Investment in software to support modern business process management will rise 4.4 per cent this year to reach $US.2.7 billion globally according to tech analyst Gartner… read more...

The Commonwealth Bank claims to now have the largest Agile community in the Southern Hemisphere – with its CIO saying it’s ready to “create the future”… read more...

Chief information officers may have breathing space despite the rise of consumer demand for wearables according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan… read more...

Insecure point of sale systems and high staff turnover are rendering A/NZ retailers vulnerable to cyber attack… read more...

Crowdsourcing is in the firing line of the Australian Taxation Office which has people selling time in their cars or homes in its sights… read more...

If spreadsheets and shoe boxes are the nemesis of accounting software, so flowcharts, Word and “trust me” are the mortal enemy of process mapping software… read more...

Enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing and mobile access are prompting a rethink of approaches to identity and access management… read more...

A startling lack of financial savvy among Australia’s start-up community has led software house Intuit to invest in financial education initiatives… read more...

Australian enterprises invest millions of dollars each year on ERP platforms – but under-use of the investment is widespread according to recent research… read more...

After being almost entirely ignored in last year’s Budget, the tech sector this year has a starring role… read more...

CRM customer support and service provider Verint is launching an upgraded platform that can identify callers from their voice alone, and analyse what they are saying and their emotions on the fly… read more...

Former Woolworths boss and Fairfax chairman, Roger Corbett, has confirmed the gulf that can exist between IT and the C-suite… read more...

The acting CEO of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office has admitted to being “just a little terrified” at the Minister’s vision for the organisation… read more...

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships… read more...

The ERP rivals have announced a partnership that will see NetSuite hosted on Azure and integrated with Office365… read more...

One of Australia’s leading chief information officers has delivered a sharp kick to the information technology industry for clinging to old business models at the expense of cloud… read more...

Embattled surf retailer Billabong has announced that it has signed an agreement to roll out the cloud-based ERP solution… read more...

A NSW Government minister yesterday used the opening day of CeBIT to call for light touch regulation of the emergent “sharing economy”, in order to allow peer-to-peer services to flourish… read more...

Online design software house Canva – which already boasts 2.3 million international users for its free version – has seen an opportunity to streamline the marketing design process… read more...

The experts at market intelligence firm Current Analysis say that D-Day is nigh for telcos as over-the-top providers encroach further into the voice market… read more...