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Ginni Rometty

Cognitive computing heralds new disruptive wave

June 29, 2016 | Beverley Head
IBM boss Ginni Rometty returned to Australia after a two-year absence this week, to put enterprise on notice that the cognitive computing era was underway… read more...
Mark Troselj

Oracle and NetSuite lose local heads

June 27, 2016 | Beverley Head
There’s been a changing of the guard in leading technology companies including the Australian subsidiaries of ERP giants Oracle and NetSuite… read more...
Budget 2016

NSW seeks smart state soubriquet

June 22, 2016 | Beverley Head
NSW has unveiled a series of digital and innovation focused investments in this week’s Budget as it tilts for the smarter state soubriquet… read more...
auditing

MyWorkpapers wrests audit from spreadsheet jockeys

June 21, 2016 | Beverley Head
A corporate name change, the soft launch of a collaboration platform for auditors, new audit templates and a UK relaunch have marked a busy three months of the year for MyWorkpapers… read more...
Brian Blau

Personal tech poised to further disrupt enterprise

June 21, 2016 | Beverley Head
Gartner has identified five personal technologies it believes will deliver a fresh wave of disruption to the enterprise and IT operations over the next 5-10 years… read more...
space agency

How NASA landed a ton on Mars

June 16, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The out-of-this-world power of collaboration… read more...
Augmented human

Bottoms up to emerging raft of technologies

June 16, 2016 | Beverley Head
Imagine swiping your left buttock across a terminal to complete a payment; banking giant ANZ has – and it’s just the start of a massive change in the way humans and technology interact… read more...
is the internet safe

Is the Internet Safe? Of course not!

June 15, 2016 | Owen McCall
The internet is not 100 percent safe, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be using it to support the growth of your business. Owen McCall says we should approach it more like driving… read more...
Government digital leadership

Estonia brings digital lessons down under

June 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Estonia may seem distant, but it provides lessons in what government digital leadership really looks like… read more...
Software vendor

Veteran ERP company changes its spots

June 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson
As purchasing power shifts away from the IT department, one business software vendor is launching an unlikely new service to get in front of the people who count… read more...
digital experience

Netflix tops the pops in digital experience

June 15, 2016 | Beverley Head
Leading brands have lifted their game as far as consumer digital experience is concerned – but still only three companies fall into the top performing bracket… read more...
NBN rollout by Labor party

NBN plays election ping pong

June 14, 2016 | Beverley Head
Just weeks before Australia heads to the ballot box, the Labor party has announced that if elected 2 million more homes and businesses will get high speed broadband, with more to follow… read more...

Accelerating omnichannel in the public sector

June 14, 2016 | Newsdesk
SAP HQ has appointed local partner UXC Oxygen to build an app to enhance SAP’s public sector solution… read more...
digital transformation projects

Digital transformation projects backfire

June 14, 2016 | Clare Coulson
The insurance industry is counting the cost of digital transformation projects and others could also be at risk… read more...
fintechs

ASIC wants fintechs to play nice in the sandbox

June 13, 2016 | Beverley Head
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has outlined its plans to allow local fintechs to test a new product without the need for a financial services licence… read more...

Enterprises play catch up with IoT

June 9, 2016 | Beverley Head
Enterprises are still playing catch up to the possibilities of the Internet of Things… read more...
Skyfii network

Free WiFi sees Skyfii aim sky high

June 6, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australian listed business Skyfii, which deploys opt in WiFi in public areas, collects customer data and sells it to local businesses, is making a push into the US and UK… read more...
Vince Randall

Senior ERP exec leads cloud-first strategy for Epicor in A/NZ

June 3, 2016 | Newsdesk
Epicor Software Corporation has appointed ex-NetSuite man, Vince Randall, to oversee the A/NZ region and strengthen its cloud-first strategy… read more...
Innovation

CSIRO and CBA offer businesses innovation advice

June 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
Australia’s lead science and technology research group CSIRO has launched a business advisory service to tell organisations where to best spend their R&D dough for the best return in the future… read more...
Saas and cloud security

Mind the gap on SaaS security

May 26, 2016 | Beverley Head
The popularity of Software as a Service and cloud solutions may be blinkering some organisations which believe they have also offloaded security worries… read more...

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