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Subscription economy? I’ll take that as a service, thanks
The subscription economy means almost anything can be delivered as a service… read more...
SAP identifies Australia’s digital “experience gap”
A survey of 3,000 Australians has uncovered an “experience gap” between the digital experience consumers want and the one they receive… read more...
Data scientists are the advertising execs of the future
Digitisation of publishing means automation and information driven decision-making… read more...
Adobe leads but faces two pronged threat
Adobe has taken the lead in the supply of digital marketing platforms – but it’s already under threat, particularly from Oracle and Salesforce… read more...
Tablet sales join PC doldrums
Turns out there isn’t a tablet for the hangover which comes after the PC party… read more...
UXC signs up Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy
UXC Limited has signed a three-year contract with Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy to provide service desk and end user computing support services for 7,500 users across New South Wales… read more...
Ten steps to stimulate workplace innovation
Despite the vaunted importance of ‘innovation’ it’s perhaps one of the most overused words today. It’s also probably the key to a successful future… read more...
Gamification company talks cloud, delivers less
Getting consumers to behave in a certain way at a certain time is manna for large enterprises, and increasingly gamification is being used by marketers to influence behaviours… read more...
Post-PC Windows 10 eyes up Internet of Things
The timing has never been more challenging for the launch of a new version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system… read more...
UXC signs new business valued at $100m
In a market update, enterprise resource planning solutions vendor UXC has announced new contract wins which position the company for growth in FY16 and beyond… read more...
Two thirds of IT roles face the chop
The IT shop floor faces the sort of radical overhaul that factory floors endured two decades ago – and about two thirds of current IT roles will disappear as enterprises disrupt themselves… read more...
Fronde CEO to step down
Ian Clarke to vacate top job later this year… read more...
Enterprises warned: double-cross startups at your peril
Australian organisations looking to leapfrog the competition by leveraging new companies should treat them with kid gloves or risk being cold-shouldered by the entire startup community… read more...
Complexity causing data centre blues? Hyperconvergence to the rescue
The physical contents of data centres tend to stealthily expand, becoming increasingly difficult to manage… read more...
IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose
Without a radical rethink of enterprise IT, the data that emerges from sensors and consumer focused services will become a burden on the organisation rather than a valuable commodity… read more...
Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?
Adelaide will host Australia’s first on-road trials of driverless cars starting in November – but could driverless cars, which produce around a gigabyte of data a second, clog the internet?… read more...
Apple Matters: A closer look at Apple Music
It’s the latest thing from Apple – and Mark Webster wonders what it really means… read more...
Technology comes to le Tour de France
198 riders form mesh network broadcasting data to the world… read more...
Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target
CIOs need to reframe their definition of success and how they fund software development – and it’s a particularly big ask for public sector IT professionals… read more...
Australia Post looks to NZ’s ShipIT for better ecommerce service
Under pressure postal service looks to capitalise on online retail boom… read more...
