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Federal Govt shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list

June 4, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
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Federal Gov’t shows appetite for cloud, finalises supplier list

June 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
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

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
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

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
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

May 29, 2014 | Beverley Head
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

May 29, 2014 | Beverley Head
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

May 28, 2014 | Newsdesk
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

May 27, 2014 | Newsdesk
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

May 22, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...

Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network

May 21, 2014 | Beverley Head
Telstra has announced plans to spend $100 million creating a wi-fi network made up of two million hotspots in the next five years – the devil however may yet prove to be in the detail… read more...

Budget slaps down cautious recovery

May 20, 2014 | Beverley Head
Signs of a ramp up in ICT investment thanks to improved business confidence have emerged in the form of increased ICT hiring during the last quarter– but the 2014 Budget could well stomp the optimism… read more...
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Dam crumbles on chief digital officer appointments

May 19, 2014 | Beverley Head
While Australia has proved a laggard in terms of chief digital officer appointments, there are some signals that this may be changing… read more...
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Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities

May 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...
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Search for supply chain riches drives SAP

May 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated… read more...
Australian budget

Budget wields tech axe, fails on vision

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey has handed down a budget intended to slice the deficit, but do little for the nation’s ability to compete in the emerging digital economy… read more...

Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre… read more...
cloud

Cloud still demands careful taxpayer consideration

May 13, 2014 | Newsdesk
The special exemption granted to TechnologyOne by New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) shouldn’t be interpreted as a cloud free-for-all either for Australian or NZ taxpayers… read more...
CRM

Salesforce leads in CRM stakes

May 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Cloud-based customer relationship management specialist Salesforce has grown its share of the global CRM market – even though almost 60 percent of new CRM deployments are still on premise… read more...
Qantas

Executives warn social media has marketing limitations

May 7, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australian airline Qantas runs 50 marketing campaigns a month – and despite senior executive enthusiasm for it, social media marketing isn’t delivering a standout success… read more...
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Cyber-crime galvanizes Cebit

May 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
The rapidly rising cost of cyber-crime and the impact that it is having on Australian businesses has proven a clear focus for the start of the Cebit exhibition and conference in Sydney… read more...

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