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NetSuite reaffirms SAP-switch deal for ANZ users
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...
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Puzzle maker crosses to cloud
Crossword and puzzle publisher Lovatts Media has revamped its business model and migrated to cloud-based systems; IT department was scarcely involved… read more...
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MuleSoft weaves integrated computing fabric
Organisations weaving together computing fabrics out of various cloud services can hit the wall when it comes to successful integration… read more...
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Size no barrier to cloud say start-ups
Recent commentary that infrastructure-as-a-service reaches an economic barrier around the $50,000-a-month mark has been dismissed by Freelancer.com… read more...
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Public cloud and consumer tech white ant IT
Further evidence has been uncovered regarding the potential for the IT department and CIO to become marginalised in terms of strategic technology decision making… read more...
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Telstra revamps culture and software development
Patrick Eltridge, chief information officer of Telstra wants to run the “best IT shop in Asia Pacific” – not to satisfy his vanity, but because it’s a “strategic necessity”… read more...
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Australian enterprises at risk in global mobile race
The relatively slow pace of Agile adoption in Asia Pacific is putting many local enterprises at a competitive disadvantage compared to faster moving global peers… read more...
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New lab offers industry a digital sandpit
Fresh research from Gartner says organisations need to digitalise their operations in order to stay competitive and survive; a new Australian digital sandpit could show them how… read more...
Gartner offers top predictions for industry sectors
Transformative technologies are set to continue to disrupt the enterprise in 2014 and beyond… read more...
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Xero plans global expansion but Aussie users remain a priority
Listed accounting software house Xero has signalled that its $NZ180 million capital raising to fund global expansion won’t diminish its attention to local customers and the new Australian tax platform… read more...
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Australian economy prompts ERP cloud migrations
There is a rising tide of Australian organisations considering migrating their on premises ERP solutions to the cloud in order to free up capital according to listed IT services provider ASG Group… read more...
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OzForex float proves Australian appetite for tech stocks
This month’s successful listing of online foreign exchange company OzForex has demonstrated the local appetite for technology stocks and bodes well for other planned IPOs… read more...
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Long wait forecast for easy big data insights
Companies expecting instant benefits from investment in big data initiatives are likely to be disappointed, but should not delay getting started… read more...
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Gartner: Top technology trends you cannot afford to ignore
Gartner has published its annual list of the top strategic technology trends, which includes software-defined anything (SDx), 3D printing, mobile apps, cloud/client architecture, hybrid cloud and IT-as-service-broker and smart machines… read more...
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Online advertisers must play the generation game
The Australian online advertising market was worth A$3.6 billion last year – and thanks to new research from Roy Morgan it’s now clear exactly who that advertising is reaching… read more...
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Testing budgets surge, Agile becomes the norm
A new study shows testing and quality assurance spending has significantly increased, accounting for almost a quarter of the IT budget… read more...
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Law firm partner buy-in a challenge for CIOs
The leaders of Australia’s law firms are playing ostrich when it comes to IT, with many keeping their head in the sand over the technology investment needed to thrive in the future… read more...
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BYOD drives shift to per-user billing
A new pricing model is being offered that takes into account the growing appetite for BYOD which will see users having more than six devices each by 2020… read more...
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How to get customers to share more good than bad and ugly
Predictive analytics embedded in a new suite of apps helps to encourage consumers to share more of their positive insights about products and services through social networks… read more...
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Australian cloud targets Ruby on Rails developers
Ninefold, the Macquarie Telecom owned cloud services provider, has launched a platform-as-a-service offering for Ruby on Rails developers and kicked off a major push into the US market… read more...