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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...
Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network
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
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...
Dam crumbles on chief digital officer appointments
While Australia has proved a laggard in terms of chief digital officer appointments, there are some signals that this may be changing… read more...
Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...
Search for supply chain riches drives SAP
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...
Budget wields tech axe, fails on vision
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
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 still demands careful taxpayer consideration
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...
Salesforce leads in CRM stakes
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...
Executives warn social media has marketing limitations
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...
Cyber-crime galvanizes Cebit
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...
IT managers blast cloud SLAs
Technology executives may buy cloud services, but they have little faith in the service level agreements on offer and almost three in four think cloud companies actively hide problems… read more...
Big banks battle in innovation arms race, encroach on accounting system territory
The big banks’ battle to beat each other in the innovation stakes continues with Commonwealth and Westpac now competing over card-free cash withdrawals, while other innovations are blurring the lines between traditional banking and accounting system roles… read more...
“Perfect storm” fuels encryption appetite
C-suite awareness of data security has soared thanks to Australia’s new privacy regime, ongoing Edward Snowden revelations and Heartbleed, which have combined to whet the appetite for encryption read more...
Cebit kicks off new venue, new line-up
One of the highlights of the region’s information technology calendar kicks off in Sydney next week in a new venue and with a whole new line-up…hopefully… read more...
Tait secures Brisbane Airport contract ahead of G20 summit
The communications company will design, deploy and manage a critical new communications system for the airport, allowing it to focus on its core business… read more...
Predictive analytics cracks down on crime
Listed New Zealand technology company Wynyard is predicting strong Australian demand for its crime analytics platform as it becomes predictive… read more...
Wearables ride wave of demand
RipCurl has unveiled a GPS smartwatch that counts surfers’ waves, calculates their top speeds, and can then sync the information to a smartphone or computer; signaling yet more wearables for the masses… read more...