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Happy birthday Atlassian

Atlassian turns teenage years into gold

March 8, 2016 | Beverley Head
Atlassian turns 14 this month, and now boasts 54,000 customers, 1,400 employees, revenues north of $US320 million and a market capitalisation of around $US5 billion… read more...
SugarCRM

SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition

March 7, 2016 | Newsdesk
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent… read more...
IFS integration

ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear

March 4, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept… read more...

First stand up for Government’s innovation agenda

March 3, 2016 | Beverley Head
The 100 day “anniversary” of Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation statement falls this month, and already questions are being asked about what has really been achieved… read more...
IDC_IOT

IoT will be the only way by 2020

March 3, 2016 | Newsdesk
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time… read more...
CSC-UXC merger

Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger

March 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
Of the 2,500 organisations that CSC and UXC provide services to in this region, there are apparently only about ten where there is any significant overlap… read more...
5g-network

Comms giants ratchet up 5G push

March 1, 2016 | Beverley Head
Once a year the mobilerati gather in Barcelona to sketch the future of communications – this year it was all about Samsung’s new baby and the future offered by 5G – one is really important… read more...
manapouri

Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers

March 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Electricity retailing. It’s not really the sort of business ripe for innovation or differentiation for customers, you say? Well, according to Flick founder and CEO Steve O’Connor you are “wrong”… read more...
MYOB cloud finance

MYOB edges closer to all-cloud business

February 29, 2016 | Beverley Head
Accounting software company MYOB has released its first set of financial results since it relisted on the sharemarket last May… read more...
Internet of Things tech

Gartner’s Top 10 IoT tech predictions

February 29, 2016 | Newsdesk
The global analyst firm has outlined ten technologies that it believes will allow organisations to go full speed ahead with the Internet of Things over the next two years… read more...
Dick Smith

Good bye Dick Smith

February 26, 2016 | Newsdesk
In a statement issued by receivers Ferrier Hodgson, it was today announced that the remaining Dick Smith and Move stores (excluding airport locations) in Australia and New Zealand will close… read more...
data velocity

Data velocity forms flash’s new frontier

February 25, 2016 | Beverley Head
Deakin University is one of the local organisations testing the veracity of the latest tech sector jargon – data velocity… read more...
Collaboration trends

Convict heritage shapes collaboration trends

February 24, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australians’ “convict heritage” could be the reason why employees are leveraging consumer grade collaboration platforms more widely than their international peers… read more...
liberal arts degree

Rejoice, liberal arts student, your career in data analytics awaits

February 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
There’s plenty of hype around analytics and Gartner is tipping this sector of the industry for big things throughout 2016. But just how ready are businesses to take practical advantage of their data stores?… read more...
Innovation rattle

Optus hitches fresh ride on innovation coat tails

February 23, 2016 | Beverley Head
Optus is again shaking its innovation rattle – this time with a programme offering six capital injections of up to $50,000 for ideas that can “change the social landscape” for young Australians… read more...
CDO design

CDOs ‘not aware how to successfully design organisation’ – Gartner

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
The rapid adoption of the chief data officer (CDO) role — from 400 in 2014 to 1,000 in 2015 — raises important questions about the structure and positioning of the office of the CDO in organisations… read more...
NBN

Review recommends NBN Co sell off

February 22, 2016 | Beverley Head
A national infrastructure review has recommended the National Broadband Network Company be privatised “in the medium term” with a multi-billion dollar price tag tipped… read more...
UXC acquisition

CSC’s UXC acquisition a done deal

February 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Global technology solutions company CSC is to complete the acquisition of UXC Limited within the next few weeks… read more...
bank customer service

NAB and Oracle deliver faster personal loans

February 18, 2016 | Beverley Head
In the past, when customers approached NAB for a personal loan, it took the bank around 12 days to respond – a new software platform now means they could win approvals in one day… read more...
ancient data storage

Ancient data storage costs corporates cash

February 17, 2016 | Beverley Head
An exploration of the data files kept by 100 global companies has revealed that two in five data files hasn’t been used in three years, and 12 per cent has lain fallow for seven… read more...

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