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Digital Post halts mail delivery

June 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
From today Digital Post Australia will stop delivering online mail, and users of the service have until the end of July to retrieve any stored documents as the service shuts its doors… read more...

Countdown commences for electronic superannuation

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s SuperStream regime comes into force from 1 July this year which will require superannuation contributions to be sent and received electronically – and business has been warned to get ready… read more...

Microsoft dominates Asia Pacific enterprise applications

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s market for enterprise applications grew by 7.7 percent in 2013, considerably faster than the 6.5 percent growth registered across Asia Pacific, and Microsoft continues to dominate… read more...

SAP cloud lures 46 percent of user base

June 17, 2014 | Newsdesk
There are already 35 million users of SAP cloud services worldwide – but that is likely to prove just the tip of the iceberg according to a new study of 100 of the world’s biggest enterprises… read more...

Salesforce releases developers’ kit for wearables

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk
Software-as-a-service giant Salesforce has released a developers’ kit to support the creation of apps for wearables that can be integrated with Salesforce enterprise applications… read more...
CIO summit

IDC outlines the tech battlefields of the future

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk
After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process… read more...

IDC forecasts end of IT vendor dinosaurs

June 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology analyst IDC Australia has forecast a “mass extinction event” among technology vendors which fail to transition their business models to cope with what it terms the “third platform”… read more...
internet of things

Market snapshot: internet of things on accelerated growth path

June 9, 2014 | Newsdesk
The ‘internet of things’ has moved beyond the buzz and is forecast to exceed $7 trillion by 2020, according to IDC… read more...

Retailers chase their e-tails

June 9, 2014 | Newsdesk
The retail markets in both Australia and New Zealand are in a state of technology-induced flux even though consumers in both countries still spend less than $7 out of every $100 online… read more...

Cloud video services feed marketers’ needs

June 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
Appetite for video as a marketing tool is starting to drive local demand for video cloud services business Brightcove – and the move is being steered by CMOs with CIOs largely staying out of the picture… read more...
microsoft and salesforce

Gartner: Microsoft /Salesforce partnership “pragmatic”

June 5, 2014 | Newsdesk
Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems… read more...
federal govt cloud

Federal Gov’t shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list

June 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
A further and final 24 suppliers have this week been added to the Federal Government’s pre-approved cloud services list, which can be used for data centre services for contracts up to $80,000… read more...

Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake

May 28, 2014 | Newsdesk
Chief marketing officers and chief information officers need to come to a compromise about technology risk or lose the attention and interest of their customers… read more...

BI fans swim in for Yellowfin forum

May 27, 2014 | Newsdesk
More than 170 international users of Yellowfin’s business intelligence platforms gathered in Melbourne this week – but next year the Australia-based company plans to take its events global… read more...
zach nelson

Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities

May 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...
computer sales

Search for supply chain riches drives SAP

May 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated… read more...
Australian budget

Budget wields tech axe, fails on vision

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey has handed down a budget intended to slice the deficit, but do little for the nation’s ability to compete in the emerging digital economy… read more...

Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre… read more...

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