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Nine in ten businesses caught out by unplanned growth – Epicor
Some 89 percent of companies across the globe were left exposed to risk in 2015 due to the impact of surprise expansion… read more...
Pronto says VC model fails to delight
Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market… read more...
Qualtrics selects Sydney, warns about unicorns
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...
ISP warns NBN model may wreck competition
Listed telecommunications business MyNetFone has warned that the economic foundations of the NBN will crumble without significant reform… read more...
Blow up the transformation blockers
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...
Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP
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...
Technology takes on the catwalk
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 sector faces mass disruption
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...
Atlassian turns teenage years into gold
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 talks your language with new acquisition
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent… read more...
ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear
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
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...
IoT will be the only way by 2020
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time… read more...
Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger
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...
Comms giants ratchet up 5G push
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...
Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers
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...
MYOB edges closer to all-cloud business
Accounting software company MYOB has released its first set of financial results since it relisted on the sharemarket last May… read more...
Gartner’s Top 10 IoT tech predictions
The global analyst firm has outlined ten technologies that it believes will allow organisations to go full speed ahead with the Internet of Things over the next two years… read more...
Good bye Dick Smith
In a statement issued by receivers Ferrier Hodgson, it was today announced that the remaining Dick Smith and Move stores (excluding airport locations) in Australia and New Zealand will close… read more...
Data velocity forms flash’s new frontier
Deakin University is one of the local organisations testing the veracity of the latest tech sector jargon – data velocity… read more...