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board marketers

Board-level marketers must embrace data, technology and finance

November 16, 2015 | Newsdesk
Marketers gain a place on the board, credibility and strategic support from director-level peers only if they speak the right language… read more...
tablets and notebooks

Tablets take a chill pill

November 12, 2015 | Beverley Head
A new survey has forecast a surge in demand in Australia for tablet-cum-notebooks – but the overall tablet market is slowing – just in time for the release of the latest iPads and Microsoft’s flagship store… read more...
Australian manufacturers

Australian manufacturers urged to invest to prepare for upswing

November 11, 2015 | Newsdesk
For the first time in more than a year, the Australian manufacturing industry is growing due, in part, to the falling Australian dollar… read more...
Motorola innovation centre

Motorola launches fresh crack at innovation

November 11, 2015 | Beverley Head
There was something of a “groundhog day” feel to the opening of Motorola Solutions’ Melbourne based innovation centre this week despite the room bristling with the latest mobile technology… read more...
Victoria start up fund

Victoria baits tech hook with $60 million fund

November 10, 2015 | Beverley Head
The Victorian State government will launch its $60 million start up fund by the end of the month, bent on attracting more technology companies to the State… read more...
nz post

Canon acquires Converga

November 9, 2015 | Newsdesk
Canon Australia has fully acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum… read more...
Data analytics

Data analytics yet to penetrate product development

November 9, 2015 | Beverley Head
More than seven in ten Australian organisations currently use data analytics to support operations, and while more plan to follow suit, deployment is slated only for certain areas… read more...
digital invaders

Digital invaders identified too little too late

November 6, 2015 | Beverley Head
A growing number of CEOs now recognise that they may not see the competition coming because of the speed of technology fuelled digital invaders… read more...
microsoft linux

Hybrid cloud boost as Microsoft cosies with Red Hat

November 5, 2015 | Newsdesk
Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership to drive hybrid cloud computing… read more...
digital wallet

Smartphone soars as digital wallet demand declines

November 4, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian business should reconsider the way it attempts to reach consumers based on a finer grained understanding of their technology preferences… read more...
Internet of things

The ‘scary’ side of the IoT

November 4, 2015 | Newsdesk
The Internet of Things (IoT) is quietly affecting everyday life for people around the globe – but is there a dark side? Ever merchants of doom, security vendors are on to it… read more...
Ransomware_istart

Ransomware shifts attention to IoT

November 3, 2015 | Beverley Head
A new wave of ransomware looms – and this time it could get very “DieHard”, courtesy of the Internet of Things… read more...
digital government

SAP launches Institute for Digital Government

November 2, 2015 | Newsdesk
Software giant seeks to spur public sector innovation… read more...
Turnball government

Nitro boss urges Government to act faster

November 2, 2015 | Beverley Head
Sam Chandler has a blunt message for Government; your intentions may be good, but you must match them with actions – and fast… read more...
Cybercrime

Focus on perimeter security misses point

October 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
When HP and the Ponemon Institute asked 28 Australian organisations about their experience with cybercrime, they discovered that the average cost of an attack was now $4.9 million… read more...
robots invade contact centres

Robots invade the contact centre

October 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
Artificial intelligence is about to percolate deeper into enterprise contact centres, with machines taking over the simpler consumer interactions… read more...
digital boardroom

Digitising the boardroom: What took you so long?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
While companies have generally focused digitisation efforts on line of business processes, there is one rather significant level to which automation hasn’t yet reached: the boardroom… read more...
HANA Vora software

HANA Vora to stimulate appetite for big data?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
With the launch of a new software product, SAP sets out to help harness big data… read more...
Rise in GDP

ANZ IT spending plays tag with GDP

October 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia’s investment in technology is likely to grow in line with the nation’s expected rise in GDP – while New Zealand’s pace of IT spending growth will be a tad slower in 2016… read more...
mainframe

BMC takes on legacy

October 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
For all the talk of new age computing platforms, the mainframe still plays a major role with almost two thirds of Australian mainframe users planning to grow their use of the platform… read more...

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