Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue… read more...

At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...

Australian businesses are starting to tangle more seriously with the notion of standard business reporting, which in the future will allow more streamlined tax and compliance reporting… read more...

Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record… read more...

In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1… read more...

Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task… read more...

Sydney-based software company Atlassian chose to release strong financial results that position the company well for any future share market listing during its Silicon Valley user summit this month… read more...

Quality content plays a critical role in self-service design. Often a small change in a link, heading or sentence, can lead to dramatically higher task completion says subject matter expert Gerry McGovern… read more...

Massive technology-led disruption across all industries globally, driven by the rapid proliferation of connected devices and services, is moving everyone and everything towards a state of ‘connected everything’… read more...

The terms BI, BA and big data tend to be unceremoniously bandied about without much consensus on what they are. Gartner’s Ian Bertram, separates the myth from the truth… read more...

The benefits of digitising health are undisputed, as is the need to reduce healthcare costs with our aging populace. But e-health initiatives get bogged down in politics. We sent James Riley to take the temperature in New Zealand…[View as PDF] read more...

Australia’s Treasurer has signalled his intent to ensure overseas technology companies pay their fair share of tax, and also are stopped from price gouging local consumers… read more...

Leading Indian technology vendors are expanding their footprint in the Australian market, and looking to acquire already scarce local IT skills to meet growing demand… read more...

Only one organisation based in Australia has made the cut for Gartner’s annual list of the most effective supply chains in Asia Pacific – and New Zealand fails to rate a mention… read more...

Australia’s chief scientist has given the country an F, noting that it is the only OECD nation without a national strategy for science, technology or innovation… read more...

The laws and legislation surrounding email disclaimers are tightening all around the globe with the prospect of significant fines for non-conformists… read more...

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has called for the bar to be raised in terms of regulation of technology vendors selling to the financial sector… read more...

By 2023 the average household in Australia will need no more than 15 Megabits per second of internet download speeds according to a cost benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network… read more...

Organisations experimenting with internet of things deployments, wearables, cryptocurrencies or big data could be in for a long wait before they bear real fruit. Beverley Head reports… read more...

We all know that cloud computing improves efficiencies, but subject matter specialist Craig Deveson says that is only the case if it is done right, and if hosting and managed service providers access the right tools they are the ones to do it… read more...