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Beverley Head
Where weapons maker meets cupcake baker
Privately held enterprise software company Infor prides itself on providing “the last mile” in ERP solutions, tailored for specific industries… read more...
The price, perils and persistence of cloud computing
When Microsoft’s Australian based cloud solutions went down for an extended period last month, Jason Zander, corporate vice president of Azure, was on holiday… read more...
Student innovators showcase the future
The cloud, smartphones, wearables, augmented reality and Raspberry Pi hold the key to the future of computing – if student innovators are any guide… read more...
SAP identifies Australia’s digital “experience gap”
A survey of 3,000 Australians has uncovered an “experience gap” between the digital experience consumers want and the one they receive… read more...
Adobe leads but faces two pronged threat
Adobe has taken the lead in the supply of digital marketing platforms – but it’s already under threat, particularly from Oracle and Salesforce… read more...
Gamification company talks cloud, delivers less
Getting consumers to behave in a certain way at a certain time is manna for large enterprises, and increasingly gamification is being used by marketers to influence behaviours… read more...
Two thirds of IT roles face the chop
The IT shop floor faces the sort of radical overhaul that factory floors endured two decades ago – and about two thirds of current IT roles will disappear as enterprises disrupt themselves… read more...
Enterprises warned: double-cross startups at your peril
Australian organisations looking to leapfrog the competition by leveraging new companies should treat them with kid gloves or risk being cold-shouldered by the entire startup community… read more...
IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose
Without a radical rethink of enterprise IT, the data that emerges from sensors and consumer focused services will become a burden on the organisation rather than a valuable commodity… read more...
Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?
Adelaide will host Australia’s first on-road trials of driverless cars starting in November – but could driverless cars, which produce around a gigabyte of data a second, clog the internet?… read more...
Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target
CIOs need to reframe their definition of success and how they fund software development – and it’s a particularly big ask for public sector IT professionals… read more...
Government stats prick cloud bubble
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken a very sharp pin to the hyperbole regarding cloud deployment by enterprise Australia… read more...
Treasurer wants tax and innovation to play nicely
The nexus that exists between taxation and enterprise innovation has been broached by the Treasurer, Joe Hockey, who has sent strong signals of looming changes to the nation’s tax regime… read more...
Enterprise IT ranks, but Google rules
When asked to rank their enterprise IT department 77 percent of Australians gave them an A or a B, just 2 percent scored an F… read more...
AppDynamics gears up for migration to Amazon cloud
AppDynamics, which monitors applications performance, is updating the platform so that it can be deployed in Amazon’s cloud, potentially also in Australia… read more...
Mobile payments weave complex payments plans
Thought navigating mobile phone contracts was tricky? There are even more Brobdingnagian challenges for merchants looking for mobile payment solutions… read more...
Fujitsu punts on rising enterprise demand for Chromebooks
Gartner has forecast that there will only be 225,000 Chromebooks sold across the whole of the APAC region this year – but Fujitsu still reckons it’s a market worth a punt… read more...
Technologists turn attention to older Australians
Most Western nations are grappling with the challenges of ageing populations and the impost that will have on their economies and healthcare budgets in particular. Can technology help?… read more...
Tighter APRA controls put a damper on cloud
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has delivered a damning report card on the checks and balances undertaken by regulated entities when moving to the cloud… read more...
Australia appoints digital tsar for five year stint
Paul Shetler has been named chief executive officer of the Government’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) charged with updating the way commonwealth services are delivered… read more...
