI bringing revenue wins, but data issues persist
And the winners are an elite few…
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Deepfakes penetrating business
A/NZ businesses targeted by deepfake scams…
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How to manage your dependence on VMware
Spoiler alert, it won’t be easy…
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Tyranny of distance still hangs over Kiwi tech companies
Trustworthy, but…
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Charles McHardie: Leading for resilience in turbulent times
Or lessons from Admiral Nelson…
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QA and ESG in focus as Zespri moves to new Horizons
Benefits already accruing for kiwifruit co-op…
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AI spins a new yarn with NZ’s first AI created TVC
Primary sector output, meet AI…
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Datacom gets Wiise on SMB ERP market
Playing to demand for integrated systems and local customisation…
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FTC: Platforms’ are ‘vast surveillance’ operations
People tracking across the internet…
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AI + drones save farmers from counting sheep
PGG Wrightson’s Skycount takes to the air…
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Transurban drives AI and data success
But it’s not always been a smooth road…
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The four elements of the future of ERP
A new automated reality…
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Snap ramps up business play
But will it fly with the youth market?…
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Aussie misinformation law to hit platforms’ pockets
Musk dubs government ‘fascists’…
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AI blowouts: It’s really easy to waste money
Up to 1000% cost blowout…
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Pronto promotes for growth
Two staff take on new executive roles…
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Health NZ: From Hira to payroll ‘stabilisation’
Aging health payroll systems win Hira funding…
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GenAI summarising may lead to more work
AI summaries performed lower on all criteria in ASIC trial…
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NSW Police livestreaming triple-0 emergencies
Real-time access to scenes before they’ve even arrived…
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Supply chain protection lagging
As cyber risk tops executives concerns for year…
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Smile to pay not off table for local shoppers
Study shows willingness to trial facial recognition payments, with caveats…
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Genesis Energy gears up for Salesforce, Gentrack go-live
Finance and wholesale trading to follow + more AI…
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GovERP functional capabilities ‘cannot be reused’
Axed project has little scope for future use…
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NZ’s top tech teams and leaders honoured
Kiwibank’s Hamish Rumbold takes top CIO award…
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Finding the AI use case eluding many
And as for governance…
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Local music industry tallies AI cost
AI eating musicians lunch…
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Zespri’s million dollar process intelligence
Valuable insights guiding Horizon transformation…
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Developers like AI, but don’t trust its results
Tech debt frustrations, dwindling incomes and favourite technologies…
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Facing up to biometrics
Code concerns and the A/NZ view on biometrics…
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Healthtech export growth, but investment concerns
Are Kiwi companies dying with scalable tech in hand?…
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CrowdStrike, Microsoft and Delta stoush
Is customer’s failure to modernise a get out of jail clause?…
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Australian and Kiwi online shopping habits under microscope
Surveys highlight changing practices, data concerns…
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Petronas: Data liberalisation for growth and business transformation
Ready for AI, but reaping data benefits now…
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The hidden costs of ERP implementations
Avoiding expensive surprises…
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Australia moves to force ransom payment disclosure
Threat of fines for failure to disclose could be on cards…
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How to navigate tightening privacy regulations
Third-party data and cross context behavioural advertising impacts…
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NZ outlines ‘light-touch’ approach to drive AI
While IoD urges board action…
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A/NZ in ‘groundbreaking’ global ecom deal
Cutting costs, speeding up global trade…
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ERP joins BuyICT
While Auckland Council gets new SAP deal…
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Pushing the Boat out on automation
Consolidating business orchestration and automation…
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The ‘gaping hole’ in Australian privacy laws
And the plans to fix it, as MediSecure reveals breach extent…
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Zespri S/4 benefits start to flow
But it’s tranche 2 which will deliver real benefits…
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Gallagher Group reaps rewards of streamlined invoicing
Making better use of people and technology…
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Australian and Kiwi tech priorities diverge
Forrester reports stark differences in tech plans…
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Transpower modernisation powers talent wins
Open source key to attracting and retaining talent…
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The S/4Hana migration challenge
More than half at risk of maintenance loss…
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Gartner outlines A/NZ ERP strategies
Market moves with tighter times…
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Covers come off Australia’s top secret cloud
Well, sort of, as AWS nabs ‘sovereign cloud’ deal…
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Manufacturing’s new era challenged
Data is key. But visibility is poor.
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NZTA lays groundwork for SAP upgrade
Amid ‘substantial’ change program…
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NZ agritech looks to Aussie opportunities
As Aussie farmers log ‘widespread’ use…
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Back to black: AU economic recovery bolsters Datacom
As company talks up AI…
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Identity security finds its seat at cybersecurity table
From efficiency tool to big player…
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Sandfield co-founder talks tech for business and being a good custodian
Some things change, some stay the same…
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A/NZ’s varying competitiveness fortunes
As both countries grapple with productivity and innovation…
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Australian and NZ govts kiss goodbye to contractors
Public sector contractors in firing line on both sides of Tasman…
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Data alchemy: Inside the world of data brokers
Buying and selling data to the highest bidders…
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Startup scene’s changing fortunes
Call for Kiwi govt support…
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The cost-effective sustainability options IT is missing
Low cost, high impact winners…
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GenAI in ERP: The transformation begins
Compelling functionality propelling market…
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Finding the ROI in genAI
Here’s what sets the high performers apart…
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Getting strategic with national AI
AIRA calls for action to avoid falling to global competition..
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What’s Behind the Smart Forms Revolution?
And what’s the next gen in data collection?…
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Mercury NZ switches SAP for Workday
Follows Gentrack taking over billing…
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A/NZ retail takes pragmatic tech approach
Forget the metaverse…
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Companies, and investors, failing to see AI ROI
The emperor’s new clothes…
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One CX strategy to rule them all
How digital + CX + marketing can lead to big wins…
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Stats NZ figures show booming tech market
Software and IT services now 3.7% of GDP despite clouds…
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Open banking: The fintech view
Brave new future for NZ, or primed for failure?…
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AFP CTO on countering common IT challenges
Cloud, SD-Wan, Leo and Sase for the win…
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AI guardrails tumble
Popular LLMs vulnerable…
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Amperity CTO talks Aussie innovation, GenAI and digital transformation
Takeaways for Aussie innovators…
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Architecting to adapt
Imagination and creativity key for enterprise architecture…
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PGG Wrightson plants seeds for further growth with AP automation
Faster payment processing, fewer errors…
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Tech changes bring $100m+ win for ANZ
But productivity key, boss says…
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Google, Vocus team up for latest cable
Just don’t expect a bill decrease…
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Open banking innovation – is it NZ’s time?
Standards deadlines near, but clarity is lacking…
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Banking on scam reduction
Anti-scam systems takes shape across A/NZ…
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Confidence low as AML changes weigh on business
Execs worried about compliancy abilities…
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Keeping customers atop the food chain
Bonson NZ packages up ERP success with Abel…
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Musk vs Australia: Battlelines drawn
Legal test of government power over tech looms…
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Kiwi researchers launch global emerging tech framework
International policy guide to evaluate AI and other new tech…
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Taking the bulk out of AI models
Slimmed down LLMs offer new use cases…
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Taming decision fatigue
Four ‘tried and tested’ methods…
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ERP wins: Optimising inventory dives, while CX booms
AI drives cloud and cloud drives changing ERP successes…
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A/NZ employers looking to AI for productivity boost
But there’s a sting in the tail…
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When ERP customisation causes headaches
Six steps to pain relief…
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Albanese eyes industry intervention
Support and subsidies for innovative industry tech promised…
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Genesis Energy taps AI for productivity savings, ESOL
Simple tasks providing big savings…
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Microsoft Teams unbundling ‘just a sneaky price increase’
Is Microsoft the biggest beneficiary of regulatory moves?…
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Health NZ goes dual-cloud
Network backbone improvements, IAM next up…
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Tackling a changing threat environment
Australia’s cybersec boss outlines the six shields to protect…
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Inside AI: How Enlighten Designs is using AI
From GitHub Copilot to Gemini Advanced, Anthropic and the AI Act…
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Ups and downs in tech jobs, wages
And let’s talk about beyond-border work…
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Rio Tinto: Getting active security controls into OT networks
Breaking tradition, but staying practical…
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Giving NZ’s fintech scene a pulsecheck
Banks, government and regulators in firing line…
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AGL’s Maryam Bechtel: Leading with impact
Engagement, hardening boundaries, and mental health priorities…
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Addressing third party risk for business resiliency
Don’t be a super hero…
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The MediaWorks breach and NZ’s toothless privacy laws
$10,000 versus $50 million…
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Unwrapping A/NZ’s changing ecommerce landscape
Online’s new normal…
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Augmented cybersecurity
Thriving amid complexity…
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Scams down in Australia, while NZ eyes data breach penalties
Aussie scam crackdown pays dividends, Kiwi privacy commissioner calls for civil penalty regime…
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A/NZ tech migrations
The migrant conundrum…
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Legacy tech’s impact on cost control and margin building
Old tech dies hard, but GenAI, ERP and automation ride high…
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What happened to the Kiwi data centre boom?
A data centre here, a data centre there…
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ATO facing 4.7m attempted cyber intrusions a month
The cybersecurity concerns that kept commissioner up at night…
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The SaaS license graveyard – and its cost to businesses
While redundancy runs rampant…
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Secure Parking lifts gate to data transformation
Finding a carpark gets easier with key partnership…
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Finding a tech solution to A/NZ productivity woes
The big dollars to be gained through tech-enabled productivity uplift…
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The hidden technology costs in business
And how tracking it can reap big returns…
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Sorry state of NZ public health IT laid bare
Cloud, standardised systems… and a digital health agency?…
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Getting Wiise on ERP and AI
ERP ‘Goldilocks’ talks innovation and what customers really, really want …
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The seven characteristics of the data-driven enterprise
McKinsey outlines how to get to data-driven nirvana…
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Digital investment driving spend across Wesfarmer business
‘Money well spent’ in strengthening overall group…
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Retail tech: security vs privacy
Woolworths, Coles, Palantir push on with digital surveillance…
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Getting personal with customers
Aim low for early success…
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Industrial vulnerabilities highlight digitalisation challenge
IoT and OT bug out…
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2024: The year of digital identity?
Australia and NZ gear up for digital ID launches…
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Demand for data & analytics expertise at three-year high
New research signals increased influence of AI, cybersecurity in data strategies…
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Govt urged to fund career change
Minimum wage for reskilling proposed in Australia, while in NZ…
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AI isn’t tomorrow’s singular hero
Multiple technologies are coming into play for A/NZ business…
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Privacy watchdog flags concerns over cyber sharing block
‘Limited use mechanism’ doesn’t mean limited enforcement…
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AI uptake subdued as companies look to data first
But Australia punches above weight for AI effectiveness…
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A/NZ face off with responsible AI
Days of ‘do what you want’ coming to end…
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How ChatGPT bias impacts product recommendations
And how to get ahead of the game…
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The skills employers are willing to pay a premium for
New year, new job as demand remains strong across A/NZ…
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Half of consumers to abandon or limit social media
And most expect AI to further harm the user experience…
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CES 2024: The good and the just plain strange
A look at some of this year’s offerings…
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Australian My Health Record data sharing plan sparks concerns
Data without understanding can be dangerous…
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Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom funding
X and AWS projects also on the boil…
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2023 techmas gift guide
All I want for Christmas is, well, maybe not…
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Digging for process gold
Major miner optimises spend with SAP and Bloom Consulting…
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Courting GenAI: The good, the bad and the ugly
Courts get guidance, businesses fear failure…
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Fujitsu ordered to pay Corrections $3.9m
And Dassault to pay back $1.8m in licence fees to Fujitsu…
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AppWrap: Govt’s $17m AI spend-up, ID verification legislation passes, Nissan attack and modernisation headaches
Keeping you up to date with A/NZ and world tech news…
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Forrester urges thoughtful approach to 2024 tech
Tech FOMO? Careful, you may get burned…
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Health NZ: Confusing, lacking clarity and coherence
Damning report calls for funding to be ‘closely examined’ against expectations…
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Trends in digital finance
Artificial intelligence will take the sector by storm over the next decade…
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Waikato Regional Council reboots ERP
Infor deliver after delays and cost blowout…
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Rough year bites deep into TWG digital spend
$30m shaved off FY24 spend…
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Fujifilm Business Innovation: ERP, growth engines and the All Blacks
Global boss Naoki Hama on what’s driving his company…
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Most companies are buying the wrong software
Buyer remorse runs high…
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Sun shines as Accenture acquires NZ’s Solnet
Global giant gains contemporary cloud engineering…
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First-party data in banking
Resolving identity key as third-party cookies crumble…
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Australian Budget: Stem, cyber sticks and upgrades
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Privacy and cybersecurity law changes, post Optus
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Healthtech’s $2.9b+ shot in arm for NZ economy
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Aussie sports clubs run hard with data
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Big ideas for global learning net $1.6m
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Industrial automation futures
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Seequent, Alimentary big winners for NZ Hi-Tech Awards
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Isaac Construction builds reputation
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The $1b ABR blow-out
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Salesforce triples A/NZ profit
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Microsoft and Oracle share the database cloud love
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12-hour cyberattack notifications now in force
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Zespri opens books on Horizon DX programme
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Tech investment: A tale of two markets
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The simplicity and complexity of integration and automation
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AI video tech takes sports to the masses and creates new funding streams
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Agritech sector reaps fruits of labour
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Microsoft A/NZ partners shine at global awards
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Intelligent automation in the enterprise – and abattoir
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The digital priorities of Kiwi businesses
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Billion dollar promises and a tech sector welcome for Labor
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NZ health digital and data gets $600m Budget boost
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Sustainability emerging driver as A/NZ software market jumps
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Australia, NZ cloud wins – and loses
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Australia joins France in platform content crackdown
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Google taps location data for Covid lockdown maps
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IBM Watson serving up Covid info
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Microsoft vows carbon negativity by 2030
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Govt puts social media giants on notice
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The future of analytics is augmented
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Reserve Bank calls out fragmented digital ID market
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SAP fronts up for NZ’s gun buyback data breach
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Loyalty scheme data grab raises ACCC ire
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KPMG launches new supply chain offering
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Gartner: Personalised marketing on the out
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Cyber stocktakes, a cybersecurity minister and another data breach
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NZ/AU tech workers much unhappier than the global average
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Voice data going unheard in business
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Forrester report: Australian CX less terrible but still bad
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NZ completes first stage of fibre rollout
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Businesses clamouring for AI
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Scitech embraces Dynamics 365 for financial insights
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Cloud’s next iteration: Serverless
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When good drones go bad
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Telstra calls for govt help to combat 5G scare campaign
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A/NZ financial software provider sold
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Tired of leaks, Google scales back its Friday meetings, says leaked document
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Facebook goes fintech with new Pay offering
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The real future of blockchain, no BS
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Digital oligarchs deny responsibility for harm
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PYBAR migrates to the cloud with Azure solution
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Govt starts headhunting tech migrants
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No cloud is created equal
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Hydro Tasmania’s ‘DIY’ rollout of new mobile asset-inspection software
Australia’s largest water manager liberated by intuitive asset-management app empowering technicians and planners…
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Which cities are tops for launching a tech startup?
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Digital disruption in the trans-Tasman dental industry
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The rise of smart robots for smart business
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Google Street View goes underwater
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Is it time for human rights to be digitised?
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Building a business case for AR automation
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Not-for-profits feeling the DX pain
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Watson crunches 170m job postings to predict tomorrow’s work
Conclusion: All jobs will change…
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Australia hits ‘take-down’ rankings
Makes top 20 list requesting platforms remove content, NZ not so bothered…
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Winning at RPA
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Airtree brings superfunds, cash to downunder tech startups
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Local businesses spending up large on (some) tech
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The fight for AU’s digital ID
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Facial recognition proposed for Australians accessing porn
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Simple tech to thwart a big tradie problem
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Rip Curl stays ahead of the wave
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Fuji Xerox targets SMB, IT services in CSG deal
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Transportation speeds down the IoT highway
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What’s inhibiting Australia’s global competitiveness?
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Returning expats need not apply
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Salesforce punts big on local market with 1000 new jobs
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Kiwi smart trolley wins big in Japan
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Councils under pump to deliver self service. Now.
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Is IoT the ‘asbestos of the future’?
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Double trouble as deepfakes surge
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Sorry! Twitter’s data laundering sparks grovelling apology
Twitter ‘inadvertently’ uses 2FA phone numbers, email for marketing…
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Killing us with cyber incompetence
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NZ health sector on notice after major data breach
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Digital tech’s role in UN Sustainable Development Goals
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ANU outlines methods behind latest attack
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Seequent continues upward climb with GeoSlope acqusition
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Fujitsu launches ‘Digital Transformation Centre’ in Sydney
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New Chrome extension reveals all your compromised passwords
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AI startups in acquisition frenzy
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Data is your digital lifeblood. But who is responsible for securing it?
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Aussie employees falling hook, line and sinker for phishing
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Kiwi gig-economy fintech raises $2.15m
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The tech Gartner says you need to know
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CIOs uneasy about hybrid cloud complexity
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Reporting for work: Drones add croc-spotting to repertoire
Drones, AI, video surveillance and big hungry Queensland crocs…
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Self-service not satisfying customers – or businesses
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PayID breaches highlight the growing banking tech security challenge
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Platform companies unveil details on extremist content
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Whitepaper: The future of finance is in the CFOs hands
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Harvard releases ‘ease of doing digital business’ rankings
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WiFi 6: Faster internet, and a big boost for IoT?
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You’ll be hearing from my IT guy
Forget the courtroom, I’ll see you in the cloud…
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WhereScape converts success to cash
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Not enough technology a key factor in stagnant productivity
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Australian Govt to scrap innovation patent
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$50m up for grabs as govt pushes SME manufacturing tech
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Platform providers take aim at ACCC digital inquiry
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Huawei calls Trump’s bluff, offers 5G tech for sale
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AR Automation: The key to collecting payments faster
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Australia’s digital future has scientists worried
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Smart cities and agribusiness driving IoT uptake downunder
Big IoT spend is on track for farming and ultra-connected cities…
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Are cyber-insurers fuelling ransomware?
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Call for more oversight of big cloud providers
‘Systemically important’ cloud providers lack oversight in financial markets…
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Gartner’s emerging tech hype: From Edge AI to flying cars
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Taking robots to the water for on-demand autonomous infrastructure
AI powered robotic boats hit the water – and create bridges…
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Open sourcing AI
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Gig economy study: People hate being managed by algorithms
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Cybersecurity: The topic boards still don’t want to think about
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Just like Google Earth…only better?
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Huawei finds new ways to survive US bans
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Email engagement surges…thanks to the GDPR?
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Screws tighten on privacy regulation
GDPR controls head down under…
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LinkedIn avoids social media scandal
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Australia wins digital Bledisloe (hands down)
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Instillery Origin merger to drive cloud automation
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IDC: Make AI simple and explainable, please
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How to predict who’s going to quit
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Milking IoT for supply chain efficiencies
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Accenture buys Analytics8
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Low-code makes citizen developers of us all
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SBAS opens opportunities with enhanced GPS
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Digital banking set to transform market downunder
Fintech alternatives are set to leave a mark locally – whether traditional banks transform or not…
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The rise of CX
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The enterprise goes postmodern
Advancing the Age of Industry Transformation calls for a fresh approach…
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The great email scam renaissance
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Driving an insight-driven organisation
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Is medicine finally getting smart?
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The CDO goes lean and project focused
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Overcoming the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence
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Health & safety start-up closes inspection loop
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The future of work: Dynamic, adaptive and home to personal data twins
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Where to now for innovation in ERP?
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Sounding out voice commerce
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Do we need a national AI strategy?
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Dynamics Inner Circle run continues for Empired and Intergen
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Automating the collections process
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Reporting season for cloud players
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The myth of anonymised data – and data privacy
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Lower costs and happier customers? Can RPA live up to its promise?
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Sweeping reform recommended to reign in social giants
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Getting literate with data to drive business value
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Coles stocks up for DX with Accenture deal
Professional services company to bind together Smarter Selling DX…
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Data sync manager provides fast and secure build of new SAP system
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Australia’s first female-founded brewery finds recipe for success
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Dunedin City Council transforms its digital assets
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The threats keeping IT execs up at night
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Global privacy regulation juggernaut rolls on
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Paying the ransomware price
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SAP talks up cloud, XM as US-China trade war bites
Cloud under close watch, while experience rules…
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Ballance Agri-Nutrients maps path to increased revenue
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Zag announces new Operations Manager for Australia
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The forecast for database management is cloudy
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Personalising healthcare funding: Better services, brighter future
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Agility key in Vuca world
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The perilous state of customer trust in digital services
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Lost in translation: Data workers don’t trust company data
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Intergen tops for digital marketing among Microsoft’s A/NZ partners
Gains place on annual Top 50 Microsoft Partners report…
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Zag maps new path with spatial services development
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The five things that impede data culture
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NZ and City of Newcastle win big in smart cities
NZ takes three gongs, Newcastle two in APAC awards…
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Are digital twins coming of age?
Twinning technology finding its feet in business…
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Edge computing: IT’s next big thing
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Compute accelerates to a 5G edge
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When IaaS becomes PaaS
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Accountants dis DST as unworkable
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Aussie forex disruptor one to watch
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Facebook’s new ‘independent’ oversight board
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Excessive APIs are killing your website and app
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CSIRO doses AI with viral protection
‘Vaccine’ to protect algorithms against attack…
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Real time bidding and adtech under privacy scrutiny
UK data protection regulator slams RTB, tells industry…
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E-commerce market: 2019 update
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AfterPay faces AU watchdogs and NZ regulators
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QR codes open gateway to EFTPOS-less payments
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Nulon lubricates supply chain efficiency
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Switched on CIO: Paul Littlefair NZ CIO of the Year
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Winning on the internet: Mary Meeker’s 2019 insights
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Who dares wins: A/NZ leads on global cloud adoption
According to a new report, New Zealand and Australia are world leaders in enterprise cloud adoption…
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Melbourne secures Uber Air trial for 2020
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Salesforce takes on Tableau
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Here’s how culture makes bacon ‘n’ eggs of strategy
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CIO role under disruption threat
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Challenging the boundaries of digital identity
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Getting social with selling
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Public Wifi security hole plugged
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Best of both clouds: Microsoft and Oracle announce multi-cloud deal
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Adding empathy to the metrics mix
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Wearables finding roles in manufacturing
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The elephant in the boardroom
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Risk survey highlights top Aussie business concerns
Interconnectedness of risks presenting challenges…
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Global skills rating leaves room to improve
NZ and Australia get a pass mark for business, so-so for tech and data science…
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Owen Key: The Auckland cop securing Calgary city
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A/NZ make another strong showing in IDC Smart Cities awards
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Fake news gets a new ally: Deep fakes
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USA action impacts way beyond Huawei
This is not normal…
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Australia and NZ sign global agreement for trustworthy AI
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Canva fronts up to massive breach…kind of
It was all going so well…
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Dirty pretty things: Can blockchain end the conflict diamond trade?
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Datacom takes on TechOne with new council ERP
New ERP system at heart of local govt push…
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Forget bots: Aussies opt for humans
Chatbots still just too dumb to do the job effectively…
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Switched on CIO: Gallagher’s Neville Richardson
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Combating the dark side of extending reality
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The People vs Apple’s dodgy logic
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Platform providers offer anti-terrorism ‘actions’
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‘Tidal wave’ of enterprise software spend
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Self-service payment provider eyes further growth under new boss
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Gig economy flourishes, but for who?
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Digital census great in theory – so where’s it going wrong?
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Uber IPO: What you need to know
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Innovation winter as projects fail to meet reality
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The delicate state of trust in A/NZ banking sector
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Rocket Lab fires up for new space-based internet
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APAC businesses leading way with IoT
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Security spend is up, but so too are breaches
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Aussie social media law needs G20 teeth
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The tech that could have blocked Christchurch video
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Tech a poor cousin in M&A due diligence
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Social media under fire in Christchurch
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Mobi2Go enters AU food-to-go market
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Health messaging app launches global push
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Is this the world’s coolest data centre?
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AU energy consumer data to be opened by 2020
ACCC turns its focus to the energy industry…
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Kiwis lag behind Aussies with 5G
Australia ranked as a ‘leader’ in 5G, New Zealand yet to allocate spectrum…
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Salesforce pumps A$70m into Aus ecosystem, shuns Kiwis
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Consumer ambivalence to data sharing reality
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Digital ID unlocks ‘real economic gains’
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Empired signs up 4,500 NZ Govt users
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Zoho ramps up A/NZ push
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Trump tweets, Huawei responds, Pompeo threatens
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Govt, capital and skills hindering Aussie innovation and growth
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DTA takes aim at blockchain
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Five key themes from Mobile World Congress 2019
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Telstra feels the NBN burn
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Grain goes high tech with big Aussie VC fund
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Australia’s encryption laws: What’s the impact?
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LinkedIn goes to the dogs
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BI buyers seeking more magic says Gartner
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IDC highlights big investment needed for cloud migration
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Federal parliament hacked, data breaches up
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Coles buys in to SAP future
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G Suite gains on O365 in race for enterprise
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FTTN speed bump for NBN
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SAP restructures, aims for the clouds
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Snopes quits $100K Facebook fact checking partnership
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Aussie police and national security embracing anti-encryption laws
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AU stalls on global corruption index, NZ loses top spot
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Huawei ban claims first major casualty in TPG mobile pull-out
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IoT PoCs throwing up new challenges for A/NZ business
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Calls for AI regulation heat up
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Breakaway WTO countries vow to clean up e-commerce
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Autonomous vehicles to drive the economy?
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The AI data conundrum
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Australian business prepares for massive China market opportunity
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Australian Government cops flack over digital strategy document
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Future of Work = massive skills upgrade
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CEOs: We’ve got the data, but not the actionable intelligence
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Telstra’s Asian affair
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Automation boosts margins and efficiency
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Dr Gartner prescribes digital detox, play and daydreams
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Telstra ramps up 5G push
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Robots delivering coral babies to Great Barrier Reef
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$160k software piracy settlement paid
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Encryption law debate ‘hyperbolic and inaccurate’
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Google, Facebook face ACCC crackdown – and new regulator
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Aussie data republican welcomes Singaporeans
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Biggest thing since the internet?
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Australia and NZ space efforts move to next level
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Are you protecting the right data?
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ATO shakes-up outsourcing
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Marriott breach highlights local issues
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Humans + bots a CX winner says MIT report
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Switched on CIO: Andrew Goodin goes for gold with Zespri
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Infosys announces Aussie growth plans
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Insite AI adds silicon smarts to retail
Kiwi can-do to save retailers big bucks…
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Future of work: A/NZ leaders starkly unprepared
Oceania leaders see less disruption ahead than other APAC countries…
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Biometric ID tech’s growing acceptance
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Amazon’s Aussie U-Turn
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Are e-retailers too complacent about Christmas?
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Workday snapping at Oracle and SAP’s heels
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Excuse me: IoT in the bathroom
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Is it time for an IoT crack down?
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TIBCO brings AI to BI
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NBN or else – ADSL broadband shut-down peaks
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Rocket Lab reaches for the stars
Successful commercial launch is the ultimate combination of technology and business…
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Switched on CIO: Kevin Drinkwater moves Mainfreight beyond trucking
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Below and beyond: The underground drones are coming
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Alibaba’s massive numbers highlight growth op for A/NZ business
It’s not just fancy numbers for a foreign company…
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You have the right to remain private
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ACCC warns against protecting NBN from 5G competition
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Taking intelligence to the edge
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Aussie banking open for digital with #2 rank
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Taxing robots – You’re kidding, right?
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Kiwis to join Huawei ban? Bad politics over good sense
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Human Service takes human out of service with new assistant
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Unpicking augmentation
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Aussie space startup takes to orbit with Rocket Lab
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Switched on CIO: Pieter Bakker juices up DX at Frucor
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Agility order of the day as universal banking model crumbles
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Mixed reality revolution finally gets underway downunder
Australiasian VR, AR and mixed reality on the cusp of broad adoption…
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Big Blue chases cloud market with US$34b Red Hat acquisition
IBM’s proposed acquisition of open source cloud software company Red Hat will create the world’s largest open source software portfolio…
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Who lives, who dies, when AI is behind the wheel
Humans decide in order to teach the machines…
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Is the honeymoon over? Australian startups in decline
For the first time in five years Australia’s start-up ecosystem shows significant drops in startup activity…
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ACCC eyes data economy
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Killing ‘innovation zombies’ necessary skill for tech teams
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Back to the future? E-invoicing sounds a lot like EDI
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Xero maps NBN to profit
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IoT gets real world farm testing in MLA initiative
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AI investment shows bang for buck
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Switched on CIO: DX, robots, failing CIOs and FAANG lessons
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Open office findings counter-intuitive
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Apple bites at ‘dangerous ambiguity’ in bill
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A fascination with the future of work
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Australia and NZ to take leadership roles in (some) open banking
Europe may have the jump on open banking, but A/NZ might just get it right…
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China chip spying allegations denied by Apple and Amazon
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When will online voting come to Australasia?
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Robots, automation…and longer holidays
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PayPal’s take on Aussie m-commerce
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AgTech meets RegTech in health and safety apps
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Commercial drones take flight
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Midmarket ERP a race to the cloud
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Finance failing to keep pace with digital transformation
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CSIRO shoots for the moon with ambitious space program
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Deloitte says CIOs need to adapt or perish
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Having no prior tech experience shouldn’t stop us reskilling older, non-tech workers…
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Trade-war fallout for Aussie tech?
More expensive tech, export declines and falling US tech investment…
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Google cranks up enterprise cloud ambition
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What’s the value of Australian innovation?
The CSIRO says Australia stands to gain billions if it properly fosters digital innovation. That, however, is a big ‘if’…
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Improving Search for the next 20 years
Google celebrated its 20th birthday this year with the company outlining its AI and neural Search plans…
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BigTech is coming for unhappy banking customers
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Stripe, Slack, Canva… Cloud’s dominance grows
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Are younger devs better devs?
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Shipping News: blockchain arrives for freight
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Could a cyber attack trigger the next financial crisis?
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There’s big money in RegTech
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Should you be worried about the Assistance and Access Bill?
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From Henry Ford to advanced manufacturing
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Esker drives AP performance at European Motor Distributors
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Smart City 3.0: Are we ready?
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Govt serious about creating the ‘Google Maps’ of satellite imagery
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Australia’s infosec stripes: Ours to lose
There are a few bad habits that need to be addressed before AU can be proud of its infosec…
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Empired’s Intergen scoops up multimillion Kiwi govt win
Intergen to help DIA ‘reimagine’ Kiwi access to govt services…
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Measuring people performance with ML
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Xero Open API hooks into banks
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When blurring the lines is part of your job description
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MYOB Advanced used to manage finances at national heritage site
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Australia, meet blockchain-enabled ‘smart contracts’
All aboard the hype train, the great Australian blockchain experiment is underway…
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Speech, smarts & Bots – Gartner’s 2018 hype cycle
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ACCC takes aim at Trivago – and search algorithms
‘Growing concerns’ about price comparison sites and search algorithms…
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TIBCO Now kicks off with news aplenty
IoT, Machine Learning, The Cloud… I need a cup of tea and rest…
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They have ways of making us talk
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AI-driven automation providing lifeline for health sector
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Data science for the people
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Know your frenemy: 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey
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Logistics gets smarter with IoT
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Self-driving dreamers
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Are you really getting your collaboration tools right?
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A World Challenge?
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The cameras are getting smarter
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Govt pushes anti-encryption legislation
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Forget the chatbots, ‘virtual assistants’ are taking over now
The psychological and technological come together in the race for CX AI supremacy…
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AI and ML transforming supply chain management
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Mapping a road to saving cash
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Back to the future: The power of predictive analytics
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Help wanted: National digital leaders apply within
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Right info, right channel = happy B2B customer
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Two years into executing its digital roadmap, Ballance Agri-Nutrients is globally recognised with the ‘Best Run’ SAP Innovation Award…
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Access to dead people’s data under examination
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AI caramba: Opening AI’s ‘black box’
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Censorship be damned: Google & Co go for China
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3D printing gets the industrial treatment
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Fortnite launches Android attack
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Huawei takes bite out of trillion dollar Apple
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A shining beacon of e-govt on the world stage?
The results are in and, counter to practically everyone’s expectations, Australia has received a big thumbs up for e-govt from the UN…
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Microsoft’s cloud business grows like topsy
Azure almost doubles revenue in hot cloud market…
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No data-sharing please, we’re Australian
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Leveraging BI to enhance customer experience and promote loyalty
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Facebook maths: fake news + privacy breaches = $110b gone
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MYOB Exo delivers consistency and efficiency for charity
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Spoiler alert: “Your spreadsheets are holding back your business”
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Choosing a future-proofed foundation for growth
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Google fined gazillions: Do they care?
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Agility, the workplace of the future and UCaaS
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Stampede! The (mad) rush to opt out of govt My Health Records
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Cisco’s backdoors abound
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Dynamics Inner Circle beckons again for Empired and Intergen
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Can 5G fix NBN?
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Leadership and operations stymieing DX success
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Whatever happened to Green IT?
A few years ago it was the word on every CIO’s lips: Green or bust. Where did those good intentions go?…
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Australians demand data control and government action
Get ready for backlash against data free-for-all…
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IoT Down Under: The deals, the dollars and what’s coming next
New research – not to mention a slew of new deals – shows IoT tech finally justifying its ‘next-big-thing’ reputation…
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Microsoft: It’s time to regulate facial recognition
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The art of (business) storytelling
CFOs must pick up where CIOs have failed…
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IBM’s $1 billion Federal Govt win
Cos no one gets fired for choosing IBM, right?…
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Fasten your seat belts, the smart car race has started
If the investment is anything to go by, the self-driving car market looks set to err, accelerate…
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Qantas/Sydney international airport embrace biometrics
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The eyes of the IoT
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Introducing Apple Maps 2.0: Has Google met its mapping match?
Sure, we laughed at the disastrous Apple Maps launch in 2012, but the tech giant hasn’t given up on its plans for cartographic dominance…
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Surviving Amazon: What’s a retailer to do?
Locals must ‘lead or leave’ the market, analyst says…
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Slap a tail on it and call it AI
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MYOB brings greater efficiency to vital support charity
Helping not-for-profits to keep up with demand…
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Copyright reform: Tech companies lose again
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The internet of hype?
IoT overhype? The answer is not quite so clear-cut…
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Open banking: A solution looking for a problem to solve
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Microsoft ices heated developers
GitHub activists rattle their new cage…
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Uber Air eyes up A/NZ sites for pilot
It’s still up in the air, but the future could have wings, says Uber…
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A/NZ tech laggards losing staff
We don’t like working with old tech – and we’re not afraid to leave…
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Platform companies – and politics – the new disruptors for banking
Here comes the cloud argument, again…
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Less time behind a keyboard, more time on the water
Office 365 and SharePoint bring collaboration and a single source of truth into an easy to use system, used across 25 locations…
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Gloves off as Teradata files lawsuit against SAP for IP theft
Alleged theft of trade secrets used to create HANA…
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Tectonic shifts in Aussie telco market
‘Radical, bold’ reset sees Telstra slash 8,000 jobs…
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Google Maps API change hits company pockets
3,000 percent cost increases reported…
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Spark NZ stands behind Agile
Agile delivers results, and excuses, for Spark moves – and now Telstra’s following Spark’s lead…
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Optus World Cup woes continue
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Legal issues likely to dampen AI/ML uptake
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Understanding social top tasks: what Cisco learnt
Gerry McGovern shares the story of an exercise he did with Cisco on why people used their social media pages across a number of platforms…
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Huawei’s Aussie 5G ban
US intelligence agencies add to Chinese tech giant’s conspiracy theories…
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Australian Government sets up election cyber security task-force
The Australian government launches the Electoral Integrity Task Force to fend off cyber-attacks interfering with elections and democratic process…
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IoT at the edge: 50b devices to connect by 2022
Get ready to connect that fridge – and factory and farm – to the internet, because the IoT revolution is here…
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Data centres under water? Project Natick goes deep
Data centres are the unsung heroes of our age. Every time we use cloud apps or utter “OK Google” a data centre is doing all the legwork…
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Digital reinvention, business and the productivity paradox
While the digital revolution can indeed improve productivity, we’re not there yet suggests new research from McKinsey…
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Amazon pokes the Koala
Amazon takes exception to Aussie tax changes, are Kiwis next?…
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Survey: Senior managers just don’t get tech
Think you’re digitally dexterous? Think again. Most digital workers think their CIO is out of touch with their tech needs…
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Top 4 takeaways from the Mary Meeker internet report
It’s Silicon Valley’s favourite slide deck, but at a whopping 294 slides, Mary Meeker’s 2018 Trend Report is well and truly death by Powerpoint. But despair not: we’ve separated the wheat from the chaff on your behalf…
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Touch and grow: Visa claims sales growth
Data analysis points to payment method helping increase sales for merchants…
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FinancialForce expands partner ecosystem with Appirio deal
ERP cloud vendor FinancialForce has announced a new sales and implementation partnership with Indianapolis-based CX company Appirio…
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The future is now: Welcome to the data century
Economic empires have been built on data, but at what cost, asks Steve Singer, ANZ Country Manager at Talend…
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The fight over patient data: What we can learn from the My Health Record fracas
Forget AI, Industry 4.0 and the chatbot hordes, data privacy is the tech issue of the moment. But when does the privacy imperative slip into paranoia?…
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We have lift off: Australia finally joins the space race
Things finally take off with the government pledging dollars and sense being pledged to the country’s space capabilities – including a $26 million space agency…
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The bleeding edge: Why driverless auto-tech must recover from its PR nightmare
Self-driving Ubers may be a hazard to pedestrians but the wheels are still turning for the driverless future – and that’s a good thing…
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Ballance Agri-Nutrients wins global innovation award
The new tech lets farmers order and manage their nutrients online, turning raw data into useful information…
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What you need to know about GDPR
GDPR went live on 25 May – but how does it affects you?…
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Transitioning to agile? First prepare your environment
It may well be the corporate buzzword of the decade, but proper business agility is all about setting the foundations say Owen McCall…
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How IoT can enhance customer experiences
In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need to provide an exceptional customer experience that stands out in the marketplace…
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Too smart for our own good: Tackling the thorny issues of ethics and AI
AI keeps getting smarter and governments find themselves asking: Just where is the boundary that makes AI ethical?…
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Fusion5 think outside the box with Jemini
The power of nine helps bring three years of HCM software development to market…
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Datacom’s local govt/community engagement app goes live
Citizens can now report potholes, offer suggestions and complain at will – all digitally – thanks to Datacom’s new app…
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Digital transformation, incumbents and the business model conundrum
What Uber, Amazon and the Fosbury flop can teach us about innovation…
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Data, privacy, transparency and trust: The Deloitte Privacy Index 2018
Deloitte’s assessment of the privacy practices of the top 100 brands reveals that consumers choose brands transparent about data…
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Open banking comes to Australasia: Why it matters
Fintechs are delighted – the big banks, not so much – as open banking arrives downunder…
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Whitepaper: How to digitally transform business operations
By embracing digital transformation, organisations can cut out inefficiencies and create effective practices…
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FinancialForce and Agilyx deal brings more cloud ERP down under
Agreement will add local partner to deliver financial management solutions in A/NZ…
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Property broker nails AP with cloud-based automation
Real estate agency gains efficiencies using Esker cloud…
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Robotics Plus signs global deal for automated apple packing tech
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Esker
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IT downtime – What are the risks & how to minimise costs
Whether the result of natural disasters or outright malice, IT downtime is more than an inconvenience: when mission-critical applications go offline, it can mean disruption and disaster…
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Welcome to the New Intelligence Era (courtesy of SAP)
SAP continues to target APAC with new Singapore Leonardo Centre launch. iStart was there to check it out…
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ServiceNow takes on next least popular department
IT service management provider has HR in its sights to extend footprint…
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How upgraded ERP sows the seeds of success
Seed producer boosts operations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations and Finance implementation…
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MYOB provides greater efficiency to aid dramatic rise of unique brewery
What started as a one-man’s passion project turned into an award-winning beer brand found all over New Zealand and overseas…
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The AI dilemma: What is AI’s role in customer service?
AI brings speed and cost efficiency to business processes. But what about empathy?…
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How DOC mobilised their in-the-field asset management
DOC has become the first to implement BlueWorx, a world-class Mobile Asset Management solution by Zag, taking them a step closer to making New Zealand the greatest living space on earth…
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Gartner: Blockchain “massively hyped”
Despite the hype, most CIOs have no interest in the tech, nor any plans to develop it…
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How middleware eases enterprise software upgrades
Flow Software makes for smooth warehouse management system migration…
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The end of ownership: The subs economy booms
It’s not new, but then again, it kind of is. Goodbye pay-per-product – the subscription economy has come of age…
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Six customer engagement tips when using chatbots
Chatbots just could be the game-changer for SMBs looking to compete against larger competitors…
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Breaking down the biggest worries of tech managers
The numbers are in: Complexity, lack of skills and lack of cloud visibility are the biggest headaches for those on the front line…
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Why any cloud migration strategy should start with the data warehouse
Many Australasian organisations want to shift their IT infrastructure to the cloud, says Peter O’Connor, Snowflake Computing’s APAC VP of Sales. But where to begin?…
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AI meets CX: The ultimate test of…human patience?
The robot hordes are coming to manage the customer experience. Welcome to hell…
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Motorola’s $261m upgrade to first responder radio network
The tech company will trial its push-to-talk solution and extend radio network access to more users via broadband…
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art goes digital for the billions
Digital technology holds the promise of big global audiences for world-famous institution…
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Cloud migration: Why ‘lift and shift’ is not enough
With Amazon, MS and Google all upping their enterprise cloud game, why do businesses so often fail in their great migrations?…
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Forthcoming public cloud boom to be owned by the few
Latest Gartner forecast predicts public cloud revenue to surge, shared among a handful of major players…
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Sydney’s UTS unites with industry to create IoT lab
SAS and Cisco university collaboration to get insights into IoT data overload…
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Manufacturing money: National Manufacturing Week hits Sydney next month
Expect glad handing, big thinking and lots of synergy at this year’s NMW…
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Yup, there’s a talent crunch in Australia
It’s an endless refrain from the tech industry: There’s a skills shortage, stupid! Maybe this time your boss is right…
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IoT and the transformation of the pharmaceutical industry
Clinical trials to manufacturing, supply chain to remote monitoring, IoT is dragging the pharma industry into the 21st century…
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Digi-tech provides fertile ground for developing nations
EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel says Europe is dedicated to helping Africa build a single digital market, paving the way to better jobs on the continent…
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SAP courts millennials with new Vic University lab
Looking to match business with academia – and do a little R&D along the way – SAP opens a Next-Gen Lab Melbourne…
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Is CRM the largest software market in the world?
According to Gartner it is, but it’s more about the rise of martech and CX than core CRM rollouts…
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B2B starts with a …C
Creating value from B2B digital channels starts with customer discovery says Accenture’s Elle Bell…
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Youth in revolt: Google employees protest Pentagon drone work
Brave stand or naive youth grandstanding? 3,000 Google employees say ‘no’ to military drone tech…
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IoT cleans up Sydney Fish Market (among other things)
Clever tech is changing the way Australasia catches, monitors and markets its seafood…
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Why digital transformation must be value-led
There’s a few things to note about succeeding with digital transformation…
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‘Fitbit for machines’ receives $4.8 million in funding
Movus has secured almost $5 million in Series A funding for its sensor-equipped, machine-learning tech…
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iPod laws in a smartphone world: Will we ever get copyright right?
Innovation-unfriendly laws prevail as A/NZ lawmakers struggle to keep pace with technology…
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New Canberra Azure regions target high-security and govt data
The MS megalith continues to spread its high-specced tentacles across Australia and the globe…
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In the realm of the sensors: Oil and gas industry gears up for transformation
Data is the new Texas-tea as a conservative industry wakes up to the value of IoT…
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B2B fintech: The $216 trillion opportunity
In the latest from our ‘whoa-that’s-a-big-number’ dept, Juniper predicts boom times in burgeoning B2B payment industry…
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Where’s the beef (from)? China to trace Aussie beef to the plate
Australian cattle farmers may have a new inroad into the Chinese market as a new platform launches promising high tech tracking of Aussie beef from farm to chopstick…
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Facebook and the age of data enlightenment
With #DeleteFacebook trending, the creepiness of the social giant’s data-enabled reach is beginning to hit home…
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World-leading solution unlocks unprecedented energy insight
Big data solution drives smarter energy consumption and improved forecasting accuracy across Australia…
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Data to fund the Crusaders’ ‘Field of Dreams’
Follow-no-one Super Rugby franchise lesson in sports sponsorship…
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Telstra Ventures invests in remote drone tech
Operating drones over the internet? Yes please. Cape brings remote control drone tech downunder…
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A better way: Transforming data accuracy across the business
Aussie home loans needed an accurate data solution that was mobile and easy to deploy. The answer was a data and AI solution deployed by Empired…
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Salesforce buys Mulesoft for US$6.5 billion
The CRM giant pays top dollar for the integration specialist in its bid to tempt new customers…
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Transforming manufacturing – A survival guide
Embedding data, analytics, and sensor technology is crucial for manufacturers who want to get fit for growth…
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Microsoft dominates Gartner’s BI & Analytics list
MS continues to outperform BI peers with slick product, great iteration and an attractive price point…
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MYOB frees the data with AI-powered advisory dashboard
As accountants and bookkeepers wade deeper into advisor territory, MYOB looks to advise the advisors with free data crunching tool…
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Space downunder the final frontier
The Southern skies are set to be busy as governments open space for business…
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Former DTO head calls for govt independence from big vendor influence
Former DTO boss Paul Shetler has told a Senate inquiry that the government needs to overhaul its procurement process…
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Empired Group receives Episerver partner award
Two awards in 2017 showing Empired is a valuable partner to Episerver…
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9 Spokes signs with BNZ to offer SME dashboard
The platform will integrate bank data and provide accounting, inventory, and payroll to SME customers…
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Report: ERP implementations grow more popular, expensive and problematic
A new report finds that while ERP implementation numbers have surged since last year, customer expectations around costs, time and the overall human impact are way off…
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Australasian manufacturing is going to be great again
Industry 4.0 will do more for a resurgence in Western manufacturing than any D.J.T. slogan…
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Reengineering tech: A new approach to IT delivery
Deloitte offers big thinking for beleaguered CIOs looking to influence but feeling the weight of a raft of new responsibilities…
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Industry 4.0: Welcome to the factory of the future
[Resource library] For manufacturers, staying competitive is critical to success, and technology leadership is a core capability to embrace Industry 4.0…
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Mac attack: Malware targeting Macintosh computers soars 270 percent
Apple users aren’t looking so smug as almost undetectable malware threats to Macs go through the roof…
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Travel and tourism’s big tech makeover 2018
AI, IoT and Wi-Fi everywhere: How the travel industry is embracing new technology to secure a bigger slice of the tourism pie…
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CFOs: Your company’s newest data specialist? Or back room bean counter?
