Technology analyst Gartner has announced the programme for its flagship Australian conference and warned CIOs that they need to embrace their inner Machiavelli to succeed… read more...

Australian and New Zealand enterprises are the first in the world able to use an enterprise-grade cloud-based version of SAP Hana’s in-memory analytics… read more...

A new report has identified five steps that organisations need to take to ensure that their ICT projects are not held hostage by unscrupulous contract staff… read more...

With the continued rise of cloud computing and SaaS in enterprises, data centre outages such as those experienced recently by Google and Microsoft can have a major impact and data centre operators need to work together not keep their knowledge secret. read more...

Dylan Persaud looks at the most important trends influencing ERP decision-making today. read more...

IDC praises the Government’s telecommunications discussion document on the proposed approach to reviewing the Telco regulatory environment as “well-balanced”. read more...

Paul Brislen takes a look at the two pieces of legislation currently making their way with, what he believes, “undue haste” through New Zealand’s parliament. read more...

Bank CIOs and CEOs need to focus their attention less on the operational efficiencies that technology can deliver, and more on the customer relationships it can nurture if they want to survive. read more...

A wide open brief from Westpac invites developers and designers to tap in to their Kiwi ingenuity and creativity to come up with an app that will better their banking experience. read more...

Organisations collecting customer data, especially information they might use for big data analysis need to urgently review their privacy policies with a March deadline looming… read more...

Reporting a record A$7.82 billion profit last week, the Commonwealth Bank signalled how judicious technology investment can deliver a competitive edge – but sustaining that requires more… read more...

The $1.2 billion Queensland payroll system debacle has seen IBM booted from future State projects – but also delivered lessons about how not to manage major software projects… read more...

Enterprise IT is witness to unprecedented change thanks to the confluence of cloud, mobility and big data; today CIO success will come from embracing the extreme… read more...

Enterprises wrangling increasingly large volumes of photographic or video content could take a lesson from the way Queensland Police is managing its darkest evidence… read more...

There seems to be a major disconnect between those who purchase a content management system (CMS) and those who actually have to use it, says Gerry McGovern. read more...

It was standing room only at SAS Forum in Sydney, which drew the cream of the Australian and New Zealand big data crowd, eager to learn how to unlock the value of predictive analytics. read more...

Letting the mind wander can often throw up better results than a direct answer to an initial question. This associative thinking style can also be applied to software queries as the experts from QlikView explain… read more...

Enterprises must act immediately to invest in ICT or risk nimbler rivals developing an insurmountable lead in terms of revenues, productivity, profitability and market capitalisation. read more...

The Federal election, which has now been called for September 7, could kick-start ICT spending after months of suspended animation according to a leading recruitment agency… read more...

Australian IT managers feel less secure than their overseas peers about the risk of data being lost or stolen – but they often flinch at the costs associated with fixing the problem… read more...