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Gartner offers top predictions for industry sectors

October 17, 2013 | Newsdesk
Transformative technologies are set to continue to disrupt the enterprise in 2014 and beyond… read more...

Xero plans global expansion but Aussie users remain a priority

October 16, 2013 | Newsdesk
Listed accounting software house Xero has signalled that its $NZ180 million capital raising to fund global expansion won’t diminish its attention to local customers and the new Australian tax platform… read more...

Australian economy prompts ERP cloud migrations

October 15, 2013 | Newsdesk
There is a rising tide of Australian organisations considering migrating their on premises ERP solutions to the cloud in order to free up capital according to listed IT services provider ASG Group… read more...

OzForex float proves Australian appetite for tech stocks

October 15, 2013 | Newsdesk
This month’s successful listing of online foreign exchange company OzForex has demonstrated the local appetite for technology stocks and bodes well for other planned IPOs… read more...

Long wait forecast for easy big data insights

October 10, 2013 | Newsdesk
Companies expecting instant benefits from investment in big data initiatives are likely to be disappointed, but should not delay getting started… read more...

Gartner: Top technology trends you cannot afford to ignore

October 10, 2013 | Newsdesk
Gartner has published its annual list of the top strategic technology trends, which includes software-defined anything (SDx), 3D printing, mobile apps, cloud/client architecture, hybrid cloud and IT-as-service-broker and smart machines… read more...

Online advertisers must play the generation game

October 9, 2013 | Newsdesk
The Australian online advertising market was worth A$3.6 billion last year – and thanks to new research from Roy Morgan it’s now clear exactly who that advertising is reaching… read more...

Testing budgets surge, Agile becomes the norm

October 8, 2013 | Newsdesk
A new study shows testing and quality assurance spending has significantly increased, accounting for almost a quarter of the IT budget… read more...

Law firm partner buy-in a challenge for CIOs

October 8, 2013 | Newsdesk
The leaders of Australia’s law firms are playing ostrich when it comes to IT, with many keeping their head in the sand over the technology investment needed to thrive in the future… read more...

BYOD drives shift to per-user billing

October 3, 2013 | Newsdesk
A new pricing model is being offered that takes into account the growing appetite for BYOD which will see users having more than six devices each by 2020… read more...

How to get customers to share more good than bad and ugly

October 2, 2013 | Newsdesk
Predictive analytics embedded in a new suite of apps helps to encourage consumers to share more of their positive insights about products and services through social networks… read more...
Rugby on rails

Australian cloud targets Ruby on Rails developers

October 1, 2013 | Newsdesk
Ninefold, the Macquarie Telecom owned cloud services provider, has launched a platform-as-a-service offering for Ruby on Rails developers and kicked off a major push into the US market… read more...

CIOs lose control of the enterprise IT budget

October 1, 2013 | Newsdesk
A recent report from Forrester Research reveals that chief information officers are losing their grip on enterprise IT budgets with line-of-business managers taking up the slack… read more...
Oracle 2013

Ellison snubs Oracle World to go sailing

September 27, 2013 | Newsdesk
Despite the Oracle world conference currently being held in San Francisco, iStart’s source on the ground says founder and CEO Larry Ellison seems to have his mind firmly on his other pet project… read more...

NSW revamps $2billion ICT spending

September 26, 2013 | Newsdesk
New South Wales this week provided an update on its 15 month-old ICT Strategy and additional details about how ICT vendors can interact with the State which currently spends $2 billion on ICT each year… read more...

Smartphone app disrupts market research

September 25, 2013 | Newsdesk
A free smartphone app with the potential to significantly disrupt market research – and provide a cash fillip for charities at the same time – has been released by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers… read more...

Professional services giant Deloitte swigs own medicine

September 24, 2013 | Newsdesk
Professional services giant Deloitte continues to prepare itself for the digital disruption that it warned would impact just about every sector of the Australian economy over the next five years… read more...

Gartner: SAP an ERP leader but Epicor a visionary

September 23, 2013 | Newsdesk
The SAP Business All-in-one solution remains squarely in Gartner’s ERP Magic Quadrant ‘leaders’ category while Epicor ERP maintains its ‘visionary’ status for the fourth consecutive year… read more...

Safety app and talent management secure gong

September 19, 2013 | Newsdesk
Staging Connections has over 1000 employees who set up events from boardroom meetings to massive conferences – it also has an award winning health and safety app to protect them… read more...

BNZ device turns smartphones into payment terminals

September 19, 2013 | Newsdesk
BNZ has partnered with Australian developer Mint Wireless to launch PayClip a device that transforms smartphones into mobile payment machines to solve the problem of cash flow for SMBs. read more...

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