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Building Australia's agri super twin

Building Australia’s agri super twin

March 5, 2026 | Heather Wright

Big challenges, bigger national gains that go beyond agri…

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MYOB unleashes new AI tools for SME cashflow

MYOB unleashes new AI tools for SME cashflow

March 5, 2026 | Heather Wright

Smart invoice reminders, smart reconciliation and AI insights…

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Inside Apex Steel’s push for real-time operations

Inside Apex Steel’s push for real-time operations

March 5, 2026 | Heather Wright

Integrated data and automation reshape business…

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The costliest apps in tech might not be what you expect

The costliest apps in tech might not be what you expect

March 4, 2026 | Heather Wright

AI overage and zombies driving budget burn…

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Appwrap 2026: NZ Cyber Security Strategy released, Syos wins and GCSB warning

March 2, 2026 | Newsdesk

AppWrap aims to help you keep up to date with an easy to read collection of news and snippets published by other leading tech media publications that we trust. AppWrap March 2026 05.03 The GCSB has warned government that cyber security around some of

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ERP, transformation spark renewed hiring momentum

ERP, transformation spark renewed hiring momentum

February 26, 2026 | Heather Wright

Cautious confidence returns as digital investment resumes…

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AI gets physical – and humanoid

AI gets physical – and humanoid

February 25, 2026 | Heather Wright

Next-gen robotics to meet workforce pressures…

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Suncorp leans on AI to reshape insurance

Suncorp leans on AI to reshape insurance

February 24, 2026 | Heather Wright

Making insurance more accessible – and business more profitable…

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Gaining visibility in the new world (dis)order

Gaining visibility in the new world (dis)order

February 19, 2026 | Heather Wright

You can’t manage what you can’t see…

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AI’s hidden catch: Productivity with a cost

AI’s hidden catch: Productivity with a cost

February 18, 2026 | Heather Wright

Tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it…

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SMEs understand tech value, but the struggle remains

SMEs understand tech value, but the struggle remains

February 18, 2026 | Heather Wright

Time, skills and confidence hold productivity wins back…

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AI fails fast when foundations lag strategy

AI fails fast when foundations lag strategy

February 12, 2026 | Heather Wright

The only strategy is the business strategy…

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Facial recognition approval comes with compliance caveats

Facial recognition approval comes with compliance caveats

February 11, 2026 | Heather Wright

AU win highlights governance and proportionality requirements…

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AI agents are booming, deployments are not

February 10, 2026 | Heather Wright

Who will be the first CIO fired over agentic fails?…

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ERP marketplace the future_Gartner interview_ANZ Feb26

Why marketplaces will decide the new ERP winners

February 4, 2026 | Heather Wright

As ERP steps back into spotlight…

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S&P casts doubt over AI monetisation_Feb26

S&P casts doubt over AI monetisation

February 4, 2026 | Heather Wright

US$600b gamble for hyperscalers…

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NSW launches AU-first inquiry into data centres

NSW launches AU-first inquiry into data centres

February 4, 2026 | Heather Wright

Planning framework, resources, and those economic benefit claims…

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CEOs fear they’re falling behind tech change

CEOs fear they’re falling behind tech change

January 29, 2026 | Heather Wright

Investment grows but AI-driven revenue lacking…

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Govt eInvoicing and prompt payment rules take effect

January 29, 2026 | Heather Wright

As eInvoicing gains traction on both sides of Tasman…

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Short-term thinking now essential for A/NZ IT leaders

Short-term thinking now essential for A/NZ IT leaders

January 28, 2026 | Heather Wright

Tech strategy shifts as geopolitical pressures intensify…

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Skills in flux: APAC surges, skills compress and Adelaide steps up

Skills in flux: APAC surges, skills compress and Adelaide steps up

January 22, 2026 | Heather Wright

Skill-fusion, silent repricing and the builders required…

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From hype to hands on: NZ govt launches AI Advisory pilot

From hype to hands on: NZ govt launches AI Advisory pilot

January 22, 2026 | Heather Wright

MBIE gives iStart readers all the details…

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Kiwi businesses hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete for 2026

Kiwi businesses hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete for 2026

January 22, 2026 | Heather Wright

Confidence rebooted, tech budgets to follow…

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Why machine identities are your biggest cybersecurity blindspot

Why machine identities are your biggest cybersecurity blindspot

January 20, 2026 | Newsdesk

Silent superusers go from overlooked to urgent…

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AI’s most overheated, overhyped areas

AI’s most overheated, overhyped areas

December 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

And where AI will create enterprise value in 2026…

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New govt.nz marketplace and app go live

New govt.nz marketplace and app go live

December 17, 2025 | Heather Wright

App debut aligns digital identity plans…

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AppWrap: INZ and Airways tech issues, Space Activator and Hnry funding boost

December 15, 2025 | Newsdesk

AppWrap aims to help you keep up to date with an easy to read collection of news and snippets published by other leading tech media publications that we trust. AppWrap December 2025 15.12 The Reserve Bank has filed civil proceedings in the High Court

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CIO Summit shakeup

CIO Summit shakeup

December 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

Ecosystm leads the push for ecosystem synergy…

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How tech will drive NZ’s RUC overhaul

How tech will drive NZ’s RUC overhaul

December 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

Digital transformation on wheels…

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OpenAI’s Australian sovereign AI bet

OpenAI’s Australian sovereign AI bet

December 10, 2025 | Heather Wright

$7b data centre to power AI future…

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AI’s retail reality check: Adoption surges, but impact elusive

December 10, 2025 | Heather Wright

Frameworks needed to turn pilots into measurable gains…

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Genesis Energy_Ed Hyde_iStart interview 2025

Inside Genesis Energy’s IT playbook

December 4, 2025 | Heather Wright

Strategically aligned, people oriented and no AI PoCs…

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AI takes centre stage while websites lag

AI takes centre stage while websites MIA

December 4, 2025 | Heather Wright

Almost half of businesses still running analogue…

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Move fast and don’t break trust

November 27, 2025 | Kathryn Giudes

Real-Time Compliance for the AI Era…

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Cyber resilience begins with modern identity security

November 27, 2025 | Newsdesk

Where access and governance meet…

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Compliance, integration and APIs drive Teachers Mutual transformation

Compliance, integration and APIs drive Teachers Mutual transformation

November 27, 2025 | Heather Wright

Turning regulation and connectivity into strategic advantage…

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Finance automation delivers results for Kiwi organisations

Finance automation delivers results for Kiwi organisations

November 26, 2025 | Heather Wright

Mitre 10, HealthNZ lead automation success…

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2026: A year for hard work in AI adoption

2026: A year for hard work in AI adoption

November 25, 2025 | Heather Wright

The year of AI and agentic execution…

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Cyber resilience begins with modern identity security

November 25, 2025 | Newsdesk

Where access and governance meet…

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BPA’s hidden value

BPA’s hidden value

November 21, 2025 | Heather Wright

Why automation isn’t just about fixing pain points…

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Digital ID drive accelerates

Digital ID drive accelerates

November 21, 2025 | Heather Wright

Charting a path to digital identity…

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Shadow AI: Execs breaking the rules

Shadow AI: Execs breaking the rules

November 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

And the security training and literacy paradox…

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Auckland Council composes an agile future

Auckland Council composes an agile future

November 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

SAP cloud, modular design and out-of-box adoption…

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Autonomous business vision takes shape at MYOB

Autonomous business vision takes shape at MYOB

November 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

Spring release serves up AI and OCR for AP…

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Kiwi tech revenue soars past $20b milestone

Kiwi tech revenue soars past $20b milestone

November 6, 2025 | Heather Wright

Fearless execution fuels global market gains…

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Cloud maturity stalls as complexity rises

Cloud maturity stalls as complexity rises

November 6, 2025 | Heather Wright

Falling behind or waking up?….

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A/NZ tech leaders turn AI risk pressure into progress

A/NZ tech leaders turn AI risk pressure into progress

November 5, 2025 | Heather Wright

AI threats, compliance and coffee…

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The $142b Australian AI ‘opportunity’

The $142b Australian AI ‘opportunity’

October 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

Exporting intelligence and big SMB benefits…

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Sowing the seeds of growth: NZ's agritech opportunity

Sowing the seeds of growth: NZ’s agritech opportunity

October 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

Why the sector is NZ’s best bet for economic growth…

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FENZ slashing costs

FENZ slashes compliance overload costs

October 29, 2025 | Heather Wright

Automation over contractor scaling…

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Why tech investment needs to prove its worth

ROI: Why tech investment needs to prove its worth

October 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

AI FOMO and the 10 subscription trap…

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The need for tech leaders in senior management

The need for tech leaders in senior management

October 22, 2025 | Heather Wright

Time for T-shaped leaders to harness innovation…

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AI isn’t ready – but humans aren’t either

AI isn’t ready – but humans aren’t either

October 22, 2025 | Heather Wright

Gartner outlines ‘golden path’ to AI value…

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Unleashing NZ agritech

Unleashing NZ agritech

October 16, 2025 | Heather Wright

APIs, adoption, ambition and killing sacred cows…

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SaaS spend soars but value slips away

SaaS spend soars but value slips away

October 15, 2025 | Heather Wright

Shelfware and complexity eroding ROI…

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ChatGPT takes on agentic commerce

ChatGPT takes on agentic commerce

October 14, 2025 | Heather Wright

Santa’s little helper and your own personal shopper…

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Boardroom AI: From smarter oversight to smarter meetings

Boardroom AI: From smarter oversight to smarter meetings

October 9, 2025 | Heather Wright

Two sides of AI in the boardroom…

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AI ‘workslop’ killing productivity

AI ‘workslop’ killing productivity

October 7, 2025 | Heather Wright

Just trojan horse that work on to someone else…

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Inside NZ’s multi-billion dollar govt procurement changes

Inside NZ’s multi-billion dollar govt procurement changes

October 2, 2025 | Heather Wright

Deputy GCDO outlines the plans so far…

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SAP’s maintenance and support under EU antitrust scrutiny

SAP’s maintenance and support under EU antitrust scrutiny

October 1, 2025 | Heather Wright

Max fines of up to 10 percent of turnover…

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Tower data and analytics boss on AI and data success

Tower data and analytics boss on AI and data success

September 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

Stephen Hastings on AI, data and the future of insurance…

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LINZ STEPs up with Landonline modernisation

LINZ STEPs up with Landonline modernisation

September 25, 2025 | Heather Wright

$175m project nears completion…

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Uniting's Buddy takes genAI beyond frontline

Uniting’s Buddy takes genAI beyond frontline

September 24, 2025 | Heather Wright

Opens up new business model…

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Developer reliance on AI raising IT leader concerns

Developer reliance on AI raising IT leader concerns

September 24, 2025 | Heather Wright

And where does low-code fit in?…

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OCS New Zealand’s AI-driven finance transformation

OCS New Zealand’s AI-driven finance transformation

September 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

First company globally to adopt full Esker AI cloud finance…

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Atlassian outlines vision behind US$610m browser deal

Atlassian outlines vision behind US$610m browser deal

September 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

The browser as active team mate…

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Warehouse looks for bargain - and $40m IT savings

Warehouse looks for bargain – and $40m IT savings

September 17, 2025 | Heather Wright

Slashing licensing and managed services costs…

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NZ Data Centres Report_NZ Tech_Muller_Sep25

Unlocking NZ’s data centre potential

September 16, 2025 | Heather Wright

New report serves up more figures to chew on…

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Gartner IT Symposium Australia 2025

IT leaders key takeaways from Gartner Symposium

September 12, 2025 | Heather Wright

What hit the spot for A/NZ leaders…

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MIT 95% of AI projects fail

95% of genAI projects failing on ROI

September 2, 2025 | Heather Wright

Behind the AI headlines lies a murky fact…

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The AI job impact: Landmark study outlines the job costs

August 28, 2025 | Heather Wright

Tech sector may be among first to restructure entry-level intake…

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NZ CIO of the Year 2025

Leadership, transformation and impact awarded at NZ CIO Awards

August 26, 2025 | Newsdesk

SCTI’s Alexandra Smart takes top honours…

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Workers optimistic about AI’s role in work

Workers optimistic about AI’s role in work

August 20, 2025 | Heather Wright

But what about the regulation needs?…

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High performance IT to beat the chaos

High performance IT to beat the chaos

August 19, 2025 | Heather Wright

A hero’s weapon for leaders…

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The efficiency imperative

The efficiency imperative

August 14, 2025 | Heather Wright

Phased, right-sized transformation leads the way…

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Asset management leaders share AI insights

Asset management leaders share AI insights

August 14, 2025 | Heather Wright

Getting practical on building AI maturity…

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Digital embassies and a data centre hub for SEA

August 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

Scott Farquhar’s ‘bold and novel’ vision…

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The challenge of AI in the doctor's office

The challenge of AI in the doctor’s office

August 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

Unregulated, but time-saving and what about consent?…

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Unpacking AWS’ Kiwi data centre and training claims

Unpacking AWS’ local data centre and training claims

August 8, 2025 | Heather Wright

Do data centre claims really stack up?…

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AI and agentic: Tokens are the superpower

AI and agentic: Tokens are the superpower

August 5, 2025 | Heather Wright

Changing the capital allocation equation…

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The tech jobs that pay

The tech jobs that pay

July 31, 2025 | Heather Wright

And the staff gearing up to walk…

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SMBs reticent on AI

SMBs reticent on AI

July 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

But ROI for other digital adoption shows promise…

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ASIC turns up the heat on financial sector cybersecurity

ASIC turns up the heat on financial sector cybersecurity

July 29, 2025 | Heather Wright

Sues Fortnum; cyber risk is a compliance issue…

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Social commerce doesn’t close the deal

Social commerce doesn’t close the deal

July 17, 2025 | Heather Wright

Poor user experience and data loss hinders…

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RIP

Doing a premortem: Failure is an option

July 16, 2025 | Heather Wright

And riding the ERP hype cycle…

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Farm dog

The challenge of innovation on the farm

July 10, 2025 | Heather Wright

Shit in, shit out, and more automation, less features…

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Toxic

Public secrets and toxic cloud trilogies

July 8, 2025 | Heather Wright

The threat of cloud security gaps…

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Red flags

Employees raise red flag on AI agents

July 2, 2025 | Heather Wright

While ‘silicon ceiling’ sees frontline AI adoption stagnate…

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Three little dancers

Taking finance AI and automation end-to-end

July 1, 2025 | Heather Wright

It’s a dance of three parts…

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Data and AI literacy

AGL powers up for data and AI future

June 26, 2025 | Heather Wright

Plugging in a literacy program

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AI is not doing its job

June 25, 2025 | Heather Wright

While agentic projects get cancelled…

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People moving

Apps and data centres key to local AI success

June 24, 2025 | Heather Wright

But worker ‘reallocation’ could be blocker…

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Data sharing at scale

Data sharing at scale

June 19, 2025 | Heather Wright

Critical success factors…

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AI more than just another tech

AI more than just another tech

June 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

Meeker’s take: It’s reshaping our world forever…

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AI opportunity for ANZ grocery loyalty

AI opportunity for ANZ grocery loyalty

June 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

Grocery retailers can drive profits and increase engagement with AI tools…

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Identity security as a business transformer

Identity security as a business transformer

June 16, 2025 | Newsdesk

More than just cybersecurity…

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Cakes and donuts get a sweet ride with new ERP

Cakes and donuts get a sweet ride with new ERP

June 13, 2025 | Abel Software

Mitigating recall risk just one factor in new system for Original Foods Baking Co.…

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Don’t run before you can walk with AI

June 12, 2025 | Newsdesk

Asset-centric industries are ripe for an AI revolution, but without the hype…

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Retailers line up for facial recognition

Retailers line up for facial recognition

June 12, 2025 | Heather Wright

Foodstuffs NI trial opens floodgates…

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AI ambitions at stake as NZ business failing at cloud

AI ambitions at stake as NZ business failing at cloud

June 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

Just 34 percent ‘truly cloud ready’…

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Agentic AI to take over customer service

Agentic AI to take over customer service

June 10, 2025 | Heather Wright

But don’t rule out the human factor…

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Tapping behavioural outcomes for AI success

Tapping behavioural outcomes for AI success

June 5, 2025 | Heather Wright

And GenAI’s growing buying influence…

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ATO’s $69m advisor cost blowout + conflict of interest

ATO’s $69m advisor cost blowout + conflict of interest

June 5, 2025 | Heather Wright

Audit highlights big deficiencies in IT program…

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Security agencies team up in enterprise cybersec push

Security agencies team up in enterprise cybersec push

June 4, 2025 | Heather Wright

‘Proper’ SIEM and SOAR implementation urged…

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Hi-tech Awards winners: Big things from small places

Hi-tech Awards winners: Big things from small places

May 29, 2025 | Heather Wright

Hi-tech, highly diverse and taking on the world…

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Z Energy banks on Eagle Eye for loyalty

Z Energy banks on Eagle Eye for loyalty

May 29, 2025 |

Eye on the prize…

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You can’t patch your way out of threat debt

You can’t patch your way out of threat debt

May 22, 2025 | Heather Wright

And maybe you can ignore some of that patching…

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AI in recruitment

AI in recruitment

May 22, 2025 | Heather Wright

Discrimination and beyond…

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Tech procurement: Faster, smaller, better

Tech procurement: Faster, smaller, better

May 20, 2025 | Heather Wright

Businesses revamp purchasing in response to AI…

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How to win at vendor negotiation

How to win at vendor negotiation

May 15, 2025 | Heather Wright

If you don’t ask, you don’t get…

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Vibing with the coding

Vibing with the coding

May 14, 2025 | Heather Wright

Good vibrations, but is handsfree dev really that easy?…

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Govt harnessing AI and low code for official information

Govt harnessing AI and low code for official information

May 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

70 percent decrease in time spent reporting…

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The Trump effect: Tech’s mixed fortunes

The Trump effect: Tech’s mixed fortunes

May 9, 2025 | Heather Wright

Tariffs, AI, cloud and antitrust…

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GenAI in the supply chain

GenAI in the supply chain

May 1, 2025 | Heather Wright

Value-clearing opportunities across the value chain…

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Thriving in volatile times

Thriving in volatile times

April 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

And a Southern Hemisphere Ireland…

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The high stakes of selecting the right genAI use case

The high stakes of selecting the right genAI use case

April 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

And the fear of getting it wrong…

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Cybersecurity gets legal

Cybersecurity gets legal

April 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

Interim injunctions, class actions and ransomware payments…

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The state of startup funding

The state of startup funding

April 16, 2025 | Heather Wright

Cleantech cleans up + 2025 off with hiss and roar…

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Defence Force gears up for spending spree

Defence Force gears up for spending spree

April 15, 2025 | Heather Wright

$1b+ for ERP, and a tech accelerator for Kiwi tech…

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Tariffs an ‘unprecedented opportunity’

Tariffs an ‘unprecedented opportunity’

April 10, 2025 | Heather Wright

Trading on up: The tariff impact…

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AI approach matures, but ROI struggle continues

AI approach matures, but ROI struggle continues

April 9, 2025 | Heather Wright

As OpenAI clocks US$40b raise…

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Developers feel weight of AI demands

Developers feel weight of AI demands

April 8, 2025 | Heather Wright

Biggest users, sharpest critics…

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Unisphere looks to bridge document-data gap

Unisphere looks to bridge document-data gap

April 8, 2025 | Newsdesk

M-Files deal serves up ‘knowledge work automation’…

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Air NZ seeks tech blue skies

Air NZ seeks tech blue skies

April 3, 2025 | Heather Wright

New deals for digital innovation take flight…

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Copilot’s ‘productivity paradox’

Copilot’s ‘productivity paradox’

April 2, 2025 | Heather Wright

CSIRO trial highlights gap between marketing and reality…

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Taking industrial digital twins to the masses

Taking industrial digital twins to the masses

April 1, 2025 | Heather Wright

The Waikato Uni project decarbonising industry through tech…

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Dealing with the ‘uranium’ that is data

Dealing with the ‘uranium’ that is data

March 27, 2025 | Heather Wright

Three IT leaders talk data protection in a new era…

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Immigration NZ’s $336m visa rebuild

Immigration NZ’s $336m visa rebuild

March 27, 2025 | Heather Wright

More automation planned for single system…

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Unsustainable AI Hiring Spree

Employers in unsustainable AI hiring spree

March 26, 2025 | Heather Wright

AI hype hits recruitment…

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Having cybersecurity conversations

Having cybersecurity conversations

March 20, 2025 | Heather Wright

Translating FUD into meaningful risk…

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Public service preps for retiree exodus

Public service preps for tech exodus

March 19, 2025 | Heather Wright

Succession planning needed…

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Kiwi hackathon to develop NZ DOGE

Kiwi hackathon to develop NZ DOGE

March 18, 2025 | Heather Wright

Plus decentralised welfare distribution and tax collection system…

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Evolving role of AI in business technology

The evolving role of AI in business technology

March 18, 2025 | Hayden McCall

Are buyers looking for AI features? Or is the reverse more true?

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Planning for the unplannable

Planning for the unplannable

March 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

CISO’s learnings from UniSuper black swan event…

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Health minister highlights ‘dire’ need for health IT work

Health minister highlights ‘dire’ need for health IT work

March 12, 2025 | Heather Wright

As HiNZ survey shows clinicians concerns over proposed cuts…

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BCG: NZ must pick some new export winners

BCG: NZ must pick some new export winners

March 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

Agtech, medtech, green tech, space and satellites…

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Getting more bang from your third-party cyber risk management buck

Getting more bang from your third-party cyber risk management buck

March 7, 2025 | Heather Wright

Our TPCM is failing, here’s why, and how to fix it…

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FENZ fighting HR & payroll fires

FENZ fighting HR & payroll fires

March 6, 2025 | Heather Wright

$30m down and nothing to show for it?…

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Turning DX and AI spend into results

Turning DX and AI spend into results

March 6, 2025 | Heather Wright

For many, it’s a costly fail…

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MYOB honours enterprise and ISV partners

MYOB honours enterprise and ISV partners

March 4, 2025 | Heather Wright

Stratus Consulting, Kilimanjaro among big winners…

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Agentic AI: F&P, Hipages, One NZ ride the wave

Agentic AI: F&P, Hipages, One NZ ride the wave

February 28, 2025 | Heather Wright

Because copilots are so 2023…

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Value leading shoppers online

Value leading shoppers online

February 26, 2025 | Heather Wright

But local retailers holding on to lion’s share, for now…

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Tech aiding and abetting national security threats

Tech aiding and abetting national security threats

February 25, 2025 | Heather Wright

Everything, everywhere, all at once…

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The SMB digital gap and the Singapore solution

The SMB digital gap and the Singapore solution

February 20, 2025 | Heather Wright

CPA Australia calls for NZ Govt support…

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Treasury Copilot trial: All out out of love

Treasury Copilot trial: All out of love

February 19, 2025 | Heather Wright

While proposal to make HR AI high risk raises ire…

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Balancing AI innovation and responsibility

Balancing AI innovation and responsibility

February 19, 2025 | Heather Wright

The C-suite challenge…

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Go live is not the completion of your ERP project

Go live is not the completion of your ERP project

February 13, 2025 | Heather Wright

Changing ERP change management…

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DeepSeek: Tests, comparisons and bans

DeepSeek: Tests, comparisons and bans

February 12, 2025 | Heather Wright

AI testing – and security – in the spotlight…

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As WFH wavers, flexibility and money demands rise

As WFH wavers, flexibility and money demands rise

February 11, 2025 | Heather Wright

If we can’t have WFH, we better have flexibility…

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Ransomware’s true cost

Ransomware’s true cost

February 6, 2025 | Heather Wright

The local figures…

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Govt releases Kiwi public sector AI guidance

Govt releases Kiwi public sector AI guidance

February 5, 2025 | Heather Wright

Private sector to follow…

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Ericsson private 5G and edge onboard with SailGP

SailGP on edge with private 5G

February 4, 2025 | Heather Wright

Fast racing, fast network…

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Wesfarmers restructures digital as Catch winds down

Wesfarmers restructures digital as Catch winds down

January 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

‘Increased competitive intensity’ proves too much…

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SAP’s $52m cloud migration deal

SAP’s $52m cloud migration deal

January 30, 2025 | Heather Wright

NSW goes cloud, NZ’s CCC digital work continues…

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DeepSeek, AI and crypto: It's Davos 2025

DeepSeek, AI and crypto: It’s Davos 2025

January 29, 2025 | Heather Wright

Tech news from the WEF’s annual summit…

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Personalising loyalty the new frontier for retail tech

January 28, 2025 | Sarah Jarvis - Eagle Eye

Tactical insights for converting loyalty to customer value…

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The A/NZ business cost of Meta’s community moderation

The A/NZ business cost of Meta’s community moderation

January 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

But ditching the platforms unlikely…

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Employment beyond borders

Employment beyond borders

January 23, 2025 | Heather Wright

Kiwi companies snap up Aussie workers – and beyond…

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What’s keeping us up at night

What’s keeping us up at night

January 21, 2025 | Heather Wright

Economics, and the AI PoC graveyard…

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Agentic AI: Building tomorrow’s enterprise

Agentic AI: Building tomorrow’s enterprise

December 19, 2024 | Heather Wright

LLMs just the ‘bricks’ for a new future…

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Audit Office report highlights ERP pain points

Audit Office report highlights ERP pain points

December 18, 2024 | Heather Wright

NSW harmonisation of ERP not all smooth sailing…

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Niwa goes Vast for improved forecasts and risk calculations

Niwa goes Vast for improved forecasts and risk calculations

December 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

New supercomputer + data platform + AI…

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Making AI human-centred

Making AI human-centred

December 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

And getting the agents in on the act…

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SAP turns to AWS for bigger slice of cloud

SAP turns to AWS for bigger slice of cloud

December 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Easier S/4Hana Public Cloud Edition – for midmarket and enterprise?…

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Fighting violence with facial recognition

Fighting violence with facial recognition

December 10, 2024 | Heather Wright

Trial shows FRT reduces harm and justifies use…

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What’s keeping Amazon awake at night?

What’s keeping Amazon awake at night?

December 5, 2024 | Heather Wright

AI hallucinations, carbon burn and distilling LLMs…

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Australia increases pressure on big tech

Australia increases pressure on big tech

December 4, 2024 | Heather Wright

Digital competition regime and whole-of-economy AI regulation…

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Health NZ slashes data and digital team

Health NZ slashes data and digital team

December 3, 2024 | Heather Wright

Cuts to continue through to 2027…

read more...
A/NZ AI governance ‘a mess’

A/NZ AI governance ‘a mess’

November 28, 2024 | Heather Wright

Adding new stakeholders to the governance equation…

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Australia social media ban passes first vote

Australian social media ban passes

November 27, 2024 | Heather Wright

World-first ban moves step closer…

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The impact of a Chrome-less Google

The impact of a Chrome-less Google

November 26, 2024 | Heather Wright

Debundling Google, Chrome and maybe Android…

read more...
The open banking, CDR story

The open banking, CDR story

November 21, 2024 | Heather Wright

A/NZ positioning and international consistency…

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Govt procurement policies out of step in loss/loss deal

Govt procurement policies out of step in loss/loss deal

November 20, 2024 | Heather Wright

Australian report and industry call for ‘urgent’ reform…

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The AI-washing danger

The AI-washing danger

November 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

Time to get real on AI benefits…

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Kiwi tech sector profitability surge

Kiwi tech sector profitability surge

November 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

But employment down – and what’s the Trump factor?…

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Suncorp talks ERP, platforms and AI

Suncorp talks ERP, platforms and AI

November 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Tech modernisation program gathers steam…

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eInvoicing boost

eInvoicing gains local boost

November 8, 2024 | Heather Wright

Govt, and Xero, push electronic option…

read more...
When not to use GenAI

When not to use GenAI

November 7, 2024 | Heather Wright

Know thy strengths – and weaknesses…

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FBNZ named Esker Partner of the Year

FBNZ named Esker Partner of the Year

November 5, 2024 | Fujifilm

Evergreen Garden Care, Gallagher, PGG Wrightson, Ritchies Transport claim wins…

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The spies guide to keeping secrets

The spies guide to keeping secrets

October 31, 2024 | Heather Wright

For tech startups…

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Customise or Compose

Customise vs compose: The differentiation factor

October 31, 2024 | Heather Wright

Composing a customer-obsessed business…

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GenAI reshaping responsibilities as local report flags challenges

GenAI reshaping responsibilities as local report flags challenges

October 30, 2024 | Heather Wright

Accelerated career progress, if adoption can be achieved…

read more...
Growth, cybersec and IT platforms major A/NZ focus

Growth, cybersec and IT platforms major A/NZ focus

October 24, 2024 | Heather Wright

But budgets are proving a barrier…

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Shrinking LLMs

Shrinking LLMs for AI on the PC

October 22, 2024 | Heather Wright

Lightweight and running on your CPU…

read more...
Disrupting enterprise app resilience

Disrupting enterprise app resilience

October 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

Internet at risk, strangulation by regulation and serious sustainability…

read more...
Australia opens new round of AI consultation

Australia opens new round of AI consultation

October 16, 2024 | Heather Wright

Evaluating impact on consumer law…

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Gen AI bringing revenue wins, but data issues persist

Gen AI bringing revenue wins, but data issues persist

October 15, 2024 | Heather Wright

And the winners are an elite few…

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Deepfakes penetrating business

Deepfakes penetrating business

October 10, 2024 | Heather Wright

A/NZ businesses targeted by deepfake scams…

read more...
How to manage your dependence on VMware

How to manage your dependence on VMware

October 10, 2024 | Heather Wright

Spoiler alert, it won’t be easy…

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QA and ESG in focus as Zespri moves to new Horizons

QA and ESG in focus as Zespri moves to new Horizons

October 2, 2024 | Heather Wright

Benefits already accruing for kiwifruit co-op…

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Datacom gets Wiise on SMB ERP market

Datacom gets Wiise on SMB ERP market

October 1, 2024 | Heather Wright

Playing to demand for integrated systems and local customisation…

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FTC: Platforms’ are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

FTC: Platforms’ are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

September 26, 2024 | Heather Wright

People tracking across the internet…

read more...

AI + drones save farmers from counting sheep

September 25, 2024 | Heather Wright

PGG Wrightson’s Skycount takes to the air…

read more...
Transurban drives AI and data success

Transurban drives AI and data success

September 24, 2024 | Heather Wright

But it’s not always been a smooth road…

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The four elements of the future of ERP

The four elements of the future of ERP

September 19, 2024 | Heather Wright

A new automated reality…

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Snap ramps up business play

Snap ramps up business play

September 18, 2024 | Heather Wright

But will it fly with the youth market?…

read more...
Aussie misinformation law to hit platforms' pockets

Aussie misinformation law to hit platforms’ pockets

September 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

Musk dubs government ‘fascists’…

read more...
AI blowouts: It’s really easy to waste money

AI blowouts: It’s really easy to waste money

September 13, 2024 | Heather Wright

Up to 1000% cost blowout…

read more...
Pronto promotes for growth

Pronto promotes for growth

September 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Two staff take on new executive roles…

read more...
HNZ HIRA payroll

Health NZ: From Hira to payroll ‘stabilisation’

September 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Aging health payroll systems win Hira funding…

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GenAI summarising may lead to more work

GenAI summarising may lead to more work

September 10, 2024 | Heather Wright

AI summaries performed lower on all criteria in ASIC trial…

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NSW Police livestreaming triple-0 emergencies

NSW Police livestreaming triple-0 emergencies

September 5, 2024 | Heather Wright

Real-time access to scenes before they’ve even arrived…

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Supply chain protection lagging

Supply chain protection lagging

September 4, 2024 | Heather Wright

As cyber risk tops executives concerns for year…

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Smile to pay not off table for local shoppers

Smile to pay not off table for local shoppers

September 3, 2024 | Heather Wright

Study shows willingness to trial facial recognition payments, with caveats…

read more...
Genesis Energy gears up for Salesforce, Gentrack go-live

Genesis Energy gears up for Salesforce, Gentrack go-live

August 29, 2024 | Heather Wright

Finance and wholesale trading to follow + more AI…

read more...
GovERP functional capabilities ‘cannot be reused’

GovERP functional capabilities ‘cannot be reused’

August 27, 2024 | Heather Wright

Axed project has little scope for future use…

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NZ’s top tech teams and leaders honoured

NZ’s top tech teams and leaders honoured

August 27, 2024 | Heather Wright

Kiwibank’s Hamish Rumbold takes top CIO award…

read more...
Finding the AI use case eluding many

Finding the AI use case eluding many

August 26, 2024 | Heather Wright

And as for governance…

read more...
Local music industry tallies AI cost

Local music industry tallies AI cost

August 22, 2024 | Heather Wright

AI eating musicians lunch…

read more...
Zespris million dollar process intelligence_iStart Aug24

Zespri’s million dollar process intelligence

August 21, 2024 | Heather Wright

Valuable insights guiding Horizon transformation…

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Developers like AI, but don’t trust its results

Developers like AI, but don’t trust its results

August 20, 2024 | Heather Wright

Tech debt frustrations, dwindling incomes and favourite technologies…

read more...
Facing up to biometrics

Facing up to biometrics

August 15, 2024 | Heather Wright

Code concerns and the A/NZ view on biometrics…

read more...
Healthtech export growth, but investment concerns

Healthtech export growth, but investment concerns

August 15, 2024 | Heather Wright

Are Kiwi companies dying with scalable tech in hand?…

read more...
CrowdStrike, Microsoft and Delta stoush

CrowdStrike, Microsoft and Delta stoush

August 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

Is customer’s failure to modernise a get out of jail clause?…

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Australian and Kiwi online shopping habits under microscope

Australian and Kiwi online shopping habits under microscope

August 13, 2024 | Heather Wright

Surveys highlight changing practices, data concerns…

read more...
Petronas: Data liberalisation for growth and business transformation

Petronas: Data liberalisation for growth and business transformation

August 8, 2024 | Heather Wright

Ready for AI, but reaping data benefits now…

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The hidden costs of ERP implementations

The hidden costs of ERP implementations

August 7, 2024 | Heather Wright

Avoiding expensive surprises…

read more...
Australia moves to force ransom payment disclosure

Australia moves to force ransom payment disclosure

August 6, 2024 | Heather Wright

Threat of fines for failure to disclose could be on cards…

read more...
How to navigate tightening privacy regulations

How to navigate tightening privacy regulations

August 6, 2024 | Billy Loizou

Third-party data and cross context behavioural advertising impacts…

read more...
A/NZ in ‘groundbreaking’ global ecom deal

A/NZ in ‘groundbreaking’ global ecom deal

July 31, 2024 | Heather Wright

Cutting costs, speeding up global trade…

read more...
ERP joins BuyICT

ERP joins BuyICT

July 30, 2024 | Heather Wright

While Auckland Council gets new SAP deal…

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Pushing the Boat out on automation

Pushing the Boat out on automation

July 25, 2024 | Heather Wright

Consolidating business orchestration and automation…

read more...
Zespri S/4 benefits start to flow

Zespri S/4 benefits start to flow

July 23, 2024 | Heather Wright

But it’s tranche 2 which will deliver real benefits…

read more...
Gallagher Group reaps rewards of streamlined invoicing

Gallagher Group reaps rewards of streamlined invoicing

July 22, 2024 | Fujifilm

Making better use of people and technology…

read more...
Australian and Kiwi tech priorities diverge

Australian and Kiwi tech priorities diverge

July 18, 2024 | Heather Wright

Forrester reports stark differences in tech plans…

read more...
Transpower modernisation powers talent wins

Transpower modernisation powers talent wins

July 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

Open source key to attracting and retaining talent…

read more...
The S/4Hana migration challenge

The S/4Hana migration challenge

July 16, 2024 | Heather Wright

More than half at risk of maintenance loss…

read more...

Gartner outlines A/NZ ERP strategies

July 11, 2024 | Heather Wright

Market moves with tighter times…

read more...

Covers come off Australia’s top secret cloud

July 11, 2024 | Heather Wright

Well, sort of, as AWS nabs ‘sovereign cloud’ deal…

read more...

NZTA lays groundwork for SAP upgrade

July 4, 2024 | Heather Wright

Amid ‘substantial’ change program…

read more...

NZ agritech looks to Aussie opportunities

July 4, 2024 | Heather Wright

As Aussie farmers log ‘widespread’ use…

read more...

A/NZ’s varying competitiveness fortunes

June 25, 2024 | Heather Wright

As both countries grapple with productivity and innovation…

read more...
Data alchemy: Inside the world of data brokers

Data alchemy: Inside the world of data brokers

June 20, 2024 | Heather Wright

Buying and selling data to the highest bidders…

read more...
Startup scene’s changing fortunes

Startup scene’s changing fortunes

June 20, 2024 | Heather Wright

Call for Kiwi govt support…

read more...
GenAI in ERP: The transformation begins

GenAI in ERP: The transformation begins

June 13, 2024 | Heather Wright

Compelling functionality propelling market…

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Finding the ROI in genAI

Finding the ROI in genAI

June 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Here’s what sets the high performers apart…

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Getting strategic with national AI

Getting strategic with national AI

June 11, 2024 | Heather Wright

AIRA calls for action to avoid falling to global competition..

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And what’s the next gen in data collection?...

What’s Behind the Smart Forms Revolution?

June 6, 2024 |

And what’s the next gen in data collection?…

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Mercury_switches off SAP for Workday_Jun24

Mercury NZ switches SAP for Workday

June 5, 2024 | Heather Wright

Follows Gentrack taking over billing…

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One CX strategy to rule them all

One CX strategy to rule them all

May 29, 2024 | Heather Wright

How digital + CX + marketing can lead to big wins…

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Awards celebrate Kiwi tech diversity

Awards celebrate Kiwi tech diversity

May 29, 2024 | Heather Wright

In space, wastewater, agritech, drones and AI…

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Stats NZ figures show booming tech market

Stats NZ figures show booming tech market

May 28, 2024 | Heather Wright

Software and IT services now 3.7% of GDP despite clouds…

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Open banking: The fintech view

Open banking: The fintech view

May 24, 2024 | Heather Wright

Brave new future for NZ, or primed for failure?…

read more...
AFP CTO on countering common IT challenges

AFP CTO on countering common IT challenges

May 22, 2024 | Heather Wright

Cloud, SD-Wan, Leo and Sase for the win…

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AI guardrails tumble

AI guardrails tumble

May 21, 2024 | Heather Wright

Popular LLMs vulnerable…

read more...
Architecting to adapt

Architecting to adapt

May 16, 2024 | Heather Wright

Imagination and creativity key for enterprise architecture…

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PGG Wrightson plants seeds for further growth with AP automation

May 15, 2024 | Fujifilm

Faster payment processing, fewer errors…

read more...
Tech changes bring $100m+ win for ANZ

Tech changes bring $100m+ win for ANZ

May 15, 2024 | Heather Wright

But productivity key, boss says…

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Google, Vocus team up for latest cable

Google, Vocus team up for latest cable

May 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

Just don’t expect a bill decrease…

read more...
Open banking innovation - is it NZ's time?

Open banking innovation – is it NZ’s time?

May 9, 2024 | Heather Wright

Standards deadlines near, but clarity is lacking…

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Banking on scam reduction

Banking on scam reduction

May 8, 2024 | Heather Wright

Anti-scam systems takes shape across A/NZ…

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Confidence low as AML changes weight down on business

Confidence low as AML changes weigh on business

May 7, 2024 | Heather Wright

Execs worried about compliancy abilities…

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Musk vs Australia: Battlelines drawn

Musk vs Australia: Battlelines drawn

May 2, 2024 | Heather Wright

Legal test of government power over tech looms…

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Kiwi researchers launch global emerging tech framework

Kiwi researchers launch global emerging tech framework

May 1, 2024 | Heather Wright

International policy guide to evaluate AI and other new tech…

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Taking the bulk out of AI models

Taking the bulk out of AI models

April 30, 2024 | Heather Wright

Slimmed down LLMs offer new use cases…

read more...
Taming decision fatigue

Taming decision fatigue

April 24, 2024 | Heather Wright

Four ‘tried and tested’ methods…

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ERP wins: Optimising inventory dives, while CX booms

ERP wins: Optimising inventory dives, while CX booms

April 23, 2024 | Heather Wright

AI drives cloud and cloud drives changing ERP successes…

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A/NZ employers looking to AI for productivity boost

A/NZ employers looking to AI for productivity boost

April 23, 2024 | Heather Wright

But there’s a sting in the tail…

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When ERP customisation causes headaches

When ERP customisation causes headaches

April 18, 2024 | Heather Wright

Six steps to pain relief…

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Albanese eyes industry intervention

Albanese eyes industry intervention

April 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

Support and subsidies for innovative industry tech promised…

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Genesis Energy taps AI for productivity savings, ESOL

Genesis Energy taps AI for productivity savings, ESOL

April 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

Simple tasks providing big savings…

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Microsoft Teams unbundling 'just a sneaky price increase'

Microsoft Teams unbundling ‘just a sneaky price increase’

April 11, 2024 | Heather Wright

Is Microsoft the biggest beneficiary of regulatory moves?…

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Health NZ goes dual-cloud

Health NZ goes dual-cloud

April 10, 2024 | Heather Wright

Network backbone improvements, IAM next up…

read more...
Tackling a changing threat environment

Tackling a changing threat environment

April 9, 2024 | Heather Wright

Australia’s cybersec boss outlines the six shields to protect…

read more...
Inside AI: How Enlighten Designs is using AI

Inside AI: How Enlighten Designs is using AI

April 4, 2024 | Heather Wright

From GitHub Copilot to Gemini Advanced, Anthropic and the AI Act…

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Rio Tinto: Getting active security controls into OT networks

April 3, 2024 | Heather Wright

Breaking tradition, but staying practical…

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NZ fintech regulation

Giving NZ’s fintech scene a pulsecheck

March 28, 2024 | Heather Wright

Banks, government and regulators in firing line…

read more...

AGL’s Maryam Bechtel: Leading with impact

March 27, 2024 | Heather Wright

Engagement, hardening boundaries, and mental health priorities…

read more...

Augmented cybersecurity

March 19, 2024 | Heather Wright

Thriving amid complexity…

read more...
National Anti Scam Centre

Scams down in Australia, while NZ eyes data breach penalties

March 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

Aussie scam crackdown pays dividends, Kiwi privacy commissioner calls for civil penalty regime…

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A/NZ tech migrations

A/NZ tech migrations

March 13, 2024 | Heather Wright

The migrant conundrum…

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Legacy tech's impact on cost control and margin building

Legacy tech’s impact on cost control and margin building

March 12, 2024 | Heather Wright

Old tech dies hard, but GenAI, ERP and automation ride high…

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What happened to the Kiwi data centre boom?

What happened to the Kiwi data centre boom?

