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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...
digital transformation projects

Digital transformation projects backfire

June 14, 2016 | Clare Coulson
The insurance industry is counting the cost of digital transformation projects and others could also be at risk… read more...
fintechs

ASIC wants fintechs to play nice in the sandbox

June 13, 2016 | Beverley Head
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has outlined its plans to allow local fintechs to test a new product without the need for a financial services licence… read more...

Enterprises play catch up with IoT

June 9, 2016 | Beverley Head
Enterprises are still playing catch up to the possibilities of the Internet of Things… read more...
Amazon cloud outages

Cloud demands belt and braces

June 7, 2016 | Beverley Head
Confirmation that cloud users need a belt and braces approach to business continuity was delivered over the weekend with a high profile AWS outage… read more...
Cloud risk

Pegasystems CEO warns enterprise of cloud risk

June 7, 2016 | Beverley Head
Pegasystems’ founder and CEO Alan Trefler has some harsh words for enterprises which slavishly adopt cloud based solutions… read more...
Skyfii network

Free WiFi sees Skyfii aim sky high

June 6, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian listed business Skyfii, which deploys opt in WiFi in public areas, collects customer data and sells it to local businesses, is making a push into the US and UK… read more...
Vince Randall

Senior ERP exec leads cloud-first strategy for Epicor in A/NZ

June 3, 2016 | Newsdesk
Epicor Software Corporation has appointed ex-NetSuite man, Vince Randall, to oversee the A/NZ region and strengthen its cloud-first strategy… read more...
Innovation

CSIRO and CBA offer businesses innovation advice

June 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australia’s lead science and technology research group CSIRO has launched a business advisory service to tell organisations where to best spend their R&D dough for the best return in the future… read more...
Superstream

SMEs count days until SuperStream kicks in

June 1, 2016 | Beverley Head
Almost a third of Australia’s SMEs have left themselves less than a month to comply with the SuperStream electronic transaction rules which come into force from July… read more...
Australian defence ERP project

Gun fires on massive SAP systems integration deal

May 31, 2016 | Beverley Head
Leading SAP systems integrators have until 23 June to register for what will likely be the biggest ERP transformation project undertaken in Australia for years to come… read more...
Salesforce rise in market

Salesforce leads, SAP slumps in CRM stakes

May 30, 2016 | Beverley Head
Salesforce is the world’s most popular CRM with SAP ranking second – but in Australia SAP ranks a relatively lowly fourth after sales slumped in 2015. What gives?… read more...
Saas and cloud security

Mind the gap on SaaS security

May 26, 2016 | Beverley Head
The popularity of Software as a Service and cloud solutions may be blinkering some organisations which believe they have also offloaded security worries… read more...
CSC and HP

Digital transformation behind CSC and HPE mega-merger

May 26, 2016 | Newsdesk
Fresh on the heels of its recent takeover of Australasian services company UXC, CSC is looking to merge with Hewlett Packard Enterprise… read more...
Instaclustr

Instaclustr calls Canberra home for Apache Cassandra play

May 25, 2016 | Beverley Head
While the founders of Instacluster live on opposite sides of the Pacific, the “born-global” big data specialist still calls Canberra home … read more...
iiNet customers

Fragile networks slug businesses and consumers

May 24, 2016 | Beverley Head
Five days with Telstra service interruptions and ten hours without email for most of iiNet’s customers – and that’s just in the last week… read more...
cloud ERP

How NetSuite is powering growth in the sweet world of cloud ERP

May 24, 2016 | Newsdesk
Cloud ERP vendor growing rapidly, but no sign of profit… read more...
Manufacturing robots

How manufacturers can compete more effectively

May 24, 2016 | Newsdesk
The manufacturing industry can be slow to take on new technology, but new technology can drive higher customer engagement and growth opportunities… read more...
ebay-virtual shopping

Shopping VR comes to a head

May 23, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian retail giant Myer and eBay have teamed up on a virtual reality department store concept that is delivered direct to shoppers’ heads via their smartphones… read more...

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