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Ozforex

OzForex closes the kimono

February 10, 2016 | Beverley Head
OzForex has announced the collapse of negotiations with Western Union, pulls pin on due diligence process… read more...
SAP highlights

SAP sets 2016 sights on two key sectors

February 10, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
biometrics

Technologies to disrupt digital commerce in 2016

February 10, 2016 | Newsdesk
Juniper Research reveals top transformational technologies in e-commerce… read more...
Financial services

How APIs are supporting a revolution in the financial services sector

February 9, 2016 | Jonathan Stern
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...
CSIRO

Shifting the deckchairs at CSIRO

February 9, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
Govt takes your money

Government takes your money online, faster

February 4, 2016 | Beverley Head
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 tax update

Xero updates tax and switches guard

February 4, 2016 | Beverley Head
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 spend

Worldwide BI to hit US$16.9 billion in 2016

February 4, 2016 | Newsdesk
Especially solid growth for analytics in ANZ in otherwise tepid IT market… read more...
fusion5 buys Koorb

Goodbye Koorb with latest Fusion5 acquisition

February 2, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The wave of consolidation of trans-Tasman enterprise solution providers continues apace as Fusion5 snaps up the remnants of Koorb… read more...
corporate information

Security blanky makes way for quilt

February 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
big data shopping list

Data proves as important as financial capital

February 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
cloud house

Bulletproof to acquire Cloud House

January 31, 2016 | Newsdesk
NZ AWS partner snapped up by Australian cloud service provider… read more...
Apple revenue

What’s eating Apple?

January 29, 2016 | Howard Yu
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...
Omnichannel

SAP enterprise omnichannel software available as a service (but not yet in ANZ)

January 27, 2016 | Newsdesk
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...
cashless future

Prepare for a cashless future

January 26, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
Big data

Ten tips for driving value from big data

January 26, 2016 | Vicky Falconer
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...
smartphone woman

Smartphones and women are underused resources

January 25, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
Continual digitization

Execs and boards must hold nerve on digital

January 20, 2016 | Beverley Head
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...
small data

What about the small data?

January 19, 2016 | David Oakley
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 spend

Worldwide IT spending to grow – but only just

January 19, 2016 | Newsdesk
Just how much will the tech-crazy world blow on IT in 2016? Around US$3.54 trillion… read more...

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