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Smarter retail – the future is (almost) here
With retailers facing increasing labour costs, tighter margins and more demanding customers, the right technology can be the difference between failure and success… read more...
‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down
There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’… read more...
Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform… read more...
Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not
Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs… read more...
Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders
Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players… read more...
New data breach notification law: What you need to know
After years of prevarication and dithering, Australian parliament passed laws compelling companies to disclose when they suffer a data breach… read more...
Fulcrum expands into Australia
New Zealand-based data startup Fulcrum launches on both sides of the Tasman, plans to tackle Asia and the US later this year… read more...
Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid
Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t… read more...
BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion
Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt… read more...
M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT… read more...
Comms on a plane: Aircraft keep Ironman competitors on track
Communications systems key to keeping athletes safe sports… read more...
Deloitte + AWS + HANA: It’s all about analytics. And the cloud
Professional services firm Deloitte has formed an AWS cloud shop which it said has 2,500 practitioners globally… read more...
Culture shift needed before transformation
Fear of the machines is real, so focus on people first, then tech… read more...
Strategic partnership heralds AI-driven service automation
For those to whom automation gives the willies, more frightening stuff… read more...
Will HoloLens deliver a competitive edge?
Empired using HoloLens with mining, manufacturing and architecture clients… read more...
Comms to support the less sexy IoT world
While home automation and smart cars battle for the title of the world’s sexiest IoT, rural businesses are pushing forward – if the communications are up to the job… read more...
ANZ spoilt for choice with more cloud options
Oracle expands cloud coverage with PaaS, IaaS… read more...
Vendor management in a volatile world
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a fact of life that make vendor management an ongoing challenge for today’s tech leaders… read more...
Collaboration giants LogMeIn and Citrix GoTo merge
After a six-month courtship, the marriage between Citrix’s GoTo business and LogMeIn has been consummated… read more...
Within five years, organisations will be valued on information portfolios
Just how valuable is information? According to Gartner, by 2021 the answer will become clear… read more...