Accounting software company Reckon will this month make available its cloud based system Reckon One – but it’s got its work cut out to sell it… read more...

Establishing NBN Co to roll out Australia’s national broadband network was a “spectacularly risky” strategy – the job would have been better left to the private sector… read more...

The accounting software company has announced a number of cloud and mobile product releases and a naming refresh at its 2014 Roadshow but mention of the developer ecosystem was scarce… read more...

The Australian Information Industry Association and Deloitte are among many now arguing for the removal of taxes on employee share option programmes (ESOPs) that are impeding start-ups… read more...

The big guns are out in the accounting software world with Xero, MYOB and Intuit this week ramping up their efforts to build or shore up market share… read more...

The CRM software company has announced its intention to invest in the expansion of its market share in the Asia Pacific region by replicating its successful American model… read more...

The latest IDC MarketScape report for companies which implement Salesforce solutions confirms the rise of a new class of services business which is focused entirely on cloud solutions… read more...

Australia’s new privacy regime comes into force early next month; the clock is ticking down fast for organisations which have been slow to ensure compliance… read more...

The white-anting of chief information officers continues with the rise of a new c-suite executive – the chief data officer… read more...

Telstra, which last year established its start-up accelerator programme muru-D, has revealed the list of ten organisations that will receive six months’ specialist support and a $A40,000 kicker… read more...

While Google Glass and other wearable technologies might still have something of a gimmicky feel about them, they will inevitably percolate the enterprise and CIOs need to be ready… read more...

Technological change is accelerating as are business demands on IT – so how well are IT professionals placed to respond? According to some commentators there’s a “dangerous disconnect” brewing… read more...

Enterprises which exploit multiple data sources and implement systems to instantly identify patterns and act on them are going to secure a hard-to-erode competitive edge… read more...

Australian chief information officers are feeling under even greater pressure than their global peers according to Gartner’s 2014 CIO Agenda… read more...

Monash University manages more than a million web pages – it will also now manage the .monash generic top level domain which CIO Ian Tebbett believes will simplify things for end users… read more...

As enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing mounts, vendor investment is surging from the likes of IBM, Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and Fujitsu as the global cloud land-grab gathers pace… read more...

By March Telstra expects to know whether it has the regulatory green light for the sale of 70 percent of directories business Sensis; it already knows that waiting this long to sell it has cost it billions… read more...

Victoria has set itself a target to achieve 15 percent direct cost reduction by the end of the year by re-using or sharing ICT solutions across different agencies as part of a continued technology overhaul… read more...

Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning but, according to a global survey of more than 2300 CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs, most CIOs do not feel prepared for it… read more...

The company’s North American strategy takes shape with the expansion of its Canadian and USA businesses… read more...