March 7, 2024 | Newsdesk

A data centre here, a data centre there…

read more...
ATO facing 4.7m attempted cyber intrusions a month

ATO facing 4.7m attempted cyber intrusions a month

March 6, 2024 | Heather Wright

The cybersecurity concerns that kept commissioner up at night…

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Finding a tech solution to A/NZ productivity woes

Finding a tech solution to A/NZ productivity woes

February 29, 2024 | Heather Wright

The big dollars to be gained through tech-enabled productivity uplift…

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The hidden technology costs in business

The hidden technology costs in business

February 28, 2024 | Heather Wright

And how tracking it can reap big returns…

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Sorry state of NZ public health IT laid bare

Sorry state of NZ public health IT laid bare

February 27, 2024 | Heather Wright

Cloud, standardised systems… and a digital health agency?…

read more...
Getting Wiise on ERP and AI

Getting Wiise on ERP and AI

February 22, 2024 | Heather Wright

ERP ‘Goldilocks’ talks innovation and what customers really, really want …

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The seven characteristics of the data-driven enterprise

The seven characteristics of the data-driven enterprise

February 21, 2024 | Heather Wright

McKinsey outlines how to get to data-driven nirvana…

read more...
Digital investment driving spend across Wesfarmer business

Digital investment driving spend across Wesfarmer business

February 20, 2024 | Heather Wright

‘Money well spent’ in strengthening overall group…

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Of facial recognition, big data, Palantir and computer vision

Retail tech: security vs privacy

February 15, 2024 | Heather Wright

Woolworths, Coles, Palantir push on with digital surveillance…

read more...
Getting personal with customers

Getting personal with customers

February 14, 2024 | Heather Wright

Aim low for early success…

read more...
2024: The year of digital identity?

2024: The year of digital identity?

February 8, 2024 | Heather Wright

Australia and NZ gear up for digital ID launches…

read more...
Demand for data & analytics expertise at three-year high

Demand for data & analytics expertise at three-year high

February 7, 2024 | Newsdesk

New research signals increased influence of AI, cybersecurity in data strategies…

read more...
Govt urged to fund career change

Govt urged to fund career change

February 7, 2024 | Heather Wright

Minimum wage for reskilling proposed in Australia, while in NZ…

read more...
AI isn’t tomorrow’s singular hero

AI isn’t tomorrow’s singular hero

February 1, 2024 | Heather Wright

Multiple technologies are coming into play for A/NZ business…

read more...
Privacy watchdog flags concerns over cyber sharing block

Privacy watchdog flags concerns over cyber sharing block

January 31, 2024 | Heather Wright

‘Limited use mechanism’ doesn’t mean limited enforcement…

read more...

AI uptake subdued as companies look to data first

January 30, 2024 | Heather Wright

But Australia punches above weight for AI effectiveness…

read more...
Responsible AI guradrails needed

A/NZ face off with responsible AI

January 25, 2024 | Heather Wright

Days of ‘do what you want’ coming to end…

read more...
How ChatGPT bias impacts product recommendations

How ChatGPT bias impacts product recommendations

January 24, 2024 | Heather Wright

And how to get ahead of the game…

read more...
The skills employers are willing to pay a premium for

The skills employers are willing to pay a premium for

January 23, 2024 | Heather Wright

New year, new job as demand remains strong across A/NZ…

read more...
Half of consumers to abandon or limit social media

Half of consumers to abandon or limit social media

January 18, 2024 | Heather Wright

And most expect AI to further harm the user experience…

read more...
CES 2024: The good and the just plain strange

CES 2024: The good and the just plain strange

January 17, 2024 | Heather Wright

A look at some of this year’s offerings…

read more...
Australian My Health Record data sharing plan sparks concerns

Australian My Health Record data sharing plan sparks concerns

January 16, 2024 | Heather Wright

Data without understanding can be dangerous…

read more...
Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom funding

Vector big data project scoops $750,000 ComCom funding

January 16, 2024 | Heather Wright

X and AWS projects also on the boil…

read more...
Courting GenAI: The good, the bad and the ugly

Courting GenAI: The good, the bad and the ugly

December 13, 2023 | Heather Wright

Courts get guidance, businesses fear failure…

read more...
Fujitsu ordered to pay Corrections $3.9m

Fujitsu ordered to pay Corrections $3.9m

December 12, 2023 | Heather Wright

And Dassault to pay back $1.8m in licence fees to Fujitsu…

read more...
Forrester urges thoughtful approach to 2024 tech

Forrester urges thoughtful approach to 2024 tech

December 7, 2023 | Heather Wright

Tech FOMO? Careful, you may get burned…

read more...
Health NZ data and digital: Confusing, lacking clarity and coherence

Health NZ: Confusing, lacking clarity and coherence

December 6, 2023 | Heather Wright

Damning report calls for funding to be ‘closely examined’ against expectations…

read more...
Trends in digital finance

Trends in digital finance

December 5, 2023 | Abid Ali

Artificial intelligence will take the sector by storm over the next decade…

read more...
Waikato Regional Council reboots ERP

Waikato Regional Council reboots ERP

December 5, 2023 | Heather Wright

Infor deliver after delays and cost blowout…

read more...
Rough year bites deep into TWG digital spend

Rough year bites deep into TWG digital spend

November 30, 2023 | Heather Wright

$30m shaved off FY24 spend…

read more...
Fujifilm Business Innovation: ERP, growth engines and the All Blacks

Fujifilm Business Innovation: ERP, growth engines and the All Blacks

November 30, 2023 | Heather Wright

Global boss Naoki Hama on what’s driving his company…

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Most companies are buying the wrong software

Most companies are buying the wrong software

November 29, 2023 | Heather Wright

Buyer remorse runs high…

read more...
Accenture Solnet_Nov23

Sun shines as Accenture acquires NZ’s Solnet

November 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

Global giant gains contemporary cloud engineering…

read more...
First-party data in banking

First-party data in banking

November 22, 2023 | Billy Loizou

Resolving identity key as third-party cookies crumble…

read more...
New rules for bulk emails as Google, Yahoo up anti-spam game

Google, Yahoo up their anti-spam game

November 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

Stricter requirements for bulk emails come into force from Feb 24…

read more...
ASX BaNCS on TCS for Chess replacement

ASX BaNCS on TCS for Chess replacement

November 21, 2023 | Heather Wright

No blockchain required, thanks…

read more...
AI: Job enhancer or replacer?

AI: Job enhancer or replacer?

November 20, 2023 | Brad Drysdale

How AI is co-piloting a transformation of work…

read more...
NZ's top 200 tech exporters hit $17b

NZ’s top 200 tech exporters hit $17b

November 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

On track for $30b market in next decade…

read more...
The roadmap for service sector digital transformation

The roadmap for service sector digital transformation

November 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

Three technologies, two imperatives to stay competitive in 2024…

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Team Cloud – locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud coming to NZ

Team Cloud – locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud coming to NZ

November 15, 2023 | Newsdesk

Oracle IaaS, PaaS claim Kiwi ‘first’…

read more...
Half of cloud transformations ‘abject failures’

Half of cloud transformations ‘abject failures’

November 14, 2023 | Heather Wright

Capturing business value requires more clarity…

read more...
Local SMBs pull back on cybersecurity spend

Local SMBs pull back on cybersecurity spend

November 9, 2023 | Heather Wright

Cost key factor as revenue-driving activities take priority…

read more...

The new IoT: Illuminating information shadows

November 8, 2023 | Heather Wright

But beware of data overload and blockchain overkill…

read more...
When customers and differentiation matter, compose your software

When customers and differentiation matter, compose your software

November 2, 2023 | Heather Wright

Forget build vs buy, today’s choice is customise or compose…

read more...
NZ health ministry's Lotus Notes purge continues

NZ health ministry purges Lotus

November 1, 2023 | Heather Wright

Yes, Lotus Notes still lives on. A short history…

read more...
Beyond ChatGPT hype: Enterprise best practice

Beyond ChatGPT hype: Enterprise best practice

October 31, 2023 | Heather Wright

Think of your generative AI platform as a four-layer cake… 

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Franchisers realising a digital advantage

Franchisers realising a digital advantage

October 31, 2023 | Raghu Rajakumar

Data standardisation and optimisation key to success…

read more...
Observability: The central nervous system for your applications

Observability: The central nervous system for your applications

October 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

And a critical factor in user experience…

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Digital shortage hurting construction

Digital shortage hurting construction

October 25, 2023 | Heather Wright

Catch-20 hits sector…

read more...
Businesses under-estimating cyber supply chain risks

Businesses under-estimating cyber supply chain risks

October 24, 2023 | Heather Wright

Narrow perception fuels dangerous overconfidence…

read more...
ProCare trials 'digital assistants'

ProCare trials ‘digital assistants’

October 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Public health and workforce benefits, while reducing inequality…

read more...
Sign of the times as eSignatures take flight

Sign of the times as eSignatures take flight

October 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Fujifilm Business Innovation A/NZ win highlight growth market….

read more...
GenAI reality check as companies take cautious approach

GenAI reality check as companies take cautious approach

October 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

Less than five percent to deploy APIs or GenAI-enabled apps this year

read more...
Robotics Plus gears up to Prospr from ag autonomous vehicle market

Robotics Plus gears up to Prospr from ag autonomous vehicle market

October 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

From early stage high-growth company to commercial player…

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Employee monitoring software: Valid tool or a step too far?

Employee monitoring software: Valid tool or a step too far?

October 12, 2023 | Heather Wright

To spy or not to spy on remote workers…

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Businesses locked in to ‘captivity cloud’

Businesses locked in to ‘captivity cloud’

October 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

And losing control of IT and security environments…

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Toll Group breaks legacy hold with low-code

Toll Group breaks legacy hold with low-code

October 5, 2023 | Heather Wright

40 percent reduction in cost and halving of project times…

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ERP rollout 'progressing well' for Warehouse Group

ERP rollout ‘progressing well’ for Warehouse Group

October 4, 2023 | Heather Wright

Core systems transformation ‘major investment’ for year…

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IT leaders buying into AI to support exploding workloads

IT leaders buying into AI to support exploding workloads

October 3, 2023 | Heather Wright

Easing software burden through AI…

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Consumer love for GenAI requires business action

Consumer love for GenAI requires business action

September 28, 2023 | Heather Wright

Australian uptake of generative AI outpacing Netflix…

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A/NZ early access Copilot users talk genAI

A/NZ early access Copilot users talk genAI

September 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

NAB, BNZ, Suncorp, Genesis, and more put Microsoft in the Copilot’s seat… 

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NZ Post: AI for commercial gains and customer trust

NZ Post: AI for commercial gains and customer trust

September 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

Reinforcing customer trust through AI…

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Retaining younger workers relies on the digital experience

Retaining younger workers relies on the digital experience

September 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

The CIO as chief talent officer…

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Mastering master data management

Mastering master data management

September 21, 2023 | Heather Wright

Good data informs good decisions…

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AWS CTO outlines the four steps to unlock GenAI's potential

AWS CTO outlines the four steps to unlock GenAI’s potential

September 20, 2023 | Heather Wright

Choice, flexibility, democratisation…

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The business cost of dark data

The business cost of dark data

September 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Unstructured, untapped and undervalued…

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SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone

From Fragile to Agile: How AI is changing integration

September 19, 2023 | Jeremiah Stone CTO at SnapLogic

SnapGPT delivers AI-powered decision-making…

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Everyday AI or game-changing? How to get intentional with your AI

Everyday AI or game-changing? How to get intentional with your AI

September 14, 2023 | Heather Wright

The AI pillars Gartner says you need to nail now…

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Australia #5 in data breach stats

Australia #5 in data breach stats

September 13, 2023 | Heather Wright

Password = Password problem is not helping…

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Barfoot & Thompson: Finding genAI success

Barfoot & Thompson: Finding genAI success

September 12, 2023 | Heather Wright

ChatGPT, legacy tech and hybrid cloud…

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Tax 3.0_ATO Chris Jordan_The Tax Summit 2023

Digital and data – and digital mindset – key in taxing future

September 7, 2023 | Heather Wright

ATO boss urges ‘transformation-as-usual’ for all…

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Composing your own cloud

Composing your own cloud

September 6, 2023 | Heather Wright

Cloud gets abstracted, intelligent and composable…

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The Tax Summit 2023_David Thodey

Thodey warns of leadership challenges

September 1, 2023 | Newsdesk

Lack of the right leadership behind faltering innovation, productivity…

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Cost challenges remain in cloud as SaaS prices climb

Cost challenges remain in cloud as SaaS prices climb

August 31, 2023 | Heather Wright

As hybrid and multicloud becomes cloud of the future…

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Responsible AI network_Stela Sola

Why it’s time to RAIN on AI

August 30, 2023 | Heather Wright

A/NZ AI use up, but where’s the responsible use policies?…

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‘Alternative’ pathways key to building IT workforce

‘Alternative’ pathways key to building IT workforce

August 29, 2023 | Heather Wright

Breaking down barriers to build tech workforce…

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Agtech providing fertile fields for VCs

Agtech providing fertile fields for VCs

August 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

Sunny days ahead for sector…

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"Privacy protection laws and access to quality data must be carefully balanced."

Zoom AI drama a cautionary tale on data use

August 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

Lust for data hits (immovable) public outrage…

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The generative AI future

The generative AI future

August 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

Changing skills, and new challenges for CIOs… 

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Web3, blockchain and NFTs for A/NZ business

Web3, blockchain and NFTs for A/NZ business

August 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

Tactical experimentation, and caution needed…

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Boral process chain digitisation pays dividends

Boral process chain digitisation pays dividends

August 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

Customer, business benefits in new system…

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CIO Awards winners driving sustainability, data and future champions

CIO Awards winners driving sustainability, data and future champions

August 15, 2023 | Heather Wright

NZRC’s Angela Nash takes top honours… 

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Is NZ govt waking up to cyber threats?

Is NZ govt waking up to cyber threats?

August 15, 2023 | Heather Wright

Key threats report and critical infrastructure consultation highlight new focus…

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Kilimanjaro climbs legal mountain in MYOB dispute

Kilimanjaro climbs legal mountain in MYOB dispute

August 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

Good faith and unconscionability in question…

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Pests ratted out by AI

Pests ratted out by AI

August 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

The future of pest control goes high-tech…

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People or tech? NZ’s productivity dilemma

People or tech? NZ’s productivity dilemma

August 9, 2023 | Heather Wright

New survey highlights lack of tech ambition…

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Pragmatism, GenAI and local ERP plans

Pragmatism, GenAI and local ERP plans

August 8, 2023 | Heather Wright

Few established use cases for GenAI ERP, yet…

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A minimal viable knowledge set to get started with AI

A minimal viable knowledge set to get started with AI

August 3, 2023 | Heather Wright

The pragmatic introduction of AI techniques…  

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Watson's prescription for knowing your data

Watson’s prescription for knowing your data

August 2, 2023 | Heather Wright

Pronto embeds IBM smarts into data security…

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Maximising Australia’s tech shots on goal

Maximising Australia’s tech shots on goal

August 1, 2023 | Heather Wright

Sector failing at scaling up…

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Finding the ROI in generative AI

Finding the ROI in generative AI

July 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

And the three steps to take now to ensure that ROI… 

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Communicating the business value of IT

Communicating the business value of IT

July 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

Change the way you tell your tech success stories…

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Big names in CIO Awards finalists line-up

July 20, 2023 | Heather Wright

The IT leaders and companies vying for glory this year are…

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Transparency and human supervisors key to chatbot success

July 20, 2023 | Heather Wright

Creating a successful dual frontline service…

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Building superapps: Think Batman, not Superman

July 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

The role of employee superapps…

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Threads comes back down to earth

July 18, 2023 | Heather Wright

After the peak comes the trough, while Twitter advertising revenue halves…

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‘Mind-blowing’ AI for good… or AI gone bad

July 12, 2023 | Heather Wright

UN summit seeks guardrails, as AU and NZ issue guidance…

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Reports highlight world of Māori tech potential

July 11, 2023 | Heather Wright

From growing businesses to insight into educational needs…

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‘Cyber transformers’ harnessing security for growth

July 6, 2023 | Heather Wright

Cybersecurity as a changemaker as NZ battles for Cert…

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Infor wins big in Kiwi water reforms deal

July 6, 2023 | Heather Wright

$532m IT spend expected amid billion dollar budget blowout…

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A/NZ companies call on gamification for upskilling

July 4, 2023 | Heather Wright

As hiring takes backseat to doing more with those you already have…

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AI and AR/metaverse driving A/NZ cloud

June 28, 2023 | Heather Wright

As local organisations get ahead of the game…

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Developers: In AI we (don’t) trust

June 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

But curiosity starting to outweigh scepticism…

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NZ Hi-Tech Awards 2023

Cin7, Dawn Aerospace, Formus among big NZ Hi-Tech winners

June 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

While Guy and Sue Haddleton fly high…

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Hiring intent is high across A/NZ

A/NZ on IT hiring binge

June 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

Intentions are high, but what about supply?…

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Employees say companies are too slow to embrace new tech

Employees say companies are too slow to embrace new tech

June 21, 2023 | Heather Wright

Are senior leaders really holding us back?…

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Can your IT stack cope with AI?

Can your IT stack cope with AI?

June 20, 2023 | Heather Wright

Balancing AI objectives and infrastructure a challenge…

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Kill your darlings.

Why IT leaders must kill their darlings

June 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Forget the good and focus on the great… 

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Australia overhauls payment system

Australia overhauls payment system

June 15, 2023 | Heather Wright

New payments platform, fintech, digital ID and smartwatches…

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ERP brings in investors – and investment

ERP brings in investors – and investment

June 14, 2023 | Heather Wright

Amidst the ChatGPT rush, don’t forget ERP…

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The big divide in GenAI

The big divide in GenAI

June 13, 2023 | Heather Wright

BCG’s 10-20-70 rule sets priorities…

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12 steps to better data quality

12 steps to better data quality

June 8, 2023 | Heather Wright

Organisational culture, people and processes…

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A/NZ digital twin push gets boost

A/NZ digital twin push gets boost

June 7, 2023 | Heather Wright

NZ joins AU in Digital Twin Partnership  

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Gaming for logistics

Gaming for logistics

June 2, 2023 | Heather Wright

Plus, the impact of those Kiwi rebates…

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Fujifilm looks to partners for regional growth

Fujifilm looks to partners for regional growth

June 1, 2023 | Heather Wright

Exclusively selling and supporting print technology…

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Propelling CX transformation

Propelling CX transformation

May 31, 2023 | Heather Wright

A three cylinder empathy engine…

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Six ChatGPT risks your business needs to evaluate

Six ChatGPT risks your business needs to evaluate

May 30, 2023 | Heather Wright

Privacy Commissioner, Gartner and legal firms weigh in…

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Consumers: Give us data control – and transparency

Consumers: Give us data control – and transparency

May 25, 2023 | Heather Wright

Getting granular with consumer data permissions…

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Australia outlines the tech to secure its future

Australia outlines the tech to secure its future

May 24, 2023 | Heather Wright

AI, robotics and clean energy in updated Critical Technologies list…

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A/NZ leaders put market on notice: New hires must be AI-ready

A/NZ leaders put market on notice: New hires must be AI-ready

May 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

As workers concede they’re keen to delegate to AI…

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2023 NZ Record Tech Investment_TIN200

Behind NZ’s record tech investment

May 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

Plenty of ups, a few downs, and room for growth…

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Gartner I&O Innovation Engines: Landrover Merlin Longnose 27 litre V12

How to build an I&O forward business

May 18, 2023 | Heather Wright

Watercare, ABN and Tetrapak show the way…

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The A/NZ digital trust paradox

The A/NZ digital trust paradox

May 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

Important but not important enough to action…

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Three tech strategies to drive enterprise value and ROI

Three tech strategies to drive enterprise value and ROI

May 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

Cloud is the force multiplier for business valuations, says Deloitte…

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Public sector's SaaS appetite yet to reap local returns

Public sector’s SaaS appetite yet to reap local returns

May 11, 2023 | Heather Wright

The money is flowing… largely offshore…

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Consumer group urges AU publicly owned cloud

Consumer group urges AU publicly owned cloud

May 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

Time to cut reliance on big tech providers

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FAANGs respond to tough times

How FAANGs are responding to tough times

May 5, 2023 | Heather Wright

Big SaaS looks to take bite out of gen AI…

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Industry makes big bets on generative AI future

Industry makes big bets on generative AI future

May 3, 2023 | Heather Wright

New money horse in face of tough times…

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Data overload creating organisational inertia

Data overload creating organisational inertia

May 2, 2023 | Heather Wright

And stressing out business leaders…

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ERP’s gets ESG greenlight

ERP gets ESG greenlight

April 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

Start with what you have…

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A/NZ M&A, investment deals plummet

A/NZ M&A, investment deals plummet

April 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

But brighter days ahead says PwC…

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ESG aspirations hit data block

ESG aspirations hit data block

April 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

Sustainability’s data crisis…

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A/NZ cyber support NFP warns increased penalties may fuel attacks

A/NZ cyber support NFP warns increased penalties may fuel attacks

April 20, 2023 | Heather Wright

Penalty increase may spark ‘perverse’ outcomes…

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Finding the balance between security and personalised CX

Finding the balance between security and personalised CX

April 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Make it personal. And safe, and cookie-free…

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Getting data and analytics in the spotlight

April 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Woolworths NZ leader explains why D&A teams need to learn to show off…   

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The resiliency gap – and the 5 core rules to bridge it

April 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Surviving and thriving amidst disruption…

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The big banking tech buy-up

The big banking tech buy-up

April 13, 2023 | Heather Wright

And the promise of new embedded finance…

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Australia preps to send in the robots

Australia preps to send in the robots

April 12, 2023 | Heather Wright

While NZ roadmap work kicks off

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AWS, Microsoft face UK cloud computing probe

AWS, Microsoft face UK cloud computing probe

April 11, 2023 | Heather Wright

UK watchdog joins challenge to tech giants…

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AI futures in Australia and New Zealand

AI futures in Australia and New Zealand

April 5, 2023 | Heather Wright

Changing policies, reaping rewards… 

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Big names call time on metaverse bets

Big names call time on metaverse bets

April 4, 2023 | Heather Wright

As ChatGPT rises, the metaverse falls…

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Quick payback for IoT eluding local companies

Quick payback for IoT eluding local companies

March 30, 2023 | Heather Wright

But it’s not deterring them in their plans…

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Data isn’t gold – it’s industrial pollution

Data isn’t gold – it’s industrial pollution

March 29, 2023 | Heather Wright

And what CISOs need to do about it… 

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Democratising data: L’Oreal’s team sport

March 29, 2023 | Heather Wright

It’s a marathon that brings teams together…  

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Why data resists being owned

Why data resists being owned

March 28, 2023 | Heather Wright

From data privacy to data responsibility…

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‘Digital boiler’ market heats up

‘Digital boiler’ market heats up

March 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

Data centre sideline business sees resurgence… 

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Why Karen’s job in the call centre is safe from GPT

Why Karen’s job in the call centre is safe from GPT

March 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

But knowledge workers, creatives face disruption…

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Open source is the tech we trust

Open source is the tech we trust

March 21, 2023 | Heather Wright

Blockchain and quantum – not so much… 

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Advancing manufacturing with accelerated depreciation

Kiwi manufacturing transformation plans launched

March 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

Accelerated depreciation on offer for 4.0…

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Generative AI’s new frontier: CRM

Generative AI’s new frontier: CRM

March 15, 2023 | Heather Wright

From poems to sales emails – and your customer data…

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Digital skills gap costing AU businesses $3.1 billion

Digital skills gap costing AU businesses $3.1 billion

March 14, 2023 | Heather Wright

And it will cost $1.5b to fix it…

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There’s money and satisfaction in those digital skills

There’s money and satisfaction in those digital skills

March 9, 2023 | Heather Wright

The individual, organisational and macroeconomic benefits…

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FujiFilm_Innovation_David Jupe NZ MD_2023

Fujifilm increases services and solutions push

March 8, 2023 | Heather Wright

Assisted by recent ERP services acquisition… 

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The satellite connection

The satellite connection

March 2, 2023 | Heather Wright

Starlink in NZ fastest in Oceania, AU 100+Mbps…

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The public cloud factor

The public cloud factor

February 28, 2023 | Heather Wright

Opportunities, dividends and caveats for A/NZ businesses…

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Stuff taking AI mainstream_Andrew McPherson 2023

Stuff taking AI mainstream

February 27, 2023 | Heather Wright

It’s time for AI to go from low impact to big bang…

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NZ-Savers-scam 2023

The ‘major’ investment scam using Google Ads

February 23, 2023 | Heather Wright

Kiwis conned out of millions in two weeks…

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Why it’s time to modernise supply chains

Why it’s time to modernise supply chains

February 22, 2023 | Newsdesk

Intelligent SCM tools are in the here and now…

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Integration remains key challenge for digital transformation

Integration remains key challenge for digital transformation

February 22, 2023 | Heather Wright

Companies look to APIs and automation…

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Unboxing Australia and NZ’s eCommerce paths

Unboxing Australia and NZ’s eCommerce paths

February 21, 2023 | Heather Wright

Correction follows Covid-inspired hyper-growth…

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Broaden your view to succeed at digital first

Broaden your view to succeed at digital first

February 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

It’s time to think horizontally, says Mitchell Pham..

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Low Code governance_Gartner

The challenges of low-code and governance

February 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

No, low code and app portfolio governance are not the same… 

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Chinese 'surveillance tech' concerns flare

Chinese ‘surveillance tech’ concerns flare

February 16, 2023 | Heather Wright

As Australia looks at bans, NZ says ‘we’re good’…

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ChatGPT Dall.E Bard Search Wars

Welcome to the new search wars

February 15, 2023 | Heather Wright

Where the future of search is conversational… 

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Getting ‘responsible’ with technology

Getting ‘responsible’ with technology

February 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

The fine line as responsible tech becomes pressing need…

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The Warehouse trades in siloes for customer journeys

The Warehouse trades in siloes for customer journeys

February 10, 2023 | Heather Wright

Agile, ERP, data and integration…

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Digital Business

How digital business changes everything

February 8, 2023 | Heather Wright

From the CIO as orchestrator to digital ‘alloys’… 

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MYOB Mid-market disconnect Feb22

The mid-market digital disconnect

February 2, 2023 |

Integration gaps stymie digital gains…

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Security budgets not meeting current needs

Security budgets not meeting current needs

February 1, 2023 | Heather Wright

And 11 percent only able to protect ‘most critical assets’…

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ERP as a rescue technology

ERP as a rescue technology

January 31, 2023 | Heather Wright

Renovation and rightsizing of ERP key for 2023… 

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Davos 2023: Tech in a geopolitically fractured world

Davos 2023: Tech in a geopolitically fractured world

January 26, 2023 | Heather Wright

From a ‘purpose driven metaverse’ to clean data, 5G and quantum… 

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Origin Energy claims 'significant' benefits from SAP program

Origin Energy claims ‘significant’ benefits from SAP program

January 25, 2023 | Heather Wright

Business and employee experience gains…

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2023: The year of creative resilience

2023: The year of creative resilience

January 24, 2023 | Heather Wright

Finding resilience through smart tech investment… 

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ChatGPT eyes enterprise play

ChatGPT eyes enterprise play

January 19, 2023 | Heather Wright

Monetising the AI chatbot we’re all playing with…

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The $2t cost of poor software quality

The $2t cost of poor software quality

January 18, 2023 | Heather Wright

Is it time to focus on DevQualOps?…

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Accenture NZ 2022 growth hits 200m_1

Accenture NZ revenues crack $200m

January 17, 2023 | Heather Wright

First full year post-Zag acquisition pays dividends… 

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Jeremiah Stone_SnapLogic CTO_2023 trends

2023 trends: Reshaping the future of business with cloud, data and AI

Key data, cloud and AI trends that will reshape the future of business for the year ahead…

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Digital 3.0

Digital 3.0 to drive business valuations

December 15, 2022 | Heather Wright

Digital assets, capabilities and platforms in driver’s seat

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Multi-cloud computing reaches for the sky

December 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

Taming the multicloud chaos with metacloud…

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Remote Work

Remote work getting more engaging

December 13, 2022 | Heather Wright

But companies remain divided…

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2023 opportunity: APAC expansion

December 12, 2022 | Ahsan Malik CFO at SnapLogic

Insider advice for growth-focused tech vendors…

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NZ Health

National platform to simplify, unify NZ health sector

December 8, 2022 | Heather Wright

As MoH ponders precision health…

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BCG_Struggling to choose right DX tech

Selecting the right disruptive tech a challenge

December 8, 2022 | Heather Wright

And is DX actually providing ROI?…

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TradeLens

Maersk, IBM abandon blockchain platform

December 6, 2022 | Heather Wright

Tradelens follows ASX Chess replacement project…

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AWS re:Invent 2022: The big news

December 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

And some local announcements…

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Foreign interference under renewed scrutiny

Foreign interference under renewed scrutiny

December 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

Senate enquiries and warnings ahead of NZ elections – and Census…

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iStart News - AppWrap tech news in brief

AppWrap22: PGG Wrightson IoT temp, MBIE tender changes

December 1, 2022 | Newsdesk

Keeping you up to date with A/NZ and world tech news…

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Peter Beck_ Rocket Lab

Leadership, innovation and strategy awarded at NZ CIO Awards

November 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

Peter Beck recognised with Outstanding Contribution at CIO Awards evening…

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Gartner_Physical and Cyber Security_2022

Converging physical and cyber security

November 29, 2022 | Heather Wright

It’s time to plug some critical gaps…

read more...

A/NZ companies going borderless 

November 25, 2022 | Heather Wright

New talent solution offers opportunities, and challenges… 

read more...

Five steps to cut up to 25% of cloud costs – without losing value

November 24, 2022 | Heather Wright

Significant savings can be found, McKinsey says…

read more...

Kiwi companies win $1.4b emergency services deal

November 24, 2022 | Heather Wright

Tait, Kordia, Spark and Vodafone beat global vendors to 10-year contract…

read more...

$15.1 billion and counting: NZ tech companies’ log strong growth

November 18, 2022 | Heather Wright

Story of resilience and diversity for NZ tech… 

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The fastest-growing programming languages 

November 17, 2022 | Heather Wright

GitHub report reveals latest code-cutting fads… 

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Employee Surveillance_tougher laws

Calls for tougher laws around workplace surveillance

November 17, 2022 | Heather Wright

The tech has moved a lot faster than the law…

read more...

Meta cuts 11,000 jobs 

November 10, 2022 | Heather Wright

From Great Resignation to mass layoffs across sector…

read more...

Salesforce highlights great expectations 

November 10, 2022 | Heather Wright

State of Marketing report has marketers chasing new tales… 

read more...

Cybercrime attacks, and costs, from crims, states, rise  

November 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

But govt deprioritises cyber skills in migration…

read more...

Kiwi cybersecurity honoured at iSanz awards 

November 3, 2022 | Heather Wright

Scam simulators, malware free initiatives among winners… 

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Password cracking not needed

November 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

We’re still making it too easy for attackers…

read more...

Who’s who of NZ IT line up for CIO Awards

October 27, 2022 | Heather Wright

The IT leaders and companies vying for glory this year are…

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$50m penalties for AU privacy breaches on the cards

October 27, 2022 | Heather Wright

As Medibank hack revelations worsen…

read more...

Weathering the storms of disruption

October 26, 2022 | Heather Wright

Data driven and digital…

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Leadership in turbulent times

October 26, 2022 | Heather Wright

Two execs share navigational tips for high inflation…

read more...

Strong A/NZ showing for infrastructure tech awards

October 26, 2022 | Heather Wright

Five local projects named as finalists in Bentleys…

read more...

Switched On CIO: Rio Tinto’s Daniel Evans

October 20, 2022 | Heather Wright

Remaking Rio Tinto, ESG and the value of mentors…

read more...

Do you need a data product manager?

October 19, 2022 | Heather Wright

Capitalise on data with new products, and a new role…

read more...

Australia gets big tech inquiry, NZ gets…um ah..

October 13, 2022 | Heather Wright

Two countries, two takes on big tech regulation…

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Forrester: Don’t believe the hype

October 13, 2022 | Heather Wright

Value of emerging tech questioned …

read more...

The analytics-based approach to efficient ops

October 11, 2022 | Heather Wright

Move over AI, process intelligence is the new ‘hottest tech’…

read more...

A/NZ ‘runners up’, but ongoing drop in eGov rankings for Australia

October 6, 2022 | Heather Wright

And Digital Quality of Life paints even bleaker picture for both…

read more...

Privacy and cybersecurity law changes, post Optus

October 5, 2022 | Heather Wright

The longer term impact of the Optus breach…

read more...

The CISO’s concerns – and career path

October 4, 2022 | Heather Wright

Hurdles to board aspirations…

read more...

Disrupting supply chain disruption

September 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

A path to supply chain resilience…

read more...

How digital should your business be?

September 29, 2022 | Heather Wright

Surprising insight into digitisation, and its benefits…

read more...

Putting digital trust into digital transformations

September 28, 2022 | Heather Wright

As Optus experiences shattering of digital trust…

read more...

Finding business value in the metaverse

September 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

Unilever and ANZ Bank offer insights…

read more...

Cybersec skills gap requires ‘alternative approaches’

September 21, 2022 | Heather Wright

While report notes real consequences of the gap… 

read more...

Force multipliers and why you should try that hyped tech

September 15, 2022 | Heather Wright

Highy hyped, highly visible – and great for your brand… 

read more...

How tech is giving CIOs sustainability clout

September 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

And the ‘two for one’ deals bringing financial wins…

read more...

Vertical software growth not all it seems

September 12, 2022 | Heather Wright

A hot market, but with a way to go…

read more...

Healthtech’s $2.9b+ shot in arm for NZ economy

September 8, 2022 | Heather Wright

Thriving sector offers lessons in success…

read more...

SMB tech, skills tax breaks move forward with consultation

September 8, 2022 | Heather Wright

Draft legislation on AU$1.5 billion deductions sees light of day…

read more...

Applied AI leading ‘technology that matters most’ for companies

September 6, 2022 | Heather Wright

A quantitative look at technologies’ innovation, investment and interest…

read more...

Are underwater data centres really coming?

September 2, 2022 | Heather Wright

Subsea Cloud claims commercial launch by year end…

read more...

Analytics, AI hampering Australian productivity

September 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

Productivity Inquiry outlines concerns, recommendations…

read more...

How neurotech could change the law – and business

September 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

Would you have an implant so you could do your job better?…

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Are you ready for eInvoicing?

August 25, 2022 | Heather Wright

Lessons from the early adopters…

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The developer productivity drain: Knowledge silos

August 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

And searching for answers, and answering questions, are just as bad… 

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SAP awards ‘best run’ A/NZ customers

August 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

Local customers running hard, winning big…

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Victoria eyes data driven future with new digital twin

August 17, 2022 | Heather Wright

Cities, states and countries in digital twin rush… 

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Getting headless with your digital experience

August 11, 2022 | Heather Wright

Driving personalised digital experience with DXC…

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ASX’s Chess replacement hits blocks

August 10, 2022 | Heather Wright

‘Blockchain first’ faces delays, review…

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Protecting your business from the top malware

August 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

They’re not new, but they’re evolving…

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Seequent, Alimentary big winners for NZ Hi-Tech Awards

August 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

While Ian McCrae gains Flying Kiwi status…

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Inside a cyberwar

August 5, 2022 | Heather Wright

And the Australia and New Zealand impact…

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Salesforce triples A/NZ profit

August 3, 2022 | Heather Wright

Logs yet another bumper year…

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Microsoft and Oracle share the database cloud love

July 28, 2022 | Heather Wright

Oracle ❤️ Microsoft, at least when it comes to new Database Service…

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Addressing diversity could fill 14,000 tech roles a year

July 27, 2022 | Heather Wright

More diversity, more staff, more economic activity…

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12-hour cyberattack notifications now in force

July 26, 2022 | Heather Wright

Expanded ‘critical infrastructure’ definition could catch AU business out…

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The future of IoT in A/NZ, according to IDC

July 21, 2022 | Heather Wright

All the IoT you don’t see…

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Regret IT spend

A/NZ companies experiencing tech buyer regret

July 20, 2022 | Heather Wright

But it’s often a business, not technology, issue…

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Tech investment: A tale of two markets

July 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

Funding slowdown in AU, but maybe not for NZ…

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$2b gone: The scams catching Aussie businesses out

July 12, 2022 | Heather Wright

Payment redirection, cryto, investment scams double…

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Free G Suite now history for business

June 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

Sign up to pay, or get booted…

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Microsoft A/NZ partners shine at global awards

June 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

Record number of awards head down under, as EY, Defend claim top A/NZ awards…

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Govt security agencies: Don’t remove Powershell, harden it

June 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

PowerShell ‘essential’ to secure Windows OS despite concerns…

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Quantum’s silicon dreams take leap forward

June 29, 2022 | Heather Wright

Aussie co delivers first integrated circuit at atomic scale…

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Inflation changing digital focus for A/NZ business

June 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

But it’s not stalling spend – so long as CX is a focus…

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Why it doesn’t pay to pay that ransomware demand

June 21, 2022 | Heather Wright

Ransomware attackers: We’ll be back…

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Local AWS, Azure don’t solve jurisdictional risk

June 16, 2022 | Heather Wright

Are we giving up too much to international cloud operators?…

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Cybersecurity ‘baseline’ remains out of reach for govt agencies

June 15, 2022 | Heather Wright

‘Essential Eight’ protocol soon mandatory, but agencies are well short…

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Gaining an edge in geopolitical disruption

June 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

Can CIOs exploit edge computing to reduce global enterprise risk?…

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What RCEP might mean for digital trade

June 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

How will latest trade pact impact China and ASEAN digi-trade?…

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A/NZ businesses moving up cloud stack

June 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

The search for cloud-native steps up with big growth…

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The digital priorities of Kiwi businesses

June 8, 2022 | Heather Wright

New report reveals all, but flags serious concerns for NZ Inc…

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The fuzzy future for Clearview AI

June 3, 2022 | Heather Wright

Is there any chance of redemption?…

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Meet the next-gen 2degrees

June 2, 2022 | Heather Wright

As Vocus merger completes, 2degrees talks future plans…

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A/NZ businesses urged to act in face of Broadcom VMware plans

May 31, 2022 | Heather Wright

Deal sounds wake up call for A/NZ enterprises…

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War in the digital age

May 27, 2022 | Heather Wright

The new tech-savvy face of war…

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$11.2m for NZ SaaS – but where’s it going, and why?

May 25, 2022 | Heather Wright

Tech’s export growth is good, SaaS’ even better…

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Billion dollar promises and a tech sector welcome for Labor

May 24, 2022 | Heather Wright

All the Australian Labor tech promises…

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Sustainability emerging driver as A/NZ software market jumps

May 19, 2022 | Heather Wright

Digital adoption aligns with business objectives

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From monitoring to observability

May 18, 2022 | Heather Wright

Delivering digital in a complex multi-cloud world…

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Australia, NZ cloud wins – and loses

May 17, 2022 | Heather Wright

It’s a mixed scorecard for A/NZ in MIT report…

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Switched on CISO: Josh Bahlman’s security challenge

May 13, 2022 | Heather Wright

Zero trust, agile benefits and terror attacks…

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Composing a new future for ERP

May 11, 2022 | Heather Wright

And why composable ERP isn’t the same as best of breed…

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IT equipment dumped too soon say IT leaders

May 4, 2022 | Heather Wright

Sustainability goals clashing with business in e-waste reality…

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IT leaders bullish on open source

May 4, 2022 | Heather Wright

Security no stumbling block as open source gains on proprietary…

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Faster threat detection, but agencies warn of more to come

April 28, 2022 | Heather Wright

New warning from Five Eyes as new reports paint mixed picture for A/NZ threatscape…

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Unlocking A/NZ’s digital trade

April 28, 2022 | Heather Wright

What’s blocking supply chain digitisation?…

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Netflix meltdown as subscribers drop

April 22, 2022 | Heather Wright

Ads and password sharing crackdown on their way…

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Visa cancellation threat as AU eyes tech espionage

April 21, 2022 | Heather Wright

Tech espionage? RealMe panic? It’s just another week in govt tech…

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Adding enterprise control to the browser

April 20, 2022 | Heather Wright

Island browser takes the fun out of surfing at work…

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Explainable AI explained

Explaining explainable AI

April 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

LinkedIn’s win, health’s loss?…

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ACS_Canberra_Procurement reform

ACS calls for government procurement reform

April 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

Please to keep it local, inclusive and professional…

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Invisible computing: Contact lenses gets AR mojo

April 13, 2022 | Heather Wright

The sci-fi future in focus with new prototype…

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Near five-fold ROI for training investments

April 12, 2022 | Heather Wright

Learning and development should be ‘strategic priority’…

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White-hot local fintech market under microscope 

April 7, 2022 | Heather Wright

TIN report highlights one of fastest growing sectors…

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Great expectations for a hybrid work world

April 7, 2022 | Heather Wright

Is the metaverse the solution to employee hybrid work woes?

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Cybersecurity is a choice

April 6, 2022 | Heather Wright

Insights from the cybersecurity trenches…

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Data gaps need training

April 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

When did you last provide Excel training?…

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Millennium Corp takes on Sisense

March 31, 2022 | Newsdesk

Investment business using analytics to drive group accountability…

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Budget 2022: Tech upgrades and digital skills training in AU focus

March 31, 2022 | Heather Wright

Plus $10b ‘Redspice’ cybersecurity boost…

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Boom! 54 Gb gone in 6 minutes

March 30, 2022 | Heather Wright

Ransomware encryption speeds, and Okta stumbles…

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Shifting NZ’s productivity dial

March 24, 2022 | Heather Wright

A new conversation is needed…

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Digital skills training for productivity and staff satisfaction

March 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

Training is one mitigation to staff flight risk…

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Andrew Haddad_CIO of the Year

Switched On CIO: Andrew Haddad, NZ CIO of the Year 2021

March 16, 2022 | Heather Wright

Vodafone CIO gains recognition with metrics, ERP success and big builds…

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IT workers most likely to quit

March 16, 2022 | Heather Wright

It’s time to rethink outdated assumptions…

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Regulators join force in ‘ring of defence’ against big tech

March 15, 2022 | Heather Wright

DP-Reg to streamline digital platform regulation…

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CIO Awards_Best ICT Team Culture_Greater Wellington Regional Council

Excellence and equality name of day for CIO Awards

March 14, 2022 | Heather Wright

After Covid delays, NZ’s CIO Awards winners are announced…

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Making composability your ‘superpower’

March 11, 2022 | Heather Wright

Modularity across your thinking, business architecture and technologies…

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Crypto, the Russia-Ukraine war and sanction evasion

March 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

Will plans to use crypto to avoid sanctions be thwarted?…

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AIIA outlines industry Wishlist, pre-Budget

March 9, 2022 | Heather Wright

From digital health to commercialisation… 

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Buoyant, ambitious and eyeing new tech

March 3, 2022 | Heather Wright

MYOB says the mid-market is in tech upgrade mode…

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Cyberwar threat escalates as Russia attacks

March 1, 2022 | Heather Wright

And Ukraine backers hit back…

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NZ goes DIY on digital tracing

February 24, 2022 | Heather Wright

While AU study casts doubt on Covid tracing apps…

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Modern tech ‘minimum cost of doing business’

February 23, 2022 | Heather Wright

Digital floor replaces digital ceiling, and ESG comes to fore…

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NZ’s tech ‘story’ arises

February 22, 2022 | Heather Wright

Will this tale reap benefits for Kiwi tech?…

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The threats we face, according to Aussie spy agency

February 16, 2022 | Heather Wright

Spies, damn spies and radicalisation, yes, truly…

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DX is dead, long live the ‘human-centred tech’

February 16, 2022 | Heather Wright

And the next frontier of tech will be…

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SAP, CISA urge immediate action on SAP vulnerability

February 15, 2022 | Heather Wright

Key SAP tech component vulnerable…

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Great resignation, Covid driving new IT engagements

February 10, 2022 | Heather Wright

The great engagement begins…

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The CIO as orchestrator

February 2, 2022 | Heather Wright

Finding solutions to wicked problems and supply chain woes…

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The unintended consequences of AI done wrong

February 2, 2022 | Heather Wright

Lost revenue, lost customers, lost employees…

read more...

