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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...
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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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Recruiter seeks regional tech superstars

March 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
Recruitment company Talent International is planning to roll out the red carpet for the region’s technology superstars and has enlisted Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak to help… read more...

Why it pays to boost customer service

March 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
People will pay up to 14 percent more for what they perceive as goods or services supported by good customer service – it’s why companies are scurrying to trumpet their success in the field… read more...
Survival mode

Productivity report shows Australian decline, avoids technology

March 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
While a new report into Australia’s productivity challenge makes scarcely a mention about technology, one of its authors has said that the NBN holds the key to unleashing immense productivity benefits… read more...
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Technology and customers key to corporate strategy in digital age

March 13, 2014 | Newsdesk
While technology’s importance has risen significantly in the eyes of the CEO in the last 10 years, CEOs in Australia are lagging when it comes to the importance they place on customer influence… read more...
Race to fill BI gap

Gartner: race is on to fill gap in BI market

March 13, 2014 | Newsdesk
Data discovery capabilities are dominating new BI and analytics purchasing requirements, but ‘governed data discovery’ remains a challenge unmet by any one vendor… read more...

CIOs must focus on the customer, says Forrester

March 12, 2014 | Newsdesk
New research shows CIOs are too focused on back-end systems rather than the customer and need to manage the balance better… read more...

NBN audit: wise move or witch hunt?

March 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
The Coalition Government has announced it has begun a probe into the history of Labor’s NBN… read more...

AIIA maps out the route to Australia’s digital future

March 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has produced a set of policy priorities for 2014 designed to boost the country’s ICT industry and its contribution to the economy… read more...

Telstra wants foreign ownership limits lifted

March 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
Telstra has joined another former Australian government owned carrier, Qantas, in calling for its foreign ownership limits to be removed… read more...

Data centres sprouting in Australia

March 5, 2014 | Newsdesk
The data centre industry in Australia is booming with three major new data centres announced in the space of a week… read more...

Bandwidth on demand a new business reality

March 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
The new technology of software defined networking is already providing real benefits to organisations, with two networking companies – Pacnet and Megaport – employing the technology to enable organisations to ‘dial up’ high capacity links between data centres by the hour, the day or longer… read more...
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CIOs should act like venture capitalists

March 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
Deloitte has identified five possible disruptors likely to have an impact on organisations over the next 18 to 24 months. Topping the list is the CIO as venture capitalist… read more...

Internet of things comes of age

February 27, 2014 | Newsdesk
When Google bought Nest Labs for $US3.2 billion in cash last month it sent a clear signal that the ‘internet of things’ was probably more important than a candidate for buzzword bingo… read more...
Australian mining

Swedish ERP mines rich seams in ANZ

February 26, 2014 | Newsdesk
Mining and construction businesses in Western Australia have driven sales at specialist ERP vendor IFS over the last 12 months, but the company is now seeing a spike in New Zealand activity as the economy picks up… read more...

Look at clouds from both sides now

February 25, 2014 | Newsdesk
Companies are failing to exploit the full value of cloud computing by signing up for contracts which simply provide facsimiles of their on-premise solutions… read more...

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