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Whitepaper: Five minutes on modern finance midsize edition
Essential steps to consider for ensuring a successful cloud ERP system...
Research & White Papers
ASX/NZX: Tech stock watch
The recent flurry of tech listings across the ASX and NZX has created a liquid market for A/NZ business software stocks. In the first of a regular series, Hayden McCall sets out to keep track of their fortunes...[View as PDF]
Features
Globalisation: you’re standing in it
Technology has long been the driving force behind globalisation. Both have been good to Australia and New Zealand in the past. Now there’s a fear we will be casualties as a new globalisation wave disrupts industries and displaces workers while creating Silicon Valley billionaires. Bill Bennett investigates…
Opinion
The case for honest estimates
Setting out on any project requires getting some idea of the costs and timelines involved – but project management expert Gary Nelson points out that there can be problems with estimates which can scupper projects before they even start...[View as PDF]
Features
Building blocks: The case for a modular approach to technology services
The free availability of an almost infinite range of services on the internet means entrepreneurs can create powerhouses by pulling together composites to fuel their business goals, as Donovan Jackson discovers …
Opinion
Digital disruption: a millennial’s perspective
Technology evangelist, commentator and investor Ben Kepes takes a fresh look at digital disruption through the eyes of his 15-year-old son Yonni Kepes...[View as PDF]
Opinion
Don’t sell technology, satisfy needs
Selling IT solutions might at first blush appear a terribly complex undertaking, but achieving success doesn’t necessarily depend on the technical specifications. Instead, Owen McCall, independent IT consultant, shows that sometimes all that’s required is a firm grasp of what the business really needs…[View as PDF]
Features
Bigger, better, faster, more: Technology takes off in travel
If there is an industry that has had to respond to the impact of technology then travel is it. Donovan Jackson explores how technology is transforming everything from booking flights to catching a taxi and managing travel expenses...
Features
Listen, learn and soar: Big data and the modern marketer
Marketing used to be a one-way conversation but new technologies have given the customer a voice and shifted the balance of power in their favour. Clare Coulson takes a look at the rise of the relevant customer experience...
Opinion
Fuji Xerox appoints Whittaker as Australia MD
Gavin Pollard will oversee the New Zealand business replacing current managing director Neil Whittaker who moves across the Tasman to run the Australian operation…
Research & White Papers
Whitepaper: Disrupt, collapse, transform – The role of cloud computing in industry transformation
In an environment of unprecedented change across industries of all kinds, survival depends on flexibility and adaptability…[View as PDF]
Opinion
Six things to do during and after a Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrade
Ryan Budge, Technical Delivery Manager - Microsoft Dynamics NAV, looks at what you can do during and after your next upgrade to ensure a successful project...
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