Kiwi data centre boom

January 27, 2022 | Heather Wright

There’s big money in them there data centres…

read more...

Surveillance capitalism, not govt, the big threat

January 25, 2022 | Heather Wright

It’s time for broader discussion…

read more...

A/NZ firms proving slow to detach from mainframes

January 20, 2022 | Heather Wright

Planning your risk-based migration…

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Cloud apps delivering greatest malware threat

January 20, 2022 | Heather Wright

Web downloads no longer the biggest malware headache…

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CES 2022: The exciting, and the wacky

January 19, 2022 | Heather Wright

Rounding up some of this year’s potential hits and misses…

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Nimbly_AI_Sisense_Fast track

Unleashing smarter business operations with AI

January 10, 2022 | Newsdesk

AI and real-time analytics are fast-tracking efficiency gains…

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Best takeaways

AWS re:Invent top takeaways

December 15, 2021 | Heather Wright

Six key announcements from re:Invent, plus some local flavour…

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iStart News - AppWrap tech news in brief

AppWrap: Tech news from around the web 2021 archive

December 15, 2021 | Newsdesk

Keeping you up to date with A/NZ and world tech news from 2021…

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Hunting Nakamoto crypto currency

Going crypto, hunting Nakamoto

December 14, 2021 | Heather Wright

The crypto wild west gets less wild, but Nakamoto remains elusive…

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Cybersecurity_H&S_Tangiora_Tainui

Cybersecurity needs health and safety mindset

December 10, 2021 | Heather Wright

It’s all about leadership…

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SAP awards

New thinking, disruptive use cases in SAP A/NZ awards

December 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

Coles, Chorus, Auckland Council, NSW RFS among winners…

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Big tech inquiry

Australia launches inquiry into big tech

December 2, 2021 | Heather Wright

‘Toxic behaviour’ goes under microscope…

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IT Performance Management_Cognanta

Managing IT performance for business outcomes

December 1, 2021 | Heather Wright

It’s not as easy as it sounds…

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Water cooler boosts moral

Boom times for software in A/NZ

December 1, 2021 | Heather Wright

What’s leading the charge, and what’s with that AI?…

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Sci-fi dreams_Gartner

Meta-business: Sci-fi dreams or future reality

November 24, 2021 | Heather Wright

And the deepfakes threat…

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Security_Deloitte report

Deloitte: Absolute security ‘an unrealistic nirvana’

November 23, 2021 | Heather Wright

Intelligent risk-based decisions needed on what to protect…

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Tech teams

IT roles: Easier, but more complex

November 22, 2021 | Heather Wright

There’s good news. And there’s bad news…

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Confidential Computing_CCC_TEE

Confidential Computing signals new security model

November 17, 2021 | Heather Wright

Sssshhhh… It’s not just simple security…

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Mobile App hacking

APIs open door to hacks of 55 banking apps

November 15, 2021 | Heather Wright

When we said open banking, we didn’t quite mean this…

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Avoiding cloud misconfiguration ‘missteps’

November 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

They’re still causing drama, but they can be prevented…

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TIN200_2021_Kiwi tech takes off_RocketLab

Kiwi tech sector cracks $10b in exports

November 4, 2021 | Heather Wright

Revenues, profitability up, as companies urged to think big…

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Microsoft 11 update

Gartner: Don’t rush to Windows 11

November 3, 2021 | Heather Wright

But be aware, plan and test for the new OS…

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Forrester predictions 2022

Predictions 2022: Trust and values take centre stage

November 1, 2021 | Michael Barnes

Forrester serves up its APAC predictions for 2022…

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Unisys_Transparency_Mark Pesce

Transparency needed for hybrid employee data

October 27, 2021 | Heather Wright

Open conversations, new outcome-based performance focus needed…

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Technology growth in ANZ

A/NZ buck global slowdown in IT spend growth

October 26, 2021 | Heather Wright

Consulting, enterprise software lead charge and composability rules…

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Nearly one-third of SaaS spend wasted

October 21, 2021 | Heather Wright

Software sprawl a challenge for companies…

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Roadmap to tech jobs

A pathway to one million tech roles

October 14, 2021 | Heather Wright

Combined industry, govt effort needed…

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Cybersecurity_remote workers

The cybersecurity cost of WFH

September 29, 2021 | Heather Wright

Local companies reveal true cost in breaches…

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Data engineer

What skills do you need to be a great data engineer?

September 23, 2021 | Scott Castle

Moving beyond traditional BI calls for a modern data team…

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Microsoft: Remote work is bad for innovation

September 22, 2021 | Heather Wright

Back to the office you go…

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Nick Mulcahy_Zag

Accenture launches NZ Microsoft practice

September 16, 2021 | Heather Wright

Nick Mulcahy outlines big plans for the new business…

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Digital competencies

A/NZ failing to rise to digital challenge

September 15, 2021 | Heather Wright

Global competitiveness rankings in decline…

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Big business investments

A/NZ ICT spend stable, returning to growth

September 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

But big business is accelerating spend…

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Legacy tech

The cost of legacy tech for mid-market business

September 2, 2021 | Heather Wright

A/NZ businesses losing $2m+/year in lost productivity…

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English into code

Making computer coding as easy as natural language

September 1, 2021 | Heather Wright

OpenAI’s tool to multiply programmers…

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RPA market_Forrester report

RPA about to get a whole lot more complicated

August 25, 2021 | Heather Wright

With Microsoft only mainstream giant to make big impact…

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Career change_AI

Time for a career change? AI can help with that

August 25, 2021 | Heather Wright

The virtual careers advisor is in…

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Benefits investing in tech

The 29 percent gain from a three percent investment

August 18, 2021 | Heather Wright

Spend a little more on tech, reap the ROI…

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NZTech_Overseas tech workers

NZTech slams ‘completely irrational’ govt inaction

August 13, 2021 | Heather Wright

Warns window is closing to address ongoing issues…

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REINZ transformation_Kirti Desai

REINZ’s journey to tech transformation

August 5, 2021 | Heather Wright

Leading genuine technology transformation…

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Tech salaries

Tech salaries a tale of two halves

August 5, 2021 | Heather Wright

Warning: Salary expectation gap ahead…

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NZCIO Awards 2021 healthAlliance best ICT culture

CIO Awards finalists unveiled

July 29, 2021 | Heather Wright

The Kiwi IT leaders and companies vying for honours…

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Simon Kennedy_Foodstuffs

Switched on CDO: Simon Kennedy rings up CX

July 21, 2021 | Heather Wright

Keeping business and IT aligned…

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Real cloud cost_Andreesen Horowitz

The true cost of long-term cloud

July 21, 2021 | Heather Wright

Is repatriation really a good option for your business?…

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CIO Summit_IDC Bob Parker_digital reilience_dressage

Becoming a digitally resilient enterprise

July 14, 2021 | Heather Wright

IDC’s lessons in surviving and thriving…

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Cybersecurity_SCM hack

The Kaseya hack – and how to protect your network

July 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

Supply chain hacks push incident response plans to fore…

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Turning down work_NZTech

Digitisation, new work paused as shortages bite

July 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

A/NZ tech sector strains to fulfil demands…

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IT Business not aligned_Spiceworks ZiffDavis

IT, business not united on tech purchasing

July 7, 2021 | Heather Wright

The new ‘cooperative’ buyer journey…

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Workplace Apps_destroy productivity

Productivity tools killing business productivity

July 1, 2021 | Heather Wright

Too many apps, too little time…

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Employee monitoring_Ponemon

Transparency and anonymity out the door

June 30, 2021 | Heather Wright

Significant workforce privacy gap flagged…

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ANZ Talent Shortage - Tech Training

Tech talent shortage: The training equation

June 30, 2021 | Heather Wright

Taking a longer-term view on talent…

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The digital factor in global competitiveness

June 24, 2021 | Heather Wright

Rankings paint sorry story on both sides of Tasman…

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IDG CIO report_Revenue generation

Revenue-generation now key CIO skill

June 23, 2021 | Heather Wright

From tech leader with business experience to business leader with tech skills…

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NZ Tech talent shortage

The talent shortage: Scarcity, stinginess, or confusion?

June 18, 2021 | Heather Wright

Is New Zealand’s closed border a scapegoat for deeper issues…

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AI incident database

When AI goes wrong: The AIID reveals all

June 16, 2021 | Heather Wright

Lessons in what not to do with AI…

read more...
Selling NZ tech stories

The story behind Kiwi innovation

May 26, 2021 | Heather Wright

Industry transformation plan starts with finding our place in tech…

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Orcon mesh

Orcon ends business residential distinction

May 21, 2021 | Hayden McCall

WFH era brings reset for Vocus ISP…

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Speech Analytics_Bupa

Speaking sense: Bupa’s speech analytics journey

May 21, 2021 | Heather Wright

And there are dollar savings to be had too…

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BI strategy_insightsoftware

Building a BI strategy: Why it is important

May 20, 2021 | insightsoftware

What should you consider are the tangible business benefits that powerful reporting can provide…

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Digital success_TUANZ report

NZ leaders’ priorities and concerns for digital success

May 13, 2021 | Heather Wright

Pockets of success, but some sectors holding NZ digital back…

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Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy gets arms around US$172.5m

April 29, 2021 | Heather Wright

As money continues to flow for A/NZ tech, is this the next unicorn?…

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EU Artificial Intelligence Act

EU looks to ban ‘unacceptable’ AI use

April 28, 2021 | Heather Wright

Fine of €30m or six percent of turnover on cards…

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Anzac 2021’s digital poppy

April 23, 2021 | Newsdesk

New campaign offers Kiwis the opportunity to display a virtual poppy on their social media profiles, lest we forget…

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Outsourcing trends CEO

Getting smarter with outsourcing

April 22, 2021 | Heather Wright

Postpandemic outsourcing needs closer ties, more effort…

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Technology in schools_NZTech

Teching up our future

April 22, 2021 | Heather Wright

MoE throws funding into tech career pathways…

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SasS offerings_Microsoft_Beca

The new breed of SaaS companies

April 21, 2021 | Heather Wright

But will a dearth of product managers hold sector back?…

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Peter Thomas_Fujifilm

Fuji drops Xerox, adds Film

April 15, 2021 | Heather Wright

Business innovation at the heart of name change…

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ANZ IT spend

Local IT spend bounces back after lacklustre 2020

April 8, 2021 | Heather Wright

Customers and content as enterprise software spend surges…

read more...
Business tech spend rises

Tech spending transparency improves business outcomes

April 7, 2021 | Heather Wright

Know where your tech spend is going…

read more...
Mental healthcare in workplace

Modern technology, productivity and employee wellbeing

April 1, 2021 | Heather Wright

You can’t wellbeing your way out of bad processes…

read more...
VR providing kiwis forklift jobs

VR lifting jobless Kiwis into workforce

March 31, 2021 | Heather Wright

Going VR to solve frontline staffing shortages…

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SaaS software agreements_Gartner

Addressing risk and security in SaaS deals

March 25, 2021 | Heather Wright

Negotiate hard and early…

read more...
NZ Software investments

NZ software sector’s $2 billion day

March 16, 2021 | Heather Wright

VC-funded transactions driving big deals and bigger valuations…

read more...
Top NZ tech jobs

Top tech jobs of 2021

March 4, 2021 | Jonathan Cotton

What does a year of both creation and destruction for business mean for the job market?…

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Zero trust_Cybersecurity WFH

Taking zero trust to the edge

February 24, 2021 | Heather Wright

Reshaping cybersecurity (again) for the remote work era…

read more...
Master change_Accenture

Accenture: Forget incremental scaling, master change

February 23, 2021 | Heather Wright

The era of the fast follower is over…

read more...
Microsoft Azure hacked

Hackers downloaded Azure and Exchange source code

February 23, 2021 | Heather Wright

Microsoft: Nothing to see here folks, move along…

read more...
Rebecca Tohill_Fusion5

Fusion5 takes up private equity deal

February 18, 2021 | Heather Wright

Waterman targeting tech sector growth…

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Artificial Intelligence_Pega survey

Is AI really going to run amok?

February 18, 2021 | Jonathan Cotton

And if so, who’s responsible for regulating it?…

read more...
Monitoring remote workers

Remote workers under the microscope

February 18, 2021 | Jonathan Cotton

New employee experience platforms dish the data on workers…

read more...
Data sharing_Gartner

Creating value with external data

February 16, 2021 | Heather Wright

Share and share alike…

read more...
Quantum computing_IBM_Microsoft

Quantum computing: A leap too far for business?

February 11, 2021 | Heather Wright

Should we really care about quantum?..

read more...
Project delays_IDC report

IDC’s glum outlook for A/NZ projects

February 9, 2021 | Heather Wright

Failing at hybrid workforce, business automation…

read more...
Digital skills Aotearoa

Digital deficiencies creating lost opportunities for NZ

February 3, 2021 | Heather Wright

Digital Skills report lays bare Kiwi skills mismatch…

read more...
Accenture Fjord Trends 2021

DIY innovation and liquid infrastructure guide way

February 2, 2021 | Heather Wright

Accenture’s Fjord Trends 2021 reveals new opportunities…

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General Motors flying car

CES 2021: From sanitisers to GM’s flying car

January 20, 2021 | Heather Wright

Rollable phones, handy robots and UV-C keyboard disinfection…

read more...
Mobile sales increase_app use

m-Com, TikTok big movers as mobile surges

January 19, 2021 | Heather Wright

It’s app-y days as consumers spend up on mobile…

read more...
Google acquires Fitbit

Google, Fitbit say ‘done deal’

January 19, 2021 | Heather Wright

Is it time to delete your Fitbit account?…

read more...
High tech recruitment

High-tech recruitment in the age of Covid

December 18, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Throw those one-dimensional resumes in the bin; Covid’s changed hiring forever…

read more...
Unknown caller_Phishing attacks

When a stranger calls: The rise of the ‘vishing’ scam

December 17, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

A spate of strikes shows just how effective voice-based attack vectors can be…

read more...
Market recovery_IDC

After the hit comes the recovery

December 15, 2020 | Heather Wright

Robust market recovery to follow 2020 services slowdown…

read more...
NZ tech sector

NZ Tech joins dots for new minister

December 9, 2020 | Heather Wright

Considerable opportunities, but…

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Doxing_Kaspersky cybersecurity

Outfoxing doxing

December 8, 2020 | Heather Wright

How to protect against the weaponising of personal info…

read more...
Slack and Salesforce

Salesforce grabs Slack in US$27b deal

December 2, 2020 | Heather Wright

Is Salesforce + Slack a Microsoft killer?…

read more...
Microsoft partner awards 2020

Microsoft honours partner and customer innovation

December 1, 2020 | Heather Wright

Awards highlight changing Kiwi tech use…

read more...
Gareth Berry_Unleashed Software

UK’s Access adds Unleashed to Attache

November 26, 2020 | Heather Wright

Access’ Workplace grows to embrace wider range of ERP and business software…

read more...
Remotely Team_videoconferencing

Meetings go out of this world

November 26, 2020 | Heather Wright

Let’s collaborate on the moon and avoid Zoom fatigue…

read more...
Microsoft authenification by app

You shall not pass (with those creds)

November 25, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

In an unsecured world, voice and text-based verification doesn’t cut the MFA mustard…

read more...
Western Australia_Data scientists

Western Australia needs data scientists – 3k of them

November 19, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Once called ‘the sexiest job of the 21st century’, data scientists are currently a hot commodity…

read more...
Covid vaccine

Covid-19 vaccines the new cyber battle ground

November 19, 2020 | Heather Wright

Microsoft names names in alleged state-sponsored hacking…

read more...
TIN 200_level playing field

Covid levelling playing field for Kiwi tech sector

November 18, 2020 | Heather Wright

TIN200 companies continue growth, Covid be damned…

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DevOps Ski Jump_Jade_TAL

Taking the ski jump to DevOps and cloud success

November 17, 2020 | Heather Wright

Guiding your modernisation journey…

read more...
Low code tools_Gartner

Making low-code work for your business

November 12, 2020 | Heather Wright

No cost savings, but there’s a productivity payoff instead…

read more...
Microsoft Productivity Score​

Reversing the global productivity slump

November 11, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Productivity has declined, but Microsoft may have a solution…

read more...
Integration Power_Adaptiv Phil Cullins

With integration comes power

November 10, 2020 | Adaptiv

But first, how do you get to the ‘on’ switch?…

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Proof of concept_Adaptiv

Proof of concept is so yesterday

November 6, 2020 | Adaptiv

Now, it’s all about proof of value…

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Work from home innovation lacking

Is remote working hampering innovation?

November 4, 2020 | Heather Wright

Remote working may win productivity ticks, but it’s hurting innovation…

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Overseas tech giants lucrative quarter

Lucrative quarter for FAANGS

November 4, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

As the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues, revenues of the tech leaders continue to soar…

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Microsoft Partner Awards 2020

And the Microsoft NZ Partner Awards finalists are…

November 3, 2020 | Heather Wright

39 Kiwi companies in running for top awards…

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Duck duck going_ACCC

Why DuckDuckGo won’t be your next search engine

October 29, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s hot to hate the giants right now, but is regulation necessary – or even right?…

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Internet of behaviour_Gartner

The lives of others: Exploring the Internet of Behaviour

October 29, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Connected data will increasingly influence our lives and our decision making…

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Dropbox work from home

Dropbox goes 100% virtual

October 22, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

File sharing giant says ‘go home, stay home’ to staff…

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Marketing analytics_Gartner

Marketing analytics: A big annoying pain in the butt

October 14, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Nearly half of CMOs “unable to measure marketing ROI”…

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Encryption backdoors_Five Eyes

Five Eyes prises encryption backdoors

October 13, 2020 | Heather Wright

Andrew Little, Peter Dutton among signatories…

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ERP Buyer's Guide 2021

ERP market gets cloudier

October 7, 2020 | Heather Wright

Covid-19 has created a clash of market drivers. Which will out?…

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Digital ID system

Why is launching a digital ID program so hard?

October 7, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Australia’s digital ID project gets a AU$250m cash injection…

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Environmentally friendly cloud_Accenture

Cloud: Saving money, saving the planet

October 7, 2020 | Heather Wright

The business forecast is for more cloud with a chance of significant savings…

read more...
Microsoft’s Project Natick underwater data centre

Underwater data centre resurfaces

October 6, 2020 | Heather Wright

Microsoft’s Project Natick results show promise for underwater facilities…

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Nick Mulcahy_Zag & Ben Morgan_Accenture

Accenture snaps up SAP specialist Zag

October 6, 2020 | Heather Wright

Zag zigs into big four consulting firm’s stable…

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Blacklight_website tracking

Crunching the numbers on internet privacy

October 1, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

From ad-trackers to key-loggers to third-party cookies, who’s watching us when we surf the net? …

read more...
Road to recovery_Telsyte_DXC

Businesses eye three-year road to recovery

September 29, 2020 | Heather Wright

Tech seen as key enabler to rebound from Covid disruption…

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Handcoding_Stu Gallow Talend

Managing your data right in the long run

September 28, 2020 | Stu Garrow

Handcoding: Fast, low-cost solution or short term fix?…

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Sex tech_Juniper research

Sex-tech: Ready to explode

September 17, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

But is it all just digital junk?…

read more...
CPS cyber attack

Death, destruction, disaster: When cyber gets real

September 9, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

A connected world is a risk-filled one, says Gartner, and it’s CEOs on the hook…

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CyberCX buys into NZ market

Aussie’s CyberCX takes on NZ market

August 27, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

VC-funded cybersecurity group buys into NZ…

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Aussie startups letter to govt

Aussie startups to govt: you’re not listening

August 26, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Tech leaders demand better engagement – and R&D reform – from Govt…

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Matt Eastwood_IDC

IDC: Tech guides way through Covid recession

August 26, 2020 | Heather Wright

But Covid changes DX priorities…

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Digital officers_Gartner

Pressure goes on CIOs to accelerate digital – or move aside

August 20, 2020 | Heather Wright

Running out of patience, boards look to CDOs to force digital through…

read more...
Govt IT spending slump

A/NZ Govt IT spend slump deeper than global

August 13, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

In the wake of Covid-19, state spending on IT is set to shrink across Australasia…

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DIgital privacy_Digital Identity NZ

Everyone wants better privacy online. Right?

August 6, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

So why are we so bad at protecting ourselves?…

read more...
Mandatory code for news_ACCC

NZ Gov algorithm charter a world first

August 5, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Public sector use must be fair, ethical and transparent…

read more...

MYOB survey shows SMEs future-proofing

July 30, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Businesses on both sides of the Tasman are preparing for the rough road ahead…

read more...

Border bunglings need better tech

July 30, 2020 | Newsdesk

Does tech have a role in managing isolation?…

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VR office training_IDC

VR training comes to the office

July 29, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s a useful tool for hazard training, but what about the corporate jungle?…

read more...
Digital NZ_Graeme Muller

RtR Series: NZ tech sector’s role in building a more digital nation

July 28, 2020 | Heather Wright

Why telling tales and developing skills are vital building blocks…

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CSIRO smart drone

CSIRO’s smart drone tech spin-out

July 23, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Emesent’s next-level autonomous drone tech goes where pilots don’t dare…

read more...
AI Business models

AI is changing A/NZ business models

July 22, 2020 | Heather Wright

NZ focuses on CX, Australia sees gains in productivity, agility…

read more...
Hacker black market

Study shows how much data is worth on the dark web

July 21, 2020 | Heather Wright

Or perhaps you’d like to ‘rent’ a stolen identity…

read more...
Cloud boost SMB's_NZIER modelling

Xero calls for cloud subsidy

July 16, 2020 | Heather Wright

NZIER study points to potential GDP growth from small business migration to the cloud…

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NZ back into business

Getting A/NZ back to business with data and tech

July 15, 2020 | Heather Wright

Can we do it? Yes we can, says SAP…

read more...

Hitting reset: How COVID made us more tolerant of downtime

July 9, 2020 | Mike Hicks

In the era of cloud and Covid, is downtime losing its stigma?…

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BCG Most innovative companies

BCG’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020

July 9, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

The results are in: so what do the winners have in common?…

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NZ Privacy Act

New Zealand’s new Privacy Act

July 8, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

What does it mean for business?…

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Law enforcement facial recognition tech_IBM

Tech giants say no to facial recognition

June 18, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

IBM, Amazon and Microsoft won’t supply FR technology to US authorities. What gives?…

read more...
Remote working

Does remote work really work?

June 17, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

2020 may be the year the workforce came untethered, but is it all too good to be true?…

read more...
NZ Covid tracer

Covid Tracer update drops, but is there an ulterior motive?

June 11, 2020 | Heather Wright

NZBN, e-invoicing and the question of mandatory QR codes…

read more...
Datacom customer service hub

650+ jobs on offer as Datacom opens new customer service hub

June 9, 2020 | Heather Wright

Datacom flies in face of economic downturn with Aussie expansion…

read more...
Microsoft AI journalists

MS banking on AI, not journalists

June 4, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Microsoft’s news offering is banking on a bold new automated future…

read more...
Wearables_Benjamin Thierry

The new wearables: Diagnosing epilepsy, heart attacks and preeclampsia

May 28, 2020 | Heather Wright

Are legal and liability issues stifling further wearable development?…

read more...

Gartner’s Kost plots path to IT savings

May 20, 2020 | Heather Wright

Knee jerk cancellation of projects needs close analysis…

read more...
Succeeding with online webinars

Guide to successful online events

May 19, 2020 | iStart

(And the tech to support them…)

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Startmate crosses ditch

Aussie mates join Kiwi startup scene

May 8, 2020 | Heather Wright

First Kiwi fund and cohort for Startmate…

read more...
Microsft Azure Auckland datacentre planned

Microsoft announces Kiwi Azure

May 6, 2020 | Heather Wright

Azure hits Aotearoa, finally…

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Non-covid tech news

The Covid-free weekly wrap

May 1, 2020 | Heather Wright

AU to sue Facebook, Canty Uni beams up 3D printing, CDR reprieve and money, money, money…

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Non-covid tech news

The weekly (non-Covid) wrap

April 24, 2020 | Heather Wright

Slack gets local, too much O365, NEC helps ID lost differs and AWS helps save Devils…

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Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker turns focus on post-Covid business world

April 23, 2020 | Heather Wright

The rise of tech, DX and the on-demand economy…

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Josh Frydenberg_Mandatory code_Google news

Australia joins France in platform content crackdown

April 22, 2020 | Heather Wright

Mandatory code to make Google and Facebook pay for content…

read more...
Startup scene during Covid19

Can our startup scene survive Covid-19?

April 16, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

While elements of the tech sector are in high demand, the startup community wonders where the next round of funding is coming from…

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Healthcare Chatbots_Covid19

Tech big guns get chatty with virtual agent support

April 14, 2020 | Heather Wright

Covid-19 accelerating chatbot technology…

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Digital world

The case for digital goes stratospheric

April 8, 2020 | Heather Wright

Don’t waste a ‘good’ crisis…

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Businesses after Covid19

Preparing for business after Covid

April 2, 2020 | Heather Wright

The tech to experiment with now to hit the ground running, post-Covid…

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Isolation_apps available

Equipping for isolation

March 31, 2020 | Newsdesk

Software, apps and equipment to get you through…

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Tech attitude_Productivity Commission

1,001 tech attitudes contrast with companies’ DX beliefs

March 24, 2020 | Heather Wright

As Covid forces digital to the fore, new reports reveal our beliefs about our tech skills – and our DX…

read more...
Sue Suckling_Zag board

New board chair as Zag scales for growth

March 23, 2020 | Zag

Sue Suckling takes on key role as Zag eyes international opportunities…

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Remote working_COVID-19

Demand for remote working surges

March 19, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Let the grand remote working experiment begin…

read more...
UX design

Getting UX right

March 12, 2020 | Heather Wright

It’s not a ‘nice to have’ anymore…

read more...
Tech events worldwide cancelled_Coronavirus

Tech sector sweats Covid-19 as major events cancel

March 11, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

2020 the year of live streaming and webinars as organisers react to panic…

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Clayton Christensen_father of disruptive innovation

We need a new word for disruptive innovation

March 5, 2020 | Stu Lloyd

Radical innovation, anyone?…

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Remote working_Tips for businesses

Floods, fires, pandemics: Remote working hits the limelight

March 5, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

With large scale havoc impacting business, do you have a contingency plan in place?…

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Citizens Advice Bureau report_Frustrated digital users

‘Digital is best’ push causing frustration, exclusion

March 4, 2020 | Heather Wright

CAB report a reminder not to forget non-digital citizens…

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Tech security_Ponemon Institute report

Cybersecurity professionals engaging in risky business

February 25, 2020 | Heather Wright

IT security pros aren’t always following their own recommendations…

read more...
Oracle NetSuite v20_1 Paul Farrell SuiteConnect

NetSuite lifts skirts on Oracle jewels

February 25, 2020 | Hayden McCall

Bank reconciliations and other plumbing on promise under Oracle’s updated cloud…

read more...
Data disconnect

Who owns your company data?

February 20, 2020 | Heather Wright

Survey highlights data disconnect – and lack of senior exec buy-in…

read more...
Guide to Artificial Intelligence_EXL

Taking AI from sci-fi to real-world payoff

February 18, 2020 | Heather Wright

AI is hard. But PwC and EXL think they’ve got the plans to guide you…

read more...

Innovation and emerging tech in focus

February 14, 2020 | Heather Wright

Local business more circumspect than global counterparts on emerging tech…

read more...
Data driven business

The data driven business

February 5, 2020 | Heather Wright

What’s it look like and how can you develop a data driven business strategy?…

read more...
Execs Talking not Walking

Execs talking more than walking on digital

February 4, 2020 | Heather Wright

Every business might be a tech business, but are we really ready?…

read more...
Okta desktop app usage

Okta’s app usage highlights software trends

February 3, 2020 | Heather Wright

Hello Github and Atlassian, goodbye LinkedIn and Twitter…

read more...
Tech KPIs_IDC report

Structured co-innovation, digital KPIs the new DX focus

January 31, 2020 | Heather Wright

Local businesses up their partnering for success…

read more...
Top tech skills business are hiring

The most in demand IT skills

January 30, 2020 | Heather Wright

Spoiler alert: It’s not AI or blockchain…

read more...
Deloitte report_Innovation pillars

Macro tech forces: The pillars for innovation?

January 24, 2020 | Newsdesk

The painful tension of novel technologies and responsible investment…

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Tech Trends 2020

The world according to Alibaba, Gartner, Accenture et al

January 22, 2020 | Heather Wright

From data intelligence to hyper-connected manufacturing to the next generation of computation…

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Microsoft carbon negativity 2030

Microsoft vows carbon negativity by 2030

January 22, 2020 | Jonathan Cotton

Supply chains face scrutiny as Microsoft goes carbon neutral – and then some – in a decade…

read more...
Google removes cookies

Google’s cookie-killing plans

January 21, 2020 | Heather Wright

As the cookie crumbles, what’s the replacement?…

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Gartner forcasts business spend

Software spend key focus for local businesses

January 20, 2020 | Heather Wright

What Gartner’s latest spending forecast says about the changing face of business IT…

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AI at work_Oracle report

Most workers would prefer a robot manager

December 20, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Forget the fear-mongering about AI taking over. Most of us would prefer to be managed by the algorithms…

read more...
Gartner_Drones multiple use in 2020

Bushfires and volcanoes giving drones wings

December 18, 2019 | Heather Wright

Emergency services, surveillance and monitoring key use cases behind growing demand…

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Snowflake data warehouse

Delivering a data analytics program that delivers

December 16, 2019 | Peter O’Connor

Do you have the data warehouse to support a data driven future?…

read more...
SAP gun buyback data breach

SAP fronts up for NZ’s gun buyback data breach

December 11, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Software giant SAP has ‘unreservedly’ apologised for unapproved changes that lead to the data leak…

read more...
Ann-Marie Cavanagh

New deputy CDO for a digital public service

December 10, 2019 | Heather Wright

CTO may be a non-starter, but there’s a new deputy govt CDO…

read more...
Andy Jassy - AWS CLoud

Cloud in its infancy, but AWS works to grow it up

December 5, 2019 | Donovan Jackson

Seems crazy, but a three-hour keynote is pretty much standard fare for an AWS conference…

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Unhappy workers worldwide

NZ/AU tech workers much unhappier than the global average

December 4, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

A happy workplace is a productive workplace. So why is everyone in tech so miserable?…

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Dubber_voice data recorded

Voice data going unheard in business

December 4, 2019 | Heather Wright

We’ve got the recordings, now what can we do with them?…

read more...
AWS_Nestle coffee blockchain

Quantum computing and…blockchain

December 3, 2019 | Donovan Jackson

From tracing your morning bev to quantum computing…

read more...
VIrtual reality_Pwc report

PwC says VR’s going to be huge but seeing is believing

November 27, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

You’ve heard it before, now hear it again: VR and AR are going to revolutionise everything. But when?…

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Huawei ban_Licenses issued to businesses

The curious case of the Huawei ‘ban’

November 27, 2019 | Heather Wright

Microsoft and 70+ companies granted licenses to trade…

read more...
Unisys Cloud Fronde Serverless

Cloud’s next iteration: Serverless

November 22, 2019 | Heather Wright

Moving to higher order services to reap the cloud gains…

read more...
Mike Rich_Attache Software

A/NZ financial software provider sold

November 20, 2019 | Heather Wright

UK’s Access Group eyes Australasian market entry on back of deal…

read more...
The future of blockchain

The real future of blockchain, no BS

November 18, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Juniper looks to have the final word (for today at least) on the future of blockchain tech…

read more...
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner_John Edwards

Digital oligarchs deny responsibility for harm

November 14, 2019 | Heather Wright

NZ Privacy Commissioner says duty of care flouted by US social media firms…

read more...
Alex Henthorn-Iwane ThousandEyes VP

No cloud is created equal

November 14, 2019 | Heather Wright

Report highlights notable performance variations between public cloud providers…

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Work transformation

Is workforce transformation the catalyst for digital success?

November 13, 2019 | Heather Wright

It’s not a question of either/or as workforce and digital transformation entwine…

read more...
iSanz winner 2019_NZME

Security in spotlight as industry honoured in iSanz awards

November 13, 2019 | Heather Wright

AI darknet sniffing startup among winners…

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Singapore_tech startups

Which cities are tops for launching a tech startup?

November 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

It’s a fail for one A/NZ city in the latest study on the startup success…

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TIN200 2019 Greg Shanahan

TIN200 on a mission for social good

November 1, 2019 | Hayden McCall

52,000 strong tech industry network effect aimed at changing the nation, for good…

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Airtree tech startup funds

Airtree brings superfunds, cash to downunder tech startups

October 31, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

AirTree Ventures has secured $275m to ‘double down’ on early stage Kiwi and Australian technology startups…

read more...
Tech investment rising_Gartner

Local businesses spending up large on (some) tech

October 30, 2019 | Heather Wright

While others fall by the roadside…

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Jannat Maqbool - operations manager for CultivateIT

Fintech: More innovation, less me too please

October 23, 2019 | Heather Wright

While funding fails to hit the mark…

read more...
Microsoft Awards 2019

Microsoft Partners shine light on technology excellence

October 18, 2019 | Heather Wright

Business, staff and environment among the winners…

read more...
Everything is a computer_Hypponen’s Law

Is IoT the ‘asbestos of the future’?

October 17, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Just what is the cost of unfettered connected-device growth?…

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Social Cyber Institute_Cybercrime

Killing us with cyber incompetence

October 15, 2019 | Heather Wright

Can social science save tech – and all the innocents – from incompetence?…

read more...
Chrome password checker

New Chrome extension reveals all your compromised passwords

October 9, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Google aims to plug password leaks with browser-based hacked credential checker…

read more...
AI buying frenzy_CB Insights

AI startups in acquisition frenzy

October 8, 2019 | Heather Wright

Big-tech targets the next big thing in AI…

read more...
Intergen cloud security_Dirk Prinsloo

Data is your digital lifeblood. But who is responsible for securing it?

October 8, 2019 | Dirk Prinsloo

There’s a big misconception around security that threatens to trip up many companies moving to the cloud…

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Augmented technology_Gartner

The tech Gartner says you need to know

October 3, 2019 | Heather Wright

And there’s more to it than (yawn) blockchain, IoT and AI…

read more...
The eye of hurricane

CIOs uneasy about hybrid cloud complexity

October 2, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Smarter diagnostics needed to unravel root causes across multiple platforms…

read more...
Westpac Little Ripper CrocSpotter

Reporting for work: Drones add croc-spotting to repertoire

October 2, 2019 | Heather Wright

Drones, AI, video surveillance and big hungry Queensland crocs…

read more...
Customer self-service

Self-service not satisfying customers – or businesses

October 1, 2019 | Heather Wright

Just nine percent of issues are resolved via self-service alone…

read more...
Hash database_GIFCT

Platform companies unveil details on extremist content

September 26, 2019 | Heather Wright

Just how many moles are being whacked with online hate prevention tools?…

read more...
Digital business survey_HBR

Harvard releases ‘ease of doing digital business’ rankings

September 26, 2019 | Heather Wright

A/NZ results highlight key areas of weakness…

read more...

WiFi 6: Faster internet, and a big boost for IoT?

September 25, 2019 | Heather Wright

And no you didn’t miss 1-5, it’s just 802.11 was feeling uncool…

read more...
Michael Whitehead_wherescape

WhereScape converts success to cash

September 24, 2019 | Heather Wright

Kiwi-made solution to join Idera’s data stable…

read more...
NZ Tech and Productivity report_barbed wire

Not enough technology a key factor in stagnant productivity

September 24, 2019 | Heather Wright

A/NZ businesses warned to step up their game…

read more...
ICT collaboration

Capital markets players and govt told to collaborate on ICT

September 19, 2019 | Heather Wright

Capital markets review calls for better use of data and govt ICT plan…

read more...
sarah_bowden_microsoft_nz

Microsoft unveils NZ Partner Awards finalists

September 17, 2019 | Heather Wright

Who’s who of Kiwi tech in the running for top awards…

read more...
Fuelling ransomware_Cyper-insurers

Are cyber-insurers fuelling ransomware?

September 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

The maths of extortion…

read more...
Major cloud providers under scrutiny

Call for more oversight of big cloud providers

September 11, 2019 | Heather Wright

‘Systemically important’ cloud providers lack oversight in financial markets…

read more...
2019 Gartner post classical hype cycle_Sir-Simon-Rattle

Gartner’s emerging tech hype: From Edge AI to flying cars

September 10, 2019 | Heather Wright

Classical gives way to postclassical in latest hype cycle…

read more...
Open source AI

Open sourcing AI

September 5, 2019 | Newsdesk

As AI moves increasingly open source, what does it mean for regulatory moves?…

read more...
David Morris_NOW consulting

Spark’s Qrious snaps up NOW Consulting

September 4, 2019 | Heather Wright

Acquisition another step in growing data as a service business…

read more...
GDPR_Privacy laws ANZ

Screws tighten on privacy regulation

August 28, 2019 | Heather Wright

GDPR controls head down under…

read more...
Digital quality of life_SurfShark

Australia wins digital Bledisloe (hands down)

August 27, 2019 | Heather Wright

Aussie tops rating despite dismal NBN, while affordability and cybersecurity drag NZ down…

read more...
The Instillery merge with Origin

Instillery Origin merger to drive cloud automation

August 23, 2019 | Heather Wright

Scale will open Tier 1 and Australian managed services prospects…

read more...
IBM Watson predicts employee departure

How to predict who’s going to quit

August 21, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s the next step in digital HR management – AI-powered employee flight-risk prediction. And yes, it’s available to regular schmoes too…

read more...
Athina Kanioura_Accenture

Accenture buys Analytics8

August 19, 2019 | Heather Wright

Bolsters its applied intelligence unit with third Aussie buy…

read more...

Low-code makes citizen developers of us all

August 16, 2019 | Newsdesk

The low-code/no-code movement sees business users creating their own applications and processes – no coding required…

read more...
Phishing_email scams

The great email scam renaissance

August 14, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Email scams, ransomware and extortion – and enterprise is a prime target. What’s behind the resurgence of the internet’s most dangerous annoyance?…

read more...
Spreadsheets are dead, right? Think again…

Driving an insight-driven organisation

August 13, 2019 | Heather Wright

Spreadsheets are dead, right? Think again…

read more...
Future of work

The future of work: Dynamic, adaptive and home to personal data twins

August 7, 2019 | Heather Wright

It’s the future Jim, but not as we know it…

read more...
iStart ERP Buyers Guide 2019-20_ERP innovation

Where to now for innovation in ERP?

August 7, 2019 | Hayden McCall

Our 2020 future looms and for ERP vendors that means staying true to the promises upon promises that they have made to keep relevant. Are they on track for lift-off?…

read more...

Dynamics Inner Circle run continues for Empired and Intergen

August 6, 2019 | Heather Wright

Company continues winning run in top one percent of Microsoft Dynamics partners…

read more...
Robotic automation_Juniper report

Lower costs and happier customers? Can RPA live up to its promise?

July 31, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

A new report on robotic process automation looks at the opportunities and shortcomings of the emerging tech…

read more...
Data Literacy project

Getting literate with data to drive business value

July 30, 2019 | Heather Wright

How can you instil data literacy in your business?…

read more...
Thales report_cyberattacks

The threats keeping IT execs up at night

July 25, 2019 | Heather Wright

Are IoT and cloud apps making your business a cyberattack target?…

read more...
SAP financial results

SAP talks up cloud, XM as US-China trade war bites

July 24, 2019 | Heather Wright

Cloud under close watch, while experience rules…

read more...
Gavriella Schuster_Microsoft partner awards

Intergen tops for digital marketing among Microsoft’s A/NZ partners

July 16, 2019 | Heather Wright

Gains place on annual Top 50 Microsoft Partners report…

read more...
GIS Systems_SAP and Zag

Zag maps new path with spatial services development

July 16, 2019 | Heather Wright

New spatial services team comes on back of GIS-SAP integration demand…

read more...
Data identity_Juniper research

Behind the rising digital ID market

July 16, 2019 | Newsdesk

The perfect storm is brewing for the digital ID market as analogue thinking finally starts to get a digital makeover…

read more...
Data insights_Tableau

The five things that impede data culture

July 15, 2019 | Mac Bryla

So you’re onboard with data analytics; now to deal with the blockers…

read more...
NZ Education_Microsoft Edsby software

Canadian Edsby wins MoE deal and Microsoft award

July 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

Te Rito: One school system to rule them all begins rollout…

read more...
smart city awards

NZ and City of Newcastle win big in smart cities

July 11, 2019 | Heather Wright

NZ takes three gongs, Newcastle two in APAC awards…

read more...
Digital twins_DHL trends

Are digital twins coming of age?

