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… read more...

A global shift toward subscription style business models has helped deliver a US$115 million funding kicker to Zuora… read more...

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… read more...

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...

Two HCM technology and healthcare industry experts have combined forces to address the health sector’s specific talent management needs… read more...

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… read more...

Successful marketing in the 21st century requires a fresh approach linking data, mobile platforms and creative but valuable-to-the-consumer campaigns… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

The Australian integrator known as Sable Systems is rebranding to Sable37 and already has some big clients and prospects lined up on our shores… read more...

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...

Fewer than half of the premises with access to Australia’s national broadband network have yet signed up for the service… read more...

Today, the outdoors equipment and clothing company has announced that it has taken another step on its journey of international scalability… read more...

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...

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...

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...

Australia is slowly going backward in the innovation stakes according to Nicta technology strategist, Dean Economou… read more...

Identity and access management company ForgeRock is eyeing Australian opportunities on the back of its work on the NZ RealMe initiative… read more...

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...