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Unit4 ups ante for ‘people-centric’ ERP
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...
IT professionals face daunting security KPI
IT professionals need to prepare for a new KPI that will track their ability to manage system security “dwell time”… read more...
SAP and Accenture tighten links
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...
Consumer tech faces rocky start in 2016
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...
Data analytics enters new phase of maturity
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...
Government spruiks innovation agenda
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Santa sacks outdated technology
Whatever the personal technology lurking under the tree next week – it’s about to get outdated quicksmart… read more...
Desktop as a service delivers Treasury innovation edge
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...
Oracle takes cloud fight to AWS, Microsoft and Google
Oracle is finalising its plans ahead of launching an infrastructure as a service offering out of a Sydney data centre in the first half of next year… read more...
Enterprise customers prove too big for Apple subsidiary
Organisations seeking to develop mobile custom apps that support just 100 users are about the limit for the FileMaker platform… read more...
Data breach laws pushed out to 2016
Australia has once more pushed out the deadline for its data breach legislation, although it has released an exposure draft available for public comment until March… read more...
NetSuite gees up its global mojo
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has extended the range of countries, currencies, language and tax systems that its OneWorld platform can support… read more...
Australia unleashes $1.1 billion innovation agenda
In a bid to kick start Australia’s innovation engine the Government has unveiled its $1.1 billion Innovation and Science Agenda, replete with 24 separate measures… read more...
Valuation speedbumps then full throttle to the future
A valuation rethink is due on some technology startups – but it will be just a temporary hiccup, with the longer term future for companies in the sector being bright… read more...
Enterprise Australia forms incubator conga line
The trend for enterprise Australia to establish technology investment funds and incubators to piggyback on startup innovation continues – with food technology the latest beneficiary… read more...
Microsoft clambers on innovation bandwagon
Just days out from the anticipated release of Australia’s innovation statement Wyatt Roy has given a big green tick to a Microsoft innovation report filled with its recommendations for the nation… read more...
Tyro takes on big banks for small business
Fintech disruptor Tyro Payments is taking the fight right up to the banks’ front door after receiving a $100 million injection from investors… read more...
CA rallies call for next level Agile – breakout out of the IT silo
Having conquered a decent chunk of the IT profession’s hearts and minds the Agile movement has set its sights on a broader swathe of enterprise professionals as it seeks to achieve ‘next-level Agile’… read more...
App wind tunnel blows right into Australia
Israel’s Perfecto Mobile is finalising arrangements with a local data centre to host an Australian instance of its mobile application testing service… read more...
Tech startups achieve stellar growth rates
Fintech disruptor and online loan provider Prospa has won the Deloitte TechFast 50 for 2015, with a phenomenal 6,971 percent revenue growth rate for the year… read more...