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Gen-i enters Aussie agreement with Telstra

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
The ICT services company is renewing its focus on New Zealand businesses and the Telstra partnership will remove the burden of its Australian clients while offering expanded services… read more...
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Deloitte: Digital disruption widens business winners-to-losers gap

June 24, 2014 | Beverley Head
Deloitte Digital has revisited its landmark Digital Disruption report from 18 months ago and found that in those sectors most impacted by digital change there is a growing gap between the winners and losers… read more...
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Cloud sign-on system ramps up in Australia

June 23, 2014 | Beverley Head
Cloud-based single sign on identity management and authentication service Okta, which costs roughly $2 per user per month to deploy, is ramping up its activities in Australia… read more...

Digital Post halts mail delivery

June 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
From today Digital Post Australia will stop delivering online mail, and users of the service have until the end of July to retrieve any stored documents as the service shuts its doors… read more...

Countdown commences for electronic superannuation

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s SuperStream regime comes into force from 1 July this year which will require superannuation contributions to be sent and received electronically – and business has been warned to get ready… read more...

Microsoft dominates Asia Pacific enterprise applications

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s market for enterprise applications grew by 7.7 percent in 2013, considerably faster than the 6.5 percent growth registered across Asia Pacific, and Microsoft continues to dominate… read more...

SAP cloud lures 46 percent of user base

June 17, 2014 | Newsdesk
There are already 35 million users of SAP cloud services worldwide – but that is likely to prove just the tip of the iceberg according to a new study of 100 of the world’s biggest enterprises… read more...

Salesforce releases developers’ kit for wearables

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk
Software-as-a-service giant Salesforce has released a developers’ kit to support the creation of apps for wearables that can be integrated with Salesforce enterprise applications… read more...
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IDC outlines the tech battlefields of the future

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk
After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process… read more...
Australian Post

Australia Post braces for further digital disruption

June 11, 2014 | Beverley Head
After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process… read more...

IDC forecasts end of IT vendor dinosaurs

June 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology analyst IDC Australia has forecast a “mass extinction event” among technology vendors which fail to transition their business models to cope with what it terms the “third platform”… read more...
internet of things

Market snapshot: internet of things on accelerated growth path

June 9, 2014 | Newsdesk
The ‘internet of things’ has moved beyond the buzz and is forecast to exceed $7 trillion by 2020, according to IDC… read more...

Retailers chase their e-tails

June 9, 2014 | Newsdesk
The retail markets in both Australia and New Zealand are in a state of technology-induced flux even though consumers in both countries still spend less than $7 out of every $100 online… read more...

Cloud video services feed marketers’ needs

June 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
Appetite for video as a marketing tool is starting to drive local demand for video cloud services business Brightcove – and the move is being steered by CMOs with CIOs largely staying out of the picture… read more...
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Gartner: Microsoft /Salesforce partnership “pragmatic”

June 5, 2014 | Newsdesk
Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems… read more...

Capital raising options broaden for ICT sector

June 4, 2014 | Beverley Head
The range of options available to technology companies wanting access to capital just got a little broader with the introduction of a bank-backed corporate bond for NEXTDC… read more...
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Federal Govt shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list

June 4, 2014 | Beverley Head
A further and final 24 suppliers have this week been added to the Federal Government’s pre-approved cloud services list, which can be used for data centre services for contracts up to $80,000… read more...
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Federal Gov’t shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list

June 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
A further and final 24 suppliers have this week been added to the Federal Government’s pre-approved cloud services list, which can be used for data centre services for contracts up to $80,000… read more...

Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

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