Clynton Husband, managing director of sapphire Aluminium, talks about how they are using a product configurator in the company’s manufacturing process… read more...

I am an unrepentant fan of the internet of things. Day-ta (or dar-tah, however you may pronounce it), is flooding the world by the petabyte and actually becoming useful thanks to the connectivity of things, the data they collect and ubiquitous cloud computing… [View emag] read more...

Advanced collaboration and mobility in ERP… read more...

Social media expert Tom Skotidas talks to iStart about successful social selling campaigns. read more...

Practical lessons here for anyone looking at how social media can be used to enhance B2B sales performance. read more...

The joint effort between Mazda and Greentree has resulted in a system that is set to become a new model for the automotive industry. read more...

The customer is king. Yes, it sounds clichéd but it’s the truth, and the common theme that ran through the conversations behind this issue. And yet many companies still haven’t learnt the lesson… [View emag] read more...

Charlie Loughnan from Fire Fighting Pacific talking about how the company’s systems handled the emergency response to the Christchurch earthquake. read more...

Griffiths Equipment’s MD Peter Griffiths and head of customer services Todd Walter talk about how they have improved the company’s warehousing operations with integrated mobile picking… read more...

Ryman Health CEO Simon Challies talks about Ryman Health read more...

Holger Schulze has been involved in numerous roles in B2B marketing in the IT industry – he describes himself as taking a “German engineering” approach to B2B marketing… read more...

Paramount Cleaning Services’ finance director Bill Wu explains how a new ERP system has improved workflow at the company… read more...

Several things have happened as I prepare to go to print with this issue which have reconfirmed my belief that technology is an agent of change. Deloitte has just forecast that 10 million wearable computers will be sold this year… [View emag] read more...

Long term competitive success depends for many organisations on smart technologies… read more...

I’m not a speeds ‘n’ feeds person. I don’t get excited by shiny new boxes – well, not the tech sort anyway. When I first began as a technology journalist I was frankly overwhelmed by the thought of having to memorise specifications and feature sets to compare and contrast them. And then I realised, it’s not about the numbers, it’s what you do with them that counts. You have to look at the bigger picture, so in this issue we consider man and his machines… [View emag] read more...

The September 25th webinar “Surviving the customer revolution” provided insight into the new playing field in customer relations… read more...

This ProdCast covers the recent release of the 3D Live product from Greentree. read more...

NZ skiers at Mt Ruapehu are the first to take advantage of a new wireless RFID scanning solution that increases customer convenience, reduces overheads and minimises ski pass fraud… read more...

We are living in interesting times – times that are redefining the world we live in. Today, there is little definition between public and private; companies, governments and criminals alike exploit all they know about us to further their various capitalist, protective and nefarious agendas. [View emag] read more...

Welcome back. A little piece of trivia crossed my desk last week informing me that the first website ever was published just 20 years ago – it’s hard to believe what’s happened since. The site (info.cern.ch) has been resurrected by the scientists at CERN to “preserve some of the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web”. It’s hardly Lest We Forget, but it is a quaint milestone…[View emag] read more...