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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...
non-cash transactions

Banks and fintechs face technology tsunami

October 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world… read more...
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Government experiments with policy hackathon

October 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia will hold its first “policy hackathon” in Sydney this Saturday – presumably to come up with at least some minimal viable innovation policies for the new Turnbull Government… read more...
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Sydney stars as startup central

October 8, 2015 | Beverley Head
Startups have until the end of the month to apply for one of up to ten seed capital investments worth up to $60,000 from the Telstra-backed muru-D incubator… read more...
Algorithm

CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT

October 7, 2015 | Beverley Head
The Internet of Things is eating IT budgets, with Gartner forecasting that next year CIOs will spend $US2.5 million a minute on IoT deployments… read more...
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CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid

October 6, 2015 | Beverley Head
US giant CSC has given itself just five weeks to complete the due diligence on Australia’s largest listed software and services business, UXC Ltd, ahead of a planned $A428 million takeover… read more...

Technology One opens wallet, plans expansion

October 5, 2015 | Beverley Head
Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist… read more...
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Fuji Xerox Australia takes on technology transformation

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
Establishes IT Services and Enterprise Software division… read more...
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UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions… read more...
hybrid cloud

Buttonwood smoothes path for hybrid cloud

October 1, 2015 | Beverley Head
Canberra based start-up Buttonwood is putting the finishing touches to its cloud exchange platform designed to bring greater flexibility to hybrid cloud solutions… read more...
future data centre

The future data centre is software-defined

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk
The software-defined data centre (SDDC) is crucial to the long-term evolution of an agile digital business says Gartner – the future is not now… read more...
IT dollars

CMOs and CIOs tussle over IT dollars and direction

September 30, 2015 | Beverley Head
A survey of 255 A/NZ chief marketing officers has found that 91 percent are making technology purchasing decisions, while more than half of all marketing departments have a dedicated IT budget… read more...
Teleco consolidation

Telco consolidation gathers pace

September 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
Just three months after getting the green light to purchase Amcom, Vocus is itself now the subject of a merger agreement with M2, as ANZ telecommunications consolidations gathers pace… read more...
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Sydney’s Atlassian gears up for US float

September 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
Within hours of announcing it had achieved the 50,000 customer mark Sydney software company Atlassian was dominating the news for a very different reason – its looming US float… read more...
gartner digital agenda

CIOs seek balance between innovation and thrift

September 24, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian CIOs are engaged in a balancing act – attempting to deliver the digital agenda that boards and investors crave, while keeping tight rein on costs… read more...

Future ERP: Infor announces collaboration, BI apps for Apple Watch

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk
Cloud ERP vendor betting big on wearable tech… read more...
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Four ways graph analytics can help data compliance

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk
Big data can transform the way businesses operate, but companies have to make sure they comply with rules and regulations around how data is accessed and used… read more...
amazon jump through hoops

Amazon jumps through hoops before DevOps

September 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
Teams at Amazon which want to innovate must start by writing a press release before developing anything… read more...
ms office 2016

Microsoft releases Office 2016

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk
The worldwide release of Microsoft’s Office 2016 productivity software is underway… read more...
shadow IT

Shadow IT seduces CFOs

September 22, 2015 | Beverley Head
The lure of cloud computing for CMOs is well understood and has seen more of the IT budget head to that department – now it’s the CFO’s turn… read more...

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