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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...
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‘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...
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Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform… read more...
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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...
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Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders
Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players… read more...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion
Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt… read more...
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M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT… read more...
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Comms on a plane: Aircraft keep Ironman competitors on track
Communications systems key to keeping athletes safe sports… read more...
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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...
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Culture shift needed before transformation
Fear of the machines is real, so focus on people first, then tech… read more...
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Strategic partnership heralds AI-driven service automation
For those to whom automation gives the willies, more frightening stuff… read more...
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Will HoloLens deliver a competitive edge?
Empired using HoloLens with mining, manufacturing and architecture clients… read more...
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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...
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ANZ spoilt for choice with more cloud options
Oracle expands cloud coverage with PaaS, IaaS… read more...
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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...
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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...
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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...