It’s supposed to be a heady new high-tech world for CFOs, industry’s most transformed role. So where’s the tech?…
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CFOs need to think about the hole, not the digger
Underpinned by data, services and customer-centricity, the role of the CFO is evolving…
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Smart communication or app overload? The new workplace comm problem
When it comes to the myriad things “costing billions to the average business”, here’s something else to add to the list: Too many comm apps…
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The age of anxiety: PwC’s maps Australian CEO unease
PwC’s 21st CEO Survey takes a look inside the mind of chief executives to reveal a world of optimism – and a fair dose of anxiety – as CEOs struggle with intelligence tech and tax reform…
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Whitepaper: Are you a future-ready manufacturer?
The next generation of manufacturers can’t afford to sit on the sidelines. They’ll need to be aware of how the world is changing…
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As new security regulation rolls on, business battens down the hatches
With last month’s rollout of new data breach disclosure laws coming into effect, Australian industry takes a fresh look at its security status – and liability…
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Data illiteracy plagues Australian workforce
What will it take for industry to actually realise its analytics potential?…
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Data breach notifications: Ignorance no longer an excuse
Notifiable data breach (NDB) laws are now a reality for Australian organisations and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming in May…
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Predictable disruption: How to expect the unexpected
Disruption is, by its very nature, unpredictable, right? Well, not so fast. According to Accenture, that ain’t necessarily so…
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How not to suck at digital transformation
Why do the best laid digital plans of so many companies go awry? Research company McKinsey offers its two cents…
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New ‘ERP’ slices into tough SME market
Queensland software startup Kradle hopes its blades will carve out a niche…
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World FinTech Report: Big or small, collaborate or perish
While fintechs and legacy players battle over customers, they might just be missing the real opportunity: cooperation…
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Why efficient data access is vital in today’s business world
In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, data has become the oil that keeps business humming, writes Talend’s Steve Singer…
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Five points to consider when moving to cloud ERP
Cloud ERP has multiple attractive propositions – but is it right for your organisation, ponders Unit4’s Jeff Arnold…
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Is Facebook and Google’s free ride over? ACCC prepares to get tough
Australia’s competition watchdog is taking a long hard look at how digital platforms – and the companies that dominate them – are affecting society…
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Solid financial results, record online subscriber growth for MYOB
Enterprise solutions make growing contribution to software vendor’s success…
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Wi-Fi service gets speed boost with Advanced
High speed success GX2 Technology is regarded as one of the industry’s ongoing success stories…
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Space tech brings IoT anywhere one step closer
As IoT and this hemisphere’s space capabilities mature, satellite comms company Myriota hopes to cash in…
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ERP improves business visibility for the deafblind
Rapid Results methodology delivers Dynamics NAV in under two months…
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New instant-payment platform hits Australia
In an industry well overdue for some innovation, a new payment platform promises near-instant payments and huge innovations for the fin-tech sector…
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Heartland ERP provider ups ante on back of customer goodwill
It’s strange to hear a technology company talk about customer service as enthusiastically as they talk about product innovation…
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Connected vehicles: Driving to an insecure future?
The machines can’t be trusted says security strategist Kevin Bocek…
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How a modern digital workplace unifies and engages a global team
SNAP 365 makes employee communication, knowledge management and collaboration easy, integrated, targeted and relevant…
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Open Banking goes live in Australia soon
Consumer financial data rights is the new contested space in tech as the government pries open the big four banks’ data vaults…
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Taking conservation rangers further with Neptune
Department of Conservation innovates mobile strategy with Neptune Software Gold Partner Soltius, improving data quality for Maintenance Planning and funding…
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Boosting performance with business processes automation
Looking to overcome manual inefficiencies, Golding Contractors looked to Empired for a business process automation solution…
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Failure to complete digital transformation will cost plenty
Integration vendor identifies integration as a major contributing issue…
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Union pushes for regulation of peer-to-peer delivery platforms
With the Transport Workers Union calling for a crack down on in the gig economy, is it the best – or worst of times – to be an independent contractor?…
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‘Half of CIOs’ plan AI deployments
Advice from Gartner on how to successfully get projects across the line…
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Fujitsu’s enterprise security BaaS solution goes live down under
Following successful collaborations in Europe and America, Fujitsu’s new enterprise-focused biometric identification solution launches in Australia…
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How to fix the govt’s digital service disaster?
Submissions are in for the Senate inquiry into the wreckage that is Australia’s digital service delivery…
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Are data assets on your balance sheet?
Probably not – and that’s likely because you don’t know what, or even where, it is…
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The Modern CFO: Using the cloud to deliver true business value
Why did Oracle choose to write its cloud applications from the ground up? It came down to customers’ ability to deliver innovation and transfer risk…
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Epicor steps up regional expansion plans, targets defence manufacturing
As defence gets a boost, vendor secures key partnership…
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Modifying democracy with the blockchain
Lofty goals of Australian start-up tied to political belief that ‘the system is broken’…
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Introducing your exciting new security headache: IoT
When it comes to the world of IoT, what you don’t know can hurt you…
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Forget AI for a minute: The focus is on the basics
Organisations slow to advance in data and analytics…
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Strategy, 2030: Australia’s plan for prosperity through innovation
A new report looks to map Australia’s future competition in the $1.6 trillion global innovation race…
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How chatbots are revolutionising marketing
Chatbots are making an impact on multiple industries, including marketing. Aaron Everingham explains how…
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Analytics and millennials: The future of retail
Data driven insights and automated offers tempt penniless smashed avo generation…
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Data-centric culture and the democratisation of BI
Nebulous though the term may be, the benefits of a ‘data-centric culture’ are manifold. But just how do businesses empower their data-savvy workers?…
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Robots are here to manage your money. But should they?
The rise of the roboadvisor is upon us and they’re coming for your assets (or the management thereof at least)…
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How distribution benefits from the next evolution of automated document processing
When you hear talk about robotics in the distribution centre, you may envision some of the innovations Amazon is using to streamline operations…
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$6 million Defence boost for quantum tech research
Call for applications as quantum tech becomes part of $730 million Next Generation Technologies Fund…
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By the numbers: Cybercrime in 2017
What happened, what’s coming next and what you can do about it…
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Don’t panic: Here comes ‘Industry 4.0’
We’re on the cusp of a new technological revolution and we’re woefully unprepared, says Deloitte. But that’s okay…
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How data consolidation delivers a better supply chain
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses constantly hunt for ways to drive operational efficiency, writes Anaplan’s Jim McParlane…
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World’s top IT companies tackle Industry 4.0 – with free education
Tech giants come together to train world’s workers to survive Fourth Industrial Revolution…
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2018: The year of zero-login, smart cars & the biometrics of things
What’s your mother’s maiden name? Don’t ask…
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AU fails Amazon challenge with second slowest sites in the world
Australia’s e-merchants disregard Amazon threat as a new report shows local load times faster only than China…
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Turning digital transformation from vision to reality in 2018
This is the year digital transformation evolves from vision to reality, writes TIBCO’s David Rosen…
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IBM digitises global shipping supply chain
Big Blue and Maersk look to reinvent logistics using blockchain…
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Cloud overtakes on premise, driven by finance function
Paperless processes, automation and efficiency gains hard to ignore…
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Five manufacturing trends and predictions for 2018
The manufacturing industry is expanding faster than ever, wires Oracle NetSuite’s Andrew Mellor…
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Timber! How collaboration powers industry disruption
Trans-Tasman vendor collaboration enables pure-play online hardware retailer…
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The honeymoon’s over: Bitcoin topples
Panic in Asia spreads to rest of the world as South Korean government vows to get tough…
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eBook: A manufacturer’s guide to growing profitably
Download the eBook now to get your business on the right growth path…
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2018: The year of social payment wars
P2P payments take off as Apple, Google and Facebook all start vying for that sweet, sweet social dollar…
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Data quality: why businesspeople are from Mars, IT people from Venus
WhereScape’s Michael Whitehead says data quality is a business problem, not a data one…
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eBook: Factory of the future
This eBook, will show you how to take on business-changing megatrends with new technology, that will ultimately enable you to improve efficiency, reduce cost & deliver greater value to your customers…
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eBook: Digital transformation in manufacturing
This ebook outlines what’s needed to define your growth strategy and the role digital technology plays in achieving your objectives…
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Why Soltius went to CES 2018 (and what it discovered there)
What is an enterprise solutions company doing at the biggest consumer electronics show in the world?…
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Government IT spending: Priorities (and where the money’s going)
Cloud, cybersecurity and analytics hot for 2018…
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How AI and automation will power your new ‘no-collar’ workforce
With hybrid human/machine roles becoming a reality, one thing’s for sure: HR and IT departments – not to mention low-skilled workers – are in for some big changes…
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eBook: A manufacturer’s guide to growing profitably
Download the eBook now to get your business on the right growth path…
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NSW considers digital signatures for land contracts
Kiss the paperwork goodbye; buying a home – including signing documents- may soon be digital…
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Why an API strategy is critical for your DevOps environment in 2018
As organisations plan their IT strategies for 2018, increasing attention is being given to DevOps, writes Will Bosma…
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Economic downturn? Keep on collaborating
New research indicates that recessionary thinking has all the hallmarks of a self-fulfilling prophecy…
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Introducing your new workplace headache: Gen Z
The new (est) breed takes a different approach to tech than their Millennial predecessors…
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Automated wealth management tipped for big things
The roboadvisers are expanding, with revenues to reach US$25-billion in 4 years…
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Forget cryptocurrency for a moment as new blockchain use cases emerge
Fishy business just the start of a potential deluge of distributed digital records management…
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New year, new Epicor ERP
Strong focus on BI, visual analytics in the cloud…
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All I want for Christmas is a new EV
Futurist reckons ICE cars will be obsolete in under a decade. He might just be right…
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How payroll plays a role in growth
Take good care of employees and they will take good care of business…
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What the death of Net Neutrality means for business down under
With the FCC acting on its threat to repeal the regulations commonly known as ‘Net Neutrality’, we take a look at what the move means locally…
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Turns out marketers are just guessing
If you ever get the feeling your marketing person is a little full of it, you may have been onto something…
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Automate finance functions to improve efficiency
Automation is impacting personal and professional lives; Dominic Parsons, CEO of business intelligence vendor CALUMO, explains how it will boost the finance department…
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How clever is this: AI will create 2.3 million jobs by 2020
While eliminating 1.8 million less demanding ones…
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Cincom powers organic growth for fruit and vegetable supplier
Software vendor prioritises T&F All States’ connection to freshness…
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Can too many experts hurt your venture? Experts say ‘yes’
You may think stacking your business-deck with brains is crucial to innovate, but new research indicates the opposite may be true…
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Gartner CIO agenda 2018: CIOs must ‘remix’ their role beyond IT
Controlling costs, improving processes, exploiting data, driving revenue, scaling digital: the modern CIO must master it all…
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Enterprise Tech in 2018: What’s on the horizon
We are in a period of transition, says Unit4’s Dan Ussher, moving away from ownership of assets and instead consuming services…
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Govt IT procurement spending revealed
The National Audit Office’s (ANAO) report on government procurement shows that big price tags don’t necessarily equal big results…
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Why you need a digital strategy…not just an API strategy
Don’t let the technical details cloud digital purpose, writes Colman McCaffery of French integration software company Axway…
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Why most cybercrimes are motivated by fraud…and what you can do about it
Cybercrime’s a business – and business is booming, writes Content Security’s Ken Pang…
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Seven key security predictions for 2018
WatchGuard’s Sylvain Lejeune looks ahead for the cybersecurity trends likely to take hold in the New Year…
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Four supply chain predictions for 2018
Connected planning software vendor Anaplan looks ahead to the New Year…
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CDOS deliver business impact, enable digital transformation
By 2021 ‘CDO’ will be the most gender diverse of technology-affiliated C-level positions…
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Meet Australia’s fastest growing tech companies
Tech industry alive and kicking as Deloitte’s fastest-growing start-ups look to turn early growth into real McCoy success…
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NEM dangles blockchain millions
NEM.io Foundation tours A/NZ to promote business blockchain use and grab developer attention…
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Govt to mandate open banking data access
New legislation will shift the control of users’ data from the bank to the customer (and may just supercharge the fintech sector)…
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Facial recognition comes to Post’s Digital ID programme
Rapidly evolving ID solution about to go live with biometric facial recognition…
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Dimension Data’s top IT trends in 2018
Ettienne Reinecke, Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Gibson, Group Executive, Digital Practice, share their thoughts on the forces that will re-shape digital business in 2018…
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Top 10 tech trends for 2018: IoT #1
Smart object storage, analytics and AI, and extension of agile methodologies across the enterprise will play key roles in coming year…
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Digital transformation is dead
Long live digital transformation…
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Coconut juice goes bananas with Advanced
Strong customer demand puts pressure on Raw C to keep its systems up…
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re:Invent insights – bringing home the AWS bacon
Soltius attendees translate news fresh from Vegas partner event…
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Fake news and cyber security
Why thinking clearly about security is so hard…
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Telecoms, banking ‘most advanced’ in digital transformation
Less than 10 percent of enterprises have achieved their digital transformation goals…
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‘World’s largest battery’ in South Australia
SA gets a lithium-ion battery…in the most ‘Tesla’ way possible…
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Boards insist on ruining the fintech revolution
With bitcoin prices surging and fintech the fastest growing start up sector in Australia, it’s a brave new fintech world – but not everyone’s on board…
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Digital Experience: Corporate Australia lifts game, Kiwis lose ball forward
Report shows Amazon effect improves matters for customers…
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Uber not above dodgy dealings
It may be a year old hacking scandal but as Uber starts to come clean it just gets worse and worse…
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HPE further advances data centre automation with AI
More evidence of the IT industry clever-clogs doing their co-workers out of a job?…
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AI to further advances data centre automation
More evidence of the IT industry clever-clogs getting rid of their own co-workers?…
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Amazon, Alibaba and indomitable AU retail
Could it be that the death of Australian retail has been greatly exaggerated?…
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The impact of digitisation on power plants, asset management and distribution
Perennial energy industry challenges are being addressed by the Industrial Internet of Things, contend Indra’s Giovanni Polizzi and Ana Isabel Galvez Perez…
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DevOps, disruption and Tesla doing business the old fashioned way
All the awesome tech in the world still superseded by the basics…
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Heating up the Australian market…
Devex Systems wanted a system that could power their complex business functions…
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Business owners: ERP software selection starts (and finishes) with you
Rushing into an RFP process wastes everyone’s time…
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Mobility and the NZDF’s march of progress
New Zealand Defence Force takes control of inventory with Neptune Software and Soltius…
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MYOB pays a premium for Reckon division
‘Connected Practice’ strategy announced to drive A/NZ growth…
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Transformation, social and big, fat profits
Microsoft rouses the troops, pointing to potential for the AU economy, public sector disruption and huge opportunities available to partners…
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The robot accountants have arrived, and they mean you no harm
Ask not what you can do for the robots – ask instead what they can do for you, contends BlackLine’s Ann Furlong…
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Your complaints here: Fed Govt sets up ICT complaints email
Got a grievance re: ICT procurement? Now you can vent your spleen directly via the new complaints email address…
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Oracle primes ‘XaaS’ offerings
Throws open doors to Sydney Digital Hub, focuses on net new…
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Hollywood’s eyes wander down under
MPAA has come out swinging against Australian copyright laws, Kiwi piracy…
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The challenge of GDPR compliance in the Internet of Things era
New regulations may handbrake IoT deployments, writes Talend’s Steve Singer…
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Whitepaper: How to successfully select an ERP system in eight simple steps
Eight steps and then you should be able to select an ERP solution based on how well it met your selection criteria…
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From Russia with Like
What to do when your platform is loved by users and Russian propagandists alike?
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Aussies want robot minions, not work-mates
It’s a brave new robot-powered world – for better or worse…
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The data-driven advantage for CFOs
How leading CFOs can gain a significant competitive edge by utilising data from multiple sources to predict market trends ahead of competitors…
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How eye-AI can revolutionise autism testing
Smartphone could provide everything necessary for remote assessments…
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Cloud proliferation drives OpenStack integration woes
Just because it’s open, doesn’t mean it’s integrated…
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Convergence: How technology actualises vision
Empired conference demonstrates leading local and international digital strategy success…
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From small to medium and beyond: Navigating the ERP battlefield
The double-edged sword of right-sizing your systems…
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Beyond the banner: Is display advertising about to go bust?
Online ad spend across Asia/Pacific continues its upward trajectory but that may be about to change…
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APAC leads adoption, struggling to scale disruptive tech
Gartner survey shows APAC CIOs on steep technology curve…
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Goodbye Holden, hello ‘Advanced Manufacturing’
Can the Australian manufacturing industry reinvent itself for the new era?…
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What will it take to transform Australia’s public sector?
The public appetite is there, but it’s ours to lose…
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Goodbye legacy systems, hello ‘Composable IT’
Remember how much fun it was to build stuff with Lego blocks? HPE CTO Paul Haverfield does…
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March of technology targets accountants, tech workers
Trades looking increasingly attractive as a career option for a prosperous future…
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Not so fast, Amazon: AU retailers prepare to spend big on tech
With Amazon AU imminent, retailers beginning to ‘wise-up’ to new tech strategies…
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The downside of DevOps: faster isn’t always better
DevOps is gaining popularity – but there are limitations, writes Phil Kernick, CTO at information security specialist CQR…
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How machine learning can raise the bar in customer service
Using AI to power the next decade of customer experience will reduce errors in sales orders says Esker’s Eric Bussy…
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NBN CEO: ‘Stop comparing Australia to NZ’
Bill Morrow leaps into print to defend NBN rollout from Kiwi comparisons (but fails to nail the landing)…
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Study shows Australia (and NZ) lead world on automation and machine learning
What’s behind high levels of new technology adoption?…
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Business transformation driving new SaaS and PaaS appetite
Huge opportunities for vendors as enterprises look to modernise legacy systems (and have the budgets to match)…
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The technology shaping digital business
Blockchain leads the charge of technologies which will change the world…
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Australian retail: How to withstand the Amazon onslaught
Impending arrival of retail juggernaut causing lost sleep for Australian retailers, writes MuleSoft’s Will Bosma…
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Here’s where the real growth is: RegTech
Billions to be made saving banks from themselves…
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Digital transformation – peel away the hype
Focus instead on creating business value…
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The new best job in the world: Data Scientist?
Why the data guy just might be your company’s most valuable asset…
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Spreadsheet anathema behind planning software unicorn
Billion-dollar Excel buster steps up APAC activity…
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AU’s govt ICT failures: Is outsourcing to blame?
CPSU points finger at external vendors, contractors and excessive cost cutting…
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MYOB’s path to mid-market dominance
Rapid sales growth for Advanced secures segment for mid-market newcomer…
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Good bot, bad bot: find the attributes that please
As the hype around bots builds to a crescendo, Dan Ussher, Unit4 ANZ Sales Director, ponders good and evil, bad and better…
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Australia slightly lags worldwide public cloud revenue growth
Major vendors dominate rapidly expanding market…
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Resistance is futile: Here comes Amazon
“You can’t stop progress,” career politician Bill Heslop once said, and he was right…
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ATP Science gets fit for growth
MYOB Advanced adds some much needed muscle to a growing nutraceutical company…
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The CFO of tomorrow
The modern CFO role is rapidly transforming. It’s defined by change, and the driving force behind that change is innovation as a generational shift unfolds…
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Alternative lending finally comes of age in Australia
It’s taken its sweet time getting here, but Australia’s ‘alternative finance industry’ (read peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding and the like) is kicking into high gear…
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Bitcoin 2017: A Guide for the Slightly Baffled
Bit what? Coin who? What you need to know about the state of bitcoin, here and now…
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Xero’s machine learns, more
Automation of codes rolling out to all users…
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CDO vs CIO: The real digital divide
Keeping the lights on still consumes most of the IT budget…
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Smile! Govt facial recognition capability comes to AU
Wring those hands, civil libertarians, Big Brother is now watching…
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Digital transformation: Delight or Disaster?
‘Doing it’ is one thing. ‘Getting it right’ is quite another, writes Little Giant’s Mark Hurley…
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Australia’s Agilyx Group spreads wings
Another international acquisition expands strategy and delivery capabilities in UK and Ireland…
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IT spending sluggish, enterprise software and services shine
Global spending to increase a modest 4.3 percent; digital transformation a factor…
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Govt announces bold ‘universal data rights’ for all Australian consumers
The Federal government will work with industry to create standardised APIs to make data accessible to consumers and third parties…
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AU-NASA ready for launch
The Turnbull Government commits to creating a national space agency…
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Is the AI juice worth the squeeze?
The promises of AI are likely to exceed delivery – but a third will spend more…
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Microsoft adds ‘first-line’ workers to target market with new 365 deal
Microsoft releases its F1 ‘everything’ subscription plan, urging digitisation of frontline workers…
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Why CIOs must master the S-Curve
Thanks to Moore’s Law the S-Curves in technology are frighteningly short, writes Owen McCall…
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Electric dreams and vacuum power
Can James Dyson produce an electric car in record time?…
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A tech insider’s digital transformation journey
It doesn’t just happen to other industries – technology vendors and partners are affected, too…
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Rumours swirl that NDIS’s $3.5m star-studded AI-project has been dumped
Has fear of govt IT failure become self-fulfilling prophecy?…
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RegTech 101: What you need to know about FinTech’s buzzword du jour
RegTech has arrived and it’s going to solve all your compliance problems…right?…
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Ride sharing numbers to double despite Uber-hate
Uber’s travails are yet to impact the company where it counts as market flourishes…
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Fastest fintechs revealed
Xero named among A/NZ’s top 10 wallet busters…
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Everybody loves the cloud
Turns out we’re just not very good at using it…
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IDC: Ignore the hype as IoT ecosystem falls into place
Don’t be drawn by the numbers. Focus on the value behind them…
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Digital transformation hits the road
Learners don’t need pens, paper and multiple choice options. Drive time starts with a screen…
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How streaming analytics won in Singapore
Decision support ‘in the now’ plays a part in Formula One win…
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Cloud data warehousing comes of age
Cloud computing is hardly new, but with data warehousing structural challenges and maturity limited widespread adoption. Until now, writes NOW Consulting’s Martin Norgrove…
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Survey finds man and machine the big concerns for AU CEOs
76 percent of Australian CEOs say they plan to cut staff numbers this year owing, at least in part, to automation…
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BI & Analytics Buyer’s Guide
Each year iStart publishes the BI & Analytics Buyer’s Guide providing comparison and evaluation of the leading business intelligence, big data and analytics vendors and their products, along with local A/NZ reseller or implementation partner contact details…
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And the blockchain leader is…IBM
Four in ten cited Big Blue as top player in a technology which could be crucial to its future…
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Qld’s new strategy: Whole-of-government, digital-first
Calculates potential savings of some $400 million per year just by replacing paper-based transactions…
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Of trees, woods and Hadoopable problems
Structured, unstructured and lots of it – but does more data translate more sense?…
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Xero brings real-time data-driven insight to AU SMB economy
The new monthly report from Xero covers cashflow, payments, employment, trading overseas and cloud adoption for SMBs…
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Why the time for digital transformation is now
Overcoming legacy pain just one step on the journey…
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New partnership ‘drives digital transformation’
Data governance at the centre of new business models…
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Five ways to botch your RPA rollout
A software robot army, ready and willing to do your bidding? Not quite…
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ERP Benefits echo through sonar manufacturer’s back office
Cincom raises the bar on flexibility, integration, and future functionality at Thales Underwater Systems…
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Cyber insurance booms as no one quite knows what they’re talking about
As threats from cyber criminals mount (or at least the perception of it), insurers prepare for boom times…
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Out of Office: Meet your new agile workforce
Staying connected while working remotely has never been easier. So why are you all still in the city?…
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‘Je suis millennial’: Prepare for the next generation of customers
Generational upheaval means expectations are changing…
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Network error: What’s really happening with the NBN?
It’s been a rocky road but the NBN rollout is starting to take shape…
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Mid-market ERP software: who’s buying?
Mid-market companies do not switch ERP software. So how do you explain vendor growth? Martin Olsen steps up…
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Combative sales tactics a no-win for ERP vendors
Any vendor looking to poach the clients of a competitor is wasting its time, writes Martin Olsen…
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Cryptocurrency transactions expected to exceed US$1 trillion
No longer the new kid on the block, volumes and values soar…
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Drop the ‘digital’ – these days it’s just ‘experience’
An increased focus on digital requires your entire business to understand they have a role to play in enhancing user experience, writes Keith Buckley…
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AI on the prize: Biz leaders prepare for ‘leap of faith’
As AI takes hold where are the likely market opportunities?…
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The ten habits of customer-centric digital organisations
Technology innovation offers organisations new opportunities to engage with customers as they build a digital business, writes Olive Huang…
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Start-up accelerators, incubators, and mentors are epic fails
Experienced Indian angel investor, advisor and mentor Ajeet Khurana makes harsh criticisms and valuable observations which resonate in Australasian markets…
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Powering up sales and service
Australia’s Helios Power Solutions turned to Abel ERP to drive the automation, flexibility and efficiency needed to strengthen its expanding international business…
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Blockchain to the rescue for same-sex poll?
With a national same sex marriage poll – and $122 million bill – on the horizon, new scrutiny is being levelled at outdated voting systems…
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Preparing for what’s next in the age of Future Shock
The ultimate DIY: Be your own futurist…
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The eight critical components of a digital workplace
Ummm aren’t we digital already?…
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The future benefits of AI are bigger than you can imagine
It’s currently one of the hottest topics in the technology sector and, if experts are right Steve Singer says AI’s impact will be as big as the silicon chip…
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ICT procurement reform welcomed by industry
The ICT Procurement Taskforce Report – along with the government’s response – has been issued and it’s good news for SMEs…
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Jet boost for Beef + Lamb finance
For any business, accurate financial reporting provides the basis on which to make decisions and track performance over time…
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Tech labour market grows, roles broaden, salaries steady
Buoyant mood sees NSW, the ACT and VIC dominate demand for tech hiring…
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Digital transformation – it’s not for everyone
Alternate view points out for some companies, digital evolution is a natural process…
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Insurance disruptor looks to tackle fraud, pay claims faster
Industry newcomer tackles traditional bugbears with tech…
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Drones, driverless cars and VR bikes
Three pieces of emerging Aussie tech have caught our eye in recent times…
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The participation trophy myth: The real secrets to managing millennials
Hiring staff between now and 2030? here’s what you need to know…
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Can AI replace data scientists? This startup thinks so
And it has A$16 million to prove it…
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Augmented Intelligence: the ultimate telco advantage?
Facing down disruption, Aniqa Tariq reckons the telecommunications industry should seek intelligent answers…
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AU govt’s IT failures to go under the microscope
Can another inquiry into govt’s multiple digital debacles actually fix anything?…
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Innovation drives fresh success for global leader
A global leader in textile rentals, Alsco Inc. chose Abel ERP to automate and manage a fast-growing business…
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Promapp named ‘Hot Vendor’ in Business Process Management
A stonking year for Auckland-HQ’d BPM vendor continues…
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Government signs off on new ‘misuse of market power’ rules
Significant amendments designed to strengthen competition law legislated…
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Optimizely hits AU shores just in time for retail armageddon
Can the software help AU business survive ‘the Amazon effect’?…
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Crystal ball time: iStart talks with a futurist
How AI, Blockchain and even those damn chatbots are going to shape the future…
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Data, analytics and a smarter public transport system
Australia’s growing population is causing headaches for transport planners – but answers can come from analytics, says Daniel Churches…
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On 500 Startups, Google, diversity and tech culture
Unconscious bias maybe, but true value lies in a diversity of ideology not collective indignation…
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Tech hype cycle: from obscure to…transparently immersive
Annual Gartner update illustrates looming risk of disillusionment…
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Westpac takes $40m step into internet POS payment market
AU startup gets the nod from fintech-friendly banking giant…
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Bad reputation: Getting honest about AU’s image crisis
Why Australia’s slipping corruption reputation is both challenge and opportunity…
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The smart future of manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence and the production floor revolution…
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Oracle ERP Cloud has the magic says Gartner
‘Financial management cloud suites’ an evolving market; Gartner picks leaders, offers cautions…
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‘This is a terrible time to buy ERP’
Hold on to those purse strings, says ERP expert…
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Seven ways to get to YES on IT deals
Whether you are on the buy- or sell-side of software/services deals, the ability to cut through the sales BS is vital to a successful deal says Brian O’Doherty…
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Employee anxiety in the age of automation
Automation likely to be next decade’s major labour market disruptor…
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Xero AI: Sweating the small stuff for big gains
Grand plans for AI, machine learning and automation starts with minor improvements…
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Hitting hype cycle peak, the world prepares itself for blockchain or bust
New research highlights distributed ledger tech’s rise to ‘next big thing’ status, even though it’s generally poorly understood…
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Ready up for ‘ubiquitous AI’ (but beware ‘AI washing’)
Here we go again, as its AI’s turn for a massive hype…
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Ever wondered which ERP vendor is best?
Panorama Consulting Solutions ranks ERP vendors for 2017 and comes up with a winner…
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APIs are taking off, big time
Just how important are APIs in your business?…
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Attention Slackers: Don’t expect privacy around the digital watercooler
Report charts rise of office messaging tools, reveals troubling privacy assumptions…
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What’s next for the sharing economy
Predictions on where disruptive business models will strike next…
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Shock, horror, IT dept says NO to transformation
Survey shows employee buy-in the biggest roadblock to digital success…
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ICT sector struggling to put bums in seats
The latest review of SEEK data shows boomtime in the tech sector…
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SkyCity heads into the cloud
Intergen lands major deal for new Microsoft CRM/ERP solution…
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Convenience and customer service drive travel AI
Once portrayed as an idea of the future, AI is travel-ready today…
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FinancialForce: Plugging the services gap
Newcomer ERP vendor targets lucrative niche…
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Australians, Kiwis wary about sharing data…and no wonder
With continual high-profile data breaches, people are rightfully selective about info sharing…
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Who’s going to pay for the NBN?
Checking in on the slow-motion rollout…(spoiler alert: It’s you)
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This week in fintech: All is flux
Bitcoin instability, under reporting of dodgy activity and ongoing malware mayhem are the order of the day in global fintech…
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Integration at the heart of enterprise digital transformation
As digital technologies become all pervasive in the world of business, ensuring they are seamlessly linked is becoming increasingly important, argues Robert Merlicek…
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Digital transformation more difficult for risk averse companies
MIT SMR and Deloitte backs obvious conclusions with research…
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Worldwide IT spending to grow 2.4 percent in 2017
Driven by enterprise software – and Australia and New Zealand outstrip global average…
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Chatbots: The cheap way to irritate your customers
How much does a chatbot for your site cost? More than you might think…
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Digitisation could deliver big buzz for beekeepers
Spatial intelligence and more seeks sweet spot with honey producers…
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Good news, everyone! Your tax just got harder
Eliminating ‘unfettered averaging’ one of the goals of new accounting standards…
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‘Act now’ to counter Amazon invasion
Report confirms what retailers already know…
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From Kiwi government to the world
Empired launches trans-Tasman cloud ECM…
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CEOs are missing the mobility boat
Research shows 40 percent of Australian businesses fail to invest in mobile technology…
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ERP decisions: form must follow function
Is cloud a good idea when on-premise works better? That’s a ‘no’…
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Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment epidemic
We chew over the recent wave of sexual harassment complaints coming out of the centre of the tech universe…
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AI dubbed ‘face of innovation’
PwC report fingers AI and IoT as ‘most advanced’ emerging technologies in New Zealand…
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Employers rejoice on 457 backdown
Employers and immigrants likely enthused with government visa-scheme turnaround. Middle-aged ICT specialists? Maybe not so much…
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Battlefield internet: AU joins fight for online hearts and minds
Business, government, civil libertarians and advertisers in battle for online space…
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Australian company edges NZ Post further towards efficiency
Journey to transformation sees ‘NZ first’ implementation of Oracle cloud technology…
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New debacle sees Australia match global project failure rate
Cancer registry marks yet another government IT misstep…
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How APIs can help extract maximum value from DevOps
When it comes to developing software to create innovative experiences for customers, organisations can choose one of two paths, contends Brad Drysdale…
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Vic govt spends half its budget cutting red tape
Commits $43m to replace struggling infrastructure with a streamlined communications hub…
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Customer experience is money
8 in 10 people will pay more for a better one…
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Westpac blunts teeth with failed Apple bite
AU fintech fight gets bloody…
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Governments look to scrutinise encrypted data for ‘security’
Battle over private data heats up…
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How open source is driving the big data market
There is a clear split between legacy and next- generation approaches to software development, writes Steve Singer…
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Double digit growth for supply chain management
Driven by SaaS, SME deployments…
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Sad? Dodgy video to blame
‘Filmed with a potato, streamed over 56k modem’…
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Tech support demonstrates that visualisation rules
Strategy visualisation specialist Paul Duignan finds it hard to take when people don’t get it…
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Busting the ‘end-to-end’ myth
Think business is efficient and systems connected? It isn’t and they aren’t…
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Silicon Valley angels eye Melbourne startup scene
‘Melbourne 500’ set up to boost Australian innovation…
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Banking: Open for the future
Incumbents must embrace and lead the evolution into ‘open banking’ or risk disintermediation…
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Why the ROI on ERP still makes solid business sense
Overwhelmed with fancy new technologies, it can be easy to lose sight of the value added by foundational software, writes Matthew Murray…
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Why Rimini Street is ‘the enemy’
Scuttlebutt from the floor of the CIO Summit…
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An artificially intelligent breakfast with Chef Watson
But what did AI-led menu design taste like…
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Get social and get cred: Engaged CEOs improve perceptions
Study reveals companies with ‘social executives’ perceived 23 percent more positively than those without…
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Collaboration, not competition, will underpin fintech success
Working together the route to riches, according to new report…
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Australia’s world record for economic growth heralds tougher times
The signs are mainly pointing downwards, according to Dun & Bradstreet…
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Ready up for a ‘post-ERP world’
Subscription business heralds a new era, if subscription software vendor is to be believed…
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WannaCry aside, Australians befuddled by ransomware
Despite large numbers of victims, people are unsure of protection against this particular brand of malware…
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Why the death of on-premise ERP is greatly exaggerated
It’s curtains for on premise ERP software, right? Not quite; the situation is a little more nuanced…
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How AI might make ERP friendlier
Anything that makes logging into your ERP a happier moment has to be a good thing…
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Chasing the ERP pot of gold
Getting value from ERP investments continues to challenge most organisations – but postmodern ERP strategies offer new opportunities, writes Denise Ganly…
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Calls for simpler tax for startups, small business
Could there be any better impetus for a startup than easier regulation and a favourable tax regime?…
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ERP Market Commentary: 2018 a user odyssey
Upon release of its 2017-18 ERP Buyer’s Guide, iStart reflects on factors influencing the market…
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The big, big cost of cybercrime
Nearly 3 billion customer data records expected to be stolen in 2017 alone…
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Finance function value lost in reams of reporting
Finance should be about modelling and predicting performance, writes Michael Schmitt…
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Rare spot of good news for NBN rollout
Launceston becomes Australia’s first Gigabit city…
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Lego, IBM Watson for lunch…and an astronaut
Eclectic insights on the menu at Accelerate 2017 event…
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Deal to commercialise trans-Tasman uni research
A listed British company which specialises in commercialising university research has made available A$200 million for investment in technology from top universities in Australia and New Zealand…
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Why are CFOs holding up decision making?
Report points to poor adoption, use of analytics for insights…
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The robots are here. Can new technologies help us be more human?
Technology has consistently made life better for people; it’s not going to be different this time, writes Adam Howatson…
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‘Cloud first’ – so good it’s worth another look
Cloud is hardly new…nor is ‘cloud first’. But just in case the benefits haven’t hit home, Sean Kopelke gives them another once over…
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Insights from the IT Boss at the Cake Boss
Swept to international reality TV attention, Carlo’s Bakery digitised rapidly…
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Skills shift sees techie hires at non-tech firms
Good news IT worker, you are in demand everywhere…
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Pollies pounce on CeBIT Australia
Tech event focuses on cybersecurity, cloud and big data analytics, and political innovation…
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Australian companies roll the dice on big data
Data management software vendor Talend reckons there is a surge in Australian businesses ‘betting’ on big data projects this year…
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Artificial Intelligence is just plain dumb
Google’s time machine reveals AI in service management is far from new…
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‘Transforming’? Be sure to bring your people along for the ride
With the introduction of new technology, a focus on people is the key to success…
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Autonomous vehicles set to take off ‘eventually’
Self-driving cars creep closer as Vehicle-to-Vehicle technology introduced…
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Archaic payments present challenges for Aussie companies
More than half of Australian businesses struggling with payment innovation have concerns about near-term survival…
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Archaic payments present challenges for Aussie companies
More than half of Australian businesses struggling with payment innovation have concerns about near-term survival…
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WannaCry: the most exciting thing to happen in cybersecurity for ages
Massive ransomware attack kicks PR machines into overdrive…
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Artificial Intelligence: The end of life as we know it (and why that is a good thing)
With 2017 set to be the biggest year yet for Artificial Intelligence, Adam Hosker ponders the future and finds it bright…
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Cracking the onboarding nut
New software could have positive unintended consequence…
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Digital a big deal down under
Forward-looking tech leaders ahead of the curve – but will they stay there…
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Budget confirms digital economy, small business priorities
ACS encourages more funding to address ICT skills gap; more needs to be done for small business…
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How ‘servant leadership’ drives success
Who is the most important person in any company? It’s not the CEO…
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Chatbots a ‘game changer’ for healthcare, banking
Juniper Research says traditional call centres are under threat…
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Will they bend or break? Avoid contorting knowledge workers
Data guru Donald Farmer channels Bruce Willis to draw analogies with security and governance…
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The interface of the future could be no interface
Bots could make working with ERP a more chatty affair…
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Melbourne IT beefs up SMB division by acquisition
A company in which Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull once held shares is on a growth spurt…
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Artificial data barriers cost national economies dear
The unintended consequences of ‘data sovereignty’ laid bare…
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It’s just data – and given good tools, watch how people will use it
Hadoop inventor pegs ‘big data’ back to ‘modern data infrastructure’…
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JUCY: How a platform approach drives digital transformation
Business innovator takes a ‘whole of stack’ approach to its use of Microsoft technology…
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‘Massive global expansion’ for NetSuite
This is what the Oracle ‘big brother’ really means for cloud ERP vendor…
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Now big data threatens to ‘save the planet’
Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and now capable of solving the biggest ‘challenge’ of our time…
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Win 10 looking good for business
Dull but important reason for faster migration to more recent OS…
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SaaS is an intermediate step – Unit4 CEO
In time, businesses will buy outcomes, not software…
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Most, but not all, Australian businesses are ready for ‘digital revolution’
Survey suggests some business are short on investment in 4IR workers…
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Shadow IT: Not a new thing and nor is managing it
Many IT organisations are strong on wanting a mandate as a way of eliminating shadow IT – but it won’t work, says Owen McCall…
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ERP trends that affect software selection
Dylan Persaud looks at the most important trends influencing ERP decision-making today…
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Eye-BM uses deep learning for disease detection
How automation will help solve health challenges of the future…
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457 cancellation a boon for Australian IT professionals
Who cares for the middle-aged white tech specialist…
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What millennials really want
The short answer: a smartphone and an internet connection…
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Australian workers share their feels on the digital age
Nearly half ‘feel empowered by their organisation to embrace the demands of the digital workplace’…
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Disruption hits the furniture trade
‘Digital disruption’ is a thing as taxi companies, hoteliers and media companies like iStart have discovered…
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Aussie ‘robotic process automation’ startup wins big US deal
Clerical tasks made much easier with software automation…
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Digital transformation is whatever you want it to be
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”…
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Signs that your business is ready for a new system
You know that for your business to grow and succeed your business needs technology that keeps you across everything going on…
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Global IT spending slows – Gartner
Rising USD puts a damper on tech investments…
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From proof of concept to production
Is blockchain ready for prime time?…
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ITSM moves out of the basement, into the house
Service management principles apply anywhere service is delivered…
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UXC into CSC into DXC
Mega-corporation the culmination of a long process of consolidation…
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CX standing in the way of digital transformation
Organisations around the world are failing to implement effective digital customer experience (CX) strategies…
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And the blind shall see – thanks to robot eyes
Local company raises capital to develop ‘Bionic Eye’ for global markets…
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‘When I grow up I want to work in IT’
Said the young girl never…
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Automation: The fear is real (but there are bigger fish to fry)
Technologists and politicians face off on automation, the future of work and, err, climate change…
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Dropping in on MYOB’s journey upmarket
It has been a busy time for MYOB, the onetime provider of the most popular accounting package in New Zealand and Australia…
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Australian companies ahead of the digital transformation game
Research from MuleSoft delivers virtual pat on the back for local businesses…
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Finding your driverless tractor about to get easier
Precision agriculture among latest geospatial initiatives at digital earth symposium…
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How bizarre: Here’s how to identify DT need
These are the commonplace business processes which should kick digital transformation into gear…
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Cleverer operations land in Australia
Melbourne Airport smartens up with integration and intelligence…
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Salesforce
Salesforce began in 1999 with a vision of reinventing Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Since pioneering the use of cloud computing they have revolutionised the way enterprise software is delivered and used, changing the industry forever.
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Little AI takes centre stage
Salesforce futurist Peter Schwartz makes his calls on what artificial intelligence won’t look like…
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Locksmiths find key to ERP value
Tech-savvy company modernises for more efficient distribution…
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Concur launches ANZ App Centre
Plug in a few of your favourite business services…
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Uncertainty shaping CEO priorities
Heisenberg issues plague the minds of senior execs…
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Becoming cognitive
What underpins the increasingly in-vogue concept of cognitive computing? Wayne Thompson, Hui Li and Alison Bolen provide a quick start guide…
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Shades of Pets.com?
Whole world goes crazy over Visa in sunglasses…
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Yellowfin
URL: https://www.yellowfinbi.com/ Address: Sydney, Melbourne Telephone(s): +61 3 8617 4954 or +61 3 8593 8938 Contact This Vendor Yellowfin Yellowfin is a highly intuitive 100 percent web-based reporting and analytics solution. Yellowfin is a leader
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Hackathon gets high on data
Mix developers, pizza and beer: await genius. But what happens if you add screeds of real data and some smart analytics tools?…
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BI and analytics spend rises as data volumes explode
High volume data processing and real time analytics on the shopping list for CIOs drowning in a data (and vendor) soup…
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Technology required for growth to serve ageing Australians
Longstanding, not-for-profit aged care provider trusts Epicor SLS to help serve communities with stability and professionalism…
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How subscriptions spur technological development
Subscription business models are driving continuous innovation, writes Steve Singer…
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Microsoft Power BI
URL: https://powerbi.microsoft.com Email: info@microsoft.com Address: Auckland and Sydney Telephone(s): AU: +61 2 9870 2200 Contact This Vendor Microsoft Power BI Power BI is a SaaS offering that enables anyone and everyone to easily connect to any o
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How to annoy (good) hackers
We’ve all heard the usual security spiel; make life hard for the hackers, layered security, complex passwords, blah, blah, blah…
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Does IT mean ‘digital’? Not with these five key differences
Digital is in danger of becoming an arbitrary, meaningless term as it continues to be overused, writes Lee Stevens…
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Machine learning gets real (for a select few)
Xero reckons it is walking the talk…
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‘Democratised data’ drives customer awareness
Customers expect to engage and receive resolution for issues from any device, anytime and anywhere…
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How VR is transforming healthcare
Multiple applications for lifelike simulations…
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GitHub shifts from tool for nerds to business collaboration platform
GitHub might sound like a silly name but it has become a trusted tool for developers, and now other business people, to store and share information…
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Which vendors come short when measuring up the big boys of ERP?
Panorama Consulting’s ‘Clash of the Titans 2017’ report compares SAP, Oracle, Dynamics and Infor…
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Social media entrepreneurs drive audience numbers
Kiwi tech set to revolutionise live event ticket sales…
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How to know if your ERP solution is compatible with your growth plans
A guide for manufacturing and distribution companies in Australia and New Zealand…
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No surprises in Sage’s big bets as it plays catch-up
Pitch rests on AI and the cloud…
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Field service at the sharp end of digital transformation
Doing the same thing again and expecting a different result is, apparently, at least one definition of insanity…
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Collab about more than apps (and potentially less about hot-desks)
It’s clear office workspaces are changing. The days of the private office are behind us, replaced by open-plan offices where people are placed in corrals that often make us feel more like farm animals than workers…
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Smarter retail – the future is (almost) here
With retailers facing increasing labour costs, tighter margins and more demanding customers, the right technology can be the difference between failure and success…
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‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down
There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’…
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Why data analytics is set to slay corporate data silos
Backed by accessible analytics, it is about what and not who you know, writes Maurizio Canton…
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Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform…
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Technology no panacea in delivering education
Much has been said about the use of technology in schools, writes Anthony Caruana, but some principles just don’t change…
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Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not
Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs…
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Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders
Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players…
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New data breach notification law: What you need to know
After years of prevarication and dithering, Australian parliament passed laws compelling companies to disclose when they suffer a data breach…
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Fulcrum expands into Australia
New Zealand-based data startup Fulcrum launches on both sides of the Tasman, plans to tackle Asia and the US later this year…
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Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid
Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t…
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BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion
Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt…
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M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT…
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The Curse of Machinery
Among the most viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance create unemployment…
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Comms on a plane: Aircraft keep Ironman competitors on track
Communications systems key to keeping athletes safe sports…
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Deloitte + AWS + HANA: It’s all about analytics. And the cloud
Professional services firm Deloitte has formed an AWS cloud shop which it said has 2,500 practitioners globally…
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Culture shift needed before transformation
Fear of the machines is real, so focus on people first, then tech…
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‘Next Level MDM’: The diverging views of analysts and customers
What does the future hold for master data management? Evan Levy finds the chatter from those in the trenches isn’t aligned with analyst views…
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Strategic partnership heralds AI-driven service automation
For those to whom automation gives the willies, more frightening stuff…
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Will HoloLens deliver a competitive edge?
