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councils beseiged

Mapping tool offers hope to besieged councils

October 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
crm shopping

How retailers can read customers’ minds to provide better service

October 22, 2015 | Newsdesk
Increasing sales is easier with insight into preferred products, how customers like to shop, and whether they prefer discount or loyalty cards… read more...
purchase funnel

Inbound marketing: (Not yet) All the rage

October 20, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Inbound marketing software vendor HubSpot is pushing an APAC campaign to drive its solutions deeper into what it believes is a willing market… read more...
policy hackathon

Policy hackathon tackles ten top ideas

October 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
digital transformation

CDOs lead the way on digital transformation – for now

October 19, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
retail fraud

SaaS anti-fraud tool for safer etailing

October 19, 2015 | Newsdesk
Retailers gain real time access to risk profiles based on more than 12 years of retail transaction data.. read more...
Data for cash

Customer data is dollars – but many ignore it

October 15, 2015 | Newsdesk
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… read more...
Big Dell Deal

Dell deal top of mind for VMware forum

October 15, 2015 | Beverley Head
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?… read more...
Hardware sales

Economy and dollar send chip sales south

October 14, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
non-cash transactions

Banks and fintechs face technology tsunami

October 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world… read more...
hackathon

Government experiments with policy hackathon

October 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
aussie startups

Sydney stars as startup central

October 8, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Algorithm

CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT

October 7, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid

October 6, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...

Technology One opens wallet, plans expansion

October 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist… read more...
fuji xerox Australia

Fuji Xerox Australia takes on technology transformation

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
Establishes IT Services and Enterprise Software division… read more...
uxc dynamics koorb

UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions… read more...
hybrid cloud

Buttonwood smoothes path for hybrid cloud

October 1, 2015 | Beverley Head
Canberra based start-up Buttonwood is putting the finishing touches to its cloud exchange platform designed to bring greater flexibility to hybrid cloud solutions… read more...
future data centre

The future data centre is software-defined

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
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… read more...
IT dollars

CMOs and CIOs tussle over IT dollars and direction

September 30, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...

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