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Enterprise boosts spending on business processes

June 2, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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Commbank claims Agile crown

May 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
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”… read more...
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Wearables could break $1 billion barrier

May 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
Chief information officers may have breathing space despite the rise of consumer demand for wearables according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan… read more...
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Retailers face heightened security risk

May 26, 2015 | Beverley Head
Insecure point of sale systems and high staff turnover are rendering A/NZ retailers vulnerable to cyber attack… read more...
Australian taxation

Sharing economy faces tax scrutiny

May 25, 2015 | Beverley Head
Crowdsourcing is in the firing line of the Australian Taxation Office which has people selling time in their cars or homes in its sights… read more...
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Promapp takes aim at flowcharts and Word

May 21, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Cloud, mobiles and IoT

Cloud, mobiles and IoT prompt identity rethink

May 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
Enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing and mobile access are prompting a rethink of approaches to identity and access management… read more...
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Australian start-ups lack financial savvy

May 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
A startling lack of financial savvy among Australia’s start-up community has led software house Intuit to invest in financial education initiatives… read more...
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Businesses fail to fully exploit ERP

May 18, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian enterprises invest millions of dollars each year on ERP platforms – but under-use of the investment is widespread according to recent research… read more...
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Budget targets tech titans, supports start-ups

May 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
After being almost entirely ignored in last year’s Budget, the tech sector this year has a starring role… read more...
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Verint checks callers on black and white list

May 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Gulf between CIO and board

Board veteran admits extent of gulf between CIO and board

May 12, 2015 | Beverley Head
Former Woolworths boss and Fairfax chairman, Roger Corbett, has confirmed the gulf that can exist between IT and the C-suite… read more...
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Government lays out “terrifying” transformation plans

May 11, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2015

May 9, 2015 | Newsdesk
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… read more...
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NetSuite partners with Microsoft, ditches AWS

May 7, 2015 | Hayden McCall
The ERP rivals have announced a partnership that will see NetSuite hosted on Azure and integrated with Office365… read more...
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Leading CIO kicks industry’s cloud claims

May 7, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
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Billabong reveals global NetSuite deal

May 7, 2015 | Hayden McCall
Embattled surf retailer Billabong has announced that it has signed an agreement to roll out the cloud-based ERP solution… read more...
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Light touch required for sharing economy to flourish

May 6, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Canva marketing

Canva enterprise tool targets non-professional designers

May 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Telcos

Google and Facebook on collision course with telcos

May 5, 2015 | Newsdesk
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… read more...

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