Empired using HoloLens with mining, manufacturing and architecture clients…
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Comms to support the less sexy IoT world
While home automation and smart cars battle for the title of the world’s sexiest IoT, rural businesses are pushing forward – if the communications are up to the job…
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ANZ spoilt for choice with more cloud options
Oracle expands cloud coverage with PaaS, IaaS…
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Vendor management in a volatile world
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a fact of life that make vendor management an ongoing challenge for today’s tech leaders…
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Collaboration giants LogMeIn and Citrix GoTo merge
After a six-month courtship, the marriage between Citrix’s GoTo business and LogMeIn has been consummated…
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Within five years, organisations will be valued on information portfolios
Just how valuable is information? According to Gartner, by 2021 the answer will become clear…
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Australian businesses lead the world in cloud, DevOps
Cloud-first moves DevOps from fringe to mainstream…
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ASD guideline changes has security industry in a panic
The much maligned spy agency’s latest advisory has widespread implications…
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Outcomes don’t depend on where you begin
IT teams and professionals should focus on desired outcomes, rather than mire themselves in the problems of the day, says Owen McCall…
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The robots are coming (and they’re going to clean your house)
Succour for those afraid of the robot invasion…
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MYOB beefs up portfolio with cloud payroll
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Greentree late last year, MYOB continues to strengthen its hand in the business software market…
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Six Steps To ECM Success in the Cloud
At first glance, it may seem a cloud Enterprise Content Management deployment might be much more difficult than a localised one. It doesn’t have to be that way, says Bob Dunn…
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Myopic government is behind IT failures
Over the last few months the federal government has been embarrassed by a number of major technology glitches…
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Collaboration hots up as Slack boosts enterprise cred
Slack is a collaboration favourite for small workgroups – now it is targeting the big time…
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Ten points to consider for the future of cloud
How will your relationship with the cloud change over the course of the coming year, asks Oracle’s Patrick Elliott…
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Real-time data gets courtside
Tennis pros lift their game with analytics technology…
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Automation and the death of work
The end of the world will arrive through sheer indolence…
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Future not so hot for Aussie small businesses
Survey shows local business owners have diminishing confidence in government, less than optimistic economic outlook…
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Chatbots hit the perfect pitch
With bots taking over the world, isn’t it a good thing they are so friendly…
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Tennis serves up the fun side of analytics
IBM and Tennis Australia introduce deeper insights and new digital experiences at the 2017 Australian Open…
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Production planning hits the floor
Engineering shop drives quality and efficiency with Epicor cloud solution…
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WA government gets $3-billion digital transformation underway
Three suppliers appointed to assist government of Western Australia to implement its whole-of-government digital transformation program…
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Want to get rich in IT? Here’s what to look for
Technology marches forward, but a recent salary survey has found traditional roles in system administration, logistics and project management remain the most sought after and lucrative…
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Does software licensing equate to theft?
Software vendors perpetuating a billion-dollar heist (or are they?)…
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Data science gets automated, but the devil is still in the detail
More than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020 reckons Gartner…
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Digital technology rendering government redundant
‘Digital’ has replaced multiple devices, industries and ways of doing things. Could it see off government, too?…
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Why customer intimacy is key to online business success
And not just for a company selling undies…
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‘Over the top’ puts a hundred billion back in your pocket
A figure is put to internet protocol gains…
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Patterns in toast: How algorithms make machine learning work
Ever seen Jesus in a piece of toast? How algorithms and machine learning mimic the mind…
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Digital transformation and the practice of law
Here’s a transformation for you. Instead of scribbled bits of paper into a jar for Christmas suggestions, how about a digital version…
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Ten critical questions small manufacturers should ask before buying a cloud-based ERP solution
Looking at implementing new software or upgrading your current software?…
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Asia Pacific: A tale of two clouds
Cloud is a technology that’s come of age, delivering clear benefits to the organisations that opt for it. But are APAC businesses doing so effectively, asks Chris Chelliah…
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Everything you know is wrong: Radicalising IT
He’s tackled the death of IT, now Ian Apperley muses about how IT should be ‘radicalised’ to stay relevant…
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‘Massive opportunities’ in subscription economy
Report says Aussies and Kiwis spend around AUD$660 per month on subscription services…
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Trends 2017: IoT and the emerging regulatory landscape
Internet of Things (IoT) momentum accelerated in 2016 and we can expect it to increase again in 2017, writes Eve Maler…
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ATO outage: Poor planning and pathetic delivery are systemic government IT issues
The Australian Tax Office outage is just one in a litany of IT failures that dog government agencies across the country…
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Future BI will address multiple learning styles
Better BI depends on taking cognisance of how people think and learn…
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Spending cash won’t make your company secure
Organisations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, but that’s no measure of security…
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The reality of the AI revolution
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most evocative and confusing terms in technology. In making sense of it, Steve Singer says AI is an everyday reality with plenty more to come…
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Coldplay and customer intimacy
What customer intimacy lessons, wonders Steve Scarbrough, can be learned from Coldplay?…
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Tech slowdown begs question ‘Where have all the buyers gone?’
Market reports from IDC and Gartner show flat or declining numbers for PC, tablet and smartphone sales…
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The subscription gig gets new tooling
The complexities of selling ‘as-a-service’ has driven a new category of software – the subscription billing engine…
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How API-led connectivity is boosting digital transformation
Many businesses across Australia and New Zealand currently have some sort of digital transformation project underway, muses Will Bosma…
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Bringing sexy back (to software testing)
Scarcely a day goes by when we don’t hear about a critical application flaw that’s led to the election of a madman to a country’s leadership or some other technology catastrophe…
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New tech buyers could include machines
Vendors need to incorporate new customer types into go-to-market strategies…
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Good people (still) hard to find
Personnel problems highlighted in MYOB Business Monitor…
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Kicking the predictors in their crystal balls
December – the time for putting up the Christmas tree, counting down the days till holidays and trying to be nice to your work colleagues at the office party…
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Expect more elephants down under
Open source big data vendor accelerates activity in Australasia…
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Is the 457 program being exploited?
There is little doubt we have an IT skill shortage, but are skilled workers from overseas entering the country legitimately…
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Better BI will decimate white collar jobs (but it won’t run your company)
Increased access to more data faster than ever before is driving a revolution that is completely changing the nature of business…
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Crystal balls come out for 2017
It’s that time of year again, so ready yourself for the prognostications of, well, everyone…
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Taking a step closer to a paperless world
Since I was a boy, I’ve been hearing about the paperless office…
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Wealth manager ditches on prem, accelerates information access
ClearView’s Oracle Cloud ERP project demonstrates advantages of digitally transformed business…
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Kevin Mitnick and the human hacking business
Every industry has rockstars. For hackers and infosec, there’s probably no one more famous, or perhaps infamous, than Kevin Mitnick…
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Everything you know is wrong – surviving the death of IT
The last six months have seen rapid changes in the world of IT, giving Ian Apperley pause to consider the future…
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Enably drives customer success
Fast-growing Australian lender implements omnichannel solution for improved customer service…
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Smooth startup for ice cream maker
When a master chef decided to start a business making premium soft-serve ice cream and dairy-free desserts, he chose Abel ERP…
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Landesk eyes the end-point
Tools vendor sets sights on the sharp bit of information security…
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Heat turned up in cloud ERP space
Growing demand, plenty of options for SaaS solutions…
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Intelligent avatar seeks situation vacant
‘BabyX’ leaves the lab and looks for a job as Soul Machines opens for business…
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Entrepreneur announces the ‘as a Service’ we’ve all been waiting for
The industry is changing for the better with ‘beer as a service’…
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Microsoft CEO Nadella doesn’t whelm, he delivers
Redmond’s top man appears at Developer Days down under…
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Plugging gaps between people, processes and systems
While ‘people, process and systems’ mantra has driven process design and execution for decades, gaps remain…
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Dropbox pushing into enterprise with improved management and security
Dropbox is probably the most popular file synchronisation service on the planet with 500 million users including half of all the internet users in Australia and New Zealand…
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Shift to hybrid IT moving but still challenged by on-prem
While the cloud gets all the attention, the reality is businesses simply can’t pick up all of their systems and shift them to a public or private cloud provider in one fell swoop…
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Collapse of trust and digital transformation
Globally we are facing a collapse of trust – and it is being driven by digitisation, writes Gerry McGovern…
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Could CYOD give Apple an enterprise boost?
While BYOD has captured lots of attention over the last few years, companies supplying equipment chosen by employees is increasing in popularity…
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Why hype is necessary to drive big data, analytics and AI
Analytics, business intelligence, machine learning and artificial intelligence are all ‘exciting’ aspects of the technology industry…
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Pushing the software defined data centre
Attracting over 5000 attendees, vForum 2016 is one of the largest tech events in the ANZ region…
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Can service management change the way you work?
When it’s all about the experience, office applications aren’t good enough…
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Why customer experience matters in project delivery
Should ‘experience management’ trump ‘on time and on budget’, asks Colin Ellis…
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Innovating for better healthcare
‘Massive shift’ presents opportunity for technological disruption…
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Announcements aplenty out of SAP TechEd
Top of the news coming out of SAP’s TechEd underway in Barcelona is a ‘next generation’ HANA Platform…
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Webjet embraces blockchain to drive efficiency and better service
Blockchain has been perhaps the most hyped solution looking for a problem seen in the last decade…
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‘Personal automation’ – that’s a thing?
DIY integration for digital transformation at the individual level…
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Clinivid securely connects health pros over video
New app aims to accelerate healthcare through improved collaboration…
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What happens when CFOs and HR managers cosy up?
CFOs and HR chiefs working collaboratively offers ‘potential immediate impact on business performance
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Fintech booms despite market concerns
Half of banking customers across the globe are using products or services of at least one fintech firm…
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Misunderstandings hobble cloud moves
According to the 2016 SME Directions Survey, 52% of small business are already using cloud software…
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What is ERP? (Enterprise Resource Planning)
So you’ve been in business for a while and, besides the usual start-up challenges, things have been running fairly smoothly…
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Epicor releases new version of Senior Living Solution
SLS for the cloud designed for Australia’s smaller residential aged care providers…
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Say hello to Dell Technologies
After doing the biggest deal ever done in tech, the combined ‘Dell EMC’ looks to the future…
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Dynamics 365 goes GA
Microsoft describes Dynamics 365 as ‘a cloud-based suite of purpose-built, intelligent business applications’…
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Access talent at home
Skills shortages are a problem in many fast-changing industries…
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‘Consumable’ machine learning, AI a solved problem, and the home EEG
Microsoft pushes the hot buttons as Ignite NZ rolled into town last week…
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Engineering a competitive edge
To bolster its competitive edge as a global contract manufacturer…
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Cloud tech and analytics enable workplace innovation
We hear the word innovation all the time. After all, no-one wants to be thought of as not being innovative…
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Electronic signatures could deliver big benefits
One of the great lies of the IT industry is the paperless office…
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Purpose-driven design delivers success to Aussie entrepreneur
There’s little point doing something without good reason, which is why Katja Forbes named the company she founded syfte…
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Gartner: Notes on spending, digital evolution and Brexit
Ecosystems the next big thing; oh, and what’s happening with Brexit…
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Move over content, context is king
Dynamics Day serves up a smorgasbord of Microsoft…
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Moneyball 2.0 – tech driven innovation in sports
Professional sports have traditionally been managed by former players leaning on years of experience…
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Whitepaper: The big secret to painless data migration
The art of making old data mesh with new data structures and integrate with new data can be a dark one, but the experts at Jet Reports believe it doesn’t have to be painful…
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Advice for the C-Suite: Protecting your business from cyber attacks
The basics are still the best for information security…
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New professional association for IT pros will give ACS a shakeup
Independent industry association for IT systems administrators in Australia SAGE-AU has broadened its horizons and interests…
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‘People analytics’ lifts the lid on HR performance
Nascent BI discipline provides insights on a range of employee metrics…
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Apple Car – the rubber hits the road block
It seems that the car that never was will never be…
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Automation: A new frontier of human-machine partnership
Think of the future of automation. What do you visualise, asks Anant Gupta…
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CSIRO investing big in AgTech
‘Digiscape’ to focus on digital agriculture…
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What Workplace means for business
With Facebook’s ‘Workplace’ entering the fray for social media at work, Deloitte NZ partner and digital specialist Grant Frear shares his perspectives…
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SMEs turn to robots for competitive edge
A survey has revealed rising enthusiasm for robots in manufacturing…
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HoloLens soon to be available to local developers
But what will you do with augmented reality…
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The fun and games of sales gamification
Making a game of your sales effort is not something to be toyed with…
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Whitepaper: How to elevate sales team performance
The Sales Relationship/Process matrix (SRP) is a proven method to measure and improve sales performance…
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Virtual reality moves on the enterprise zone
No longer the domain of game players alone, virtual reality is moving on the enterprise…
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No shortage of ideas, but skills drag
Tech23, showcasing Australia’s leading innovations, had a skills skew this year…
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Microsoft’s giant step forward for enterprise SaaS
Big reveal for ‘as-a-service’ applications with built-in intelligence…
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NetSuite sizzle too pricey for down under
Recent customer parade all about the steak, not the sizzle…
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Science fiction? Nah, business as usual
Value of human experience likely to increase on the path to 2040…
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Productivity boon (or bust) as Facebook launches Workplace
Once a dirty word on the job, world’s biggest social network makes a play for the office…
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NAB outage spills into second week
After fixing one problem last week, NAB yesterday had another to deal with…
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Having a crack at the ‘ERP for IT’ challenge
Of all the major business disciplines, only IT lacks comprehensive management and automation software…
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City of churches turns speed freak
Adelaide is pitching to be Australia’s fastest metropolis…
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Microsoft spruiks trusted cloud conversation
Secure, sustainable and inclusive ‘cloud for good’…
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Uncanny? Collaborative robots are on the march
‘Cobots’ the hottest growth segment in industrial automation…
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Data collections face fresh scrutiny
New industry association formed to provide data-use advice…
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Australian IT ranks thin again
Services company ASG likely to go to Japanese buyer…
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NetSuite punts product but no mention of the war
Old picture of Larry Ellison only evidence of Oracle at NetSuite user conference..
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SAP invests large in IoT, big data
German ERP giant to spend €2 billion over five years…
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Mobile transformation piques enterprise Apple appetite
i-Devices products driving deeper into business (and space) use…
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Ahead of the curve, Orion Health looks to introduce machine learning
Machine learning just starting Hype Cycle journey…
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IBM cops flak in Census blame game
‘Cheap old ute’ metaphor explains IT disaster…
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Augmented reality is more than fun and games
Pokemon Go has all but disappeared, but billions await for business AR…
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Postmodern ERP: Still not sunshine and roses
Beyond the hype and marketing schpiel, turns out enterprise software is still bloody difficult…
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Privacy commissioner scores IoT an F for failure
Internet of Things products and services don’t do privacy well…
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Machine learning pushes new AI frontiers
Cognitive computing depends on big data automation…
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Digitoil: Three simple tips towards improved SEO
Is the world of search engine optimisation (SEO) a mysterious place populated by snake oil merchants and incomprehensible jargon? Not necessarily, says Richard Conway…
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Whitepaper: How your business can shine through the cloud
Understand common deployment options and know which questions to ask…
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CFOs push ahead with shadow IT spending
The CFO’s role as an investor in shadow IT is expanding as the finance function transforms…
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Feds consider move to Drupal 8
Website content management faces fresh Government scrutiny…
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PureCloud gaining momentum
Up-front costs have shifted from customers to vendors, but the long term benefits of cloud migration will be shared says Ian McLean…
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Application networks can address digital disruption challenges
Companies need to find ways to become more flexible to meet changing market and customer demands, writes MuleSoft’s Brad Drysdale…
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Oracle announces ‘Intelligent Applications’, raft of ‘Cloud’ branded solutions
News from Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco…
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Stock Exchange hardware crash shorts market
The Australian Stock Exchange has endured a late start, a wobbly middle and an early close…
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Cloud fuels ANZ digital disruption
Demand for cloud services growing at a fast clip with 1 million companies now on Amazon…
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Australian cloud users may be aiming too low
Research showing high levels of satisfaction may mask deeper problem…
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Lack of tech investment could hinder growth
Businesses in emerging markets could steal a march on developed world operators…
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CIA offers information security plan to Australian CIOs
Fully outfoxing attackers depends on ‘radical action’…
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Infrastructure hampering digital performance
Forget about innovation on the way to a digitally transformed organisation, because unless the infrastructure’s sorted, it isn’t going to happen…
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Technological development and a future of no-cost living
Here’s an interesting idea: the cost of living is coming down so rapidly that it might become zero…
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Commbank and Barclays allow global smartphone transfers
Australian and British bank gear up to make money movements easier…
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Why blockchain could change the world
It may sound like something out of a B&D dungeon as blockchain emerges from the dark world behind Bitcoin, writes John Jones…
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What are the drivers behind ERP change for a business?
If you’re reading this article, chances are your business is coping with business system ‘pain’…
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Mint Payments gets fresh ERP
Frustrated with the limitations of an existing ERP solution, Mint Payments searched the market for a better way – and found it in MYOB Advanced Business…
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Gartner says CIOs need all-round vision
Broader view required as digital drives through the enterprise…
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Australian cities snuggle up to Hypercat
Technology standard for smart cities pushed along…
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Bimodal IT: Keeping the lights on as important as innovation
In the rush to digitally transform, don’t neglect the basics…
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CRM Buyer’s Guide
Each year iStart publishes the CRM Buyer’s Guide providing comparison and evaluation of the leading CRM vendors and their products, along with local A/NZ reseller or implementation partner contact details…
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Genesys bids for Interactive Intelligence
Consolidation drives through contact centre sector…
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It’s blown the budget, but has enterprise IT failed?
The bigger the organisation – and the more public the results – the greater the risk of budget blowout and ‘failure’…
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‘Transformation’ isn’t about adopting technology
Don’t get stuck on the bits and bytes in the march to digital transformation…
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KPMG puts its money in IoT’s mouth
Considerable opportunities beckon, apparently…
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Of love, hate and the Gartner Hype Cycle
They’re great and they’re awful – find out why Owen McCall is ambivalent about Gartner’s Hype Cycle…
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Ground control streamlines drone data capture
Australian start up Propeller Aero has launched smart control points for drone applications…
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Concerns aside, executives commit to digital business
Dipstick research from Unisys Corporation shows executives are going in boots ‘n all for digital business even though there are reservations…
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NBN making progress but dark clouds ahead
Seven years after the launch of the NBN over two million premises are able to connect to the NBN. But all is not well, writes Paul Budde…
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Digital marketplace gives SMEs a leg up
Online marketplace links small IT companies with government prospects…
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Analytics: See the signals before the competition
The ‘laboratory’ approach works as well today as it did in Thomas Edison’s times, writes Oracle’s Rich Clayton…
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Nbn co seeks credit rating ahead of fundraising
The national broadband network will use up the last of its Government funding this year…
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Data insights go begging
A quarter of A/NZ businesses gather data but don’t analyse it…
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Census the canary in the coalmine
The 2016 Census and its steaming #CensusFail epitaph may yet prove useful to government…
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Eat meat or prefer veg?
Disruptors come in two flavours – carnivore and herbivore…
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Information access: MYOB Greentree’s API makes the big connections
ERP system communication builds Comdain Infrastructure’s reputation for efficiency and customer service…
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Financial software: Pave the cowpaths
Forget blue-sky innovation, focus on improving current financial practices…
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Data visualisation exposes corporate linkages
Relocating to the UK has allowed Australia’s Encompass and its clients to benefit from cheaper data…
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NZ Government goes big on Oracle, shades of Census debacle
Decision could cost ‘a massive amount of money’…
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CIOs sidestepped in software asset management strategy
Those responsible for technology are being taken out of the SAM loop…
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NBN breaks the million user barrier, faces funding crunch
While 3 million premises might be able to order a national broadband network service – only 1.1 million have…
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Culture eats technology for breakfast
Forget getting advantage from technology alone – it’s a doomed strategy…
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IBM faces fresh Government ire
Census furore sparks finger-pointing…
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HR / HCM Buyer’s Guide
Each year iStart publishes the Human Resources Buyer’s Guide to provide those researching HR solutions with an evaluation of the leading HR vendors, and a comparison of features across their products, along with local reseller or implementation partner contact details…
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Shadows on the road less travelled to transformation
Learn from shadow IT rather than suppressing it, reckons Fronde…
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Datacom cracks the billion-dollar mark
Revenue up 13 percent, 25 percent increase in capex…
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Integration moves out to the edge
‘Digital reinvention’ demands more integration, intelligence…
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When the #censusfail hashtag comes to life
Australia’s online Census was taken offline following alleged hacking attempts…
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Industrial systems and IoT ignore security at their peril
Disclosure of industrial systems security breaches should be mandated…
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Fintech disruption prompts further software overhauls
Banks, which think they have finished their core systems revamp, need to think again…
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Australia launches Government digital dashboard
Digital Transformation Office unveils report card for government services…
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How fintech is turning analytics into dollars
Looking for growth? It’s in the analytics as Juniper tips fintech for a revenue boost of 960 percent…
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How to navigate the disruption economy
Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognise the crucial thresholds and act in time, write Chris Bradley and Clayton O’Toole (McKinsey & Company)…
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Sydney hub welcomes in Chinese fintechs
Three Chinese startups fire up at Stone&Chalk…
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Digital transformation? It’s all about the customer
Don’t let digital transformation distract from customer focus, writes Craig Beveridge, GM Australia at Jade Software…
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Australia scores a credit in innovation stakes
Australia’s innovation steamroller is chugging on again following the election hiatus…
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MYOB buys Greentree “masochists”
Auckland based Greentree has been bought by Sydney’s accounting software group MYOB for $NZ28.5 million…
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B2B marketers struggle to identify their customers
Legacy data siloes and multiple front-ends hamper business-to-business marketers…
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A/NZ needs to get (more) serious with mobility
Businesses had better start looking at mobility a little harder, because competitors certainly are…
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Oracle’s ‘surprise’ NetSuite acquisition
As late as last week, at least one major local Oracle and NetSuite partner didn’t see it coming…
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Competition watchdog blowtorches broadband claims
ISP speed claims face renewed scrutiny from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…
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Dirty software secrets and how ANZ is beating bloat
Smartphone users knows how easily apps bloat up – for enterprises the situation can be just as dire, leading to significant operational inefficiencies…
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Self-service: It’s coming for data preparation
Is DIY the next big thing for BI?…
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When cybersecurity is just a game
Four out of five CEOs rank cyberattacks as one of the top three business threats – but few have first-hand experience of what it really means to be under attack…
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Society, change and challenge: Charting telecoms transformation
In a new report, respected industry analyst Paul Budde provides fascinating insights relevant to both sides of the Tasman…
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Microsoft’s ‘shocking’ shift to technology agnosticism
In a competitive world, interoperability is essential. And so is customer focus…
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One hundred percent SaaS?
Forget about on-premise software. The advantages of software as a service are just too good to resist…
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IoT Alliance urges nation to get its skates on
Independent not-for-profit ‘Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) established, works on regulatory and operational frameworks…
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Fusion5 beefs up NetSuite capabilities by acquisition
Purchases competitor BPR Solutions…
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Hybrid IT prompts monitoring rethink
By 2018, IDC says 80 per cent of IT organisations will be committed to hybrid cloud architectures by 2018 – but who controls what?…
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Sixtree merges with Deloitte across ANZ
Needing additional funds to grow, systems integration specialist Sixtree has instead sold to Deloitte…
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Are ANZ companies doing enough to transform?
Analysing the results of its Digital Transformation Survey, IFS ANZ MD Rob Stummer was surprised that only 50 percent of antipodean respondents had a clear strategy for digital transformation…
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Flush from IPO, Atlassian buys StatusPage
Listed development tools provider adds cloud monitoring service as another string to its bow…
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Fight back against disruptors with this secret weapon
‘Know thy enemy’ in the digital disruption battle…
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Manufacturing growth takes many forms
Traditionally conservative manufacturers are turning to tech to reinvent themselves says Epicor…
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Long-standing Pronto MD retires
Outspoken Pronto COO Chad Gates is stepping up to the top job as long-term MD David Jackman retires…
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Failure is good. Yeah right!
Owen McCall says we should switch from ‘initiatives’ to ‘experiments’…
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Welcome to the Hotel contact centre
When Barry Cottrill lost one of his biggest call centre customers it prompted a rethink of the sorts of services he could offer – and spawned the Contact Centre Hotel…
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Big love feeds accounting-banking relationship
The Commonwealth Bank is the latest financial institution to deepen its relationship with accounting software provider Xero, allowing bank feeds to be set up directly from the bank’s or Xero’s platform…
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Is it time to appoint an application undertaker?
After 40 years of continuous acquisition of applications most large organisations have application portfolios that are bloated, expensive and slow to change. This is unsustainable writes Gartner Fellow Andy Kyte…
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Coalition keeps control; ACS demands action
The Coalition has clung on to claim control after a narrow election win; now the Australian Computer Society wants to see some action…
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Software spending rises in Australia and New Zealand
Overall IT spending in Australia and New Zealand is tipped to rise by 2.8 and 1.9 percent respectively in 2016 compared to last year, while global investment is flat, even “lacklustre” year on year…
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Jet-powered: The data-driven motor company
European Motor Distributors implements Jet Enterprise for operational intelligence…
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From red to black – Fronde’s ambitious $100 million target
After a NZ$3.35 million loss two years ago and the exit of long-time CEO Ian Clarke, Fronde’s new CEO Anthony Belsham talks company turnaround and his $100 million target…
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Telstra adds muscle in software and clouds
Telstra has pushed further into the software and solutions space, acquiring Melbourne based applications development and managed services business Readify…
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Digital signatures strip out pen and ink
The pen and ink signature seems set to be another casualty of the continued race to digital transformation as electronic signatures linked to enterprise software take firm hold…
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Boundaries blur between robots and real life
As robots emerge from laboratories and science fiction to take on roles in factories, transport systems, hospitals and households, humans are having to come to terms with them…
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Innovation agenda suffers election wobbles
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation agenda looks increasingly uncertain following a federal election which failed to deliver a resounding mandate…
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Shaping up and shipping out: ERP on the high seas
Southern Spars leverages Epicor ERP for critical business decisions…
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Telstra spends $250 million on network fix
After network problems earlier this year, Telstra has announced that it will spend $250 million to attempt to fix the problems…
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Cognitive computing heralds new disruptive wave
IBM boss Ginni Rometty returned to Australia after a two-year absence this week, to put enterprise on notice that the cognitive computing era was underway…
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Cloud demand spurs growth for single focus PrimeQ
Cloud-only consulting business PrimeQ is so confident of demand across Australia and New Zealand that it is planning to double headcount to 100 by the end of the year, and 200 the following year…
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Oracle and NetSuite lose local heads
There’s been a changing of the guard in leading technology companies including the Australian subsidiaries of ERP giants Oracle and NetSuite…
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New CRM fresh on global market
Tired of having to cobble together systems for its sales reps, SaaS business Freshdesk set about creating its own CRM system for ‘high velocity sales teams’…
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Dynamics takes to the field
Microsoft’s CRM solution has been extended to handle field services, Rolls Royce on board with deployment…
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Workplace security lifts, consumers’ sags
IT’s warnings about the need for greater vigilance about computer security is paying off – but Australian and New Zealand consumers are still playing fast and loose with their own protection…
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Corporate ‘no-cloud’ policies head for extinction
By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, says technology analyst Gartner…
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NSW seeks smart state soubriquet
NSW has unveiled a series of digital and innovation focused investments in this week’s Budget as it tilts for the smarter state soubriquet…
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MyWorkpapers wrests audit from spreadsheet jockeys
A corporate name change, the soft launch of a collaboration platform for auditors, new audit templates and a UK relaunch have marked a busy three months of the year for MyWorkpapers…
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Personal tech poised to further disrupt enterprise
Gartner has identified five personal technologies it believes will deliver a fresh wave of disruption to the enterprise and IT operations over the next 5-10 years…
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How NASA landed a ton on Mars
The out-of-this-world power of collaboration…
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Bottoms up to emerging raft of technologies
Imagine swiping your left buttock across a terminal to complete a payment; banking giant ANZ has – and it’s just the start of a massive change in the way humans and technology interact…
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Is the Internet Safe? Of course not!
The internet is not 100 percent safe, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be using it to support the growth of your business. Owen McCall says we should approach it more like driving…
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Estonia brings digital lessons down under
Estonia may seem distant, but it provides lessons in what government digital leadership really looks like…
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Veteran ERP company changes its spots
As purchasing power shifts away from the IT department, one business software vendor is launching an unlikely new service to get in front of the people who count…
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Netflix tops the pops in digital experience
Leading brands have lifted their game as far as consumer digital experience is concerned – but still only three companies fall into the top performing bracket…
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NBN plays election ping pong
Just weeks before Australia heads to the ballot box, the Labor party has announced that if elected 2 million more homes and businesses will get high speed broadband, with more to follow…
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Accelerating omnichannel in the public sector
SAP HQ has appointed local partner UXC Oxygen to build an app to enhance SAP’s public sector solution…
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Digital transformation projects backfire
The insurance industry is counting the cost of digital transformation projects and others could also be at risk…
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ASIC wants fintechs to play nice in the sandbox
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has outlined its plans to allow local fintechs to test a new product without the need for a financial services licence…
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When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon
Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round…
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Enterprises play catch up with IoT
Enterprises are still playing catch up to the possibilities of the Internet of Things…
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Cloud demands belt and braces
Confirmation that cloud users need a belt and braces approach to business continuity was delivered over the weekend with a high profile AWS outage…
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Pegasystems CEO warns enterprise of cloud risk
Pegasystems’ founder and CEO Alan Trefler has some harsh words for enterprises which slavishly adopt cloud based solutions…
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Free WiFi sees Skyfii aim sky high
Australian listed business Skyfii, which deploys opt in WiFi in public areas, collects customer data and sells it to local businesses, is making a push into the US and UK…
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Senior ERP exec leads cloud-first strategy for Epicor in A/NZ
Epicor Software Corporation has appointed ex-NetSuite man, Vince Randall, to oversee the A/NZ region and strengthen its cloud-first strategy…
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CSIRO and CBA offer businesses innovation advice
Australia’s lead science and technology research group CSIRO has launched a business advisory service to tell organisations where to best spend their R&D dough for the best return in the future…
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SMEs count days until SuperStream kicks in
Almost a third of Australia’s SMEs have left themselves less than a month to comply with the SuperStream electronic transaction rules which come into force from July…
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BI electrifies utilities company
How WEL Networks applies analysis to get answers to key business questions…
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Can your project survive your culture?
Not every project is lucky enough to start on fertile ground, as project management expert Gary Nelson explains…
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Gun fires on massive SAP systems integration deal
Leading SAP systems integrators have until 23 June to register for what will likely be the biggest ERP transformation project undertaken in Australia for years to come…
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Salesforce leads, SAP slumps in CRM stakes
Salesforce is the world’s most popular CRM with SAP ranking second – but in Australia SAP ranks a relatively lowly fourth after sales slumped in 2015. What gives?…
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Mind the gap on SaaS security
The popularity of Software as a Service and cloud solutions may be blinkering some organisations which believe they have also offloaded security worries…
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Digital transformation behind CSC and HPE mega-merger
Fresh on the heels of its recent takeover of Australasian services company UXC, CSC is looking to merge with Hewlett Packard Enterprise…
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Head in the cloud
It’s perhaps the ultimate integration: connect your brain directly to the cloud…
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Instaclustr calls Canberra home for Apache Cassandra play
While the founders of Instacluster live on opposite sides of the Pacific, the “born-global” big data specialist still calls Canberra home …
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The case for an enterprise-wide ‘analytics council’
As analytics penetrate all parts of the business, analytics expert Geoff Beynon calls for a structured and centralised approach to its use…
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How the cloud and emerging technologies are disrupting the contact centre
The power of exponential progress and increasing rate of disruption is very much in evidence in the contact centre, says Brendan Maree…
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Fragile networks slug businesses and consumers
Five days with Telstra service interruptions and ten hours without email for most of iiNet’s customers – and that’s just in the last week…
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How NetSuite is powering growth in the sweet world of cloud ERP
Cloud ERP vendor growing rapidly, but no sign of profit…
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How manufacturers can compete more effectively
The manufacturing industry can be slow to take on new technology, but new technology can drive higher customer engagement and growth opportunities…
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Shopping VR comes to a head
Australian retail giant Myer and eBay have teamed up on a virtual reality department store concept that is delivered direct to shoppers’ heads via their smartphones…
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Whitepaper: Eight considerations when choosing your ERP system
Whether you’re selecting your first ERP system or replacing an existing one, you need to conduct a thorough ERP selection process…
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Tibco Now: Connected everything, augmented intelligence
Optimisation is out, innovation is back as Tibco ramps up focus on solutions for digital transformation…
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SAP cosies up to Microsoft Azure
German software behemoth SAP is once again cosying up to other tech giants in a bid to expand the entire enterprise tech ecosystem and further entrench its market position…
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Process mapping supports forced amalgamation
New South Wales’ 19 forced council amalgamations could shave months off their merger timetables if they first map business processes…
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Unit4 plans to make waves in local market
Unit4 is setting out to disrupt the ERP industry à la Tesla and Uber, according to Chris Tithof, ANZ channel director for the ERP vendor…
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Customer experience ‘the new battleground’
In a world where mass personalisation is the norm, intelligent interactions with customers will define business success…
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Navigating the innovation maze
Bombarded by new technologies ranging from blockchain to the internet of things, 3D printing, artificial intelligence and machine learning – enterprises are looking for guidance through the innovation maze…
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Department of No earns its stripes
The perception that the IT team is the ‘Department of No’ has been confirmed by a new international survey of 630 executives, 80 of whom are based in Australia…
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Greentree Awards put customer implementations under microscope
Awards programmes don’t just give a shiny gong to the winners, they help the host company to identify trends and see where its priorities should lie…
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What’s on the tech logistics radar for 2016?
Driverless cars, drones, tube logistics and bionic enhancements – supply chain logistics has got decidedly sci-fi but underlying it all are two key concepts…
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How effective ERP boosts medical research
Greentree solution frees scientists from drudgery, equipping them to concentrate on vital medical research…
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Unleashed Software raises $3 million funds break-even
The $3 million funding round that trans-Tasman business Unleashed Software just raised should take it to break-even point – but “something significant” is just 12-15 months away…
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The printer company which doesn’t print
How next-gen MPS aligns with and expedites digital transformation…
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Consumers cool over data breaches
The big bad bogeyman that is mandated data breach notification won’t be that big or bad after all…
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Bill and Tim’s excellent adventure: HANA goes native on iPhone
Apple and SAP announce plans to deliver native apps for iOS on the SAP HANA platform…
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Picking accuracy eliminates supply chain rework
Seed, fertiliser and garden products company Tui Products has taken back control of complex stockholding by implementing Infor’s Warehouse Mobility solution…
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Smart cities sought – drives data demand
Frazzled commuters, unaffordable housing and the high cost of delivering services are all targets of a rash of smart city initiatives now gathering pace…
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Steel resolve: How sound ERP underpins growth ambition
Growth meant disparate systems were holding back stainless steel fabricator NDA Group; SAP Business All-in-One provided a single, scalable solution…
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NBN demand flounders as funds evaporate
The roll out of the national broadband network is continuing apace – but fewer than half of the households which could connect have yet bothered to do so…
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Exploit your hidden assets for sales success
Leveraging your corporate networks can boost your warm sales leads by 40 percent, says TrustSphere CEO, Manish Goel…
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Legacy software vendors’ sloth gives fintechs head start
Legacy financial software vendors – the likes of SAP, Oracle and CSC – have been slapped by Gartner for their sluggish approach to innovation…
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Dynamics market heats up as Flintfox appoints Duncan Cox
Former Adaptable Solutions supremo tasked with growing ERP consulting division…
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Tech multinationals face tax crackdown
The 2016-17 budget painted a big red target on multinational technology companies that have shifted profits offshore to avoid paying tax…
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Augmented reality served on a golden Plattar
News Corp Australia has made its first ever seed investment and it’s in a technology firm that is bringing augmented reality and customer engagement to life…
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Horizon Power seeks further BI savings from IoT
Installing a new business analytics platform that business users could drive themselves paid for itself in a year – letting Horizon Power reduce headcount and expenses…
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Disruption means giving consumers what they want
Consumers are a demanding bunch – and it’s forcing established enterprises to disrupt their modus operandi, and on occasion to take a hefty financial stake in the disruptors…
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Where did you buy your software?
The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now…
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Fruit exporter thrives with proven ERP solution
MYOB Greentree’s accuracy and ease of use bring major benefits for kiwifruit grower and post-harvest company Jace Group…
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Data’s force awakens
Walt Disney’s Australian marketing team had just three and a half minutes of footage to leverage ahead of the Star Wars Force Awakens launch; it plugged the gap with data…
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Digital technologies fulfil supply chain potential
Technical limitations have curbed supply chain ROI but the use of new digital technologies can dramatically improve supply chain performance…
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Saturation, concentration and old fashioned ennui
Reports suggest that demand for tablet computers and smartphones has gone off the boil as the mobile market approaches saturation and consumers fail to fall for fads…
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Cloud services the answer to IoT security
Half of all IoT implementations will use cloud security services of some description by 2020, but the market is currently immature…
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Companies ‘desperate’ for technology leadership
But tech-savvy millennials need not apply…
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Google runs insight platform on Amazon cloud
The fact that Google has bought Interactive Intelligence’s customer engagement solution, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, signals the growing IT spending power of business units…
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Machine learning and AI for more secure banking
Turning data into real-time decisions to fight financial fraud…
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Australia unveils $230M cyber security strategy
The Federal Government has unveiled its cyber security strategy which features 33 new initiatives at a cost of $230 million over the next four years…
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Gartner dampens cloud enthusiasm
Settle down about the cloud already. That’s the message coming from a Gartner A/NZ analyst who reckons local companies are a bit overly excited about the whole notion…
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Clarity emerges for Gov.au and govCMS
After months of speculation it appears that the Government’s central online site, Gov.au, currently under development, won’t reinvent the wheel…
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Automation, robots signal Alsbridge entrance
Consulting company sets up shop in ANZ, punts ‘robotic process automation’…
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Whitepaper: Five signs your ERP is not up to the pace of change
The transition from product centricity to an ‘always on’ customer service orientation is a challenge for antiquated core systems…
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SAP establishes Canberra-based (and -centric) private cloud
Onshore deployment of cloud services for Australian public sector aimed at solving data residency dilemma…
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Wanted: part time data scientists
As organisational demand for data analytics increases, every organisation needs to hire or create a part time data scientist…
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The future calls for 2degrees
Amid speculation that Australian telco Vocus will soon acquire New Zealand’s 2degrees, telecoms analyst Paul Budde considers why 2degrees remains unprofitable and what its options are from here…
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The problem with projects: not fit to deliver value
What do IT projects and fitness regimes have in common? Owen McCall exercises his theory of the business value creation process…
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Whitepaper: Best practices for ERP cloud migrations – a CFO guidebook
New whitepaper from Oracle sees the vendor walk the talk as it discusses best practice lessons learnt from its own cloud ERP implementation…
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Long journey looms for cloud in the regions
When IDC quizzed 200 mid-tier organisations in Australia it found that only about 15 per cent were truly optimised for cloud – and few of them are in regional areas…
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Is it time to turn the tables on cyber-crime?
Large enterprises could benefit from playing cyber criminals at their own game – but there are major risks for smaller organisations attempting any form of cyber vigilantism…
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WiseTech lists as latest tech unicorn
The successful float of Sydney based logistics software company, WiseTech Global, this week signals continued investor appetite for local tech stocks…
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Competition watchdog strains Nbn leash
The $1.6 billion deal between Nbn Co and Telstra, intended to speed the rollout of the national broadband network has raised concerns from the competition watchdog…
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Lifting the lid on HR transformation
From transactional processes to increased value-adding activities…
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A fraction too much friction
Anyone who has ever stood in a department store queue knows that stripping friction out of the retail process helps the consumer – but it turns out it also helps the retailer…
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Greentree boots up in the cloud
From disparaging ‘sandal-waving zealots’ to members of the congregation…
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IT spend victim of fluctuating economy
Investment in business process optimisation needed to make digital businesses fly is proving a hard sell for CIOs…
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Develop on Office: Microsoft further lowers proprietary walls
The Microsoft Graph is a recent addition to the vendor’s portfolio which it said ‘offers developers access to insights about how workers can be more productive’…
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Is a smart city really a thing?
The hyping of the IoT by vendors and analysts may be moving to a new phase as city planners compete to be the cleverest…
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Digital customer experience misses the human touch
Confusion around operational responsibility impacts success of new digital contact channels…
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NZ cloud management company seeks ASX listing
Startup that eases cloud service selection and management readies for the big time…
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Online advertising and digital disruption on a massive scale
Research confirms ads damage consumer experiences, quantifies popularity of ad blockers…
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‘Cloud-wash’ over for ERP vendors – but is business ready?
Fourteen of 20 enterprise ERP solutions available in the A/NZ region have delivered fully browser-based access…by Hayden McCall
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Flow heads to Palm Desert with FileBound
Flow Software is pleased to be attending and sponsoring the FileBound Partner Conference in Palm Desert…
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Digital business: it’s all about the connections
Business and technology investments should be structured in a way ‘that will capitalise on the new economic realities of a digital economy’…
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A decade behind – but telecom operators can make up ground
Telcos are being forced to reinvent themselves and the founders of a French start-up, Bora Kizil and Julien Muller, say e-tail could hold the key…
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The rise of the customer journey map
Gartner analyst Olive Huang explores how businesses can use customer journey mapping to better understand the customer and enrich their experience…
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7-Eleven location-based fuel savings clever, but not necessarily a winner
Contextual analytics service provider VMob has played a role in the development of a new app from 7-Eleven Australia…
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In search of Australian growth, Fronde partners with football club
In what must be one of the more unusual hookups in the industry, cloud solutions provider looks to footy club network for growth kick…
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‘Show me the money’ – Australian employees
Global study gauges workplace attitudes and motivations, reveals how employers can increase employee engagement and productivity, confirms importance of paycheck…
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How to evolve beyond the silo
In a world where Agile and flexible buzzwords abound, the old-school siloed approach to IT is causing inefficiency and higher costs for business…
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Leaks pressuring NBN Co to deliver better solution?
Respected telecoms analyst Paul Budde has lauded the leak of documents which he said ‘reveal interesting twists and turns regarding the development of the NBN’…
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Australian Government gets to grips with the blockchain
Moves afoot to recognise Bitcoin as money…
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ACS places finger on Australia’s digital pulse
The Australian Computer Society has published the 2016 Digital Pulse report which provides a snapshot of the nation’s ICT sector and people…
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EDI veteran branches into collaboration
This week the people behind successful EDI service MessageXchange launched a new platform which has piqued the interest of the Australian Government…
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Second valley of death looms for tech sector
Australian start ups are facing a “valley of death” in terms of poor access to later stage funding which peaked at $90 million in 2007, but had halved by last year…
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Financial Services firms under threat from FinTechs
A new PwC survey shows that financial services firms believe almost a quarter of their business is at risk from bullish FinTechs…
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Australia faces innovation countdown
The clock is ticking for Australian innovation with the nation’s peak ICT research body giving the nation just a three to five year innovation window…
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Nine in ten businesses caught out by unplanned growth – Epicor
Some 89 percent of companies across the globe were left exposed to risk in 2015 due to the impact of surprise expansion…
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Dealing to the donkey work: How automated integration drives innovation
Integration, recognised as a powerful concept which allows IT to better serve business, is traditionally difficult and expensive…
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Pronto says VC model fails to delight
Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market…
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Qualtrics selects Sydney, warns about unicorns
Cloud based insight platform Qualtrics has made Sydney its Asia Pacific headquarters and slated its ambition to grow its workforce and triple local sales during 2016…
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ISP warns NBN model may wreck competition
Listed telecommunications business MyNetFone has warned that the economic foundations of the NBN will crumble without significant reform…
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Blow up the transformation blockers
For the last five years, Gary O’Brien has worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises on their digital transformation initiatives and he’s identified five key blockers…
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Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP
Microsoft has gone the full cloud monty with the updated Dynamics AX release, local retailer Citta to be among first to hook up…
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Technology takes on the catwalk
The fashion industry has already been disrupted by online commerce – the advent of 3D printers, wearable technology and mass customisation will make that seem like child’s play…
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Whitepaper: The top ten reasons Epicor clients choose the cloud
Most enterprise applications are well on their way to being cloud based, and in the last decade the cloud has become the new normal for customer relationship management (CRM) deployments…
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Deloitte says we must reimagine our core systems
With digital transformation high on many business agendas, legacy systems are often seen as the largest constraint holding the business back. Deloitte’s latest Tech Trends report provides “5 R’s” as a guideline to revitalisation…
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Insurance sector faces mass disruption
One in four Australians would be quite happy to buy insurance products through a technology company like Google in the future; it’s a wake up call for the insurance sector…
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Atlassian turns teenage years into gold
Atlassian turns 14 this month, and now boasts 54,000 customers, 1,400 employees, revenues north of $US320 million and a market capitalisation of around $US5 billion…
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Exo hits the right note for Perth music store
Faced with the challenge of multiple disparate systems, Western Australia’s Mega Music found the ideal business management software in MYOB Exo…
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Whitepaper: The business case for deploying Epicor ERP in the cloud
What is motivating the migration of ERP systems to the cloud?…
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SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent…
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ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear
The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept…
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First stand up for Government’s innovation agenda
The 100 day “anniversary” of Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation statement falls this month, and already questions are being asked about what has really been achieved…
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IoT will be the only way by 2020
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time…
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Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger
Of the 2,500 organisations that CSC and UXC provide services to in this region, there are apparently only about ten where there is any significant overlap…
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Comms giants ratchet up 5G push
Once a year the mobilerati gather in Barcelona to sketch the future of communications – this year it was all about Samsung’s new baby and the future offered by 5G – one is really important…
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Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers
Electricity retailing. It’s not really the sort of business ripe for innovation or differentiation for customers, you say? Well, according to Flick founder and CEO Steve O’Connor you are “wrong”…
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Whitepaper: Is it viable to use SAP for the development of business applications?
Read the first installment of our two-part series, on SAP as an option for customer development…
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Whitepaper: The business value of advanced analytics
There is no doubt that modern businesses are complex beasts…
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MYOB edges closer to all-cloud business
Accounting software company MYOB has released its first set of financial results since it relisted on the sharemarket last May…
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Gartner’s Top 10 IoT tech predictions
The global analyst firm has outlined ten technologies that it believes will allow organisations to go full speed ahead with the Internet of Things over the next two years…
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Good bye Dick Smith
In a statement issued by receivers Ferrier Hodgson, it was today announced that the remaining Dick Smith and Move stores (excluding airport locations) in Australia and New Zealand will close…
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Three Ws and an H: All you need to know about hybrid cloud
Just how well do you understand cloud terminology – and in particular, the definitions around the most popular option for most businesses, hybrid cloud – asks Matt Zwolenski…
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Data velocity forms flash’s new frontier
Deakin University is one of the local organisations testing the veracity of the latest tech sector jargon – data velocity…
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Gartner’s mid-market ERP Magic Quadrant: Which vendors shine?
