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Empired doubles headcount on revenue surge
West Australia based Empired has upped its revenue forecasts for both the last and current financial year after a boost from acquisitions and new customer deals… read more...
Digital disruption fires up consulting space
Consulting firms are hitching on to the digital disruption train which is hurtling through just about every sector of the Australian economy – including Government… read more...
Bulletproof primes for cloud migration
Listed technology company Bulletproof has launched a cloud focused professional services group that will support enterprise users of cloud from cradle to grave – as long as they use the right cloud… read more...
Australian app aims to close the loop on shopping
A mobile app which will alert shoppers that an item they have browsed online is available in a nearby store is about to be released in Australia… read more...
Mid-market ERP is for masochists says Greentree boss
Creating ERP solutions for mid-market customers is work “for masochists” according to Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson… read more...
Australia passes anti online piracy laws
Rights holders which believe that their copyright is being infringed by offshore pirates will in the future be able have access to that site blocked by Australian internet service providers… read more...
Agile underpins ERP overhaul
Three times the REA Group attempted significant back office projects, and three times it failed because of its complex, customised legacy platform. On the fourth attempt, it turned to Agile methods… read more...
Smaller contact centres lured with A$99 cloud
Interactive Intelligence dangles Amazon Web Services-hosted cloud platform… read more...
RoZetta switches from software to solutions
Sydney based big data business RoZetta Technology will switch its focus from developing software products to more solutions selling as it grapples with capital constraints… read more...
Australia faces new and dangerous ICT skills crisis
Australia will need another 100,000 skilled ICT workers by the end of the decade if the full productivity benefits of technology are to be liberated… read more...
Think procurement cloud signs 7,000 suppliers
A Melbourne-based university is the first user of a cloud based procurement service launched by Think, the brainchild of seek.com.au pioneer Adam Ryan… read more...
The questions to ask before plunging into SaaS
Demand for software as a service continues to rise; according to Cisco, by 2018, 59 percent of all cloud workloads will be SaaS compared to 41 percent in 2013… read more...
Australia experiences post-Christmas handheld slump
A consumer led binge on tablets and phones over the holidays led to an all too predictable sales slump in the first quarter of 2015… read more...
IT execs sit tight with new jobs in short supply
Demand for Australian IT executives slumped by 17 per cent in May, while the overall job trend is slowing across the nation and consumer sentiment has slumped… read more...
Software defined networks still a slow burn in user land
Software defined networks are and will be important, especially as cloud computing gathers pace, but the journey’s only just begun… read more...
Digital businesses must telegraph hygiene policies
With data security, digital enterprises need to determine “acceptable risk” because absolute security is unattainable… read more...
Drupal 8 may lure smaller enterprise users
The impending arrival of Drupal 8 should deliver functions that make the open source content management platform easier to deploy, and potentially suited to smaller organisations… read more...
NSW sheds IT responsibilities, saves A$20m
The NSW State Government has inked a A$215 million deal with Infosys and Unisys to take over ICT services in a deal it says will save A$20 million a year… read more...
Sage finally takes to the cloud
Australia has become the 14th country in the world to be offered access to Sage One, a cloud based small business accounting system which wants to take on Xero and MYOB … read more...
Enterprise boosts spending on business processes
Investment in software to support modern business process management will rise 4.4 per cent this year to reach $US.2.7 billion globally according to tech analyst Gartner… read more...