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Australians clip their ICT spending plans

March 28, 2013 | Newsdesk
Tight economic times, political uncertainty, a strong dollar and the imminent end of the mining boom are the four horsemen of the apocalypse now threatening ICT spending in Australia… read more...

Australian software buyers charged “what they can bear”

March 27, 2013 | Newsdesk
A Government Committee investigating the prices Australians pay for information and communications technology is now mulling over the responses of industry giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe… read more...

Management practice lags behind tech innovation

March 18, 2013 | Gerry McGovern
In many organisations management practice is about 20 years behind the web. Gerry McGovern discusses what this really means… read more...
carbon accounting

Carbon accounting: burden or benefit?

March 18, 2013 | Richard Chirgwin
The sustainability age has, in theory, replaced bean-counting with carbon-counting. Richard Chirgwin looks at what is happening in practice… read more...
Mind the gap

Mind the knowledge gap – IT in the boardroom

March 14, 2013 | Clare Coulson
Following a number of high-profile project train wrecks last year, iStart asks if there is enough understanding of IT at board level… read more...

Intermodal and Boffa Miskell opt for same ERP system

March 14, 2013 | Newsdesk
ERP specialist, Greentree has recently triumphed over some big names to win some of its newest customers… read more...
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Cebit 2013 looms as does end of era

March 7, 2013 | Newsdesk
Cebit – the largest enterprise focused technology event on Australia’s technology calendar – kicks off at the end of next month. More than 30,000 visitors are expected for the end of an era event… read more...
cebit

‘Adapt or die’ slogan for CeBIT Australia 2013

March 7, 2013 | Newsdesk
The largest business technology event in the Asia Pacific celebrates is twelfth year in Sydney and focuses on showing businesses that embracing technology is the only way to harness the power in the data they create… read more...
IFS Mining

Mining contractor consolidates with IFS

February 8, 2013 | Newsdesk
IFS continues to push in to the mining sector, securing new business from fast-growing civil and mining contractor Brierty… read more...
Jaguar

My Jaguar versus your systems

January 17, 2013 | Owen McCall
Owen McCall talks cars, computers and reliability… read more...

In-store retail in death spiral

December 12, 2012 | David McNickel
Supply chain integration: As competition between online and in-store heats up, many organisations are evaluating technology to improve their customer journey – and finding in-store is delivering increased profits and productivity. David McNickel investigates… read more...
Branding not just a logo

IT branding: not just a logo

December 12, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton
Just what is the IT industry’s problem when it comes to getting noticed in the super trendy and oh-so-social marketplace?… read more...

Would you like an app with that?

December 12, 2012 | Clare Coulson
If you’re in business then you gotta have an app, right? Well, maybe. Before you rush out and build your new mobile application you need to decide just how your new solution fits into your overall business strategy… read more...

Office 365 beats Google for Opus business

December 5, 2012 | Newsdesk
Opus global infrastructure consultancy has chosen Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity solution to support its bid to be one of the top 20 consultancies in the world… read more...
mobile banking

CommBank touts banking technology firsts

November 29, 2012 | Newsdesk
Customers will soon benefit from Australia’s first real-time business banking app, as well as ground-breaking new functionality across CommBank Kaching for Android, Facebook and NetBank… read more...

Big data, 4 million jobs, large skills gap – Gartner

November 15, 2012 | Newsdesk
Analysts say there are big opportunities for big data on the horizon in APAC, but warn that we may not have the skills to fulfill them… read more...
Martin Snedden

Switched on CEO: Rugby NZ 2011 Martin Sneddens’ ultimate test

October 10, 2012 | Nigel Horrocks
Tournament organiser says the event is “sunk” if they don’t get the IT right but he has to trust the experts with that to ensure a global success… read more...
online-advertising

Online ad spending overtakes newspapers

September 17, 2012 | Newsdesk
Online advertising expenditure has surpassed newspaper advertising expenditure for the first time ever, according to a report from the Commercial Economic Advisory Service Australia… read more...

Company Executive charged with project abuse

September 14, 2012 | Owen McCall
Running a successful IT project is a lot like raising a child. So why do project managers so often abandoned them at birth? read more...
UXC eclipse award

Eclipse wins national accolade from Microsoft

September 12, 2012 | Newsdesk
UXC Eclipse has won the MAPA 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Microsoft Dynamics ERP… read more...

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