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digital wallet

Smartphone soars as digital wallet demand declines

November 4, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian business should reconsider the way it attempts to reach consumers based on a finer grained understanding of their technology preferences… read more...
Internet of things

The ‘scary’ side of the IoT

November 4, 2015 | Newsdesk
The Internet of Things (IoT) is quietly affecting everyday life for people around the globe – but is there a dark side? Ever merchants of doom, security vendors are on to it… read more...
Ransomware_istart

Ransomware shifts attention to IoT

November 3, 2015 | Beverley Head
A new wave of ransomware looms – and this time it could get very “DieHard”, courtesy of the Internet of Things… read more...
digital government

SAP launches Institute for Digital Government

November 2, 2015 | Newsdesk
Software giant seeks to spur public sector innovation… read more...
Turnball government

Nitro boss urges Government to act faster

November 2, 2015 | Beverley Head
Sam Chandler has a blunt message for Government; your intentions may be good, but you must match them with actions – and fast… read more...
Cybercrime

Focus on perimeter security misses point

October 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
When HP and the Ponemon Institute asked 28 Australian organisations about their experience with cybercrime, they discovered that the average cost of an attack was now $4.9 million… read more...
robots invade contact centres

Robots invade the contact centre

October 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
Artificial intelligence is about to percolate deeper into enterprise contact centres, with machines taking over the simpler consumer interactions… read more...
digital boardroom

Digitising the boardroom: What took you so long?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
While companies have generally focused digitisation efforts on line of business processes, there is one rather significant level to which automation hasn’t yet reached: the boardroom… read more...
HANA Vora software

HANA Vora to stimulate appetite for big data?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
With the launch of a new software product, SAP sets out to help harness big data… read more...
Rise in GDP

ANZ IT spending plays tag with GDP

October 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia’s investment in technology is likely to grow in line with the nation’s expected rise in GDP – while New Zealand’s pace of IT spending growth will be a tad slower in 2016… read more...
mainframe

BMC takes on legacy

October 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
For all the talk of new age computing platforms, the mainframe still plays a major role with almost two thirds of Australian mainframe users planning to grow their use of the platform… read more...
councils beseiged

Mapping tool offers hope to besieged councils

October 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
A review of 139 NSW councils by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has found only 52 to be “Fit for the future” leaving many facing amalgamations and transformations… read more...
crm shopping

How retailers can read customers’ minds to provide better service

October 22, 2015 | Newsdesk
Increasing sales is easier with insight into preferred products, how customers like to shop, and whether they prefer discount or loyalty cards… read more...
purchase funnel

Inbound marketing: (Not yet) All the rage

October 20, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Inbound marketing software vendor HubSpot is pushing an APAC campaign to drive its solutions deeper into what it believes is a willing market… read more...
policy hackathon

Policy hackathon tackles ten top ideas

October 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
A couple of hundred people gathered in Sydney on Saturday for Australia’s first policy hackathon, focusing on just ten of the 284 ideas collected in advance of the event… read more...
digital transformation

CDOs lead the way on digital transformation – for now

October 19, 2015 | Beverley Head
Chief digital officers may be all the rage among transforming enterprises – but they could find themselves with a very short corporate shelf life according to new research… read more...
retail fraud

SaaS anti-fraud tool for safer etailing

October 19, 2015 | Newsdesk
Retailers gain real time access to risk profiles based on more than 12 years of retail transaction data.. read more...
Data for cash

Customer data is dollars – but many ignore it

October 15, 2015 | Newsdesk
Many organisations do not manage customer data as a corporate asset, and the monetary value of that data is often ignored, according to Gartner, Inc… read more...
Big Dell Deal

Dell deal top of mind for VMware forum

October 15, 2015 | Beverley Head
For the Australian VMware users already signed up to attend vForum in Sydney next week, there will be just one topic of conversation – what will the Dell takeover of EMC mean?… read more...
Hardware sales

Economy and dollar send chip sales south

October 14, 2015 | Beverley Head
The impact of a higher $US are taking their toll on hardware sales – and the future’s also looking shakier than usual given semiconductor forecasts… read more...

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