A major international survey of shoppers has found that Australians have apparently succumbed to “frugality fatigue” and are now expecting to spend more online in the coming year… read more...

Digital marketing accounts for almost a third of marketing budgets in Australia with email and search engine optimisation (SEO) investments leading the pack while social network spending is also rising… read more...

Enterprise users of SAP’s HR, payroll and workforce management services are the target for a new service which will support the transition of those applications to the cloud… read more...

Reckon’s journey to the cloud inches along with the company this week showcasing Reckon One, its first home-grown cloud product which will be available in beta from July… read more...

Australia’s Government has dubbed this National Cyber Security Awareness Week in a bid to encourage people to take the issue more seriously – seems we haven’t in the past… read more...

Plans to launch a tool able to integrate content from SAP, Oracle and Salesforce systems with SharePoint social networking plug-in NewsGator are on track for a June release… read more...

The vendors have tapped in to the growing cloud manufacturing trend that will see almost half of all manufacturers using SaaS by 2015… read more...

Ahead of offering its service in Australia the vendor has not named any local clients, but is touting private clouds built on established infrastructure as the key to rapid regional expansion… read more...

A locally hosted instance of Expedia’s cloud-based services will allow Australian airlines, travel and tourist operators to use the company’s smarts to develop richer cost-effective information systems… read more...

By some estimates as many as one in ten of Australia’s IT professionals is a contractor – now a recruitment agency has launched a novel loyalty programme to woo more talent for its clients… read more...

The company is offering a mobile KPI analysis app to wholesale and distribution managers on the go… read more...

Gartner says it expects Australian organisations to spend almost $70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013… read more...

Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has released an updated three-year rollout plan for the National Broadband Network… read more...

The SaaS-based vendor has overtaken industry stalwart SAP in Gartner’s worldwide CRM revenue rankings as organisations of all sizes seek alternatives to legacy applications… read more...

Two weeks after releasing the Coalition’s plans for a National Broadband Network, shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull has published in defence of the policy, a comprehensive list of responses to ‘frequently asked questions’… read more...

Research firm Ovum says that Microsoft has taken steps to simplify its business intelligence (BI) software strategy, centred on Excel, but still has a way to go in particular to address the growing market for mobile BI technology… read more...

The introduction of electronic patient records and myriad devices that monitor patients and upload information is set to transform the healthcare industry… read more...

Human-centered design thinking and approaches are gaining mainstream credence among private sector decision-makers focused on innovation but the concept seems unfamiliar to most CIOs offices in the public sector, says the research firm… read more...

The Coalition’s National Broadband Network plan that envisages retaining copper for the ‘last mile’ has received a boost with the news that ‘vectoring’, the latest technology to increase the data carrying capacity of copper, is rapidly gaining market acceptance… read more...

New research is showing significant return on investment for big data projects and a growing demand for people who can turn data into useful information… read more...