July 11, 2019 | Heather Wright

Twinning technology finding its feet in business…

read more...
Edge computing

Edge computing: IT’s next big thing

July 10, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Is this the final piece of the IoT/cloud tech puzzle?…

read more...
Modern data centres

Compute accelerates to a 5G edge

July 9, 2019 | Heather Wright

2025 data centre research highlights IoT impacts, lack of greening…

read more...
IaaS and PaaS cloud offerings

When IaaS becomes PaaS

July 4, 2019 | Heather Wright

A/NZ the same, but different when it comes to latest cloud adoption…

read more...
APIs killing your website

Excessive APIs are killing your website and app

July 2, 2019 | Will Barrera

How many API calls and microservices is too many?…

read more...
CSIRO Data61 AI Vaccine

CSIRO doses AI with viral protection

June 28, 2019 | Heather Wright

‘Vaccine’ to protect algorithms against attack…

read more...
Real time bidding

Real time bidding and adtech under privacy scrutiny

June 27, 2019 | Heather Wright

UK data protection regulator slams RTB, tells industry…

read more...
Mary Meeker internet report

Winning on the internet: Mary Meeker’s 2019 insights

June 20, 2019 | Heather Wright

Pictures, pricing and privacy key takeaways from latest Internet report…

read more...
Race to the cloud_Infosys

Who dares wins: A/NZ leads on global cloud adoption

June 19, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

According to a new report, New Zealand and Australia are world leaders in enterprise cloud adoption…

read more...
Uber Air_Melbourne

Melbourne secures Uber Air trial for 2020

June 19, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

The publicity-prone ride-share company vows it will debut flying taxis next year…

read more...
Marc Benioff_salesforce acquires Tableau

Salesforce takes on Tableau

June 18, 2019 | Heather Wright

On the back of Google lapping up Looker, the power plays are under way in data and analytics land…

read more...
Zag_Best workplace

Here’s how culture makes bacon ‘n’ eggs of strategy

June 18, 2019 | Donovan Jackson

Zag’s impressive growth depends on taking its people on the journey…

read more...
Disruption of CIO_KPMG survey

CIO role under disruption threat

June 17, 2019 | Heather Wright

Crisis of influence as board reputation down, business managed IT up…

read more...
Digital-id_DINZ

Challenging the boundaries of digital identity

June 14, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

In the age of identity theft, deep fakes and endless security breaches, proving you’re you – and keeping your data private – is new Catch 22…

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CIO of the Year Paul Littlefair

2019 New Zealand CIO Awards: And the winners are…

June 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

IDC and Conferenz congratulate this year’s winners at the CIO Awards held last night in Auckland…

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Securing public wifi Trend Micro

Public Wifi security hole plugged

June 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

Making public hotspots secure with Wifi protection…

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Microsoft_Oracle multi-cloud deal

Best of both clouds: Microsoft and Oracle announce multi-cloud deal

June 12, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

The new direct connectivity between public clouds lets users combine the technology of both services seamlessly…

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Pegasystems empathy tool

Adding empathy to the metrics mix

June 12, 2019 | Heather Wright

AI empathy tool to guide ethical business decisions…

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Deloitte report_Board Tech knowledge

The elephant in the boardroom

June 7, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

IT governance is way more than a cybersecurity check list…

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Global Skills Index

Global skills rating leaves room to improve

June 6, 2019 | Heather Wright

NZ and Australia get a pass mark for business, so-so for tech and data science…

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Fake news gets a new ally: Deep fakes

June 6, 2019 | Heather Wright

New trend has the legal fraternity in a quandary…

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2019 Wellbeing budget

Budget ’19: A win for tech-hungry manufacturers

June 5, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s been a chaotic lead up, but Labour’s new budget seems to hit both its social and industrial marks…

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Neville Richardson Gallagher

Switched on CIO: Gallagher’s Neville Richardson

May 23, 2019 | Heather Wright

Transformation comes from the DNA, not the IT…

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Combating the dark side of extending reality

May 23, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s all fun and games at the moment but the the risks of VR, AR and all the rest are real says a new report…

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Zag_CIO Award finalists

CIO Awards finalists unveiled

May 17, 2019 | Heather Wright

Who’s who in the running for top IT awards…

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Economist Intelligence Unit_DX skills

Digital competency concerns plaguing business

May 15, 2019 | Heather Wright

But is it just a sign we’re winning in the DX game?…

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Google AI social good

Google’s US$25m AI for social good boost

May 15, 2019 | Heather Wright

AI ethics is off the agenda, but Google digs deep for AI fund…

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Blockchain fatigue_Gartner

Blockchain fatigue hits 90 percent of supply chain projects

May 14, 2019 | Heather Wright

Still a solution looking for a problem…

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Video analytics

Analyse this: Video analytics opening new insights

May 10, 2019 | Heather Wright

From retail to robotic analysts on the prowl…

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Invert Robotics

Wall-climbing robots take on hazardous inspections

May 10, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Climbing robots might have a sci-fi feel, but they’re just as real as the $8.8m in funding just secured by makers, Invert Robotics…

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Dark patterns

When psychology meets technology

May 9, 2019 | Heather Wright

Use of ‘dark patterns’ under new scrutiny…

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MYOB takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

MYOB takeover to go ahead

May 2, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s a done deal – despite key shareholder’s objections…

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Industry 4.0 success

Shining a light on Industry 4.0 success

May 1, 2019 | Heather Wright

Pilot purgatory awaits many, but lighthouse examples guide the way to success…

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Intuition vs Instinct_Tableau Software

Hardening our hunches

May 1, 2019 | Francois Ajenstat

Intuition often breeds innovation, but so too does data…

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Reinventing_omnichannel_retail

Reinventing retail: Tech’s helping hand

April 17, 2019 | Heather Wright

In an omni-channel retail world, tech rules…

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Gig economy

Gig economy flourishes, but for who?

April 17, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

New research reveals employers aggressively enthusiastic about gig economy…

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Callaghan report_NZ startups

NZ breeds unicorns, but poppy cutters persist

April 12, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

We’ve got 34 billion reasons to celebrate but behind the big numbers is a culture confused, suggests a Callaghan report…

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Artificial Intelligence recruitment

How AI is helping businesses hire smarter

April 10, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Does AI have a role to play helping recruiters’ hardest job?…

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Tech projects projects_Oracle

Innovation winter as projects fail to meet reality

April 10, 2019 | Heather Wright

How are Australia and NZ faring?…

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Vodafone IoT barometer report

APAC businesses leading way with IoT

April 4, 2019 | Heather Wright

Returns proven but still lacking full scale and sophistication…

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Cost of cybercrime_Ponemon Institute

Security spend is up, but so too are breaches

April 4, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

We’re spending more on security than ever, so why do breaches keep rising?…

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Customer culture_Pivotal Software

If you think DX is about tech, you’re wrong

April 1, 2019 | Roz Gregory

Rethinking data, apps and staff choice…

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Lloyds Bank_Leigh Smyth_DX2019

Taking digital transformation beyond business

March 28, 2019 | Heather Wright

Call goes out for companies to look at DX beyond their own business…

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Lucrative tech jobs

Are these the most lucrative jobs in IT?

March 27, 2019 | Heather Wright

Wait, I have to do what?!?…

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NZ businesses share automation lessons

March 26, 2019 | Heather Wright

Perpetual Guardian, ADHB and Westpac serve up lessons on automating…

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Drone noise_Google Wing

Drone noise drowns out PR buzz

March 26, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

Delivery trial raises Canberra’s ire, but will Google listen?…

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Christchurch Facebook blocked video content

The tech that could have blocked Christchurch video

Where there is a will, there is always a way…

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GPS week number roll-over

Are we too reliant on tech?

March 21, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

As April 6 and a supposed GPS meltdown looms, is it time to rethink our reliance on tech?…

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Digital twins

The rise and rise of digital twins

March 19, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Big growth predicted for digital twin tech, as IoT, data analytics and efficiency come together…

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Takeaways at DX2019

Key takeaways from DX2019

March 15, 2019 | Heather Wright

Minimal viable teams, outcomes and culture…

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All about DBaaS

March 15, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

The sky’s the limit when it comes to cloud database solutions…

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Salesforce pumps A$70m into Aus ecosystem, shuns Kiwis

March 8, 2019 | Heather Wright

Australian fund misses a trick with parochial play…

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Digital ID unlocks ‘real economic gains’

March 7, 2019 | Heather Wright

But the risk remains for schemes to be abused…

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Zoho ramps up A/NZ push

March 1, 2019 | Heather Wright

Opens offices and data centres across A/NZ…

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DARQ digital days_Accenture

DARQ days ahead as business enters ‘post-digital’ world

February 28, 2019 | Heather Wright

New rules apply as privacy and individualism take centre stage…

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Five key themes from Mobile World Congress 2019

February 25, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

Faster, bigger and smarter at #MWC2019…

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Five ways businesses can take advantage of Industry 4.0

February 25, 2019 | Robert Sinfield

From prioritising data analysis to using ERP to break down silos…

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BI buyers seeking more magic says Gartner

February 20, 2019 | Heather Wright

Magic Quadrant predicts augmented analytics will be key driver…

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Callaghan 2040 Innovation Rocket Lab

NZ 2040: From No. 8 wire to blue sky innovation

February 18, 2019 | Heather Wright

Is NZ over-talking and under-doing?…

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Theta acquires Designertech

Theta acquisition pushes NZ Inc

February 14, 2019 | Heather Wright

Theta Digital adds .NET & infrastructure to strengthen company’s analytics play…

read more...

Q&A with Malwarebytes: Malware continues to bite

February 14, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

Businesses in the crossfire in 2019…

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G Suite gains on O365 in race for enterprise

February 13, 2019 | Heather Wright

Identity verification dominates fastest growing segment…

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Trust data collected on employees_Accenture

Putting trust to work – Unlocking value in the digital workplace

February 11, 2019 | Justin Gray

How to harness workforce data, and keep your staff onside and happy…

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Technology innovation spend up, ROI down

February 7, 2019 | Heather Wright

It’s not how much you spend, but what you spend it on…

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If you don’t want to be breached, use paper

February 7, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

Could there actually be a case for not digitising your data?…

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SAP restructures, aims for the clouds

February 7, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

4,400 employees may be affected…

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NZ loses top spot, AU stalls on global corruption index

February 5, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

NZ and AU find themselves in troubling trend as high anti-corruption scores are replaced with decline…

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Soul Machines human chatbot upgrade

Soul Machines tool creates human chatbots in minutes

January 31, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

Using digital DNA to serve up virtual humans – blemishes and all…

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Calls for AI regulation heat up

January 31, 2019 | Pat Pilcher

Aussie business leaders join calls for ethical oversight into AI…

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Is now the time for a ‘Cyber CFO’?

January 30, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

When financial risk is a cyber risk, should CFOs be taking greater responsibility for security?…

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Autonomous vehicles to drive the economy?

January 29, 2019 | Heather Wright

Public transport routes will go autonomous within three years says Kiwi developer…

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The AI data conundrum

January 28, 2019 | Dion Williams

Will the wait for large amounts of ‘clean’ data stymy your AI plans?…

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NZ tech cloud moves_IDC report

NZ tech sector takes on cloud risks

January 24, 2019 | Jonathan Cotton

NZ entering a $4b IT services boom but service providers had best prepare for change…

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Future of Work = massive skills upgrade

January 24, 2019 | Heather Wright

New reports demand major re-think on education…

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Enlive water treatment global award

Kiwi IoT vendor in running for global award

January 23, 2019 | Heather Wright

KotahiNet only finalist from outside Europe and North America…

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Dr Gartner prescribes digital detox, play and daydreams

January 22, 2019 | Heather Wright

2019 CIO resolutions recommend creative pursuits…

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Blockchain_opportunities in NZ

Callaghan takes bold view on a blockchain future

December 20, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

It may be hyped to the hilt, but a new report says the blockchain promise is real and set to disrupt NZ industry…

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Robots delivering coral babies to Great Barrier Reef

December 18, 2018 | Heather Wright

BabyBots to the rescue in ‘world first’ – and it’s not at all fishy…

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$160k software piracy settlement paid

December 18, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

BSA says using snitches is paying dividends…

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All the tech that wasn’t: 2018’s over-hyped, under-delivered tech

December 11, 2018 | Hayden McCall

Just how much hype from 2018 will make it to 2019?…

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Are you protecting the right data?

December 11, 2018 | Heather Wright

Not all data is equal. Is your company protecting your most valuable data?…

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Ethics and algorithms: Can machine learning ever be moral?

December 6, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

New research suggests the human touch might be the solution to the excesses of the big data deluge…

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Humans + bots a CX winner says MIT report

December 4, 2018 | Heather Wright

Tangible results being seen as customer ‘intimacy’ drives A/NZ AI adoption…

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Cloud computing in NZ_Accenture

What’s next for cloud computing in New Zealand

December 3, 2018 | Suraj Sowki

The foundation is in place, so where to next for Kiwi companies and the cloud?…

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Is digital marketing in crisis?

November 29, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Facebook and Google, Google and Facebook. What lies beyond the digital marketing duopoly?..

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Future of work: A/NZ leaders starkly unprepared

November 28, 2018 | Heather Wright

Oceania leaders see less disruption ahead than other APAC countries…

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Biometric ID tech’s growing acceptance

November 28, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The consumerisation of biometrics is seeing the selfie elevated to trusted identity authenticator…

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Workday ERP nips at SAP Oracle heels

Workday snapping at Oracle and SAP’s heels

November 23, 2018 | Heather Wright

Company starts talking up its ERP credentials…

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Excuse me: IoT in the bathroom

November 22, 2018 | Heather Wright

The results are in, and the benefits go beyond water efficiency…

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Is it time for an IoT crack down?

November 22, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Security vendors will always find something to make us paranoid, but for IoT, some sort of policy framework is surely the order of the day…

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TIBCO brings AI to BI

November 21, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Acronyms abound!..

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Aotearoa tech union

NZ tech sector gets unionised

November 20, 2018 | Heather Wright

Aotearoa Tech Union launches, and yes, it really is a union…

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Rocket Lab reaches for the stars

November 16, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Successful commercial launch is the ultimate combination of technology and business…

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Alibaba’s massive numbers highlight growth op for A/NZ business

November 14, 2018 | Heather Wright

It’s not just fancy numbers for a foreign company…

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ANZ receives Best Security Campaign Award

GCSB, ANZ bank, Aura among iSANZ 2018 winners

November 14, 2018 | Heather Wright

NZ security awards highlight Kiwi cybersecurity efforts…

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Taking intelligence to the edge

November 9, 2018 | Heather Wright

A/NZ companies step up to the edge as IoT takes hold…

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Unpicking augmentation

November 6, 2018 | Mac Bryla

Human overseers still needed in a world of automation…

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Cybercrime

Combating cybercrime all about people

November 6, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Focus less on tech and more on people says PwC…

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Mixed reality revolution finally gets underway downunder

November 1, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Australiasian VR, AR and mixed reality on the cusp of broad adoption…

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Big Blue chases cloud market with US$34b Red Hat acquisition

October 31, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

IBM’s proposed acquisition of open source cloud software company Red Hat will create the world’s largest open source software portfolio…

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Artificial intelligence research in NZ

Can NZ catch the AI Express?

October 30, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

With 54 b-b-b-billion dollars the supposed prize, we’d better…

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TIN Tech 2018 awards

TIN200 reports $1b+ in tech sector growth

October 25, 2018 | Heather Wright

Industry trajectory has number one in its sights…

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T3W Barry Soutar Te Tira Toi Whakangao

T3W talks up Maori tech deals

October 24, 2018 | Heather Wright

NZTE offshoot has big plans for sector…

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SwipedOn sold

NZ’s SwipedOn bought for $11m

October 18, 2018 | Heather Wright

While Soul Machine garners new investment…

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AI investment shows bang for buck

October 18, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Gartner finds majority of AI projects are very successful – for e-commerce…

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Open office findings counter-intuitive

October 17, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The science is out: why open offices don’t foster collaboration…

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A fascination with the future of work

October 11, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

It’s closer than you think. In fact, it’s here and now…

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Robots, automation…and longer holidays

October 10, 2018 | Heather Wright

Forget robots stealing our jobs – can they help make the four-day work week a reality instead?..

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Midmarket ERP a race to the cloud

October 3, 2018 | Hayden McCall

iStart’s latest release of the ERP Buyer’s Guide shows that it’s cloud or nothing for ERP vendors, but in a hybrid world is purer better?…

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Deloitte says CIOs need to adapt or perish

October 2, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

In the age of change, just what does the role of the CIO entail?..

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Reskilling the older generation to finish their careers in tech

October 1, 2018 | Keiran Mott

Having no prior tech experience shouldn’t stop us reskilling older, non-tech workers…

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Google cranks up enterprise cloud ambition

September 28, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

The company used daily by just about every connected person on the planet steps up its play for the enterprise…

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Improving Search for the next 20 years

September 26, 2018 | Ben Gomes

Google celebrated its 20th birthday this year with the company outlining its AI and neural Search plans…

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Stripe, Slack, Canva… Cloud’s dominance grows

September 26, 2018 | Heather Wright

Forbes announces top 100 private cloud companies…

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Are younger devs better devs?

September 26, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Add ageism to prickly issues to avoid in your dev team…

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Shipping News: blockchain arrives for freight

September 24, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

IBM’s TradeLens hypes a step toward ‘one-touch’ international shipping…

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MicroStrategy puts governance back into data

September 20, 2018 | Newsdesk

Because citizen data scientists can cause new headaches for IT…

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Ministerial registrations_No CTO appointed

Breaking Bad: Tech sector needs rethink on CTO

September 18, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Ministerial resignations, $107k compensation, and did we really need a CTO anyway?…

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Measuring people performance with ML

September 12, 2018 | Michael Devlin

Eek!  A machine is going to tell me I’m not good enough?…

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Speech, smarts & Bots – Gartner’s 2018 hype cycle

September 7, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Smart Bots, whatever next?…

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TIBCO Now kicks off with news aplenty

September 6, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

IoT, Machine Learning, The Cloud… I need a cup of tea and rest…

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They have ways of making us talk

September 5, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Five Eyes talks tough on encryption (or non-encryption) rules…

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Data science for the people

September 4, 2018 | Heather Wright

You don’t need a PhD to discover the value of data…

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Trademe Ping secure payment

Is Trade Me Ping secure?

August 31, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Is Trade Me’s new payment service just too ‘convenient’…

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Are you really getting your collaboration tools right?

August 30, 2018 | Heather Wright

Employee engagement: Is there an app for that?…

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NZTech_Muller_Cybersecurity

Taking cybersecurity to the board

August 30, 2018 | Heather Wright

Forget the bandaids, your company needs a security culture…

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Congratulations… it’s a (digital) twin

August 29, 2018 | Heather Wright

Digital twins are allowing companies to be bold with a virtual world…

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Forget the chatbots, ‘virtual assistants’ are taking over now

August 24, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The psychological and technological come together in the race for CX AI supremacy…

read more...
Nearmap Auckland_Esri Conference

Seven key takeaways from the NZ Esri User Conference

August 23, 2018 | Heather Wright

Some interesting uses of GIS, storytelling winners and a new aerial imagery option…

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AI and ML transforming supply chain management

August 23, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Changes are driving further demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set…

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Mapping a road to saving cash

August 22, 2018 | Heather Wright

Esri user conference demonstrates the value that a simple map can deliver…

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Back to the future: The power of predictive analytics

August 21, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Who needs a crystal ball when you’ve got a better mouse-trap?…

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NZ Digital skills shortage

Digital skills shortage: Whatcha gonna do?

August 17, 2018 | Heather Wright

Yup, there’s a skills shortage. But what are tech companies doing to help?…

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The changing face of HR

August 16, 2018 | Heather Wright

Forget robots stealing jobs, technology is changing the face of HR…

read more...

Help wanted: National digital leaders apply within

August 15, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The government has its fair share of challenges when it comes to digital and data – and finding competent leaders is one of them…

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Access to dead people’s data under examination

August 15, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

It’s trickier than it sounds…

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AI caramba: Opening AI’s ‘black box’

August 10, 2018 | Heather Wright

Trust is a must with all technology, but will AI legislation stymie innovation?…

read more...

Censorship be damned: Google & Co go for China

August 9, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Open internetter’s outrage won’t stem FAANGs wanting a piece of the PRC…

read more...
Epic developer hits back at Google

Fortnite launches Android attack

August 8, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Local game industry looks on in awe, announces stellar predictions…

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Virtual reality_Medical Coaching

Reality arrives for virtual

August 8, 2018 | Hayden McCall

Next level VR opens up world of possibilities…

read more...

Huawei takes bite out of trillion dollar Apple

August 7, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Being a trillion dollar company doesn’t make you top dog…

read more...

Microsoft’s cloud business grows like topsy

August 3, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Azure almost doubles revenue in hot cloud market…

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Industry 4.0 ‘revolution’ yet to fire up?

August 2, 2018 | Heather Wright

Is there a disconnect between IT ambitions and industry reality?…

read more...

Why Oracle users must seek third party licence assurance

August 2, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Software is big business, with most corporations spending millions every year on the technology which keeps things humming…

read more...

DX stalling? Blame it on your culture and cybersecurity

August 1, 2018 | Heather Wright

It’s not about the technology – unless it’s security, that is…

read more...

Facebook maths: fake news + privacy breaches = $110b gone

July 30, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Does Facebook’s dramatic share value slump simply reflect the numbers or are deeper trust and confidence issues at play?…

read more...

Google fined gazillions: Do they care?

July 27, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Google forced to cough up big bucks in action reminiscent of Microsoft anti-trust case, but will it have any impact?…

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AWS Transformation day

Key takeaways from AWS Transformation Day

July 27, 2018 | Heather Wright

AWS NZ builds ‘field of dreams’ for Kiwi customers…

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Vodafone chatbot Watson

Vodafone NZ calls on Watson for AI

July 26, 2018 | Heather Wright

New deal with IBM as Vodafone NZ goes Agile for automation and AI…

read more...

Cisco’s backdoors abound

July 24, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

With five backdoors discovered in Cisco gear since 2013, perhaps Australia might want to apply the same standards used on Huawei with Cisco?…

read more...

Dynamics Inner Circle beckons again for Empired and Intergen

July 24, 2018 | Empired, Intergen

Golden run continues for the Microsoft partners…

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NZ UFB Chorus vs 5G

UFB vs 5G: Fight!

July 20, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Will 5G signal a death knell for UFB…

read more...

Leadership and operations stymieing DX success

July 19, 2018 | Heather Wright

Capgemini survey shows change management still a major constraint…

read more...

Whatever happened to Green IT?

July 19, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

A few years ago it was the word on every CIO’s lips: Green or bust. Where did those good intentions go?…

read more...

Microsoft: It’s time to regulate facial recognition

July 17, 2018 | Heather Wright

Because tech companies just can’t be trusted to do it right…

read more...
Microsoft MIE Hui teaches tech

Microsoft MIE hui teaches tech to teachers

July 17, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Is it what’s needed to fill a growing tech sector labour gap?

read more...

The art of (business) storytelling

July 17, 2018 | Heather Wright

CFOs must pick up where CIOs have failed…

read more...
Hawaiki submarine cable

Hawaiki goes live, three universities quit REANNZ

July 13, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

$550m investment’s anchor tenant on shaky ground…

read more...

The eyes of the IoT

July 12, 2018 | Bjørn Skou Eilertsen

Machine intelligence + human judgement = an IoT video data win…

read more...

The internet of hype?

July 5, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

IoT overhype? The answer is not quite so clear-cut…

read more...
Z Energy data breach

Z Energy vulnerability highlights hole in NZ data breach laws

July 3, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Data breach reporting to become mandatory in New Zealand, could Z Energy have handled things better?

read more...
NZ Tech women

NZTech to display 100 Tech Women

July 3, 2018 | Heather Wright

If the girls can see them, will they come?…

read more...

Microsoft ices heated developers

June 29, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

GitHub activists rattle their new cage…

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A/NZ tech laggards losing staff

June 27, 2018 | Heather Wright

We don’t like working with old tech – and we’re not afraid to leave…

read more...

Gloves off as Teradata files lawsuit against SAP for IP theft

June 26, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Alleged theft of trade secrets used to create HANA…

read more...
Drones for farming sector_MYOB

Rural sector eyes robotics and drones for productivity

June 22, 2018 | Heather Wright

As long they can get some connectivity first…

read more...
Microsoft Partner awards 2018

Microsoft partners celebrate customer success

June 22, 2018 | Heather Wright

Intergen leads new focus on customers for restructured Awards ceremony…

read more...

Google Maps API change hits company pockets

June 21, 2018 | Heather Wright

3,000 percent cost increases reported…

read more...
TechLeaders_digital_divide

Kiwi TechLeaders ‘digital principles’ a beginner’s guide

June 21, 2018 | Heather Wright

Digital leaders post advisory to laggers to address growing divide…

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Understanding social top tasks: what Cisco learnt

June 18, 2018 | Gerry McGovern

Gerry McGovern shares the story of an exercise he did with Cisco on why people used their social media pages across a number of platforms…

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2018 CIO Awards winners revealed

June 14, 2018 | Newsdesk

The winners have been announced at a glittering gala dinner, recognising leadership, innovation and foresight in New Zealand ICT and business…

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IoT at the edge: 50b devices to connect by 2022

June 14, 2018 | Newsdesk

Get ready to connect that fridge – and factory and farm – to the internet, because the IoT revolution is here…

read more...

Data centres under water? Project Natick goes deep

June 13, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

Data centres are the unsung heroes of our age. Every time we use cloud apps or utter “OK Google” a data centre is doing all the legwork…

read more...

Digital reinvention, business and the productivity paradox

June 12, 2018 | Newsdesk

While the digital revolution can indeed improve productivity, we’re not there yet suggests new research from McKinsey…

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Microsoft Partner awards 2018

Finalists announced for Microsoft NZ Partner Awards

June 8, 2018 | Newsdesk

This year’s awards are more focused than usual, with the number of categories cut down from 26 to just eleven…

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Top 4 takeaways from the Mary Meeker internet report

June 7, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s Silicon Valley’s favourite slide deck, but at a whopping 294 slides, Mary Meeker’s 2018 Trend Report is well and truly death by Powerpoint. But despair not: we’ve separated the wheat from the chaff on your behalf…

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FinancialForce expands partner ecosystem with Appirio deal

June 6, 2018 | Newsdesk

ERP cloud vendor FinancialForce has announced a new sales and implementation partnership with Indianapolis-based CX company Appirio…

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The future is now: Welcome to the data century

June 5, 2018 | Steve Singer

Economic empires have been built on data, but at what cost, asks Steve Singer, ANZ Country Manager at Talend…

read more...

What you need to know about GDPR

May 29, 2018 | Paul Matthews

GDPR went live on 25 May – but how does it affects you?…

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Transitioning to agile? First prepare your environment

May 29, 2018 | Owen McCall

It may well be the corporate buzzword of the decade, but proper business agility is all about setting the foundations say Owen McCall…

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How IoT can enhance customer experiences

May 28, 2018 | Jonathan Stern

In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need to provide an exceptional customer experience that stands out in the marketplace…

read more...
2018 NZ Tech awards

2018 Hi-Tech Awards winners announced

May 28, 2018 | Newsdesk

The full list of winners from the year’s most prestigious technology awards…

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Fusion5 think outside the box with Jemini

May 25, 2018 | Pat Pilcher

The power of nine helps bring three years of HCM software development to market…

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Get the most from your data

May 24, 2018 | Pat Martin

Collecting the stuff is one thing. Doing something useful with it, quite another, writes Pat Martin…

read more...
TechWeek in NZ

Why a NZ connection helps our tech innovators stand out from the crowd

May 23, 2018 | Sarah Morgan

As TechWeek rolls on, NZ Story Group’s head of engagement, Sarah Morgan, shares three ways being from New Zealand can be a catapult for tech entrepreneurs…

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CIO awards

Finalists named for 2018 CIO Awards

May 17, 2018 | Newsdesk

Winners will be announced at a gala dinner on 13 June in Auckland…

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Whitepaper: How to digitally transform business operations

May 17, 2018 | Esker

By embracing digital transformation, organisations can cut out inefficiencies and create effective practices…

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FinancialForce and Agilyx deal brings more cloud ERP down under

May 16, 2018 | Newsdesk

Agreement will add local partner to deliver financial management solutions in A/NZ…

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FinancialForce & Agilyx Group join forces to bring more cloud ERP to A/NZ

May 16, 2018 | Newsdesk

Agilyx and FinancialForce have signed an agreement to deliver financial management and professional services automation tech to A/NZ…

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The evolving role of the CPO

May 15, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Talent worries, digi-tech fear and the collaboration imperative are the issues facing modern CPOs, says Deloitte. And something’s got to give…

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IT downtime – What are the risks & how to minimise costs

May 14, 2018 | Chris Dickinson

Whether the result of natural disasters or outright malice, IT downtime is more than an inconvenience: when mission-critical applications go offline, it can mean disruption and disaster…

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Welcome to the New Intelligence Era (courtesy of SAP)

May 10, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

SAP continues to target APAC with new Singapore Leonardo Centre launch. iStart was there to check it out…

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ServiceNow takes on next least popular department

May 10, 2018 | Hayden McCall

IT service management provider has HR in its sights to extend footprint…

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The AI dilemma: What is AI’s role in customer service?

May 9, 2018 | Sreelesh Pillai

AI brings speed and cost efficiency to business processes. But what about empathy?…

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Gartner: Blockchain “massively hyped”

May 8, 2018 | Newsdesk

Despite the hype, most CIOs have no interest in the tech, nor any plans to develop it…

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Aeroqual and EPA air sensor research deal

Auckland Uni air sensor tech signs deal with EPA

May 8, 2018 | Newsdesk

Project will investigate new ways of providing low-cost measurement of outside air pollutants…

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How middleware eases enterprise software upgrades

May 8, 2018 | Newsdesk

Flow Software makes for smooth warehouse management system migration…

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The end of ownership: The subs economy booms

May 4, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

It’s not new, but then again, it kind of is. Goodbye pay-per-product – the subscription economy has come of age…

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Qrious buys Ubiquity. Ubiquity takes over.

May 3, 2018 | Newsdesk

Spark’s foray into big data analytics takes turn after CEO steps down…

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Six customer engagement tips when using chatbots

Chatbots just could be the game-changer for SMBs looking to compete against larger competitors…

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Breaking down the biggest worries of tech managers

May 3, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The numbers are in: Complexity, lack of skills and lack of cloud visibility are the biggest headaches for those on the front line…

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Why any cloud migration strategy should start with the data warehouse

May 3, 2018 | Peter O’Connor

Many Australasian organisations want to shift their IT infrastructure to the cloud, says Peter O’Connor, Snowflake Computing’s APAC VP of Sales. But where to begin?…

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AI meets CX: The ultimate test of…human patience?

May 3, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The robot hordes are coming to manage the customer experience. Welcome to hell…

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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art goes digital for the billions

April 27, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Digital technology holds the promise of big global audiences for world-famous institution…

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Cloud migration: Why ‘lift and shift’ is not enough

April 27, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

With Amazon, MS and Google all upping their enterprise cloud game, why do businesses so often fail in their great migrations?…

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Forthcoming public cloud boom to be owned by the few

April 26, 2018 | Newsdesk

Latest Gartner forecast predicts public cloud revenue to surge, shared among a handful of major players…

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Rave about the machine: Auckland to host AI conference

April 24, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Auckland has won the bid to host a top international artificial intelligence get-together in 2020…

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EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel

Digi-tech provides fertile ground for developing nations

April 19, 2018 | Newsdesk

EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel says Europe is dedicated to helping Africa build a single digital market, paving the way to better jobs on the continent…

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Digital acceleration presents new challenges

April 18, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

IDC research reveals organisational challenges to melding digital transformation into business-as-usual…

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Is CRM the largest software market in the world?

April 17, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

According to Gartner it is, but it’s more about the rise of martech and CX than core CRM rollouts…

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B2B starts with a …C

Creating value from B2B digital channels starts with customer discovery says Accenture’s Elle Bell…

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Youth in revolt: Google employees protest Pentagon drone work

April 12, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Brave stand or naive youth grandstanding? 3,000 Google employees say ‘no’ to military drone tech…

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Tech and disruption lead agenda for 2018 CIO Summit

April 12, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Top international tech experts will descend on Auckland this June to show just how CIOs can drive digi-tech disruption…

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Techweek ’18 hits the country next week

April 9, 2018 | Newsdesk

Techweek is back with its compelling mix of tech ecosystem events, feel-good distractions for the kids and hearty self-congratulation for Kiwi innovators…

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IRD systems upgrade

How back office transformation drives IRD efficiency

April 6, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

With the Inland Revenue Department undergoing a massive systems upgrade, transformation of the back office is among the central raisons d’etre…

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New Canberra Azure regions target high-security and govt data

April 5, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The MS megalith continues to spread its high-specced tentacles across Australia and the globe…

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Finalists in the 2018 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards announced

April 4, 2018 | Newsdesk

According to the judges, this year’s awards will also celebrate high diversity…

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Facebook and the age of data enlightenment

March 27, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

With #DeleteFacebook trending, the creepiness of the social giant’s data-enabled reach is beginning to hit home…

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Salesforce buys Mulesoft for US$6.5 billion

March 22, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

The CRM giant pays top dollar for the integration specialist in its bid to tempt new customers…

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Microsoft dominates Gartner’s BI & Analytics list

March 21, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

MS continues to outperform BI peers with slick product, great iteration and an attractive price point…

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MYOB frees the data with AI-powered advisory dashboard

March 21, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

As accountants and bookkeepers wade deeper into advisor territory, MYOB looks to advise the advisors with free data crunching tool…

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ITP steps up to qualify ICT immigrants

March 21, 2018 | Hayden McCall

New Zealand’s IT Professionals association to provide qualification recognition…

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Lather, rinse, repeat: Why design thinking is great for business

March 20, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Design thinking evangelical says that a human-centred approach is the key to lightning-speed iteration and ultimately wild business success…

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Empired Group receives Episerver partner award

March 15, 2018 | Newsdesk

Two awards in 2017 showing Empired is a valuable partner to Episerver…

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Reengineering tech: A new approach to IT delivery

March 15, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Deloitte offers big thinking for beleaguered CIOs looking to influence but feeling the weight of a raft of new responsibilities…

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Mac attack: Malware targeting Macintosh computers soars 270 percent

March 13, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Apple users aren’t looking so smug as almost undetectable malware threats to Macs go through the roof…

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Eating the elephant: Why iterative development is key to data warehouse success

NOW Consulting’s CTO Martin Norgrove advises on how to approach big data projects…

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NZ makes the at-risk ‘Cyber Five’ list

March 7, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Geographic isolation doesn’t count for much in the cyber stakes – so why are we unconcerned?

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Predictable disruption: How to expect the unexpected

March 5, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Disruption is, by its very nature, unpredictable, right? Well, not so fast. According to Accenture, that ain’t necessarily so…

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How not to suck at digital transformation

March 2, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

Why do the best laid digital plans of so many companies go awry? Research company McKinsey offers its two cents…

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New ‘ERP’ slices into tough SME market

March 2, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Queensland software startup Kradle hopes its blades will carve out a niche…

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World FinTech Report: Big or small, collaborate or perish

March 1, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

While fintechs and legacy players battle over customers, they might just be missing the real opportunity: cooperation…

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Why efficient data access is vital in today’s business world

March 1, 2018 | Steve Singer

In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, data has become the oil that keeps business humming, writes Talend’s Steve Singer…

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Five points to consider when moving to cloud ERP

February 28, 2018 | Jeff Arnold

Cloud ERP has multiple attractive propositions – but is it right for your organisation, ponders Unit4’s Jeff Arnold…

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Digital Nations 2030: Minister outlines crucial connectivity role

February 23, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Minister Curran sees digital inclusion as top of the agenda…

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Baby X grows up (a bit)

February 23, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

NatWest begins testing ‘digital human’, claims banking first…

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Connected vehicles: Driving to an insecure future?

February 21, 2018 | Kevin Bocek

The machines can’t be trusted says security strategist Kevin Bocek…

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Chatbots: friendly, frustrating and coming like it or not

February 21, 2018 | Newsdesk

Gartner says ‘virtual customer assistants’ are set to proliferate…

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Failure to complete digital transformation will cost plenty

February 19, 2018 | Newsdesk

Integration vendor identifies integration as a major contributing issue…

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‘Half of CIOs’ plan AI deployments

February 15, 2018 | Newsdesk

Advice from Gartner on how to successfully get projects across the line…

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Modifying democracy with the blockchain

February 8, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Lofty goals of Australian start-up tied to political belief that ‘the system is broken’…

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Introducing your exciting new security headache: IoT

February 7, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

When it comes to the world of IoT, what you don’t know can hurt you…

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Forget AI for a minute: The focus is on the basics

February 7, 2018 | Newsdesk

Organisations slow to advance in data and analytics…

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Top achievers to judge talent at NZ Hi-Tech Awards

January 31, 2018 | Newsdesk

Bill Reichert, Dr Rosie Bosworth and Rebekah Campbell join international judging panel…

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By the numbers: Cybercrime in 2017

January 30, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

What happened, what’s coming next and what you can do about it…

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Don’t panic: Here comes ‘Industry 4.0’

January 30, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

We’re on the cusp of a new technological revolution and we’re woefully unprepared, says Deloitte. But that’s okay…

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How data consolidation delivers a better supply chain

January 30, 2018 | Jim McParlane

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, businesses constantly hunt for ways to drive operational efficiency, writes Anaplan’s Jim McParlane…

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BI: In 2018, it’s all about the usability

January 24, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

Xero data innovation boss says much more should be made of the data stored and not used…

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Turning digital transformation from vision to reality in 2018

January 23, 2018 | David Rosen

This is the year digital transformation evolves from vision to reality, writes TIBCO’s David Rosen…

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Data quality: why businesspeople are from Mars, IT people from Venus

January 18, 2018 | Michael Whitehead

WhereScape’s Michael Whitehead says data quality is a business problem, not a data one…

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Why Soltius went to CES 2018 (and what it discovered there)

January 17, 2018 | Donovan Jackson

What is an enterprise solutions company doing at the biggest consumer electronics show in the world?…

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IoT deployments surge through 2017

January 17, 2018 | Newsdesk

Double the number of implementations as IoT goes from hype to reality…

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Government IT spending: Priorities (and where the money’s going)

January 17, 2018 | Newsdesk

Cloud, cybersecurity and analytics hot for 2018…

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How AI and automation will power your new ‘no-collar’ workforce

January 16, 2018 | Jonathan Cotton

With hybrid human/machine roles becoming a reality, one thing’s for sure: HR and IT departments – not to mention low-skilled workers – are in for some big changes…

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Why an API strategy is critical for your DevOps environment in 2018

January 11, 2018 | Will Bosma

As organisations plan their IT strategies for 2018, increasing attention is being given to DevOps, writes Will Bosma…

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New Zealand’s IT industry in 2018 and beyond

January 10, 2018 | Newsdesk

IDC tips ascent of the ‘Digital Native Enterprise’…

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New year, new Epicor ERP

January 9, 2018 | Newsdesk

Strong focus on BI, visual analytics in the cloud…

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How clever is this: AI will create 2.3 million jobs by 2020

December 14, 2017 | Newsdesk

While eliminating 1.8 million less demanding ones…

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Can too many experts hurt your venture? Experts say ‘yes’

December 14, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

You may think stacking your business-deck with brains is crucial to innovate, but new research indicates the opposite may be true…

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Gartner CIO agenda 2018: CIOs must ‘remix’ their role beyond IT

December 13, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Controlling costs, improving processes, exploiting data, driving revenue, scaling digital: the modern CIO must master it all…

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Enterprise Tech in 2018: What’s on the horizon

December 13, 2017 | Dan Ussher

We are in a period of transition, says Unit4’s Dan Ussher, moving away from ownership of assets and instead consuming services…

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Why most cybercrimes are motivated by fraud…and what you can do about it

December 11, 2017 | Ken Pang

Cybercrime’s a business – and business is booming, writes Content Security’s Ken Pang…

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Seven key security predictions for 2018

December 11, 2017 | Sylvain Lejeune

WatchGuard’s Sylvain Lejeune looks ahead for the cybersecurity trends likely to take hold in the New Year…

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Four supply chain predictions for 2018

December 11, 2017 | Newsdesk

Connected planning software vendor Anaplan looks ahead to the New Year…

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CDOS deliver business impact, enable digital transformation

December 8, 2017 | Newsdesk

By 2021 ‘CDO’ will be the most gender diverse of technology-affiliated C-level positions…

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Major diversity focus for 2018 NZ Hi-Tech Awards

December 6, 2017 | Newsdesk

Entries open with new categories, diversity promoted…

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Cloud vendors increasingly perceived as IT service providers

December 6, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

IDC study shows end users view vendors in new light…

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Dimension Data’s top IT trends in 2018

December 5, 2017 | Ettienne Reinecke, Scott Gibson

Ettienne Reinecke, Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Gibson, Group Executive, Digital Practice, share their thoughts on the forces that will re-shape digital business in 2018…

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Top 10 tech trends for 2018: IoT #1

December 5, 2017 | Newsdesk

Smart object storage, analytics and AI, and extension of agile methodologies across the enterprise will play key roles in coming year…

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Digital transformation is dead

December 4, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Long live digital transformation…

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re:Invent insights – bringing home the AWS bacon

November 30, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Soltius attendees translate news fresh from Vegas partner event…

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Fake news and cyber security

November 30, 2017 | Donovan Jackson, Jonathan Cotton

Why thinking clearly about security is so hard…

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Telecoms, banking ‘most advanced’ in digital transformation

November 30, 2017 | Newsdesk

Less than 10 percent of enterprises have achieved their digital transformation goals…

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Productivity bites tech sector

November 23, 2017 | Newsdesk

Tech companies urged to ‘eat more of their own dog food’ when it comes to selling…

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Techweek looks to import VIP contingent

November 22, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

It seems in 2017 every country wants to rebrand itself as an innovation hotspot, and New Zealand is no different. But what are we doing about it?…

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HPE further advances data centre automation with AI

November 22, 2017 | Newsdesk

More evidence of the IT industry clever-clogs doing their co-workers out of a job?…

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Oracle primes ‘XaaS’ offerings

November 15, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Throws open doors to Sydney Digital Hub, focuses on net new…

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Whitepaper: How to successfully select an ERP system in eight simple steps

November 11, 2017 | Epicor Software Corporation

Eight steps and then you should be able to select an ERP solution based on how well it met your selection criteria…

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From Russia with Like

November 9, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

What to do when your platform is loved by users and Russian propagandists alike?

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Cloud proliferation drives OpenStack integration woes

November 7, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Just because it’s open, doesn’t mean it’s integrated…

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Convergence: How technology actualises vision

November 6, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Intergen conference demonstrates leading local and international digital strategy success…

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Goodbye legacy systems, hello ‘Composable IT’

October 31, 2017 | Paul Haverfield

Remember how much fun it was to build stuff with Lego blocks? HPE CTO Paul Haverfield does…

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Study shows Australia (and NZ) lead world on automation and machine learning

October 26, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

What’s behind high levels of new technology adoption?…

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Business transformation driving new SaaS and PaaS appetite

October 26, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Huge opportunities for vendors as enterprises look to modernise legacy systems (and have the budgets to match)…

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The technology shaping digital business

October 25, 2017 | Newsdesk

Blockchain leads the charge of technologies which will change the world…

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Digital transformation – peel away the hype

October 24, 2017 | Newsdesk

Focus instead on creating business value…

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The new best job in the world: Data Scientist?

October 19, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Why the data guy just might be your company’s most valuable asset…

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TIN200 NZ tech growth

New Zealand tech sector passes $10 billion revenue

October 18, 2017 | Newsdesk

Regions shine, high value jobs created as TIN200 tech companies produce equivalent of 10 percent of New Zealand exports…

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Good bot, bad bot: find the attributes that please

October 17, 2017 | Dan Ussher

As the hype around bots builds to a crescendo, Dan Ussher, Unit4 ANZ Sales Director, ponders good and evil, bad and better…

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Double digit growth for public cloud revenue

October 17, 2017 | Newsdesk

SaaS and IaaS drive growth, big players dominate…

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Digital transformation: Delight or Disaster?

