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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...
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...
CIOs lose control of the enterprise IT budget
A recent report from Forrester Research reveals that chief information officers are losing their grip on enterprise IT budgets with line-of-business managers taking up the slack… read more...
Ellison snubs Oracle World to go sailing
Despite the Oracle world conference currently being held in San Francisco, iStart’s source on the ground says founder and CEO Larry Ellison seems to have his mind firmly on his other pet project… read more...
NSW revamps $2billion ICT spending
New South Wales this week provided an update on its 15 month-old ICT Strategy and additional details about how ICT vendors can interact with the State which currently spends $2 billion on ICT each year… read more...
Smartphone app disrupts market research
A free smartphone app with the potential to significantly disrupt market research – and provide a cash fillip for charities at the same time – has been released by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers… read more...
Professional services giant Deloitte swigs own medicine
Professional services giant Deloitte continues to prepare itself for the digital disruption that it warned would impact just about every sector of the Australian economy over the next five years… read more...
Gartner: SAP an ERP leader but Epicor a visionary
The SAP Business All-in-one solution remains squarely in Gartner’s ERP Magic Quadrant ‘leaders’ category while Epicor ERP maintains its ‘visionary’ status for the fourth consecutive year… read more...
Safety app and talent management secure gong
Staging Connections has over 1000 employees who set up events from boardroom meetings to massive conferences – it also has an award winning health and safety app to protect them… read more...
BNZ device turns smartphones into payment terminals
BNZ has partnered with Australian developer Mint Wireless to launch PayClip a device that transforms smartphones into mobile payment machines to solve the problem of cash flow for SMBs. read more...
Council candidate launches talking campaign billboard
A council candidate is using augmented reality to communicate more directly with his constituents and encourage better voter turnout. read more...
Chief digital officers tipped as key to future business success
Almost half of Australian businesses surveyed already have a chief digital officer but the new role must be better articulated to avoid conflict with existing CIO responsibilities and promote acceptance. read more...
Queensland Government shuns DIY tech in favour of cloud
Industry briefings showcasing the Queensland Government’s new ICT strategy and action plan have confirmed the State’s wholesale move to technology as a service with opportunities for local vendors… read more...
Australia sidesteps science, IT and innovation
The first Abbott Ministry has been announced and is notable for the absence of science, innovation or IT ministers – although there is a strong line-up to lead the nation’s broadband initiative… read more...
Specialist software scorches spreadsheet dominance
Australia will be the springboard for a push into Asia by BlackLine Systems, a financial software company which has carved a niche by tackling jobs many companies traditionally managed using spreadsheets… read more...
Unified communications enters disruptive phase
An as-a-service version of Microsoft’s Lync is being touted as potentially disruptive in terms of the way enterprises tackle unified communications… read more...
Online commerce urged to move to 256-bit encryption
Documents published as a result of leaks by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest Western security agencies have managed to crack internet security systems making https sites vulnerable… read more...
New ‘private’ search engine protects users from big brother
The founder and CEO of Zeekly.com, designed as a safer alternative to the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines, says it is committed to protecting the privacy of its users… read more...
Orica distils global benefits of ITSM cloud platform
By moving to a cloud-based IT service management platform chemicals giant Orica has upgraded its processes to be ITIL compliant, improved services levels, and kept a tight rein on costs… read more...
Aussie big businesses turn to cloud for bigger big data analysis
More than 14,000 Australian organisations currently use Amazon Web Services’ Sydney infrastructure – a growing cohort of them for big data processing… read more...
