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Salesforce rise in market

Salesforce leads, SAP slumps in CRM stakes

May 30, 2016 | Beverley Head
Salesforce is the world’s most popular CRM with SAP ranking second – but in Australia SAP ranks a relatively lowly fourth after sales slumped in 2015. What gives?… read more...
Saas and cloud security

Mind the gap on SaaS security

May 26, 2016 | Beverley Head
The popularity of Software as a Service and cloud solutions may be blinkering some organisations which believe they have also offloaded security worries… read more...
CSC and HP

Digital transformation behind CSC and HPE mega-merger

May 26, 2016 | Newsdesk
Fresh on the heels of its recent takeover of Australasian services company UXC, CSC is looking to merge with Hewlett Packard Enterprise… read more...
Instaclustr

Instaclustr calls Canberra home for Apache Cassandra play

May 25, 2016 | Beverley Head
While the founders of Instacluster live on opposite sides of the Pacific, the “born-global” big data specialist still calls Canberra home … read more...
iiNet customers

Fragile networks slug businesses and consumers

May 24, 2016 | Beverley Head
Five days with Telstra service interruptions and ten hours without email for most of iiNet’s customers – and that’s just in the last week… read more...
cloud ERP

How NetSuite is powering growth in the sweet world of cloud ERP

May 24, 2016 | Newsdesk
Cloud ERP vendor growing rapidly, but no sign of profit… read more...
Manufacturing robots

How manufacturers can compete more effectively

May 24, 2016 | Newsdesk
The manufacturing industry can be slow to take on new technology, but new technology can drive higher customer engagement and growth opportunities… read more...
ebay-virtual shopping

Shopping VR comes to a head

May 23, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian retail giant Myer and eBay have teamed up on a virtual reality department store concept that is delivered direct to shoppers’ heads via their smartphones… read more...
augmented intelligence

Tibco Now: Connected everything, augmented intelligence

May 19, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Optimisation is out, innovation is back as Tibco ramps up focus on solutions for digital transformation… read more...
SAP and microsoft

SAP cosies up to Microsoft Azure

May 19, 2016 | Beverley Head
German software behemoth SAP is once again cosying up to other tech giants in a bid to expand the entire enterprise tech ecosystem and further entrench its market position… read more...
NSW council amalgamation

Process mapping supports forced amalgamation

May 19, 2016 | Beverley Head
New South Wales’ 19 forced council amalgamations could shave months off their merger timetables if they first map business processes… read more...
Disrupt the ERP industry

Unit4 plans to make waves in local market

May 18, 2016 | Newsdesk
Unit4 is setting out to disrupt the ERP industry à la Tesla and Uber, according to Chris Tithof, ANZ channel director for the ERP vendor… read more...
customers and Business Intelligence

Customer experience ‘the new battleground’

May 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
In a world where mass personalisation is the norm, intelligent interactions with customers will define business success… read more...
innovation maze

Navigating the innovation maze

May 18, 2016 | Beverley Head
Bombarded by new technologies ranging from blockchain to the internet of things, 3D printing, artificial intelligence and machine learning – enterprises are looking for guidance through the innovation maze… read more...

Department of No earns its stripes

May 18, 2016 | Beverley Head
The perception that the IT team is the ‘Department of No’ has been confirmed by a new international survey of 630 executives, 80 of whom are based in Australia… read more...
Greentree awards

Greentree Awards put customer implementations under microscope

May 17, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Awards programmes don’t just give a shiny gong to the winners, they help the host company to identify trends and see where its priorities should lie… read more...
Googles driverless car

What’s on the tech logistics radar for 2016?

May 16, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Driverless cars, drones, tube logistics and bionic enhancements – supply chain logistics has got decidedly sci-fi but underlying it all are two key concepts… read more...
Unleashed platform

Unleashed Software raises $3 million funds break-even

May 12, 2016 | Beverley Head
The $3 million funding round that trans-Tasman business Unleashed Software just raised should take it to break-even point – but “something significant” is just 12-15 months away… read more...
Fuji Xerox print services

The printer company which doesn’t print

May 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
How next-gen MPS aligns with and expedites digital transformation… read more...
data breach

Consumers cool over data breaches

May 11, 2016 | Beverley Head
The big bad bogeyman that is mandated data breach notification won’t be that big or bad after all… read more...

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