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Scarcity of data quality, standards and skills stalls big data
Poor data quality, lack of standards and access to skills are still being blamed for holding back enterprise progress with regard to big data projects… read more...
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Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda
The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it… read more...
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Privacy commissioner Bashes enterprise software
Australia’s privacy commissioner has weighed into the Shellshock computer vulnerability issue to remind local enterprises that they must keep on top of computer and data security… read more...
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Australia passes Orwellian web-trawl laws
As part of a bid to tamp down terrorist activities Australia has passed legislation which will allow sweeping searches of the internet using a single warrant… read more...
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Australian biometrics pin down US offenders
Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications… read more...
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Report debunks semblance of big data progress in business
Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue… read more...
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BMC launches patent salvo against ServiceNow
A legal war has been launched by BMC Software against fast growing cloud based rival ServiceNow with BMC claiming seven of its IT systems management patents have been infringed… read more...
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Goodbye InternetMana, hello an ICT policy agenda
At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...
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Cloud environment best for software/UX testing
Cloud computing has boosted the ability of organisations to test their systems for extreme loads in order to guard against embarrassing and potentially costly crashes… read more...
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Careful, they might hear you
There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer… read more...
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Unleashed seeks sales and skills in US/UK
New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy… read more...
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Appetite piques for streamlined tax reporting
Australian businesses are starting to tangle more seriously with the notion of standard business reporting, which in the future will allow more streamlined tax and compliance reporting… read more...
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Is Alibaba IPO a threat to Amazon, eBay?
Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record… read more...
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The six steps of Agile testing
Agile development shops need to take a fresh approach to software testing and measure the success of software development according to a team’s ability to deliver what is expected by the business… read more...
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Family homes become the latest IoT battleground
In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1… read more...
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ERP systems miss the reconciliation mark
Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task… read more...
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Atlassian feathers the financial nest
Sydney-based software company Atlassian chose to release strong financial results that position the company well for any future share market listing during its Silicon Valley user summit this month… read more...
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How technology trends are helping Life Sciences
The experts at UXC Eclipse say there are a number of technologies that are driving the Life Sciences market forward… read more...
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Apple seeks slice of payments market
The launch of Apple Pay, which will turn the new iPhone6 and Apple Watch into tap-and-go digital wallets, can’t take place in A/NZ before 2015 because part of the security framework is missing… read more...
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Government signals crack down on tax/price rorts
Australia’s Treasurer has signalled his intent to ensure overseas technology companies pay their fair share of tax, and also are stopped from price gouging local consumers… read more...