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Microsoft dominates Asia Pacific enterprise applications
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
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
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...
IDC outlines the tech battlefields of the future
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...
Australia Post braces for further digital disruption
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
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...
Market snapshot: internet of things on accelerated growth path
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
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
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...
Gartner: Microsoft /Salesforce partnership “pragmatic”
Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems… read more...
Capital raising options broaden for ICT sector
The range of options available to technology companies wanting access to capital just got a little broader with the introduction of a bank-backed corporate bond for NEXTDC… read more...
Federal Govt shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list
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...
Federal Gov’t shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list
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
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
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...
Australian businesses targeted for top-up software bills
A new survey has found that Australian businesses face far more software audits than their international peers – and 87 percent of those audited received top-up bills because of licence problems… read more...
NICTA signs first life-saver deal with Telstra
Just a fortnight after learning it would lose Federal Funding in two years’ time NICTA has signed a deal to work with Telstra on joint research programmes… read more...
CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake
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
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...
Telework popular – but hard to pin down
While the majority of Australasian employees now spend some time working outside of the office there are mixed signals about the level of technical support that they want or receive… read more...