October 9, 2017 | Mark Hurley

‘Doing it’ is one thing. ‘Getting it right’ is quite another, writes Little Giant’s Mark Hurley…

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IT spending sluggish, enterprise software and services shine

October 4, 2017 | Newsdesk

Global spending to increase a modest 4.3 percent; digital transformation a factor…

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Microsoft adds ‘first-line’ workers to target market with new 365 deal

October 2, 2017 | Newsdesk

Microsoft releases its F1 ‘everything’ subscription plan, urging digitisation of frontline workers…

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Why CIOs must master the S-Curve

October 2, 2017 | Owen McCall

Thanks to Moore’s Law the S-Curves in technology are frighteningly short, writes Owen McCall…

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A tech insider’s digital transformation journey

September 29, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

It doesn’t just happen to other industries – technology vendors and partners are affected, too…

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RegTech 101: What you need to know about FinTech’s buzzword du jour

September 26, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

RegTech has arrived and it’s going to solve all your compliance problems…right?…

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Everybody loves the cloud

September 25, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Turns out we’re just not very good at using it…

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IDC: Ignore the hype as IoT ecosystem falls into place

September 21, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Don’t be drawn by the numbers. Focus on the value behind them…

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Cloud data warehousing comes of age

Cloud computing is hardly new, but with data warehousing structural challenges and maturity limited widespread adoption. Until now, writes NOW Consulting’s Martin Norgrove…

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And the blockchain leader is…IBM

September 19, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Four in ten cited Big Blue as top player in a technology which could be crucial to its future…

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Of trees, woods and Hadoopable problems

September 14, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Structured, unstructured and lots of it – but does more data translate more sense?…

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Why the time for digital transformation is now

September 14, 2017 | Rajesh Ganesan

Overcoming legacy pain just one step on the journey…

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New partnership ‘drives digital transformation’

September 14, 2017 | Newsdesk

Data governance at the centre of new business models…

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Male, pale and stale

September 12, 2017 | Fiona Hanlon

The tech industry consciously confronts its bogeyman…

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Digital transformation gives birth to consulting business

September 12, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Former Intergen staffer fires up ‘profitable from week 3’ company…

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Cyber insurance booms as no one quite knows what they’re talking about

September 12, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

As threats from cyber criminals mount (or at least the perception of it), insurers prepare for boom times…

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Out of Office: Meet your new agile workforce

September 7, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Staying connected while working remotely has never been easier. So why are you all still in the city?…

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‘Je suis millennial’: Prepare for the next generation of customers

September 6, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Generational upheaval means expectations are changing…

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Drop the ‘digital’ – these days it’s just ‘experience’

September 5, 2017 | Keith Buckley

An increased focus on digital requires your entire business to understand they have a role to play in enhancing user experience, writes Keith Buckley…

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AI on the prize: Biz leaders prepare for ‘leap of faith’

September 4, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

As AI takes hold where are the likely market opportunities?…

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The ten habits of customer-centric digital organisations

September 4, 2017 | Olive Huang

Technology innovation offers organisations new opportunities to engage with customers as they build a digital business, writes Olive Huang…

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Facilities management on verge of an IoT revolution

August 31, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

But to get off it, all that data must be harnessed says Precinct…

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Preparing for what’s next in the age of Future Shock

August 30, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

The ultimate DIY: Be your own futurist…

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The eight critical components of a digital workplace

August 30, 2017 | Newsdesk

Ummm aren’t we digital already?…

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The future benefits of AI are bigger than you can imagine

August 30, 2017 | Steve Singer

It’s currently one of the hottest topics in the technology sector and, if experts are right Steve Singer says AI’s impact will be as big as the silicon chip…

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Convergence: Practical insight on digital technology

August 29, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

You’re not going to see any presentations on the latest version of a software product at Intergen’s Convergence events…

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Contact Energy: Building a cyber-secure culture

August 25, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Humans beat sensors when it comes to sniffing malicious links…

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Something for everyone: Digital Convergence

August 24, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Product demos are off the agenda at Intergen’s upcoming ‘real world’ events…

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Digital transformation

Digital transformation – it’s not for everyone

August 24, 2017 | Newsdesk

Alternate view points out for some companies, digital evolution is a natural process…

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The participation trophy myth: The real secrets to managing millennials

August 23, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Hiring staff between now and 2030? here’s what you need to know…

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Promapp named ‘Hot Vendor’ in Business Process Management

August 18, 2017 | Newsdesk

A stonking year for Auckland-HQ’d BPM vendor continues…

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Jennifer Rutherford appointed chair of NZ Hi-Tech Trust

August 17, 2017 | Newsdesk

Building on the record success of this year’s Hi-Tech Awards, which saw a record number of entries from right around the country, the 2018 Awards programme readies for further growth…

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On 500 Startups, Google, diversity and tech culture

August 16, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Unconscious bias maybe, but true value lies in a diversity of ideology not collective indignation…

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Tech hype cycle: from obscure to…transparently immersive

August 16, 2017 | Newsdesk

Annual Gartner update illustrates looming risk of disillusionment…

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A closer look at Kiwi startupland

August 11, 2017 | Newsdesk

MYOB report shows NZ is a top spot to start a business – but ‘more can be done’ to support start-up ecosystem…

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Trademe trust

Trust Me: NZ’s top trader explains the foundation of online business

August 9, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Trust is central to Trade Me’s operations. What role does it play in yours?…

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The smart future of manufacturing

August 9, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Artificial Intelligence and the production floor revolution…

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Fibre speed not a given

August 8, 2017 | Vorco

Tips to get the most out of your fibre connection…

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Sales conversation

Seven ways to get to YES on IT deals

August 3, 2017 | Brian O'Doherty

Whether you are on the buy- or sell-side of software/services deals, the ability to cut through the sales BS is vital to a successful deal says Brian O’Doherty…

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Attention Slackers: Don’t expect privacy around the digital watercooler

July 27, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

Report charts rise of office messaging tools, reveals troubling privacy assumptions…

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Data Vault: All the data, all the time

July 27, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

NOW Consulting adds data modelling alternative to address rapid change use cases…

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What’s next for the sharing economy

July 27, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Predictions on where disruptive business models will strike next…

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FinancialForce: Plugging the services gap

July 24, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Newcomer ERP vendor targets lucrative niche…

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Nine steps to an effective cyber security plan

July 21, 2017 | Kyle Taege

Your guide to security planning, attack mode and the aftermath…advice for SMB by Kyle Taege…

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Australians, Kiwis wary about sharing data…and no wonder

July 20, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

With continual high-profile data breaches, people are rightfully selective about info sharing…

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Integration at the heart of enterprise digital transformation

July 19, 2017 | Robert Merlicek

As digital technologies become all pervasive in the world of business, ensuring they are seamlessly linked is becoming increasingly important, argues Robert Merlicek…

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Digital transformation more difficult for risk averse companies

July 18, 2017 | Newsdesk

MIT SMR and Deloitte backs obvious conclusions with research…

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Walking in the shoes of the CIO

July 18, 2017 | Intergen

Jucy and Sleepyhead CIOs share their insights on real world challenges…

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Chatbots: The cheap way to irritate your customers

July 14, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

How much does a chatbot for your site cost? More than you might think…

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Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment epidemic

July 11, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton

We chew over the recent wave of sexual harassment complaints coming out of the centre of the tech universe…

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AI dubbed ‘face of innovation’

July 7, 2017 | Newsdesk

PwC report fingers AI and IoT as ‘most advanced’ emerging technologies in New Zealand…

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How APIs can help extract maximum value from DevOps

June 30, 2017 | Brad Drysdale

When it comes to developing software to create innovative experiences for customers, organisations can choose one of two paths, contends Brad Drysdale…

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Skills shortage? What skills shortage?

June 27, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Despite own evidence to the contrary, NZTech CEO finds it hard to believe…

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MYOB IT challenge

Students solve business problems in MYOB IT Challenge

June 27, 2017 | Newsdesk

An online marketing chatbot and a cloud-based cybersecurity advisor…

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Sad? Dodgy video to blame

June 23, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

‘Filmed with a potato, streamed over 56k modem’…

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Tech support demonstrates that visualisation rules

June 23, 2017 | Dr. Paul Duignan

Strategy visualisation specialist Paul Duignan finds it hard to take when people don’t get it…

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Tech companies outside Auckland

Tech companies don’t have to be in Auckland

June 22, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Small scale ‘tyranny of distance’ can easily be overcome…

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Busting the ‘end-to-end’ myth

June 22, 2017 | Newsdesk

Think business is efficient and systems connected? It isn’t and they aren’t…

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NZTE CIO

People plus cloud make the 2017 CIO of the Year

June 19, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Top CIOs define themselves as motivators, leaders and inspirers of teams…

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Citizen-driven and tech enabled: New Zealand’s very civil service

June 19, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

How government service providers are transforming themselves for me. And you…

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Why Rimini Street is ‘the enemy’

June 16, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Scuttlebutt from the floor of the CIO Summit…

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Richard Kay CIO of the Year

Richard Kay named CIO of the Year

June 15, 2017 | Newsdesk

With the CIO Summit Awards taking place last night in Auckland, the top gong went to a government CIO…

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Get social and get cred: Engaged CEOs improve perceptions

June 14, 2017 | Newsdesk

Study reveals companies with ‘social executives’ perceived 23 percent more positively than those without…

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Businesses focusing on outcomes

Local businesses focusing on outcomes rather than technology

June 12, 2017 | Newsdesk

IDC says perception of IT has changed…

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Ready up for a ‘post-ERP world’

June 8, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Subscription business heralds a new era, if subscription software vendor is to be believed…

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Enterprise architecture

Beyond enterprise architecture: How critical thinking drives success

June 6, 2017 | Newsdesk

‘Critical thinking’ seems a lot like ‘common sense’. But it’s just as rare…

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NZTech sets up AI Forum

NZTech sets up AI Forum

June 6, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Claims artificial intelligence is ‘world’s fastest-growing disruptive tech’…

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Chasing the ERP pot of gold

June 2, 2017 | Denise Ganly

Getting value from ERP investments continues to challenge most organisations – but postmodern ERP strategies offer new opportunities, writes Denise Ganly…

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ERP Market Commentary: 2018 a user odyssey

June 2, 2017 | Hayden McCall

Upon release of its 2017-18 ERP Buyer’s Guide, iStart reflects on factors influencing the market…

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The big, big cost of cybercrime

June 1, 2017 | Newsdesk

Nearly 3 billion customer data records expected to be stolen in 2017 alone…

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DoView software vendor

Quiet Kiwi software vendor now officially cool

May 30, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

A software vendor which isn’t even really a software vendor has popped up and been named ‘Cool’ by none other than Gartner…

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Why are CFOs holding up decision making?

May 29, 2017 | Newsdesk

Report points to poor adoption, use of analytics for insights…

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The robots are here. Can new technologies help us be more human?

May 29, 2017 | Adam Howatson

Technology has consistently made life better for people; it’s not going to be different this time, writes Adam Howatson…

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‘Cloud first’ – so good it’s worth another look

May 26, 2017 | Sean Kopelke

Cloud is hardly new…nor is ‘cloud first’. But just in case the benefits haven’t hit home, Sean Kopelke gives them another once over…

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Ministry of Future

Ministry for the Future mooted

May 24, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

And that’s not the only startling thing in overreaching tech industry manifesto…

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workday invests in NZ

Workday’s big NZ investment: Not a contact centre

May 22, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Cloudy HR/financials company opens Global Support Centre in Auckland…

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Artificial Intelligence is just plain dumb

May 20, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Google’s time machine reveals AI in service management is far from new…

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introduction of new technology_DWCNZ

‘Transforming’? Be sure to bring your people along for the ride

May 18, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

With the introduction of new technology, a focus on people is the key to success…

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WannaCry: the most exciting thing to happen in cybersecurity for ages

May 16, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Massive ransomware attack kicks PR machines into overdrive…

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Artificial Intelligence: The end of life as we know it (and why that is a good thing)

May 15, 2017 | Adam Hosker

With 2017 set to be the biggest year yet for Artificial Intelligence, Adam Hosker ponders the future and finds it bright…

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investment in nz tech

New guide, policies to drive investment in tech sector

May 13, 2017 | Newsdesk

Government commits to boosting interest in NZ’s 3rd biggest industry…

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Digital a big deal down under

May 12, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Forward-looking tech leaders ahead of the curve – but will they stay there…

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cio awards finalists named

CIO Awards finalists named

May 12, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Recognition for individual and team leadership, innovation and foresight in ICT and business…

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How ‘servant leadership’ drives success

May 10, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Who is the most important person in any company? It’s not the CEO…

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Chatbots a ‘game changer’ for healthcare, banking

May 10, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Juniper Research says traditional call centres are under threat…

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NZ Tech Week 2017

258 tech and innovation events mark ‘biggest ever in NZ’

May 8, 2017 | Newsdesk

New Zealand Techweek rolls out nationwide…

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Will they bend or break? Avoid contorting knowledge workers

May 4, 2017 | Hayden McCall

Data guru Donald Farmer channels Bruce Willis to draw analogies with security and governance…

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Theta_analytics business intelligence

Why Theta’s putting the big bucks into BI

May 4, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

With arguably the biggest analytics competency in New Zealand, privately held company Theta is staking its claim…

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Win 10 looking good for business

April 26, 2017 | Newsdesk

Dull but important reason for faster migration to more recent OS…

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SaaS is an intermediate step – Unit4 CEO

April 26, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

In time, businesses will buy outcomes, not software…

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Shadow IT: Not a new thing and nor is managing it

April 26, 2017 | Owen McCall

Many IT organisations are strong on wanting a mandate as a way of eliminating shadow IT – but it won’t work, says Owen McCall…

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ERP trends that affect software selection

April 22, 2017 | Dylan Persaud

Dylan Persaud looks at the most important trends influencing ERP decision-making today…

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Women working tech jobs

More support to entice women into tech jobs

April 20, 2017 | Newsdesk

Shadow Tech Days to give schoolgirls IT insights…

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What millennials really want

April 19, 2017 | Newsdesk

The short answer: a smartphone and an internet connection…

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Microsoft awards

Microsoft celebrates industry excellence at 2017 Partner Awards

April 13, 2017 | Newsdesk

Vendor dishes out a gaggle of gongs…

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stuff fibre

Stuff Fibre: automate or fail in cut throat game

April 12, 2017 | JAVLN

Agile and ambitious fibre-only ISP chooses JAVLN to underpin customer experience…

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Digital transformation is whatever you want it to be

April 12, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”…

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tech skills demand_Looksee

Imported bods aren’t enough to meet rampant skills demand

April 12, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Shortages demonstrate propensity for tech industry to create rather than destroy jobs…

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Imagine Cup winners: Is this really the pinnacle of Kiwi innovation?

April 10, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Yet another collaboration app enough to bag Microsoft’s Imagine Cup…

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ITSM moves out of the basement, into the house

April 6, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Service management principles apply anywhere service is delivered…

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UXC into CSC into DXC

April 5, 2017 | Newsdesk

Mega-corporation the culmination of a long process of consolidation…

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CX standing in the way of digital transformation

April 5, 2017 | Newsdesk

Organisations around the world are failing to implement effective digital customer experience (CX) strategies…

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‘When I grow up I want to work in IT’

April 5, 2017 | Angela Barnett

Said the young girl never…

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Automation: The fear is real (but there are bigger fish to fry)

April 3, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Technologists and politicians face off on automation, the future of work and, err, climate change…

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flux accelerator

‘Flux Accelerator’ looks to boost selected start-ups

April 3, 2017 | Newsdesk

First intake in new programme attracts $500,000 in seed funding…

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FintechNZ startups

British invasion but FintechNZ claims UK beachhead

March 28, 2017 | Newsdesk

‘Opens doors’ for hundreds of Kiwi businesses seeking to trade with United Kingdom companies…

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How bizarre: Here’s how to identify DT need

March 28, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

These are the commonplace business processes which should kick digital transformation into gear…

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Little AI takes centre stage

March 23, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

Salesforce futurist Peter Schwartz makes his calls on what artificial intelligence won’t look like…

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Concur launches ANZ App Centre

March 22, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Plug in a few of your favourite business services…

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managing tech risk_Agilyx

Leave ‘failure is OK’ aside, accept that ‘risk is OK’

March 21, 2017 | Newsdesk

Changed perceptions of failure don’t always translate into willingness to take on risk, especially when modernising existing systems…

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Becoming cognitive

What underpins the increasingly in-vogue concept of cognitive computing? Wayne Thompson, Hui Li and Alison Bolen provide a quick start guide…

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‘Every business in NZ needs world class IT’ – Winston Fong

March 20, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Being competitive in NZ means being competitive anywhere…

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NZTech_IoT type technologies

NZTech probes the case for IoT

March 20, 2017 | Newsdesk

‘Things’ that could hold the key to boosting Kiwi productivity and prosperity…

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BI and analytics spend rises as data volumes explode

March 17, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

High volume data processing and real time analytics on the shopping list for CIOs drowning in a data (and vendor) soup…

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CIO summit

On the agenda: CIO Summit 2017

March 16, 2017 | Newsdesk

Quality hobnobbing, national and international speakers, masterclasses and round tables…

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How subscriptions spur technological development

March 15, 2017 | Steve Singer

Subscription business models are driving continuous innovation, writes Steve Singer…

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How to annoy (good) hackers

March 15, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

We’ve all heard the usual security spiel; make life hard for the hackers, layered security, complex passwords, blah, blah, blah…  

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Microsoft_digital transformation gap

Dammit, New Zealand businesses, transform already

March 13, 2017 | Newsdesk

Research suggests local operators are all mouth and no trousers when it comes to the DTs…

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Chatbot judeio

Cognitive computing and a better customer experience for all

March 10, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Chatbots can revolutionise how we interact with everyday services…

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GitHub shifts from tool for nerds to business collaboration platform

March 9, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

GitHub might sound like a silly name but it has become a trusted tool for developers, and now other business people, to store and share information…

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Which vendors come short when measuring up the big boys of ERP?

March 8, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Panorama Consulting’s ‘Clash of the Titans 2017’ report compares SAP, Oracle, Dynamics and Infor…

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Demand for ‘intelligent automation’ accelerates

March 8, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Vendor strengthens in-country representation as service management catches on…

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Social media entrepreneurs drive audience numbers

March 7, 2017 | Newsdesk

Kiwi tech set to revolutionise live event ticket sales…

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How to know if your ERP solution is compatible with your growth plans

A guide for manufacturing and distribution companies in Australia and New Zealand…

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Field service at the sharp end of digital transformation

March 3, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Doing the same thing again and expecting a different result is, apparently, at least one definition of insanity…

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Collab about more than apps (and potentially less about hot-desks)

March 2, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

It’s clear office workspaces are changing. The days of the private office are behind us, replaced by open-plan offices where people are placed in corrals that often make us feel more like farm animals than workers…

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‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down

March 1, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’…

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Why data analytics is set to slay corporate data silos

March 1, 2017 | Maurizio Canton

Backed by accessible analytics, it is about what and not who you know, writes Maurizio Canton…

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Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS

February 28, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform…

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Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not

February 27, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs…

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Whitepaper: Six keys to successfully migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud

February 27, 2017 | Zag

A guide to help you transform your IT department from ‘fire fighters’ to ‘strategic force’…

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Gartner announces latest BI & Analytics contenders

February 24, 2017 | Hayden McCall

Zoomdata among new arrivals looking to disrupt established players…

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Fulcrum expands into Australia

February 23, 2017 | Newsdesk

New Zealand-based data startup Fulcrum launches on both sides of the Tasman, plans to tackle Asia and the US later this year…

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Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid

February 22, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t…

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BI & Analytics 2017: NZ to spend over $100m, Aus approaches a billion

February 21, 2017 | Newsdesk

Get chequebooks ready as BI and analytics continues growth spurt…

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M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces

February 21, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT…

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Deloitte + AWS + HANA: It’s all about analytics. And the cloud

February 20, 2017 | Newsdesk

Professional services firm Deloitte has formed an AWS cloud shop which it said has 2,500 practitioners globally…

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‘Next Level MDM’: The diverging views of analysts and customers

February 16, 2017 | Evan Levy

What does the future hold for master data management? Evan Levy finds the chatter from those in the trenches isn’t aligned with analyst views…

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Strategic partnership heralds AI-driven service automation

February 15, 2017 | Newsdesk

For those to whom automation gives the willies, more frightening stuff…

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Vendor management in a volatile world

February 13, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a fact of life that make vendor management an ongoing challenge for today’s tech leaders…

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Collaboration giants LogMeIn and Citrix GoTo merge

February 10, 2017 | Anthony Caruana

After a six-month courtship, the marriage between Citrix’s GoTo business and LogMeIn has been consummated…

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Within five years, organisations will be valued on information portfolios

February 10, 2017 | Newsdesk

Just how valuable is information? According to Gartner, by 2021 the answer will become clear…

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Intergen new office

Intergen shifts into Press Hall

February 9, 2017 | Newsdesk

One of Wellington’s first ICT companies kicks off a new chapter in its 15-year growth…

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Outcomes don’t depend on where you begin

February 8, 2017 | Owen McCall

IT teams and professionals should focus on desired outcomes, rather than mire themselves in the problems of the day, says Owen McCall…

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The robots are coming (and they’re going to clean your house)

February 8, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Succour for those afraid of the robot invasion…

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MYOB beefs up portfolio with cloud payroll

February 7, 2017 | Newsdesk

Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Greentree late last year, MYOB continues to strengthen its hand in the business software market…

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DX Economy_IDC report

‘Digitally enhanced products’ and the dawn of the DX Economy

February 7, 2017 | Newsdesk

IDC peers into the future and insists on digital nativity for every enterprise…

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Shift to the cloud as minnows nip at big energy retailers’ flanks

January 31, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

The big boys of the electricity industry aren’t taking this digital transformation malarkey lying down…

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Chatbots hit the perfect pitch

January 26, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

With bots taking over the world, isn’t it a good thing they are so friendly…

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Does software licensing equate to theft?

January 19, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Software vendors perpetuating a billion-dollar heist (or are they?)…

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‘Over the top’ puts a hundred billion back in your pocket

January 16, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

A figure is put to internet protocol gains…

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Patterns in toast: How algorithms make machine learning work

January 5, 2017 | Donovan Jackson

Ever seen Jesus in a piece of toast? How algorithms and machine learning mimic the mind…

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Asia Pacific: A tale of two clouds

December 19, 2016 | Chris Chelliah

Cloud is a technology that’s come of age, delivering clear benefits to the organisations that opt for it. But are APAC businesses doing so effectively, asks Chris Chelliah…

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Evolving technology_ISIS Group

Everything you know is wrong: Radicalising IT

December 15, 2016 | Ian Apperley

He’s tackled the death of IT, now Ian Apperley muses about how IT should be ‘radicalised’ to stay relevant…

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‘Massive opportunities’ in subscription economy

December 15, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

Report says Aussies and Kiwis spend around AUD$660 per month on subscription services…

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NZ Techweek 2017

Techweek NZ’s ‘biggest ever tech event’

December 15, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

 Regions a focus for Techweek’17 scheduled for May 6 to 14 next year…

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Trends 2017: IoT and the emerging regulatory landscape

December 15, 2016 | Eve Maler

Internet of Things (IoT) momentum accelerated in 2016 and we can expect it to increase again in 2017, writes Eve Maler…

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Future BI will address multiple learning styles

December 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Better BI depends on taking cognisance of how people think and learn…

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Spending cash won’t make your company secure

December 13, 2016 | Newsdesk

Organisations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, but that’s no measure of security…

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The reality of the AI revolution

December 13, 2016 | Steve Singer

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most evocative and confusing terms in technology. In making sense of it, Steve Singer says AI is an everyday reality with plenty more to come…

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Tech slowdown begs question ‘Where have all the buyers gone?’

December 12, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

Market reports from IDC and Gartner show flat or declining numbers for PC, tablet and smartphone sales…

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Subscription_billing engine

The subscription gig gets new tooling

December 12, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

The complexities of selling ‘as-a-service’ has driven a new category of software – the subscription billing engine…

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How API-led connectivity is boosting digital transformation

December 9, 2016 | Will Bosma

Many businesses across Australia and New Zealand currently have some sort of digital transformation project underway, muses Will Bosma…

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New tech buyers could include machines

December 9, 2016 | Newsdesk

Vendors need to incorporate new customer types into go-to-market strategies…

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MYOB Business Monitor

Good people (still) hard to find

December 8, 2016 | Newsdesk

Personnel problems highlighted in MYOB Business Monitor…

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Kicking the predictors in their crystal balls

December 7, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

December – the time for putting up the Christmas tree, counting down the days till holidays and trying to be nice to your work colleagues at the office party…

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Expect more elephants down under

December 7, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Open source big data vendor accelerates activity in Australasia…

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Crystal balls come out for 2017

December 5, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

It’s that time of year again, so ready yourself for the prognostications of, well, everyone…

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Techweek 2017

NZTech firms up Techweek for ’17

December 2, 2016 | Newsdesk

Week-long celebration of technology and innovation scheduled for May 2017…

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wellington earthquake_Soltius cloud

Ahead of disaster, more cloud is a good idea

December 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Disaster has once again thrown into stark relief the continuity challenges faced by businesses of all kinds in the event of the unexpected…

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Kevin Mitnick and the human hacking business

November 29, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

Every industry has rockstars. For hackers and infosec, there’s probably no one more famous, or perhaps infamous, than Kevin Mitnick…

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Enably drives customer success

November 28, 2016 | Newsdesk

Fast-growing Australian lender implements omnichannel solution for improved customer service…

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Heat turned up in cloud ERP space

November 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Growing demand, plenty of options for SaaS solutions…

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Microsoft Computational Thinking

CEO’s visit sparks storm of activity

November 21, 2016 | Newsdesk

Microsoft NZ announces co-development initiatives, awards grant for computer science education…

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Entrepreneur announces the ‘as a Service’ we’ve all been waiting for

November 21, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

The industry is changing for the better with ‘beer as a service’…

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Satya Nadella_Microsoft NZ Developer Day

Microsoft CEO Nadella doesn’t whelm, he delivers

November 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Redmond’s top man appears at Auckland’s Developer Day…

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Collapse of trust and digital transformation

November 15, 2016 | Gerry McGovern

Globally we are facing a collapse of trust – and it is being driven by digitisation, writes Gerry McGovern…

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Could CYOD give Apple an enterprise boost?

November 14, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

While BYOD has captured lots of attention over the last few years, companies supplying equipment chosen by employees is increasing in popularity…

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Why hype is necessary to drive big data, analytics and AI

November 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Analytics, business intelligence, machine learning and artificial intelligence are all ‘exciting’ aspects of the technology industry…

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Can service management change the way you work?

November 10, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

When it’s all about the experience, office applications aren’t good enough…

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online security

Information sharing to improve online security

November 10, 2016 | Newsdesk

Automation for more meaningful cyber threat chats…

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Announcements aplenty out of SAP TechEd

November 9, 2016 | Newsdesk

Top of the news coming out of SAP’s TechEd underway in Barcelona is a ‘next generation’ HANA Platform…

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‘Personal automation’ – that’s a thing?

November 8, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

DIY integration for digital transformation at the individual level…

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internet of things

IoT’s building blocks fall into place

November 3, 2016 | Fiona Hanlon

Networks and sensing devices set scene for proof-of-concept and production solutions…

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Say hello to Dell Technologies

November 2, 2016 | Anthony Caruana, Donovan Jackson

After doing the biggest deal ever done in tech, the combined ‘Dell EMC’ looks to the future…

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Dynamics 365 goes GA

November 2, 2016 | Newsdesk

Microsoft describes Dynamics 365 as ‘a cloud-based suite of purpose-built, intelligent business applications’…

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Access talent at home

November 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Skills shortages are a problem in many fast-changing industries…

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‘Consumable’ machine learning, AI a solved problem, and the home EEG

October 31, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Microsoft pushes the hot buttons as Ignite NZ rolled into town last week…

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Auckland Airport

BI taking flight at Auckland International

October 28, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Why customer experience matters at New Zealand’s major air transport hub…

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HCBI

Disruption starts with people, first

October 28, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

The IT industry has a habit of banging on about new technology that will disrupt markets, but the reality is that it is humans that do the disrupting…

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Mitchell Pham

Mitchell Pham appointed NZTech chair

October 26, 2016 | Newsdesk

Rachel Kelly named deputy…

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Wynyard

Wynyard’s cautionary tale

October 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Going large easily said, but just not that easily done…

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Move over content, context is king

October 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Dynamics Day serves up a smorgasbord of Microsoft…

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Moneyball 2.0 – tech driven innovation in sports

October 24, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

Professional sports have traditionally been managed by former players leaning on years of experience…

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Painless data migration

Whitepaper: The big secret to painless data migration

October 22, 2016 | insightsoftware

The art of making old data mesh with new data structures and integrate with new data can be a dark one, but the experts at Jet Reports believe it doesn’t have to be painful…

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Advice for the C-Suite: Protecting your business from cyber attacks

October 21, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

The basics are still the best for information security…

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ASB_Waterfront_Moller_Facilities_Integrate

Waterfront theatre gets designer tech

October 19, 2016 | Hayden McCall

Architectural design and building software disciplines play nice in construction…

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Apple Car – the rubber hits the road block

October 18, 2016 | Anthony Caruana

It seems that the car that never was will never be…

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hololens

HoloLens soon to be available to local developers

October 13, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

What will you do with augmented reality…

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The fun and games of sales gamification

October 13, 2016 | Newsdesk

Making a game of your sales effort is not something to be toyed with…

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Microsoft’s giant step forward for enterprise SaaS

October 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Big reveal for ‘as-a-service’ applications with built-in intelligence…

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Science fiction? Nah, business as usual

October 11, 2016 | Newsdesk

Value of human experience likely to increase on the path to 2040…

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Having a crack at the ‘ERP for IT’ challenge

October 6, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Of all the major business disciplines, only IT lacks comprehensive management and automation software…

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internet of things

IoT experiments gather pace

October 6, 2016 | Newsdesk

Kiwis are on to it, but immaturity largely restricts deployments to proof of concept…

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Microsoft spruiks trusted cloud conversation

October 5, 2016 | Beverley Head

Secure, sustainable and inclusive ‘cloud for good’…

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Uncanny? Collaborative robots are on the march

October 4, 2016 | Newsdesk

‘Cobots’ the hottest growth segment in industrial automation…

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Intergen Dynamics Day

‘Relentless drive to service consumption’

October 3, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Ahead of Dynamics Day, Intergen contextualises transformation…

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NetSuite punts product but no mention of the war

September 30, 2016 | Beverley Head

Old picture of Larry Ellison only evidence of Oracle at NetSuite user conference..

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SAP invests large in IoT, big data

September 30, 2016 | Newsdesk

German ERP giant to spend €2 billion over five years…

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Machine learning - healthcare

Ahead of the curve, Orion Health looks to introduce machine learning

September 29, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Machine learning just starting Hype Cycle journey…

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Augmented reality is more than fun and games

September 28, 2016 | Newsdesk

Pokemon Go has all but disappeared, but billions await for business AR…

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Machine learning pushes new AI frontiers

September 26, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Cognitive computing depends on big data automation…

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Digitoil: Three simple tips towards improved SEO

September 24, 2016 | Richard Conway

Is the world of search engine optimisation (SEO) a mysterious place populated by snake oil merchants and incomprehensible jargon? Not necessarily, says Richard Conway…

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Business shine through cloud

Whitepaper: How your business can shine through the cloud

September 22, 2016 | Epicor Software Corporation

Understand common deployment options and know which questions to ask…

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Technology in farming

Technology’s role in the farms of the future

September 21, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Precision agriculture has a lot to offer – and that doesn’t mean rubber chicken…

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PureCloud_migration

PureCloud gaining momentum

September 21, 2016 | Newsdesk

Up-front costs have shifted from customers to vendors, but the long term benefits of cloud migration will be shared says Ian McLean…

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Application networks can address digital disruption challenges

September 20, 2016 | Brad Drysdale

Companies need to find ways to become more flexible to meet changing market and customer demands, writes MuleSoft’s Brad Drysdale…

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Cloud fuels ANZ digital disruption

September 19, 2016 | Beverley Head

Demand for cloud services growing at a fast clip with 1 million companies now on Amazon…

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Internet of things_conferenz

On the relative positioning of carts, horses and the Internet of Things

September 19, 2016 | Newsdesk

More of a concept than a reality right now, but don’t write off the IoT…

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A practical guide to surviving a ransomware infection

September 16, 2016 | Steve Victor

If the idea of a hooded youth in Kazakhstan corrupting your IT systems unless a hefty ransom is paid sounds scary, it should…

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Social business

Business is social – but is your business socialised?

September 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

‘It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, you’re in the people business.’…

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Lack of tech investment could hinder growth

September 14, 2016 | Newsdesk

Businesses in emerging markets could steal a march on developed world operators…

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Infrastructure_Citrix

Infrastructure hampering digital performance

September 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Forget about innovation on the way to a digitally transformed organisation, because unless the infrastructure’s sorted, it isn’t going to happen…

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Technological development and a future of no-cost living

September 13, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Here’s an interesting idea: the cost of living is coming down so rapidly that it might become zero…

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How to select an ERP solution

How to select an ERP solution for your growing business

September 13, 2016 | Zag

Do you cater to specialist needs that will beat out the competition or enjoy a single source of the truth?…

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The right time to transition to ERP system

When’s the right time to transition to a new ERP system?

September 13, 2016 | Zag

The advantages are clear, but often businesses will delay making a decision suffering pain and chaos…

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Why blockchain could change the world

September 13, 2016 | John Jones

It may sound like something out of a B&D dungeon as blockchain emerges from the dark world behind Bitcoin, writes John Jones…

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Drivers behind ERP system

What are the drivers behind ERP change for a business?

September 12, 2016 | Zag

If you’re reading this article, chances are your business is coping with business system ‘pain’…

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Advance security summit_Conferenz

Innovating? Don’t forget security

September 7, 2016 | Newsdesk

With all the talk around digital transformation today, organisations of every stripe are looking to information technology to innovate…

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digital business models

Bimodal IT: Keeping the lights on as important as innovation

September 7, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

In the rush to digitally transform, don’t neglect the basics…

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Genesys bids for Interactive Intelligence

September 5, 2016 | Beverley Head

Consolidation drives through contact centre sector…

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It’s blown the budget, but has enterprise IT failed?

September 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

The bigger the organisation – and the more public the results – the greater the risk of budget blowout and ‘failure’…

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‘Transformation’ isn’t about adopting technology

September 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Don’t get stuck on the bits and bytes in the march to digital transformation…

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Of love, hate and the Gartner Hype Cycle

August 31, 2016 | Owen McCall

They’re great and they’re awful – find out why Owen McCall is ambivalent about Gartner’s Hype Cycle…

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Concerns aside, executives commit to digital business

August 31, 2016 | Newsdesk

Dipstick research from Unisys Corporation shows executives are going in boots ‘n all for digital business even though there are reservations…

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InternetNZ and auDA awards

Trans-Tasman raid as NZ shines in Australasia Internet Awards

August 31, 2016 | Newsdesk

Five New Zealand businesses received awards for online excellence at the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs) in Melbourne…

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Microsoft Dynamics Inner circle _ Intergen

Intergen joins grouping of top Microsoft Dynamics partners

August 29, 2016 | Newsdesk

Intergen is a new member of the Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle 2016…

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Data insights go begging

August 25, 2016 | Beverley Head

A quarter of A/NZ businesses gather data but don’t analyse it…

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Eat meat or prefer veg?

August 24, 2016 | Beverley Head

Disruptors come in two flavours – carnivore and herbivore…

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Information security

Information security: Enable, don’t inhibit

August 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Complex and beset by FUD, a strategic approach to information security improves its efficacy and value…

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Quest for Digital transformation

Transformation: Put documents and processes in the crosshairs

August 22, 2016 | Newsdesk

Take a closer look at information management in the quest for digital transformation…

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People come first

Forget about things, put people first

August 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Customer experience is not about devices…

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CIOs sidestepped in software asset management strategy

August 18, 2016 | Beverley Head

Those responsible for technology are being taken out of the SAM loop…

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Digital transformation - eBlueprint

Transform or die

August 17, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Put simply, digital transformation is a big deal for two very good reasons…

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Culture eats technology for breakfast

August 16, 2016 | Beverley Head

Forget getting advantage from technology alone – it’s a doomed strategy…

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predictive analytics

New Zealand ten years behind on predictive BI

August 15, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Local adoption lags, ‘big data’ a canard…

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Shadows on the road less travelled to transformation

August 11, 2016 | Newsdesk

Learn from shadow IT rather than suppressing it, reckons Fronde…

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Datacom cracks the billion-dollar mark

August 11, 2016 | Newsdesk

Revenue up 13 percent, 25 percent increase in capex…

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Integration moves out to the edge

August 11, 2016 | Beverley Head

‘Digital reinvention’ demands more integration, intelligence…

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Employing IT staff

Good luck hanging on to IT staff

August 10, 2016 | Newsdesk

More than fifty percent those in tech jobs plan to move within a year…

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Industrial systems and IoT ignore security at their peril

August 9, 2016 | Beverley Head

Disclosure of industrial systems security breaches should be mandated…

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Cloud infrastructure

If it’s infrastructure, go 100% cloud

August 8, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Whilst deploying SaaS applications may not be clear cut, when it comes to hosting infrastructure it’s a no brainer says latest Kiwi AWS partner…

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mass personalisation fuji xerox

‘Multichannel, mass-personalised comms’ a step towards digital transformation?

August 5, 2016 | Newsdesk

There’s still plenty of process inefficiency when reaching customers…

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How fintech is turning analytics into dollars

August 4, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Looking for growth? It’s in the analytics as Juniper tips fintech for a revenue boost of 960 percent…

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How to navigate the disruption economy

Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognise the crucial thresholds and act in time, write Chris Bradley and Clayton O’Toole (McKinsey & Company)…

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Digital transformation? It’s all about the customer

August 3, 2016 | Craig Beveridge

Don’t let digital transformation distract from customer focus, writes Craig Beveridge, GM Australia at Jade Software…

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Software as a service

Not so fast on the SaaS march

August 2, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

‘100 percent’ of companies moving to Software as a Service is far from a sure thing…

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MYOB buys Greentree “masochists”

August 1, 2016 | Beverley Head

Auckland based Greentree has been bought by Sydney’s accounting software group MYOB for $NZ28.5 million…

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Agilyx buys prevero

Unit4 boosts BI capability with prevero buy

August 1, 2016 | Newsdesk

Analytics is an increasingly big deal for businesses of every kind and ERP vendors must satisfy that particular client urge…

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Oracle and Netsuite

Oracle’s ‘surprise’ NetSuite acquisition

July 29, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

As late as last week, at least one major local Oracle and NetSuite partner didn’t see it coming…

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DWCNZ Michael Sampson

Start with the tech, transform later

July 28, 2016 | Hayden McCall

Agnostic tosh is costing lost opportunities says Office365 protagonist Michael Sampson…

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Dirty software secrets and how ANZ is beating bloat

July 27, 2016 | Beverley Head

Smartphone users knows how easily apps bloat up – for enterprises the situation can be just as dire, leading to significant operational inefficiencies…

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Self-service: It’s coming for data preparation

July 26, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Is DIY the next big thing for BI?…

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When cybersecurity is just a game

July 26, 2016 | Beverley Head

Four out of five CEOs rank cyberattacks as one of the top three business threats – but few have first-hand experience of what it really means to be under attack…

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Microsoft’s ‘shocking’ shift to technology agnosticism

July 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

In a competitive world, interoperability is essential. And so is customer focus…

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One hundred percent SaaS?

July 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Forget about on-premise software. The advantages of software as a service are just too good to resist…

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Fusion5 beefs up NetSuite capabilities by acquisition

July 21, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Purchases competitor BPR Solutions…

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application networks

Application networks and why integration has gone strategic

July 20, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Digital transformation delivers a ‘second great boost’ for integration specialists…

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Sixtree merges with Deloitte across ANZ

July 20, 2016 | Beverley Head

Needing additional funds to grow, systems integration specialist Sixtree has instead sold to Deloitte…

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Vodafone Barometer Report

Pastures new revealed for IoT

July 20, 2016 | Clare Coulson

With more than two thirds of companies believing the Internet of Things is critical to future success, which industries are really benefitting?…

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Are ANZ companies doing enough to transform?

July 19, 2016 | Rob Stummer

Analysing the results of its Digital Transformation Survey, IFS ANZ MD Rob Stummer was surprised that only 50 percent of antipodean respondents had a clear strategy for digital transformation…

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digital delivery experience

Exposed: The secret to superior digital experience delivery

July 19, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

While the results of SAP’s New Zealand Digital Experience Report are multifaceted, the clearest finding is that digital transformation is a business imperative…

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Fight back against disruptors with this secret weapon

July 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

‘Know thy enemy’ in the digital disruption battle…

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Tech industry_Oracle

Pokémon Go (and how CFOs are rising to the digital occasion)

July 15, 2016 | Newsdesk

‘It’s never been a more exciting time for the technology industry’ – Oracle GM…

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David Jackman and Chad Gates

Long-standing Pronto MD retires

July 14, 2016 | Newsdesk

Outspoken Pronto COO Chad Gates is stepping up to the top job as long-term MD David Jackman retires…

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Failure is good. Yeah right!

July 14, 2016 | Owen McCall

Owen McCall says we should switch from ‘initiatives’ to ‘experiments’…

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Victoria MacLennan

ITx names Victoria MacLennan IT Pro of the Year

July 13, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Top award for Wellington information technology industry figure…

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Computer security ITX

Competitor got hacked? Don’t laugh, you’re next

July 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Information security, or indeed the lack thereof, has become so commonplace that it is a bit boring. Don’t let it be…

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Is it time to appoint an application undertaker?

July 12, 2016 | Andy Kyte

After 40 years of continuous acquisition of applications most large organisations have application portfolios that are bloated, expensive and slow to change. This is unsustainable writes Gartner Fellow Andy Kyte…

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Digital experience gap

Digital experience delivery NZ: Mixed results illustrate ‘disruption gap’

July 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Poor digital experiences closely tied to loss of customer loyalty, advocacy and insights…

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Timely scheduling software

Keeping trim: Timely’s quiet success

July 11, 2016 | Clare Coulson

NZ Hi Tech Awards finalist Ryan Baker, co-founder of Timely scheduling software, reflects on the differences in setting up two tech start-ups a decade apart and the impact of the VC market…

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Bigpipe app no buffering

Bigpipe app bids farewell to buffering

July 7, 2016 | Newsdesk

ISP Bigpipe is offering new functionality with a ‘virtual pipe’ that allows users to prioritise internet traffic by type at the click of a button…

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From red to black – Fronde’s ambitious $100 million target

July 7, 2016 | Clare Coulson

After a NZ$3.35 million loss two years ago and the exit of long-time CEO Ian Clarke, Fronde’s new CEO Anthony Belsham talks company turnaround and his $100 million target…

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Colluding not colliding: disruptive innovation in the public sector

June 30, 2016 | Evelyn Johnston

Innovative disruption is not something new. We have been innovating since our distant ancestors first learned to tame fire and some even attribute the first human disruption to the opposable thumb…

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Whanganui District Council

Whanganui aims for best broadband economy

June 29, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Whanganui District Council has missed out on the top award for broadband economies at the Intelligent Community Forum Summit, but its CIO Jason Simons is not disappointed…

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Cloud demand spurs growth for single focus PrimeQ

June 28, 2016 | Beverley Head

Cloud-only consulting business PrimeQ is so confident of demand across Australia and New Zealand that it is planning to double headcount to 100 by the end of the year, and 200 the following year…

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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…

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Better connectivity

Economic growth? It’s the internet, stupid

June 24, 2016 | Newsdesk

Connectivity key for NZ’s future…

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New CRM fresh on global market

June 24, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Tired of having to cobble together systems for its sales reps, SaaS business Freshdesk set about creating its own CRM system for ‘high velocity sales teams’…

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Microsoft and Rolls Royce

Dynamics takes to the field

June 24, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Microsoft’s CRM solution has been extended to handle field services, Rolls Royce on board with deployment…

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Security Password

Workplace security lifts, consumers’ sags

June 23, 2016 | Beverley Head

IT’s warnings about the need for greater vigilance about computer security is paying off – but Australian and New Zealand consumers are still playing fast and loose with their own protection…

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Corporate ‘no-cloud’ policies head for extinction

June 23, 2016 | Newsdesk

By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, says technology analyst Gartner…

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NZ’s Tech Report

June 22, 2016 | Newsdesk

Comprehensive economic study shows the tech sector makes a significant and growing contribution to the economy…

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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…

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How NASA landed a ton on Mars

June 16, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

The out-of-this-world power of collaboration…

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Ralf Wittgen

Promapp appointment reflects global expansion plans

June 16, 2016 | Newsdesk

The successful Kiwi BPM company has appointed a chief customer officer…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon

June 10, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round…

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Vodafone and Sky

Sky/Voda deal: Merger of the disrupted

June 10, 2016 | Craig Young

TUANZ CEO Craig Young considers the impact of the Sky/Vodafone merger on the New Zealand market…

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disruption

CIO Summit: Digital disruption shouldn’t come as a surprise

June 9, 2016 | Newsdesk

Here’s a thing: most of the technology that’s going to disrupt your business has been around for decades. It just hasn’t made its impact felt yet…

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CIO winner_Winston Fong

CIO Awards: Who is making a difference in NZ tech?