With the release of its Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies, Gartner has pointed out those vendors which are delivering the goods…
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Convict heritage shapes collaboration trends
Australians’ “convict heritage” could be the reason why employees are leveraging consumer grade collaboration platforms more widely than their international peers…
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Rejoice, liberal arts student, your career in data analytics awaits
There’s plenty of hype around analytics and Gartner is tipping this sector of the industry for big things throughout 2016. But just how ready are businesses to take practical advantage of their data stores?…
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Smart cities worth $95 billion to Australian economy
Paul Budde expects cities to unlock a significant tranche of wealth by becoming ‘smart’ and using a city-as-a-service model…
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Driving digital competence
My daughter Sarah has just passed her learner’s driving licence…
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Optus hitches fresh ride on innovation coat tails
Optus is again shaking its innovation rattle – this time with a programme offering six capital injections of up to $50,000 for ideas that can “change the social landscape” for young Australians…
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CDOs ‘not aware how to successfully design organisation’ – Gartner
The rapid adoption of the chief data officer (CDO) role — from 400 in 2014 to 1,000 in 2015 — raises important questions about the structure and positioning of the office of the CDO in organisations…
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Review recommends NBN Co sell off
A national infrastructure review has recommended the National Broadband Network Company be privatised “in the medium term” with a multi-billion dollar price tag tipped…
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CSC’s UXC acquisition a done deal
Global technology solutions company CSC is to complete the acquisition of UXC Limited within the next few weeks…
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Customer experience: Apple excepted, mass personalisation is the new frontier
Companies focusing on developing ‘one to one’ relationships are winning an emerging battle of customer experience – but how come Apple pays so little attention to it?…
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NAB and Oracle deliver faster personal loans
In the past, when customers approached NAB for a personal loan, it took the bank around 12 days to respond – a new software platform now means they could win approvals in one day…
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Ancient data storage costs corporates cash
An exploration of the data files kept by 100 global companies has revealed that two in five data files hasn’t been used in three years, and 12 per cent has lain fallow for seven…
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Beating device incompatibility in the workplace
Can you confidently say you know what and how many mobile devices are connected to your network at any given time, asks Safi Obeidullah…
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Insurance industry next on IT innovation hit list
Insurers are starting to take stock of how IT can help boost business as the industry exits its rocky patch…
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Technology lock-in could be holding your company back
One of the single biggest barriers to digital strategy is the impact of capital depreciation and multi-year licensing contracts…
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Cloud arbitrage headed for A/NZ
Global Cloud Xchange is within a month of switching on its first A/NZ node, intended to allow local enterprises to deploy a cloud arbitrage strategy…
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CeBIT 2016 focusses on digital transformation
CeBIT’s Australian lineup has been announced for 2016 with the giant trade show and conference returning to Sydney’s Olympic Park in early May…
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The six challenges of multi-channel contact centres (and how to beat them)
Contact centre operators have been shifting to multi-channel communication methods for more than a decade, writes Carl Price – but the shift has proven challenging…
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Telstra outage reveals business weakspot
When Telstra’s mobile network crashed this week it revealed just how reliant Australian business has become on communications networks…
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Powered by cloud, CFOs are the new innovators
Finance, as essential a function as it is to any business, isn’t generally known as a hotbed of innovation. However, according to Oracle, perceptions and reality are changing where finance is concerned, and it is perhaps not hard to see why…
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Cosmetics in the cloud: Kosmea’s natural choice
With a growing business, cosmetics company Kosmea looked to MYOB’s Advanced for a cloud solution that meets its expansion ambitions…
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OzForex closes the kimono
OzForex has announced the collapse of negotiations with Western Union, pulls pin on due diligence process…
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Xero promises big data for small business with new Microsoft ties
Power BI integration likely to get spreadsheet aficionados fired up…
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SAP sets 2016 sights on two key sectors
SAP’s two new business units targetting public services sector in Australia and financial services in Australia and New Zealand telegraph its 2016 priorities…
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Technologies to disrupt digital commerce in 2016
Juniper Research reveals top transformational technologies in e-commerce…
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Diversifying? A new ERP system wool help
After the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) diversified into the food and grain industries, it turned to Abel ERP to streamline its financial management and more…
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How APIs are supporting a revolution in the financial services sector
Throughout the world, financial services companies are facing a period of rapid and fundamental change, writes Jonathan Stern, and APIs are emerging as a competitive necessity…
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Shifting the deckchairs at CSIRO
Australia’s peak research body CSIRO has confirmed an overhaul which will have the organisation and its researchers focused more on innovation than invention…
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The re-emergence of process as a competitive differentiator
It’s not only what is done, but also how, writes Ivan Seselj, advancing the argument that process can deliver the edge…
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Government takes your money online, faster
The NSW Government is building on its raft of digital services – this time by updating its smartphone app to allow people to pay fines and review infringement photos…
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Xero updates tax and switches guard
Cloud accounting software company Xero has announced a slew of updates for its Australian tax module, along with a changing of the guard at the pointy end in both Australia and New Zealand…
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Worldwide BI to hit US$16.9 billion in 2016
Especially solid growth for analytics in ANZ in otherwise tepid IT market…
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Wholesale rug supplier rolls out Exo
Creaking under the strain of sustained growth, Unitex International discovered that a fully-fledged enterprise resource planning solution was within reach…
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Goodbye Koorb with latest Fusion5 acquisition
The wave of consolidation of trans-Tasman enterprise solution providers continues apace as Fusion5 snaps up the remnants of Koorb…
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Security blanky makes way for quilt
Enterprises need to rethink blanket rules regarding access to corporate information systems, and instead take more of a “patchwork quilt” approach according to a former FBI agent…
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Data proves as important as financial capital
Data is a form of capital on par with financial capital, even though it can’t yet be shown on a balance sheet, according to Paul Sonderegger, big data strategist for Oracle…
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Bulletproof to acquire Cloud House
NZ AWS partner snapped up by Australian cloud service provider…
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What’s eating Apple?
To industry pundits and casual observers, it came as a shock this week when Apple projected that growth for its iPhone sales would hit the slowest pace since 2007, the year of the iconic phone’s release, writes Howard Yu…
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Cloudy with a chance of big bucks
Demand for public cloud continues to soar and spending will reach more than AU$5.5 billion in Australia as enterprises grow comfortable with the notion of a third party running their information systems…
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Telstra invests more in cloud strategy
Telstra is putting more of its money where its mouth is to grow its Network Application and Services business and share of the cloud market with a couple of strategic investments this month…
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Readying finance for a rapidly-changing world
Given the financial and geopolitical volatility over the past year, Steve Bray contends that the adoption of cloud enterprise performance management (EPM) tools within the finance department is not surprising…
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SAP enterprise omnichannel software available as a service (but not yet in ANZ)
A new agreement between systems integrator Dimension Data and SAP makes the vendor’s Hybris Commerce available on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis for the first time in APAC…
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Prepare for a cashless future
Australians are ready, willing and able to swap ready cash for a digital alternative – and retailers had better prepare their infrastructure for the switch…
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Ten tips for driving value from big data
Just think what $48 billion could buy. In the private sector, that could buy a lot of R&D and innovation; the lifeblood of a successful and growing economy, ponders Vicky Falconer…
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Smartphones and women are underused resources
Deloitte has released its technology predictions for 2016 – and perhaps most startling is the way that smartphones are being used, but women aren’t…
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Fast growing business picks up the pace with Exo
Specialist retailer looks for MYOB business management software to get the competitive edge…
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Five trends which will revolutionise customer experience
Interactive Intelligence shares its predictions for the five trends set to disrupt customer service…
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Delivering the goods for homeware retailer
Gift and homeware retailer OneWorld Collection looks to MYOB Exo for improved stock control and reporting…
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TechnologyOne launches latest cloud, built for scale
Trialled with early adopters since 2015, listed Australian software and services business TechnologyOne has launched the fifth incarnation of its cloud platform which has been primed for scale…
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Execs and boards must hold nerve on digital
Australian corporate board members and senior executives should hold their nerve in spite of the rocky start to 2016 and focus on continued digitization of their businesses…
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Despite ‘shocking’ state of global information security, it’s business as usual
Just 45 percent of organisations confident in security posture; attackers launching ‘more sophisticated, bold and resilient campaigns’…
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Bright Light makes the switch to Exo
With rapid expansion, LED lighting solutions specialist Bright Light needed easy access to up-to-date data and more visibility across the business…
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What about the small data?
It’s easy to argue that big data is only getting bigger – yet, while collecting and analysing big data will remain a priority 2016, David Oakley believes organisations should also be looking more closely at small data…
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Unit4 ups ante for ‘people-centric’ ERP
Netherlands based ERP provider Unit4 is stepping up activities in Australia and New Zealand, just as it announces an integration with online messaging app Slack…
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Worldwide IT spending to grow – but only just
Just how much will the tech-crazy world blow on IT in 2016? Around US$3.54 trillion…
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ERP system proves flexibility
Austral Fisheries’ MYOB Greentree system passed the test when the time came to make changes…
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Single system success: Codecom gets Advanced
Growing company eliminates two-tier approach to managing business and gains cloud benefits with MYOB Advanced…
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IT professionals face daunting security KPI
IT professionals need to prepare for a new KPI that will track their ability to manage system security “dwell time”…
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Private equity firm takes stake in StorageCraft
TA Associates to invest U$187 million in backup and recovery software provider…
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SAP and Accenture tighten links
Accenture, which already has 42,000 staff dedicated to providing SAP services (46 percent of them in the Asia/Pacific/Japan region), has further tightened its links with the German software giant …
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Consumer tech faces rocky start in 2016
While the New Year kicked off with the annual circus that is the Consumer Electronics Show, revealing gizmos galore, the portents for 2016 in this segment of the tech sector seem more dour…
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Be aware of these six trends – and get ahead in 2016
The business landscape can expect to see even more competition amid soft economic growth in 2016 which will drive organisations to consider new technology or systems to gain a competitive edge…
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The PC party is over as worldwide shipments deflate
Worldwide PC shipments of 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015 are 8.3 percent down the same period in 2014 said Gartner…
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Generation rent
Everything as a service and nary ownership of it…
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Data analytics enters new phase of maturity
Data analytics is about to get a whole lot more interesting as pioneering companies work out how to empower their business executives without unleashing information anarchy…
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Government spruiks innovation agenda
The Federal Government is planning to unveil a campaign that will telegraph to ordinary Australians the importance of innovation to the nation’s future…
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Santa sacks outdated technology
Whatever the personal technology lurking under the tree next week – it’s about to get outdated quicksmart…
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Desktop as a service delivers Treasury innovation edge
Demand for what amounts to “desktop as a service” continues to mount as enterprises look to offer anywhere, any device access to information – while retaining a level of control…
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MuleSoft’s five key trends for 2016
What is 2016 likely to bring? The answer, as is quite usual for the technology industry, is highly likely to be an intensification of concepts already in the market, writes Ross Mason…
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How application dependency maps can enhance user experience
In the age of users who demand flexible and responsive apps, dependency maps can enhance user experiences, writes Pritika Ramani…
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Dead unicorns on the horizon
Just as in the Game of Thrones series, the ‘winter is coming’, and with it, so are huge risks to investors and employees of the so called unicorns, writes IMD Professor Nuno Fernandes…
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Apple Matters: Great Apple gifts for the holidays
Tis the season to be rewarded – and here are some things Apple aficionado Mark Webster has recently looked at…
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IFS named a Leader in Gartner’s 2015 ERP Magic Quadrant
Enterprise applications company named a Leader in Single-Instance ERP for Product Centric Midmarket Companies…
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Oracle takes cloud fight to AWS, Microsoft and Google
Oracle is finalising its plans ahead of launching an infrastructure as a service offering out of a Sydney data centre in the first half of next year…
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IoT, big data and security: Top trends for 2016
The technology industry moves at a relentless pace, writes Lasse Andresen, making it both exhilarating and unforgiving…
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Enterprise customers prove too big for Apple subsidiary
Organisations seeking to develop mobile custom apps that support just 100 users are about the limit for the FileMaker platform…
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Five steps to a successful integration
With Australian mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the rise, organisations need to consider how they will integrate for a smooth transition…
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SAP’s five trends for 2016 and beyond
Five key themes of opportunity and disruption for the year ahead, says John Ruthven…
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Data breach laws pushed out to 2016
Australia has once more pushed out the deadline for its data breach legislation, although it has released an exposure draft available for public comment until March…
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Five tech trends to watch
Rapid growth in information volume and complexity is putting data centres under pressure, accentuated by customer behaviour changes driven by mobile and social trends, writes Arron Patterson…
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Dental saas – it’s all in the smile
National Dental Care has serious growth plans, supported by MYOB Greentree delivered as a cloud service…
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NetSuite gees up its global mojo
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has extended the range of countries, currencies, language and tax systems that its OneWorld platform can support…
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Another big IT company appoints a chief customer officer
Kaseya’s new CCO stops by in Australia and New Zealand; ‘as a service’ mobility means increased focus on customers…
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Australians embrace digital engagement – with security and data privacy caveats
Australians are enthusiastic supporters of digital engagement, with seven out of ten noting a positive influence on their interactions…
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Australia unleashes $1.1 billion innovation agenda
In a bid to kick start Australia’s innovation engine the Government has unveiled its $1.1 billion Innovation and Science Agenda, replete with 24 separate measures…
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Valuation speedbumps then full throttle to the future
A valuation rethink is due on some technology startups – but it will be just a temporary hiccup, with the longer term future for companies in the sector being bright…
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Big data after the hype
Big data is perhaps another of those IT industry things that makes you go ‘oh, really, show me the money’. But while a little hype fatigue can be expected, the use cases are steadily appearing…
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Enterprise Australia forms incubator conga line
The trend for enterprise Australia to establish technology investment funds and incubators to piggyback on startup innovation continues – with food technology the latest beneficiary…
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Why accounts departments shouldn’t wait to automate
For some reason, when it comes to finance and accounting, dated approaches persist, writes Todd Hunt – and he says it is time for Modern Finance…
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Digitising government while ensuring citizen privacy and security
Digital governments will prove transformative for planning and delivering services to citizens – but the data being captured, stored, analysed and managed poses security and privacy risks…
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Microsoft clambers on innovation bandwagon
Just days out from the anticipated release of Australia’s innovation statement Wyatt Roy has given a big green tick to a Microsoft innovation report filled with its recommendations for the nation…
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Fronde’s new CEO
Former Fisher & Paykel exec takes top job at tech solutions company…
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How can ERP support Australian manufacturers?
Being known as a sustainable business can be a competitive differentiator. But manufacturers have to be careful sustainability is not just a label or greenwash, and ensure it applies to the entire supply chain…
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Seven considerations in the journey from legacy to cloud
Many organisations still rely on legacy systems and but are considering a transition to the cloud…
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Tyro takes on big banks for small business
Fintech disruptor Tyro Payments is taking the fight right up to the banks’ front door after receiving a $100 million injection from investors…
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Never mind property, a tech correction is coming
It’s not a matter of if but when, writes IMD Professor Michael Wade – and he calls the coming crash a good thing…
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CA rallies call for next level Agile – breakout out of the IT silo
Having conquered a decent chunk of the IT profession’s hearts and minds the Agile movement has set its sights on a broader swathe of enterprise professionals as it seeks to achieve ‘next-level Agile’…
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Mind the bumps on the Windows 10 upgrade journey
While early adopters will rush to implement Windows 10 as quickly as possible, most organisations will take a more sober ‘wait-and-see’ approach, writes Adam Blue…
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Taming the three monsters of the virtual world
The childhood monsters in the closet may be forgotten, writes Graham Schultz, but they aren’t gone. They’ve just moved from bedrooms to virtual environments…
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The growing challenge of travel industry email fraud
The popularity of internet travel bookings is attracting attention from cybercriminals keen to nab a share of the proceeds…
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Frost & Sullivan’s five big predictions for 2016
Head of research shares insights on what to expect next year…
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App wind tunnel blows right into Australia
Israel’s Perfecto Mobile is finalising arrangements with a local data centre to host an Australian instance of its mobile application testing service…
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Tech startups achieve stellar growth rates
Fintech disruptor and online loan provider Prospa has won the Deloitte TechFast 50 for 2015, with a phenomenal 6,971 percent revenue growth rate for the year…
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How the right systems can determine M&A success
Acquiring a company or merging with a peer can strengthen a business but, like any financial strategy, there are risks involved…
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Technology One tackles titans, ramps profits
Brisbane-based software and services business Technology One has racked up a dozen years of record revenues and licence fees with profits up 16 percent…
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Startups? Consider these four undervalued benefits of network monitoring
Regardless of business size, technology is pretty important – but how many startups pay sufficient attention to network monitoring, asks Andrew Timms…
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Volvo and Microsoft cosy up for better car buying experience
New partnership promises holographic technology to configure and preview car choices in 3D before purchase…
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ACS sets pace in innovation debate
Casting off once and for all any suggestion that it had become a moribund professional organisation, the Australian Computer Society is increasingly leading the debate on technology innovation in Australia…
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Four considerations on the road to multinational business
Expanding overseas can be an effective way of broadening the customer base and increasing profits…
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How digital consumers are changing the contact centre
What does it mean when digital consumers are as knowledgeable as your front-line contact centre agents, asks Carl Price…
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Why (and how) your company has to become a talent magnet
In advice which Lotharios everywhere have made a part of their DNA, Greg Savage says talent acquisition is the art of seduction…
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Digital push must come from CEO and board to succeed
Enterprises which want to transition from traditional operations into a digital business need the CEO and board to drive the agenda, or they will likely fail…
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Towards 2020 in the ‘Age of the Customer’
As digital disruptions dissolve barriers to entry such as manufacturing strength, distribution momentum and information mastery, power has shifted. This, says Mike Lord, is the Age of the Customer…
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CFOs remain wary of cloud
ANZ chief financial officers remain wary of the cloud for their own use, even though they’ve had a decade of signing cloud cheques for CMOs and CIOs…
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Apple Matters: iPad Pro or no-go?
Are you convinced by Tim Cook’s assertion that you don’t need a computer any longer, thanks to iPad Pro? Mark Webster isn’t…
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Australia must lift game or slide further down innovation ladder
By embracing digital technologies Australian organisations could add $A34.5 billion to the nation’s GDP by 2020, if the country lifts its innovation game…
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Sydney tech faces property squeeze
Sydney’s tech landscape will be in flux over the next five years with the planned redevelopment of two significant inner city technology hubs…
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Board-level marketers must embrace data, technology and finance
Marketers gain a place on the board, credibility and strategic support from director-level peers only if they speak the right language…
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Tablets take a chill pill
A new survey has forecast a surge in demand in Australia for tablet-cum-notebooks – but the overall tablet market is slowing – just in time for the release of the latest iPads and Microsoft’s flagship store…
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Dynamics market gets shakeup
The Microsoft Dynamics partner environment is in flux as Australian operators look to strengthen their presence in the New Zealand market…
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Australian manufacturers urged to invest to prepare for upswing
For the first time in more than a year, the Australian manufacturing industry is growing due, in part, to the falling Australian dollar…
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Motorola launches fresh crack at innovation
There was something of a “groundhog day” feel to the opening of Motorola Solutions’ Melbourne based innovation centre this week despite the room bristling with the latest mobile technology…
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Victoria baits tech hook with $60 million fund
The Victorian State government will launch its $60 million start up fund by the end of the month, bent on attracting more technology companies to the State…
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Canon acquires Converga
Canon Australia has fully acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum…
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How to ease the four greatest business travel and expense pressures
The common business concerns relating to expense management can be solved through automation, says Matt Goss…
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Data analytics yet to penetrate product development
More than seven in ten Australian organisations currently use data analytics to support operations, and while more plan to follow suit, deployment is slated only for certain areas…
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Digital invaders identified too little too late
A growing number of CEOs now recognise that they may not see the competition coming because of the speed of technology fuelled digital invaders…
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Hybrid cloud boost as Microsoft cosies with Red Hat
Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership to drive hybrid cloud computing…
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Smartphone soars as digital wallet demand declines
Australian business should reconsider the way it attempts to reach consumers based on a finer grained understanding of their technology preferences…
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The ‘scary’ side of the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is quietly affecting everyday life for people around the globe – but is there a dark side? Ever merchants of doom, security vendors are on to it…
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What is SaaS – and why is it so popular?
SaaS stands for ‘software as a service’ – or the supply of software, usually on a subscription basis, over the internet. There’s no need to install and update software – it’s all done for you by the supplier…
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Ransomware shifts attention to IoT
A new wave of ransomware looms – and this time it could get very “DieHard”, courtesy of the Internet of Things…
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SAP launches Institute for Digital Government
Software giant seeks to spur public sector innovation…
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Digitoil: RankBrain – Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm and how it impacts you
Google’s ranking algorithm currently has about 200 different signals that work in harmony to deliver great search results…
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Nitro boss urges Government to act faster
Sam Chandler has a blunt message for Government; your intentions may be good, but you must match them with actions – and fast…
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Apple Matters: The brand they hate to love
Mark Webster considers Apple’s latest earnings call and ponders what it means for enterprise and the future…
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All go for omnichannel?
It’s hardly like the internet, ecommerce or even m-commerce are new things, yet the concept of omnichannel retail is grabbing business headlines. Donovan Jackson investigates and finds that omni really is all…
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Why SAP is not an ERP company
When big organisations undergo significant change, the impact on customers has to be carefully handled…
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Focus on perimeter security misses point
When HP and the Ponemon Institute asked 28 Australian organisations about their experience with cybercrime, they discovered that the average cost of an attack was now $4.9 million…
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When a disaster isn’t a disaster (and how to better deal with ERP implementation complexity)
Many years ago, writes Owen McCall, a contribution to a study on ERP implementation failures threw up a completely surprising response…
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Robots invade the contact centre
Artificial intelligence is about to percolate deeper into enterprise contact centres, with machines taking over the simpler consumer interactions…
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Keep up! Business change accelerates
The speed of change has always been important in business, writes Tim Scott, with the ability to adapt (still) vital to success…
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Digitising the boardroom: What took you so long?
While companies have generally focused digitisation efforts on line of business processes, there is one rather significant level to which automation hasn’t yet reached: the boardroom…
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HANA Vora to stimulate appetite for big data?
With the launch of a new software product, SAP sets out to help harness big data…
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The benefits of an open data approach
The rising adoption of mobile technology in the business world, says Jonathan Stern, is causing growing challenges for IT departments…
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ANZ IT spending plays tag with GDP
Australia’s investment in technology is likely to grow in line with the nation’s expected rise in GDP – while New Zealand’s pace of IT spending growth will be a tad slower in 2016…
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BMC takes on legacy
For all the talk of new age computing platforms, the mainframe still plays a major role with almost two thirds of Australian mainframe users planning to grow their use of the platform…
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Mapping tool offers hope to besieged councils
A review of 139 NSW councils by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has found only 52 to be “Fit for the future” leaving many facing amalgamations and transformations…
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A top ten peek into the digital future
Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2018 and beyond…
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Apple Matters: The Mac – Recent updates keep an old favourite relevant
The Macintosh has an enduring reputation as Apple’s flagship device. Launched in 1984, it’s still here and, with recent updates, it’s still growing, writes Mark Webster…
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How retailers can read customers’ minds to provide better service
Increasing sales is easier with insight into preferred products, how customers like to shop, and whether they prefer discount or loyalty cards…
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Grocery logistics provider gets accounts in order
3PL and warehousing expert, Cardinal Logistics, says MYOB Greentree gives it the efficiency and flexibility essential for growth in this competitive industry…
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Inbound marketing: (Not yet) All the rage
Inbound marketing software vendor HubSpot is pushing an APAC campaign to drive its solutions deeper into what it believes is a willing market…
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Policy hackathon tackles ten top ideas
A couple of hundred people gathered in Sydney on Saturday for Australia’s first policy hackathon, focusing on just ten of the 284 ideas collected in advance of the event…
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UXC bottles up wine industry ERP expertise
UXC Eclipse acquires selected assets of WineDirect, expanding industry expertise with plans to offer viticulture ERP solution globally…
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CDOs lead the way on digital transformation – for now
Chief digital officers may be all the rage among transforming enterprises – but they could find themselves with a very short corporate shelf life according to new research…
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SaaS anti-fraud tool for safer etailing
Retailers gain real time access to risk profiles based on more than 12 years of retail transaction data..
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Workflow: Ditch paper for the cloud
Wrangling printers and fax machines can be infuriating, making paperless workflows an appealing option, writes Dave Rouse…
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Customer data is dollars – but many ignore it
Many organisations do not manage customer data as a corporate asset, and the monetary value of that data is often ignored, according to Gartner, Inc…
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Dell deal top of mind for VMware forum
For the Australian VMware users already signed up to attend vForum in Sydney next week, there will be just one topic of conversation – what will the Dell takeover of EMC mean?…
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Darkness in the cloud: What to consider before migrating to online storage
Enterprises start enjoying their cost savings within months of their cloud adoption – but have they given sufficient thought to security, ponders Pravin Kumar C…
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Innovation is saying ‘no’ to old ways of managing IT
As businesses across the Asia/Pacific region name innovation as the top ICT initiative for 2015/16, Simon Piff argues that the NO in innovation is important…
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Economy and dollar send chip sales south
The impact of a higher $US are taking their toll on hardware sales – and the future’s also looking shakier than usual given semiconductor forecasts…
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Banks and fintechs face technology tsunami
The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world…
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Government experiments with policy hackathon
Australia will hold its first “policy hackathon” in Sydney this Saturday – presumably to come up with at least some minimal viable innovation policies for the new Turnbull Government…
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Sydney stars as startup central
Startups have until the end of the month to apply for one of up to ten seed capital investments worth up to $60,000 from the Telstra-backed muru-D incubator…
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Cross-channel interactions improve business performance
Cross-channel marketing impacts business performance, according to research by Econsultancy and Oracle Marketing Cloud…
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CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT
The Internet of Things is eating IT budgets, with Gartner forecasting that next year CIOs will spend $US2.5 million a minute on IoT deployments…
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Epicor beefs up exec suite with key appointment
Epicor Software Corporation has appointed industry veteran Sabby Gill as executive vice president overseeing operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC)…
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Creating a smarter IT service desk
IT service desks can be tough places to work, writes Branko Bugarski, but with the addition of data analysis, collaboration and a ticketless approach, things can be improved…
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CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid
US giant CSC has given itself just five weeks to complete the due diligence on Australia’s largest listed software and services business, UXC Ltd, ahead of a planned $A428 million takeover…
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Technology One opens wallet, plans expansion
Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist…
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Fuji Xerox Australia takes on technology transformation
Establishes IT Services and Enterprise Software division…
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UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions
UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions…
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Buttonwood smoothes path for hybrid cloud
Canberra based start-up Buttonwood is putting the finishing touches to its cloud exchange platform designed to bring greater flexibility to hybrid cloud solutions…
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The future data centre is software-defined
The software-defined data centre (SDDC) is crucial to the long-term evolution of an agile digital business says Gartner – the future is not now…
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CMOs and CIOs tussle over IT dollars and direction
A survey of 255 A/NZ chief marketing officers has found that 91 percent are making technology purchasing decisions, while more than half of all marketing departments have a dedicated IT budget…
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Telco consolidation gathers pace
Just three months after getting the green light to purchase Amcom, Vocus is itself now the subject of a merger agreement with M2, as ANZ telecommunications consolidations gathers pace…
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Sydney’s Atlassian gears up for US float
Within hours of announcing it had achieved the 50,000 customer mark Sydney software company Atlassian was dominating the news for a very different reason – its looming US float…
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Is email killing corporate productivity?
The daily grind is draining more than our morale – it’s also killing corporate productivity and email is the culprit, writes David Oakley…
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Know your ADCs and get more from the hybrid cloud
When cloud computing first appeared on corporate radar screens in the mid-2000s, it brought with it the promise of big business benefits – but, asks Benjamin Hodge, have those been realised?…
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CIOs seek balance between innovation and thrift
Australian CIOs are engaged in a balancing act – attempting to deliver the digital agenda that boards and investors crave, while keeping tight rein on costs…
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Future ERP: Infor announces collaboration, BI apps for Apple Watch
Cloud ERP vendor betting big on wearable tech…
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Four ways graph analytics can help data compliance
Big data can transform the way businesses operate, but companies have to make sure they comply with rules and regulations around how data is accessed and used…
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Amazon jumps through hoops before DevOps
Teams at Amazon which want to innovate must start by writing a press release before developing anything…
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Why you need more women in your design team
How much further can technology go and how much faster can we can get there if greater diversity in the workplace is encouraged, ponders ACS president Brenda Aynsley…
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Microsoft releases Office 2016
The worldwide release of Microsoft’s Office 2016 productivity software is underway…
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The why, what and how of business agility
Fifty years ago, running a company was much more predictable, with less competition and customers content to buy based on what you had on offer. But things have changed, writes Nat Tanner, and so should you…
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Shadow IT seduces CFOs
The lure of cloud computing for CMOs is well understood and has seen more of the IT budget head to that department – now it’s the CFO’s turn…
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Beyond the photocopier to workflow control
Office copiers have been transformed into business process management tools. We look at some of the offerings available and find out what they can do to make document management easier… and deliver your coffee just so, too…
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Australian PM announces “21st Century Government”
Fifteen years into the millennium, Australia has been delivered its first “21st Century Government” courtesy of newly installed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull…
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Whitepaper: Implementing modern ERP
Telsyte research report: Uncovering key components for a successful outcome…
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The perils of premature IPO
The allure of money for nothing from a stock exchange listing should be balanced by proper consideration of the very public demands of shareholders and regulators. Donovan Jackson explores…
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Apple Matters: Bigger, faster, but – where to now?
Apple is concentrating on consolidation releases this year with few exciting product announcements; expect the fireworks in 2016, reckons Mark Webster…
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ANZ leaders embrace cloud based testing
Australian and New Zealand technology leaders are leading the world in terms of their adoption of cloud based quality assurance testing – but there are still gaps in the repertoire…
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Australia’s first Hi-Tech Prime Minister
Telecoms analyst Paul Budde considers the ramifications of a proven technology leader in the highest office in the land – and how that may affect the NBN…
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Disruption and the supply chain
Consumer demand is colliding with a supply chain that isn’t ready and can’t keep up…
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Salesforce.com in its sights as SAP looks beyond CRM?
SAP is working on future technologies intended to transform the relationships companies have with their customers…
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Pega integrates analytics across its range
Business software supplier Pegasystems is riding the coattails of market demand for analytics, making its customer decision hub an integral part of its software suite rather than an optional bolt on…
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Australia’s new PM ‘gets IT’
It’s clear that the change to the top job in Australia will have significant consequences for the IT industry according to Ovum government technology analyst…
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ERP enables clean-as-a-whistle service
MYOB Greentree will help Jet Cleaning grow a service model it believes has great potential…
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How AI will change the future of business
To start planning for what has until recently been the preserve of science fiction, MYOB has released the second report in its ‘Future of Business’ series…
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Communications minister Turnbull moves into top job
Australia has appointed former communications minister Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister after a leadership spill last night which evicted Tony Abbott from the role…
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APIs top of mind across ANZ
Enabling mobile applications, improving customer satisfaction and generating revenue among key drivers for API adoption…
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Designing the optimal cloud management solution
When it comes to managing the hybrid environments, many have fallen back on using different tools to manage different services. Branko Bugarski, GM HP Software says it doesn’t have to be that way…
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Australian retailers ‘missing out’ on secret competitive weapon
Australian retailers have a secret weapon that can help them blow competitors out of the water, says UXC Eclipse…
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Software promises financial fillip for multinationals
Financial software company BlackLine is readying a new version of its intercompany hub software to better support global organisations’ transfer pricing arrangements…
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Effective cloud ERP on a budget
Small and midsize companies can follow these proven strategies…
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How technology managers are tackling transformation
With the industry abuzz with transformation, the role of the IT department itself is coming under increased scrutiny…
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Optimising the cloud with network intelligence
The rise of multimedia and the growing use of real-time applications have placed heavy demands on network bandwidth and performance, says Gary Denman…
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ASSA ABLOY locks in international ERP solution
With growth due to acquisitions matched with organic expansion. ASSA ABLOY looked to Intergen for an enterprise resource planning solution to replace a patchwork of ageing business systems…
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Is SIAM the white knight on the horizon for IT Service Management?
Organisations may have been unknowingly setting up their IT Service Management (ITSM) initiatives for failure but there is a solution according to UXC Consulting…
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Apple Matters: No need for rose-coloured glasses
Mark Webster considers new iPhones, iPads and, finally, an Apple TV with a decent interface…
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Why the CFO needs cloud-driven automation
Entrusted with managing the financial risks of global and increasingly complex enterprises, the modern CFO needs modern tools, writes BlackLine’s Todd Hunt…
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Apple and Blackberry forage for fruits of mobile demand
Apple must be hoping that the release of the new iPhone 6S this week will help spike sales in Australia and internationally…
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Bowron skins ERP solution for the future
Canterbury sheepskin manufacturer’s ERP implementation has set it on a firm footing for future generations…
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Under the covers with Abode Living’s ERP boost
Integrating online sales with in-store retail for improved cross-channel business management…
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MYOB Greentree enables EasiYo to predict ‘live’ data
MYOB Greentree is EasiYo’s strategic tool to analyse business trends and discover new market opportunities…
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Resilient ERP for community housing
Community housing by its nature requires a human touch; the right business system enables everyone involved to spend their time where it really counts and still be in control of systems and processes…
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Getting the measure of email
Return Path has announced that it is offering an Australian version of its email data cloud services offering insights from the inboxes of 80,000 Australians including Telstra BigPond users…
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Watch for these six business continuity gaps that can cost you
With an abundance of factors that can disrupt operations, effective business continuity strategies are challenging…
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Digital gap widens as benefits crystallise
A widening gap is opening between digital leaders and digital laggards with 32 percent of medium to large scale organisations now having a digital business up and running…
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What will Windows 10 really mean for enterprise IT departments?
With Microsoft stating that Windows 10 is the last launch of its kind, Steve Beards, Flexera Software VP of APAC and Japan takes a look at what that means for business users…
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Industry needs to communicate cloud better
Cloud computing isn’t a technology discussion, it’s a business driver…
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Breaking down not-for-profit ‘brick walls’
Constantly searching for ways to keep a lid on operating costs while ensuring positive outcomes, not-for-profit organisations are recognising the benefits offered by integrated IT systems…
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ERP system gives a better view nationwide
HVG’s Greentree system easily manages complex supply chain & CRM needs, while delivering tailored key information…
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SAP’s Ariba targets corporate slavery through data insights
Ariba, the procurement and business network subsidiary of SAP, is promoting its links with Made in the Free World to stamp out industrial slavery in Australian supply chains…
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APIs critical to evolving Internet of Things
It’s knocked cloud computing off top spot in the list of ‘most hyped IT trends’, yet the Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a lot more than just a quirky buzz phrase, says MuleSoft founder Ross Mason…
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Five simple steps for a successful Windows 10 upgrade
With a free upgrade available, there’s no doubt that moving is an attractive proposition. Yet, asks Safi Obeidullah, Citrix ANZ director of technical services, have you stopped to think about how to manage the transition without impacting productivity, security, and workforce management?…
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Shamelessly hyping hyperconvergence (backed by guarantees)
Hyperconvergence infrastructure provider Simplivity has released new software with a slew of hyperbole…
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How Microsoft and Polycom are making video ‘phone easy’
The gold standard for any technology system today is still the plain old telephone system…
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Australia fails to grasp viewability advantage
The viewability of online advertisements has dropped in Australia, meaning advertisers risk missing their mark…
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Apple Matters: Apple rises while Microsoft…rises
Mark Webster takes a look at the fortunes of vendors which have enjoyed a sometimes adversarial relationship and finds them both heading in the right direction…
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MYOB named Most Innovative Large Company
Online business software company wins innovation award in 500+ employee category…
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How Microsoft’s Azure is commoditising the leading edge
It’s almost hard to believe that Microsoft’ Australian Azure data centres have only been in place for around a year…
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Get over security worries for cloud ERP gains
Australian equipment supplier Gym and Fitness has shifted into the cloud with by implementing the NetSuite OneWorld ERP solution…
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Cloud driving outsourced data centre market
As a result of increased adoption of cloud computing the Australian outsourced data centre market continues to grow strongly…
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Greentree US partner expands with merger
MYOB Greentree Chicago based partner, Visions Business Solutions (VBS), has today announced a merger with Crestwood Associates LLC…
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Big bank signs $450m deal with Big Blue
ANZ – which spends $1.2 billion a year on technology – has signed a five year $450 million deal with IBM which will provide computing platforms to support the bank across the Asia Pacific region…
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Epicor CEO Joe Cowan scoops business award
Epicor president and CEO Joe Cowan has won a Gold Stevie for Executive of the Year in the 2015 International Business Awards…
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LANDESK buys Melbourne’s Xtraction
IT systems management company LANDESK has bought Melbourne’s Xtraction Solutions for its digital dashboards that present IT systems data in an easy to understand format…
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Five megatrends on the minds of ANZ execs
ANZ CIOs and CxOs name economic change, technology innovation and changing consumer expectations as the biggest pending megatrends…
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Handley to step down from Snakk
Mobile advertising company appoints Peter James as executive director and chair…
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CSIRO and NICTA merge into Data61
After more than 12 months’ negotiations, the Government has confirmed that the IT research operations of CSIRO and NICTA are to be combined in an entity to be known as Data61…
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Why it pays to focus on process
For more than a decade business surveys and management text books have identified strategy execution as the number one challenge facing CEOs. The problem isn’t the quality of management strategies, says Ivan Seselj. It is the difficulty of carrying them out…
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Ashley Madison and the power of traditional marketing
Ashley Madison had a ‘lack of women’ problem long before it had a stolen data problem. It solved its ‘woman’ problem by using traditional marketing techniques…
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Modernisation and digital transformation behind enterprise application software growth
Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will grow 7.5 percent to reach US$149.9 billion in 2015…
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MYOB and Xero appeal equally to shareholders
The fortunes of accounting software rivals MYOB and Xero are at a curious inflexion point with shareholders valuing them equally at $1.7billion…
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NBN costs blow out by $15 billion
The national broadband network could cost $15 billion more than was originally anticipated – but the Government claims it’s still cheaper than Labor’s original plan…
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All-flash data centres around the corner, says HP
Faster enterprise storage means better business results
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Smartphone sales start slowing
The IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker revises expectations of smartphone shipments…
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NetApp preaches to the yet-to-be converted
Storage and data management business NetApp wants to do for big business data what Apple did for consumers’ – it’s turning out to be a big ask…
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CFOs should have much to say on cloud computing
Today’s successful CFOs are modernising their departments while partnering with the CEO and line-of-business leaders to find new growth opportunities…
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Computer security morphs into crisis management
There’s been a change of language in the lingo surrounding computer security – it’s now all about resilience and response rather than assuring protection…
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Technology startups offer manna to miners
Listed mining companies feeling the pinch have turned to technology to diversify in search of growth potential…
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Human rights boss calls for women to “lean in” for tech roles
Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner, Professor Gillian Triggs, has described as “horrifying” the fact that women aren’t more involved in technology related roles…
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Artificial intelligence: Solving the little big problems
Call centres are practically a defining feature of the modern world. They are also routinely a source of frustration, but AI could change that…
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Australia’s CSG acquires CodeBlue
CSG has signed an agreement to acquire CodeBlue for a total sum of $15 million…
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If most projects fail, why bother doing them at all?
There is still hope, explains international project management expert Gary Nelson…
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NEC wins $36.6 million Govt deal – but competition looms
NEC Australia has won a deal to provide global IT support and services to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in a deal worth $36.6 million over eight years…
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C-Suite soup: Win with actions, not titles
Every function, discipline and sub-discipline aspires to be in the C-Suite, says Owen McCall. But it is outcomes and not titles that count…
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Apple Matters: On the Apple Watch
Mark Webster takes a closer look at the latest Apple gadget to get tongues wagging…
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Currency rout could warrant budget rethink
Analyst Gartner has warned CIOs they may need to rethink their technology budgets because of the rising US dollar which is still used to price most tech products and services…
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Xero reaches quarter million milestone, adds partners
Cloud accounting specialist, Xero, has now passed the 250,000 Australian user milestone and added new partners to its 400 strong ecosystem including DropBox, Adobe and Bigcommerce…
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Air New Zealand: The tech company with planes
Think Air New Zealand is an airline? Well, yes it is, but according to CIO Julia Raue, it needs to be an experience-led digital social company to get the competitive edge…
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Keep calm and carry on with government transformation
In a recent blog post, titled Keep Calm and Carry On – England’s mantra during World War II – the new leader of the UK equivalent of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office called for more support…
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Almost 30,000 premises face copper cut off on Friday
By Friday another 30,000 homes and businesses around Australia will have been forced into the decision of whether to sign up for the national broadband network or rely on their mobile…
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Auto tech on the brink
A week with the latest in Japanese automotive wizardry leaves me thinking the industry needs to move on, says Hayden McCall…
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NetSuite looks to boost regional profile
After six months in the role, Lee Thompson, senior vice president and general manager for cloud ERP vendor NetSuite in Asia Pacific Japan, has issued a “must do better”…
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM users beware: Not supported on Windows 10
While Windows 10 upgrades are available for business users, those using Dynamics CRM should exercise caution…
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Where weapons maker meets cupcake baker
Privately held enterprise software company Infor prides itself on providing “the last mile” in ERP solutions, tailored for specific industries…
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The price, perils and persistence of cloud computing
When Microsoft’s Australian based cloud solutions went down for an extended period last month, Jason Zander, corporate vice president of Azure, was on holiday…
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UXC signs three-year $12 million contract with Ixom
UXC to provide Application Managed Services and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform…
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SAP: Just 20% in the cloud is good news for growth
The first fifth is the hardest, says partner operations veep…
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Student innovators showcase the future
The cloud, smartphones, wearables, augmented reality and Raspberry Pi hold the key to the future of computing – if student innovators are any guide…
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MYOB to showcase add-ons at annual conference
Set up in 2013 MYOB’s API developer program has grown to nearly 3000 partners…
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Subscription economy? I’ll take that as a service, thanks
The subscription economy means almost anything can be delivered as a service…
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SAP identifies Australia’s digital “experience gap”
A survey of 3,000 Australians has uncovered an “experience gap” between the digital experience consumers want and the one they receive…
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Data scientists are the advertising execs of the future
Digitisation of publishing means automation and information driven decision-making…
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Adobe leads but faces two pronged threat
Adobe has taken the lead in the supply of digital marketing platforms – but it’s already under threat, particularly from Oracle and Salesforce…
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Tablet sales join PC doldrums
Turns out there isn’t a tablet for the hangover which comes after the PC party…
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UXC signs up Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy
UXC Limited has signed a three-year contract with Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy to provide service desk and end user computing support services for 7,500 users across New South Wales…
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Tapping the data asset: the emerging Chief Data Officer
The IT world bandies big data about as some kind of nirvana but the reality is that data is a pain point for most. But organisations are starting to value data as an asset they need to get serious about…
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Ten steps to stimulate workplace innovation
Despite the vaunted importance of ‘innovation’ it’s perhaps one of the most overused words today. It’s also probably the key to a successful future…
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Gamification company talks cloud, delivers less
Getting consumers to behave in a certain way at a certain time is manna for large enterprises, and increasingly gamification is being used by marketers to influence behaviours…
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Post-PC Windows 10 eyes up Internet of Things
The timing has never been more challenging for the launch of a new version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system…
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UXC signs new business valued at $100m
In a market update, enterprise resource planning solutions vendor UXC has announced new contract wins which position the company for growth in FY16 and beyond…
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Two thirds of IT roles face the chop
The IT shop floor faces the sort of radical overhaul that factory floors endured two decades ago – and about two thirds of current IT roles will disappear as enterprises disrupt themselves…
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Fronde CEO to step down
Ian Clarke to vacate top job later this year…
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Enterprises warned: double-cross startups at your peril
Australian organisations looking to leapfrog the competition by leveraging new companies should treat them with kid gloves or risk being cold-shouldered by the entire startup community…
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Complexity causing data centre blues? Hyperconvergence to the rescue
The physical contents of data centres tend to stealthily expand, becoming increasingly difficult to manage…
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IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose
Without a radical rethink of enterprise IT, the data that emerges from sensors and consumer focused services will become a burden on the organisation rather than a valuable commodity…
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Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?
Adelaide will host Australia’s first on-road trials of driverless cars starting in November – but could driverless cars, which produce around a gigabyte of data a second, clog the internet?…
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Apple Matters: A closer look at Apple Music
It’s the latest thing from Apple – and Mark Webster wonders what it really means…
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Technology comes to le Tour de France
198 riders form mesh network broadcasting data to the world…
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Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target
CIOs need to reframe their definition of success and how they fund software development – and it’s a particularly big ask for public sector IT professionals…
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Australia Post looks to NZ’s ShipIT for better ecommerce service
Under pressure postal service looks to capitalise on online retail boom…
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Data management platforms ‘key to future of programmatic advertising’
Automated advertising requires a specialised data warehouse…
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Cloud costs come down, but there is no price war
On-demand cloud pricing has fallen 2.25 percent, while the cost for customers that commit has dropped 12 percent…
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Government stats prick cloud bubble
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken a very sharp pin to the hyperbole regarding cloud deployment by enterprise Australia…
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Treasurer wants tax and innovation to play nicely
The nexus that exists between taxation and enterprise innovation has been broached by the Treasurer, Joe Hockey, who has sent strong signals of looming changes to the nation’s tax regime…
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ERP software geared for social housing
Community Housing Ltd has grown to a nationwide service, supported by a new business system from MYOB Greentree …
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Enterprise IT ranks, but Google rules
When asked to rank their enterprise IT department 77 percent of Australians gave them an A or a B, just 2 percent scored an F…
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Enterprise cloud works best with feet on the ground
Cloud solutions only as good as local support is…
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AppDynamics gears up for migration to Amazon cloud
AppDynamics, which monitors applications performance, is updating the platform so that it can be deployed in Amazon’s cloud, potentially also in Australia…
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Social media set to boost online trade to US$1.7 trillion
Juniper says Facebook, Twitter retail activities will drive web purchases…
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Five signs you need to rethink accounts payable systems
Think your accounts payable systems are automated? Think again…
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Mobile payments weave complex payments plans
Thought navigating mobile phone contracts was tricky? There are even more Brobdingnagian challenges for merchants looking for mobile payment solutions…
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Managing big data: HP introduces File Analysis software
One of the biggest issues with big data isn’t so much the physical volume of information but rather its classification: what’s valuable, and what isn’t, and where is the best place to store it…
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‘Cloud if you can’ and other tips for SMBs
The new financial year gives small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) the chance to review their performance and identify areas for improvement…
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Fujitsu punts on rising enterprise demand for Chromebooks
Gartner has forecast that there will only be 225,000 Chromebooks sold across the whole of the APAC region this year – but Fujitsu still reckons it’s a market worth a punt…
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The end of an error as Microsoft nukes Nokia handsets
Nokia handsets are dead and Microsoft killed them. Where to for the Surface…
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Technologists turn attention to older Australians
Most Western nations are grappling with the challenges of ageing populations and the impost that will have on their economies and healthcare budgets in particular. Can technology help?…
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SAP boots soccer into the cloud
Football company runs SAP…
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How BPM is driving customer experience
BPM is proving itself as a vital tool in helping companies develop the customer-centric approach…
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Tighter APRA controls put a damper on cloud
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has delivered a damning report card on the checks and balances undertaken by regulated entities when moving to the cloud…
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Is ICT education today ready to skill the next-gen workforce?
The world is increasingly digital, but what of its citizens? With the march of technological progress, jobs are changing and Brenda Aynsley questions whether today’s educational curricula are preparing people for tomorrow’s world…
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Raft of regulation = increased cost to Aussie internet
The regulatory environment for Australian internet service providers is about to get considerably more complex and expensive. John Stanton takes a closer look…
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Change is inevitable, but will you make the most of it?
