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MessageXchange

EDI veteran branches into collaboration

March 18, 2016 | Clare Coulson
This week the people behind successful EDI service MessageXchange launched a new platform which has piqued the interest of the Australian Government… read more...
Australian startups

Second valley of death looms for tech sector

March 17, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian start ups are facing a “valley of death” in terms of poor access to later stage funding which peaked at $90 million in 2007, but had halved by last year… read more...
Fintech threats

Financial Services firms under threat from FinTechs

March 16, 2016 | Newsdesk
A new PwC survey shows that financial services firms believe almost a quarter of their business is at risk from bullish FinTechs… read more...
Innovation deadline

Australia faces innovation countdown

March 16, 2016 | Beverley Head
The clock is ticking for Australian innovation with the nation’s peak ICT research body giving the nation just a three to five year innovation window… read more...
unplanned growth

Nine in ten businesses caught out by unplanned growth – Epicor

March 15, 2016 | Newsdesk
Some 89 percent of companies across the globe were left exposed to risk in 2015 due to the impact of surprise expansion… read more...
Venture capitalists

Pronto says VC model fails to delight

March 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market… read more...
Qualtrics unicorns

Qualtrics selects Sydney, warns about unicorns

March 15, 2016 | Beverley Head
Cloud based insight platform Qualtrics has made Sydney its Asia Pacific headquarters and slated its ambition to grow its workforce and triple local sales during 2016… read more...
MyNetPhone

ISP warns NBN model may wreck competition

March 14, 2016 | Beverley Head
Listed telecommunications business MyNetFone has warned that the economic foundations of the NBN will crumble without significant reform… read more...
transformation blockers

Blow up the transformation blockers

March 10, 2016 | Beverley Head
For the last five years, Gary O’Brien has worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises on their digital transformation initiatives and he’s identified five key blockers… read more...
Cloud ERP

Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP

March 9, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Microsoft has gone the full cloud monty with the updated Dynamics AX release, local retailer Citta to be among first to hook up… read more...
3dprinted shoes

Technology takes on the catwalk

March 9, 2016 | Beverley Head
The fashion industry has already been disrupted by online commerce – the advent of 3D printers, wearable technology and mass customisation will make that seem like child’s play… read more...
Insurance

Insurance sector faces mass disruption

March 8, 2016 | Beverley Head
One in four Australians would be quite happy to buy insurance products through a technology company like Google in the future; it’s a wake up call for the insurance sector… read more...
Happy birthday Atlassian

Atlassian turns teenage years into gold

March 8, 2016 | Beverley Head
Atlassian turns 14 this month, and now boasts 54,000 customers, 1,400 employees, revenues north of $US320 million and a market capitalisation of around $US5 billion… read more...
SugarCRM

SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition

March 7, 2016 | Newsdesk
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent… read more...
IFS integration

ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear

March 4, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept… read more...

First stand up for Government’s innovation agenda

March 3, 2016 | Beverley Head
The 100 day “anniversary” of Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation statement falls this month, and already questions are being asked about what has really been achieved… read more...
IDC_IOT

IoT will be the only way by 2020

March 3, 2016 | Newsdesk
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time… read more...
CSC-UXC merger

Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger

March 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
Of the 2,500 organisations that CSC and UXC provide services to in this region, there are apparently only about ten where there is any significant overlap… read more...
5g-network

Comms giants ratchet up 5G push

March 1, 2016 | Beverley Head
Once a year the mobilerati gather in Barcelona to sketch the future of communications – this year it was all about Samsung’s new baby and the future offered by 5G – one is really important… read more...
manapouri

Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers

March 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Electricity retailing. It’s not really the sort of business ripe for innovation or differentiation for customers, you say? Well, according to Flick founder and CEO Steve O’Connor you are “wrong”… read more...

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