June 9, 2016 | Clare Coulson

More than 800 people crowded into the Grand Ball Room at the Langham, Auckland last night to celebrate the best of the best in the world of CIOs…

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CIO lead digital transformation

Who will lead the digital way?

June 8, 2016 | Clare Coulson

CIOs are perfectly placed to lead digital transformation and the CIO+ role being pioneered by Air New Zealand is an exciting development…

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Nicholas Birch

Dynamics: Former Koorb supremo onboards at UXC Eclipse

June 8, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Nicholas Birch appointed senior executive, New Zealand – and UXC says business is good…

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Pegasystems CEO warns enterprise of cloud risk

June 7, 2016 | Beverley Head

Pegasystems’ founder and CEO Alan Trefler has some harsh words for enterprises which slavishly adopt cloud based solutions…

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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…

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WEL network

BI electrifies utilities company

June 1, 2016 | Zag

How WEL Networks applies analysis to get answers to key business questions…

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Can your project survive your culture?

May 31, 2016 | Gary Nelson

Not every project is lucky enough to start on fertile ground, as project management expert Gary Nelson explains…

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Deloitte Fast 500

NZ tech landscape: Fast companies, cool vendors

May 31, 2016 | Newsdesk

Two contradictory reports show how the New Zealand technology marketplace compares to the rest of the world…

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Salesforce rise in market

Salesforce leads, SAP slumps in CRM stakes

May 31, 2016 | Beverley Head

Salesforce is the world’s most popular CRM with SAP ranking second – but in Australia and New Zealand SAP ranks more lowly. What gives?…

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Budget’s tech impact buried

May 27, 2016 | Clare Coulson

It takes some reading between the lines to conclude that there is an underlying tech & innovation theme…

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CSC and HP

Digital transformation behind CSC and HPE mega-merger

May 26, 2016 | Newsdesk

Fresh on the heels of its recent takeover of Australasian services company UXC, CSC is looking to merge with Hewlett Packard Enterprise…

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Head in the cloud

May 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

It’s perhaps the ultimate integration: connect your brain directly to the cloud…

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ITx awards trophy

ITx 2016 conference details released

May 25, 2016 | Newsdesk

ITx conference creates melting-pot of technology-focused individuals…

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Analytics council

The case for an enterprise-wide ‘analytics council’

May 25, 2016 | Geoff Beynon

As analytics penetrate all parts of the business, analytics expert Geoff Beynon calls for a structured and centralised approach to its use…

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Contact centre

How the cloud and emerging technologies are disrupting the contact centre

May 25, 2016 | Brendan Maree

The power of exponential progress and increasing rate of disruption is very much in evidence in the contact centre, says Brendan Maree…

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Hi-tech_VGL

Record Hi-Tech awards signal coming of age

May 24, 2016 | Hayden McCall

The hi-tech industry celebrates in style with record attendance on Auckland’s waterfront…

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business reorganisation

Change on the horizon for Fuji Xerox New Zealand

May 20, 2016 | Newsdesk

Company embarks on a business transformation programme to ensure optimal positioning to meet future client needs…

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Tibco Now: Connected everything, augmented intelligence

May 19, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Optimisation is out, innovation is back as Tibco ramps up focus on solutions for digital transformation…

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SAP and microsoft

SAP cosies up to Microsoft Azure

May 19, 2016 | Beverley Head

German software behemoth SAP is once again cosying up to other tech giants in a bid to expand the entire enterprise tech ecosystem and further entrench its market position…

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Unit4 plans to make waves in local market

May 18, 2016 | Newsdesk

Unit4 is setting out to disrupt the ERP industry à la Tesla and Uber, according to Chris Tithof, ANZ channel director for the ERP vendor…

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Customer experience ‘the new battleground’

May 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

In a world where mass personalisation is the norm, intelligent interactions with customers will define business success…

read more...

Greentree Awards put customer implementations under microscope

May 17, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Awards programmes don’t just give a shiny gong to the winners, they help the host company to identify trends and see where its priorities should lie…

read more...

Unleashed Software raises $3 million funds break-even

May 12, 2016 | Beverley Head

The $3 million funding round that trans-Tasman business Unleashed Software just raised should take it to break-even point – but “something significant” is just 12-15 months away…

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Bill and Tim’s excellent adventure: HANA goes native on iPhone

May 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Apple and SAP announce plans to deliver native apps for iOS on the SAP HANA platform…

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TRENZ trade show

Virtual reality is starting to get real

May 10, 2016 | Clare Coulson

New Zealand’s unique scenery has to be seen to be believed and virtual reality technology is helping that to happen, starting with the TRENZ trade show…

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Innovation month

All Sparked up for Innovation Month

May 6, 2016 | Newsdesk

Spark Lab targets all businesses with a line-up of “international heavy-hitters” presenting at Innovation Month in Auckland…

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Exploit your hidden assets for sales success

May 5, 2016 | Manish Goel

Leveraging your corporate networks can boost your warm sales leads by 40 percent, says TrustSphere CEO, Manish Goel…

read more...

Dynamics market heats up as Flintfox appoints Duncan Cox

May 5, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Former Adaptable Solutions supremo tasked with growing ERP consulting division…

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InternetNZ

MoU strengthens management of .nz domain name

May 4, 2016 | Newsdesk

InternetNZ enters into Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment…

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managed print services

From MPS to Content Management

May 4, 2016 | Newsdesk

As a mature offering, Managed Print Services has proven its value for organisations across the spectrum – but are New Zealand’s businesses taking full control of their content from end to end?…

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digital transformation

Half of CEOs expect ‘substantial or unrecognisable’ transformation

May 2, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Gartner research confirms digital transformation is happening…

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Where did you buy your software?

May 2, 2016 | Clare Coulson

The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now…

read more...
streaming video market

Bunfight brewing in crowded streaming video market

April 29, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Geoblocking, new competitors, and foundering Quickflix – how much room for SVOD in New Zealand?…

read more...

Digital technologies fulfil supply chain potential

Technical limitations have curbed supply chain ROI but the use of new digital technologies can dramatically improve supply chain performance…

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Cloud services the answer to IoT security

April 27, 2016 | Newsdesk

Half of all IoT implementations will use cloud security services of some description by 2020, but the market is currently immature…

read more...

Companies ‘desperate’ for technology leadership

April 27, 2016 | Newsdesk

But tech-savvy millennials need not apply…

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Google runs insight platform on Amazon cloud

April 27, 2016 | Beverley Head

The fact that Google has bought Interactive Intelligence’s customer engagement solution, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, signals the growing IT spending power of business units…

read more...

Gartner dampens cloud enthusiasm

April 21, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Settle down about the cloud already. That’s the message coming from a Gartner A/NZ analyst who reckons local companies are a bit overly excited about the whole notion…

read more...
driving growth

Whitepaper: Five signs your ERP is not up to the pace of change

The transition from product centricity to an ‘always on’ customer service orientation is a challenge for antiquated core systems…

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Wanted: part time data scientists

April 19, 2016 | Beverley Head

As organisational demand for data analytics increases, every organisation needs to hire or create a part time data scientist…

read more...

The problem with projects: not fit to deliver value

April 19, 2016 | Owen McCall

What do IT projects and fitness regimes have in common? Owen McCall exercises his theory of the business value creation process…

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Tech high-flyer Julia Raue joins Jade Software board

April 19, 2016 | Newsdesk

The technology specialist and ex-Air NZ CIO will bring “huge benefit” to Jade…

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Whitepaper: Best practices for ERP cloud migrations – a CFO guidebook

April 19, 2016 | Oracle

New whitepaper from Oracle sees the vendor walk the talk as it discusses best practice lessons learnt from its own cloud ERP implementation…

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Rattle_ERP_cage

Analyst rattles ERP cage

April 14, 2016 | Clare Coulson

ERP vendors are not selling anything, and nimble cloud-based transaction engines are going to eat their lunch…

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NZ cybercrime

Prepare for the worst: cybercrime versus innovation

April 13, 2016 | Clare Coulson

New Zealand is steadily making its way up the ranks of favoured destinations for cybercrime, but too much security can stifle innovation…

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NZ low productivity

‘Technology’ needed to help improve NZ’s low productivity

April 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

New Zealand’s productivity is low and not improving, but ‘new technology’ can change that…

read more...

Lifting the lid on HR transformation

April 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

From transactional processes to increased value-adding activities…

read more...
tuhua fund

New ICE Angels fund to invest extra $10m in Kiwi start-ups

April 11, 2016 | Newsdesk

Twenty-five Kiwi start-ups will gain more than just a financial injection from the new Tuhua fund…

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Greentree boots up in the cloud

April 8, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

From disparaging ‘sandal-waving zealots’ to members of the congregation…

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IT spend victim of fluctuating economy

April 8, 2016 | Newsdesk

Investment in business process optimisation needed to make digital businesses fly is proving a hard sell for CIOs…

read more...

Develop on Office: Microsoft further lowers proprietary walls

April 7, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

The Microsoft Graph is a recent addition to the vendor’s portfolio which it said ‘offers developers access to insights about how workers can be more productive’…

read more...
Sigfox

Getting Siggy with IoT

April 7, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

There’s plenty of blather around the internet of things, but structural challenges have limited implementation…

read more...

NZ cloud management company seeks ASX listing

April 5, 2016 | Newsdesk

Startup that eases cloud service selection and management readies for the big time…

read more...

‘Cloud-wash’ over for ERP vendors – but is business ready?

April 4, 2016 | Hayden McCall

Fourteen of 20 enterprise ERP solutions available in the A/NZ region have delivered fully browser-based access…by Hayden McCall

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Flow heads to Palm Desert with FileBound

April 1, 2016 | Newsdesk

Flow Software is pleased to be attending and sponsoring the FileBound Partner Conference in Palm Desert…

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NZ_2016PartnerAwards_Barrie_Sheers

Microsoft NZ awards winning partners for 2016

April 1, 2016 | Hayden McCall

Winners were announced at the 9th annual event held in Auckland last night…

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NZ Hi Tech awards

2016 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards finalists announced

April 1, 2016 | Newsdesk

All the usual suspects plus some interesting-looking new names feature in this year’s line-up of chosen ones…

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Digital business: it’s all about the connections

March 31, 2016 | Newsdesk

Business and technology investments should be structured in a way ‘that will capitalise on the new economic realities of a digital economy’…

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Microsoft awards

Who’s in line for a Microsoft CRM or ERP Partner Award

March 23, 2016 | Newsdesk

With Microsoft’s Partner Awards rapidly approaching, iStart takes a look at the ERP and CRM category finalists…

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Summer of Tech

Summer of Tech comes to Auckland

March 23, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Summer of Tech, the not-for-profit group which organises paid summer internships in IT companies, is launching in Auckland this year…

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How to evolve beyond the silo

March 22, 2016 | Bob Dunn

In a world where Agile and flexible buzzwords abound, the old-school siloed approach to IT is causing inefficiency and higher costs for business…

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Diverse board

NZTech embraces new perspectives

March 22, 2016 | Clare Coulson

NZTech has announced two new appointments to its board of directors, one of which is a Board Internship role…

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Trans-tasman cable

Trans-Tasman cable project kicks off in Raglan

March 18, 2016 | Newsdesk

Sea, surf, beach and internet connectivity…

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EDI veteran branches into collaboration

March 18, 2016 | Clare Coulson

This week the people behind successful EDI service MessageXchange launched a new platform which has piqued the interest of the Australian Government…

read more...

Financial Services firms under threat from FinTechs

March 16, 2016 | Newsdesk

A new PwC survey shows that financial services firms believe almost a quarter of their business is at risk from bullish FinTechs…

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IT recruitment

Halcyon Knights recruitment gallops into NZ market

March 16, 2016 | Newsdesk

Specialist Australian IT recruitment firm has leapt across the ditch to open its first international office in Auckland…

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Nine in ten businesses caught out by unplanned growth – Epicor

March 15, 2016 | Newsdesk

Some 89 percent of companies across the globe were left exposed to risk in 2015 due to the impact of surprise expansion…

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Dealing to the donkey work: How automated integration drives innovation

March 15, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Integration, recognised as a powerful concept which allows IT to better serve business, is traditionally difficult and expensive…

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Pronto says VC model fails to delight

March 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market…

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Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP

March 9, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Microsoft has gone the full cloud monty with the updated Dynamics AX release, local retailer Citta to be among first to hook up…

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Whitepaper: The top ten reasons Epicor clients choose the cloud

Most enterprise applications are well on their way to being cloud based, and in the last decade the cloud has become the new normal for customer relationship management (CRM) deployments…

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Deloitte says we must reimagine our core systems

March 9, 2016 | Clare Coulson

With digital transformation high on many business agendas, legacy systems are often seen as the largest constraint holding the business back. Deloitte’s latest Tech Trends report provides “5 R’s” as a guideline to revitalisation…

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Microsoft partner awards

All about the cloud as Microsoft readies for 2016 Partner Awards

March 8, 2016 | Newsdesk

Record number of submissions set to make NZ Partner Awards the biggest in nine years of existence…

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Whitepaper: The business case for deploying Epicor ERP in the cloud

What is motivating the migration of ERP systems to the cloud?…

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SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition

March 7, 2016 | Newsdesk

The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent…

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ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear

March 4, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept…

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IoT will be the only way by 2020

March 3, 2016 | Newsdesk

SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time…

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Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger

March 2, 2016 | Beverley Head

Of the 2,500 organisations that CSC and UXC provide services to in this region, there are apparently only about ten where there is any significant overlap…

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High Tech Awards

Hi Tech Awards 2016: Entries close next Monday

March 1, 2016 | Newsdesk

What do Xero, Phitek and Umajin all have in common? They were big winners at last year’s Hi Tech Awards. If you think you have what it takes to be the next big name, Chairman Wayne Norrie wants you to enter…

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customer development

Whitepaper: Is it viable to use SAP for the development of business applications?

March 1, 2016 | Zag

Read the first installment of our two-part series, on SAP as an option for customer development…

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Whitepaper: The business value of advanced analytics

February 29, 2016 | Dr. Andrew Peterson

There is no doubt that modern businesses are complex beasts…

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Gartner’s Top 10 IoT tech predictions

February 29, 2016 | Newsdesk

The global analyst firm has outlined ten technologies that it believes will allow organisations to go full speed ahead with the Internet of Things over the next two years…

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Three Ws and an H: All you need to know about hybrid cloud

February 26, 2016 | Matt Zwolenski

Just how well do you understand cloud terminology – and in particular, the definitions around the most popular option for most businesses, hybrid cloud – asks Matt Zwolenski…

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Gartner’s mid-market ERP Magic Quadrant: Which vendors shine?

February 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

With the release of its Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies, Gartner has pointed out those vendors which are delivering the goods…

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Rejoice, liberal arts student, your career in data analytics awaits

February 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

There’s plenty of hype around analytics and Gartner is tipping this sector of the industry for big things throughout 2016. But just how ready are businesses to take practical advantage of their data stores?…

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Driving digital competence

February 23, 2016 | Owen McCall

My daughter Sarah has just passed her learner’s driving licence…

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IBM partnerworld conference

IBM approves of Kiwi firm’s gamble

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk

The IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference took place in Orlando, Florida, last week, unveiling a new partner programme and digital experience for its partners to help serve their clients in “the cloud and cognitive era”…

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CDOs ‘not aware how to successfully design organisation’ – Gartner

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk

The rapid adoption of the chief data officer (CDO) role — from 400 in 2014 to 1,000 in 2015 — raises important questions about the structure and positioning of the office of the CDO in organisations…

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Vaughan Rowsell

Vend’s ex-CEO talks fear and the future

February 23, 2016 | Clare Coulson

Vaughn Rowsell has a reputation for being the moustachioed maverick of the New Zealand tech industry and last week he did not disappoint, stepping down as CEO of his company Vend…

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Customer experience: Apple excepted, mass personalisation is the new frontier

February 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Companies focusing on developing ‘one to one’ relationships are winning an emerging battle of customer experience – but how come Apple pays so little attention to it?…

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Beating device incompatibility in the workplace

February 17, 2016 | Safi Obeidullah

Can you confidently say you know what and how many mobile devices are connected to your network at any given time, asks Safi Obeidullah…

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Technology lock-in could be holding your company back

February 16, 2016 | Newsdesk

One of the single biggest barriers to digital strategy is the impact of capital depreciation and multi-year licensing contracts…

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The six challenges of multi-channel contact centres (and how to beat them)

February 12, 2016 | Carl Price

Contact centre operators have been shifting to multi-channel communication methods for more than a decade, writes Carl Price – but the shift has proven challenging…

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The re-emergence of process as a competitive differentiator

February 9, 2016 | Ivan Seselj

It’s not only what is done, but also how, writes Ivan Seselj, advancing the argument that process can deliver the edge…

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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…

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cloud hosted infrastructure

More cloud consolidation as Plan B acquires ICONZ

February 2, 2016 | Newsdesk

Founding NZ ISP ICONZ is now part of Plan B as the acquiring company said it is ‘creating scale as a provider of business and continuity solutions’…

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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…

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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…

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Bulletproof to acquire Cloud House

January 31, 2016 | Newsdesk

NZ AWS partner snapped up by Australian cloud service provider…

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NZ Tech

NZTech takes steps towards national alliance of industry bodies

January 27, 2016 | Newsdesk

Readies up to ink agreement with Canterbury Software Cluster…

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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…

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NZ innovation

New Zealand ranks 28th in global innovation

January 25, 2016 | Newsdesk

Just cracks top 30 in how domestic policies support worldwide innovation, according to Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) think tank…

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Promapp secures Callaghan

Promapp secures Callaghan funding, looks to build US presence

January 25, 2016 | Newsdesk

Cloud business process management (BPM) vendor awarded R&D Growth Grant…

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Five trends which will revolutionise customer experience

January 25, 2016 | Newsdesk

Interactive Intelligence shares its predictions for the five trends set to disrupt customer service…

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TechnologyOne launches latest cloud, built for scale

January 21, 2016 | Beverley Head

Trialled with early adopters since 2015, listed Australian software and services business TechnologyOne has launched the fifth incarnation of its cloud platform which has been primed for scale…

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risk management

Are we over-doing Risk Management?

January 20, 2016 | Gary Nelson

For many years, New Zealand seemed oblivious to risk, notes Gary Nelson. “She’ll be right” chorused around the country as projects began, and usually succeeded…

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Despite ‘shocking’ state of global information security, it’s business as usual

January 20, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Just 45 percent of organisations confident in security posture; attackers launching ‘more sophisticated, bold and resilient campaigns’…

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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…

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vMob

Strong performance bodes well – VMob

January 19, 2016 | Newsdesk

Location-based intelligence provider ‘positioned for success in 2016’…

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Unit4 ups ante for ‘people-centric’ ERP

January 19, 2016 | Beverley Head

Netherlands based ERP provider Unit4 is stepping up activities in Australia and New Zealand, just as it announces an integration with online messaging app Slack…

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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…

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IT professionals face daunting security KPI

January 18, 2016 | Beverley Head

IT professionals need to prepare for a new KPI that will track their ability to manage system security “dwell time”…

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Private equity firm takes stake in StorageCraft

January 15, 2016 | Newsdesk

TA Associates to invest U$187 million in backup and recovery software provider…

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SAP and Accenture tighten links

January 14, 2016 | Beverley Head

Accenture, which already has 42,000 staff dedicated to providing SAP services (46 percent of them in the Asia/Pacific/Japan region), has further tightened its links with the German software giant …

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Be aware of these six trends – and get ahead in 2016

January 13, 2016 | Bradley Stroop

The business landscape can expect to see even more competition amid soft economic growth in 2016 which will drive organisations to consider new technology or systems to gain a competitive edge…

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Generation rent

January 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson

Everything as a service and nary ownership of it…

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Data analytics enters new phase of maturity

January 12, 2016 | Beverley Head

Data analytics is about to get a whole lot more interesting as pioneering companies work out how to empower their business executives without unleashing information anarchy…

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High tech startups

Interesting times lie ahead for New Zealand in 2016

December 18, 2015 | Robert Gosling

Particularly strong growth in high-tech startups and young entrepreneurs looking for more creative ways to generate jobs bodes well for 2016, writes Robert Gosling…

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MuleSoft’s five key trends for 2016

December 16, 2015 | Ross Mason

What is 2016 likely to bring? The answer, as is quite usual for the technology industry, is highly likely to be an intensification of concepts already in the market, writes Ross Mason…

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How application dependency maps can enhance user experience

December 16, 2015 | Pritika Ramani

In the age of users who demand flexible and responsive apps, dependency maps can enhance user experiences, writes Pritika Ramani…

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Apple Matters: Great Apple gifts for the holidays

December 15, 2015 | Mark Webster

Tis the season to be rewarded – and here are some things Apple aficionado Mark Webster has recently looked at…

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IoT, big data and security: Top trends for 2016

December 14, 2015 | Lasse Andresen

The technology industry moves at a relentless pace, writes Lasse Andresen, making it both exhilarating and unforgiving…

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Five tech trends to watch

December 9, 2015 | Arron Patterson

Rapid growth in information volume and complexity is putting data centres under pressure, accentuated by customer behaviour changes driven by mobile and social trends, writes Arron Patterson…

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Accessible BI

Yellowfin punts new version of ‘accessible BI’ at Auckland roadshow

December 9, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Australian BI vendor with big global footprint pops by NZ…

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Another big IT company appoints a chief customer officer

December 8, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Kaseya’s new CCO stops by in Australia and New Zealand; ‘as a service’ mobility means increased focus on customers…

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Big data after the hype

December 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Big data is perhaps another of those IT industry things that makes you go ‘oh, really, show me the money’. But while a little hype fatigue can be expected, the use cases are steadily appearing…

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TechnologyOne

TechnologyOne says 2015’s been pretty good

December 2, 2015 | Newsdesk

Australian software provider TechnologyOne has increased its footprint in New Zealand…

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Fronde’s new CEO

December 2, 2015 | Newsdesk

Former Fisher & Paykel exec takes top job at tech solutions company…

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Seven considerations in the journey from legacy to cloud

December 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

Many organisations still rely on legacy systems and but are considering a transition to the cloud…

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Contact Centre

Cloud shakeup for the contact centre market?

December 1, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Let there be contact centre solutions for all…

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Never mind property, a tech correction is coming

December 1, 2015 | Michael Wade

It’s not a matter of if but when, writes IMD Professor Michael Wade – and he calls the coming crash a good thing…

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CA rallies call for next level Agile – breakout out of the IT silo

November 30, 2015 | Beverley Head

Having conquered a decent chunk of the IT profession’s hearts and minds the Agile movement has set its sights on a broader swathe of enterprise professionals as it seeks to achieve ‘next-level Agile’…

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CIO nerd cloud

Virtualise your CIO

November 30, 2015 | Newsdesk

Managed services provider shoves desk, chair and nerd into the cloud…

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Mind the bumps on the Windows 10 upgrade journey

November 30, 2015 | Adam Blue

While early adopters will rush to implement Windows 10 as quickly as possible, most organisations will take a more sober ‘wait-and-see’ approach, writes Adam Blue…

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Frost & Sullivan’s five big predictions for 2016

November 26, 2015 | Newsdesk

Head of research shares insights on what to expect next year…

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Startups? Consider these four undervalued benefits of network monitoring

November 24, 2015 | Andrew Timms

Regardless of business size, technology is pretty important – but how many startups pay sufficient attention to network monitoring, asks Andrew Timms…

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Volvo and Microsoft cosy up for better car buying experience

November 24, 2015 | Newsdesk

New partnership promises holographic technology to configure and preview car choices in 3D before purchase…

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Four considerations on the road to multinational business

November 23, 2015 | Newsdesk

Expanding overseas can be an effective way of broadening the customer base and increasing profits…

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Why (and how) your company has to become a talent magnet

November 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

In advice which Lotharios everywhere have made a part of their DNA, Greg Savage says talent acquisition is the art of seduction…

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Digital push must come from CEO and board to succeed

November 20, 2015 | Beverley Head

Enterprises which want to transition from traditional operations into a digital business need the CEO and board to drive the agenda, or they will likely fail…

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aura cyber-security

NZ security startup cashes out with Kordia acquisition

November 18, 2015 | Newsdesk

Kordia NZ is expands cyber-security portfolio with purchase of Wellington’s Aura Information Security…

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Apple Matters: iPad Pro or no-go?

November 18, 2015 | Mark Webster

Are you convinced by Tim Cook’s assertion that you don’t need a computer any longer, thanks to iPad Pro? Mark Webster isn’t…

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c-suite

Acronym soup and the changing C-Suite

November 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

A changing workforce model is behind evolution in the executive suite, according to Accenture’s NZ country manager…

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surface pro 4

Microsoft busts out Surface Pro 4

November 12, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

‘Laptop replacement’ gadget available for purchase in New Zealand from today…

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Dynamics market gets shakeup

November 12, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The Microsoft Dynamics partner environment is in flux with a number of players undergoing transformation as they are snapped up by larger operators…

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Rackspace tech innovation

The case of Rackspace’s technology innovation study

November 11, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

‘Curious’ organisations more likely to see greater technological innovation and application in the workplace…

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digital success

PwC identifies ten behaviours for digital success

November 9, 2015 | Newsdesk

The key behaviours that correlate strong digital investment to profitability are highlighted by PwC New Zealand’s 2015 Global Digital IQ Survey…

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Digital invaders identified too little too late

November 6, 2015 | Beverley Head

A growing number of CEOs now recognise that they may not see the competition coming because of the speed of technology fuelled digital invaders…

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Hybrid cloud boost as Microsoft cosies with Red Hat

November 5, 2015 | Newsdesk

Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership to drive hybrid cloud computing…

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omnichannel govt

Omnichannel for government?

November 4, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The public sector could benefit from an omnichannel approach to service delivery much like the approaches being adopted by operators in the private sector…

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Digitoil: RankBrain – Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm and how it impacts you

November 2, 2015 | Richard Conway

Google’s ranking algorithm currently has about 200 different signals that work in harmony to deliver great search results…

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Why SAP is not an ERP company

October 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

When big organisations undergo significant change, the impact on customers has to be carefully handled…

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invest in BPM

BPM’s star on the rise

October 29, 2015 | Newsdesk

One in three NZ organisations plan to increase investment in BPM in next three years…

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When a disaster isn’t a disaster (and how to better deal with ERP implementation complexity)

October 28, 2015 | Owen McCall

Many years ago, writes Owen McCall, a contribution to a study on ERP implementation failures threw up a completely surprising response…

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Keep up! Business change accelerates

October 28, 2015 | Tim Scott

The speed of change has always been important in business, writes Tim Scott, with the ability to adapt (still) vital to success…

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Digitising the boardroom: What took you so long?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

While companies have generally focused digitisation efforts on line of business processes, there is one rather significant level to which automation hasn’t yet reached: the boardroom…

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HANA Vora to stimulate appetite for big data?

October 28, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

With the launch of a new software product, SAP sets out to help harness big data…

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The benefits of an open data approach

October 28, 2015 | Jonathan Stern

The rising adoption of mobile technology in the business world, says Jonathan Stern, is causing growing challenges for IT departments…

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ANZ IT spending plays tag with GDP

October 28, 2015 | Beverley Head

Australia’s investment in technology is likely to grow in line with the nation’s expected rise in GDP – while New Zealand’s pace of IT spending growth will be a tad slower in 2016…

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internet satisfaction

NZ SMEs embracing change, but internet satisfaction slips

October 27, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Almost 60 percent of New Zealand’s SMEs say the pace of technology development is ‘about right’…

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A top ten peek into the digital future

October 22, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2018 and beyond…

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Apple Matters: The Mac – Recent updates keep an old favourite relevant

October 22, 2015 | Mark Webster

The Macintosh has an enduring reputation as Apple’s flagship device. Launched in 1984, it’s still here and, with recent updates, it’s still growing, writes Mark Webster…

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auckland emergency

IBM cloud gives Auckland emergency alert system a boost

October 22, 2015 | Newsdesk

CLOUD M migrates public safety alert system for greater performance and reliability…

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CDOs lead the way on digital transformation – for now

October 19, 2015 | Beverley Head

Chief digital officers may be all the rage among transforming enterprises – but they could find themselves with a very short corporate shelf life according to new research…

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Workflow: Ditch paper for the cloud

October 15, 2015 | Dave Rouse

Wrangling printers and fax machines can be infuriating, making paperless workflows an appealing option, writes Dave Rouse…

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Dell deal top of mind for VMware forum

October 15, 2015 | Beverley Head

For the Australian VMware users already signed up to attend vForum in Sydney next week, there will be just one topic of conversation – what will the Dell takeover of EMC mean?…

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GovHack International

Shaky ground inspires solid app as NZ’s Hexagon bags international GovHack award

October 15, 2015 | Newsdesk

Safety notification and tracking app wins kudos in Sydney…

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Darkness in the cloud: What to consider before migrating to online storage

October 15, 2015 | Pravin Kumar C

Enterprises start enjoying their cost savings within months of their cloud adoption – but have they given sufficient thought to security, ponders Pravin Kumar C…

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Innovation is saying ‘no’ to old ways of managing IT

October 15, 2015 | Simon Piff

As businesses across the Asia/Pacific region name innovation as the top ICT initiative for 2015/16, Simon Piff argues that the NO in innovation is important…

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end user computing

Large organisations unsure how to embrace end-user computing

October 13, 2015 | Newsdesk

Large organisations are immature when it comes to planning end-user computing initiatives, preferring to measure feedback instead of acting strategically…

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Agile

Is NZ executive leadership holding Agile back?

October 12, 2015 | Newsdesk

New research indicates discontent as exec suite limits Agile deployment…

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CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT

October 7, 2015 | Beverley Head

The Internet of Things is eating IT budgets, with Gartner forecasting that next year CIOs will spend $US2.5 million a minute on IoT deployments…

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mako networks

Good news for dead shark as former partner acquires Mako

October 7, 2015 | Newsdesk

US telecommunications service provider D&S Communications acquires assets of failed Mako Networks…

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intergen

Intergen secures exclusive Tier 1 Microsoft CSP status

October 7, 2015 | Newsdesk

Microsoft New Zealand has named technology company Intergen as a Tier 1 Cloud Solution Provider…

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Epicor beefs up exec suite with key appointment

October 7, 2015 | Newsdesk

Epicor Software Corporation has appointed industry veteran Sabby Gill as executive vice president overseeing operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC)…

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Creating a smarter IT service desk

October 6, 2015 | Branko Bugarski

IT service desks can be tough places to work, writes Branko Bugarski, but with the addition of data analysis, collaboration and a ticketless approach, things can be improved…

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CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid

October 6, 2015 | Beverley Head

US giant CSC has given itself just five weeks to complete the due diligence on Australia’s largest listed software and services business, UXC Ltd, ahead of a planned $A428 million takeover…

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cisco leadership

Lawrie steps down as Cisco announces new leadership

October 6, 2015 | Newsdesk

Planned executive transition sees new country manager for Cisco Systems NZ…

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Short term workers ‘on demand’?

October 5, 2015 | Newsdesk

Online platform connects job seekers with employers…

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Mobile advertising company seeks investment to take on USA

October 5, 2015 | Newsdesk

SaaS platform apparently delivers less intrusive smartphone advertising…

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omni retail

Omnichannel retail win for First Software

October 2, 2015 | Newsdesk

Cloud ERP solution provider First Software has signed up a rapidly expanding furniture retailer to implement its N2 software…

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omg! tech

OMG Tech takes steps to get more children into technology

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

Initiative to get kiwi kids interested in technology launched…

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UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions…

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The future data centre is software-defined

October 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

The software-defined data centre (SDDC) is crucial to the long-term evolution of an agile digital business says Gartner – the future is not now…

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security coffee

Security: Wake up and smell the coffee

September 30, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Far from a limitation on business, information security should be an enabler…

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BI Silos

BI: Don’t fight the silos

September 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The biggest problems facing business intelligence are still the simplest– getting ‘clean’ data and avoiding silos…

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Is email killing corporate productivity?

September 25, 2015 | David Oakley

The daily grind is draining more than our morale – it’s also killing corporate productivity and email is the culprit, writes David Oakley…

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Know your ADCs and get more from the hybrid cloud

September 24, 2015 | Benjamin Hodge

When cloud computing first appeared on corporate radar screens in the mid-2000s, it brought with it the promise of big business benefits – but, asks Benjamin Hodge, have those been realised?…

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Future ERP: Infor announces collaboration, BI apps for Apple Watch

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk

Cloud ERP vendor betting big on wearable tech…

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Four ways graph analytics can help data compliance

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk

Big data can transform the way businesses operate, but companies have to make sure they comply with rules and regulations around how data is accessed and used…

read more...

Amazon jumps through hoops before DevOps

September 23, 2015 | Beverley Head

Teams at Amazon which want to innovate must start by writing a press release before developing anything…

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Why you need more women in your design team

September 23, 2015 | Brenda Aynsley

How much further can technology go and how much faster can we can get there if greater diversity in the workplace is encouraged, ponders ACS president Brenda Aynsley…

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Microsoft releases Office 2016

September 23, 2015 | Newsdesk

The worldwide release of Microsoft’s Office 2016 productivity software is underway…

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The why, what and how of business agility

September 22, 2015 | Nat Tanner

Fifty years ago, running a company was much more predictable, with less competition and customers content to buy based on what you had on offer. But things have changed, writes Nat Tanner, and so should you…

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Shadow IT seduces CFOs

September 22, 2015 | Beverley Head

The lure of cloud computing for CMOs is well understood and has seen more of the IT budget head to that department – now it’s the CFO’s turn…

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IT shop

With technology ubiquity, CIOs are business leaders

September 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Russel McVeagh CIO says there has never been a better time to be a technology leader…

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Wild Strait

Equinox IT launches ‘Wild Strait’ software performance business

September 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Locally developed software performance product to take on the world…

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Whitepaper: Implementing modern ERP

September 20, 2015 | Epicor Software Corporation

Telsyte research report: Uncovering key components for a successful outcome…

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IBM_Smartcamp_winner Jason Gleason

Wellington’s Eight Wire wins Auckland’s first Smart Camp

September 18, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Designing a better way to move data around has won US$120,000 in expert advice and technology…

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legal documents hell

Towards better seed capital terms: KiwiKISS and KiwiSAFE

September 17, 2015 | Newsdesk

A common complaint from New Zealand startups is that local seed investor documents are founder-unfriendly and painfully complex…

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Apple Matters: Bigger, faster, but – where to now?

September 17, 2015 | Mark Webster

Apple is concentrating on consolidation releases this year with few exciting product announcements; expect the fireworks in 2016, reckons Mark Webster…

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ANZ leaders embrace cloud based testing

September 17, 2015 | Beverley Head

Australian and New Zealand technology leaders are leading the world in terms of their adoption of cloud based quality assurance testing – but there are still gaps in the repertoire…

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Disruption and the supply chain

September 16, 2015 | Jonathan Reay

Consumer demand is colliding with a supply chain that isn’t ready and can’t keep up, writes Jonathan Reay…

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snakk shares

Snakk raises capital, plots next move (to NXT)

September 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Snakk intends to raise NZ$2.0 million through a proposed capital raising offer, within the next month. The offer will be available to all NZ investors with a priority allocation available to existing shareholders…

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Salesforce.com in its sights as SAP looks beyond CRM?

September 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

SAP is working on future technologies intended to transform the relationships companies have with their customers…

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How AI will change the future of business

September 15, 2015 | MYOB

To start planning for what has until recently been the preserve of science fiction, MYOB has released the second report in its ‘Future of Business’ series…

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APIs top of mind across ANZ

September 15, 2015 | Newsdesk

Enabling mobile applications, improving customer satisfaction and generating revenue among key drivers for API adoption…

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Designing the optimal cloud management solution

September 15, 2015 | Branko Bugarski

When it comes to managing the hybrid environments, many have fallen back on using different tools to manage different services. Branko Bugarski, GM HP Software says it doesn’t have to be that way…

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Sprout

Scouts seek next agritech superstar

September 14, 2015 | Newsdesk

Business talent scouts are looking for a startup with the potential to be New Zealand’s next global agritech success winner…

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Effective cloud ERP on a budget

September 14, 2015 | Oracle

Small and midsize companies can follow these proven strategies…

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Auror secures funding, plans global expansion

September 14, 2015 | Newsdesk

Crime prevention software developer Auror (formerly Eyedentify) has completed a round of funding to support further development and expansion of its software…

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How technology managers are tackling transformation

September 11, 2015 | Newsdesk

With the industry abuzz with transformation, the role of the IT department itself is coming under increased scrutiny…

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Optimising the cloud with network intelligence

September 11, 2015 | Gary Denman

The rise of multimedia and the growing use of real-time applications have placed heavy demands on network bandwidth and performance, says Gary Denman…

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Apple Matters: No need for rose-coloured glasses

September 10, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster considers new iPhones, iPads and, finally, an Apple TV with a decent interface…

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Why the CFO needs cloud-driven automation

September 10, 2015 | Todd Hunt

Entrusted with managing the financial risks of global and increasingly complex enterprises, the modern CFO needs modern tools, writes BlackLine’s Todd Hunt…

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Watch for these six business continuity gaps that can cost you

September 9, 2015 | Newsdesk

With an abundance of factors that can disrupt operations, effective business continuity strategies are challenging…

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Jobs in the Cloud

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Cloud demand drives employment oppos at Microsoft NZ

September 8, 2015 | Newsdesk

Microsoft New Zealand is looking for ten new employees as business grows…

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Telco regulation up for discussion

September 8, 2015 | Newsdesk

Discussion paper looks at ways to future-proof New Zealand’s communications regulation…

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What will Windows 10 really mean for enterprise IT departments?

September 8, 2015 | Steve Beards

With Microsoft stating that Windows 10 is the last launch of its kind, Steve Beards, Flexera Software VP of APAC and Japan takes a look at what that means for business users…

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Industry needs to communicate cloud better

September 8, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Cloud computing isn’t a technology discussion, it’s a business driver…

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APIs critical to evolving Internet of Things

September 4, 2015 | Ross Mason

It’s knocked cloud computing off top spot in the list of ‘most hyped IT trends’, yet the Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a lot more than just a quirky buzz phrase, says MuleSoft founder Ross Mason…

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Five simple steps for a successful Windows 10 upgrade

September 4, 2015 | Safi Obeidullah

With a free upgrade available, there’s no doubt that moving is an attractive proposition. Yet, asks Safi Obeidullah, Citrix ANZ director of technical services, have you stopped to think about how to manage the transition without impacting productivity, security, and workforce management?…

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Shamelessly hyping hyperconvergence (backed by guarantees)

September 4, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Hyperconvergence infrastructure provider Simplivity has released new software with a slew of hyperbole…

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How Microsoft and Polycom are making video ‘phone easy’

September 4, 2015 | Newsdesk

The gold standard for any technology system today is still the plain old telephone system…

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Apple Matters: Apple rises while Microsoft…rises

September 3, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster takes a look at the fortunes of vendors which have enjoyed a sometimes adversarial relationship and finds them both heading in the right direction…

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MYOB named Most Innovative Large Company

September 3, 2015 | MYOB

Online business software company wins innovation award in 500+ employee category…

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How Microsoft’s Azure is commoditising the leading edge

September 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

It’s almost hard to believe that Microsoft’ Australian Azure data centres have only been in place for around a year…

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Greentree US partner expands with merger

September 2, 2015 | MYOB

MYOB Greentree Chicago based partner, Visions Business Solutions (VBS), has today announced a merger with Crestwood Associates LLC…

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Epicor CEO Joe Cowan scoops business award

September 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

Epicor president and CEO Joe Cowan has won a Gold Stevie for Executive of the Year in the 2015 International Business Awards…

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Fuji Xerox recognised for 3D printing

September 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

Fuji Xerox New Zealand has achieved recognition by winning two prestigious awards at the recent 3D Systems Partner Conference in Hong Kong…

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Five megatrends on the minds of ANZ execs

September 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

ANZ CIOs and CxOs name economic change, technology innovation and changing consumer expectations as the biggest pending megatrends…

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Handley to step down from Snakk

September 1, 2015 | Newsdesk

Mobile advertising company appoints Peter James as executive director and chair…

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Why it pays to focus on process

August 31, 2015 | Ivan Seselj

For more than a decade business surveys and management text books have identified strategy execution as the number one challenge facing CEOs. The problem isn’t the quality of management strategies, says Ivan Seselj.  It is the difficulty of carrying them out…

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Modernisation and digital transformation behind enterprise application software growth

August 31, 2015 | Newsdesk

Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will grow 7.5 percent to reach US$149.9 billion in 2015…

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Defining the new generation of digital disruptors

August 27, 2015 | John Ascroft

In industries from finance to utilities, the same familiar forces are pushing companies into digital business transformation says John Ascroft from Jade Software…

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MYOB and Xero appeal equally to shareholders

August 27, 2015 | Beverley Head

The fortunes of accounting software rivals MYOB and Xero are at a curious inflexion point with shareholders valuing them equally at $1.7billion…

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All-flash data centres around the corner, says HP

August 27, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Faster enterprise storage means better business results

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Government eyes up convergence, content regulation

August 27, 2015 | Newsdesk

Laws haven’t kept pace with technological change, says minister…

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NZ slow to cloud? Not so fast, says IDC

August 26, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Market watcher says SMBs ARE taking advantage of the cloud…

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Smartphone sales start slowing

August 26, 2015 | Newsdesk

The IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker revises expectations of smartphone shipments…

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NetApp preaches to the yet-to-be converted

August 26, 2015 | Beverley Head

Storage and data management business NetApp wants to do for big business data what Apple did for consumers’ – it’s turning out to be a big ask…

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CFOs should have much to say on cloud computing

August 26, 2015 | Oracle

Today’s successful CFOs are modernising their departments while partnering with the CEO and line-of-business leaders to find new growth opportunities…

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Computer security morphs into crisis management

August 26, 2015 | Beverley Head

There’s been a change of language in the lingo surrounding computer security – it’s now all about resilience and response rather than assuring protection…

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Shadow IT to boost female interest in tech

August 26, 2015 | Newsdesk

One only need attend an IT conference to know that technology is a man’s world…

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NZ small business ‘missing out’ on cloud

August 21, 2015 | Newsdesk

While a noteworthy proportion of small and medium businesses in New Zealand aren’t yet using the cloud, we’re ahead of those across the ditch…

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Artificial intelligence: Solving the little big problems

August 20, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Call centres are practically a defining feature of the modern world. They are also routinely a source of frustration, but AI could change that…

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Industry convergence will drive societal change

August 19, 2015 | Newsdesk

Convergence and connectivity is disrupting, transforming and collapsing industries, redefining the future of business and how executives will manage companies in the future, says Frost & Sullivan…

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Australia’s CSG acquires CodeBlue

August 19, 2015 | Newsdesk

CSG has signed an agreement to acquire CodeBlue for a total sum of $15 million…

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IBM to host New Zealand’s first SmartCamp

August 19, 2015 | Newsdesk

IBM is calling for entrepreneurs to participate in its first New Zealand SmartCamp, to be held in Auckland next month…

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Gear Wheels

Fujitsu introduces Hybrid Cloud Services

August 19, 2015 | Newsdesk

In partnership with Microsoft, Fujitsu New Zealand has introduced Hybrid Cloud Services which combine its local expertise with Microsoft’s Azure platform in Australia…

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If most projects fail, why bother doing them at all?