There are two ways to deal with change: do nothing, or do something. The former is easy, but will leave you high and dry. The latter takes effort and can be unpleasant in the short term. Craig Young ponders how to make the most of a tumultuous world…
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Urgently required: a department of the customer
Focused on sales and marketing, most companies don’t advocate for their customers, argues customer experience expert Gerry McGovern. He makes the case for a department of the customer…
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Whitepaper: Epicor ERP 10 – Adaptive ERP
From their inception, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been deployed with an overarching purpose: reduce costs by managing processes and materials…
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Australia appoints digital tsar for five year stint
Paul Shetler has been named chief executive officer of the Government’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) charged with updating the way commonwealth services are delivered…
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Apple Matters: Do yourself a favour and check out iBooks
When Mark Webster wanted to get a book out, publishers wanted nothing of it. He took matters into his own hands…
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Marketing insight: Where love and money intersect
Oracle says marketing leaders today are expected to meet skyrocketing customer expectations, whilst at the same time meet the ever-increasing demands of the boardroom…
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Abel ERP gives Myriad Engineering the power to know
This precision small-parts machining company needed better control of its pricing and production process…
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Empired doubles headcount on revenue surge
West Australia based Empired has upped its revenue forecasts for both the last and current financial year after a boost from acquisitions and new customer deals…
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Heads in the cloud as Oracle hires hundreds
Over 800 salespeople hired to support growing demand for cloud across the region…
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Global IT spending down, yet simultaneously up
Worldwide IT spending should total $3.5 trillion in 2015, a 5.5 percent decline from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner…
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Ten things CIOs need to know about agile
CIOs are under pressure to support fast-evolving digital business scenarios, but traditional project and development methods are not always suitable says Gartner…
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Digital disruption fires up consulting space
Consulting firms are hitching on to the digital disruption train which is hurtling through just about every sector of the Australian economy – including Government…
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Disruptive technology without disruption
Business systems should be game-changers – not gamebreakers, says Greentree CEO, Peter Dickinson…
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Bulletproof primes for cloud migration
Listed technology company Bulletproof has launched a cloud focused professional services group that will support enterprise users of cloud from cradle to grave – as long as they use the right cloud…
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Fog day afternoon: Networking supremo goes large on Internet of Things
Knowing a good thing when it sees it, Cisco has announced a broad portfolio of products and solutions to get more things on the internet…
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Redefining the final frontier
Clare Coulson spoke to rocket man Peter Beck to check on progress and find out what easy access to space means for mankind…
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Power to the people: the rise of virtual personal assistants
In a world where your data is considered fair game for marketers, Brian Blau says the virtual personal assistant could give power over information back to the people…
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How simplification frees up time to deal with disruption
SAP ANZ’s Sameer Areff says success is increasingly tied to the ability to disrupt – or respond to the disruption of – traditional models…
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Australian app aims to close the loop on shopping
A mobile app which will alert shoppers that an item they have browsed online is available in a nearby store is about to be released in Australia…
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Mid-market ERP is for masochists says Greentree boss
Creating ERP solutions for mid-market customers is work “for masochists” according to Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson…
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Business is taking charge of digitisation effort
Line of business managers are taking a far more direct role in choosing the technology they use, working alongside, rather than under, their IT team…
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The benefits of ERP in the cloud
Enterprise resource planning applications in the cloud offer faster time to value, increased innovation, and scalability with the business…
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Whitepaper: Five minutes on modern finance midsize edition
Essential steps to consider for ensuring a successful cloud ERP system…
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Ditch the PJs (and other obvious video conference advice)
Throw enough people in front of a video camera and strange things are certain to happen…
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Free on Play: Office for Android
Finally, millions of Android users can use Microsoft Office apps to view Microsoft Office documents…
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Australia passes anti online piracy laws
Rights holders which believe that their copyright is being infringed by offshore pirates will in the future be able have access to that site blocked by Australian internet service providers…
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Expect a spend-up on customer experience
New research by the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals link between customer experience investment, increased profitability, revenue growth and customer retention…
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How Workspace-as-a-Service can cure SMB IT headaches
Does the thought of managing, upgrading, or keeping up with the latest IT trend send you running for cover? Citrix’s David Nicol suggests a better way…
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ASX/NZX: Tech stock watch
The recent flurry of tech listings across the ASX and NZX has created a liquid market for A/NZ business software stocks. In the first of a regular series, Hayden McCall sets out to keep track of their fortunes…[View as PDF]
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Agile underpins ERP overhaul
Three times the REA Group attempted significant back office projects, and three times it failed because of its complex, customised legacy platform. On the fourth attempt, it turned to Agile methods…
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Globalisation: you’re standing in it
Technology has long been the driving force behind globalisation. Both have been good to Australia and New Zealand in the past. Now there’s a fear we will be casualties as a new globalisation wave disrupts industries and displaces workers while creating Silicon Valley billionaires. Bill Bennett investigates…
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Swift flexes muscles on Apple Music, passes ‘most powerful’ test
In getting her way, Swift has arguably validated her spot on Forbes’ power index…
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Smaller contact centres lured with A$99 cloud
Interactive Intelligence dangles Amazon Web Services-hosted cloud platform…
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RoZetta switches from software to solutions
Sydney based big data business RoZetta Technology will switch its focus from developing software products to more solutions selling as it grapples with capital constraints…
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Promapp wins Mawarnkarra Health Service BPM contract
Cloud software to support remote health service provider’s ongoing industry accreditation…
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Apple Matters: Goodbye to all Mac
Mark Webster evaluates calls that Apple should abandon the Mac and finds short answer is ‘No’. The long one is ‘N-o-o-o-o-o-o!’…
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Australia faces new and dangerous ICT skills crisis
Australia will need another 100,000 skilled ICT workers by the end of the decade if the full productivity benefits of technology are to be liberated…
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Microsoft Dynamics POS device is here and it’s awesome
Microsoft demo’s the new Retail Modern POS mobile device application…
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Fresh capital to spur Unleashed Software’s growth ambitions
Kiwi inventory management vendor to intensify USA operations…
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Think procurement cloud signs 7,000 suppliers
A Melbourne-based university is the first user of a cloud based procurement service launched by Think, the brainchild of seek.com.au pioneer Adam Ryan…
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Better email: Kiwi startup sets sights on Australia, Europe
A new Kiwi startup has big plans for Australia and beyond, seeking to take its email enhancement service across the ditch and further afield…
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New NetSuite partnership to automate tax reporting
NetSuite has partnered with GovReports, enabling companies to report tax information to the Australian Taxation Office directly using single sign-on…
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The case for honest estimates
Setting out on any project requires getting some idea of the costs and timelines involved – but project management expert Gary Nelson points out that there can be problems with estimates which can scupper projects before they even start…[View as PDF]
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Tough times serve up ERP opportunity for mining industry
Mining companies can use this period of tough trading conditions by implementing an enterprise resources planning (ERP) system…
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Building blocks: The case for a modular approach to technology services
The free availability of an almost infinite range of services on the internet means entrepreneurs can create powerhouses by pulling together composites to fuel their business goals, as Donovan Jackson discovers …
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Does big business want a smart watch?
New research report anticipates a warm welcome for smart watches and wearables in the enterprise…
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Digital disruption: a millennial’s perspective
Technology evangelist, commentator and investor Ben Kepes takes a fresh look at digital disruption through the eyes of his 15-year-old son Yonni Kepes…[View as PDF]
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The questions to ask before plunging into SaaS
Demand for software as a service continues to rise; according to Cisco, by 2018, 59 percent of all cloud workloads will be SaaS compared to 41 percent in 2013…
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Don’t sell technology, satisfy needs
Selling IT solutions might at first blush appear a terribly complex undertaking, but achieving success doesn’t necessarily depend on the technical specifications. Instead, Owen McCall, independent IT consultant, shows that sometimes all that’s required is a firm grasp of what the business really needs…[View as PDF]
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Australia experiences post-Christmas handheld slump
A consumer led binge on tablets and phones over the holidays led to an all too predictable sales slump in the first quarter of 2015…
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Bigger, better, faster, more: Technology takes off in travel
If there is an industry that has had to respond to the impact of technology then travel is it. Donovan Jackson explores how technology is transforming everything from booking flights to catching a taxi and managing travel expenses…
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Customer experience priorities are changing
Organisations have changed their customer experience (CX) priorities for 2015, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc…
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IT execs sit tight with new jobs in short supply
Demand for Australian IT executives slumped by 17 per cent in May, while the overall job trend is slowing across the nation and consumer sentiment has slumped…
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Mind the service management gap
With IT service management automating a substantial proportion of the processes which move incidents to resolution, there is still a gap which opens up between the moment something goes wrong and the time taken to find the right person to fix it…
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Listen, learn and soar: Big data and the modern marketer
Marketing used to be a one-way conversation but new technologies have given the customer a voice and shifted the balance of power in their favour. Clare Coulson takes a look at the rise of the relevant customer experience…
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Software defined networks still a slow burn in user land
Software defined networks are and will be important, especially as cloud computing gathers pace, but the journey’s only just begun…
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Digitoil: Mobilegeddon – Were the doomsday predictions justified?
You may not have noticed it, but 21 April 2015 was ‘mobilegeddon’…
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WWDC 2015 roundup: I guess you had to be there
Mark Webster on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference announcements for 2015…
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Fuji Xerox appoints Whittaker as Australia MD
Gavin Pollard will oversee the New Zealand business replacing current managing director Neil Whittaker who moves across the Tasman to run the Australian operation…
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Digital businesses must telegraph hygiene policies
With data security, digital enterprises need to determine “acceptable risk” because absolute security is unattainable…
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Apple Matters: When ‘easy to use’ becomes a problem
Technology today is practically ubiquitous and ever easier to use. Be that as it may, Mark Webster discovers that even simplicity has its own set of problems…
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Whitepaper: Disrupt, collapse, transform – The role of cloud computing in industry transformation
In an environment of unprecedented change across industries of all kinds, survival depends on flexibility and adaptability…[View as PDF]
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NetSuite donates software to Australian not-for-profits
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite is making its business management applications available to Australian not-for-profits at no cost…
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Epson’s answer to Google Glass
Printer company demonstrates commercially-targeted augmented reality specs…
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Drupal 8 may lure smaller enterprise users
The impending arrival of Drupal 8 should deliver functions that make the open source content management platform easier to deploy, and potentially suited to smaller organisations…
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UXC Eclipse winning in retail
Australian company performs well in USA…
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NSW sheds IT responsibilities, saves A$20m
The NSW State Government has inked a A$215 million deal with Infosys and Unisys to take over ICT services in a deal it says will save A$20 million a year…
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NetSuite appoints Graeme Burt as channel sales director, Asia Pacific and Japan
Cloud ERP vendor investing in Pacific channel development…
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Sage finally takes to the cloud
Australia has become the 14th country in the world to be offered access to Sage One, a cloud based small business accounting system which wants to take on Xero and MYOB …
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UXC Eclipse wins 2015 Microsoft Dynamics Industry Partner of the Year
Trophy cabinet receives a boost as UXC Eclipse adds new silverware…
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How live video can boost contact centre performance
Enterprise video taken in a new direction as LogMeIn makes use of your smartphone…
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Enterprise boosts spending on business processes
Investment in software to support modern business process management will rise 4.4 per cent this year to reach $US.2.7 billion globally according to tech analyst Gartner…
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Commbank claims Agile crown
The Commonwealth Bank claims to now have the largest Agile community in the Southern Hemisphere – with its CIO saying it’s ready to “create the future”…
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Wearables could break $1 billion barrier
Chief information officers may have breathing space despite the rise of consumer demand for wearables according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan…
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Retailers face heightened security risk
Insecure point of sale systems and high staff turnover are rendering A/NZ retailers vulnerable to cyber attack…
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Sharing economy faces tax scrutiny
Crowdsourcing is in the firing line of the Australian Taxation Office which has people selling time in their cars or homes in its sights…
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MYOB Greentree appoints channel marketing manager
Wendy McKenzie to drive channel strategy…
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Promapp takes aim at flowcharts and Word
If spreadsheets and shoe boxes are the nemesis of accounting software, so flowcharts, Word and “trust me” are the mortal enemy of process mapping software…
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Cloud, mobiles and IoT prompt identity rethink
Enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing and mobile access are prompting a rethink of approaches to identity and access management…
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Australian start-ups lack financial savvy
A startling lack of financial savvy among Australia’s start-up community has led software house Intuit to invest in financial education initiatives…
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Apple Matters: Apple, enterprise and FileMaker
Enterprise was the final frontier for Apple for a long time. Mark Webster notes this appears to have changed…
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Businesses fail to fully exploit ERP
Australian enterprises invest millions of dollars each year on ERP platforms – but under-use of the investment is widespread according to recent research…
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Budget targets tech titans, supports start-ups
After being almost entirely ignored in last year’s Budget, the tech sector this year has a starring role…
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Verint checks callers on black and white list
CRM customer support and service provider Verint is launching an upgraded platform that can identify callers from their voice alone, and analyse what they are saying and their emotions on the fly…
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Board veteran admits extent of gulf between CIO and board
Former Woolworths boss and Fairfax chairman, Roger Corbett, has confirmed the gulf that can exist between IT and the C-suite…
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Government lays out “terrifying” transformation plans
The acting CEO of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office has admitted to being “just a little terrified” at the Minister’s vision for the organisation…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2015
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…
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Six things to do during and after a Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrade
Ryan Budge, Technical Delivery Manager – Microsoft Dynamics NAV, looks at what you can do during and after your next upgrade to ensure a successful project…
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NetSuite partners with Microsoft, ditches AWS
The ERP rivals have announced a partnership that will see NetSuite hosted on Azure and integrated with Office365…
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Leading CIO kicks industry’s cloud claims
One of Australia’s leading chief information officers has delivered a sharp kick to the information technology industry for clinging to old business models at the expense of cloud…
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Billabong reveals global NetSuite deal
Embattled surf retailer Billabong has announced that it has signed an agreement to roll out the cloud-based ERP solution…
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Light touch required for sharing economy to flourish
A NSW Government minister yesterday used the opening day of CeBIT to call for light touch regulation of the emergent “sharing economy”, in order to allow peer-to-peer services to flourish…
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Canva enterprise tool targets non-professional designers
Online design software house Canva – which already boasts 2.3 million international users for its free version – has seen an opportunity to streamline the marketing design process…
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Google and Facebook on collision course with telcos
The experts at market intelligence firm Current Analysis say that D-Day is nigh for telcos as over-the-top providers encroach further into the voice market…
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Agile enterprises must embrace quarterly planning
Enterprises which want to wring the most benefit from Agile processes and practices need to shift away from annual plans to more regular quarterly planning sessions…
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Australian business lags on electronic payments
Fewer than half of all Australian organisations accept electronic payments suggesting there is still a lot of room for financial disruption and business reform…
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Enterprise grapples with shifting IT expectations
The overwhelming majority of global business leaders (96 percent) recognise that digital technology has forever changed the rules – only some are ready for the challenge however…
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CeBIT gathers Australia’s tech faithful for 14th year in a row
Australia’s leading showcase of enterprise technology, CeBIT, will kick off in Sydney next Tuesday with no fewer than nine separate conference streams, plus a sold out start-up event…
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Apple Matters: Cook, Apple and the books
Apple CEO Tim Cook may not be attention-grabbing like his predecessor Steve Jobs, but Mark Webster finds he has kept the tech company on a very sound footing indeed…
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Jade Software sculpts and dances its way to the future
Jade Software is planning to reveal more of its creative chops this year to demonstrate to customers the benefits of a design-led approach to software development…
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Oracle partner takes on Greentree for mid-tier
Software integrator Ndevr, which describes itself as Australia’s most highly regarded Oracle JD Edwards consulting partner, has signed a strategic partnership with local ERP vendor Greentree…
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Amazon attracts blue chips, geeks and Gits
Amazon was among the first of the global cloud giants to set up shop in Sydney – and it’s a decision that has paid off with iconic Australian brands increasingly harnessing its services…
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IoT provides CMOs with promise of ROI
Data feeds from mobiles, wearables and IoT devices promise marketers rich new streams of information that can be mined for marketing insights…
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Enterprise seeks “moments” through wearables
Ross Mason ordered an Apple Watch last week – but first he asked his wife…
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Digitoil: SEO – dark art or just good marketing?
In the first instalment of our new Digitoil blog on digital marketing, subject matter expert Richard Conway begins by putting search engine optimisation in context…
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Online brand protection limits audience reach
Companies that want to protect their brand online might have to make difficult choices regarding audience reach…
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Apple Matters: MacBook – overwhelmed with underwhelming
It’s not just an appellation the all-new MacBook is missing. There is no ‘Pro’ or ‘Air’ after ‘MacBook’, and also no ports. Mark Webster finds himself wondering who it’s for…
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HP and Microsoft unveil vertical solutions
HP has revealed details behind its partnership with Microsoft that has it serving up business-process-as-a-service solutions for the automotive, financial services and public sectors…
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Big data to crack down on ice
Big data analytics could be harnessed to support the Australian Government’s recently announced crackdown on crystal methamphetamine, aka ice…
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Finance and HR: A marriage made in cloud heaven
What’s keeping CFOs up at night?…
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NBN & UFB: getting down to the wire
The NBN and UFB projects have dominated the national and tech media headlines ever since their inception, usually due to squabbling over which technology should be used, who’s paying for what and whether progress has been fast enough. Here we take a step back and discuss the big picture for both project rollouts…
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Feds greenlight Centrelink’s ISIS plans
The Federal Government has given the thumbs up for a seven year overhaul of Centrelink’s core computing platform, predicting the first benefits will emerge as soon as next year…
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Aussie M2 buys Kiwi telco CallPlus
CallPlus has been acquired by Australian conglomerate M2 Group Limited for $250 million adding another layer to the shifting ISP sands…
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VMware enters local IaaS market
With investment in cloud and infrastructure a top-four CIO priority, VMware will face tough competition in the region from Amazon, Microsoft and Google…
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Tax minimisation: Singapore booms as Australia fumes
The extent to which multinational technology companies shift revenues and profits in order to minimise their global tax bills was on full display yesterday…
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Dallas downloaders face studio backlash
A landmark Federal Court Decision will force leading ISPs in Australia to hand over the names and addresses of 4,726 people who may have illegally copied a movie over the internet…
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Ripple sets up shop in Sydney
US payments start-up Ripple is looking for software talent in Sydney, which will host its newly announced Asia Pacific subsidiary…
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Gov CIOs feel pressure to perform
Asia Pacific government CIOs are facing more budgetary pressure than their international or private sector peers…
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Things we can still learn from the electrical revolution
Gerry McGovern invites you to reimagine your business in the digital age by taking a walk down memory lane…
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Agility runs deep, failure runs deeper
IT developers have been refining the process of agile development frameworks for the last two decades. Today a more flexible work method is necessary across the enterprise. Organisations are now beginning to heed the lessons learnt from agile development and apply its principles to other departments. Clare Coulson investigates…
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Investors vote with wallets in Xero v MYOB battle
The long anticipated re-listing of accounting software business MYOB on the ASX will allow investors – not just computer users – to signal whether they prefer it or arch rival Xero…
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Commbank hangs its hopes on Pi and Albert
The Commonwealth Bank is hitching its hopes for sales of tens of thousands of its tablet device to the 800 software developers it says have registered to use its Pi software platform…
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Apple Matters: A byte at Apple’s future
Apple has pioneered oh, lots of things. What does the latest crop mean for the future? Mark Webster ponders this question 39 years after Apple was founded…
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Legislative tsunami washes through Australian IT
A flurry of legislative changes is altering many of the rules affecting Australia’s information technology suppliers and users…
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Why agile hype could lead to project failure
Darren Christophersen, general manager of applications & consulting at Empired explains why you should be wary of the hype…
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Australia sets up IoT think tank
Australia’s telecommunications industry body has announced plans to review rules and laws that might impede internet-of-things (IoT) deployments…
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The road ahead for 3D printers
The technology for 3D printing has existed in some form since the 1980s. Now it is poised to move beyond prototyping into end-product and high-volume commercial manufacturing. Vinod Baya, director of PwC’s Centre for Technology and Innovation, and Alan Earls look at the coming changes and challenges for 3D printing…
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Time to call in the pros
The Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP) CEO Paul Matthews explains what the Chartered IT Professional accreditation is and why we need it…
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Codifying change and success
Owen McCall explains how a personal situation led to building a model for successful change…
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SAP hits a six for the Cricket World Cup 2015
It’s not just VB and cucumber sandwiches that are powering the Cricket World Cup – hard working technology is enhancing the fan experience…
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Telco shakeup forecast for Australia
Australian internet pioneers Simon Hackett and Michael Malone have predicted yet more shakeout for the nation’s communications landscape…
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Whitepaper: The future of the productive workplace
By the year 2025 Gen-Y Millennials will dominate the workplace and they will expect to have technology on-hand to help them work smarter not harder…[View as PDF]
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Oracle seeks 1000 cloud salespeople across APAC
Oracle’s cloud epiphany came late, now it’s playing catchup, looking to hire 1000 new salespeople across Asia Pacific to spruik cloud solutions, just as quickly as it can…
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How much methodology is needed for a successful project?
These days it seems like you can’t swing a cat without bumping into two or three technology projects, but not all of them will be successful. Project management methodologies are one way to improve success rates…
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Building smart
As the construction of ‘smart’ buildings becomes more common it has presented the design and construction industry with more challenges. Anthony Doesburg explores the impact of software in the design and construction process and how architectural and engineering firms are responding…[View as PDF]
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Digital business calls for postmodern ERP
The term enterprise resource planning or ERP was coined by Gartner in 1990, but a lot has changed since then. Gartner’s Denise Ganly explains why the ERP megasuite is dead and why postmodern ERP is a vital foundation for digital business…[View as PDF]
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Cisco ponies up $15M for local IoT centre
Cisco has pledged US$15 million to be spent over five years setting up an internet-of-everything innovation centre in Australia…
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Scoping IT out: 5 essential steps to success
Embarking on a technology-led change in your business can be both hairy and audacious…
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Built to last – the ultimate business software challenge
If the consequences of a failed software project were the same as for a bridge or building, there would be some significant piles of rubble, numerous casualties and a whole lot more court cases…
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Kiwis and Aussies square off over start-ups
Equity crowdfunding is again in the spotlight in Australia with two organisations joining forces – but it’s still a stop gap solution until legislation catches up with the more progressive NZ laws…
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CBA and CSC tangled in deception web
A former Commonwealth Bank senior technology executive was hauled in front of a NSW magistrate yesterday to answer allegations of bribery…
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Industrial strength IT – why automation is inevitable
When machines can automate tasks and business processes the result is greater efficiency, more consistent outcomes and lower costs of production. Donovan Jackson looks at how companies are integrating machines and IT systems for competitive advantage…
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Australian boards must pull up their techno socks
The boards of Australia’s leading organisations are ill prepared for the second tsunami of technological change according to Stephen Burdon, a leading management professor…
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Apple Matters: Secrets and, er, secrets
Apple has a well-founded reputation for secrecy. Some things seem well leaked, other things utterly surprising. Mark Webster looks at confidentiality at Apple Inc…
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How to make money as an ISP
Sector expert Brendan Ritchie looks at the reality of shrinking margins for ISPs and telcos today…
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Asset-focused ERP prepares for IoT and cloud
Mining and other asset-rich industries are in line to be transformed by IoT deployments and tighter IT/operations integration say experts…
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NZ’s EQC first for go-live on Govt cloud
The massive expansion in operations following the Christchurch earthquakes led the New Zealand Earthquake Commission to be the first to put its financial management system in the Government cloud…
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Subscription appetite fuels Zuora funding
A global shift toward subscription style business models has helped deliver a US$115 million funding kicker to Zuora…
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Whitepaper: An expert guide to selecting and implementing ERP solutions
Embarking on a journey to implement a new ERP system is a major challenge in any business. Hayden McCall spoke to three professionals with a combined 60 years of ERP evaluation and delivery experience across multiple projects, and presents an abridged version of the conversation…
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APIs the saviour of big business
Traditional operating structures in many industries are under strain to embrace the agility that cloud software provides. Enterprises can stay in the race by using APIs to liberate their data – but only if they do it well…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q1 2015
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…
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Experts team up for healthy talent management
Two HCM technology and healthcare industry experts have combined forces to address the health sector’s specific talent management needs…
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Qantas proves big daddy of big data
When it comes to big data, Qantas Loyalty is the big daddy – with up to 27 years’ of historical insights about 10.6 million members…
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Technology underpins thoroughly modern marketing
Successful marketing in the 21st century requires a fresh approach linking data, mobile platforms and creative but valuable-to-the-consumer campaigns…
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The psychology of IT procurement
Investing in a core piece of business technology is a big decision and advances in cloud technology mean the purchasing rules are changing. Clare Coulson unravels the technology procurement conversation…
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Five steps to identify the right software development pathway
Chief Operating Officer, North America at DXC Technology, Lizann Gohring, takes you through the five key steps to determine the level of development for your business…
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Apple matters: Apple Watch is ‘out’, but so is a new MacBook
Mark Webster considers the just-announced Apple Watch but, more intriguingly, there’s a very new MacBook, plus ResearchKit available…
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Data-as-a-service speeds applications development
An Australian retailer keen to speed applications development was the first customer for Delphix when it launched its data-as-a-service system – but since then it has proved a slow burn in A/NZ…
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Cloud plays bit role when it comes to ERP
On premise ERP systems are still core to the majority of A/NZ enterprises – with cloud software still perceived as a bit player according to UXC Red Rock…
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Who owns IT?: The CxO procurement conversation
IT investment used to be the sole preserve of the CIO, but recent research shows this is changing and CxOs and line managers are taking on a greater decision-making role…
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Flow wins US market research agreement
MBA students from San Diego State University have signed up to do market research on Flow’s best method of entry into the US market…
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Sable37 aims high as it enters NZ market
The Australian integrator known as Sable Systems is rebranding to Sable37 and already has some big clients and prospects lined up on our shores…
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CIOs buy breathing space on IT spending
CIOs have bought themselves a bit of breathing space – but the writing’s on the wall about the long term loosening of IT’s purse strings…
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NBN Co continues slow steady progress
Fewer than half of the premises with access to Australia’s national broadband network have yet signed up for the service…
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Kathmandu ascends to cloud in pursuit of international growth
Today, the outdoors equipment and clothing company has announced that it has taken another step on its journey of international scalability…
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Metadata debate considers the 39 steps
The Government’s proposed metadata retention Bill is expected to be introduced to the Parliament today – though the real debate will come later in the Senate…
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Apple Matters: Return to Apple Maps
Much was made of Apple’s Maps app when it first appeared a couple of years ago, thanks to errors. Mark Webster looks at it now…
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Bank pulls $10 million pin on Salesforce
Salesforce has suffered a high profile deal collapse with the end of Bank of Queensland’s three-year cloud CRM pilot, which has cost the bank $10 million…
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Enterprise needs to leadfoot IoT security
Gartner estimates that right now there are barely any enterprises which have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks via the internet of things, but things are changing rapidly…
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Australian start-up scene’s health patchy
Australia is slowly going backward in the innovation stakes according to Nicta technology strategist, Dean Economou…
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ForgeRock uses RealMe as springboard into the region
Identity and access management company ForgeRock is eyeing Australian opportunities on the back of its work on the NZ RealMe initiative…
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Feds reveal cloud line up – Telstra and Optus miss out
Australia’s Federal Government has announced the names of the first companies in its whole-of-government cloud services panel – and there are surprise absences…
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Industry steps up to identity challenge
In a connected world of people, things and enterprise, effective and efficient identity management and authentication is essential but complex…
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A/NZ uni spinoff targets big data demand
RoZetta Technology, officially launched this week, is an attempt by 40 Australian and New Zealand universities to commercialise their big data expertise…
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Apple Matters: Feeling secure
Everyone wants to feel secure and even the idea that someone might be snooping on electronic devices is unsettling. Mark Webster looks at security for Apple…
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Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?
Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?…
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Atlassian edges closer to US IPO
Sydney-born software business Atlassian has taken a step closer to a US market listing, further beefing up its executive team…
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MYOB and Xero take battle on the road
Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows…
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Spotlight shines on safety and security
Individuals, business, even nation states are facing a rising tide of online security and safety threats prompting a rash of different responses…
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How APIs are building the new enterprise
Sydney is this week hosting up to 300 of Australia and New Zealand’s leading API developers at a conference intended to showcase the role of APIs in creating “composable enterprises”…
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Vale RosterLive; hello EmpLive
The Australian brand RosterLive is no more, having been subsumed into WorkForce Software which bought the business in early 2013 and is now pushing ahead with rebranding in A/NZ…
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Half of top bank CIOs report to CEO
A reshuffle at Westpac means that half of the CIOs in Australia’s leading banks again report to their chief executive officer, reinforcing the importance of technology to the sector…
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Disrupt, or be disrupted
New technology and globalisation are testing many industries. We explore what digital disruption means, and find an early responder who offers advice to see off the MOOCs in your industry…
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Software coders wooed by hackathons
Federal and State Governments, Paypal, Braintree, MasterCard and Deloitte are just some of the organisations lining up to run Australian hackathons in 2015…
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IBM technology limits personal data exposure
Australian biosecurity could be an early winner from a cloud-based security breakthrough touted by IBM and being tested by the CSIRO…
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Brocade combats SDN procurement hesitation with year’s free trial
In a bid to ramp up interest in software defined networking (SDN) amongst non-technical procurement executives, Brocade has announced a free one-year licence of its SDN controller…
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Apple Matters: Silver Apple dollars
Apple expert Mark Webster takes a look at where all of Apple’s money is coming from…
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Devil lurks in the e-gov detail
Australia will establish a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) under the stewardship of communications minister Malcolm Turnbull, but the devil still lurks in the detail…
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MYOB reaches further into enterprise cloud
The financial software business, headquartered in Sydney, has unveiled MYOB Advanced, a cloud-based ERP for the enterprise market across Australia and New Zealand…
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Seven UI/UX principles to help create a fresh experience
Subject matter expert Jeff Dance gives his top tips on designing a website that will get your users doing what you want…
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Follow the fast fibre road
The internet of things may feel like it only uses wireless technology but in reality it relies on big pipes and banks of servers. Paul Budde explores what we need to do in order to arrive at the smart cities of the future…
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Why IT must start with the digital human
Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president and global head of research at Gartner, told more than 8500 CIOs and IT leaders that they must now design, resource and deploy for a world that’s digital-first…
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UXC predicts healthy earnings surge
ASX-listed IT services company UXC Limited has started 2015 at a fast clip with growing enterprise demand and a push into the healthcare sector…
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Tax office sets sights on tech tax
More than 200 multinational companies, including 25 technology enterprises are under close scrutiny from the Australian Taxation Office…
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Windows 10: A new generation of Windows
REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 21, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new generation of Windows, with a wide range of experiences designed to usher in…
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Democratisation, subscription and processification key trends for 2015
Systems integrator UXC Eclipse’s CEO Bradley Stroop offers his take on what will drive the adoption of technology this year…
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The new HR: accountable, measurable, analytical
The soft fluffy HR department is making way for an empirical results-based strategy to manage human capital says Aaron Green…
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Are iPads the only real choice for schools?
Apple aficionado and blogger Mark Webster looks at why iPads make sense in schools…
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Diverse IT – a new look at skills needed for the tech sector
Jodi Mitchell, CEO of SimplHealth, says softer skills are changing a once tech-heavy profession…
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Cash sours as online growth slows
Consumers in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated their continued appetite for cashless transactions over Christmas – but online retail barely reached bonanza status…
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2022: the future world of work
PwC partner and HR transformation specialist Debbie Francis looks at the possible outcomes that may evolve in the workplace of the future…
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IT employment market: Is it all about the money?
As technology has become more embedded in business, the roles within the IT sector have rapidly multiplied and specialised. Hayden McCall took a look at the dynamics at play in the IT market…
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Demand for cloud surges in Australia
Australian enterprise has got significantly more comfortable with the notion of public cloud with Gartner forecasting a 24 percent increase in spending during 2015…
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Government greenlights ICT statistics overhaul
Australia is set to overhaul the way it tracks and measures information and communications technology statistics, and attempt to assign higher priority to key data…
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Quantum computing heralds better data security
Advances being made in Australian and New Zealand Universities are beating a path toward information systems which offer orders of magnitude improvements in security…
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Software world-first carves the costs of BYOD
Good Technology has released software that allows personal and corporate consumption of data on a BYOD device, making employee reimbursement somewhat easier…
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Enterprise software spending growth leads the pack
Enterprise software is a standout in Gartner’s 2015 IT spending forecast – though market competition and consolidation may threaten some vendors’ coffers…
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Apple Matters: Apple, 1984 and excellent clothing
Mark Webster links Apple through its 1984 Macintosh ad to some very 2015 Orwellian clothing…
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Feds update big data best practice guide
The Federal Government has updated its big data better practice guide, including a new chapter on what it considers “responsible data analytics” for most, if not all, agencies…
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BPM and the process of processification
For decades in business software, processes have played second fiddle to the demands of the company accountant. Now a process-centric revolution is taking place. Donovan Jackson explains…
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UX: Creating beautiful software
Enterprise software has finally got the message that user-friendly also means productivity-friendly, and a bit sexy. We asked Anthony Doesburg to look at how to create simple-to-use software and websites…
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HR: How to transform paper shufflers into talent managers
Donovan Jackson explores developments in human resources (HR) management and discovers how technology is shaping this field…
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ICT skills shortage: A clear and present danger
As businesses across the board are becoming increasingly digitised, technology and high-tech companies alike have been bemoaning the shortage of available ICT skills. Clare Coulson investigates whether there is a real possibility that this region is being left in the ICT dust…
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‘Hidden’ HR problem causing efficiency downturn and staff losses
There needs to be some fresh thinking on understanding what frustrates staff says Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson…
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Office 365 add-on crash tackles cloud ERPs and accounting
A Sydney-based business is taking on ERP and financial software vendors with a tightly integrated bolt-on for Office 365 that is being hosted in Microsoft’s Australian data centres…
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iPhone 6 release could change ever-growing Aussie smartphone market
There are just over seven billion people on the planet; on average one in three will buy a new PC, tablet or smartphone this year. Meanwhile many Australians are hanging out for the big-screen iPhone 6…
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Entrepreneurship rockets up academic rankings
Teaching entrepreneurship to Australians has suddenly become a very hot topic for the nation’s leading tertiary institutions with both undergraduate and Masters courses proliferating…
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Apple Matters: Holiday time: Travellin’ tech
When you have to travel, the tech you pack is as important as anything else you take…
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Software depreciation slows, clawing $420 million more
Faced with a budget shortfall the Australian Government is looking to reap an extra $420 million by tinkering with the rate of in-house software depreciation…
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NBN Co gift-wraps Optus and Telstra deals
Almost $12 billion worth of agreements between NBN Co, Telstra and Optus have been inked in the final run up to Christmas, leaving the way clear for rollouts to 2020…
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Jobs outlook brightens as 2015 looms
Skilled IT staff looking for work across Australia and New Zealand could take heart from a pair of reports released this week that suggest employee demand may be starting to challenge supply again…
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Three key strategies for integrating online and physical supply chains
Selling through online channels relies on virtual processes that work with physical realities. This white paper by Danie Vermeulen delves into key strategies for success…[Register to download]
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Xero US listing on cards next year
After a rugged year on the stock exchange the cloud accounting provider has got its mojo back indicating US growth and listing plans…
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Why the HR department is redundant at the hands of the millennials
The social era is making the workplace a jungle for digital natives to exercise their right to input, feedback and collaboration. Mark Wade contemplates the future of the HR department…
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Consumer and corporate collision calls for cloud
The collision between consumer and corporate consumption of technology is helping drive the migration to software-as-a-service and cloud-based solutions…
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Genea gives birth to new baby, new system
The Australian IVF group spawned a new clinical supplies business that needed new system capabilities, and needed them fast…
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Job and project costing – what is it?
The resident experts at MYOB provide some insights into job costing best practices and software designed to support it…
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Local 365/Dynamics turn-around signals change in Microsoft style
Australian hosting of Office 365 and Dynamics CRM, coupled with per-user pricing is being tipped to boost A/NZ demand for Microsoft’s cloud and shows the company is listening to its customers…
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Technology delivers banks and consumers with curate’s egg
Australia’s Financial System Inquiry has cast technology as banking’s curate’s egg – delivering the sector and consumers with enormous change that is ‘good in parts’…
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Consortium to set up payments platform for ‘economy of the future’
A dozen institutions have committed to invest in a new payments ecosystem for Australia that when complete will cost upwards of $1 billion…
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Why customer convenience trumps experience
Usability expert Gerry McGovern says we should focus our online efforts on customer convenience and effort, not experience or satisfaction…
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Government steps up campaign to keep nation safe online
The Federal Government has launched a six month review of its six year old cyber security strategy and is also introducing a bill to force social networks to take down cyber-bullying material…
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AppNexus cracks down on click fraud
An initiative designed to block online advertisement fraud will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand in the second quarter of 2015…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q4 2014
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…
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Are banks on the path to extinction?
ASB New Zealand’s chief architect James Bergin refutes the suggestion that banks are dinosaurs in danger of serious disruption and explains how ASB is getting prepared for the ‘next big thing’ in banking…
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Apple Matters: If Apple were a country…
Mark Webster asks what Apple could afford to buy right now and whether its record-breaking market capitalisation will last…
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NICTA boss quits after clash with board
A disagreement about the direction NICTA should take when it loses federal funding in 2016 has prompted the resignation of CEO Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte…
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Whitepaper: Enabling enterprise mobility through people-centric IT
Multi-device workplaces are creating new challenges for IT, but by implementing a people-centric management approach businesses can satisfy both the needs of their users and their governance and security requirements…
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Rise of CMO tech spending could lead to ‘shadow IT’ threat
With CMOs controlling more IT spending for organisations, Keean Persaud says so-called ‘shadow IT’ is becoming a problem…
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CIOs find themselves at odds with the C-suite
A survey of 1000 senior executives across Asia Pacific, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, has identified a mismatch between chief information officers and other C-suite executives…
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Local enterprises brace for relentless march of the mobile consumer
A global survey has found that more than three in four Australians aged 18-75 now own a smartphone – the fifth highest penetration in the world; enterprises need to prepare for the mobile consumer…
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Pencil and paper wins e-voting debate
Electronic and internet voting has been ruled out for Australians because of a fear of hacking and voter intimidation; paper and pencil are here to stay…
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NICTA turns to big data as latest saviour
National ICT Australia has announced another joint laboratory with a leading university as it shores up its education and industry links ahead of the loss of its federal funding from 2016…
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Industry veteran spruiks open cloud for innovation
Cloud computing is no longer simply delivering enterprises with a new way of managing their information systems, its generating entirely new business models according to Paul Maritz…
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Busy people need help, not interruptions
Getting attention is getting harder. The web is a place where busy people do things. Help them, don’t disrupt them, says expert Gerry McGovern…
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Gartner: local CIOs continue to lose IT budget
The chief information officer’s hold on technology spending reins has loosened once again; while overall technology spending is up, A/NZ CIOs expect their own budgets to fall…
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Greentree plans US push with fourth generation ERP
The introduction of the first elements of Greentree4 which allows browser-based access to the ERP platform has delivered the impetus for the New Zealand company to tackle the US market…
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Digital marketers grasp the B2C nettle
There has been a surge in confidence regarding digital marketing from professionals in Australia and New Zealand…
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Zespri world first with SAP move to Azure
The kiwifruit marketer has chosen the US Azure cloud to help it combat disaster recovery and scalability issues in its business…
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Interest surges in data lakes as enterprises seek customer insights
There has been a surge in interest in data lakes over the last three months according to technology analyst Gartner, as enterprises scramble to make sense of their data…
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New Australian Government site embraces open source in the cloud
The Federal Government has created a Drupal-based web content management system and relocated its homepage to the public cloud in the search for savings and flexibility…
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Data retention – the latest holiday spoiler
It’s looking like a busy festive season for the many stakeholders charged with creating a workable data retention scheme for Australia, says John Stanton CEO of Communications Alliance…
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New asset management solution seals gap in SMB market
Cloud Awakening has opened shop, selling a cloud-based asset management solution targeted at mid-sized businesses in Australia and New Zealand, plugging what it considers a major market hole…
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Driverless cars zoom into focus for A/NZ
Within two decades driverless vehicles could become a significant feature on Australian and New Zealand roads – if Governments invest in supporting technical infrastructure and update road rules…
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Cheap software fails to sell Intuit message
Intuit’s strategy of selling its cloud-based accounting system on the cheap in order to spur demand has backfired – and from the end of the year the $4.99 price tag seems set to revert to $35…
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Whitepaper: Keeping your retail wireless secure
The introduction of wireless technologies has given opportunists a new way to access your retail network that isn’t covered by traditional security…
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VMware pairs with Telstra to spin up local cloud
VMware has announced that it is working with Telstra and other local partners in order to deliver an Australian hosted version of its vCloud Air service available next year…
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Fancy a free holiday? Stop turning up late to meetings
Meetings are the bane of the workplace; the average worker attends five a week, an executive ten – and because of habitual late starts we lose several days of productive work time each year…
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Infor steps up search for “beautiful” software
Global enterprise software company Infor has embarked on a mission to develop and deliver “beautiful” software and hired New York-based designers to help…
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Government flags two year metadata storage plan for ISPs
Internet service providers will need to store two years’ worth of customer metadata under new legislation introduced to the Parliament last week…
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Success not guaranteed: preparing an ERP business case
A rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution…
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Australian Interactive has Europe running scared
Australian enterprise demand for Interactive Intelligence’s software looks set to allow the local subsidiary to eclipse the company’s performance across Europe…
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Australia Post/NetSuite collaboration to rival Amazon’s delivery service levels
Australia Post and NetSuite are working together to develop a system that will allow retailers to manage everything from online sales to customer delivery from within one cloud-based system…
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Microsoft switches on local cloud, software store
Microsoft has switched on its Australian cloud, operated out of data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, announced Equinex and Telstra as express network partners, along with a cloud marketplace…
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Newly privatised BMC beefs up R&D spend
Getting out of the public eye has allowed BMC to redirect shareholder funds into R&D and help it live up to its new motto “bring IT to life” – something that could refer to either the company or its customers’ IT projects…
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Oracle NetSuite
Today, approximately 24,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as one of the leading providers of enterprise-class cloud financials/ERP, CRM and omnichannel suites for mid-sized organisations, large enterprises and divisions of large enterprises seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP and other systems.
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Mobile cast as the great retail leveler
Mobility has been identified as retailers’ biggest ally – able to restore some of the balance to the retailer-customer relationship which has been skewed by the internet…
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PayPal offers Aussies business loans; lines blur between technology and finance
Three of Australia’s biggest banks open innovation centres to spur technology development while PayPal offers small business loans as the lines blur between the technology and finance sectors…
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NBN adds 140 suburbs to rollout plan
NBN Co has added 140 new suburbs to its rollout plans as part of a technology test, taking the number of homes and businesses that will be able to connect to the national broadband network to 950,000…
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Australia finally opens its innovation kimono
After being taken to task by the chief scientist for its lack of an innovation policy, the Australian Government has finally revealed its innovation and competitiveness agenda…
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Intergen acquired by ASX-listed Empired, creates largest Australasian Microsoft services provider
ASX-listed IT services company Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has acquired one of New Zealand’s leading IT services firms, Intergen Limited, for $A17.4 million via a Share Purchase Agreement to be paid over three years…
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Present Group shores up future with new ERP
When the primary resource sector boom took off, Present Group experienced explosive growth and found itself needing a suite of technology that could help it mine the good fortune…
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Navman Wireless targets ‘people and plant’ with fleet management BI product
Navman Wireless, a global leader in GPS-based fleet optimisation products and services, has today launched its cloud-based BI-as-a-service solution for enterprise fleets called Adaptive Intelligence…
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SAP and IBM hook up on HANA
Software giant SAP has forged an international deal with IBM which will host its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Services in its data centres around the world – including those in Sydney and Melbourne…
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Remote territories pose massive service challenge
NEC Australia has introduced an online service hub to allow remote schools to log problems and access dashboards showing how their systems are running…
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Australian enterprise leads in mobile and cloud
Australian enterprises’ appetite for mobility and the cloud is ahead of the pack when compared to similar users internationally…
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Tech-savvy boss takes reins at CSIRO
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dr Larry Marshall will relocate to Australia from Silicon Valley to take the reins at CSIRO…
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Xero signs marketing guru Andy Lark
Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors…
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Scarcity of data quality, standards and skills stalls big data
Poor data quality, lack of standards and access to skills are still being blamed for holding back enterprise progress with regard to big data projects…
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Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda
The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it…
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Privacy commissioner Bashes enterprise software
Australia’s privacy commissioner has weighed into the Shellshock computer vulnerability issue to remind local enterprises that they must keep on top of computer and data security…
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Healthinc’s revenues looking rosy with NetSuite
This developer of software for the radiology industry was able to boost services revenue by 20 percent thanks to NetSuite’s client relationship management solution…
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Steel Blue walks the walk with MRP
The boot maker needed a system that had strong material requirements planning features to improve value in the supply chain in its Perth factory…
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Australia passes Orwellian web-trawl laws
As part of a bid to tamp down terrorist activities Australia has passed legislation which will allow sweeping searches of the internet using a single warrant…
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Australian biometrics pin down US offenders
Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications…
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Report debunks semblance of big data progress in business
Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue…
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BMC launches patent salvo against ServiceNow
A legal war has been launched by BMC Software against fast growing cloud based rival ServiceNow with BMC claiming seven of its IT systems management patents have been infringed…
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Apple Matters: iOS 8…approach with caution, but Apple’s on track
The iPhone 6 might be dominating the mainstream media but, for the masses of iPhone users, the new iOS 8 update is causing its own stir. We asked Apple blogger Mark Webster if Apple is on the right track post-Steve Jobs…
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Goodbye InternetMana, hello an ICT policy agenda
At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday…
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Cloud environment best for software/UX testing
Cloud computing has boosted the ability of organisations to test their systems for extreme loads in order to guard against embarrassing and potentially costly crashes…
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Careful, they might hear you
There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer…
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Unleashed seeks sales and skills in US/UK
New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy…
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Appetite piques for streamlined tax reporting
Australian businesses are starting to tangle more seriously with the notion of standard business reporting, which in the future will allow more streamlined tax and compliance reporting…
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Is Alibaba IPO a threat to Amazon, eBay?
Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record…
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The six steps of Agile testing
Agile development shops need to take a fresh approach to software testing and measure the success of software development according to a team’s ability to deliver what is expected by the business…
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Family homes become the latest IoT battleground
In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1…
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ERP systems miss the reconciliation mark
Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task…
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Atlassian feathers the financial nest
Sydney-based software company Atlassian chose to release strong financial results that position the company well for any future share market listing during its Silicon Valley user summit this month…
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Why content is both the solution & problem in self-service design
Quality content plays a critical role in self-service design. Often a small change in a link, heading or sentence, can lead to dramatically higher task completion says subject matter expert Gerry McGovern…
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What will ‘connected living’ look like?
