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CIOs buy breathing space on IT spending

March 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
NBN in Aussie

NBN Co continues slow steady progress

March 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
Fewer than half of the premises with access to Australia’s national broadband network have yet signed up for the service… read more...

Kathmandu ascends to cloud in pursuit of international growth

March 3, 2015 | Clare Coulson
Today, the outdoors equipment and clothing company has announced that it has taken another step on its journey of international scalability… read more...
Data retention

Metadata debate considers the 39 steps

March 3, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Bank of Queensland

Bank pulls $10 million pin on Salesforce

March 3, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
IoT

Enterprise needs to leadfoot IoT security

February 26, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Aussie start-up story

Australian start-up scene’s health patchy

February 25, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia is slowly going backward in the innovation stakes according to Nicta technology strategist, Dean Economou… read more...

ForgeRock uses RealMe as springboard into the region

February 24, 2015 | Beverley Head
Identity and access management company ForgeRock is eyeing Australian opportunities on the back of its work on the NZ RealMe initiative… read more...

Feds reveal cloud line up – Telstra and Optus miss out

February 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Identity of things

Industry steps up to identity challenge

February 19, 2015 | Beverley Head
In a connected world of people, things and enterprise, effective and efficient identity management and authentication is essential but complex… read more...
big data map and brain

A/NZ uni spinoff targets big data demand

February 18, 2015 | Beverley Head
RoZetta Technology, officially launched this week, is an attempt by 40 Australian and New Zealand universities to commercialise their big data expertise… read more...
Mobile data

Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?

February 17, 2015 | Beverley Head
Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?… read more...
Atlassian IPO

Atlassian edges closer to US IPO

February 17, 2015 | Beverley Head
Sydney-born software business Atlassian has taken a step closer to a US market listing, further beefing up its executive team… read more...
Rams lock horns in battle

MYOB and Xero take battle on the road

February 12, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows… read more...
Person in spotlight

Spotlight shines on safety and security

February 11, 2015 | Beverley Head
Individuals, business, even nation states are facing a rising tide of online security and safety threats prompting a rash of different responses… read more...
Business building blocks

How APIs are building the new enterprise

February 10, 2015 | Beverley Head
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”… read more...
therapy time management

Vale RosterLive; hello EmpLive

February 9, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
what is happening boardroom

Half of top bank CIOs report to CEO

February 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
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… read more...
Digital disruption

Disrupt, or be disrupted

February 5, 2015 | Clare Coulson
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… read more...
battlehack 2015

Software coders wooed by hackathons

February 4, 2015 | Beverley Head
Federal and State Governments, Paypal, Braintree, MasterCard and Deloitte are just some of the organisations lining up to run Australian hackathons in 2015… read more...

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