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Clare Coulson
Manufacturing growth takes many forms
Traditionally conservative manufacturers are turning to tech to reinvent themselves says Epicor… read more...
From red to black – Fronde’s ambitious $100 million target
After a NZ$3.35 million loss two years ago and the exit of long-time CEO Ian Clarke, Fronde’s new CEO Anthony Belsham talks company turnaround and his $100 million target… read more...
New CRM fresh on global market
Tired of having to cobble together systems for its sales reps, SaaS business Freshdesk set about creating its own CRM system for ‘high velocity sales teams’… read more...
Dynamics takes to the field
Microsoft’s CRM solution has been extended to handle field services, Rolls Royce on board with deployment… read more...
Estonia brings digital lessons down under
Estonia may seem distant, but it provides lessons in what government digital leadership really looks like… read more...
Veteran ERP company changes its spots
As purchasing power shifts away from the IT department, one business software vendor is launching an unlikely new service to get in front of the people who count… read more...
Digital transformation projects backfire
The insurance industry is counting the cost of digital transformation projects and others could also be at risk… read more...
When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon
Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round… read more...
Greentree Awards put customer implementations under microscope
Awards programmes don’t just give a shiny gong to the winners, they help the host company to identify trends and see where its priorities should lie… read more...
What’s on the tech logistics radar for 2016?
Driverless cars, drones, tube logistics and bionic enhancements – supply chain logistics has got decidedly sci-fi but underlying it all are two key concepts… read more...
Where did you buy your software?
The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now… read more...
Is a smart city really a thing?
The hyping of the IoT by vendors and analysts may be moving to a new phase as city planners compete to be the cleverest… read more...
EDI veteran branches into collaboration
This week the people behind successful EDI service MessageXchange launched a new platform which has piqued the interest of the Australian Government… read more...
Pronto says VC model fails to delight
Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market… read more...
Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP
Microsoft has gone the full cloud monty with the updated Dynamics AX release, local retailer Citta to be among first to hook up… read more...
Deloitte says we must reimagine our core systems
With digital transformation high on many business agendas, legacy systems are often seen as the largest constraint holding the business back. Deloitte’s latest Tech Trends report provides “5 R’s” as a guideline to revitalisation… read more...
Redefining the final frontier
Clare Coulson spoke to rocket man Peter Beck to check on progress and find out what easy access to space means for mankind… read more...
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… read more...
Oracle partner takes on Greentree for mid-tier
Software integrator Ndevr, which describes itself as Australia’s most highly regarded Oracle JD Edwards consulting partner, has signed a strategic partnership with local ERP vendor Greentree… read more...
Agility runs deep, failure runs deeper
IT developers have been refining the process of agile development frameworks for the last two decades. Today a more flexible work method is necessary across the enterprise. Organisations are now beginning to heed the lessons learnt from agile development and apply its principles to other departments. Clare Coulson investigates… read more...