Massive technology-led disruption across all industries globally, driven by the rapid proliferation of connected devices and services, is moving everyone and everything towards a state of ‘connected everything’…
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Gartner untangles Analytics: BI, BA & big data
The terms BI, BA and big data tend to be unceremoniously bandied about without much consensus on what they are. Gartner’s Ian Bertram, separates the myth from the truth…
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How the All Blacks use player data to keep winning
Senior scientist for New Zealand Rugby Dr Ken Quarrie explains how he uses data to improve player performance and get an edge on the opposition…
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Old fashioned views of ICT endanger business
Emerging ICT Leader of the Year Amanda White says there is frustration amongst a large number of ICT managers who are being excluded from the C-suite…
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Equip your salespeople for on-the-road success
Evidence shows that the ‘hard sell’ does not generate loyalty, but a good experience does. The experts at MYOB discuss what salespeople need to achieve this…
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How technology trends are helping Life Sciences
The experts at UXC Eclipse say there are a number of technologies that are driving the Life Sciences market forward…
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The politics of e-health
The benefits of digitising health are undisputed, as is the need to reduce healthcare costs with our aging populace. But e-health initiatives get bogged down in politics. We sent James Riley to take the temperature in New Zealand…[View as PDF]
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Government signals crack down on tax/price rorts
Australia’s Treasurer has signalled his intent to ensure overseas technology companies pay their fair share of tax, and also are stopped from price gouging local consumers…
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Indian tech firms up the ante in Australia
Leading Indian technology vendors are expanding their footprint in the Australian market, and looking to acquire already scarce local IT skills to meet growing demand…
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Only one A/NZ business makes grade on supply chains
Only one organisation based in Australia has made the cut for Gartner’s annual list of the most effective supply chains in Asia Pacific – and New Zealand fails to rate a mention…
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Salesforce community plug-in described as LinkedIn for corporates
Salesforce has released software templates that allow organisations to build communities of customers, resellers or employers so they can interact and collaborate in the cloud including from mobiles and wearables…
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Australia bawled out over science fail
Australia’s chief scientist has given the country an F, noting that it is the only OECD nation without a national strategy for science, technology or innovation…
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Is your email signature legal?
The laws and legislation surrounding email disclaimers are tightening all around the globe with the prospect of significant fines for non-conformists…
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ASIC wants more technology vendor regulation
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has called for the bar to be raised in terms of regulation of technology vendors selling to the financial sector…
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NBN cost benefit analysis results wind back internet speed
By 2023 the average household in Australia will need no more than 15 Megabits per second of internet download speeds according to a cost benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network…
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How will we power the data economy?
Subject matter expert Paul Budde explains why building the right ICT infrastructure is of national importance to the region’s future success…
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Hypecycle identifies technologies ahead of their time
Organisations experimenting with internet of things deployments, wearables, cryptocurrencies or big data could be in for a long wait before they bear real fruit. Beverley Head reports…
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New hat for hosting and managed service providers
We all know that cloud computing improves efficiencies, but subject matter specialist Craig Deveson says that is only the case if it is done right, and if hosting and managed service providers access the right tools they are the ones to do it…
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How to plug into the internet of things
Need to track your vehicles? Or monitor water? The internet of things delivers an extraordinary opportunity to connect and network all manner of things, but how?…
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Scanning the biometrics market
Security analytics, biometrics and behaviourmetrics seem kind of Doctor Spocky, but are rapidly migrating from sci-fi movies into the real world. Clare Coulson looks at the complex world of security and crime prevention…
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Online marketplace disrupts traditional professional services model
SuitBids, an online marketplace for professional services launched July with the aim of providing a new avenue for professionals to connect with clients and tender for live jobs…
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Blog posts reveal gap in public sector procurement rhetoric
A gap between reality and rhetoric seems to have emerged in terms of ICT companies’ success in selling to the public sector, which has been revealed by comments on a Government blog…
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Xero blasts at account poaching “zombies”
Cloud accounting firm Xero has overhauled its partner programme to stop subscription poaching “zombies”, and will introduce a new code of conduct from 2015…
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How to sink online pirates
The Australian print and electronic media has harboured a flurry of stories recently about the vexed issue of online copyright infringement and how to fix it. Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton outlines his thoughts on what needs doing…
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Bitcoin faces double whammy tax load
Bitcoin is neither money nor foreign currency according to the Australian Taxation Office which has issued guidance that may force start-ups and businesses to rethink their Australian plans…
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Australian content site beats Google.com.au in top 100 global web rankings
ThemeForest has cracked the top 100 website list compiled by Alexa – at time of writing it’s at number 79 on the list – just after dropbox.com but ahead of Google.com.au…
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The internet of things: the precipice of a revolution
Driverless cars, wearable computers, location-based intelligence; they all rely on what has become known as the ‘internet of things’. And it certainly has people talking as Anthony Doesburg discovers…
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On the subject of IPOs…
Technology investor, industry champion and some-time cynic Ben Kepes contemplates crazy tech IPOs and asks what companies down under should really do to succeed on the stock market…
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Will enterprise take the IoT bait or miss the boat?
City-wide wi-fi networks could be harnessed by enterprising organisations that want to deploy internet connected sensors or devices – but is business ready to seize the nettle?…
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Job matching software deal will highlight real-time skills shortages
Analysis which will identify in near real-time the underlying technology skills being sought by enterprises across A/NZ could also be used to shape the nations’ immigration and education policies…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q3 2014
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…
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Oakton falls to AU$171 million Dimension Data bid
The ranks of long established Australian listed technology companies continues to thin with a bid from South Africa based Dimension Data for IT services business Oakton…
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MYOB/PayGlobal acquisition rumours prove correct
Following months of speculation and leaks, MYOB has today announced that it has acquired HR and Payroll solutions company PayGlobal…
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Oracle sets sail for the cloud
For more than three and a half decades, Oracle has set the standard among top tier of database technology and enterprise applications; and as it has evolved and acquired best-in-class companies, that leadership has expanded into new areas…
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Enterprise demand for video rises across region
Demand for the technology smarts to stream and monetise video content is increasing as the cost of production and delivery falls, and consumer appetite balloons…
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Privacy guidelines outline ‘reasonable steps’
The Privacy Commissioner has released a revised guide outlining how organisations can better comply with Australia’s recently overhauled Privacy Act, even when using offshore cloud services…
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Government metadata plans raise hullaballoo
It’s not often that a subject as arcane as metadata becomes front page news and fodder for radio shock jocks, but this week the federal government delivered metadata’s 15 minutes of fame…
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Enterprise faces decade-long wait for flash price parity
Flash storage – currently 15 times more expensive than spinning disk – won’t reach pricing parity for at least a decade, forcing enterprises to continue to run hybrid storage platforms for the foreseeable future…
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IoT vulnerabilities tipped as ‘weakest link’ of the future
While ubiquitous internet connectivity is benefitting businesses, it’s also providing a rich seam for cybercriminals who continue to seek out enterprises’ weakest links…
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A/NZ sees share of digital universe dwindle
Australia and New Zealand’s share of the digital universe is shrinking – from 2.6 percent in 2010 to 2.2 percent today – by 2020 it will be even lower even though enterprise data stores will balloon…
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Government cloud list lights up by Christmas
The Department of Finance has released a discussion paper which sets out the framework for the Australian Government’s cloud computing panel expected to be live by Christmas…
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Revenue boost for wholesale distributor Kinsey’s Archery
A wholesale distributor of hunting and fishing equipment, Kinsey’s Archery has served thousands of customers for over 50 years…
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Clean data is healthy data
Cleaning doesn’t stop at home or around the office, it extends to the information inside your business too as Michael McCash and Trudi Masalski discuss…
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Apple should expect only a slice of payments market
Apple may have single handedly disrupted the music industry with iTunes, but it may have missed the boat in terms of its ability to disrupt payments…
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Board members ignorant, wilfully stupid? IT security blindspot risks critical infrastructure
An IT security blindspot has left the world’s critical infrastructure at risk from targeted attacks by nation-states and criminal organisations, and rendered other industry sectors vulnerable as a result…
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Digital technology threatens business models
Digital technologies can be anything but benign for business according to the head of the Business Council of Australia – and Australia needs to be ready to make changes in order to prosper…
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Government plans piracy crackdown, stays silent on pricing
More detail has emerged regarding the Federal Government’s planned crackdown on internet piracy – which splits responsibility between copyright holders, ISPs and consumers…
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Cloud integration platform replaces legacy systems by stealth
Integration platforms which allow applications, data and cloud services to be woven together into a seamless computing fabric are also being credited with allowing legacy systems to be replaced by stealth…
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Australia scores poorly on digital innovation, 2020 ICT skills shortage looms
Just days before the release of a new national innovation review, Australian businesses have this week already been handed a series of poor report cards…
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NZ crime buster Wynyard boosts Sydney operations
New Zealand-based Wynyard Group has opened an Asia Pacific Operation Centre in Sydney, more than doubling its Australian headcount and boosting its data analytics capabilities…
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Dear John letters won’t cut it for modern marketers
Clear evidence has been uncovered of the benefits of personalising marketing campaigns for individual clients and customers – but most A/NZ marketing executives stall after adding a name to an email…
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Dynamics core to Microsoft NZ growth plans
At Microsoft’s Partner Awards held earlier this year the company confirmed that it sees Dynamics as a core growth pillar for the New Zealand business over the next three years…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2014
A wrap-up of the past quarter’s ICT news…
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Telco complaints laid bare
John Stanton, CEO of the Communications Alliance, reveals why telco customer service levels will soon be in the spotlight again…
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Microsoft restructures, “eliminates” Nokia
Microsoft has today announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as it aligns the recently-acquired Nokia and repositions the business to be a productivity and platform company…
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Payments specialists slug it out over online sales
A battle royale is shaping up between leading payments specialists each wanting to “own” the Australian online payments market…
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Who is handling your data?
With data privacy a hot topic at present, Brenda Aynsely of the Australian Computer Society asks how to keep data safe…
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NBN Co starts fibre-to-the node rollout
More than 650,000 Australian premises are now theoretically able to connect to the National Broadband Network, and 210,000 have done so according to a mid-year update from NBN Co…
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Feds issue draft guide on “responsible” big data
The Federal Government has released a draft guide on “responsible data analytics” that could provide some useful signposts for any enterprise wanting to maintain consumer trust while exploiting data…
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Satisfaction calling: does outsourcing contact centres work?
Often maligned from within and outside, the contact centre is the coal face of customer service interaction. But so often the processes and people are dumbed down so they can be sent offshore and run more cheaply. Stephen Withers treads the political minefield…[View as PDF]
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Respect Network turns personal data into currency but maintains privacy
Australia is one of the first four countries to host personal clouds for people wishing to use the still fledgling Respect Network as a gateway to connect them with online products, companies and services…
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Retailers race to replace sales technology
The clock is ticking for Australian enterprises which still allow customers to sign for credit card purchases; from August they will need technology to support chip and PIN purchases…
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Wotif falls to grasp of global giant
Online travel behemoth Expedia has launched an offer to buy Australian online travel business Wotif, valuing the business at $703 million and delivering a salutary lesson for A/NZ start-ups…
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Gartner sheds light on local IT spending patterns
The recent IT spending forecast for Australia and New Zealand shows, among other things, a growing desire for customer experience-related enterprise software…
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Traceability is the formula for success
Leading infant formula manufacturer GMP Dairy chose Abel ERP software for its strong manufacturing features and supply chain traceability…
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Taming ERP for good
How Australian organisations can improve ERP success rates through better planning…
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Deadline ahead for Victorian digital economy strategy contributions
Businesses and private citizens wishing to contribute to the region’s digital economy strategy have until the end of this month to make their submissions…
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Gartner revises IT spending forecast down for 2014
Worldwide IT spending is still increasing, but not as much as Garter initially predicted due to changes in the market…
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Aussie’s Vocus could shake up NZ data solutions market with FX acquisition
The purchase means Vocus is now an integrated provider of fibre, data centre and internet in New Zealand and aims to replicate its successful Australian formula across the Tasman…
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Liberating productivity: how to mobilise the desktop
As mobile devices become more sophisticated, more of us are joining the ranks of Generation AO (“Always On”) and the enterprise needs to keep up. Clare Coulson spoke to three experts about the different options for taking the enterprise mobile…
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Is cloud computing disenfranchising the CIO?
Cloud computing is continuing its meteoric rise and as a partial result IT control and decision-making is moving to the line of business managers. In the middle of it: the CIO. Clare Coulson considers what these changes mean for the modern CIO…
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Want to sell online? Go Android mobile
Companies that want to sell goods and services online must support mobile devices – especially Android tablets and smartphones which are used to make two out of three e-commerce sales…
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Has the spark gone out of the telco business?
Telcos are facing a swathe of new challenges from technological change, global over-the-top content providers and a new era of regulation and market intervention. Bill Bennett asks where is the telco business going?…
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Australia boosts powers for online surveillance
Australia’s Attorney General plans to introduce legislation to the Parliament next month to overhaul the rules governing how online information can be examined once a warrant is obtained…
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Tool shows A/NZ software developers are world class
A benchmarking tool that lets software teams compare themselves with the world’s best suggests that Australian and New Zealand development teams outperform their peers in terms of quality…
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Gen-i enters Aussie agreement with Telstra
The ICT services company is renewing its focus on New Zealand businesses and the Telstra partnership will remove the burden of its Australian clients while offering expanded services…
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Deloitte: Digital disruption widens business winners-to-losers gap
Deloitte Digital has revisited its landmark Digital Disruption report from 18 months ago and found that in those sectors most impacted by digital change there is a growing gap between the winners and losers…
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Protect and serve – how safe is your personal data?
The revelations of the Heartbleed vulnerability in April and the recent implementation of Australia’s new privacy regime in March have put data breaches firmly back in the limelight. Clare Coulson finds out more…
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How to hatch your business idea
The statistics are compelling; basically half of all new start-up businesses fail within two to five years. Since the rise of businesses incubators and accelerators statistics show that the successful completion of an incubator programme plays a significant role in the success rate of a company. Fiona Hanlon investigates…
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Cloud sign-on system ramps up in Australia
Cloud-based single sign on identity management and authentication service Okta, which costs roughly $2 per user per month to deploy, is ramping up its activities in Australia…
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Finger on the pulse – measuring customer sentiment
Successful businesses today must continually take the pulse of their varied customer base and respond to their wants and needs…
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Digital Post halts mail delivery
From today Digital Post Australia will stop delivering online mail, and users of the service have until the end of July to retrieve any stored documents as the service shuts its doors…
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Countdown commences for electronic superannuation
Australia’s SuperStream regime comes into force from 1 July this year which will require superannuation contributions to be sent and received electronically – and business has been warned to get ready…
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Microsoft dominates Asia Pacific enterprise applications
Australia’s market for enterprise applications grew by 7.7 percent in 2013, considerably faster than the 6.5 percent growth registered across Asia Pacific, and Microsoft continues to dominate…
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SAP cloud lures 46 percent of user base
There are already 35 million users of SAP cloud services worldwide – but that is likely to prove just the tip of the iceberg according to a new study of 100 of the world’s biggest enterprises…
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Manufacturer transformed by one source of truth
ETEL’s consistent growth and expansion led it to search for a more sophisticated ERP solution that would offer one point of truth across the organisation…
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Salesforce releases developers’ kit for wearables
Software-as-a-service giant Salesforce has released a developers’ kit to support the creation of apps for wearables that can be integrated with Salesforce enterprise applications…
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IDC outlines the tech battlefields of the future
After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process…
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Australia Post braces for further digital disruption
After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process…
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Q&A: How to get your website mobile-ready
Your prospective customers are already using mobile devices to search for the things that you sell. Is your door open when they come knocking? Or is your website a member of mobilus horribilus?…
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A modern marketer’s guide to technology
The arrival of new technologies has opened opportunities for marketing, but taking advantage of them requires a significant shift in modus operandi. Clare Coulson asked industry thought leaders how businesses should behave and where technology fits…[View as PDF]
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Frankly speaking… honesty’s the best online policy
Ben Kepes cuts to the chase about building an online following for business – and he should know since he’s managed to drum up 14,700 followers on Twitter alone…
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Don’t be a twit: tweet
Paul Brislen describes the moment Twitter started making sense and why he tries not to deal with companies that don’t tweet…
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IDC forecasts end of IT vendor dinosaurs
Technology analyst IDC Australia has forecast a “mass extinction event” among technology vendors which fail to transition their business models to cope with what it terms the “third platform”…
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Market snapshot: internet of things on accelerated growth path
The ‘internet of things’ has moved beyond the buzz and is forecast to exceed $7 trillion by 2020, according to IDC…
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Retailers chase their e-tails
The retail markets in both Australia and New Zealand are in a state of technology-induced flux even though consumers in both countries still spend less than $7 out of every $100 online…
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Amnesty International embraces jet propelled reports
Amnesty International was dealing with an outdated reporting system and needed to upgrade but the results went far beyond simple reporting…
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Unmasking the new CIO
Owen McCall reflects on the characteristics of a successful CIO in today’s technologically saturated enterprises – and questions whether these have changed since the inception of the role…
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Cloud video services feed marketers’ needs
Appetite for video as a marketing tool is starting to drive local demand for video cloud services business Brightcove – and the move is being steered by CMOs with CIOs largely staying out of the picture…
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Gartner: Microsoft /Salesforce partnership “pragmatic”
Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems…
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Capital raising options broaden for ICT sector
The range of options available to technology companies wanting access to capital just got a little broader with the introduction of a bank-backed corporate bond for NEXTDC…
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Federal Govt shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list
A further and final 24 suppliers have this week been added to the Federal Government’s pre-approved cloud services list, which can be used for data centre services for contracts up to $80,000…
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Federal Gov’t shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list
A further and final 24 suppliers have this week been added to the Federal Government’s pre-approved cloud services list, which can be used for data centre services for contracts up to $80,000…
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Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market…
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Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market…
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Australian businesses targeted for top-up software bills
A new survey has found that Australian businesses face far more software audits than their international peers – and 87 percent of those audited received top-up bills because of licence problems…
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ERP roll-out child’s play for toy distributor
Start-up toy distributor Big Balloon needed the right system to deal with major retailers like Big W and Target…
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NICTA signs first life-saver deal with Telstra
Just a fortnight after learning it would lose Federal Funding in two years’ time NICTA has signed a deal to work with Telstra on joint research programmes…
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CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake
Chief marketing officers and chief information officers need to come to a compromise about technology risk or lose the attention and interest of their customers…
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BI fans swim in for Yellowfin forum
More than 170 international users of Yellowfin’s business intelligence platforms gathered in Melbourne this week – but next year the Australia-based company plans to take its events global…
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ERM Power’s reporting gets fired up
When the utility company went through a period of sustained organisational growth it looked for a system that would inject increased accuracy and efficiency into its data handling and take the company into the future…
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High-tech manufacturer extracts benefits out of ERP
Global high-tech equipment manufacturer says Abel is the best ERP it has seen, supporting success in a fiercely competitive market…
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Telework popular – but hard to pin down
While the majority of Australasian employees now spend some time working outside of the office there are mixed signals about the level of technical support that they want or receive…
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Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network
Telstra has announced plans to spend $100 million creating a wi-fi network made up of two million hotspots in the next five years – the devil however may yet prove to be in the detail…
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Budget slaps down cautious recovery
Signs of a ramp up in ICT investment thanks to improved business confidence have emerged in the form of increased ICT hiring during the last quarter– but the 2014 Budget could well stomp the optimism…
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Dam crumbles on chief digital officer appointments
While Australia has proved a laggard in terms of chief digital officer appointments, there are some signals that this may be changing…
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Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth…
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Search for supply chain riches drives SAP
Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated…
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Budget wields tech axe, fails on vision
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey has handed down a budget intended to slice the deficit, but do little for the nation’s ability to compete in the emerging digital economy…
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Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options
India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre…
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Cloud still demands careful taxpayer consideration
The special exemption granted to TechnologyOne by New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) shouldn’t be interpreted as a cloud free-for-all either for Australian or NZ taxpayers…
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Salesforce leads in CRM stakes
Cloud-based customer relationship management specialist Salesforce has grown its share of the global CRM market – even though almost 60 percent of new CRM deployments are still on premise…
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Best practices for ERP implementation
Research shows that 60 percent of companies perform some degree of customisation which can contribute to longer ERP implementation times and higher costs…
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Executives warn social media has marketing limitations
Australian airline Qantas runs 50 marketing campaigns a month – and despite senior executive enthusiasm for it, social media marketing isn’t delivering a standout success…
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Cyber-crime galvanizes Cebit
The rapidly rising cost of cyber-crime and the impact that it is having on Australian businesses has proven a clear focus for the start of the Cebit exhibition and conference in Sydney…
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IT managers blast cloud SLAs
Technology executives may buy cloud services, but they have little faith in the service level agreements on offer and almost three in four think cloud companies actively hide problems…
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Big banks battle in innovation arms race, encroach on accounting system territory
The big banks’ battle to beat each other in the innovation stakes continues with Commonwealth and Westpac now competing over card-free cash withdrawals, while other innovations are blurring the lines between traditional banking and accounting system roles…
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“Perfect storm” fuels encryption appetite
C-suite awareness of data security has soared thanks to Australia’s new privacy regime, ongoing Edward Snowden revelations and Heartbleed, which have combined to whet the appetite for encryption
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Cebit kicks off new venue, new line-up
One of the highlights of the region’s information technology calendar kicks off in Sydney next week in a new venue and with a whole new line-up…hopefully…
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Tait secures Brisbane Airport contract ahead of G20 summit
The communications company will design, deploy and manage a critical new communications system for the airport, allowing it to focus on its core business…
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Predictive analytics cracks down on crime
Listed New Zealand technology company Wynyard is predicting strong Australian demand for its crime analytics platform as it becomes predictive…
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Wearables ride wave of demand
RipCurl has unveiled a GPS smartwatch that counts surfers’ waves, calculates their top speeds, and can then sync the information to a smartphone or computer; signaling yet more wearables for the masses…
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CEOs pin hopes on IT to spur growth
Since the late 1990s IT has been viewed by CEOs largely as a tool to boost productivity and reduce costs, but in 2014 there is new emphasis on technology being deployed to drive growth…
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Business owners warned; keep control of cloud accounts
A warning bell has been sounded for businesses which allow their accountants or bookkeepers to take out subscriptions to cloud accounting services on their behalf…
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Personal picks: 10 of the best for productivity
Paul Di Francesco and Clare Coulson worked the mobile social media networks to unveil the most popular productivity enhancing apps for work and play…
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Traction for Office 365, slow grind to Azure
While Microsoft continues to gain traction for its cloud-based Office 365 – the company grinds on slowly toward opening a local Azure data centre, almost a year after one was first promised…
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Infrastructure projects need more data, less concrete says NICTA
Australia’s leading IT research organisation has called on major infrastructure projects to invest more time analysing data and less pouring concrete…
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Dropbox sets up shop to lure business users
Claiming its system is already used by 95 percent of Australia’s top 100 listed companies Dropbox has opened an office in Sydney – but has no plans to offer local data hosting…
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Care Options meets current and future financial management requirements with UXC Eclipse
Selected based on its proven implementation record with similar community services organisations and its strong presence in WA…
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Enterprises warned not to waste money on gamification
Technology analyst Gartner has again warned enterprises that while gamification holds enormous promise most current attempts to sway employee or customer behaviour are just a waste of money…
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Getting rid of website bloat
Customer engagement specialist Gerry McGovern explains why the traditional distributed model of website management was a failure and what you should do instead…
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Ways tech has changed my life in the last 12 months
Technology industry and Microsoft veteran Warwick Grey has been helping business owners leverage technology for business success for almost 25 years. Here he shares his personal technology journey of the last year…
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Goodbye status quo
Ben Kepes reflects on the up-and-coming technology that could see your industry turned on its head…
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Political change lags behind technology revolution
The much hailed positives of smarter technology and the digital economy could be disguising a wider problem says Paul Budde…
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The fibre acceleration
Paul Brislen talks about why we can never have enough bandwidth and that’s not a bad thing…
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Enterprise CIOs stamped with five-year use-by date
Three of Australia’s four major banks have switched CIOs in the last three months – but regular tech-talent turnover is nothing new at the top of the tree…
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Coca-Cola Amatil spurns SAP data centre in favour of IBM’s
The soft-drinks company CCA has signed a multi-million dollar five-year deal with IBM which will provide CCA with access to its SAP enterprise software supplied as a cloud service…
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Pivotal offers try-before-you-buy big data option
Australian and New Zealand companies are being offered the chance to access Pivotal’s Singapore-based innovation centre to use agile methods and Pivotal technologies to prototype big data applications…
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Cloud sprawl may prompt enterprise bill shock
Enterprise appetite for local and global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) continues to mount – but without proper checks and balances businesses are facing bill shock and integration challenges…
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Whitepaper: Executive guide to building a business case for next-generation enterprise applications
Are enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems really ever in need of a change?…
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Death knell sounds for Microsoft XP
Microsoft turns off support for Windows XP and Office 2003 next week meaning no more patches, updates or technical support which may spur both security issues and hardware sprees…
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SAP bites bullet with local data centre
SAP will open its own Sydney-based data centre tomorrow, initially to host SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, but eventually also as the host data centre for its Business ByDesign ERP solution…
read more...Enterprise clients and cloud services drive contact centre sales boom
Contact centre technology supplier Interactive Intelligence has grown its Australian and New Zealand revenues by an astonishing 66 percent in the last year, with 88 percent of its sales now for cloud-based solutions, as its push into the enterprise sector pays off …
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Flamingo aims to put customer service in the pink
An Australian software start-up has created a relationship management platform that puts the power back in the hands of the consumer as part of a bid to improve customer experience and cut churn…
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Mobile payments and digital wallets up the ante
Enterprises wanting to cement their relationship with consumers need to pay close attention to the rapid-fire developments taking place in the mobile payments and digital wallet space…
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Seismic shifts for sector as CIOs struggle to keep pace
Seven out of ten CIOs will switch vendors in the next two to three years as they struggle to keep pace with both changing technology and sectoral shifts…
read more...Hadoop big data vulnerabilities too often ignored
As the role of big data grows in the enterprise, organisations are looking to replicate information governance and security practices associated with other mission critical systems…
read more...Apptio begins ANZ push with CIO toolset
Software has been developed to support enterprise HR, finance, marketing and manufacturing functions but CIOs have tended to rely on spreadsheets to manage IT; the cobbler’s children are shoeless…
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Systems planning pays dividends for new businesses
The formative years of a new business can define future success or otherwise. Selecting the right processes and support systems, and resourcing them appropriately, are critical factors in building long term value…
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The anatomy of technology as a change agent
The joint forces of data analytics, mobile solutions, social applications and cloud computing are disrupting whole industries and forcing change. Businesses that do not adapt are in danger of becoming extinct. Chris Bell asks the experts if change today actually begins with technology, and whether it should…
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Stock market analysis: are we heading for Tech Wreck 2.0?
Technology stocks are flavour of the month as start-ups and angel investors flirt outrageously in the hope of joining the headlines, but some have been left scratching their heads and asking if we are heading for another tech wreck. Beverley Head investigates…
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What retailers can learn from manufacturing
The manufacturing sector is a prime example of an industry vertical that has embraced technology. MRP & ERP systems have transformed productivity and efficiency in a sector whose margins were squeezed by globalisation. Now retail is under similar pressures with the growth of online retailing. Here Anthony Doesburg uncovers the lessons that the retail sector can learn from the way manufacturing uses technology…
read more...CIOs must boost project management skills or risk decline
A gradual erosion in IT project management skills, which has taken place over the last decade, is now threatening the ability of companies to keep pace with competitors…
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Recruiter seeks regional tech superstars
Recruitment company Talent International is planning to roll out the red carpet for the region’s technology superstars and has enlisted Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak to help…
read more...Why it pays to boost customer service
People will pay up to 14 percent more for what they perceive as goods or services supported by good customer service – it’s why companies are scurrying to trumpet their success in the field…
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Productivity report shows Australian decline, avoids technology
While a new report into Australia’s productivity challenge makes scarcely a mention about technology, one of its authors has said that the NBN holds the key to unleashing immense productivity benefits…
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Environment agency cleans up with CRM
Environment Protection Authority Victoria has improved its decision-making by centralising client information and streamlining processes with a tidy CRM…
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Removing the pain from commodity trading
In an industry first, an implementation of SAP Global Trade Management helped major food manufacturer George Weston Foods gain the visibility it required to manage its busy harvest period…
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Technology and customers key to corporate strategy in digital age
While technology’s importance has risen significantly in the eyes of the CEO in the last 10 years, CEOs in Australia are lagging when it comes to the importance they place on customer influence…
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Gartner: race is on to fill gap in BI market
Data discovery capabilities are dominating new BI and analytics purchasing requirements, but ‘governed data discovery’ remains a challenge unmet by any one vendor…
read more...CIOs must focus on the customer, says Forrester
New research shows CIOs are too focused on back-end systems rather than the customer and need to manage the balance better…
read more...NBN audit: wise move or witch hunt?
The Coalition Government has announced it has begun a probe into the history of Labor’s NBN…
read more...AIIA maps out the route to Australia’s digital future
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has produced a set of policy priorities for 2014 designed to boost the country’s ICT industry and its contribution to the economy…
read more...Telstra wants foreign ownership limits lifted
Telstra has joined another former Australian government owned carrier, Qantas, in calling for its foreign ownership limits to be removed…
read more...Data centres sprouting in Australia
The data centre industry in Australia is booming with three major new data centres announced in the space of a week…
read more...Bandwidth on demand a new business reality
The new technology of software defined networking is already providing real benefits to organisations, with two networking companies – Pacnet and Megaport – employing the technology to enable organisations to ‘dial up’ high capacity links between data centres by the hour, the day or longer…
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CIOs should act like venture capitalists
Deloitte has identified five possible disruptors likely to have an impact on organisations over the next 18 to 24 months. Topping the list is the CIO as venture capitalist…
read more...Internet of things comes of age
When Google bought Nest Labs for $US3.2 billion in cash last month it sent a clear signal that the ‘internet of things’ was probably more important than a candidate for buzzword bingo…
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Swedish ERP mines rich seams in ANZ
Mining and construction businesses in Western Australia have driven sales at specialist ERP vendor IFS over the last 12 months, but the company is now seeing a spike in New Zealand activity as the economy picks up…
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New retail ERP drives business for SuperCheap Auto
When the mega retailer needed to achieve its growth plans, management realised it needed to shift a gear in order to cater for its aggressive expansion plans…
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Queensland Nickel implements new ERP & HR in the nick of time
When BHP Billiton decided to sell Queensland Nickel, the new standalone business was faced with a fixed deadline to be up and running with its own SAP system…
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People think ‘products’ when trying to solve problems online
Many customers think first about the product they have; even when they are looking for support for that product. Organisations can use this to their advantage when designing user-friendly websites, says Gerry McGovern…
read more...Look at clouds from both sides now
Companies are failing to exploit the full value of cloud computing by signing up for contracts which simply provide facsimiles of their on-premise solutions…
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A complex hosting project comes up clean
When SCA Hygiene Australasia decided to outsource its entire SAP system it needed to know it would continue to be in the hands of experts long after the initial migration…
read more...BYO trend bites corporate travel budgets
The BYO trend is impacting corporate travel budgets as employees use online booking services such as Wotif and Webjet to book accommodation and trips…
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Greentree ERP moves to the cloud
Thousands of businesses rely on Greentree daily and, following Greentree’s announcement of its Web3D Project, they will soon be able to do so entirely in the cloud – if they desire…
read more...Wraps stripped from Technology One platform
The re-engineered enterprise software platform developed by Technology One borrows from consumer technology to halt the update treadmill…
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Reckon stares down gorilla and upstart
Accounting software company Reckon will this month make available its cloud based system Reckon One – but it’s got its work cut out to sell it…
read more...Government dances around risky ICT inheritance
Establishing NBN Co to roll out Australia’s national broadband network was a “spectacularly risky” strategy – the job would have been better left to the private sector…
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MYOB future cloudy with a hint of ecosystem
The accounting software company has announced a number of cloud and mobile product releases and a naming refresh at its 2014 Roadshow but mention of the developer ecosystem was scarce…
read more...IT industry calls for overhaul of staff share options
The Australian Information Industry Association and Deloitte are among many now arguing for the removal of taxes on employee share option programmes (ESOPs) that are impeding start-ups…
read more...Battle royal fires up over accounting software
The big guns are out in the accounting software world with Xero, MYOB and Intuit this week ramping up their efforts to build or shore up market share…
read more...SugarCRM looks for sweet spot in APAC
The CRM software company has announced its intention to invest in the expansion of its market share in the Asia Pacific region by replicating its successful American model…
read more...Cloud specialists challenge traditional services players
The latest IDC MarketScape report for companies which implement Salesforce solutions confirms the rise of a new class of services business which is focused entirely on cloud solutions…
read more...Clock ticks down for new privacy regime
Australia’s new privacy regime comes into force early next month; the clock is ticking down fast for organisations which have been slow to ensure compliance…
read more...CIOs face yet another white anting
The white-anting of chief information officers continues with the rise of a new c-suite executive – the chief data officer…
read more...Telstra unveils first round of incubator winners
Telstra, which last year established its start-up accelerator programme muru-D, has revealed the list of ten organisations that will receive six months’ specialist support and a $A40,000 kicker…
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Wearables to worm way into enterprise IT
While Google Glass and other wearable technologies might still have something of a gimmicky feel about them, they will inevitably percolate the enterprise and CIOs need to be ready…
read more...Dangerous disconnect brews between business and technology
Technological change is accelerating as are business demands on IT – so how well are IT professionals placed to respond? According to some commentators there’s a “dangerous disconnect” brewing…
read more...Big data pioneers secure competitive beach-head
Enterprises which exploit multiple data sources and implement systems to instantly identify patterns and act on them are going to secure a hard-to-erode competitive edge…
read more...Australian CIOs feel the IT pinch
Australian chief information officers are feeling under even greater pressure than their global peers according to Gartner’s 2014 CIO Agenda…
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Top level domain names: build it and they will come
Monash University manages more than a million web pages – it will also now manage the .monash generic top level domain which CIO Ian Tebbett believes will simplify things for end users…
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Whitepaper: The rise of mobile access to your ERP data
Mobile users are increasingly demanding ease of access to ERP information to perform their jobs on any device at any time…
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Spending flurry woos A/NZ cloud seekers
As enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing mounts, vendor investment is surging from the likes of IBM, Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and Fujitsu as the global cloud land-grab gathers pace…
read more...Telstra finally offloads directories unit
By March Telstra expects to know whether it has the regulatory green light for the sale of 70 percent of directories business Sensis; it already knows that waiting this long to sell it has cost it billions…
read more...Victoria kicks off second phase of IT overhaul
Victoria has set itself a target to achieve 15 percent direct cost reduction by the end of the year by re-using or sharing ICT solutions across different agencies as part of a continued technology overhaul…
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Disruptive acquisition
Directors and boards are used to navigating post-acquisition IT roadmaps, signing off on piles of cash to standardise information systems and deliver the sought-after cost efficiencies…
read more...Gartner: Many CIOs unprepared for digitalisation
Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning but, according to a global survey of more than 2300 CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs, most CIOs do not feel prepared for it…
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What content farms teach us about content
Gerry McGovern says that on the web, content is the enabler…
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Getting your business on the map
In this ‘social, local, mobile’ world we live in, being able to pinpoint where we are, what is in our immediate vicinity and how to get there, is vital…
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UXC acquires North American business of Tectura Corporation
The company’s North American strategy takes shape with the expansion of its Canadian and USA businesses…
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ERP showcase impresses display firm
SJ Display Group has chosen Greentree for its slick warehouse management and business intelligence capabilities, to prime itself for future growth…
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Freelancers take flight
The way we work is changing. The market for recruiting creative and project resources has gone global…
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Why broadband black spots are damaging the economy
Filling in broadband black spots would boost productivity says Rob Stummer…
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? – restructuring and redundancy
When changing markets or new technology result in the ‘R words’, the processes and systems need to be in place to avoid staff challenging the outcomes and further extending the pain….
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How to justify your technology choice
As technology plays an ever-stronger role in modern business models, predicting and measuring productivity gains from technology investment is becoming paramount to getting project sign off…
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Man, machine and the productivity story
Technology has increased productivity and emancipated humankind from day-to day tasks, enabling automation over drudgery, hasn’t it? The march of the machine continues into the digital age…
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Five ways the cloud increases innovation and productivity
As one of the major step-changing technologies of this decade, expert Craig Deveson discusses how cloud computing has transformed innovation and productivity in the enterprise IT landscape…
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Avoiding the tech apocalypse
Paul Budde offers his thoughts on how new open ‘people technologies’ could help us to avoid a cataclysm and create a smarter society…
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Is HR just an administrivia?
Gartner’s “Maverick” research is designed to spark new, unconventional insights, in order to deliver disruptive ideas. Here Morgan Yeates offers some provocative thoughts on HR technology…
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Signing on the digital line
Despite the fact that technology use has almost become an extension of the human condition, there is one area where we stubbornly stick to the old…
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Australians’ broadband expectations dragged down
Australia’s federal Government has reneged on a promise to deliver minimum internet speeds of 25Mbps via the National Broadband Network (NBN) following the release of a strategic review…
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ANSTO and Tatts vouch for virtues of virtualisation
Virtualisation’s virtues in terms of its ability to deliver flexibility and agility have long been espoused…
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Crystal balls polished as New Year looms
As 2013 ebbs away and 2014 looms, computer vendors are polishing their crystal balls and issuing year-end predictions about just what enterprise will invest in during the new year…
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BI vendor critical of competition
Lars Björk, CEO of business intelligence software company QlikView, thinks most business intelligence companies have their thinking upside down…
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Senior executives warned: you are next cyber-target
Discussions about computer security are slowly filtering out of the IT shop and being considered at senior executive and board level – just not fast enough…
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Australians rein in online spending habits
It seems that Australians’ love affair with online spending might be cooling with growth slowing and the average purchase dropping to just $41, which is $23 lower than it was three years ago…
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UXC continues expansion push with $28m deal
As part of a long-term expansion plan, listed Australian software and services business UXC Ltd has bought Keystone Management Solutions which it claims is the region’s largest ServiceNow reseller…
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Online marketing set to surge in 2014
Investment in online marketing is tipped for a sharp increase in 2014 as organisations prepare to spend more on social media, email and mobile campaigns across Australia and New Zealand…
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ANZ banks on digital future
The ANZ Bank has spent $150 million on new digital platforms to support customers and staff and plans to invest up to $100 million annually for another four years…
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Oracle checks organisations’ Hadoopability
Hadoop has become a byword for big data projects – and Oracle is keen to exploit that with an online self-assessment tool which it says will help companies determine how “Hadoop-ready” they are…
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Eavesdropping analytics walks fine line
Companies considering recording and analysing customer conversations could learn from the current spat between Australia and Indonesia over clandestine phone tapping…
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Pacific Aerospace gains competitive edge
The Kiwi aircraft manufacturer has re-engineered its business with Lean management and a new ERP system to create a solid runway for global export success…
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Community group clocks benefits
Self-service and simple timekeeping reduce the HR and payroll burden for busy disability services organisation…
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Best Bars hooks up new production scheduling
Engineering tow bars takes more than strong steel when your customers are auto-manufacturers around the globe…
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Australian enterprise lags in mobile race
Australian enterprises lag their international peers in their enthusiasm for integrating mobile devices with enterprise systems – but not for much longer…
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Electromagnet guy gets hi-tech ‘Flying Kiwi’ award
Bill Buckley of BSL, which supplies the machinery used in the manufacture of more than 90 percent of the world’s silicon chips amongst other things, has been honoured by his native New Zealand…
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Dreamforce highlights big data mining
The power and promise of analytics have been showcased at the Dreamforce conference as organisations mature from collecting data to mining it for value…
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Kathmandu puts eggs in the AX basket
The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer is improving its omni-channel retailing, replacing its best-of-breed systems with a single environment from Microsoft…
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Salesforce hits billion dollar quarter: analysts look for profit
Tens of thousands of Salesforce faithful partied in San Francisco this week serenaded by GreenDay and seduced by Sean Penn – but investors weren’t buying…
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Salesforce says no to local cloud before 2015
Bucking trends set by rival cloud vendors Salesforce will not offer an Australian instance of its services before 2015 at the earliest…
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Australian manufacturers slip in technology race
Australian manufacturers are clinging to legacy ERP platforms and failing to keep pace with international rivals in terms of modern technology deployment…
read more...NSW SAP ByDesign project remains on track
NSW Trade & Investment claims its SAP ByDesign rollout is the largest of its type in the world, servicing 8500 users, and also that it remains on track despite some confusion over SAP’s plans…
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Enterprise Australia needs to lift tech refresh rates
Organisations that connect online with their customers need to lift their game in terms of technology refresh rates or risk losing their interest…
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Statistics paint CIOs a digital picture
Australia will spend $77.2 billion on technology in 2014 – the nation will spend less on mobile devices, but ramp up software investment. For CIOs these statistics paint an interesting digital picture…
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Pacnet brings cloud elasticity to enterprise communications
A service billed as the first regional network-as-a-service (NaaS) system offering elastic bandwidth for enterprise CIOs has been announced by Pacnet and is scheduled to go live early next year…
read more...End users win upper hand with apps stores
A system developed to allow end users in large enterprises to dial up the applications, peripherals, data and services that they need to do their job will be launched in early 2014…
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Whitepaper: How to choose between generic and industry-specific ERP Systems
You might have several reasons for needing a new ERP system, but with so many options, how do you make the right choice? The experts at Epicor share their knowledge…
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Fletcher Building lays foundations for success
Fletcher Building is a NZ$6.5 billion company operating with 19,000 staff in more than 40 countries, manufacturing and distributing building and construction products…
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NetSuite reaffirms SAP-switch deal for ANZ users
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has confirmed its offer to switch Australian and New Zealand users of SAP’s Business by Design system to its platform for free for a year…
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Puzzle maker crosses to cloud
Crossword and puzzle publisher Lovatts Media has revamped its business model and migrated to cloud-based systems; IT department was scarcely involved…
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MuleSoft weaves integrated computing fabric
Organisations weaving together computing fabrics out of various cloud services can hit the wall when it comes to successful integration…
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Size no barrier to cloud say start-ups
Recent commentary that infrastructure-as-a-service reaches an economic barrier around the $50,000-a-month mark has been dismissed by Freelancer.com…
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Public cloud and consumer tech white ant IT
Further evidence has been uncovered regarding the potential for the IT department and CIO to become marginalised in terms of strategic technology decision making…
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Telstra revamps culture and software development
Patrick Eltridge, chief information officer of Telstra wants to run the “best IT shop in Asia Pacific” – not to satisfy his vanity, but because it’s a “strategic necessity”…
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Australian enterprises at risk in global mobile race
The relatively slow pace of Agile adoption in Asia Pacific is putting many local enterprises at a competitive disadvantage compared to faster moving global peers…
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New lab offers industry a digital sandpit
Fresh research from Gartner says organisations need to digitalise their operations in order to stay competitive and survive; a new Australian digital sandpit could show them how…
read more...Gartner offers top predictions for industry sectors
Transformative technologies are set to continue to disrupt the enterprise in 2014 and beyond…
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Xero plans global expansion but Aussie users remain a priority
Listed accounting software house Xero has signalled that its $NZ180 million capital raising to fund global expansion won’t diminish its attention to local customers and the new Australian tax platform…
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Australian economy prompts ERP cloud migrations
There is a rising tide of Australian organisations considering migrating their on premises ERP solutions to the cloud in order to free up capital according to listed IT services provider ASG Group…
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OzForex float proves Australian appetite for tech stocks
This month’s successful listing of online foreign exchange company OzForex has demonstrated the local appetite for technology stocks and bodes well for other planned IPOs…
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Long wait forecast for easy big data insights
Companies expecting instant benefits from investment in big data initiatives are likely to be disappointed, but should not delay getting started…
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Gartner: Top technology trends you cannot afford to ignore
Gartner has published its annual list of the top strategic technology trends, which includes software-defined anything (SDx), 3D printing, mobile apps, cloud/client architecture, hybrid cloud and IT-as-service-broker and smart machines…
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Online advertisers must play the generation game
The Australian online advertising market was worth A$3.6 billion last year – and thanks to new research from Roy Morgan it’s now clear exactly who that advertising is reaching…
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Testing budgets surge, Agile becomes the norm
A new study shows testing and quality assurance spending has significantly increased, accounting for almost a quarter of the IT budget…
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Law firm partner buy-in a challenge for CIOs
The leaders of Australia’s law firms are playing ostrich when it comes to IT, with many keeping their head in the sand over the technology investment needed to thrive in the future…
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ANZ/National: merging is no horseplay
Two million customers, 8500 employees, over 400 IT systems, two very different brands and a thousand ways that it could have gone very wrong. Amanda Schaake speaks with ANZ New Zealand CEO David Hisco on integrating the ANZ and National banks…
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BYOD drives shift to per-user billing
A new pricing model is being offered that takes into account the growing appetite for BYOD which will see users having more than six devices each by 2020…
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Appealing Apps: 10 of the best for business
With more than 1000 apps being submitted to the Apple App Store each day, not to mention those created for Android, the apposphere is a fast-changing environment…
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How to get customers to share more good than bad and ugly
Predictive analytics embedded in a new suite of apps helps to encourage consumers to share more of their positive insights about products and services through social networks…
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Australian cloud targets Ruby on Rails developers
Ninefold, the Macquarie Telecom owned cloud services provider, has launched a platform-as-a-service offering for Ruby on Rails developers and kicked off a major push into the US market…
read more...CIOs lose control of the enterprise IT budget
A recent report from Forrester Research reveals that chief information officers are losing their grip on enterprise IT budgets with line-of-business managers taking up the slack…
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Ellison snubs Oracle World to go sailing
Despite the Oracle world conference currently being held in San Francisco, iStart’s source on the ground says founder and CEO Larry Ellison seems to have his mind firmly on his other pet project…
read more...NSW revamps $2billion ICT spending
New South Wales this week provided an update on its 15 month-old ICT Strategy and additional details about how ICT vendors can interact with the State which currently spends $2 billion on ICT each year…
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Smartphone app disrupts market research
A free smartphone app with the potential to significantly disrupt market research – and provide a cash fillip for charities at the same time – has been released by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers…
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Accounting for time
In a service-based economy where time really is money many businesses are literally leaking dollars and cents like a sieve. David McNickel investigates the new wave of service automation systems that can help manage service workers more profitably…
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Professional services giant Deloitte swigs own medicine
Professional services giant Deloitte continues to prepare itself for the digital disruption that it warned would impact just about every sector of the Australian economy over the next five years…
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Gartner: SAP an ERP leader but Epicor a visionary
The SAP Business All-in-one solution remains squarely in Gartner’s ERP Magic Quadrant ‘leaders’ category while Epicor ERP maintains its ‘visionary’ status for the fourth consecutive year…
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Cybercrime scene investigation
Stuart Corner takes a look at how security intelligence software is helping those involved in corporate security and justice to narrow the field of suspects, and keep the cybercriminals at bay…
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Safety app and talent management secure gong
Staging Connections has over 1000 employees who set up events from boardroom meetings to massive conferences – it also has an award winning health and safety app to protect them…
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Does marketing automation deliver on promises?
As the lines between marketing, sales and service blur ‘smarketing’ is the way forward. Anthony Doesburg investigates this blend of sales and marketing and asks if the tools are delivering on their promise, or are they just more marketing puffery?…
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BNZ device turns smartphones into payment terminals
BNZ has partnered with Australian developer Mint Wireless to launch PayClip a device that transforms smartphones into mobile payment machines to solve the problem of cash flow for SMBs.
