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CEOs pin hopes on IT to spur growth

April 24, 2014 | Newsdesk
Since the late 1990s IT has been viewed by CEOs largely as a tool to boost productivity and reduce costs, but in 2014 there is new emphasis on technology being deployed to drive growth… read more...

Business owners warned; keep control of cloud accounts

April 23, 2014 | Newsdesk
A warning bell has been sounded for businesses which allow their accountants or bookkeepers to take out subscriptions to cloud accounting services on their behalf… read more...
office 365

Traction for Office 365, slow grind to Azure

April 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
While Microsoft continues to gain traction for its cloud-based Office 365 – the company grinds on slowly toward opening a local Azure data centre, almost a year after one was first promised… read more...
Australian infrastructure

Infrastructure projects need more data, less concrete says NICTA

April 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s leading IT research organisation has called on major infrastructure projects to invest more time analysing data and less pouring concrete… read more...
Dropbox

Dropbox sets up shop to lure business users

April 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
Claiming its system is already used by 95 percent of Australia’s top 100 listed companies Dropbox has opened an office in Sydney – but has no plans to offer local data hosting… read more...
elderly care

Care Options meets current and future financial management requirements with UXC Eclipse

April 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Selected based on its proven implementation record with similar community services organisations and its strong presence in WA… read more...
Gamification

Enterprises warned not to waste money on gamification

April 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology analyst Gartner has again warned enterprises that while gamification holds enormous promise most current attempts to sway employee or customer behaviour are just a waste of money… read more...
Bank

Enterprise CIOs stamped with five-year use-by date

April 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
Three of Australia’s four major banks have switched CIOs in the last three months – but regular tech-talent turnover is nothing new at the top of the tree… read more...
coca cola

Coca-Cola Amatil spurns SAP data centre in favour of IBM’s

April 10, 2014 | Newsdesk
The soft-drinks company CCA has signed a multi-million dollar five-year deal with IBM which will provide CCA with access to its SAP enterprise software supplied as a cloud service… read more...
Big Data

Pivotal offers try-before-you-buy big data option

April 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australian and New Zealand companies are being offered the chance to access Pivotal’s Singapore-based innovation centre to use agile methods and Pivotal technologies to prototype big data applications… read more...
Iaas Cloud computing

Cloud sprawl may prompt enterprise bill shock

April 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Enterprise appetite for local and global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) continues to mount – but without proper checks and balances businesses are facing bill shock and integration challenges… read more...

Death knell sounds for Microsoft XP

April 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
Microsoft turns off support for Windows XP and Office 2003 next week meaning no more patches, updates or technical support which may spur both security issues and hardware sprees… read more...
SAP data centre

SAP bites bullet with local data centre

April 2, 2014 | Newsdesk
SAP will open its own Sydney-based data centre tomorrow, initially to host SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, but eventually also as the host data centre for its Business ByDesign ERP solution… read more...

Enterprise clients and cloud services drive contact centre sales boom

April 1, 2014 | Newsdesk
Contact centre technology supplier Interactive Intelligence has grown its Australian and New Zealand revenues by an astonishing 66 percent in the last year, with 88 percent of its sales now for cloud-based solutions, as its push into the enterprise sector pays off … read more...
Flamingo

Flamingo aims to put customer service in the pink

March 31, 2014 | Newsdesk
An Australian software start-up has created a relationship management platform that puts the power back in the hands of the consumer as part of a bid to improve customer experience and cut churn… read more...

Mobile payments and digital wallets up the ante

March 27, 2014 |
Enterprises wanting to cement their relationship with consumers need to pay close attention to the rapid-fire developments taking place in the mobile payments and digital wallet space… read more...
Seismic shifts with CIO

Seismic shifts for sector as CIOs struggle to keep pace

March 26, 2014 | Newsdesk
Seven out of ten CIOs will switch vendors in the next two to three years as they struggle to keep pace with both changing technology and sectoral shifts… read more...

Hadoop big data vulnerabilities too often ignored

March 26, 2014 | Newsdesk
As the role of big data grows in the enterprise, organisations are looking to replicate information governance and security practices associated with other mission critical systems… read more...

Apptio begins ANZ push with CIO toolset

March 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
Software has been developed to support enterprise HR, finance, marketing and manufacturing functions but CIOs have tended to rely on spreadsheets to manage IT; the cobbler’s children are shoeless… read more...

CIOs must boost project management skills or risk decline

March 20, 2014 | Newsdesk
A gradual erosion in IT project management skills, which has taken place over the last decade, is now threatening the ability of companies to keep pace with competitors… read more...

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