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Gartner_IDC report tech sales

Tech slowdown begs question ‘Where have all the buyers gone?’

December 12, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Market reports from IDC and Gartner show flat or declining numbers for PC, tablet and smartphone sales… read more...
Bugwolf software testing

Bringing sexy back (to software testing)

December 9, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Scarcely a day goes by when we don’t hear about a critical application flaw that’s led to the election of a madman to a country’s leadership or some other technology catastrophe… read more...
Tech buyers are robots

New tech buyers could include machines

December 9, 2016 | Newsdesk
Vendors need to incorporate new customer types into go-to-market strategies… read more...

Good people (still) hard to find

December 8, 2016 | Newsdesk
Personnel problems highlighted in MYOB Business Monitor… read more...
2017 tech predictions

Kicking the predictors in their crystal balls

December 7, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
December – the time for putting up the Christmas tree, counting down the days till holidays and trying to be nice to your work colleagues at the office party… read more...
Hortonworks Data Platform

Expect more elephants down under

December 7, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Open source big data vendor accelerates activity in Australasia… read more...
Australia 457 visa program

Is the 457 program being exploited?

December 6, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
There is little doubt we have an IT skill shortage, but are skilled workers from overseas entering the country legitimately… read more...
Business intelligence_Yellowfin

Better BI will decimate white collar jobs (but it won’t run your company)

December 5, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Increased access to more data faster than ever before is driving a revolution that is completely changing the nature of business… read more...
Tech predictions for 2017

Crystal balls come out for 2017

December 5, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
It’s that time of year again, so ready yourself for the prognostications of, well, everyone… read more...
Paperless office

Taking a step closer to a paperless world

December 1, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Since I was a boy, I’ve been hearing about the paperless office… read more...
Oracle Cloud ERP project

Wealth manager ditches on prem, accelerates information access

November 30, 2016 | Newsdesk
ClearView’s Oracle Cloud ERP project demonstrates advantages of digitally transformed business… read more...
Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick and the human hacking business

November 29, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Every industry has rockstars. For hackers and infosec, there’s probably no one more famous, or perhaps infamous, than Kevin Mitnick… read more...
Information security_Landesk

Landesk eyes the end-point

November 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Tools vendor sets sights on the sharp bit of information security… read more...
Saas solution FinancialForce

Heat turned up in cloud ERP space

November 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Growing demand, plenty of options for SaaS solutions… read more...
Intelligent avatar BabyX

Intelligent avatar seeks situation vacant

November 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
‘BabyX’ leaves the lab and looks for a job as Soul Machines opens for business… read more...

Entrepreneur announces the ‘as a Service’ we’ve all been waiting for

November 21, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
The industry is changing for the better with ‘beer as a service’… read more...
Satya Nadella_Microsoft NZ Developer Day

Microsoft CEO Nadella doesn’t whelm, he delivers

November 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Redmond’s top man appears at Developer Days down under… read more...
Holocentric platform

Plugging gaps between people, processes and systems

November 17, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
While ‘people, process and systems’ mantra has driven process design and execution for decades, gaps remain… read more...
dropbox

Dropbox pushing into enterprise with improved management and security

November 17, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
Dropbox is probably the most popular file synchronisation service on the planet with 500 million users including half of all the internet users in Australia and New Zealand… read more...
cloud datacentre

Shift to hybrid IT moving but still challenged by on-prem

November 15, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
While the cloud gets all the attention, the reality is businesses simply can’t pick up all of their systems and shift them to a public or private cloud provider in one fell swoop… read more...

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