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OzForex closes the kimono
OzForex has announced the collapse of negotiations with Western Union, pulls pin on due diligence process… read more...
SAP sets 2016 sights on two key sectors
SAP’s two new business units targetting public services sector in Australia and financial services in Australia and New Zealand telegraph its 2016 priorities… read more...
Technologies to disrupt digital commerce in 2016
Juniper Research reveals top transformational technologies in e-commerce… read more...
How APIs are supporting a revolution in the financial services sector
Throughout the world, financial services companies are facing a period of rapid and fundamental change, writes Jonathan Stern, and APIs are emerging as a competitive necessity… read more...
Shifting the deckchairs at CSIRO
Australia’s peak research body CSIRO has confirmed an overhaul which will have the organisation and its researchers focused more on innovation than invention… read more...
Government takes your money online, faster
The NSW Government is building on its raft of digital services – this time by updating its smartphone app to allow people to pay fines and review infringement photos… read more...
Xero updates tax and switches guard
Cloud accounting software company Xero has announced a slew of updates for its Australian tax module, along with a changing of the guard at the pointy end in both Australia and New Zealand… read more...
Worldwide BI to hit US$16.9 billion in 2016
Especially solid growth for analytics in ANZ in otherwise tepid IT market… read more...
Goodbye Koorb with latest Fusion5 acquisition
The wave of consolidation of trans-Tasman enterprise solution providers continues apace as Fusion5 snaps up the remnants of Koorb… read more...
Security blanky makes way for quilt
Enterprises need to rethink blanket rules regarding access to corporate information systems, and instead take more of a “patchwork quilt” approach according to a former FBI agent… read more...
Data proves as important as financial capital
Data is a form of capital on par with financial capital, even though it can’t yet be shown on a balance sheet, according to Paul Sonderegger, big data strategist for Oracle… read more...
Bulletproof to acquire Cloud House
NZ AWS partner snapped up by Australian cloud service provider… read more...
What’s eating Apple?
To industry pundits and casual observers, it came as a shock this week when Apple projected that growth for its iPhone sales would hit the slowest pace since 2007, the year of the iconic phone’s release, writes Howard Yu… read more...
SAP enterprise omnichannel software available as a service (but not yet in ANZ)
A new agreement between systems integrator Dimension Data and SAP makes the vendor’s Hybris Commerce available on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis for the first time in APAC… read more...
Prepare for a cashless future
Australians are ready, willing and able to swap ready cash for a digital alternative – and retailers had better prepare their infrastructure for the switch… read more...
Ten tips for driving value from big data
Just think what $48 billion could buy. In the private sector, that could buy a lot of R&D and innovation; the lifeblood of a successful and growing economy, ponders Vicky Falconer… read more...
Smartphones and women are underused resources
Deloitte has released its technology predictions for 2016 – and perhaps most startling is the way that smartphones are being used, but women aren’t… read more...
Execs and boards must hold nerve on digital
Australian corporate board members and senior executives should hold their nerve in spite of the rocky start to 2016 and focus on continued digitization of their businesses… read more...
What about the small data?
It’s easy to argue that big data is only getting bigger – yet, while collecting and analysing big data will remain a priority 2016, David Oakley believes organisations should also be looking more closely at small data… read more...
Worldwide IT spending to grow – but only just
Just how much will the tech-crazy world blow on IT in 2016? Around US$3.54 trillion… read more...



























