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Telstra acquires Readify

Telstra adds muscle in software and clouds

July 7, 2016 | Beverley Head
Telstra has pushed further into the software and solutions space, acquiring Melbourne based applications development and managed services business Readify… read more...
Digital signature

Digital signatures strip out pen and ink

July 6, 2016 | Beverley Head
The pen and ink signature seems set to be another casualty of the continued race to digital transformation as electronic signatures linked to enterprise software take firm hold… read more...
human and robot interaction

Boundaries blur between robots and real life

July 5, 2016 | Beverley Head
As robots emerge from laboratories and science fiction to take on roles in factories, transport systems, hospitals and households, humans are having to come to terms with them… read more...
Australian parliament 2016

Innovation agenda suffers election wobbles

July 4, 2016 | Beverley Head
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation agenda looks increasingly uncertain following a federal election which failed to deliver a resounding mandate… read more...
Telstra network outages

Telstra spends $250 million on network fix

June 30, 2016 | Beverley Head
After network problems earlier this year, Telstra has announced that it will spend $250 million to attempt to fix the problems… read more...
Ginni Rometty

Cognitive computing heralds new disruptive wave

June 29, 2016 | Beverley Head
IBM boss Ginni Rometty returned to Australia after a two-year absence this week, to put enterprise on notice that the cognitive computing era was underway… read more...

Cloud demand spurs growth for single focus PrimeQ

June 28, 2016 | Beverley Head
Cloud-only consulting business PrimeQ is so confident of demand across Australia and New Zealand that it is planning to double headcount to 100 by the end of the year, and 200 the following year… read more...
Mark Troselj

Oracle and NetSuite lose local heads

June 27, 2016 | Beverley Head
There’s been a changing of the guard in leading technology companies including the Australian subsidiaries of ERP giants Oracle and NetSuite… read more...
Freshdesk CRM

New CRM fresh on global market

June 24, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Tired of having to cobble together systems for its sales reps, SaaS business Freshdesk set about creating its own CRM system for ‘high velocity sales teams’… read more...

Dynamics takes to the field

June 24, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Microsoft’s CRM solution has been extended to handle field services, Rolls Royce on board with deployment… read more...

Workplace security lifts, consumers’ sags

June 23, 2016 | Beverley Head
IT’s warnings about the need for greater vigilance about computer security is paying off – but Australian and New Zealand consumers are still playing fast and loose with their own protection… read more...
No cloud policy

Corporate ‘no-cloud’ policies head for extinction

June 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, says technology analyst Gartner… read more...
Budget 2016

NSW seeks smart state soubriquet

June 22, 2016 | Beverley Head
NSW has unveiled a series of digital and innovation focused investments in this week’s Budget as it tilts for the smarter state soubriquet… read more...
auditing

MyWorkpapers wrests audit from spreadsheet jockeys

June 21, 2016 | Beverley Head
A corporate name change, the soft launch of a collaboration platform for auditors, new audit templates and a UK relaunch have marked a busy three months of the year for MyWorkpapers… read more...
Brian Blau

Personal tech poised to further disrupt enterprise

June 21, 2016 | Beverley Head
Gartner has identified five personal technologies it believes will deliver a fresh wave of disruption to the enterprise and IT operations over the next 5-10 years… read more...
Augmented human

Bottoms up to emerging raft of technologies

June 16, 2016 | Beverley Head
Imagine swiping your left buttock across a terminal to complete a payment; banking giant ANZ has – and it’s just the start of a massive change in the way humans and technology interact… read more...
Software vendor

Veteran ERP company changes its spots

June 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson
As purchasing power shifts away from the IT department, one business software vendor is launching an unlikely new service to get in front of the people who count… read more...
digital experience

Netflix tops the pops in digital experience

June 15, 2016 | Beverley Head
Leading brands have lifted their game as far as consumer digital experience is concerned – but still only three companies fall into the top performing bracket… read more...
NBN rollout by Labor party

NBN plays election ping pong

June 14, 2016 | Beverley Head
Just weeks before Australia heads to the ballot box, the Labor party has announced that if elected 2 million more homes and businesses will get high speed broadband, with more to follow… read more...

Accelerating omnichannel in the public sector

June 14, 2016 | Newsdesk
SAP HQ has appointed local partner UXC Oxygen to build an app to enhance SAP’s public sector solution… read more...

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