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Adobe leads but faces two pronged threat

July 30, 2015 | Beverley Head
Adobe has taken the lead in the supply of digital marketing platforms – but it’s already under threat, particularly from Oracle and Salesforce… read more...
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Tablet sales join PC doldrums

July 30, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Turns out there isn’t a tablet for the hangover which comes after the PC party… read more...
gamification

Gamification company talks cloud, delivers less

July 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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Post-PC Windows 10 eyes up Internet of Things

July 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
The timing has never been more challenging for the launch of a new version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system… read more...
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Two thirds of IT roles face the chop

July 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
cold shoulder startup

Enterprises warned: double-cross startups at your peril

July 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...

Complexity causing data centre blues? Hyperconvergence to the rescue

July 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
The physical contents of data centres tend to stealthily expand, becoming increasingly difficult to manage… read more...
Data

IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose

July 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?

July 22, 2015 | Beverley Head
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?… read more...
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Technology comes to le Tour de France

July 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
198 riders form mesh network broadcasting data to the world… read more...
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Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target

July 21, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
australia post shipit

Australia Post looks to NZ’s ShipIT for better ecommerce service

July 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Under pressure postal service looks to capitalise on online retail boom… read more...
automated advertising oracle

Data management platforms ‘key to future of programmatic advertising’

July 20, 2015 | Newsdesk
Automated advertising requires a specialised data warehouse… read more...
price war cloud

Cloud costs come down, but there is no price war

July 20, 2015 | Newsdesk
On-demand cloud pricing has fallen 2.25 percent, while the cost for customers that commit has dropped 12 percent… read more...
cloud bubble burst

Government stats prick cloud bubble

July 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken a very sharp pin to the hyperbole regarding cloud deployment by enterprise Australia… read more...
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Treasurer wants tax and innovation to play nicely

July 17, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
google rules

Enterprise IT ranks, but Google rules

July 16, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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Enterprise cloud works best with feet on the ground

July 15, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Cloud solutions only as good as local support is… read more...
Cloud

AppDynamics gears up for migration to Amazon cloud

July 15, 2015 | Beverley Head
AppDynamics, which monitors applications performance, is updating the platform so that it can be deployed in Amazon’s cloud, potentially also in Australia… read more...

Five signs you need to rethink accounts payable systems

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release
Think your accounts payable systems are automated? Think again… read more...

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