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Office workspace_hot desk

Collab about more than apps (and potentially less about hot-desks)

March 2, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
It’s clear office workspaces are changing. The days of the private office are behind us, replaced by open-plan offices where people are placed in corrals that often make us feel more like farm animals than workers… read more...
Robots in retail _RFID tags

Smarter retail – the future is (almost) here

March 1, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
With retailers facing increasing labour costs, tighter margins and more demanding customers, the right technology can be the difference between failure and success… read more...
Amazon web services

‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down

March 1, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’… read more...

Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS

February 28, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform… read more...
Oracle_Best tools for job

Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not

February 27, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs… read more...
Gartner magic quadrant bi analytics

Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders

February 24, 2017 | Hayden McCall
Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players… read more...
Data breach

New data breach notification law: What you need to know

February 23, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
After years of prevarication and dithering, Australian parliament passed laws compelling companies to disclose when they suffer a data breach… read more...
fulcrum expands into Australia

Fulcrum expands into Australia

February 23, 2017 | Newsdesk
New Zealand-based data startup Fulcrum launches on both sides of the Tasman, plans to tackle Asia and the US later this year… read more...
smart glasses_wearables

Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid

February 22, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t… read more...
BI and analytics Gartner

BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion

February 21, 2017 | Newsdesk
Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt… read more...
Fusion5 merger with Myriad

M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces

February 21, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT… read more...
Ironman 70.3 Busselton WA

Comms on a plane: Aircraft keep Ironman competitors on track

February 20, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
Communications systems key to keeping athletes safe sports… read more...
Deloitte AWS cloud shop

Deloitte + AWS + HANA: It’s all about analytics. And the cloud

February 20, 2017 | Newsdesk
Professional services firm Deloitte has formed an AWS cloud shop which it said has 2,500 practitioners globally… read more...

Culture shift needed before transformation

February 16, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Fear of the machines is real, so focus on people first, then tech… read more...
Automation_ServiceNow and IBM

Strategic partnership heralds AI-driven service automation

February 15, 2017 | Newsdesk
For those to whom automation gives the willies, more frightening stuff… read more...
Empired using Microsoft hololens

Will HoloLens deliver a competitive edge?

February 15, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
Empired using HoloLens with mining, manufacturing and architecture clients… read more...
Pivotel ecoSphere equipment

Comms to support the less sexy IoT world

February 15, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
While home automation and smart cars battle for the title of the world’s sexiest IoT, rural businesses are pushing forward – if the communications are up to the job… read more...
Oracle cloud options PaaS and IaaS

ANZ spoilt for choice with more cloud options

February 14, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Oracle expands cloud coverage with PaaS, IaaS… read more...
vendor management

Vendor management in a volatile world

February 13, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a fact of life that make vendor management an ongoing challenge for today’s tech leaders… read more...
Citrix goTo and LogmeIn merger

Collaboration giants LogMeIn and Citrix GoTo merge

February 10, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
After a six-month courtship, the marriage between Citrix’s GoTo business and LogMeIn has been consummated… read more...

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