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Omnichannel

SAP enterprise omnichannel software available as a service (but not yet in ANZ)

January 27, 2016 | Newsdesk
A new agreement between systems integrator Dimension Data and SAP makes the vendor’s Hybris Commerce available on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis for the first time in APAC… read more...
cashless future

Prepare for a cashless future

January 26, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australians are ready, willing and able to swap ready cash for a digital alternative – and retailers had better prepare their infrastructure for the switch… read more...
smartphone woman

Smartphones and women are underused resources

January 25, 2016 | Beverley Head
Deloitte has released its technology predictions for 2016 – and perhaps most startling is the way that smartphones are being used, but women aren’t… read more...
customer centricity

Five trends which will revolutionise customer experience

January 25, 2016 | Newsdesk
Interactive Intelligence shares its predictions for the five trends set to disrupt customer service… read more...
TechnologyOne cloud

TechnologyOne launches latest cloud, built for scale

January 21, 2016 | Beverley Head
Trialled with early adopters since 2015, listed Australian software and services business TechnologyOne has launched the fifth incarnation of its cloud platform which has been primed for scale… read more...
Continual digitization

Execs and boards must hold nerve on digital

January 20, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian corporate board members and senior executives should hold their nerve in spite of the rocky start to 2016 and focus on continued digitization of their businesses… read more...
security at cisco

Despite ‘shocking’ state of global information security, it’s business as usual

January 20, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Just 45 percent of organisations confident in security posture; attackers launching ‘more sophisticated, bold and resilient campaigns’… read more...
Unit4

Unit4 ups ante for ‘people-centric’ ERP

January 19, 2016 | Beverley Head
Netherlands based ERP provider Unit4 is stepping up activities in Australia and New Zealand, just as it announces an integration with online messaging app Slack… read more...
worldwide IT spend

Worldwide IT spending to grow – but only just

January 19, 2016 | Newsdesk
Just how much will the tech-crazy world blow on IT in 2016? Around US$3.54 trillion… read more...
system security

IT professionals face daunting security KPI

January 18, 2016 | Beverley Head
IT professionals need to prepare for a new KPI that will track their ability to manage system security “dwell time”… read more...
storagecraft

Private equity firm takes stake in StorageCraft

January 15, 2016 | Newsdesk
TA Associates to invest U$187 million in backup and recovery software provider… read more...
sap accenture

SAP and Accenture tighten links

January 14, 2016 | Beverley Head
Accenture, which already has 42,000 staff dedicated to providing SAP services (46 percent of them in the Asia/Pacific/Japan region), has further tightened its links with the German software giant … read more...
Dick Smith

Consumer tech faces rocky start in 2016

January 13, 2016 | Beverley Head
While the New Year kicked off with the annual circus that is the Consumer Electronics Show, revealing gizmos galore, the portents for 2016 in this segment of the tech sector seem more dour… read more...
PC shipments

The PC party is over as worldwide shipments deflate

January 13, 2016 | Newsdesk
Worldwide PC shipments of 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015 are 8.3 percent down the same period in 2014 said Gartner… read more...
Data analytics

Data analytics enters new phase of maturity

January 12, 2016 | Beverley Head
Data analytics is about to get a whole lot more interesting as pioneering companies work out how to empower their business executives without unleashing information anarchy… read more...
Innovation agenda

Government spruiks innovation agenda

January 11, 2016 | Beverley Head
The Federal Government is planning to unveil a campaign that will telegraph to ordinary Australians the importance of innovation to the nation’s future… read more...
santa sack

Santa sacks outdated technology

December 17, 2015 | Beverley Head
Whatever the personal technology lurking under the tree next week – it’s about to get outdated quicksmart… read more...
virtual desktop

Desktop as a service delivers Treasury innovation edge

December 16, 2015 | Beverley Head
Demand for what amounts to “desktop as a service” continues to mount as enterprises look to offer anywhere, any device access to information – while retaining a level of control… read more...
dead unicorn

Dead unicorns on the horizon

December 16, 2015 | Professor Nuno Fernandes
Just as in the Game of Thrones series, the ‘winter is coming’, and with it, so are huge risks to investors and employees of the so called unicorns, writes IMD Professor Nuno Fernandes… read more...
IFS named leader

IFS named a Leader in Gartner’s 2015 ERP Magic Quadrant

December 15, 2015 | Newsdesk
Enterprise applications company named a Leader in Single-Instance ERP for Product Centric Midmarket Companies… read more...

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