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Council candidate launches talking campaign billboard
A council candidate is using augmented reality to communicate more directly with his constituents and encourage better voter turnout.
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Chief digital officers tipped as key to future business success
Almost half of Australian businesses surveyed already have a chief digital officer but the new role must be better articulated to avoid conflict with existing CIO responsibilities and promote acceptance.
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Queensland Government shuns DIY tech in favour of cloud
Industry briefings showcasing the Queensland Government’s new ICT strategy and action plan have confirmed the State’s wholesale move to technology as a service with opportunities for local vendors…
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Big data buzz gets ‘BS’ tag
Is big data “bullshit”? Anthony Doesburg sifts through the big data brouhaha and considers the reality behind the buzz…
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Australia sidesteps science, IT and innovation
The first Abbott Ministry has been announced and is notable for the absence of science, innovation or IT ministers – although there is a strong line-up to lead the nation’s broadband initiative…
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Business intelligence: what are you really investing in?
Gartner’s Ian Bertram looks at the evidence on business intelligence and asks whether it’s worth the investment…
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Specialist software scorches spreadsheet dominance
Australia will be the springboard for a push into Asia by BlackLine Systems, a financial software company which has carved a niche by tackling jobs many companies traditionally managed using spreadsheets…
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Health accreditor gives new SQL-based ERP a tick
As a quality improvement organisation, AGPAL has always looked for ways to improve its own internal processes, but not so long ago, its back-office systems were making that difficult…
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Unified communications enters disruptive phase
An as-a-service version of Microsoft’s Lync is being touted as potentially disruptive in terms of the way enterprises tackle unified communications…
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Is forex breaking your bank?
Bank fees are part of life, but when it comes to international transaction payments we could be paying over the odds. Beverley Head reports…
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Re-engineering costing makes boat go faster
C-Tech, a key supplier of carbon fibre products for America’s Cup yachts, has navigated into new waters thanks to ERP system SyteLine and deployment expert EMDA…
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Online commerce urged to move to 256-bit encryption
Documents published as a result of leaks by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest Western security agencies have managed to crack internet security systems making https sites vulnerable…
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Tardy SMEs late and inaccurate – survey
Information disconnect between businesses and their accountants results in time wasting and lost opportunities according to new research…
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Survey reveals retailers on the back foot
Motorola Retail Survey: Technology savvy shoppers know more about products than staff, forcing retailers to catch up.
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New ‘private’ search engine protects users from big brother
The founder and CEO of Zeekly.com, designed as a safer alternative to the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines, says it is committed to protecting the privacy of its users…
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Orica distils global benefits of ITSM cloud platform
By moving to a cloud-based IT service management platform chemicals giant Orica has upgraded its processes to be ITIL compliant, improved services levels, and kept a tight rein on costs…
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Aussie big businesses turn to cloud for bigger big data analysis
More than 14,000 Australian organisations currently use Amazon Web Services’ Sydney infrastructure – a growing cohort of them for big data processing…
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2013 iStart ICT Investment Intentions Survey
Mobilising management is the key objective of IT investment plans for 2013 says iStart’s annual investment survey. The mid-market is investing in mobile business intelligence while small business is doing more with less in the cloud.
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Local R&D buoys Dell’s big data for smaller enterprises
Dell Software has assembled a team of 200 software engineers under the leadership of an Australian to develop big data solutions for smaller enterprises…
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Markinson extends reach with acquisition of ComOps’s ERP business
The Australian business software company Markinson has added another string to its bow with the purchase of ComOps’ Korellus ERP software solutions business operations and assets…
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Federal election finally focuses on ICT
The launch this week of the Coalition’s plan for Australia’s digital economy and e-government points to a steady-as-she-goes result for the ICT sector whatever the outcome of Saturday’s election…
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Broadband apps showcase Australia’s digital future
With the fate of Australia’s national broadband network to be decided by the Federal election on Saturday, a new guide has been released profiling the emerging apps that fast broadband supports…
read more...Xero breaks through 200,000 user barrier
Cloud based accounting software upstart Xero has broken through the 200,000 customer barrier marking what chief executive Rod Drury refers to as the “end of the beginning”…
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Domino’s Pizza the big cheese in digital retail
The quick service retail company invested millions in e-commerce when others thought it was a joke but it proved to be the perfect growth recipe for the pizza franchise…
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Virtual currency promises merchants profit perks
Early adopters of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin could benefit from lower transaction costs and higher profits – but it’s not for the squeamish….
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CIOs urged to embrace their inner Machiavelli
Technology analyst Gartner has announced the programme for its flagship Australian conference and warned CIOs that they need to embrace their inner Machiavelli to succeed…
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ANZ users first in the world to trial HP-SAP analytics cloud
Australian and New Zealand enterprises are the first in the world able to use an enterprise-grade cloud-based version of SAP Hana’s in-memory analytics…
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McCall fishes for bigger digital business
iStart transforms with complete technology refresh, GM calls initiative “big fishing”…
read more...Poor ICT contractor behaviour spotlighted by anti-corruption body
A new report has identified five steps that organisations need to take to ensure that their ICT projects are not held hostage by unscrupulous contract staff…
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Success guaranteed?: preparing an ERP business case a very good start
A rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution.
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DCA calls for data centre industry to “work together”
With the continued rise of cloud computing and SaaS in enterprises, data centre outages such as those experienced recently by Google and Microsoft can have a major impact and data centre operators need to work together not keep their knowledge secret.
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ERP trends that affect software selection
Dylan Persaud looks at the most important trends influencing ERP decision-making today.
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CIOs consider server virtualisation for mission-critical ERP
A growing number of ERP users are seizing scheduled technology refreshes as an opportunity to consider moving workloads onto virtual servers…
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IDC says Government has got broadband policy in order
IDC praises the Government’s telecommunications discussion document on the proposed approach to reviewing the Telco regulatory environment as “well-balanced”.
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Security legislation: living in strange times
Paul Brislen takes a look at the two pieces of legislation currently making their way with, what he believes, “undue haste” through New Zealand’s parliament.
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Banks must pivot their technology thinking to survive
Bank CIOs and CEOs need to focus their attention less on the operational efficiencies that technology can deliver, and more on the customer relationships it can nurture if they want to survive.
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Westpac crowdsources mobile apps
A wide open brief from Westpac invites developers and designers to tap in to their Kiwi ingenuity and creativity to come up with an app that will better their banking experience.
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Interaust’s new system apple of its eye
The foodstuffs importer gets a bumper crop of benefits with an IT system overhaul…
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Retailers in danger of missing online sales boat
Although more than half of Australian retailers have a website, only a third can take orders online meaning sales could go to nimbler rivals…
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Construction business topples escalating costs
Keeping costs under control has always been the main risk area for WHF Group so when it decided to invest in a job-costing solution, MYOB’s Exo built the best business case…
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Some manufacturers just don’t get IT!
Keith Jessop laments the lost opportunities that he sees from 20,000 feet when manufacturers do not leverage their system capabilities to do better business.
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The iStart guide to buying tech
Half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations. If you don’t want this to be you then you had better get your metaphorical ducks in a row…
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Back the right ERP solution to win
Purchasing and implementing an ERP system is a complex undertaking and continues to be regarded as a high-risk project by most companies. Subject expert UXC Eclipse offers its top recommendations for successfully choosing and implementing a new ERP solution…
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E-health technology shows vital signs
From referrals systems to electronic health records and devices that allow patients to monitor their symptoms, health sector technology is evolving…
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March privacy deadline looms for big data users
Organisations collecting customer data, especially information they might use for big data analysis need to urgently review their privacy policies with a March deadline looming…
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CommBank claims legacy leapfrog, sets sights on mobile
Reporting a record A$7.82 billion profit last week, the Commonwealth Bank signalled how judicious technology investment can deliver a competitive edge – but sustaining that requires more…
read more...Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both.
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Lessons learned from IBM-Queensland stoush
The $1.2 billion Queensland payroll system debacle has seen IBM booted from future State projects – but also delivered lessons about how not to manage major software projects…
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CIOs urged to increase relevance of IT with extreme technology
Enterprise IT is witness to unprecedented change thanks to the confluence of cloud, mobility and big data; today CIO success will come from embracing the extreme…
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Police combat storage issues in solving sex crimes
Enterprises wrangling increasingly large volumes of photographic or video content could take a lesson from the way Queensland Police is managing its darkest evidence…
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The secret to keeping your ERP project on time and on budget
ERP implementations are seldom straight forward but here is how to avoid underestimating the ERP project challenges.
read more...Customer Engagement / Contact Centre / UC Solutions
Welcome to the Customer Engagement / Contact Centre / UC solutions pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studie
read more...SCM / B2B eCommerce Solution Pavilion
Welcome to the Supply Chain Management, RFID and B2B eCommerce solutions pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case
read more...Mobility Solutions Pavilion
Welcome to the Mobility Solutions pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, thought leadership articles, r
read more...Digital Marketing
Welcome to the Digital Marketing pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, thought leadership articles, re
read more...HR / Payroll Solutions Pavilion
Welcome to the Human Resources and Payroll Management solution pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, t
read more...ERP and Financial Systems
ERP and Financial Systems Pavilion . Welcome to the ERP pavilion. Below you will find most of the leading ERP vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case s
read more...CRM / Service Management Solution Pavilion
Welcome to the CRM and Service Management pavilion. Below you will find most of the leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, thought le
read more...Content / Info / Doc. Mgmt
Welcome to the Content Management, Information Management and Document Management solution pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their re
read more...Consulting / Integration
Welcome to the Consulting and Integration solutions pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, thought lead
read more...BPM / Workflow Solution Pavilion
Welcome to the business process management and workflow solutions pavilion. Below you will find most of the leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local
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Welcome to the Business Intelligence and Analytics solution pavilion. Below you will find leading vendors and/or their implementation partners in Australia. Click on any vendors of interest to see a showcase of their relevant local case studies, thou
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iStart
iStart.com.au is Australia’s ICT Research Hub where business decision makers are educated and motivated on business technology. We go beyond the product to interview people who have deployed business technology to share their stories with readers considering a business software investment. If you are buying technology, then iStart is where to begin. It’s so good, we even advertise ourselves here…
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Microsoft Dynamics
Develop profitable customer relationships through lead and opportunity management, incident management, a searchable knowledge base, and reporting tools with Microsoft Business Solutions CRM modules. Microsoft CRM is easy to deploy, integrate, and customise.
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SAP
Does your business need a platform to automate processes and support growth? Then talk to SAP, the company enabling 47,000 organisations worldwide achieve their potential and become Best Run Businesses. SAP has enterprise software solutions for businesses of all sizes.
read more...MYOB
MYOB is Australia & New Zealand’s No.1 provider of ERP and business management software. Made exclusively for the A/NZ region and supported by unparalleled local expertise, our solutions give thousands of businesses, the insight and control they need to succeed.
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Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of products that automate and help improve financial, customer relationship, and supply chain management. Delivered through a network of Microsoft partners, these integrated, adaptable solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.
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insightsoftware
insightsoftware is a leading provider of financial reporting and enterprise performance management software. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their enterprise data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organisation, which is how best-in-class finance teams operate. Over 25,000 organisations worldwide rely on insightsoftware’s portfolio of best-in-class reporting, analytics, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and tax solutions to provide them with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Visit insightsoftware.com for more information.
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Why do organisations hate their content management system?
There seems to be a major disconnect between those who purchase a content management system (CMS) and those who actually have to use it, says Gerry McGovern.
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Big data analytics promise lures hundreds
It was standing room only at SAS Forum in Sydney, which drew the cream of the Australian and New Zealand big data crowd, eager to learn how to unlock the value of predictive analytics.
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QlikView and the power of gray
Letting the mind wander can often throw up better results than a direct answer to an initial question. This associative thinking style can also be applied to software queries as the experts from QlikView explain…
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Tipping point looms for laggard ICT investors
Enterprises must act immediately to invest in ICT or risk nimbler rivals developing an insurmountable lead in terms of revenues, productivity, profitability and market capitalisation.
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Australia puts ICT spending on ice in lead up to election
The Federal election, which has now been called for September 7, could kick-start ICT spending after months of suspended animation according to a leading recruitment agency…
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Australian CIOs flinch at security costs
Australian IT managers feel less secure than their overseas peers about the risk of data being lost or stolen – but they often flinch at the costs associated with fixing the problem…
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Social network to identify employee troublespots
A social network function able to gauge the mood and level of engagement of staff in order to allow employers to take action before the rot sets in is being developed by NewsGator…
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Software delivers sound results for not-for-profits
More than ever, charitable organisations and other not-for-profits need to operate on a sound business footing and technology can help…
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“Day of reckoning” delivers TechnologyOne win
Listed Australian software company TechnologyOne has won deals to supply its systems to 21 Western Australia government departments and agencies claiming rivals’ business models are broken.
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Australian business pays 50-100 percent more for ICT
A Government investigation into the prices that corporates and consumers pay for technology has confirmed that Australians pay 50-100 percent more than overseas peers for the same products…
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Financial services firms should follow banks’ tech lead
Superannuation funds, life insurance companies and funds managers need to lift their information technology game if they want to fulfil regulatory requirements and forge closer links with clients…
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Australian merchants perform e-commerce leapfrog
E-commerce specialist Magento claims that although later to online commerce than their northern hemisphere peers, Australian merchants are now leapfrogging technology to put them on par…
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Manufacturers fail to realise importance of ERP for customer experience
A new IDC study shows that only nine percent of leading companies have fully realised the importance of creating a customer-oriented culture and process workflows…
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Online marketing needs to cut through the clamour
When Australians sit in front of the TV tonight, three quarters will brandish the remote in one hand and a mobile device in the other: marketers are being challenged to cut through the clamour…
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CIOs struggle to control BYOD tightrope
Most Australian companies have yet to implement a policy regarding Bring Your Own Device initiatives, and even those that do tend to let the CEO off the hook, introducing high levels of risk…
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Enterprises yet to reap full benefit of mobility
A slavish fascination with mobile apps targeted at consumers may be robbing enterprises of the full productivity benefits that mobility has to offer…
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Local councils seek salvation in the cloud
Kwinana will be the second local council to move onto Civica’s new cloud computing service next Monday – the latest step in its journey from on premise, to managed service, to cloud computing…
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Hospitals could slash waiting times using ICT
Hospital CIOs should take a leaf out of just-in-time manufacturing’s book, harnessing ICT to streamline operations in order to dramatically slash waiting times and speed treatment…
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Rich pickings lurk in retail data
Listed clothing retailer Specialty Fashion Group has a team of seven managing its data, providing marketing insights, and delivering a hip pocket sales boost…
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Four out of five plan big data adventure
Four out of five Australian enterprises have already deployed or are planning to launch a big data analytics initiative in the coming year as they search for their secret sauce…
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How malware could kill BYOD efficiency
Dylan Persaud asks if the future of BYOD will be compromised by the rising threat of malware-laden apps
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Australia inches up the innovation ladder
Australia has managed to improve its ranking on the Global Innovation Index rising from 23rd to 19th slot this year, although the nation’s application of ICT does not rate so highly…
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Visa selects Australia for digital wallet rollout
Payments giant Visa has announced that Australia will be the site for the second roll-out of its V.me digital wallet with 45-plus local banks already signed up to support the endeavour…
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ERP is not an IT decision
The technology to drive your business must be chosen by business heads, not by techies. By Philip Morgan, Director, Verde Group…
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Big data adventures fail to deliver
Three quarters of Australian and New Zealand organisations claim to use big data analytics for better insight and decision support, yet so far only a handful are reporting any great success…
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BYOD virtualisation for 20,000 users
The University of Adelaide has successfully trialled a 500-user desktop virtualisation initiative, with plans to roll it out for 20,000 users, delivering lessons for big businesses planning for BYOD…
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Albanese’s gang of four champion Labor’s NBN
Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been appointed minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy – but for how long…
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Vouchr tackles moving targets
Retailers that want to lure customers with discount vouchers are the target for a locally developed iPhone app that can alert customers as they near a bricks-and-mortar store…
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Tech’s final frontier reaches farm gate
Australia’s farmers and agri-businesses are being urged to adopt advanced sensor and networking technologies in order to drive productivity and increase overall production…
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Aussie start-up seduces Microsoft and Nokia
A communications start up has showcased an augmented reality app to mobile alliance partners Microsoft and Nokia and secured EUR 50,000 to allow them to complete the development…
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Gillard and Conroy quit: whither NBN?
The leadership switch which has replaced Julia Gillard with Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister has also stripped the National Broadband Network of its two fiercest supporters…
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Convenience trumps security
Encryption that is very hard to crack by the NSA (the US spy agency) has existed for years. But it’s not easy to use so hardly anyone does. We trade convenience for security says Gerry McGovern…
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Cloud the only future for ERP
When IBM asked Australian companies about their cloud computing progress it was surprised to learn many remained at the researching or planning stage…
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Australian enterprises face greater security risks
While only one in ten of the global 2000 enterprises employs vulnerability testing, the practice is almost non-existent in Australia…
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Telstra wins major Agile benefits
Telstra, which runs the biggest IT shop in Australia, has achieved an 80 percent reduction in infrastructure rollout cycle time, using a 55 percent smaller team – all thanks to Agile…
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CRM automation: efficiency versus effectiveness
Gartner analyst Praveen Sengar says you need to judge sales tools by their impact on sales success, not the cost of sale…
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5 cloud myths unplugged
Cloud computing is one of the most popular yet continually misunderstood terms in the modern technology world. Cloud expert Craig Deveson sets out to dispel some of the enduring myths…
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Getting the best from your briefs
Jane Smallfield offers a few words of wisdom on not slacking when it comes to your briefs…
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Does social media suck for B2B?
In the last few years every business has jumped on the social media bandwagon. It has fragmented marketing budgets and sucked up time and money, but to what end?…
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Government spruiks ICT careers to schoolchildren
While IT skills supply and demand remains a largely balanced equation courtesy of the economy, demand for IT university courses continues to slide, which is why the Government has stepped in…
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Six reasons to use LinkedIn for B2B
Earlier this year LinkedIn broke through the 200 million member barrier and is continuing to grow by two new members per second…
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Is the public cloud right for your business?
Amanda White answers the question thousands are asking with these highlights from her MBA thesis on the subject of businesses moving to public cloud technologies…
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Fibre wars: the future of super fast internet
Some millions of column inches and billions of public funds have been dedicated to the broadband initiatives on both sides of the Tasman, but serious questions remain unresolved…
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BT launches tools to support BYOD initiatives
Gartner has forecast almost two in five organisations will expect their employees to provide their own work technology by 2016. BT has just launched a service and tools to support the switch…
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Banks seize on technology differentiators
Technology is disrupting the traditional structures of the financial services sector – but it is also providing Australia’s banks with their greatest ally in terms of crafting a survival strategy…
read more...IBM kicks off the next 50 years of computing
Computer giant IBM has formally launched the Watson cognitive computing platform in Australia – its foundation technology for the next 50 years…
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Cost of single data breach surges to $2.72 million
Every time an organisation endures a data breach it costs $2.72 million – 23 percent more than it did a year ago – suggesting that the Government’s proposed mandatory reporting regime is timely…
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Weigh up your BYOD strategy
Security vendors whip us in to a frenzy of paranoia when it comes to keeping our businesses safe…
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Manufacturing: How to make it in China
Doing business with China presents more than just a language barrier. We sent Richard Chirgwin to investigate how other companies have overcome the various challenges of manufacturing in a foreign land…
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BYOD and telework rack up loyalty points
Google and Deloitte say employers who offer their staff the opportunity to bring their own device to work, flexible work options and access to social networks benefit from boosted productivity and lower staff churn…
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Considerations and best practices for BYOD
While not every organisation has a formal bring-your-own device program, every organisation should develop policies and processes regarding the use of personal devices for work. Citrix offers some best practices to consider when defining and implementing BYOD…
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Business cases: are you setting up to fail?
Any investment has to stand up to commercial rigour, IT projects even more so given their risk profile. A weak business justification for a project can lead to poor management buy-in and ultimately an unsuccessful project…
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Microsoft plans more mobile, social CRM
Microsoft has outlined the roadmap for its Dynamics CRM system which will see it place greater focus on mobility and integration of social media content and analysis into the tool…
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Top port pushes boat out with sophisticated mapping tech
The world’s largest bulk commodity port is using geographical information system mapping technology to help build its future responsibly…
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5 ways to stuff up your ERP
Failed ERP projects litter business history books the world over. Here Sourya Biswas captures some of the lessons that time has taught those who have succeeded in getting their companies into the annals of IT infamy…
read more...Companies warned on social media: engage staff first
Organisations which want to more closely engage with clients on social media first need to ensure their staff are properly engaged or risk missing out on the benefits…
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Xero to release tax software beta this month
Accounting software cloud provider Xero will release the first modules in its tax package later this month that will allow accountants to file tax file number applications and BAS statements online…
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Australian enterprise seeks silicon insights
Retailing giant Westfield invested in a technology laboratory in the heart of Silicon Valley to get closer to an “ecosystem that doesn’t exist” in Australia…
read more...Australia launches National Cloud Computing Strategy
The Australian Government has unveiled a National Cloud Computing Strategy intended to boost public sector, consumer and enterprise cloud confidence…
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Marechal excels with Exo
A perfect view of stock levels by individual part means the electrical component business can be more flexible to customer demand…
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Frugality fatigue fosters online retail
A major international survey of shoppers has found that Australians have apparently succumbed to “frugality fatigue” and are now expecting to spend more online in the coming year…
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Digital marketing is the star and spending soars
Digital marketing accounts for almost a third of marketing budgets in Australia with email and search engine optimisation (SEO) investments leading the pack while social network spending is also rising…
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SuccessFactors’ cloud plugs in to SAP
Enterprise users of SAP’s HR, payroll and workforce management services are the target for a new service which will support the transition of those applications to the cloud…
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Reckon plans to join the cloud crew
Reckon’s journey to the cloud inches along with the company this week showcasing Reckon One, its first home-grown cloud product which will be available in beta from July…
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Cyber security takes centre stage
Australia’s Government has dubbed this National Cyber Security Awareness Week in a bid to encourage people to take the issue more seriously – seems we haven’t in the past…
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MYOB acquires BankLink, goes head-to-head with Xero
The accounting system vendor plugs the gap in its business with BankLink, putting it at a stronger competitive advantage…
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SAP, Oracle and Salesforce integrate social networking
Plans to launch a tool able to integrate content from SAP, Oracle and Salesforce systems with SharePoint social networking plug-in NewsGator are on track for a June release…
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Autodesk and NetSuite combine in the cloud
The vendors have tapped in to the growing cloud manufacturing trend that will see almost half of all manufacturers using SaaS by 2015…
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BT says cloud aids regional expansion
Ahead of offering its service in Australia the vendor has not named any local clients, but is touting private clouds built on established infrastructure as the key to rapid regional expansion…
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Expedia floats local cloud
A locally hosted instance of Expedia’s cloud-based services will allow Australian airlines, travel and tourist operators to use the company’s smarts to develop richer cost-effective information systems…
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Loyalty initiative targets IT contractors
By some estimates as many as one in ten of Australia’s IT professionals is a contractor – now a recruitment agency has launched a novel loyalty programme to woo more talent for its clients…
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Epicor woos execs with iPad app
The company is offering a mobile KPI analysis app to wholesale and distribution managers on the go…
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Business Process Management suites becoming mainstream and intelligent
Gartner says it expects Australian organisations to spend almost $70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013…
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NBN rollout to be accelerated, if Labor wins
Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has released an updated three-year rollout plan for the National Broadband Network…
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Salesforce.com beats SAP to top CRM spot
The SaaS-based vendor has overtaken industry stalwart SAP in Gartner’s worldwide CRM revenue rankings as organisations of all sizes seek alternatives to legacy applications…
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Coalition defends NBN policy
Two weeks after releasing the Coalition’s plans for a National Broadband Network, shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull has published in defence of the policy, a comprehensive list of responses to ‘frequently asked questions’…
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Telstra grows Asian business with Jetstar contract
Telstra has scored the first significant contract in Asia for its Network Application and Services (NAS) division, a group that Telstra says is leading its expansion into new markets in Asia…
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Microsoft boosts Excel’s BI capabilities but gaps remain, says Ovum
Research firm Ovum says that Microsoft has taken steps to simplify its business intelligence (BI) software strategy, centred on Excel, but still has a way to go in particular to address the growing market for mobile BI technology…
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A healthy future for big data and machine-to-machine communications
The introduction of electronic patient records and myriad devices that monitor patients and upload information is set to transform the healthcare industry…
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Ovum recommends CIOs explore design-thinking techniques
Human-centered design thinking and approaches are gaining mainstream credence among private sector decision-makers focused on innovation but the concept seems unfamiliar to most CIOs offices in the public sector, says the research firm…
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Vectoring technology could boost Coalition’s NBN plan
The Coalition’s National Broadband Network plan that envisages retaining copper for the ‘last mile’ has received a boost with the news that ‘vectoring’, the latest technology to increase the data carrying capacity of copper, is rapidly gaining market acceptance…
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Big data: big rewards and big challenges
New research is showing significant return on investment for big data projects and a growing demand for people who can turn data into useful information…
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Infor invites enterprises to Ming.le on its social platform
The vendor has announced a new social workflow tool that is embedded in core business applications to transform productivity…
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Can Google predict the stock market?
Analysis of changes in Google query volume for specific search terms can lead to solid future predictions and is opening up fascinating new possibilities…
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Historic hardware retailer counts on inventory management
When Read Brothers Hammer Hardware needed a solution to track its 30,000-plus inventory it wanted more than just a nuts and bolts solution…
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Rackspace primes local cloud start-ups
Open cloud computing pioneer Rackspace will this quarter allow local cloud clients to cut over to its Sydney data centre – and also offer them the chance to build their own cloud…
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SMBs pose security risk for large enterprise
Large enterprises feeling comfortable about their computer security should prepare for a rude shock courtesy of the small and medium businesses in their supply chain…
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How to avoid the IT hall of shame
IT security and project stuff-ups are certainly nothing new in our field. But things seem to be getting worse and sadly, most of these issues are preventable…
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Yellowfin casts customer net wide
CEO says it’s time to sell through the local channel and has secured ten partners in the last four months…
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Quality search requires quality people not just algorithms
On its own, search technology will not help us find the right things quickly. We need human expertise and human management…
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Australians clip their ICT spending plans
Tight economic times, political uncertainty, a strong dollar and the imminent end of the mining boom are the four horsemen of the apocalypse now threatening ICT spending in Australia…
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Australian software buyers charged “what they can bear”
A Government Committee investigating the prices Australians pay for information and communications technology is now mulling over the responses of industry giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe…
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eWinery decants solution for NetSuite cloud
Napa Valley-based eWinery Solutions – which supplies technology to iconic Australian winemakers such as Penfolds, Lindemans and Wolf Blass – is decanting its solution for the NetSuite cloud…
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Greentree takes a slice of $25m grant
The ERP specialist is in good company amongst the likes of the Hamilton Jet parent company CWF Hamilton & Co and Methven as recipients of government technology…
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EL ES DE Engineering builds process clarity with cloud
The engineering firm can now extract more information out of its business and pump it for profits thanks to its new ERP system delivered in the cloud…
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Project success comes from the top
Approximately half of all significant ICT projects fail in terms of delivering what the business expected. Marg Roberts considers what needs to be done to improve the success rate…
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Management practice lags behind tech innovation
In many organisations management practice is about 20 years behind the web. Gerry McGovern discusses what this really means…
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Gartner predicts mobile analytics as top CIO priority
Every business is looking at how to make better use of the data it has and to make sense out of all the small details. As 2013 gets well underway, Gartner analyst Daniel Yuen outlines a number of BI trends that organisations will need to consider over the next four years…
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Billing best practice: Tips for a healthy debtors ledger
We feel like we are being held to ransom by our invoicing, but if we don’t get the dollars in the door more easily and effectively, our livelihoods will be on the line…
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Carbon accounting: burden or benefit?
The sustainability age has, in theory, replaced bean-counting with carbon-counting. Richard Chirgwin looks at what is happening in practice…
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Mind the knowledge gap – IT in the boardroom
Following a number of high-profile project train wrecks last year, iStart asks if there is enough understanding of IT at board level…
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New ERP system for Intermodal
Choosing Greentree was an easy decision for Intermodal, but the ERP vendor shows it can hold its own against the competition too…
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Intermodal and Boffa Miskell opt for same ERP system
ERP specialist, Greentree has recently triumphed over some big names to win some of its newest customers…
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Cebit 2013 looms as does end of era
Cebit – the largest enterprise focused technology event on Australia’s technology calendar – kicks off at the end of next month. More than 30,000 visitors are expected for the end of an era event…
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‘Adapt or die’ slogan for CeBIT Australia 2013
The largest business technology event in the Asia Pacific celebrates is twelfth year in Sydney and focuses on showing businesses that embracing technology is the only way to harness the power in the data they create…
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Epicor mobilises its HCM; opts for browser not app
The new online platform allows mobile access for manager and employee self-service HCM tasks in a browser environment…
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Mining services company strikes job-costing gold
After a difficult hunt to source a reliable accounting system, Queensland-based Haynes Mechanical finds that MYOB Exo offers the right balance between functionality and price – and it’s solid…
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Mining contractor consolidates with IFS
IFS continues to push in to the mining sector, securing new business from fast-growing civil and mining contractor Brierty…
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My Jaguar versus your systems
Owen McCall talks cars, computers and reliability…
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Gelita chooses flexible solution to satisfy customers
A new process manufacturing blending workbench tool has proved critical to meeting customer quality expectation for major collagen supplier…
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Tablets key to renovating retail experience
Smart tablet technology gives customers immediate access to product information in lifestyle show homes…
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Making BYOD a success in retail
Retail BYOD shifts the focus of the retail assistant from expertise to enablement, but will the customer journey suffer? Aldas Palubinskas discusses this up and coming trend…
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Mobile App Developer’s Guide
iStart’s Mobile App Developer’s Guide lists specialist mobile application developers that have a proven track record in delivery of phone-based applications across Australasia…
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Greentree’s UK investment will benefit people in poverty
A competition in the UK run by New Zealand-based software company Greentree has captured the imaginations of businesses, and the public, from Britain to Africa, Asia and South America…
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Ditching the leather: mobile wallets here to stay?
We’ve been talking about digital wallets for years, but now they are actually here Clare Coulson takes a look at the payments landscape and asks if we will be putting away our wallets for good…
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From ‘hire to fire’
Can you accurately account for every employee in your company? How about the management of every individual’s performance, training, objectives and payroll information?…
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In-store retail in death spiral
Supply chain integration: As competition between online and in-store heats up, many organisations are evaluating technology to improve their customer journey – and finding in-store is delivering increased profits and productivity. David McNickel investigates…
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IT branding: not just a logo
Just what is the IT industry’s problem when it comes to getting noticed in the super trendy and oh-so-social marketplace?…
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Would you like an app with that?
If you’re in business then you gotta have an app, right? Well, maybe. Before you rush out and build your new mobile application you need to decide just how your new solution fits into your overall business strategy…
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Tech at the coalface
The mining industry has transformed in recent years. Stephen Withers looks at the unique demands of this boom and bust industry and the role technology is playing…
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Smooth sailing as Navico implements EDI solution
US-based marine electronics manufacturer Navico has successfully outsourced warehousing to FedEx courtesy of an EDI tool developed by New Zealand ERP system specialist EMDA…
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Office 365 beats Google for Opus business
Opus global infrastructure consultancy has chosen Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity solution to support its bid to be one of the top 20 consultancies in the world…
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CommBank touts banking technology firsts
Customers will soon benefit from Australia’s first real-time business banking app, as well as ground-breaking new functionality across CommBank Kaching for Android, Facebook and NetBank…
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Big data, 4 million jobs, large skills gap – Gartner
Analysts say there are big opportunities for big data on the horizon in APAC, but warn that we may not have the skills to fulfill them…
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Europlan opens door to better business
Auckland-based manufacturer, Europlan, sees all the numbers stacks up with improvements in customer service levels and production-line thanks to Epicor’s out-of-the-box ERP system…
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What’s driving tomorrow’s retail experience?
Decades ago, retail was based on relationships: when someone walked through the front door, the merchant personally greeted them and asked how they could help, but with the plethora of gadgets out there, how will tomorrow’s retail experience compare…
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Win the omni-channel battle
Over the last decade the land of traditional retail has been overrun by the internet and broadband revolution. Now, instead of resisting, savvy retailers are turning the invasion to their advantage…
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New ERP system opens door to growth
Melbourne-based manufacturer, Hufcor, improves productivity with increased visibility over data and quoting processes with Epicor…
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Switched on CEO: Rugby NZ 2011 Martin Sneddens’ ultimate test
Tournament organiser says the event is “sunk” if they don’t get the IT right but he has to trust the experts with that to ensure a global success…
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Online ad spending overtakes newspapers
Online advertising expenditure has surpassed newspaper advertising expenditure for the first time ever, according to a report from the Commercial Economic Advisory Service Australia…
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IT failure: an industry shame
With around half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations it’s safe to say that there’s something seriously wrong with the way IT projects are being both planned and executed. iStart cornered Simpl founder and CEO Bennett Medary to find out just what’s behind such a dire statistic…
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Why am I doing this project?
Been assigned onto yet another IT project, but not entirely sure what the project is, why you’ve been put on it and what it all means? Scott Groombridge has some advice…
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Big data and the bigger network management challenge
The sheer volume of information that is continuously being created poses some interesting questions, questions that are only just starting to be addressed…
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Company Executive charged with project abuse
Running a successful IT project is a lot like raising a child. So why do project managers so often abandoned them at birth?
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The best of the bank apps
The rise of the consumer bank app has well and truly taken place, and why shouldn’t it have? We can do everything else on our phones these days, it makes sense that we should be able to move our money around, when we’re on the move, too. But are all banking apps created equal? What’s on offer from the big names? And what’s in it for enterprise? iStart decided to find out…
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Eclipse wins national accolade from Microsoft
UXC Eclipse has won the MAPA 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Microsoft Dynamics ERP…
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The ultimate guide to smartphone app testing
So the hard yards of your smartphone application design and development are complete. Now it’s time to put it in the appstore, sit back, and watch the money roll in, right?…
read more...The perils of search engine optimisation
Search engine optimization (SEO) tactics often make it harder for customers to do what they need to do, says Gerry McGovern…
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NBN vs. UFB head to head comparison
With the government-sponsored fibre rollouts under way in Australia and New Zealand, iStart takes a look at just what’s on offer with the NBN and the UFB initiatives…
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Unified communications comes of age
Three years ago iStart prophesised that unified communications was going to be the next big thing. But three years, in the days before BYOD and when the cloud was in its infancy, is a long time ago. So where are we now?…
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Business data mapping enters a brave new world
The ‘Spatial industry’ has for decades appreciated the real, exciting and powerful benefits of geospatial analysis. But if geospatial tech is so wonderful and is such a ‘no brainer’, why haven’t small to medium enterprises embraced the technology?…
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Windows 8 Review
I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a very difficult time…
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Wealth management institutions to invest heavily in digital channels
According to new research, IT spending by the global wealth management industry will reach almost USD$35bn by 2016, and will include heavy investment in digital channels…
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Ignoring the gut feel: The emerging world of predictive analytics
With promotional dollars more precious than ever, smart marketers are always looking to refine their methodologies and increase their return on investment…
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Franchisor cleans up its act – and the planet
Looking for a financial solution that kept pace with the growth of its eco-friendly cleaning business, Clean Planet looked no further than Exo business…
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SaaS with a Purpose
Greentree gives software-as-a-service flexibility that’s making businesses say “Wow!”…
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See how ERP providers are positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for ERP
If you are researching Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, here is your opportunity to compare vendors…
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Greentree defies the recession with rapid UK expansion
Tough times are providing the ideal growth environment for Greentree software with the announcement of several new UK partners and customers for the ERP software provider…
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ERP for the GM Ops: Peter Taylor from Adam’s Pest Control
Exo has boosted profits, improved operational efficiency and delivered transformational business intelligence to Adams Pest Control…
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Four tips for happier customers
Customer relationships have never been more important, but how well are you managing yours?…
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ERP for the CFO: Ross Hurley from Prowler Proof Security
An Exo upgrade has allowed Prowler Proof to meet the challenges of long term forecasting and address nagging issues of uncertainty around inventory…
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TV3’s ERP implementation a ratings winner
TV shows succeed by creating and keeping an audience. Through total staff involvement and a determination to have some fun, broadcaster MediaWorks showed how a new computer system should be produced…
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Simple hack spells big problems for Apple, Apple users
A simple social engineering-based hack has seen Apple suspend password changes over the phone as internet journalist’s online information, as well as iPhone, iPad, and MacBook content, is erased…
read more...Telstra makes two new senior appointments
John Allan will head Telstra’s directory business Sensis, while David Burns will run the company’s Network Applications and Services business…
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Ludowici drives performance and efficiency through Epicor ERP
The ability to rapidly roll out Epicor ERP to new sites highlights the flexibility and capability of the Ludowici IT group, made possible by the platforms now in place…
read more...Telstra scoops $474 million UC deal with Department of Human Services
The Department of Human Services and Telstra have announced the signing of a new agreement worth $474 million that will see the telco build and manage a new unified communications network over the next five years…
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Nine trends taking ERP into a social, mobile and realtime future
Enterprise Resource Planning solutions are an often maligned but necessary glue in many enterprises. The size and complexity of most products has meant they have been slower to respond to the socially connected, user friendly application revolution. But 2012 will be a watershed year for vendors and users alike says industry analyst Louis Columbus…
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14 things your CRM system could be telling you about your customer (but probably isn’t)
CRM software is about as crucial as it gets when it comes to managing your sales activities. But while it may be crucial, it’s hardly sexy, and therefore it’s something of a ‘set-and-forget’ piece of tech…
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The expert’s guide to Sharepoint
Information overload. It defines the age we live in…
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The allure of mobile apps
And a six-step reality check you should complete before being seduced by shiny enterprise app extensions and sexy gadgets…
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Southern Shorthaul Rail gets on the right track with ERP makeover
Managing an extremely complicated business model with a time-consuming, spreadsheet-based legacy business system, Southern Shorthaul Rail, knew that they were restricting their current profits and future growth. It was obvious the solution was a new ERP solution, but which? SSR went to market to find out…
read more...New NBN-specific cloud-based ISP launched
A new ISP designed to exploit the NBN rollout says it has secured funding and plans to launch a low-cost, high bandwidth service before the end of the year…
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Dwight was right – planning is useless, but indispensible
For successful companies, says Brett Roberts, it’s all about preparing for the battle. But while you can’t succeed without adequate preparation, planning can quickly veer into ‘useless’ territory, especially when those ‘best laid plans’ equate to little more than opportunities lost…
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Royal Australian Mint makes change
Maintaining Australia’s thirteen billion circulating coins is a very serious business, so when the Royal Australian Mint modernised recently, it made sure it counted…
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Nike stores running ERP in the cloud
A deal has been signed to bring cloud-based ERP and BI solutions to Nike Australia franchise, as the company focuses on integration and analytics to power aggressive growth…
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Aus lags NZ with cloud computing industry code of practice
Industry group the New Zealand Computer Society (NZCS) has released the first draft of its voluntary code-of-conduct document, the Cloud Computing Code of Practice, one of the first of its kind in the world…
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Point of Interest: Vaughan Rowsell founder of VEND
How a Kiwi start-up is revolutionising the retail payment industry with a clever cloud-based POS alternative that’s rapidly going global…
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You don’t need a mobile strategy
Mobile is a platform. It is a tactic, not a strategy. What you need is a strategy for the connected customer. Gerry McGovern explains…
read more...Support communities are where customers are won and lost
Support communities, indeed social media in general, is how a potential customer finds out what an organisation is really like, says Gerry McGovern. So why are so many companies getting the support community model all wrong?…
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When supply chain meets eHealth – GS1 healthcare conference
With representatives from nearly 30 countries already confirmed, registrations are running hot for the 21st GS1 Global Healthcare Conference, to be held in Sydney from 20-22 March 2012…
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Integrating POS with ERP changes face of retail
If point-of-sale systems are crucial to keeping shopkeepers’ tills ringing, integration with the back office is the answer to tracking retail’s new currency, information. iStart explores some opinions from Kiwi retail sector experts…[View as PDF]
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Integrated ERP gives window firm clear visibility
Aluminium window designer APL has delivered customers an open view of their orders, and they keep coming back for more…
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Slate-Crete finds the right mix
Realising their ERP system wasn’t meeting expectations, concrete manufacturer Slate-Crete went looking for a solution that would fit their needs perfectly, as well as provide point of sale functionality…
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Holden Special Vehicles drives business with better ERP
After identifying warehousing as an area for improvement, Holden went looking for a real-time solution that could seamlessly integrate with their existing software…
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Plastics supplier’s crucial ERP efficiency advantage
Making bespoke production tools for a fast-moving global plastics manufacturing sector, Mastip Technology Limited have used Abel to master a discombobulating array of production and planning requirements…
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Telstra offers free credit to flooded customers
Telstra is offering relief packages for residential and small business customers in Moree Plains Shire Council and Tamworth Regional Council areas as well as Mitchell, Roma, Charleville and surrounding districts who have lost services as a result of the current flooding…
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Forecast: Partly Cloudy
When it comes to computing solutions, it’s what they do – not how they’re delivered – that really counts. Duncan Campbell from ERP solutions provider Greentree takes a closer look at hosting ERP solutions in the cloud…
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Top wool tester finds shear value in Abel
The NZ Wool Testing Authority Ltd is Abel’s oldest customer – using it to streamline its accounting and keep up with changing customer needs…
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Varley looks to the future with ERP do-over
Looking to capitalize on past successes and continue their enviable organic growth, Varley Pty Ltd went looking for an ERP product that would help them better manage costs and make more informed decisions. And while the selection process may have been exhaustive, the final decision was unanimous…
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Turbulent economic climate predicted for 2012
IDC is predicting uncertain economic times for 2012 with market volatility expected to reach an all time high…
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Acer to supply 65,000 notebooks to Queensland schools – govt. to foot the bill
Acer Computer Australia has won the Queensland Department of Education and Training tender to supply 65,000 3G-enabled notebooks for round three of the National Secondary School Computer Fund by the end of this year…
read more...Jetstar launches in-flight iPads
Jetstar announced this morning the roll-out of 3000 Apple iPad 1 and iPad 2s across its fleet.
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Switched on CEO: Michael Bennetts unmasking Z
Transitioning Shell from global outpost to fresh local upstart has presented some major marketing conundrums, and some tough technology challenges along the way…
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New ERP approach keeps data visibility high for Hi-Vis
Hi-Vis Signs and Safety are a ‘fair dinkum’ Australian business success story. Their rapid expansion however was accompanied by the appearance of inefficiencies which threatened to derail the company’s progress. Enter a new ERP system that addressed the new complexities the company was facing and kept them growing in a competitive market…
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Bigger than Apple – Samsung surges ahead to become world’s biggest smartphone seller
Samsung has kicked Apple off the top of the heap as sales of Samsung electronics overtake those of former market-dominator Apple Inc…
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Fujitsu entices SMEs with free cloud offer
Fujitsu is targeting SMEs and ISVs by offering a free trial of its Australian-based computing cloud platform as it attempts to push beyond the enterprise sector…
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Telstra shareholders green light NBN handover
Telstra shareholders have overwhelmingly voted to hand over the company’s fixed line network to the National Broadband Network in an $11 billion deal…
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7 things to hate about IT recruiters
Business forums, professional networking sites and the internet in general is awash with stories detailing just how difficult dealing with an IT recruiter can be. But is all this online odium justified? Are they really the new ‘used-car salesman’? Or are recruiters just the fall guys for frustrated job-seekers in a down-turned economy?…
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Hooking the big fish in times of economic uncertainty
Businesses used to be able to rely on long term relationships with their customers. Now, it’s short term deals, and there’s no guarantee of customer loyalty as margins become tighter than ever…
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Hurry up and wait
For large enterprises, the cloud is a revolution for those processes that are necessary, but not necessarily that important. Therefore, think very carefully before you move any process or application into the cloud, especially if it’s a source of competitive advantage, says Owen McCall…
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SyteLine keeps metal manufacturer lean
As a record-high New Zealand dollar tests the mettle of the country’s exporters, it is just another spur for bronze and brass manufacturer AW Fraser to stay lean…
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PLP forecasts long-term success from “shrewd” ERP investment
Power line equipment manufacturer PLP needed an ERP solution that would be functional from day-one, yet still meet the business’s sophisticated long-term goals. After an extensive investigation of the options, the company has finally found the “shrewd investment” they were looking for…
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Switched on CEO: How tech took the V8 Supercars to international stage
The cutting-edge tech required for modern-day V8 racing means that you’re just as likely to find computer engineers and grease-monkeys in the pit…
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Southern Clams harvests data and reaps the benefits
Southern Clams, live clam exporter eliminates costly errors while boosting staff profitability…
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Convergence in the cloud with Esker
Convergence Limited is partnering with Esker to bring enhanced document process automation solutions to organisations across New Zealand…
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What we can learn from Yahoo!
Yahoo is an extremely popular website, yet its stock has performed really badly. Why? Because it sells stuff (banner ads) people don’t want to buy…
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Australian business leaders unwilling to embrace technology
Even though most agree that technological innovation will be the greatest agent of change for their organisation over the next 10 years, fear of the unknown is keeping executives from embracing it, says two new research studies looking at the attitudes of Australian decision makers…
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Unique production processes preserved with C E Bartlett’s new ERP
After a careful evaluation of all the ERP alternatives, C E Bartlett selected the only option that could provide a single, unified platform for their diverse business…
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Want to generate B2B leads from Twitter? Get your prospects to follow you
There is no doubting Twitter’s massive growth worldwide. Almost everyone knows of Twitter, millions use it, and thousands are hopelessly addicted to it…
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Yellowfin praised in ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ BI survey
BI software vendor Yellowfin has beaten out some major players in a recent BI vendor survey…
read more...Infor announces new apps for Force.com; Salesforce buys in
Software vendors Infor and Salesforce.com have revealed plans to release three new applications for Force.com, integrating Infor’s ERP solutions into the cloud platform…
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Apple defeats Samsung in European court
Apple has achieved a decisive victory in the ongoing patent war with Samsung with a Dutch judge banning the sale of three Samsung devices from mid-October onwards…
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Because wine should always taste good
Guala Closures uses Abel ERP software to provide a complete picture of the business and maintain its leadership in a highly competitive sector…
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MYOB sold to US firm
The bidding war over MYOB has ended with the accounting software giant being sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital for a reported $A1.2 billion…
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Free iPhone app maps out your nearest taxi
A new smartphone application connects taxi drivers directly with passengers in real-time by broadcasting a passenger’s location to taxi drivers via a smartphone’s GPS…
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Business Intelligence: at the forefront of business investment
As last issue’s iStart 2011 Investment Intentions Survey clearly showed, Business Intelligence has become the ‘must-have’ application of the moment…
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Smart card technology: A pocket guide
When it comes to engaging with your customers, there’s plenty to know in the realm of card technology. So if you don’t know your ICC from your NFC, read on to find out just how smart cards can serve your businesss…
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The iStart Smartphone Roundup
Thinking about buying a smartphone? Before you take the plunge check out the iStart Smartphone Roundup – it will help you navigate the pros and cons of six of the most popular units on the market, as well as important specs before you buy…
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The desktop goes virtual
You may shudder at the thought, but modern enterprise architecture is slowly but surely returning to the mainframe fold, at least conceptually, and never more so than with the idea of virtual desktops – hosted in ‘the cloud’…
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5 email tips to boost personal productivity
If you or your team are not managing email effectively, they are not managing their time effectively. Office productivity expert Debbie Mayo-Smith has provided iStart with a few ‘freasy’ tips to get on top of the email overload…
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The web is critical. The web team is not.