August 18, 2015 | Gary Nelson

There is still hope, explains international project management expert Gary Nelson…

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C-Suite soup: Win with actions, not titles

August 18, 2015 | Owen McCall

Every function, discipline and sub-discipline aspires to be in the C-Suite, says Owen McCall. But it is outcomes and not titles that count…

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Apple Matters: On the Apple Watch

August 18, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster takes a closer look at the latest Apple gadget to get tongues wagging…

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Air New Zealand: The tech company with planes

August 13, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Think Air New Zealand is an airline? Well, yes it is, but according to CIO Julia Raue, it needs to be an experience-led digital social company to get the competitive edge…

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Market Measures research looks to boost Kiwi tech growth

August 12, 2015 | Newsdesk

Concentrate and Swaytech open hi-tech sector sales and marketing survey, supported by Deloitte and Hudson Gavin Martin…

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Windows 10 upgrade causing internet traffic jam

August 10, 2015 | Newsdesk

A study of over 2000 Kiwi businesses has found that the current Windows 10 upgrade has caused UFB congestion to increase by an average of 40 percent…

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Bring your own data, rapidly build a unique application

August 10, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Despite the availability of a vast range of off-the-shelf software and a whole internet full of SaaS, too much work is still being done in spreadsheets…

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM users beware: Not supported on Windows 10

August 10, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

While Windows 10 upgrades are available for business users, those using Dynamics CRM should exercise caution…

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Where weapons maker meets cupcake baker

August 6, 2015 | Beverley Head

Privately held enterprise software company Infor prides itself on providing “the last mile” in ERP solutions, tailored for specific industries…

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Telcos must turn big data into smart data to manage churn

August 6, 2015 | Newsdesk

Using big data analytics to personalise the customer experience will be crucial for telcos to manage customer churn and improve loyalty, says Ovum…

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MYOB to showcase add-ons at annual conference

August 4, 2015 | MYOB

Set up in 2013 MYOB’s API developer program has grown to nearly 3000 partners…

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javln integration

Rebranded, refreshed JAVLN charts future

July 31, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

From tech-led to sales-led, NZ software company takes on data integration giants…

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Windows 10 ushers in OS-as-a-service

July 30, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Implied annuity payments won’t happen with this iteration, but what comes next?…

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Tapping the data asset: the emerging Chief Data Officer

July 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The IT world bandies big data about as some kind of nirvana but the reality is that data is a pain point for most. But organisations are starting to value data as an asset they need to get serious about…

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Programming for sport at Hacktivate

July 29, 2015 | Vendor - media release

New Zealand’s coding masterminds recently competed against each other in a game of virtual Battleships…

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Ten steps to stimulate workplace innovation

July 29, 2015 | Vendor - media release

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…

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Post-PC Windows 10 eyes up Internet of Things

July 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The timing has never been more challenging for the launch of a new version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system…

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Two thirds of IT roles face the chop

July 28, 2015 | Beverley Head

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…

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Fronde CEO to step down

July 27, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Ian Clarke to vacate top job later this year…

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Complexity causing data centre blues? Hyperconvergence to the rescue

July 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The physical contents of data centres tend to stealthily expand, becoming increasingly difficult to manage…

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IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose

July 23, 2015 | Beverley Head

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…

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Apple Matters: A closer look at Apple Music

July 22, 2015 | Mark Webster

It’s the latest thing from Apple – and Mark Webster wonders what it really means…

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Cloud costs come down, but there is no price war

July 20, 2015 | Newsdesk

On-demand cloud pricing has fallen 2.25 percent, while the cost for customers that commit has dropped 12 percent…

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Diego Abrianos

Greentree appoints international software development manager

July 16, 2015 | MYOB

Business management software vendor MYOB Greentree has announced the appointment of Diego Abrianos as software development manager…

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Paul Muckleston

Microsoft’s Muckleston heading to Seattle

July 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Former Microsoft NZ MD to take up worldwide role as GM for Surface channel sales…

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Enterprise cloud works best with feet on the ground

July 15, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Cloud solutions only as good as local support is…

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Personal data: Which organisations do you trust?

July 15, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Kiwis share their views on the companies most likely to suffer data breaches…

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Social media set to boost online trade to US$1.7 trillion

July 15, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Juniper says Facebook, Twitter retail activities will drive web purchases…

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The three top technology concerns for SMBs

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release

As companies of all sizes begin to view technology as a strategic imperative, SMBs are changing their relationship with IT…

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Five signs you need to rethink accounts payable systems

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Think your accounts payable systems are automated? Think again…

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HP and Intel to ease High Performance Computing access

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Purpose-built solutions and Centres of Excellence to help use data more effectively…

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Microsoft charts its future at WPC

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release

A raft of announcements coming out of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference point to a bright future…

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Managed global services the sweet spot for telco operators

July 13, 2015 | Vendor - media release

A new forecast from analyst firm Ovum, says telecoms service providers will grow revenues from global services to enterprise customers to over US$297 billion by 2020…

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Managing big data: HP introduces File Analysis software

July 10, 2015 | Vendor - media release

One of the biggest issues with big data isn’t so much the physical volume of information but rather its classification: what’s valuable, and what isn’t, and where is the best place to store it…

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The end of an error as Microsoft nukes Nokia handsets

July 9, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Nokia handsets are dead and Microsoft killed them. Where to for the Surface…

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Change is inevitable, but will you make the most of it?

July 7, 2015 | Craig Young

There are two ways to deal with change: do nothing, or do something. The former is easy, but will leave you high and dry. The latter takes effort and can be unpleasant in the short term. Craig Young ponders how to make the most of a tumultuous world…

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Semble adds Snapper to mobile wallet

July 7, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Commuters in Whangarei and Wellington can tag on to public transport using smartphones…

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Around the world, businesses are embracing automation

July 6, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Rising labour and lower capital costs drive a new wave of automation…

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Apple Matters: Do yourself a favour and check out iBooks

July 6, 2015 | Mark Webster

When Mark Webster wanted to get a book out, publishers wanted nothing of it. He took matters into his own hands…

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The internet’s gone to the dogs as Bow Wow Box seeks investors

July 6, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Pets aren’t being left behind in the march to the subscription-based digital economy…

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Changing of the guard at Microsoft NZ

July 3, 2015 | Vendor - media release

The local subsidiary of Microsoft is getting a new MD as Barrie Sheers is set to succeed Paul Muckleston…

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Hey NZ, don’t forget about us

July 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Kiwi email signature company heads to Microsoft WPC as sole NZ sponsor…

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Heads in the cloud as Oracle hires hundreds

July 2, 2015 | Oracle

Over 800 salespeople hired to support growing demand for cloud across the region…

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Global IT spending down, yet simultaneously up

July 2, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Worldwide IT spending should total $3.5 trillion in 2015, a 5.5 percent decline from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner…

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Better CX through AI? Callaghan contribution helps find the answer

July 1, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Radiant project aimed at better understanding customer/company interactions…

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FreeviewPlus

How Freeview is addressing the Netflix effect

July 1, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The dreaded ‘N’ word wasn’t mentioned at the launch of Freeview Plus in Auckland this morning, but its presence was certainly felt in the room…

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Disruptive technology without disruption

June 30, 2015 | MYOB

Business systems should be game-changers – not gamebreakers, says Greentree CEO, Peter Dickinson…

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Westpac rolls out Black Pearl Mail

June 30, 2015 | Vendor - media release

After breaking the news in a recent interview with iStart, Black Pearl Mail has confirmed its implementation at Westpac New Zealand…

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Fog day afternoon: Networking supremo goes large on Internet of Things

June 30, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Knowing a good thing when it sees it, Cisco has announced a broad portfolio of products and solutions to get more things on the internet…

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Power to the people: the rise of virtual personal assistants

June 29, 2015 | Brian Blau

In a world where your data is considered fair game for marketers, Brian Blau says the virtual personal assistant could give power over information back to the people…

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How the internet helps watch New Zealand’s water

June 29, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Environmental monitoring website Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) has expanded the number of sensors nationwide to provide more data on New Zealand’s water…

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Consumer electronics retailer hitches wagon to ‘Internet of Things’

June 29, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The tech industry is notorious for misunderstandings, blurred definitions and, perhaps above all, three letter acronyms (TLA)…

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urbansherpa

Move over cowboy, the UrbanSherpa is here

June 26, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

As a species, humans have never had a problem paying for convenience…

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Mid-market ERP is for masochists says Greentree boss

June 25, 2015 | Beverley Head

Creating ERP solutions for mid-market customers is work “for masochists” according to Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson…

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Business is taking charge of digitisation effort

June 25, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Line of business managers are taking a far more direct role in choosing the technology they use, working alongside, rather than under, their IT team…

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Ditch the PJs (and other obvious video conference advice)

June 25, 2015 | Newsdesk

Throw enough people in front of a video camera and strange things are certain to happen…

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Expect a spend-up on customer experience

June 24, 2015 | Vendor - media release

New research by the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals link between customer experience investment, increased profitability, revenue growth and customer retention…

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Kiwi companies indifferent to Windows Server 2003 end-of-support

June 24, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

With three weeks to go, there are still plenty of Kiwi businesses completely ignoring Microsoft’s FUD machine…

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How Workspace-as-a-Service can cure SMB IT headaches

June 24, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Does the thought of managing, upgrading, or keeping up with the latest IT trend send you running for cover? Citrix’s David Nicol suggests a better way…

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Q&A: CIO of the Year Peter Muggleston on Foodstuffs’ Project Lightning

June 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Deploying an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is no mean feat, often involving millions of dollars and spanning the course of several years…

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Big data needs a big network: Cawthron joins REANNZ

June 23, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Cawthron Institute joins over 40 research and education institutions across New Zealand to encourage big data research…

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Globalisation: you’re standing in it

June 23, 2015 | Bill Bennett

Technology has long been the driving force behind globalisation. Both have been good to Australia and New Zealand in the past. Now there’s a fear we will be casualties as a new globalisation wave disrupts industries and displaces workers while creating Silicon Valley billionaires. Bill Bennett investigates…

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Swift flexes muscles on Apple Music, passes ‘most powerful’ test

June 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

In getting her way, Swift has arguably validated her spot on Forbes’ power index…

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Smaller contact centres lured with A$99 cloud

June 22, 2015 | Beverley Head

Interactive Intelligence dangles Amazon Web Services-hosted cloud platform…

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cricket

CricHQ scores US$10 million funding

June 22, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

CricHQ has secured up to US$10 million funding from Singapore-based private equity firm Tembusu Partners…

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net neutrality

Cisco releases VNI research, says net neutrality is a concern

June 22, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Surge in demand doesn’t come with a business case for infrastructure providers…

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IITP welcomes new software procurement model

June 19, 2015 | Paul Matthews

Recently, the MBIE and the NZ Police launched a Request for Proposals for the development of a a mobile 111 app and related technology. But, writes IITP CEO Paul Matthews, this was no ordinary RFP…

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‘This is a video story’: Charting NZ’s internet future

June 19, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Research anticipates doubling of NZ IP traffic by 2019, with 35 million connected devices…

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PwC launches dedicated Digital consultancy

June 19, 2015 | Newsdesk

PwC has launched what it calls a ‘unique kind of digital consulting’ in the New Zealand market…

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Apple Matters: Goodbye to all Mac

June 18, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster evaluates calls that Apple should abandon the Mac and finds short answer is ‘No’. The long one is ‘N-o-o-o-o-o-o!’…

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Microsoft Dynamics POS device is here and it’s awesome

June 18, 2015 | Newsdesk

Microsoft demo’s the new Retail Modern POS mobile device application…

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Fresh capital to spur Unleashed Software’s growth ambitions

June 18, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Kiwi inventory management vendor to intensify USA operations…

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Xero briefly collects unlikely accolade at SAP’s expense

June 17, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

In what must have come as a considerable surprise to both Xero and SAP, market analyst IDC briefly named the cloud accounting vendor as the New Zealand market leader in enterprise resource planning software…

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The case for honest estimates

June 16, 2015 | Gary Nelson

Setting out on any project requires getting some idea of the costs and timelines involved – but project management expert Gary Nelson points out that there can be problems with estimates which can scupper projects before they even start…[View as PDF]

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Building blocks: The case for a modular approach to technology services

June 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The free availability of an almost infinite range of services on the internet means entrepreneurs can create powerhouses by pulling together composites to fuel their business goals, as Donovan Jackson discovers …

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Does big business want a smart watch?

June 16, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

New research report anticipates a warm welcome for smart watches and wearables in the enterprise…

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The questions to ask before plunging into SaaS

June 15, 2015 | Beverley Head

Demand for software as a service continues to rise; according to Cisco, by 2018, 59 percent of all cloud workloads will be SaaS compared to 41 percent in 2013…

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Don’t sell technology, satisfy needs

June 15, 2015 | Owen McCall

Selling IT solutions might at first blush appear a terribly complex undertaking, but achieving success doesn’t necessarily depend on the technical specifications. Instead, Owen McCall, independent IT consultant, shows that sometimes all that’s required is a firm grasp of what the business really needs…[View as PDF]

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Customer experience priorities are changing

June 11, 2015 | Newsdesk

Organisations have changed their customer experience (CX) priorities for 2015, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc…

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Mind the service management gap

June 11, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

With IT service management automating a substantial proportion of the processes which move incidents to resolution, there is still a gap which opens up between the moment something goes wrong and the time taken to find the right person to fix it…

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CIO of the Year winner Peter Muggleston

Peter Muggleston named CIO of the Year

June 10, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Award winners named at Auckland gala dinner…

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Tax FAST

Not so Fast: Concern as IRD kicks off decade long project

June 9, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

IRD inks open ended deal with Fast Enterprises…

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Digitoil: Mobilegeddon – Were the doomsday predictions justified?

June 9, 2015 | Richard Conway

You may not have noticed it, but 21 April 2015 was ‘mobilegeddon’…

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WWDC 2015 roundup: I guess you had to be there

June 9, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference announcements for 2015…

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Fuji Xerox appoints Pollard as MD

June 9, 2015 | Fujifilm

Gavin Pollard will oversee the New Zealand business replacing current managing director Neil Whittaker who moves across the Tasman to run the Australian operation…

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From analogue to digital: Goody’s leadership in consumer change management

June 8, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

New loyalty scheme bridges the gap between physical and virtual worlds…

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Apple Matters: When ‘easy to use’ becomes a problem

June 5, 2015 | Mark Webster

Technology today is practically ubiquitous and ever easier to use. Be that as it may, Mark Webster discovers that even simplicity has its own set of problems…

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skills

Escalating skills demand good news for talented professionals, bad news for CEOs

June 4, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

CEOs are more concerned about the impact of a skills shortage on their business than at any point in the last six years, according to PwC…

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Whitepaper: Disrupt, collapse, transform – The role of cloud computing in industry transformation

June 4, 2015 | Frost & Sullivan

In an environment of unprecedented change across industries of all kinds, survival depends on flexibility and adaptability…[View as PDF]

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Epson’s answer to Google Glass

June 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Printer company demonstrates commercially-targeted augmented reality specs…

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rural broadband

Rural broadband should be as good as city services, says TUANZ

June 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Imminent launch of new Spark 4G service given thumbs up…

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UXC Eclipse winning in retail

June 2, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Australian company performs well in USA…

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NetSuite appoints Graeme Burt as channel sales director, Asia Pacific and Japan

June 2, 2015 | Newsdesk

Cloud ERP vendor investing in Pacific channel development…

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UXC Eclipse wins 2015 Microsoft Dynamics Industry Partner of the Year

June 2, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Trophy cabinet receives a boost as UXC Eclipse adds new silverware…

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How live video can boost contact centre performance

June 2, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Enterprise video taken in a new direction as LogMeIn makes use of your smartphone…

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Enterprise boosts spending on business processes

June 2, 2015 | Beverley Head

Investment in software to support modern business process management will rise 4.4 per cent this year to reach $US.2.7 billion globally according to tech analyst Gartner…

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Online shopping

Spark Digital launches app marketplace for business

May 29, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Spark’s enterprise division, Spark Digital, has announced the launch of what it is calling the first fully integrated software-as-a service (SaaS) marketplace in New Zealand…

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Health and safety

Proposed workplace safety bill raises IT eyebrows

May 28, 2015 | Simon Eskow

An overhaul of New Zealand’s health and safety regulation may snag IT companies in a regulatory net that could potentially make employers liable for accidents in their staff’s own homes, writes Simon Eskow at IITP’s TechBlog…

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Ivan Seselj

Promapp goes global as Kiwi software company opens US office

May 28, 2015 | Newsdesk

Local company takes process management software to American market…

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Wearables could break $1 billion barrier

May 27, 2015 | Beverley Head

A newly published report from Frost & Sullivan’s Australian office shows that local chief information officers may have breathing space despite the rise of consumer demand for wearables…

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MYOB Greentree appoints channel marketing manager

May 25, 2015 | MYOB

Wendy McKenzie to drive channel strategy…

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Cloud, mobiles and IoT prompt identity rethink

May 20, 2015 | Beverley Head

Enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing and mobile access are prompting a rethink of approaches to identity and access management…

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Apple Matters: Apple, enterprise and FileMaker

May 19, 2015 | Mark Webster

Enterprise was the final frontier for Apple for a long time. Mark Webster notes this appears to have changed…

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Xero HiTech company of the Year

Depth and breadth of Kiwi tech talent on show as Xero wins top award

May 18, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

While Xero was named winner of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards’ most prestigious prize, the depth and breadth of Kiwi ingenuity on display at the recently held event attests to an industry in rude health…

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AWS Auckland expo

AWS: Big business joins the march to cloud

May 13, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

Previously the domain of start-ups, Amazon Web Services is now helping enterprise-level customers to combat up-and-coming competitors with improved flexibility delivered in the cloud…

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Verint checks callers on black and white list

May 13, 2015 | Beverley Head

CRM customer support and service provider Verint is launching an upgraded platform that can identify callers from their voice alone, and analyse what they are saying and their emotions on the fly…

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CIO Awards

Finalists named for 2015 CIO Awards

May 11, 2015 | Newsdesk

Conferenz and IDC have announced this year’s finalists in the CIO Awards…

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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2015

May 9, 2015 | Newsdesk

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…

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Six things to do during and after a Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrade

May 8, 2015 | Newsdesk

Ryan Budge, Technical Delivery Manager – Microsoft Dynamics NAV, looks at what you can do during and after your next upgrade to ensure a successful project…

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NetSuite partners with Microsoft, ditches AWS

May 7, 2015 | Hayden McCall

The ERP rivals have announced a partnership that will see NetSuite hosted on Azure and integrated with Office365…

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Leading CIO kicks industry’s cloud claims

May 7, 2015 | Beverley Head

One of Australia’s leading chief information officers has delivered a sharp kick to the information technology industry for clinging to old business models at the expense of cloud…

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Dr Michelle Dickson

NanoGirl named as Bright Sparks ambassador

May 6, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Dr Michelle Dickinson is continuing to lobby for girls to get involved in technology by joining Bright Sparks…

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Agile enterprises must embrace quarterly planning

May 5, 2015 | Beverley Head

Enterprises which want to wring the most benefit from Agile processes and practices need to shift away from annual plans to more regular quarterly planning sessions…

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Apple Matters: Cook, Apple and the books

April 28, 2015 | Mark Webster

Apple CEO Tim Cook may not be attention-grabbing like his predecessor Steve Jobs, but Mark Webster finds he has kept the tech company on a very sound footing indeed…

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Jade Software sculpts and dances its way to the future

April 28, 2015 | Beverley Head

Jade Software is planning to reveal more of its creative chops this year to demonstrate to customers the benefits of a design-led approach to software development…

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No to tech

Nearly one third of Kiwi SMEs say tech has “no impact” in business

April 23, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The SME sector has surprised many this week by indicating that many business people do not think technology has an important role to play in growing their organisations…

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Oracle partner takes on Greentree for mid-tier

April 23, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Software integrator Ndevr, which describes itself as Australia’s most highly regarded Oracle JD Edwards consulting partner, has signed a strategic partnership with local ERP vendor Greentree…

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Enterprise seeks “moments” through wearables

April 21, 2015 | Beverley Head

Ross Mason ordered an Apple Watch last week – but first he asked his wife…

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Marketing strategy

Digitoil: SEO – dark art or just good marketing?

April 20, 2015 | Richard Conway

In the first instalment of our new Digitoil blog on digital marketing, subject matter expert Richard Conway begins by putting search engine optimisation in context…

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Apple Matters: MacBook – overwhelmed with underwhelming

April 17, 2015 | Mark Webster

It’s not just an appellation the all-new MacBook is missing. There is no ‘Pro’ or ‘Air’ after ‘MacBook’, and also no ports. Mark Webster finds himself wondering who it’s for…

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Windows server 2003

Windows server 2003 end of support: risks and rewards

April 9, 2015 | Clare Coulson

With less than 100 days to the end of support for Windows Server 2003, Microsoft says that more than 60 percent of New Zealand organisations could be left vulnerable…

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Things we can still learn from the electrical revolution

April 7, 2015 | Gerry McGovern

Gerry McGovern invites you to reimagine your business in the digital age by taking a walk down memory lane…

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Agility runs deep, failure runs deeper

April 7, 2015 | Clare Coulson

IT developers have been refining the process of agile development frameworks for the last two decades. Today a more flexible work method is necessary across the enterprise. Organisations are now beginning to heed the lessons learnt from agile development and apply its principles to other departments. Clare Coulson investigates…

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Apple Matters: A byte at Apple’s future

April 1, 2015 | Mark Webster

Apple has pioneered oh, lots of things. What does the latest crop mean for the future? Mark Webster ponders this question 39 years after Apple was founded…

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Why agile hype could lead to project failure

March 31, 2015 | Darren Christophersen

Darren Christophersen, general manager of applications & consulting at Empired explains why you should be wary of the hype…

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Time to call in the pros

March 30, 2015 | Paul Matthews

The Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP) CEO Paul Matthews explains what the Chartered IT Professional accreditation is and why we need it…

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Codifying change and success

March 27, 2015 | Owen McCall

Owen McCall explains how a personal situation led to building a model for successful change…

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SAP hits a six for the Cricket World Cup 2015

March 27, 2015 | Clare Coulson, Hayden McCall

It’s not just Tui and cucumber sandwiches that are powering the Cricket World Cup – hard working technology is enhancing the fan experience…

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Rod_Drury at CIO Awards 2014

CIO Awards: What gives entrants the X factor?

March 27, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The judges of the Awards want to hear from people who have done the extraordinary to bring significant benefit to their organisations through the implementation of technology…

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Intergen white paper

Whitepaper: The future of the productive workplace

March 25, 2015 | Intergen

By the year 2025 Gen-Y Millennials will dominate the workplace and they will expect to have technology on-hand to help them work smarter not harder…[View as PDF]

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Oracle seeks 1000 cloud salespeople across APAC

March 25, 2015 | Beverley Head

Oracle’s cloud epiphany came late, now it’s playing catchup, looking to hire 1000 new salespeople across Asia Pacific to promote cloud solutions, just as quickly as it can…

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How much methodology is needed for a successful project?

March 25, 2015 | Gary Nelson

These days it seems like you can’t swing a cat without bumping into two or three technology projects, but not all of them will be successful. Project management methodologies are one way to improve success rates…

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Hi tech Awards 2015

2015 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards Finalists

March 25, 2015 | Vendor - media release

MEDIA RELEASE: A record number of entries from a record number of companies across New Zealand have lifted the bar for this year’s New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards, with finalists spanning the breadth of the technology sector…

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Digital business calls for postmodern ERP

March 24, 2015 | Denise Ganly

The term enterprise resource planning or ERP was coined by Gartner in 1990, but a lot has changed since then. Gartner’s Denise Ganly explains why the ERP megasuite is dead and why postmodern ERP is a vital foundation for digital business…[View as PDF]

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Scoping IT out: 5 essential steps to success

March 24, 2015 | Microsoft

Embarking on a technology-led change in your business can be both hairy and audacious…

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Built to last – the ultimate business software challenge

March 24, 2015 | Peter Dickinson

If the consequences of a failed software project were the same as for a bridge or building, there would be some significant piles of rubble, numerous casualties and a whole lot more court cases…

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Equity crowdfunding prospects better this side of Tasman

March 23, 2015 | Beverley Head

New Zealand has been identified as a “stand out” performer on the Digital Evolution Index, while Australia is stalling its start-ups’ growth with restrictive crowdfunding laws…

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Microsoft Awards 2015

Microsoft partners pump cloud-first, agility

March 20, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The power of integrated solutions, cloud and mobile apps were on show at the eighth annual New Zealand Partner Awards for 2015…

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Intergen office

Intergen scoop top honours in ERP & CRM at Microsoft Partner Awards

March 20, 2015 | Vendor - media release

MEDIA RELEASE: With two more trophies in their cabinet, Intergen prove their dominance in business applications…

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Asset-focused ERP prepares for IoT and cloud

March 17, 2015 | Beverley Head

Asset-rich industries are in line to be transformed by IoT deployments and tighter IT/operations integration say experts…

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Subscription appetite fuels Zuora funding

March 16, 2015 | Beverley Head

A global shift toward subscription style business models has helped deliver a US$115 million funding kicker to Zuora…

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Whitepaper: An expert guide to selecting and implementing ERP solutions

March 16, 2015 | Hayden McCall

Embarking on a journey to implement a new ERP system is a major challenge in any business. Hayden McCall spoke to three professionals with a combined 60 years of ERP evaluation and delivery experience across multiple projects, and presents an abridged version of the conversation…

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Mulesoft

APIs the saviour of big business

March 13, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Traditional operating structures in many industries are under strain to embrace the agility that cloud software provides. Enterprises can stay in the race by using APIs to liberate their data – but only if they do it well…

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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q1 2015

March 12, 2015 | Newsdesk

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…

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Five steps to identify the right software development pathway

March 11, 2015 | Lizann Gohring

Chief Operating Officer, North America at DXC Technology, Lizann Gohring, takes you through the five key steps to determine the level of development for your business…

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Apple matters: Apple Watch is ‘out’, but so is a new MacBook

March 10, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster considers the just-announced Apple Watch but, more intriguingly, there’s a very new MacBook, plus ResearchKit available…

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Cloud plays bit role when it comes to ERP

March 10, 2015 | Beverley Head

On premise ERP systems are still core to the majority of A/NZ enterprises – with cloud software still perceived as a bit player according to UXC Red Rock…

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Microsoft awards

Microsoft awards posturing in full swing

March 9, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Microsoft partners are touting their prowess and comparing achievements in the run up to the awards night on 19th March…

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Who owns IT?: The CxO procurement conversation

March 9, 2015 | iStart

IT investment used to be the sole preserve of the CIO, but recent research shows this is changing and CxOs and line managers are taking on a greater decision-making role…

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Sable37 aims high as it enters NZ market

March 6, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The Australian integrator known as Sable Systems is rebranding to Sable37 and already has some big clients and prospects lined up on our shores…

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microsoft

Finalists for Microsoft NZ 2015 Partner Awards announced

March 4, 2015 | Microsoft

MEDIA RELEASE: Wave of new businesses entering competition with leading cloud and mobility solutions…

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Apple Matters: Return to Apple Maps

March 3, 2015 | Mark Webster

Much was made of Apple’s Maps app when it first appeared a couple of years ago, thanks to errors. Mark Webster looks at it now…

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Enterprise needs to leadfoot IoT security

February 26, 2015 | Beverley Head

Gartner estimates that right now there are barely any enterprises which have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks via the internet of things, but things are changing rapidly…

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2 degrees revolving door

2degrees boardroom shakeup: private equity directors bail

February 26, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

The abrupt cessation of three directors from the 2degrees board has raised questions about what confidence the company’s private equity shareholders have in the company’s future…

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ForgeRock uses RealMe as springboard into the region

February 24, 2015 | Beverley Head

Identity and access management company ForgeRock is eyeing Australian opportunities on the back of its work on the NZ RealMe initiative…

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Copper cables

Spark challenges ComCom copper pricing model

February 24, 2015 | Clare Coulson

New Zealand’s largest retail telco says an 80 percent premium above median international wholesale pricing is “unnecessary”…

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Eroad dangles $10k carrot for new recruits

February 20, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The rapidly-growing electronic road user charges and transport services company Eroad (NZX:ERD), is offering a NZ$10,000 signing bonus to new software engineers who join the firm…

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Identity of things

Industry steps up to identity challenge

February 19, 2015 | Beverley Head

In a connected world of people, things and enterprise, effective and efficient identity management and authentication is essential but complex…

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A/NZ uni spinoff targets big data demand

February 18, 2015 | Beverley Head

RoZetta Technology, officially launched this week, is an attempt by 40 Australian and New Zealand universities to commercialise their big data expertise…

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Apple Matters: Feeling secure

February 18, 2015 | Mark Webster

Everyone wants to feel secure and even the idea that someone might be snooping on electronic devices is unsettling. Mark Webster looks at security for Apple…

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Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?

February 17, 2015 | Beverley Head

Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?…

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GSS new Akl office

Global ERP firm makes home in Auckland

February 17, 2015 | Newsdesk

Rapid local growth proves New Zealand is fertile ground for ERP sales…

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Infor announces crusade for recognition

February 13, 2015 | Hayden McCall

ERP vendor Infor is pushing for more adoption of its cloud suite, announcing a major sponsorship of the Crusaders rugby team to boost brand recognition…

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MYOB and Xero take battle on the road

February 12, 2015 | Beverley Head

Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows…

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How APIs are building the new enterprise

February 10, 2015 | Beverley Head

Sydney is this week hosting up to 300 of Australia and New Zealand’s leading API developers at a conference intended to showcase the role of APIs in creating “composable enterprises”…

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Smart TV_spying

Samsung’s TV a sign of problems to come

February 10, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The company’s ‘listening TV’ has highlighted the coming privacy mine-field that smart technology and the internet of things will introduce for business…

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Internet Fiber

Spark/Vocus JV ups fibre ante

February 5, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Spark and Vocus have entered in to a joint venture in a move that has surprised some in the industry…

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Disrupt, or be disrupted

February 5, 2015 | Clare Coulson

New technology and globalisation are testing many industries. We explore what digital disruption means, and find an early responder who offers advice on keeping your digitised customers close…

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Media press release

Victoria connecting with Wellington’s tech industry

February 3, 2015 | Vendor - media release

Victoria University of Wellington is running a workshop aimed at getting Wellington’s tech community up to speed with the latest in network technology…

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Crowdfunding

“Serious” equity crowdfunding site launches in NZ

February 3, 2015 | Clare Coulson

Equitise is the fourth equity crowdfunding platform to be launched in New Zealand since April last year – a boon for the start-up sector, but not without its risks…

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Brocade combats SDN procurement hesitation with year’s free trial

February 2, 2015 | Beverley Head

In a bid to ramp up interest in software defined networking (SDN) amongst non-technical procurement executives, Brocade has announced a free one-year licence of its SDN controller…

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Apple Matters: Silver Apple dollars

January 30, 2015 | Mark Webster

Apple expert Mark Webster takes a look at where all of Apple’s money is coming from…

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MYOB reaches further into enterprise cloud

January 29, 2015 | Beverley Head

The financial software business, headquartered in Sydney, has unveiled MYOB Advanced, a cloud-based ERP for the enterprise market across New Zealand and Australia…

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Seven UI/UX principles to help create a fresh experience

January 28, 2015 | Jeff Dance

Subject matter expert Jeff Dance gives his top tips on designing a website that will get your users doing what you want…

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Follow the fast fibre road

January 28, 2015 | Paul Budde

The internet of things may feel like it only uses wireless technology but in reality it relies on big pipes and banks of servers. Paul Budde explores what we need to do in order to arrive at the smart cities of the future…

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Why IT must start with the digital human

January 28, 2015 | Peter Sondergaard

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president and global head of research at Gartner, told more than 8500 CIOs and IT leaders that they must now design, resource and deploy for a world that’s digital-first…

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Windows 10: A new generation of Windows

January 22, 2015 | Vendor - media release

REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 21, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new generation of Windows, with a wide range of experiences designed to usher in…

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Media press release

NZ Hi-Tech Awards – six weeks until entries close

January 22, 2015 | Vendor - media release

NZ Hi-Tech Trust chair Wayne Norrie invites the technology industry to enter the 2015 NZ Hi-Tech Awards…

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Democratisation, subscription and processification key trends for 2015

January 21, 2015 | Bradley Stroop

Systems integrator UXC Eclipse’s CEO Bradley Stroop offers his take on what will drive the adoption of technology this year…

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The new HR: accountable, measurable, analytical

January 21, 2015 | Aaron Green

The soft fluffy HR department is making way for an empirical results-based strategy to manage human capital says Aaron Green…

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Diverse IT – a new look at skills needed for the tech sector

January 21, 2015 | Jodi Mitchell

Jodi Mitchell, CEO of SimplHealth, says softer skills are changing a once tech-heavy profession…

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2022: the future world of work

January 21, 2015 | Debbie Francis

PwC partner and HR transformation specialist Debbie Francis looks at the possible outcomes that may evolve in the workplace of the future…

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Wynyard software hunts felons State-side

January 20, 2015 | Clare Coulson

The Kiwi company’s crime analytics software is helping to fight crime globally, most recently the notorious Felony Lane Gang…

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IT employment market: Is it all about the money?

January 20, 2015 | Hayden McCall

As technology has become more embedded in business, the roles within the IT sector have rapidly multiplied and specialised. Hayden McCall took a look at the dynamics at play in the IT market…

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Software world-first carves the costs of BYOD

January 14, 2015 | Beverley Head

Good Technology has released software that allows personal and corporate consumption of data on a BYOD device, making employee reimbursement somewhat easier…

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Enterprise software spending growth leads the pack

January 13, 2015 | Beverley Head

Enterprise software is a standout in Gartner’s 2015 IT spending forecast – though market competition and consolidation may threaten some vendors’ coffers…

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Apple Matters: Apple, 1984 and excellent clothing

January 12, 2015 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster links Apple through its 1984 Macintosh ad to some very 2015 Orwellian clothing…

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BPM and the process of processification

January 1, 2015 | Donovan Jackson

For decades in business software, processes have played second fiddle to the demands of the company accountant. Now a process-centric revolution is taking place. Donovan Jackson explains…

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UX: Creating beautiful software

December 31, 2014 | Anthony Doesburg

Enterprise software has finally got the message that user-friendly also means productivity-friendly, and a bit sexy. We asked Anthony Doesburg to look at how to create simple-to-use software and websites…

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HR: How to transform paper shufflers into talent managers

December 31, 2014 | Donovan Jackson

Donovan Jackson explores developments in human resources (HR) management and discovers how technology is shaping this field…

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‘Hidden’ HR problem causing efficiency downturn and staff losses

December 19, 2014 | Peter Dickinson

There needs to be some fresh thinking on understanding what frustrates staff says Greentree CEO Peter Dickinson…

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Apple Matters: Holiday time: Travellin’ tech

December 17, 2014 | Mark Webster

When you have to travel, the tech you pack is as important as anything else you take…

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Why the HR department is redundant at the hands of the millennials

December 10, 2014 | Mark Wade

The social era is making the workplace a jungle for digital natives to exercise their right to input, feedback and collaboration. Mark Wade contemplates the future of the HR department…

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Job and project costing – what is it?

December 9, 2014 | MYOB

The resident experts at MYOB provide some insights into job costing best practices and software designed to support it…

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Local 365/Dynamics turn-around signals change in Microsoft style

December 9, 2014 | Beverley Head

Australian hosting of Office 365 and Dynamics CRM, coupled with per-user pricing is being tipped to boost A/NZ demand for Microsoft’s cloud and shows the company is listening to its customers…

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Apple watch

Apple Matters: Watches in this space

December 8, 2014 | Mark Webster

While the Apple Watch is not available for purchase over here yet, Mark Webster discusses the impact it might have and reviews three alternatives…

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Apple watch

Apple Matters: Watches in this space

December 8, 2014 | Mark Webster

While the Apple Watch is not available for purchase over here yet, Mark Webster discusses the impact it might have and reviews three alternatives…

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Broadband

Telcos blindsided by ComCom draft prices

December 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

The telco industry is up in arms and signaling higher end-user prices following the release of the Commerce Commission’s higher than anticipated price proposal for copper and broadband…

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AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q4 2014

December 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…

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Apple Matters: If Apple were a country…

December 2, 2014 | Mark Webster

Mark Webster asks what Apple could afford to buy right now and whether its record-breaking market capitalisation will last…

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Graeme Muller

Research specialist appointed as CEO for NZTech

December 1, 2014 | Newsdesk

Well-known technology industry face Graeme Mueller has been appointed to the industry group to take its evolution to the next stage…

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TUANZ announces new CEO

November 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

Following the March resignation of its current high-profile CEO Paul Brislen for an executive director post at Jane Sweeney’s new PR agency, TUANZ has announced Craig Young as its new CEO…

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Kiwi tech revelling in awards season

November 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

The winners of the eighth CIO Awards were announced last week at a gala dinner at Sky City – just one of many ICT-stacked awards ceremonies scheduled this year…

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Mobile tools

Whitepaper: Enabling enterprise mobility through people-centric IT

November 28, 2014 | Intergen

Multi-device workplaces are creating new challenges for IT, but by implementing a people-centric management approach businesses can satisfy both the needs of their users and their governance and security requirements…

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Rise of CMO tech spending could lead to ‘shadow IT’ threat

November 27, 2014 | Keean Persaud

With CMOs controlling more IT spending for organisations, Keean Persaud says so-called ‘shadow IT’ is becoming a problem…

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Newest Flying Kiwi inductee gives advice on making it in the tech industry

November 27, 2014 | Newsdesk

This week the NZ Hi-Tech Trust inducted surgical robotics technologist Dr Catherine Mohr into its Hall of Fame, making her the first woman to receive such recognition…

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Gartner: local CIOs continue to lose IT budget

November 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

The chief information officer’s hold on technology spending reins has loosened once again; while overall technology spending is up, A/NZ CIOs expect their own budgets to fall…

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Greentree plans US push with fourth generation ERP

November 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

The introduction of the first elements of Greentree4 which allows browser-based access to the ERP platform has delivered the impetus for the New Zealand company to tackle the US market…

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Interest surges in data lakes as enterprises seek customer insights

November 13, 2014 | Beverley Head

There has been a surge in interest in data lakes over the last three months according to technology analyst Gartner, as enterprises scramble to make sense of their data…

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New asset management solution seals gap in SMB market

November 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

Cloud Awakening has opened shop, selling a cloud-based asset management solution targeted at mid-sized businesses in Australia and New Zealand, plugging what it considers a major market hole…

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Business growth

Kiwi SMEs put Aussie counterparts to shame

November 7, 2014 | Newsdesk

New Zealand’s SMEs are showing their highest growth in more than half a decade thanks to hard work and technology says new report…

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Infor steps up search for “beautiful” software

November 5, 2014 | Newsdesk

Global enterprise software company Infor has embarked on a mission to develop and deliver “beautiful” software and hired New York-based designers to help…

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Success not guaranteed: preparing an ERP business case

October 31, 2014 | Hayden McCall

A rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution…

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Bright Sparks drone

Teen’s sophisticated drone invention wins Bright Sparks award

October 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

Tauranga’s 17-year old Callum Riddington has won the Baldwins supreme award at Bright Sparks 2014 for his invention, Kiwi Drones…

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Microsoft switches on local cloud, software store

October 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

Microsoft has switched on its Australian cloud, operated out of data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, announced Equinex and Telstra as express network partners, along with a cloud marketplace…

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Newly privatised BMC beefs up R&D spend

October 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

Getting out of the public eye has allowed BMC to redirect shareholder funds into R&D and help it live up to its new motto “bring IT to life” – something that could refer to either the company or its customers’ IT projects…

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Mobile cast as the great retail leveler

October 23, 2014 | Newsdesk

Mobility has been identified as retailers’ biggest ally – able to restore some of the balance to the retailer-customer relationship which has been skewed by the internet…

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TIN

Tenth TIN100 report celebrates $8 billion NZ tech industry

October 23, 2014 | Newsdesk

The tenth annual TIN100 and TIN100+ report was released last night showing that software growth outstripped IT services growth for the first time…

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Intergen acquired by ASX-listed Empired, creates largest Australasian Microsoft services provider

October 21, 2014 | Newsdesk

ASX-listed IT services company Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has acquired one of New Zealand’s leading IT services firms, Intergen Limited, for $A17.4 million via a Share Purchase Agreement to be paid over three years…

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MyRepublic

NZ’s first fibre-only ISP MyRepublic promises to challenge incumbents

October 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

The new ISP says it is designed specifically for the UFB world and will challenge outdated incumbent attitudes on the importance of customer experience, products and pricing…

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SAP and IBM hook up on HANA

October 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

Software giant SAP has forged an international deal with IBM which will host its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Services in its data centres around the world – including those in Sydney and Melbourne…

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ITx Excellence Awards

Heroes of tech recognised at ITx conference

October 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

The industry conference in Auckland last week culminated in the ITx Awards celebrating the best IT professionals from 2014…

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IRD chooses Accenture

IRD chooses Accenture for first stage of $1.5 billion transformation project

October 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

Five months after releasing a closed RFP to multi-nationals Accenture and Capgemini, Inland Revenue has selected Accenture as its preferred provider of design services for the first stage of its business transformation programme…

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ITx awards

ICT professionalism a focus for ITx 2014 conference

October 9, 2014 | Newsdesk

The three-day ITx Conference by the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) kicked off with an emphasis on ethics, soft skills and growing the right professional people for a thriving NZ tech industry…

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Xero signs ex-pat Kiwi Andy Lark for US push

October 9, 2014 | Beverley Head

Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors…

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Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda

October 8, 2014 | Beverley Head

The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it…

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Healthinc’s revenues looking rosy with NetSuite

October 4, 2014 | Oracle NetSuite

This developer of software for the radiology industry was able to boost services revenue by 20 percent thanks to NetSuite’s client relationship management solution…

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Ricoh office

New Ricoh HQ all about vision

October 3, 2014 | iStart

Ricoh New Zealand has been undergoing significant. iStart caught up with Ricoh New Zealand’s senior management and discovered the principles its new head office in Auckland is built around are the foundations of a bigger concept…

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Canterbury summit

Canterbury Software Summit takes inclusive approach to promote tech

October 2, 2014 | Newsdesk

The Canterbury Software Summit is in full throttle and has deliberately chosen a low cost-to-entry and a political stance to appeal to the widest audience possible and promote the sector further…

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Australian biometrics pin down US offenders

October 1, 2014 | Beverley Head

Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications…

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Internet domains

Launch of.nz domain brings NZ in line with global trends

September 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

As of 1pm today, New Zealanders have the choice of a second local, simplified domain name for their websites and email addresses…

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Apple Matters: iOS 8…approach with caution, but Apple’s on track

September 26, 2014 | Mark Webster

The iPhone 6 might be dominating the mainstream media but, for the masses of iPhone users, the new iOS 8 update is causing its own stir. We asked Apple blogger Mark Webster if Apple is on the right track post-Steve Jobs…

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Careful, they might hear you

September 24, 2014 | Newsdesk

There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer…

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Is Alibaba IPO a threat to Amazon, eBay?

