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How retailers can read customers’ minds to provide better service
Increasing sales is easier with insight into preferred products, how customers like to shop, and whether they prefer discount or loyalty cards… read more...
Inbound marketing: (Not yet) All the rage
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 tackles ten top ideas
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...
CDOs lead the way on digital transformation – for now
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...
SaaS anti-fraud tool for safer etailing
Retailers gain real time access to risk profiles based on more than 12 years of retail transaction data.. read more...
Customer data is dollars – but many ignore it
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...
Dell deal top of mind for VMware forum
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...
Economy and dollar send chip sales south
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...
Banks and fintechs face technology tsunami
The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world… read more...
Government experiments with policy hackathon
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...
Sydney stars as startup central
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...
CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT
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...
CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid
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
Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist… read more...
Fuji Xerox Australia takes on technology transformation
Establishes IT Services and Enterprise Software division… read more...
UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions
UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions… read more...
Buttonwood smoothes path for hybrid cloud
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...
The future data centre is software-defined
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...
CMOs and CIOs tussle over IT dollars and direction
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...
Telco consolidation gathers pace
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...