Most organisations consider their website to be critical, yet web teams rarely have respect, power or resources. Here’s how to change that…
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Stop your data going rogue
Every digital transaction you do generates data, and chances are that data is being stored. Mobile apps, web transactions, loyalty schemes & more provide a wealth of potential information resources. But with so much data being collected, how do you stop it becoming a rogue elephant and actually apply it to inform your business?…
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Cloud resilience at what price?
What factors should businesses consider, and what questions should they ask prospective providers, to ensure their operations and their business critical data stay safe in the cloud?…
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Google+ unleashes the spam
Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam…
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Crows score a bird’s eye view of data
One of the AFL’s ‘power clubs’ finds a way to transform processes and deliver value…
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NATO server hacked, files now online
Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have been breached again, this time with some 2,646 files from the server posted online as proof of the exploit…
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Microsoft Launches Office 365: full iStart review
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand…
read more...The Pope sends first Tweet
Leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has broadcast his first Twitter message, praising Christ and informing the faithful that the Vatican’s new news site has been launched…
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PLR tech gives transformer company the ‘best of both worlds’
Australian manufacturer of power and distribution transformers, Wilson Transformer Company (WTC), had been searching for a robust product lifecycle management system to meet its specific requirements for some time. Deciding to build on previous successes, the company opted for the Epicor product lifecycle management solution, after finding success with Epicor ERP Vantage…
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Something to shout about: researchers developing the sound-powered mobile phone
New technology that turns sound waves into electricity is being used to develop mobile phones that charge themselves using the sound of the human voice…
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Hi-Vis gets high-tech and acquires new business via the web
‘Be seen’ may be the Hi-Vis tag line, but ‘Be the first’ could well be its second…
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India to issue 1.2 billion biometric cards
In an attempt to bring the nations census data into the 21st century, India, home to 1.2 billion people, has outlined plans to begin issuing state-of-the-art biometric IDs to its citizens…
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IBM pitches ‘smart city’ software to govt
IBM is pushing its new software architecture as it tries to convince Australia’s State and Federal Governments to ‘go smart’…
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Fairfax to sell TradeMe?
Reports suggest that Australian media giant Fairfax is currently reviewing the status of New Zealand online auction site TradeMe and may sell the asset…
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eBay acquires Magento – looks to create “global commerce operating system”
eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of a leading open source ecommerce platform…
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MS McKinsey report: The web is a job creator, not killer
A new report once and for all dispels the myth that the World Wide Web is destroyer of jobs…
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Apple to unveil iCloud next week
It’s official: Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the unveiling of its upcoming cloud services offering, called, predictably, iCloud…
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4 things you must know before choosing an ERP vendor
Choosing the best vendor partner is critical to any successful ERP implementation – because in this instance the word ‘partner’ isn’t just a figure of speech…
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Shared services cost is the bottom line
Can lessons from the UK government shared services experience be applied to New Zealand’s public sector? A UK expert in implementing shared desktop services in govtt recently visited these shores to meet with key customers and industry leaders…
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Salesforce looks to calm sovereignty fears by building an Australian datacentre
Cloud computer provider Salesforce has said that it will build a datacentre in Australia as fears over offshore data escalate…
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Google Android now sitting at the top of the mobile OS heap
It’s official: Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, says technology research group Gartner Inc…
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IBM more valuable than Microsoft for the first time in 15 years
While the lead may be only temporary, IBM has indeed edged out old rival Microsoft for the first time since April 1996, becoming the second most valuable tech company in the US, behind market leader Apple Inc…
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The customer is always right
In a world of excess, uniformity and repetition, customers are buying experiences, not products or services…
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Telstra launches smartphone insurance scheme
Telstra is offering insurance plans for its smartphone users that includes cover up to $800 in calling charges on stolen devices…
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The future of Australian government? Social media and mapping technology
A new government study says that social media sites like Twitter and online mapping technology and are the future of government/citizen interaction…
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Microsoft’s online suite kicks users out of cloud
Those thinking that cloud computing has yet to reach acceptable levels of stability have received more ammunition following Microsoft’s latest online malfunctions…
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Satisfaction flunk
Almost 80% of business decision makers responsible for customer satisfaction think they deliver ‘poor’ or ‘average’ results…View as PDF
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Maton Guitars takes EXO on the road
A growing global market has meant increasing complexity for the Melbourne-based instrument manufacturer, but MYOB Exo has taken it all in its stride…
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Temperzone looks to keeps things cool in a hot Pacific Rim market
Looking to increase business in a highly competitive marketplace, Temperzone knows that they’ll have to ensure their ERP systems are in tip top shape before they move ahead. Enter Epicor ERP from COGITA…
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How to build mobile apps – tips and pitfalls from the experts
The move from the desktop internet computing of the 90s to the new era of mobile internet is happening with unprecedented velocity – eight times as fast as the PC web was adopted…
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The customer is king
In a world spoiled for choice, customer service sorts the good from the great and has become the differentiator that matters most and these days, there’s no hiding behind the fob off…
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Business Intelligence shoots up the charts
iStart’s annual investment survey shows BI has jumped into the limelight among the ‘must-have’ applications in 2011 as business shines the crystal ball to track market changes in volatile times…
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Amazon outage the ‘worst in cloud computing history’
Amazon’s Web Services goes down, calling into question the reliability of cloud services…
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Australian technology set to revolutionise electric car industry
Electric car technology has received a shot in the arm courtesy of the Federal Government…
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Smartphones, tablets defeat netbooks as most popular mobile Internet device
Tablets and social networking services are key revenue growth opportunities for operators in Asia-Pacific according to mobile broadband industry survey…
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EFTPOS at the Rugby World Cup? Forget it.
Fans hoping to use their EFTPOS cards at the upcoming Rugby World Cup are headed for disappointment – none will be available…
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ERP Vendor consolidation goes another round
The Lawson board is considering Infor’s offer International IT vendor consolidation is continuing as one-stop-shops seen as the future…
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Kiwis flocking to the cloud
New Zealand has been named the most cloud savvy country in Asia Pacific, according to a recent business survey…
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Mobile operators need to wake up to Facebook threat
An industry expert says mobile operators are helping grow competitor’s market share.
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‘Nokiasoft’ partnership sees laggards in catch-up mode
Opinions may be split on the Microsoft and Nokia partnership but most agree the Finnish mobile phone maker did not have much choice…
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Reliance Transport automate manual payroll system
National haulage firm Reliance Transport save time and improve accuracy by automating complex manual payroll system…
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Hallensteins avoids payroll nightmares with MYOB
Hallensteins enlists MYOB Exo Employer Services and MyStaffInfo to better deliver on payroll…
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Payroll provider brings first .Net4 product to market
Australasian HR software provider PayGlobal’s chief executive Hugh Martyn says new product is the first to leverage the latest workflow tools from Microsoft…
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Smart reshuffle set to grow merchant services company
NZX listed SmartPay plans to expand in the Australian market with the help of newly appointed chief executive officer Andrew Donaldson…
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Fairfax’s tender take on online business
Australian-owned Fairfax Media’s portfolio has just got bigger with the purchase of another New Zealand online company…
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Australian FMCG market checking out new CRM system
Global CRM and decisions support solutions provider StayinFront’s new on-demand system aims to pick up the pace in the FMCG sector…
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European online FX trader heading down under
Foreign exchange retail broker FXPro Financial Services has got its eye on the Australasian market…
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Google ANZ pulls new managing director from News Ltd
Ex-Deputy CEO of News Ltd Australia Nick Leeder has been appointed as the regional manager of Google Australia and New Zealand after a lengthy search…
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NZ Post deal aims to improve New Zealand national security
Gaining the public’s confidence in information security management has proved a priority to the New Zealand Government…
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Frucor takes SAP system to Fujitsu’s cloud
Australasian beverage supplier Frucor sees benefit in moving ERP infrastructure to the cloud…
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TV spectrums open up to allow blistering 4G
TV is moving from analogue to digital and that means blistering broadband speeds are on their way even in the rural sector along with exciting possibilities for business. It’s not just the mobile companies who see their future resting on 4G. some of the biggest global technology players see it as part of the next battle for dominance…
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ERP must follow strategy & process if sales and operations planning to improve
In the absence of a crystal ball, the next best thing to tighten your supply chain is robust S&O planning, but is your environment right?…
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Business Communications will be the next cloud wave
An expert in business communication solutions reveals that cloud service delivery has become more than a novel new way to deploy applications. He says it’s bringing huge value, ending the days of long deployment cycles, huge investments, and costly support contracts…
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Ten tips for winning online: Luke Howard-Willis, Torpedo 7
A Hamilton mountain bike rider turned his sporting interest into a multi-million online venture, not just in New Zealand, but in Australia which now accounts for at least 50% of the income. Buoyed by his proven flair for success, he has expanded into other online ventures…
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Millions of Australians unhappy with their telcos
One in three Australians is unhappy with the way their telco has dealt with a complaint in the last year…
read more...Google and Microsoft meet in the cloud
Business users are testing a new Google Doc plug-in that enables it to sync with Word documents…
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New security challenges loom in 2011
Unisys’ predictions for the next 12 months note that the consumerisation of IT trend has created vulnerabilities in organisations’ network perimeters…
read more...Local companies fail to back up virtual systems
A Symantec survey reveals many virtual systems in Australia and New Zealand are not properly protected…
read more...Australian-owned company launches voice biometrics for mid-market companies
Australian-owned company Salmat had until now primarily deployed speech recognition and voice biometric systems for large-scale, multi-national organizations…
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Australia’s water storage information now on iPhone
The Bureau of Meteorology has launched a free water storage iPhone app…
read more...Brisbane takes leap towards leading edge e-Government
The Brisbane council awards a contract for the customer service needs of its 1.5 million residents…
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Blackberry upgrades local mapping application
BlackBerry users in Australia (and NZ) can now access a free Blackberry maps app that will help them find local direction fast…
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The Outlook for 2020: Stand by for the Internet of Things
A report looking at the technology space in 2020 predicts that soon there will not be many devices not connected to the internet…
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Online merchants get client-aware cloud
NetSuite marries a new Intel Web API and promises merchants a competitive advantage…
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Accounting for growth
When a company’s growth puts strain on its accounting software, it’s time to look for something more robust…
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Report reveals global mobile market almost saturated
A report out today reveals 90% of the world’s population now has access to mobile networks but growth is slowing…
read more...Ovum says multinationals must step up in managing mobile costs
In a new report, the independent telecoms analyst claims that multinationals are struggling to manage the ever growing cost and complexity of business mobility…
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IPv4 addresses going fast
Less than five percent of the world’s IPv4 addresses remain unallocated, according to The Number Resource Organisation…
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Sqware Peg picks up Sydney business award
Sqware Peg, a leading Cloud Computing consulting and solutions provider in the Asia-Pacific region, has won a top business award…
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Australia’s online advertising grows with mobile set to rise
Australia’s online general advertising market grew in 2010 for the fifth year running and has shaken off the recession blues…
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Mobile payments about to explode in this region
Mobile payments in Asia-Pacific are expected to more than double to US$3.6b in the next five years…
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Well dressed software available
Lawson Software offers new assistance for fashion manufacturers or companies that have a mix of manufacturing and sourcing requirements…
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HR systems shift to the cloud
With people wanting access to information anytime and anywhere, web-based HR systems are proving to be the way to go. Ulrika Hedquist finds moving to the cloud affords a flexible and cost-effective solution…
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IT to make Eden Park a world-class stadium
ICT will play a major role in creating the ability for the RWC venue to add value to the spectator experience as well as generating new revenue streams…
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Christchurch firm’s ERP system shaken but not stirred
Bremca Industries’ Infor ERP SyteLine software got through Canterbury’s big quake unscathed, allowing its branches in New Zealand and Australia to carry on trading…
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Infor unveils new family of applications
Infor’s new family of applications combine industry-specific functionality with rapid implementations to speed time-to-value…
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Fujitsu puts its head further in the Cloud
Fujitsu is launching a self-service Cloud Services Portal, to offer a fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications…
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Video conferencing saving two hours of work a week
A study released today says that workers are now finding benefits of video conferencing beyond the accepted travel and other cost savings…
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Start of new Google search bidding war?
A search specialist says some marked changes in the paid and natural search landscape could be ahead after he noticed a tweak in Google’s instant search results…
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Business infrastructure systems increasingly under political attack
A new Symantec survey reveals half of the infrastructure providers questioned have experienced politically motivated cyber attacks…
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The smart meter industry is about to take off in Australia
There are $200 million worth of smart grid pilot projects in operation or about to start in Australia with most focusing on the potential for smart meters and demand management…
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Australian Blackberry app proves popular
An Australian developed Blackberry app, available in Australia and New Zealand, had 35,000 downloads in the first five days…
read more...Symantec announces new SME tools
Symantec has announced two new tools aimed at helping Symantec partners generate more demand for their services…
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Study shows Australian online customer service not delivering
A survey has found that only five percent of Australian consumers feel that a company has exceeded their online customer service expectations…
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Android will surpass Apple, say most developers
A survey of US developers shows they strongly favour Android over Apple iOS and believe it’s the future…
read more...RIM unveil social platform
Research In Motion has unveiled the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform, giving developers the tools to build applications that take advantage of the social aspects of the popular BBM service…
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Fast wireless mobile phone charger coming soon
In two years time, you may be able to charge your mobile phone without the need for cables…
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Australian Passengers get boarding passes via SMS in world first
Australia’s low fares airline Jetstar will use world first technology to introduce boarding passes via SMS and 24 hour pre-enrolment check-in as part of a major innovation investment to revolutionize air travel for Jetstar customers…
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Gartner says Android way ahead of predictions
The worldwide mobile operating system market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the two OSs will account for 59.8 percent of mobile OS sales by 2014, according to Gartner, Inc…
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eBook: Trends in m-Commerce
The mobile phone is ubiquitous, personal and connected. that is why retailers, bankers and marketers want to use it for informing, enabling and transacting business. they are succeeding in global markets, but have been slower to make inroads locally…
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Epicor’s scorecard tips balance for Precision Parts
Epicor’s Business Intelligence has enabled Precision Parts to monitor KPIs easily, increase visibility across the business, gain better customer satisfaction and improve sales…
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Smart maps show traffic patterns
Placing a retail outlet in the optimal location can spell the difference between profitability and loss. Location intelligence helps retailers choose the right site by assembling key metrics – including customer behaviour records, demographics, traffic patterns and competitor information – from various sources…
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Mapping your business data: easier, but you can fall over the cliff
In the old days, mapping data was easy. You bought a wall map and lots of colourcoded pins. Then you stuck them on the map. Fast, easy and cheap. But the information content was superficial at best…
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Bank lets Australian iPhone customers transfer money without fees
As mobile payments start to flourish thanks to the growth of smartphones, ANZ has launched an iPhone app that lets its Australian customers send money to anyone with a mobile phone…
read more...DHBs slow to buy into e-Trading gateway despite savings
Ryall confirms board of Health Benefits Ltd as crown shared services organisation to explore opportunities…
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Town & Country Style gain visibility after upgrade to MYOB Exo
The Victorian interior furniture and furnishings supplier out-grew their small business solution but now take stock with ease…
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Law Enforcement Analytics: fighting crime with business intelligence
Ask any field officer what his most important weapon is, and chances are he’ll tell you, information. Armed with the right information at the right time, police officers can carry out their duties more quickly, effectively, and safely…
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Infor on track to trump Oracle in the integration game
Infor may be on track to beat rival Oracle in delivering the Holy Grail of a properly integrated ERP-and-essential-business-applications suite…
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FlexiTime online payroll lets SMEs get on with business
A Kiwi start-up has put payroll online for small business in a similar move to that of online accounting success Xero – as well as integrating with Xero…
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New animal tracking standard opens door to Chinese advantage
A recent government standards announcement could mean losing another agri-tech race after kiwi’s do all the hard work…
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Co-creating software creates true custom fit
It’s the way of the future – developers and users working to together on a daily basis, via the web, to create software that really does fit ‘requirements’ snugly…
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Power-hungry internet needs to nap
The internet’s energy consumption is growing fast. It may need computers to help it sleep if it’s not to pose a green threat…
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Aussie’s on-the-go holiday planner
Is Tourism Australia’s new mobile capable tool aimed at IT savvy travellers or the advertising departments of industry big players?…
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SAP goes mobile with Sybase
SAP’s acquisition of mobile specialist Sybase will allow it to deliver its ERP software to mobile devices…
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Microsoft’s four ERP systems – what’s the story?
After a decade of ERP acquisitions, Microsoft has struggled to educate the New Zealand market on the differences between their Dynamics GP, NAV, SL and AX. We’ve dug up some history – and some speculation as to where they might be going in the future…
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Fiordland Lobster Company lands catch smoothly with Exo
Fishing, exporting and accounting have been married successfully with an integrated MYOB Exo solution at the Te Anau-based lobster business…
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Electronics still toxic, but Apple and HP show the way
Greenpeace’s latest Guide to Greener Electronics shows some electronic companies making headway while others are falling behind…
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NBN pricing debate begins – it’s pricey, but remote users willing to pay
Metro users are balking at iiNet’s $129.95 monthly price tag, but remote and rural users point out you can pay that now for 9Mbps. And, with a 100Mbps service, you can ditch the phone…
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How secure is your smartphone?
With staff increasingly mobile and mobility applications burgeoning, security threats are becoming as real on smartphones as they have been for some time on PCs. Being aware is the key to staying clean…
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Abyss really gets its skates on with MYOB Exo
Abyss Distribution, an Australian importer and wholesaler of skateboard gear like Protec Helmets, Coal Fashion and Fila in-line skates, needed to bump up system performance to cope with its fast growth…
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Great South Australian brand takes stock to keep things even fresher
Founded in the Riverland of South Australia in the early 1930s, Nippy’s is one of those great Australian companies still doing what it does best – delivering fresh produce to the people of Australia…
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Youthful winery harvest vintage awards with Exo’s support
Four-year-old Chapman Grove Wines looked for an affordable, highly functional accounting system from the start to support its growth. It found it in MYOB’s EXO…
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Landells Signs: ‘It’s all about reports’
Its history may stretch back to Victorian times, but Victoria’s Landells Signs needed to make sure its accounting system met its 21st century needs. It signed off on MYOB’s Exo…
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Switched on CEO: Bruce Hassall navigating stormy weather
PwC’s chief executive, Bruce Hassall, took the helm in September, in a tough 2009. But, with some strategic help from technology, he’s set fair ahead…
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Epicor’s next-generation ERP looks to SMBs’ needs
ERP goes mobile, as well as focusing on helping users reduce costs and encourage a better response from their own customers…
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Social CRM: Hype or Holy Grail
Social CRM is the new buzz-phrase. But what does it mean and, more importantly, what can it do for your business? Graham Medcalf investigates…
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Has big ERP had its day?
It’s good for big business, but large-scale ERP can be an unwieldy and expensive beast for smaller businesses to handle. Many have opted for a modular upgrade approach, but getting the various modules to ‘talk’ to each other is a challenge…
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Where is business focusing for technology ROI?
A good return on dollars spent on IT in these tough times should be a pre-requisite to investment – right? iStart asked those who know where to find it and got some surprising answers…
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Software upgrade helps VT Fitzroy keep Navy afloat
Naval dockyard operator VT Fitzroy is able to estimate the cost of ship refits faster and more accurately after upgrading from Baan 4 to Infor ERP LN…
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Fujitsu: mobile biometrics can combat ID fraud
Fujitsu UK’s Head of Biometrics, Dr Alex Bazin, says biometrics built into mobile devices could help combat both drug and people smuggling, as well as immigration fraud…
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There’s sales in them thar blogs
Once upon a time, those with a sharp commercial eye might have mined the hills, with pickaxes, for gold, now they mine the web with software tools for the golden sales opportunities out there…
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Wirelessly yours: Mobico wins double award
It was a double act for Mobico at the recent Motorola ANZ Awards – it picked up two major awards…
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Local software market tipped to continue recovery
Ovum says major vendors are well-placed as the economy improves…
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West Australian Public Trustee hands five-year contract to Unisys
Five year support deal follows modernisation of trustee’s client management system…
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Fast-paced data centre growth continues
Energy-guzzling business shows no signs of slowing down, says Frost & Sullivan…
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Objective claims local government wasting $500m a year
Councils losing out on an average of $3 million a year in savings through inefficient document management, says the content solutions vendor…
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National Transport Commission deploys online mapping solution from MapData Science
New interactive portal allows heavy vehicles drivers and operators to plan their journey across the country…
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Campbelltown City Council picks TechnologyOne
Adelaide council deploys software solution to realise its climate change strategy…
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Social media ‘key to increasing customer engagement’
Survey finds New Zealand businesses believe social media builds customer relationships, but few are prepared to invest in it significantly…
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Malware and spam rise 70% on social networks
Report finds three out of four businesses fear corporate security risks from staff use of social networking sites…
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Microsoft secures benchmark agreement with Queensland Government
New ‘whole of government’ enterprise agreement lays the foundation for future ICT projects and supports Queensland’s ICT businesses…
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RailCorp extends managed services contract with Fujitsu
Three-year deal to run company’s ICT operations, and achieve maximum efficiencies, is extended for a further two years…
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TelstraClear enhances printing efficiency with Canon
Tailor-made in-house solution expected to save $200,000 a year in reduced paper and toner use, meaning a return on investment in nine months…
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Ovum forecasts modest recovery for local IT services market
Research firm expects 2010 to “an optimistic year, sprinkled with a healthy dose of cautiousness”. Project-led consulting and systems integration work also tipped to rebound…
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NetSafe launches Cybersafety resource for businesses
Whatsit business security resource website simplifies IT security policy implementation, especially for smaller businesses
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Avoiding data loss and digital footprints
Mobiu USB data key targets mobile staff who need access to sensitive files while out of the office…
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Mining and resources companies lagging on carbon reporting
New research commissioned by IFS shows less than half have implemented an energy efficiency improvement system…
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Simms International opens for business in New Zealand
Former Renaissance MD Paul Johnston tasked with building up the IT distributor and supplier’s new local operation…
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Growth in PC shipments hits seven-year high
Gartner says all regions around the world experienced positive shipment results during the final quarter of last year…
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Hacking: the new form of organised crime
The ‘industrialisation’ of hacking by criminal cartels is the new decade’s greatest security threat, according to Imperva…
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Settlements from illegal software use top $300,000
Piracy watchdog the Business Software Alliance reveals what it calls “the real cost of using illegal or pirated software”…
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Unisys predicts a ‘biometrics boom’ in 2010
While organisations go on the offensive to protect data, advances in surveillance systems and continued Trojan attacks are also on the horizon…
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Gen-i launches cloud strategy and services
ICT services provider gears up to tap into the growing Australasian market for cloud computing solutions…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q1 2010
iStart’s monthly summary of news and deals affecting New Zealand’s enterprise ICT market, compiled by Simon Hendery – iStart News Editor…
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Gartner predicts strong growth for open-source BI
Open-source business intelligence tools production deployments picked to grow five-fold through 2012…
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Fujitsu wins five year services deal with Meridian
Electricity generator says new converged operating and delivery model will major benefits, including significant cost reductions…
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‘Please sir, can I have some more productivity…?’
GM of leading NZ mobile solutions provider Mobico, Aldas Palubinskas, is passionate about productivity. He discusses how leading NZ businesses can achieve real world productivity gains and how they can get the dickens out of their day…
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DFAT awards ICT service desk contract to Fujitsu
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade seeks to transform the way services are provided to over 6,000 DFAT and supported Government agency staff around the world…
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40 percent of Australians check work emails whilst on holiday
More than a quarter of holidaying workers pack a laptop specifically to check work messages…
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IT job market tipped to improve
2010 will be a better year for technology job seekers, says recruitment specialist…
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IT job market tipped to improve
2010 will be a better year for technology job seekers, but the pick-up in New Zealand is likely to lag behind Australia, says recruitment specialist…
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New Zealand Defence Force awards Gen-i major licensing contract
Appointment as Microsoft and other software licensing management partner extends Gen-i’s existing relationship with NZDF…
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Microsoft releases Office 2010
The latest beta versions of SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight 4 can also be downloaded for a complimentary test…
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Switched on CEO: Surf’s (Still) Up! Stephen Kay, Rip Curl
As it approaches its 40th birthday, iconic Aussie surf brand Rip Curl is in the midst of a technology and systems overhaul designed to deliver consistency and give its management team state-of-the-art decision making tools…
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Medicare re-signs with IBM
One-year extension of IT infrastructure services contract valued at $70 million…
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Australian Unified Communications Services Market tops $600m
Research firm Frost & Sullivan says cost saving technologies are driving demand for UC…
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Power of collaboration driving SME interest in unified comms
Hosted IP telephony is on the rise, says Ovum, and this will help fuel SME demand for software-based collaboration tools…
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Survey shows ‘workforce planning’ is on most companies’ to-do list
Despite tough economic times, almost half of businesses expect to spend more on WFP next year…
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GeoSmart launches online route optimisation solution
The mapping company’s new software-as-a-service Route²GO solution is being promoted as a way for smaller businesses to save travel costs and time…
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Poll finds local businesses switching on to video communications
40% of New Zealand companies have invested in VC over the past year and almost half plan desktop implementations within five years…
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Hornsby Shire Council deploys Interactive Intelligence comms solution
Software-based IP solution has allowed the council to integrate communications across 20 sites and reduce its ongoing telecommunications costs…
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Lion Nathan optimises logistics operation with Infor
Brewer focused on cutting complexity, increasing planning visibility and speeding up innovation…
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NetSuite adds ‘social intelligence’ to business software
Vendor says its InsideView for NetSuite application is the first to bring social media insights directly to its CRM and ERP solutions…
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IDBS expands Australian presence
Vendor will use its local centre to provide sales, support and training for its research data management and analytics solutions…
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‘Human error’ causing more business data disasters
Data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack says human error is responsible for an increasing number of incoming enterprise data recovery requests…
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Organisations urged to start planning for Windows 7 migration immediately
FrontRange Solutions outlines four-stage plan to ease the pressure of switching to the new operating system…
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Most companies survive GFC without cutting IT staff
IDC survey finds that to survive the global financial crisis, firms have trimmed admin, operations and ICT budgets rather than making IT staff redundant…
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IMS Payroll launches online module
Major local payroll software provider adds web-based data entry and processing capabilities…
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Cortell shines at IBM Business Partner Awards
BI specialist picks up the Supreme Business Partner of the Year award for its deployment of a Cognos TM1 solution for burger chain Wendy’s…
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Is Facebook worth it for business?
Facebook hasn’t had much success with its advertising efforts so far, now it’s hoping that brand-oriented company Facebook pages will prove a winner…
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Beefeater CEO, Craig McKell: Beefing up BeefEater for the social networking age
Turning the blokey ‘mates’ barbecue and oven-maker into a company whose products appeal to the whole market – including women – is the aim of the iconic company’s new CEO…
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Warning to BlackBerry Users: Beware the PhoneSnoop
Could your competitors be listening in on your business calls? A simple BlackBerry app makes corporate espionage easy – at least in theory…
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IT Spending Survives the Global Recession
Survey finds CFOs are demanding efficiency gains and cost savings from IT initiatives, and modifying existing systems is often the preferred option…
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Humes signs Infor to support plant growth
As it builds a new state-of-the-art plant, New Zealand’s largest pipeline systems supplier is focused on improving planning processes and reducing stock levels…
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Virtual Computer expands into Australia
Virtualisation vendor partners with resellers to grow its presence in the Asia-Pacific region…
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Leighton Contractors extends managed print services contract with HP
Construction company says partnership with HP has already reduced costs and improved staff productivity…
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q4 2009
iStart’s monthly summary of news and deals affecting New Zealand’s enterprise ICT market, compiled by iStart News Editor Simon Hendery…
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NextWindow selects Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Local optical touch screen exporter is the first company in New Zealand to deploy Oracle’s PLM solution…
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Pingar debuts kiwi-made enterprise search solution
Local software developer says while half of all searches don’t find the correct answer, it has the solution…
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Local Microsoft partner takes the stage at international SharePoint conference
Intergen’s Chris Auld shares his company’s experience with a global audience ahead of next month’s beta release of SharePoint 2010…
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Kiwi SaaS vendor launches new on-demand CRM tool
ActionStep says its new product – called CRM+ – can help businesses boost sales in a tough market…
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Author-it and Lionbridge launch multilingual content delivery solution
Partnership focused on unified global content lifecycle solution for managing content in multiple languages and formats…
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Stuart Alexander deploys Lawson M3 7.1
Distributor goes live with the latest version of the Lawson ERP application, including Lawson Smart Office…
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Melbourne Airport develops 20-year ICT infrastructure plan
Far-reaching strategy focused on identifying how to consolidate ICT services across tenants and airlines in order to reduce the cost of operating at the airport…
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Two-thirds of businesses planning Windows 7 deployment within a year
Australian survey finds waiting for Service Pack 1 is a thing of the past but uncertainty remains regarding deployment strategy…
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Rio Tinto picks Open Text Web Solutions
Mining giant needed a centrally-managed hub solution to deliver brand consistency across its portfolio of more than 80 websites…
read more...Queensland Government departments select Sword Ciboodle
Product’s ability to deliver high quality customer service over multiple channels cited as a key factor in decision…
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One in three Australian organisations already embracing web 2.0
Survey finds only 7% have decided against deploying the technology in the foreseeable future…
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Sinclair Knight Merz implements Organice to manage project documentation
Sydney-headquartered international engineering firm needed an integrated tool to share everything from CAD drawings to emails…
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Department of Immigration and Citizenship extends Unisys contract
Next phase of $50m outsourced desktop services deal will see server numbers cut from 107 to 8 through a virtualisation project…
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“Context-aware computing” tipped as the next business advantage
Gartner says within six years, context will be as influential in mobile consumer services and relationships as search engines are to the web…
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Dickinson on BPM – What’s all the fuss about?
Greentree chief executive Peter Dickinson talks about how business process management can be a key tool in driving exceptional company performance – and the top ten BPM realities…
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Organisations boosting investment in IT security strategies
Enterprises say they are planning to invest in IT security audits, data loss prevention, and consulting…
read more...Charlie Chidiac swaps Symantec for Websense
Technical support veteran now overseeing Websense’s Asia Pacific technical account managers…
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Macquarie Generation rolls out SAP mobile applications
Australia’s largest electricity generator looks to streamline business processes by mobilising SAP Maintenance Inventory on handheld devices…
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Businesses see enterprise web 2.0 as a must-have
Wikis, blogs, collaborative document management and Twitter are the key apps driving enterprise web 2.0 adoption…
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Punk legend Iggy Pop fronts for Orcon
Local telco’s latest promotion involves the music icon putting a band together – with kiwi talent he meets online…
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Plant & Food Research selects SAP Business Suite
Crown research institute says rapid deployment, and on-time, under-budget delivery adds up to good value…
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Health Corporate Network selects Objective
The WA Department of Health’s corporate shared service centre expects its new EDRMS solution will improve customer service and job accuracy…
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Delfin Lend Lease implements IPscape
Solution enables communities developer to add an SMS channel to its digital communications toolset…
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Motorola launches new rugged industrial mobile computer
Now available in New Zealand, the MC9500-K has a number of new features and improvements including display, data capture and wireless connection enhancements…
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Statistics NZ selects IBM for 2011 Census imaging services
Contract aims to improve quality and accuracy of data captured during the five-yearly national head-count…
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Orcon launches locally-developed cloud computing service
ISP says the service, aimed at SMEs and launched under its iSERVE brand, is a first for New Zealand…
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IT confidence in US bodes well for New Zealand
KPMG says local technology firms will benefit from the new positive economic outlook of American IT companies…
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CourierPost marks birthday with super-fast Kiwi sorting system
The national courier is now 20 years old and still keen to innovate. Its locally developed automated sorting technology has increased parcel-sorting capacity by a whopping 600 percent, it says…
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University of Technology, Sydney Selects IBM Cognos for student management reporting
Having a common reporting platform across the institution will means savings in licence costs, software administration and maintenance for UTS…
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Scott Corporation picks ComOps’ compliance software
Specialist transporter moves to unify and enhance its management of safety, health and environment-related data…
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SA Government extends network contract with Dimension Data
Network management innovation needed to meet the increasing demand placed on South Australia’s ICT infrastructure…
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Survey finds Government ICT managers are greener than most
Fujitsu research examines how Federal Government agencies are responding to the transition to a low carbon economy…
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AXA picks Gen-i for mobility solutions
Insurer has sights set on cost savings and improved productivity as it moves to the new XT mobile network…
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Amway signs mobile deal with Vodafone
Partnership will see Vodafone handsets and services promoted through Amway’s network of independent business owners…
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LogMeIn promises easy, secure remote access
Despite the advent of Google Docs and remote access to email via the web, working remotely remains an issue for many staff…
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Fly Buys jets in its financial reports in style
When financial reporting at Fly Buys operator Loyalty New Zealand outgrew its spreadsheet it needed to be replaced – and Jet Reports provided the answer – and the payback…
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Virgin Blue Group picks Verizon Business for IS support
Airline operator selects Verizon to support its information systems through remote management of core business applications…
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Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE picks SAS sustainability tool
Educational institute believes hands-on teaching with SAS for Sustainability Management suite will equip students with workplace skills now increasingly in demand…
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Australian Air Express selects Blackbay and Motorola
Express freight services provider implements a robust mobile worker solution aimed at enhancing customer experience…
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Vector’s Nigel Bernie appointed SAP User Group chair
Infrastructure company’s IT business systems manager plans to expand the NZSUG’s reach as Business One and SAP BusinessObjects users come onboard…
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Survey finds over half of IT departments fail to deliver value
Importance of ‘service value management’ tipped to grow as lack of real-time metrics aligning IT with business needs continues to frustrate corporates…
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Security concerns keeping businesses out of the cloud
Poll finds corporate concerns about security and data privacy continue to be the major barriers to enterprise adoption of cloud computing…
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Microsoft gifts $1.4m of software to Barnardos
Corporation says its donations to non-profit organisations in New Zealand topped $5.5 million over the past year…
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Improve your business pitch, NZX boss tells IT start-ups
Investors looking to buy into fledgling technology companies want to hear business plans, not product details, says Mark Weldon …
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API Consumer Brands implements Infor Advanced Scheduler
The custodian of Blackmores, Health Basics and other well-known brands expects to increase production capacity by 20 percent with its new solution…
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Agile expands Networks Group
Company appoints Phil Josephs as business development manager responsible for growing its carrier and service provider business…
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Alison keeps the pantry stocked up year round with rolling forecasts
After integrating its manufacturing and demand planning processes Prolife Foods has reduced out-of-stocks and improved planning accuracy – keeping products on shelves and sales on budget…
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Windows Mobile app stores to sell business applications
The forthcoming iTunes-style store will offer downloadable applications aimed at small business as well as the more usual fun consumer apps…
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THRIVE despite the recession with mobile solutions
Current rhetoric is still focused on surviving the recession, but fortunes have been built in bad times. Mobico’s Aldas Palubinskas talks to Johanna Bennett about how business can thrive by focusing on managing the job – with a little help from mobile technology…
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SAP opens new green office in Brisbane
Environmentally sustainable premises become the Asia Pacific headquarters for SAP Research…
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Costa Logistics delivered a $4 million software upgrade
Enhancements to its Manhattan WMS solution give the third party logistics services provider full e-business capability and real-time stock visibility for customers…
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Zintel Acquires Cogent
Communications solutions provider says the $1.9 million deal will broaden its telephony offering…
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Air New Zealand awards telco contract to Gen-i
Global network management services agreement aimed at saving costs and improving technology…
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TechEd gives customers a voice
Unusually, the recent New Zealand Microsoft developer’s conference showcased how six major customers are using technology to leverage business, help babies and more…
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Survey finds local organisations exposed to file recovery risk
Poll of senior ICT decision makers shows Australian and New Zealand organisations require ‘information intervention’ to improve governance processes…
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M2 calls on Axios solution for IT service management
Telecommunications provider selects Axios Systems’ assyst solution to help manage its rapid growth…
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Industry welcomes Queensland Government ICT initiatives
State’s ‘Towards Q2’ strategy aims to improve the management and development of its $29 billion technology industry…
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World-first claim for local online medical alert service
125,000 New Zealander MedicAlert users set to benefit from emergency access to vital medical records…
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IBM and Qantas Sign Project Delivery Agreement
Seven-year services contract aims to bolster airline’s goal of improving business efficiencies…
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Curtin University adopts Microsoft’s cloud email platform
Live@edu roll-out aims to enhance collaborative learning platform for students and increase their technical capabilities…
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Seqwater selects TechnologyOne solutions
Queensland Government water authority opts for an across-the-board solution from one vendor to help integrate and standardise business processes and planning…
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SAP expands University Alliances Program in New Zealand
AUT joins University of Auckland and Waikato University as a third local participant in the ‘hands-on’ software education initiative…
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Open Source Society targets public sector with ‘Remix’ project
New Zealand Open Source Society initiative aims to encourage government agencies to look at open source as a way of cutting desktop computing costs…
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Fonterra moves mobile business to Gen-i
In a significant business win for Telecom’s ICT services business, the dairy giant is shifting more than half of its mobile connections away from Vodafone…
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Symantec donates software to non-profits
Enterprise software available to eligible charities, voluntary and community groups…
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Tasmania Fire Service selects ComOps for risk management reporting
Solution allows TFS to automate safety and hazard reporting, and generate detailed reports to support training and OHS…
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Queensland Prosecutions Office chooses LexisNexis for case management
Lexis Visualfiles promises an integrated case management and research solution to automate workflow and ensure timeliness…
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ASICS keeps finger on the pulse with SAP BusinessObjects
Sportswear firm implements SAP BI 7.0 for reporting and market analysis to support the company’s continued growth…
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Australian PC market shows signs of improvement
Gartner identifies consumers and small business as sectors to lead recovery…
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Super Cheap Auto selects SAP for CRM and BI
Retail group adds to its existing SAP base as it revs up its niche marketing efforts…
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TIBCO Software acquires DataSynapse
$US28 million deal will enhance enterprise solution vendor’s distributed software infrastructure and cloud computing portfolio…
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RYCO Hydraulics picks Lawson ERP
Hydraulics manufacturer and distributor pumps up its technology to a fully integrated, enterprise-wide information system…
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NetSuite luring businesses into the cloud with “Cash for Clunkers” promotion
Cloud computing vendor offers new customers who ditch legacy software $500 off for every $5,000 they spend…
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Simplot selects IBM business analytics software
Food giant decides the recipe for BI success lies with Cognos 8 BI…
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Kmart selects HP retail publishing solutions
In-store and online service will allow customers to order prints and ‘creative’ photo products…
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Survey finds most companies fail to measure IT’s value
Respondents – including Australian IT professionals – said they can’t be sure what they’re getting from their technology investment…
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Foster’s Group picks Cisco unified communications solution
The drinks giant expects cost savings and increased productivity from its global IP deployment…
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Australian IT security market growing strongly
Despite the economic downturn, Gartner says security spending rose 27.5% last year…
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Hermes picks BlackBay for new mobile communications solution
Real-time mobile worker software will drive efficiencies across the courier company’s business and boost customer service…
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Microsoft releases Dynamics POS 2009
The new solution for retailers is available in five countries, including Australia..
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Two-thirds of consumers fear ID fraud
A survey by Sydney-based research company callcentres.net has found that over two-thirds – 67 percent – of Australians interviewed feared their security details are at risk…
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Green efficiency helps datacentres do more with less, as budgets stagnate
Analyst firm Aperture Research reports that the economic slowdown has had little effect on the demand for IT services. Datacentre managers are looking to energy efficiencies and better use of resources to cope with the demand…
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Taylors Wines MD, Mitchell Taylor – Wine it’s a technical business
The romantic industry is underpinned by several technologies that help ensure quality, consistent vintages. Mitchell Taylor, managing director of Clare Valley tells iStart how the company about the processes that underlie its success…
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Microsoft and Telstra unveil cloud software offerings
Microsoft Online Services now available through the Telstra T-Suite platform…
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Pernod Ricard picks SolveIT Software for planning and scheduling
Wine and spirits company aims to boost productivity across its Australian and New Zealand bottling sites…
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Kiwi telco integrator Agile sets up shop in Australia
Australian industry veteran tapped to head new entrant in enterprise communications market…
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SyteLine streamlines Pacific Doors’ ‘build-to-order’ manufacturing process
Infor’s ERP SyteLine system has made for faster, easier production at the specialist heavy-duty door company, which aims for 85 percent efficiency…
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Frucor MD, Mark Cowsill: The ‘V’ word
One-time apple juicing company Frucor has juiced up its business beyond Just Juice with the aid of ‘V’, MiZone and other innovative products – along with some custom-built technology, and grown to ten times its original size. It is now poised to go global with new Japanese owner Suntory…
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Clunky mobile devices evolve into savvy, elegant tools
Mobile solutions can radically improve business processes, and make and save companies’ big dollars, says mobile solutions specialist Mobico…
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Beyond CRM: Location intelligence
Putting your customers on the map, using the newer GIS and GPS services, will help you find them – and sell the right products to the right people…
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Pimp your smart phone
You’ve got your smart phone and you know there are lots of applications you can download that can really make the most of its capabilities. The question is: which ones are the most useful?
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Google takes the Latitude
Do you have reason to share your location with colleagues or friends, or your boss? If so, then a new free Google Maps add-on could prove very useful…
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Carlton Taylor Industries gets customer satisfaction made to order
The Christchurch metalwork solutions company has integrated disparate operations, nipping production problems in the bud before they get out of control…
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Hollywood studio finds universal appeal in Infor’s business process suite
Universal Studios needed to consolidate all its fragmented financial and business systems on to a common platform…
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Meijer finds the right budgeting and reporting solution with Infor MPC
Grand Rapids, MI-based Meijer, Inc. operates more than 170 retail supercenters consisting of 40+ departments across the midwestern United States…
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Baker & Taylor, Inc.
North Carolina-based Baker & Taylor, Inc. is a global information and entertainment services company that offers books, videos, music, games, and services to libraries, educational institutions, and retailers….
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AppleGrove Restaurants have even more bite now Infor is in the grove
The chain of 100-plus restaurants has streamlined its business processes with the aid of Infor’s PM solution, and now staff are slicing and dicing data at will – giving the business real bite…
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EMDA helps Navico Power along with Infor ERP SyteLine
Nautical electronics supplier Navico is boosting its global ERP capabilities with Infor’s versatile SyteLine solution, and expert assistance from business partner EMDA…
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Oracle buys RuleBurst
Oracle is to acquire Australian-owned RuleBurst Holdings Limited, the parent company of Haley Limited, a provider of policy modelling and automation software for legislative and regulated industries such as public sector, financial services and insurance…
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Improved customer relationship tool gives EcoNova a competitive advantage
The supplier of water recycling and treatment systems has enjoyed greater efficiencies and more powerful partner relationships since deploying NetSuite’s software-as-a-service solution…
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Carbon planet ready to take on the world
NetSuite’s on-demand business operating solution is helping the carbon management company quickly build a distributed global enterprise…
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Accela establishes South Pacific base in Melbourne
Government services software vendor Accela has opened an office in Melbourne to provide a springboard for business development and operations throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia…
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Switched on CFO: Peter Gregg, Qantas
At the heart of the Qantas airline’s success is its constantly evolving IT strategy and Gregg has been the man in the pilot seat when it comes to financing that vital IT investment…
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Infor delivers a Tip Top supply chain solution
Smart demand planning and scheduling solutions have helped the iconic ice cream maker optimise production and lick the expensive issue of raw material wastage…
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SOA? … So What? Bruce Gordon, Infor CTO, explains
Bruce Gordon, chief technology officer of business solutions vendor Infor, says using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework helps his company effectively introduce new capabilities into its software…
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Steel manufacturer finds a cast-iron solution in SAP Business One
Steel and steel building product manufacturer The Apex Group used to require the services of an external programmer to compile reports. SAP Business One has removed that dependency…
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Gidday USA! Tips for doing business in the US
Since he founded Author-it, info entrepreneur Paul Trotter’s unique content management solution has been implemented by over 3000 companies across 50 countries…
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Switched on CIO: Darryl Warren, Lion Nathan
As it looks ahead after its acquisition of Tasmania brewer J. Boag & Son, Lion Nathan’s sales look likely to top $2 billion this financial year. Underpinning all this, as CIO Darryl Warren reveals, is a very diverse IT infrastructure…
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Why Business Process Management?
Business Process Management isn’t just about reducing paper. It allows you to re-engineer processes, achieve operational efficiencies and extend workflows to suppliers and customers, as well as breathing new life into legacy systems…
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Switched on CEO: Ralph Norris, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Two years into his role as CEO and managing director of the Commonwealth Bank, Ralph Norris has used his thorough understanding of IT to drive through massive internal change and turn poor customer service on its head…
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10 ‘must ask’ questions when buying a mid-market ERP solution
As more ERP vendors focus their offerings at mid-tier organisations, the ERP choices available in this sector can be bewildering. Big brand or small, horizontal or vertical, onsite or virtual? For managers looking to either install, replace or upgrade their systems, these 10 questions should be top-of-mind when making this critical ERP selection decision…
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Switched on CEO: Andrew Ferrier, Fonterra
When you are selling to customers in 140 countries you need robust systems to manage day to day operations as well as to stay on top of currency and commodity price fluctuations…
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Jet Reports slays the monster at Faber
At window blinds manufacturer Faber a complex report they called ‘The Monster’ took the IT manager hours to generate. Now the process takes only a few minutes…
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Jet Reports has ScooterBug firing on all cylinders
Botched reports used to be a huge headache for this mobility product provider. Now its report generation is in overdrive…
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Is your website content delivering you results?
Imagine you’re the owner of a successful car dealership but when your customers look at the cars listed on your website they notice that the cars are a month or so old or, even worse, they call you only to find out that that dream car they were looking at sold a week ago?…
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Sam Morgan’s e-Business strategy – an iStart exclusive
He’s now New Zealand’s 700 million dollar man, but six years ago when iStart’s David McNickel interviewed TradeMe founder Sam Morgan, his auction site wasn’t making a cent…
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Greg Muir: The IT thinking behind Pumpkin Patch’s growth
In the first of a regular series of interviews with leading CEOs, iStart caught up with Greg Muir, executive chairman of Pumpkin Patch, to gain his insights on the application of technology in a rapidly growing international business…
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6 ‘must ask’ questions when buying a mid-tier ERP solution
As more ERP vendors focus their offerings at mid-tier organisations, the ERP choices available in this sector can be bewildering. David McNickel asks Greentree’s Peter Dickinson (pictured right) what questions should be top-of-mind for managers when making this critical ERP partner selection decision…
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