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Tech slowdown begs question ‘Where have all the buyers gone?’
Market reports from IDC and Gartner show flat or declining numbers for PC, tablet and smartphone sales… read more...
Bringing sexy back (to software testing)
Scarcely a day goes by when we don’t hear about a critical application flaw that’s led to the election of a madman to a country’s leadership or some other technology catastrophe… read more...
New tech buyers could include machines
Vendors need to incorporate new customer types into go-to-market strategies… read more...
Good people (still) hard to find
Personnel problems highlighted in MYOB Business Monitor… read more...
Kicking the predictors in their crystal balls
December – the time for putting up the Christmas tree, counting down the days till holidays and trying to be nice to your work colleagues at the office party… read more...
Expect more elephants down under
Open source big data vendor accelerates activity in Australasia… read more...
Is the 457 program being exploited?
There is little doubt we have an IT skill shortage, but are skilled workers from overseas entering the country legitimately… read more...
Better BI will decimate white collar jobs (but it won’t run your company)
Increased access to more data faster than ever before is driving a revolution that is completely changing the nature of business… read more...
Crystal balls come out for 2017
It’s that time of year again, so ready yourself for the prognostications of, well, everyone… read more...
Taking a step closer to a paperless world
Since I was a boy, I’ve been hearing about the paperless office… read more...
Wealth manager ditches on prem, accelerates information access
ClearView’s Oracle Cloud ERP project demonstrates advantages of digitally transformed business… read more...
Kevin Mitnick and the human hacking business
Every industry has rockstars. For hackers and infosec, there’s probably no one more famous, or perhaps infamous, than Kevin Mitnick… read more...
Landesk eyes the end-point
Tools vendor sets sights on the sharp bit of information security… read more...
Heat turned up in cloud ERP space
Growing demand, plenty of options for SaaS solutions… read more...
Intelligent avatar seeks situation vacant
‘BabyX’ leaves the lab and looks for a job as Soul Machines opens for business… read more...
Entrepreneur announces the ‘as a Service’ we’ve all been waiting for
The industry is changing for the better with ‘beer as a service’… read more...
Microsoft CEO Nadella doesn’t whelm, he delivers
Redmond’s top man appears at Developer Days down under… read more...
Plugging gaps between people, processes and systems
While ‘people, process and systems’ mantra has driven process design and execution for decades, gaps remain… read more...
Dropbox pushing into enterprise with improved management and security
Dropbox is probably the most popular file synchronisation service on the planet with 500 million users including half of all the internet users in Australia and New Zealand… read more...
Shift to hybrid IT moving but still challenged by on-prem
While the cloud gets all the attention, the reality is businesses simply can’t pick up all of their systems and shift them to a public or private cloud provider in one fell swoop… read more...