Discussions about computer security are slowly filtering out of the IT shop and being considered at senior executive and board level – just not fast enough… read more...

It seems that Australians’ love affair with online spending might be cooling with growth slowing and the average purchase dropping to just $41, which is $23 lower than it was three years ago… read more...

As part of a long-term expansion plan, listed Australian software and services business UXC Ltd has bought Keystone Management Solutions which it claims is the region’s largest ServiceNow reseller… read more...

Investment in online marketing is tipped for a sharp increase in 2014 as organisations prepare to spend more on social media, email and mobile campaigns across Australia and New Zealand… read more...

The ANZ Bank has spent $150 million on new digital platforms to support customers and staff and plans to invest up to $100 million annually for another four years… read more...

Hadoop has become a byword for big data projects – and Oracle is keen to exploit that with an online self-assessment tool which it says will help companies determine how “Hadoop-ready” they are… read more...

Companies considering recording and analysing customer conversations could learn from the current spat between Australia and Indonesia over clandestine phone tapping… read more...

Australian enterprises lag their international peers in their enthusiasm for integrating mobile devices with enterprise systems – but not for much longer… read more...

Bill Buckley of BSL, which supplies the machinery used in the manufacture of more than 90 percent of the world’s silicon chips amongst other things, has been honoured by his native New Zealand… read more...

The power and promise of analytics have been showcased at the Dreamforce conference as organisations mature from collecting data to mining it for value… read more...

The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer is improving its omni-channel retailing, replacing its best-of-breed systems with a single environment from Microsoft… read more...

Tens of thousands of Salesforce faithful partied in San Francisco this week serenaded by GreenDay and seduced by Sean Penn – but investors weren’t buying… read more...

Bucking trends set by rival cloud vendors Salesforce will not offer an Australian instance of its services before 2015 at the earliest… read more...

Australian manufacturers are clinging to legacy ERP platforms and failing to keep pace with international rivals in terms of modern technology deployment… read more...

NSW Trade & Investment claims its SAP ByDesign rollout is the largest of its type in the world, servicing 8500 users, and also that it remains on track despite some confusion over SAP’s plans… read more...

Organisations that connect online with their customers need to lift their game in terms of technology refresh rates or risk losing their interest… read more...

Australia will spend $77.2 billion on technology in 2014 – the nation will spend less on mobile devices, but ramp up software investment. For CIOs these statistics paint an interesting digital picture… read more...

A service billed as the first regional network-as-a-service (NaaS) system offering elastic bandwidth for enterprise CIOs has been announced by Pacnet and is scheduled to go live early next year… read more...

A system developed to allow end users in large enterprises to dial up the applications, peripherals, data and services that they need to do their job will be launched in early 2014… read more...

Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has confirmed its offer to switch Australian and New Zealand users of SAP’s Business by Design system to its platform for free for a year… read more...