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Smart cities sought – drives data demand
Frazzled commuters, unaffordable housing and the high cost of delivering services are all targets of a rash of smart city initiatives now gathering pace… read more...
NBN demand flounders as funds evaporate
The roll out of the national broadband network is continuing apace – but fewer than half of the households which could connect have yet bothered to do so… read more...
Legacy software vendors’ sloth gives fintechs head start
Legacy financial software vendors – the likes of SAP, Oracle and CSC – have been slapped by Gartner for their sluggish approach to innovation… read more...
Dynamics market heats up as Flintfox appoints Duncan Cox
Former Adaptable Solutions supremo tasked with growing ERP consulting division… read more...
Tech multinationals face tax crackdown
The 2016-17 budget painted a big red target on multinational technology companies that have shifted profits offshore to avoid paying tax… read more...
Augmented reality served on a golden Plattar
News Corp Australia has made its first ever seed investment and it’s in a technology firm that is bringing augmented reality and customer engagement to life… read more...
Horizon Power seeks further BI savings from IoT
Installing a new business analytics platform that business users could drive themselves paid for itself in a year – letting Horizon Power reduce headcount and expenses… read more...
Disruption means giving consumers what they want
Consumers are a demanding bunch – and it’s forcing established enterprises to disrupt their modus operandi, and on occasion to take a hefty financial stake in the disruptors… read more...
Data’s force awakens
Walt Disney’s Australian marketing team had just three and a half minutes of footage to leverage ahead of the Star Wars Force Awakens launch; it plugged the gap with data… read more...
Saturation, concentration and old fashioned ennui
Reports suggest that demand for tablet computers and smartphones has gone off the boil as the mobile market approaches saturation and consumers fail to fall for fads… read more...
Cloud services the answer to IoT security
Half of all IoT implementations will use cloud security services of some description by 2020, but the market is currently immature… read more...
Companies ‘desperate’ for technology leadership
But tech-savvy millennials need not apply… read more...
Google runs insight platform on Amazon cloud
The fact that Google has bought Interactive Intelligence’s customer engagement solution, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, signals the growing IT spending power of business units… read more...
Machine learning and AI for more secure banking
Turning data into real-time decisions to fight financial fraud… read more...
Australia unveils $230M cyber security strategy
The Federal Government has unveiled its cyber security strategy which features 33 new initiatives at a cost of $230 million over the next four years… read more...
Gartner dampens cloud enthusiasm
Settle down about the cloud already. That’s the message coming from a Gartner A/NZ analyst who reckons local companies are a bit overly excited about the whole notion… read more...
Clarity emerges for Gov.au and govCMS
After months of speculation it appears that the Government’s central online site, Gov.au, currently under development, won’t reinvent the wheel… read more...
Automation, robots signal Alsbridge entrance
Consulting company sets up shop in ANZ, punts ‘robotic process automation’… read more...
SAP establishes Canberra-based (and -centric) private cloud
Onshore deployment of cloud services for Australian public sector aimed at solving data residency dilemma… read more...
Wanted: part time data scientists
As organisational demand for data analytics increases, every organisation needs to hire or create a part time data scientist… read more...