September 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

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

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Beehive

SAP and partners gear up for Wellington spend

September 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

While ICT election promises are less than bold, one thing is clear – the Government will have a significant impact on the sector as IRD, MSD and ACC all get major ICT projects under way, and SAP is one vendor gearing up…

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The six steps of Agile testing

September 19, 2014 | Beverley Head

Agile development shops need to take a fresh approach to software testing and measure the success of software development according to a team’s ability to deliver what is expected by the business…

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Family homes become the latest IoT battleground

September 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

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…

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mobile app

Kiwi smarts lead to world-first video calling app for CRMs

September 17, 2014 | Newsdesk

A New Zealand company has launched the world’s first recordable video calling from within your CRM system…

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Why content is both the solution & problem in self-service design

September 16, 2014 | Gerry McGovern

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…

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What will ‘connected living’ look like?

September 16, 2014 | Frost & Sullivan

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’…

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tangled

Gartner untangles Analytics: BI, BA & big data

September 16, 2014 | Ian Bertram

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…

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Old fashioned views of ICT endanger business

September 15, 2014 | Amanda White

Emerging ICT Leader of the Year Amanda White says there is frustration amongst a large number of ICT managers who are being excluded from the C-suite…

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Equip your salespeople for on-the-road success

September 15, 2014 | Vendor

Evidence shows that the ‘hard sell’ does not generate loyalty, but a good experience does. The experts at MYOB discuss what salespeople need to achieve this…

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How technology trends are helping Life Sciences

September 15, 2014 | Newsdesk

The experts at UXC Eclipse say there are a number of technologies that are driving the Life Sciences market forward…

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The politics of e-health

September 11, 2014 | James Riley

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]

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hr

Online tool takes guess work out of hiring accountants

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

An online tool that tests accountancy technical competency was launched last week at the HR Game Changer Conference, giving those hiring accountants a reliable way to measure technical ability for the first time…

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Apple seeks slice of payments market

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

The launch of Apple Pay, which will turn the new iPhone6 and Apple Watch into tap-and-go digital wallets, can’t take place in A/NZ before 2015 because part of the security framework is missing…

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BNZ index

Infographic: Online retail sales index

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

BNZ has released the results of its latest Online Retail Sales Index and the results show that traditional local retailing is under mounting pressure…

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Surface Pro 3

TechEd NZ: Microsoft enters sexy tech race

September 11, 2014 | Clare Coulson

In a battle for the ‘sexiest’ tech company you’d be forgiven for not even considering that Microsoft could be in the running, but after the last couple of days, things could be about to change…

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Frost & Sullivan Awards

Megatrends and what you need to know about them

September 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

Global research firm Frost & Sullivan recently announced the winners of its inaugural New Zealand Excellence Awards, preceded by its Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) Congress 2014…

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Only one A/NZ business makes grade on supply chains

September 8, 2014 | Newsdesk

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…

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Salesforce community plug-in described as LinkedIn for corporates

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

Salesforce has released software templates that allow organisations to build communities of customers, resellers or employers so they can interact and collaborate in the cloud including from mobiles and wearables…

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Students coding

Code Club opens young eyes to IT careers

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

An after-school computer code writing programme for intermediate and secondary school Kiwis will officially kick off at ITx, New Zealand’s conference of IT, in early October. IITP’s Techblog editor Simon Eskrow reports…

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Political debate

Opposition R&D tax credit policy described as ‘scattergun’

September 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

Electioneering focused on the tech sector this week with a political debate in front of the country’s top high-tech companies where politicians aired their science, technology and innovation policies…

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F rating for students

NZ’s science and tech policies better than Australia’s

September 3, 2014 | Beverley Head

New Zealand’s science, technology and innovation policies have been under scrutiny in the lead up to this month’s election, iStart’s Australian correspondent, Beverley Head, reports from across the ditch…

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Telecos M2M

Ovum says telcos must do more to win M2M land-grab

September 2, 2014 | Newsdesk

Ovum forecasts that the M2M market will reach $US66 billion by 2019 and urges operators to invest in their own capabilities if they want to gain share in the much-hyped but equally important IoT market…

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Email

Is your email signature legal?

September 2, 2014 | Vendor

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

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Online ad market growth moves up a gear

August 31, 2014 | Newsdesk

The local online advertising market saw healthy growth in the latest quarter but the star performer differs from international trends.

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How will we power the data economy?

August 29, 2014 | Paul Budde

Subject matter expert Paul Budde explains why building the right ICT infrastructure is of national importance to the region’s future success…

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Hypecycle identifies technologies ahead of their time

August 28, 2014 | Beverley Head

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…

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New hat for hosting and managed service providers

August 28, 2014 | Craig Deveson

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…

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IoT how to

How to plug into the internet of things

August 28, 2014 | Anthony Doesburg

Need to track your vehicles? Or monitor water? The internet of things delivers an extraordinary opportunity to connect and network all manner of things, but how?…

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Scanning the biometrics market

August 28, 2014 | Clare Coulson

Security analytics, biometrics and behaviourmetrics seem kind of Doctor Spocky, but are rapidly migrating from sci-fi movies into the real world. Clare Coulson looks at the complex world of security and crime prevention…[View as PDF]

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Airborne Honey

NZ’s oldest honey brand pots tech world-first

August 28, 2014 | Newsdesk

Amongst the current focus on manuka honey authenticity and traceability, one 100-year-old Kiwi honey-maker has turned to technology to prove its quality and provenance…

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Moven

Westpac inks deal with Moven, turns money management on head

August 26, 2014 | Newsdesk

The New York mobile money management start-up is taking a different approach to the way people interact with money and is going global starting with an exclusive deal in New Zealand…

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How to sink online pirates

August 22, 2014 | John Stanton

The Australian print and electronic media has harboured a flurry of stories recently about the vexed issue of online copyright infringement and how to fix it. Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton outlines his thoughts on what needs doing…

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online shopping

Online EFTPOS payments in the offering, says Paymark

August 21, 2014 | Newsdesk

Electronic payments processor Paymark has announced that it will be launching online EFTPOS early next year…

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The internet of things: the precipice of a revolution

August 19, 2014 | Anthony Doesburg

Driverless cars, wearable computers, location-based intelligence; they all rely on what has become known as the ‘internet of things’. And it certainly has people talking as Anthony Doesburg discovers…

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On the subject of IPOs…

August 19, 2014 | Ben Kepes

Technology investor, industry champion and some-time cynic Ben Kepes contemplates crazy tech IPOs and asks what companies down under should really do to succeed on the stock market…

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Will enterprise take the IoT bait or miss the boat?

August 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

City-wide wi-fi networks could be harnessed by enterprising organisations that want to deploy internet connected sensors or devices – but is business ready to seize the nettle?…

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Job matching software deal will highlight real-time skills shortages

August 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

Analysis which will identify in near real-time the underlying technology skills being sought by enterprises across A/NZ could also be used to shape the nations’ immigration and education policies…

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sush mobile

Finzsoft eyes m-banking sector with Sush Mobile purchase

August 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

The financial technology company is setting up to profit from the next wave of digital disruption in banking with the acquisition of Sush Mobile…

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AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q3 2014

August 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships…

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MYOB/PayGlobal

MYOB/PayGlobal acquisition rumours prove correct

August 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

Following months of speculation and leaks, MYOB has today announced that it has acquired HR and Payroll solutions company PayGlobal…

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Enterprise demand for video rises across region

August 13, 2014 | Newsdesk

Demand for the technology smarts to stream and monetise video content is increasing as the cost of production and delivery falls, and consumer appetite balloons…

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IoT vulnerabilities tipped as ‘weakest link’ of the future

August 7, 2014 | Newsdesk

While ubiquitous internet connectivity is benefitting businesses, it’s also providing a rich seam for cybercriminals who continue to seek out enterprises’ weakest links…

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A/NZ sees share of digital universe dwindle

August 6, 2014 | Newsdesk

Australia and New Zealand’s share of the digital universe is shrinking – from 2.6 percent in 2010 to 2.2 percent today – by 2020 it will be even lower even though enterprise data stores will balloon…

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Clean data is healthy data

August 1, 2014 | MYOB

Cleaning doesn’t stop at home or around the office, it extends to the information inside your business too as Michael McCash and Trudi Masalski discuss…

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CONNECT 2014

Amazon, Fonterra, US Dept of Agriculture, China to share exporting insights at NZ conference

August 1, 2014 | Newsdesk

The Connect 2014 conference at the end of this month will host global and local experts on exporting, product traceability and digital technologies to address the critical issues involved in supplying products to China and other major markets…

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Board members ignorant, wilfully stupid? IT security blindspot risks critical infrastructure

July 31, 2014 | Newsdesk

An IT security blindspot has left the world’s critical infrastructure at risk from targeted attacks by nation-states and criminal organisations, and rendered other industry sectors vulnerable as a result…

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IRD project

IRD Business Transformation project seeks nominations for ICT reference group

July 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

The group is designed to offer a forum where outside perspectives can be shared and views exchanged in a free and frank manner between the ICT sector and the Inland Revenue…

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Frost & Sullivan defines the ‘connected living’ market

July 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

The analyst says 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’…

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Drury fires up political debate

July 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

Last night Minister for Communications and Information Technology Amy Adams and her opposition counterparts attended a political panel on ICT…

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Cloud integration platform replaces legacy systems by stealth

July 24, 2014 | Newsdesk

Integration platforms which allow applications, data and cloud services to be woven together into a seamless computing fabric are also being credited with allowing legacy systems to be replaced by stealth…

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NZ crime buster Wynyard boosts Sydney operations

July 22, 2014 | Newsdesk

New Zealand-based Wynyard Group has opened an Asia Pacific Operation Centre in Sydney, more than doubling its Australian headcount and boosting its data analytics capabilities…

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Dear John letters

Dear John letters won’t cut it for modern marketers

July 22, 2014 | Newsdesk

Clear evidence has been uncovered of the benefits of personalising marketing campaigns for individual clients and customers – but most A/NZ marketing executives stall after adding a name to an email…

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Microsoft roadmap

Dynamics core to Microsoft NZ growth plans

July 21, 2014 | Clare Coulson

At Microsoft’s Partner Awards held earlier this year the company confirmed that it sees Dynamics as a core growth pillar for the New Zealand business over the next three years…

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AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q2 2014

July 21, 2014 | Newsdesk

A wrap-up of the past quarter’s ICT news…

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Office equipment

Telco complaints laid bare

July 21, 2014 | John Stanton

John Stanton, CEO of the Communications Alliance, reveals why telco customer service levels will soon be in the spotlight again…

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Microsoft restructures, “eliminates” Nokia

July 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

Microsoft has today announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as it aligns the recently-acquired Nokia and repositions the business to be a productivity and platform company…

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Data

Who is handling your data?

July 17, 2014 | Brenda Aynsley

With data privacy a hot topic at present, Brenda Aynsely of the Australian Computer Society asks how to keep data safe…

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Telecom NZ

Telecom jockeys for position

July 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

Telecom is making clear moves to diversify its offerings and survive in a digital age, making a large number of announcements in the last month, including naked ultra fibre services and, this week, new 4G services over its new 700MHz spectrum…

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NBN Co starts fibre-to-the node rollout

July 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

More than 650,000 Australian premises are now theoretically able to connect to the National Broadband Network, and 210,000 have done so according to a mid-year update from NBN Co…

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business navigator

Domecq launches new cloud-based business navigator

July 10, 2014 | Newsdesk

Technology entrepreneur and ex-Localist CEO Christina Domecq last night launched her latest project that has the potential to turn the small to medium business world on its head…

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Satisfaction calling: does outsourcing contact centres work?

July 10, 2014 | Stephen Withers

Often maligned from within and outside, the contact centre is the coal face of customer service interaction. But so often the processes and people are dumbed down so they can be sent offshore and run more cheaply. Stephen Withers treads the political minefield…[View as PDF]

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Respect Network turns personal data into currency but maintains privacy

July 10, 2014 | Newsdesk

Australia is one of the first four countries to host personal clouds for people wishing to use the still fledgling Respect Network as a gateway to connect them with online products, companies and services…

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Gartner sheds light on local IT spending patterns

July 9, 2014 | Newsdesk

The recent IT spending forecast for Australia and New Zealand shows, among other things, a growing desire for customer experience-related enterprise software…

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Gartner revises IT spending forecast down for 2014

July 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

Worldwide IT spending is still increasing, but not as much as Garter initially predicted due to changes in the market…

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Aussie’s Vocus could shake up NZ data solutions market with FX acquisition

July 2, 2014 | Newsdesk

The purchase means Vocus is now an integrated provider of fibre, data centre and internet in New Zealand and aims to replicate its successful Australian formula across the Tasman…

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Businessman

Liberating productivity: how to mobilise the desktop

July 1, 2014 | Clare Coulson

As mobile devices become more sophisticated, more of us are joining the ranks of Generation AO (“Always On”) and the enterprise needs to keep up. Clare Coulson spoke to three experts about the different options for taking the enterprise mobile…

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Is cloud computing disenfranchising the CIO?

July 1, 2014 | Clare Coulson

Cloud computing is continuing its meteoric rise and as a partial result IT control and decision-making is moving to the line of business managers. In the middle of it: the CIO. Clare Coulson considers what these changes mean for the modern CIO…

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Has the spark gone out of the telco business?

June 26, 2014 | Bill Bennett

Telcos are facing a swathe of new challenges from technological change, global over-the-top content providers and a new era of regulation and market intervention. Bill Bennett asks where is the telco business going?…

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Small NZ surf brand Coastlines rides cloud with SAP

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

A year after launching its cloud-based Business ByDesign suite in the New Zealand market, SAP has announced its first local adopter, and it’s much smaller than its traditional clientele…

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Tool shows A/NZ software developers are world class

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

A benchmarking tool that lets software teams compare themselves with the world’s best suggests that Australian and New Zealand development teams outperform their peers in terms of quality…

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Gen-i enters Aussie agreement with Telstra

June 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

The ICT services company is renewing its focus on New Zealand businesses and the Telstra partnership will remove the burden of its Australian clients while offering expanded services…

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sheriff

Protect and serve – how safe is your personal data?

June 23, 2014 | Clare Coulson

The revelations of the Heartbleed vulnerability in April and the recent implementation of Australia’s new privacy regime in March have put data breaches firmly back in the limelight. Clare Coulson finds out more…

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How to hatch your business idea

June 23, 2014 | Fiona Hanlon

The statistics are compelling; basically half of all new start-up businesses fail within two to five years. Since the rise of businesses incubators and accelerators statistics show that the successful completion of an incubator programme plays a significant role in the success rate of a company. Fiona Hanlon investigates…

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Orcon

Kiwi ISP buys Orcon

June 20, 2014 | Newsdesk

CallPlus hits 220,000 customers and $200 million with purchase of Orcon…

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Finger on the customer pulse

Finger on the pulse – measuring customer sentiment

June 19, 2014 | Anthony Doesburg

Successful businesses today must continually take the pulse of their varied customer base and respond to their wants and needs. And what better way to do this than with the plethora of cloud-based, affordable and accessible tools on the market for just that purpose? But which to choose? And why?…

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Telecom banks on cloud to power future profits

June 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

Telecom is continuing to reinvent itself in its bid to survive in an increasingly digital marketplace, with the announcement this week of the acquisition of a cloud services business…

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Top Kiwi tech start-up acquired by Microsoft

June 17, 2014 | Newsdesk

Microsoft Azure has strengthened its Big Compute offering with the acquisition of its partner and successful New Zealand technology company GreenButton…

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SAP cloud lures 46 percent of user base

June 17, 2014 | Newsdesk

There are already 35 million users of SAP cloud services worldwide – but that is likely to prove just the tip of the iceberg according to a new study of 100 of the world’s biggest enterprises…

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Revenue Minister lays out plans to avoid a Novopay on IRD project

June 16, 2014 | Vendor

Simplification and industry consultation will be key to updating the IRD’s ancient computer system says Minister Todd McClay…

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millbrook golf course

Millbrook Resort golf carts first in NZ to receive interactive GPS system

June 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

The internationally recognised golf course at the luxury resort has added a new dimension to its golfing experience and managers promise there is more to come…

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Salesforce releases developers’ kit for wearables

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk

Software-as-a-service giant Salesforce has released a developers’ kit to support the creation of apps for wearables that can be integrated with Salesforce enterprise applications…

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IDC outlines the tech battlefields of the future

June 12, 2014 | Newsdesk

After 205 years’ continuous operation Australia Post has confirmed its original business model has been savaged by technology, this week re-organising itself and confirming 900 job losses in the process…

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Zeald website

Q&A: How to get your website mobile-ready

June 11, 2014 | Zeald

Your prospective customers are already using mobile devices to search for the things that you sell. Is your door open when they come knocking? Or is your website a member of mobilus horribilus?…

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Modern marketers guide

A modern marketer’s guide to technology

June 11, 2014 | Clare Coulson

The arrival of new technologies has opened opportunities for marketing, but taking advantage of them requires a significant shift in modus operandi. Clare Coulson asked industry thought leaders how businesses should behave and where technology fits…[View as PDF]

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Frankly speaking… honesty’s the best online policy

June 10, 2014 | Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes cuts to the chase about building an online following for business – and he should know since he’s managed to drum up 14,700 followers on Twitter alone…

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Don’t be a twit: tweet

June 10, 2014 | Paul Brislen

Paul Brislen describes the moment Twitter started making sense and why he tries not to deal with companies that don’t tweet…

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IDC forecasts end of IT vendor dinosaurs

June 10, 2014 | Newsdesk

Technology analyst IDC Australia has forecast a “mass extinction event” among technology vendors which fail to transition their business models to cope with what it terms the “third platform”…

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Market snapshot: internet of things on accelerated growth path

June 9, 2014 | Newsdesk

The ‘internet of things’ has moved beyond the buzz and is forecast to exceed $7 trillion by 2020, according to IDC…

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Unmasking the new CIO

June 6, 2014 | Owen McCall

Owen McCall reflects on the characteristics of a successful CIO in today’s technologically saturated enterprises – and questions whether these have changed since the inception of the role…

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Gartner: Microsoft /Salesforce partnership “pragmatic”

June 5, 2014 | Newsdesk

Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems…

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Mike Bowman

Greentree board appointment adds legal expertise, maintains family connection

June 5, 2014 | Newsdesk

Mike Bowman, former executive director of Bancorp New Zealand and son of the late Greentree founder Don Bowman, has been appointed to Greentree’s board of directors…

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Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market…

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Cloud dishes up self-serve enterprise mobility

June 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market…

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Inland Revenue Business Transformation project goes offshore

May 30, 2014 | Clare Coulson

Inland Revenue has taken the next step in its Business Transformation project announcing the release of its Request for Proposal to its two shortlisted multinational vendors for its core systems upgrade…

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Loyal customers

Customer engagement drives customer loyalty

May 29, 2014 | Michael Maoz

While the personal touch is always a winner when it comes to generating customer loyalty, Gartner’s research vice president, Michael Maoz explains why he believes technology must be part of the process…

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CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake

May 28, 2014 | Newsdesk

Chief marketing officers and chief information officers need to come to a compromise about technology risk or lose the attention and interest of their customers…

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Jade Software on track for expansion with three leadership hires

May 28, 2014 | Clare Coulson, Newsdesk

Jade Software has this week announced appointments to three new leadership roles including CFO, director of sales and director of marketing, bringing new blood into the organisation…

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Telework popular – but hard to pin down

May 22, 2014 | Beverley Head

While the majority of Australasian employees now spend some time working outside of the office there are mixed signals about the level of technical support that they want or receive…

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NZ ERP firm launches award to honour founder

May 22, 2014 | Newsdesk

Greentree International wants its new award to reflect the spirit of excellence and innovation of its inimitable founder and has announced its inaugural recipient…

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Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network

May 21, 2014 | Beverley Head

Telstra has announced plans to spend $100 million creating a wi-fi network made up of two million hotspots in the next five years – the devil however may yet prove to be in the detail…

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Microsoft awards

2014 NZ Hi-Tech Award winners announced

May 19, 2014 | Newsdesk

The 20th anniversary of the Hi-Tech Awards competition was a reflection of the strength and vibrancy of New Zealand’s technology industry, said Chairman, Wayne Norrie…

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Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities

May 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth…

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kiwi landing pad

Capital not an issue for Kiwi start-ups

May 16, 2014 | Hayden McCall

iStart’s Hayden McCall spoke with Cat Robinson at the Kiwi Landing Pad in San Francisco this week and found that the Kiwi tech start-up landscape is rapidly growing up…

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Search for supply chain riches drives SAP

May 15, 2014 | Newsdesk

Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated…

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cloud and mobile

How ease-of-use is reshaping the IT industry

May 15, 2014 | Gerry McGovern

The interface is increasingly becoming the product when it comes to IT. Ease-of-use, long a peripheral issue, has now become central says customer-centric technology expert Gerry McGovern…

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Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk

India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre…

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Salesforce leads in CRM stakes

May 8, 2014 | Newsdesk

Cloud-based customer relationship management specialist Salesforce has grown its share of the global CRM market – even though almost 60 percent of new CRM deployments are still on premise…

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Executives warn social media has marketing limitations

May 7, 2014 | Newsdesk

Australian airline Qantas runs 50 marketing campaigns a month – and despite senior executive enthusiasm for it, social media marketing isn’t delivering a standout success…

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IT managers blast cloud SLAs

May 6, 2014 | Newsdesk

Technology executives may buy cloud services, but they have little faith in the service level agreements on offer and almost three in four think cloud companies actively hide problems…

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Top Kiwi tech start-up acquired by Microsoft

May 2, 2014 | Newsdesk

Microsoft Azure has strengthened its Big Compute offering with the acquisition of its partner and successful New Zealand technology company GreenButton…

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Digital wallet

MasterCard launches digital wallet ecosystem in New Zealand

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

While Visa has publicly admitted it is considering changes to its current model for digital wallets, MasterCard is getting closer to its dream of a virtually invisible payments process online and in-store…

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Cebit kicks off new venue, new line-up

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk

One of the highlights of the region’s information technology calendar kicks off in Sydney next week in a new venue and with a whole new line-up…hopefully…

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Tait secures Brisbane Airport contract ahead of G20 summit

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

The communications company will design, deploy and manage a critical new communications system for the airport, allowing it to focus on its core business…

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Vodafone M2M reaches one million connections with new deal

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

Vodafone New Zealand has reached over one million machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, thanks to a five year global agreement with International Telematics Limited (ITL) signed last week…

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Predictive analytics cracks down on crime

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

Listed New Zealand technology company Wynyard is predicting strong Australian demand for its crime analytics platform as it becomes predictive…

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TechnologyOne takes New Zealand into the cloud following IRD data sovereignty exemption

April 22, 2014 | Newsdesk

TechnologyOne has been granted permission by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to store data for its New Zealand customers in Australia on the TechnologyOne Cloud as a third party provider. The IRD’s approval exempts TechnologyOne customers from data sovereignty rules requiring financial records to be stored in New Zealand…

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Personal picks: 10 of the best for productivity

Paul Di Francesco and Clare Coulson worked the mobile social media networks to unveil the most popular productivity enhancing apps for work and play…

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Traction for Office 365, slow grind to Azure

April 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

While Microsoft continues to gain traction for its cloud-based Office 365 – the company grinds on slowly toward opening a local Azure data centre, almost a year after one was first promised…

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Microsoft awards

Microsoft Partner Award winners 2013 announced

April 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

The mega-vendor took time to reflect on the changes it is making as a company and highlight the importance of its partners as it goes cloud and mobile-first – but it hasn’t forgotten about Dynamics…

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Debitsuccess parent acquires UK’s Harlands Group

April 15, 2014 | Newsdesk

The New Zealand-based e-commerce company is continuing its growth spurt with the acquisition of a UK-based direct debit billing provider…

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Heartbleed represents serious threat to online business and internet of things

April 15, 2014 | Newsdesk

Recent evidence suggests that the Heartbleed vulnerability is something business should be genuinely concerned about…

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Getting rid of website bloat

April 11, 2014 | Gerry McGovern

Customer engagement specialist Gerry McGovern explains why the traditional distributed model of website management was a failure and what you should do instead…

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Ways tech has changed my life in the last 12 months

April 11, 2014 | Warwick Grey

Technology industry and Microsoft veteran Warwick Grey has been helping business owners leverage technology for business success for almost 25 years. Here he shares his personal technology journey of the last year…

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Goodbye status quo

April 11, 2014 | Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes reflects on the up-and-coming technology that could see your industry turned on its head…

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Political change lags behind technology revolution

April 11, 2014 | Paul Budde

The much hailed positives of smarter technology and the digital economy could be disguising a wider problem says Paul Budde…

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Samsung wearables launch in NZ; has Apple lost its edge?

April 9, 2014 | Newsdesk

The new smartwatch companion to the Samsung Galaxy S5 could prove the tipping point for Apple devotees and will see wearable technology penetrate the enterprise…

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Pivotal offers try-before-you-buy big data option

April 8, 2014 | Newsdesk

Australian and New Zealand companies are being offered the chance to access Pivotal’s Singapore-based innovation centre to use agile methods and Pivotal technologies to prototype big data applications…

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Cloud sprawl may prompt enterprise bill shock

April 8, 2014 | Newsdesk

Enterprise appetite for local and global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) continues to mount – but without proper checks and balances businesses are facing bill shock and integration challenges…

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Gartner: NZ enterprise software spend up 8.3 percent

April 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

The research firm’s quarterly IT spending forecast shows enterprise software is the fastest growing IT segment in 2014 and New Zealand investment in IT is mature…

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Death knell sounds for Microsoft XP

April 3, 2014 | Newsdesk

Microsoft turns off support for Windows XP and Office 2003 next week meaning no more patches, updates or technical support which may spur both security issues and hardware sprees…

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Eye-opening A/NZ growth for Gen-i cloud contact centre partner

April 1, 2014 | Newsdesk

After an astonishing 66 percent growth in its A/NZ revenues in the last year contact centre technology supplier Interactive Intelligence has partnered with Gen-i to bring its managed cloud contact centres to New Zealand…

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Vend raises $25 million, celebrates at NZ Hi-Tech Awards event

March 27, 2014 | Newsdesk

New Zealand technology talent was on display last night at the Hi-Tech Awards finalist event where Vend featured prominently…

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Seismic shifts for sector as CIOs struggle to keep pace

March 26, 2014 | Newsdesk

Seven out of ten CIOs will switch vendors in the next two to three years as they struggle to keep pace with both changing technology and sectoral shifts…

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Hadoop big data vulnerabilities too often ignored

March 26, 2014 | Newsdesk

As the role of big data grows in the enterprise, organisations are looking to replicate information governance and security practices associated with other mission critical systems…

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Apptio begins ANZ push with CIO toolset

March 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

Software has been developed to support enterprise HR, finance, marketing and manufacturing functions but CIOs have tended to rely on spreadsheets to manage IT; the cobbler’s children are shoeless…

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Anatomy of technology

The anatomy of technology as a change agent

March 24, 2014 | Chris Bell

The joint forces of data analytics, mobile solutions, social applications and cloud computing are disrupting whole industries and forcing change. Businesses that do not adapt are in danger of becoming extinct. Chris Bell asks the experts if change today actually begins with technology, and whether it should…

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Stock market analysis: are we heading for Tech Wreck 2.0?

March 24, 2014 | Beverley Head

Technology stocks are flavour of the month as start-ups and angel investors flirt outrageously in the hope of joining the headlines, but some have been left scratching their heads and asking if we are heading for another tech wreck. Beverley Head investigates…

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Jade Software has money in bank, aims to dominate logistics market

March 21, 2014 | Clare Coulson

Despite a reputation for focusing on ‘made in Jade’ and selling off its best innovations, Jade Software has solid plans for success in the modern marketplace…

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International recruiter seeks Kiwi tech superstars

March 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

Australian recruitment company Talent International is planning to roll out the red carpet for APAC’s technology superstars and has enlisted Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak to help…

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MYOB API alive and well, celebrates first birthday

March 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

The MYOB API team is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its AccountRight Live API with more enhancements to the developer programme and an increased public profile for its third party apps…

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.kiwi applications open for all Kiwis, first domains go live

March 18, 2014 | Newsdesk

Kiwis across the globe can now apply for .kiwi domain names and highlight their link with their home country…

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Technology and customers most important in shaping modern business

March 13, 2014 | Newsdesk

In 2004 the importance of technology in shaping business was not even a top-five consideration for CEOs. Now they rate it as the number one external force…

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Race to fill BI gap

Gartner: race is on to fill gap in BI market

March 13, 2014 | Newsdesk

Data discovery capabilities are dominating new BI and analytics purchasing requirements, but ‘governed data discovery’ remains a challenge unmet by any one vendor…

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CIOs must focus on the customer, says Forrester

March 12, 2014 | Newsdesk

New research shows CIOs are too focused on back-end systems rather than the customer and need to manage the balance better…

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New Westpac CIO role given executive powers

March 12, 2014 | Newsdesk

Westpac New Zealand has disestablished the COO role in favour of elevating the CIO role to the executive team…

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Two big Kiwi names choose SAP

March 7, 2014 | Newsdesk

SAP last week made two significant customer announcements on the same day – both reflecting broader trends in customer requirements…

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Green screen systems accused of hampering employee productivity

March 6, 2014 | Newsdesk

Despite green screen systems still being used in many organisations, CIOs say the systems are having a negative impact on end-user productivity, retention and recruitment…

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CIOs should act like venture capitalists

March 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

Deloitte has identified five possible disruptors likely to have an impact on organisations over the next 18 to 24 months. Topping the list is the CIO as venture capitalist…

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New Zealand a developer honeypot for LiveOps

February 27, 2014 | Newsdesk

The tyranny of distance is no more for US vendor LiveOps, which is actively growing its development team in New Zealand to spearhead further global customer growth…

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Australian mining

Swedish ERP mines rich seams in ANZ

February 26, 2014 | Newsdesk

Mining and construction businesses in Western Australia have driven sales at specialist ERP vendor IFS over the last 12 months, but the company is now seeing a spike in New Zealand activity as the economy picks up…

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Tait Communications teams with Mobile Mentor, announces new strategy

February 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

The potential of mobile solutions to improve the field of critical communications has led Tait Communications to form a new strategic partnership to help it grow its software and services expertise…

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Ovum: Cloud services now a strategic imperative

February 25, 2014 | Newsdesk

With cloud computing being embraced by enterprise, research firm Ovum predicts that the need for cloud services will accelerate rapidly as organisations seek advice on the best cloud ecosystem for their needs…

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People think ‘products’ when trying to solve problems online

February 25, 2014 | Gerry McGovern

Many customers think first about the product they have; even when they are looking for support for that product. Organisations can use this to their advantage when designing user-friendly websites, says Gerry McGovern…

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Powerful analytics at heart of welfare reforms

February 20, 2014 | Newsdesk

The Government’s calculation of the baseline valuation of the New Zealand welfare system was a world first and now it is taking analytics even further in to the realms of predictive risk modelling…

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Greentree ERP moves to the cloud

February 20, 2014 | Newsdesk

Thousands of businesses rely on Greentree daily and, following Greentree’s announcement of its Web3D Project, they will soon be able to do so entirely in the cloud – if they desire…

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MYOB future cloudy with a hint of ecosystem

February 13, 2014 | Newsdesk

The accounting software company has announced a number of cloud and mobile product releases and a naming refresh at its 2014 Roadshow but mention of the developer ecosystem was scarce…

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SugarCRM looks for sweet spot in APAC

February 12, 2014 | Newsdesk

The CRM software company has announced its intention to invest in the expansion of its market share in the Asia Pacific region by replicating its successful American model…

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Cloud specialists challenge traditional services players

February 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

The latest IDC MarketScape report for companies which implement Salesforce solutions confirms the rise of a new class of services business which is focused entirely on cloud solutions…

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Contact centres invest in technology to cut churn

February 11, 2014 | Newsdesk

Four out of five Australians and New Zealanders still prefer to pick up the phone when they need to contact an organisation; it’s driving strong growth of contact centre solutions through to 2019…

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CIOs face yet another white anting

February 5, 2014 | Newsdesk

The white-anting of chief information officers continues with the rise of a new c-suite executive – the chief data officer…

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Aussie telco ventures into start-up game

February 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

Telstra, which last year established its start-up accelerator programme muru-D, has revealed the list of ten organisations that will receive six months’ specialist support and a $A40,000 kicker…

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Wearables to worm way into enterprise IT

February 4, 2014 | Newsdesk

While Google Glass and other wearable technologies might still have something of a gimmicky feel about them, they will inevitably percolate the enterprise and CIOs need to be ready…

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Big data pioneers secure competitive beach-head

January 29, 2014 | Newsdesk

Enterprises which exploit multiple data sources and implement systems to instantly identify patterns and act on them are going to secure a hard-to-erode competitive edge…

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Top level domain names: build it and they will come

January 28, 2014 | Newsdesk

Monash University manages more than a million web pages – it will also now manage the .monash generic top level domain which CIO Ian Tebbett believes will simplify things for end users…

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Whitepaper: The rise of mobile access to your ERP data

January 27, 2014 | Epicor Software Corporation

Mobile users are increasingly demanding ease of access to ERP information to perform their jobs on any device at any time…

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Spending flurry woos A/NZ cloud seekers

January 23, 2014 | Newsdesk

As enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing mounts, vendor investment is surging from the likes of IBM, Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and Fujitsu as the global cloud land-grab gathers pace…

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Wynyard Group shoots for stock market success

January 23, 2014 | Newsdesk

Wynyard Group, which provides threat assessment and advanced crime analytics software, has seen its highest share prices ever following a number of high-profile announcements this month…

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Gartner: Many CIOs unprepared for digitalisation

January 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning but, according to a global survey of more than 2300 CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs, most CIOs do not feel prepared for it…

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What content farms teach us about content

January 16, 2014 | Gerry McGovern

Gerry McGovern says that on the web, content is the enabler…

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Getting your business on the map

January 16, 2014 | Paul Di Francesco

In this ‘social, local, mobile’ world we live in, being able to pinpoint where we are, what is in our immediate vicinity and how to get there, is vital…

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UXC acquires North American business of Tectura Corporation

January 16, 2014 | Newsdesk

The company’s North American strategy takes shape with the expansion of its Canadian and USA businesses…

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Freelancers take flight

January 8, 2014 | Anthony Doesburg

The way we work is changing. The market for recruiting creative and project resources has gone global…

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Why broadband black spots are damaging the economy

January 8, 2014 | Rob Stummer

Filling in Australia’s broadband black spots would boost productivity says Rob Stummer…

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? – restructuring and redundancy

January 7, 2014 | Erin Boyle

When changing markets or new technology result in the ‘R words’, the processes and systems need to be in place to avoid staff challenging the outcomes and further extending the pain….

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How to justify your technology choice

January 7, 2014 |

As technology plays an ever-stronger role in modern business models, predicting and measuring productivity gains from technology investment is becoming paramount to getting project sign off…

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Man, machine and the productivity story

January 7, 2014 | Chris Bell

Technology has increased productivity and emancipated humankind from day-to day tasks, enabling automation over drudgery, hasn’t it? The march of the machine continues into the digital age…

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Cloud increases innovation

Five ways the cloud increases innovation and productivity

December 17, 2013 | Craig Deveson

As one of the major step-changing technologies of this decade, expert Craig Deveson discusses how cloud computing has transformed innovation and productivity in the enterprise IT landscape…

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Avoiding the tech apocalypse

December 17, 2013 | Paul Budde

Paul Budde offers his thoughts on how new open ‘people technologies’ could help us to avoid a cataclysm and create a smarter society…

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Is HR just an administrivia?

December 16, 2013 | Morgan Yeates

Gartner’s “Maverick” research is designed to spark new, unconventional insights, in order to deliver disruptive ideas. Here Morgan Yeates offers some provocative thoughts on HR technology…

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Signing on the digital line

December 13, 2013 | Jason Ennor

Despite the fact that technology use has almost become an extension of the human condition, there is one area where we stubbornly stick to the old…

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Printer vendor combats decline in traditional print volumes

December 12, 2013 | Newsdesk

Ricoh is realigning its business to the digital era, planning to grow its IT services and consulting divisions to a projected 50 percent of its overall business by 2015…

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Crystal balls polished as New Year looms

December 11, 2013 | Newsdesk

As 2013 ebbs away and 2014 looms, computer vendors are polishing their crystal balls and issuing year-end predictions about just what enterprise will invest in during the new year…

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BI vendor critical of competition

December 10, 2013 | Newsdesk

Lars Björk, CEO of business intelligence software company QlikView, thinks most business intelligence companies have their thinking upside down…

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Google Compute Engine announcements begins new cloud market era

December 9, 2013 | Newsdesk

Google is pushing further into the cloud with the announcement that its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product, Compute Engine, is now generally available on the Google Cloud Platform…

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NZ Hi-Tech Awards launch 2014 entries online

December 6, 2013 | Newsdesk

The 2014 Awards not only mark the 20th anniversary of the Awards but also the return of the Gala Dinner to Christchurch and a new home-grown online entry system…

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Wellington Developer Academy launches

December 6, 2013 | Newsdesk

Backed by Xero, Telecom, CarnivalLabs, Powershop and Grow Wellington, the new DevBootcamp-style course offers motivated self-starters a foot in the door of local tech companies…

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Online marketing set to surge in 2014

December 3, 2013 | Newsdesk

Investment in online marketing is tipped for a sharp increase in 2014 as organisations prepare to spend more on social media, email and mobile campaigns across Australia and New Zealand…

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Skills shortage still stymies big data

December 3, 2013 | iStart

The dearth of skills has been fingered once again as the primary barrier to more successful deployments of big data analysis in Australia and New Zealand…

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Skills shortage still stymies big data

December 3, 2013 | Newsdesk

The dearth of skills has been fingered once again as the primary barrier to more successful deployments of big data analysis in Australia and New Zealand…

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Auckland fibre

Auckland fibre: too hard, too slow

November 30, 2013 | Paul Brislen

Paul Brislen discusses why other cities have got the technology edge on New Zealand’s largest conurbation…

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Microsoft CRM 2013 release notes

November 28, 2013 | Newsdesk

The new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 is now available worldwide and experts are saying it represents a significant leap forward from previous versions, reflecting the way that people work rather than dictating processes…

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ANZ banks on digital future

November 28, 2013 | Newsdesk

The ANZ Bank has spent $150 million on new digital platforms to support customers and staff and plans to invest up to $100 million annually for another four years…

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Eavesdropping analytics walks fine line

November 28, 2013 | Newsdesk

Companies considering recording and analysing customer conversations could learn from the current spat between Australia and Indonesia over clandestine phone tapping…

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Kiwibank helps home hunters on the go

November 21, 2013 | Newsdesk

Kiwibank has released a new app that it believes will turn searching for a new home on its head…

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Bill Buckley named as 2013 Flying Kiwi

November 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

A 120-people strong audience, including a who’s who of the New Zealand hi-tech industry, gathered to see Bill Buckley honoured as the peer-reviewed ‘Tait Communications Flying Kiwi’ and the next member of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Hall of Fame…

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Cloud-based UC to drive growth in NZ unified comms market

November 14, 2013 | Newsdesk

Frost and Sullivan’s latest UC report shows Cisco and Microsoft dominate a two-tiered UC market in New Zealand but cloud-based solutions are challenging the status quo…

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End users win upper hand with apps stores

November 5, 2013 | Newsdesk

A system developed to allow end users in large enterprises to dial up the applications, peripherals, data and services that they need to do their job will be launched in early 2014…

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Whitepaper: How to choose between generic and industry-specific ERP Systems

November 3, 2013 | Epicor Software Corporation

You might have several reasons for needing a new ERP system, but with so many options, how do you make the right choice? The experts at Epicor share their knowledge…

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Tech exports boosted by ICT sector

October 31, 2013 | Newsdesk

ICT companies were responsible for almost half of the $260 million revenue growth for technology exporters this year…

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SMX appoints new CEO to go global

October 30, 2013 | Newsdesk

The Kiwi start-up has engaged international expertise to take it to the next level…

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NetSuite reaffirms SAP-switch deal for ANZ users

October 30, 2013 | Newsdesk

Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has confirmed its offer to switch Australian and New Zealand users of SAP’s Business by Design system to its platform for free for a year…

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Telecom considering 10,000 wi-fi hotspots nationally

October 25, 2013 | Newsdesk

The telco’s new wi-fi network is so popular it is thinking of increasing its target number of hotspots fivefold…

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Westpac App Challenge reveals world-class quality on our doorstep

October 23, 2013 | Newsdesk

The competition quality was such a success that an extra winner was selected and now Westpac plans to replicate the format internationally…

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DB receives award for full strength customer service with SAP

October 22, 2013 | Newsdesk

The iconic New Zealand brewer has cooked up a new recipe for customer satisfaction using e-commerce ingredients…

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Xero on track to become global darling

October 18, 2013 | Newsdesk

The New Zealand based cloud accounting company is set to take off in the US market after a capital raising exercise that yielded $180 million…

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Survey reveals damage from lack of corporate investment in mobility

October 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

Lack of investment in mobility is compromising the transformational technology’s ability to deliver productivity gains and opening companies up to security threats…

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Positive effect of outsourcing R&D abroad spells opportunity for NZ

October 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

A new study shows that businesses that outsource R&D overseas are more likely to innovate than those who outsource at home…

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GeoOp private share offer significantly oversubscribed

October 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

The mobile job costing company could be shaping up to be the next Kiwi cloud darling as it makes moves to float on the stock market…

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Gartner offers top predictions for industry sectors

October 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

Transformative technologies are set to continue to disrupt the enterprise in 2014 and beyond…

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Gartner: Top technology trends you cannot afford to ignore

October 10, 2013 | Newsdesk

Gartner has published its annual list of the top strategic technology trends, which includes software-defined anything (SDx), 3D printing, mobile apps, cloud/client architecture, hybrid cloud and IT-as-service-broker and smart machines…

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Appealing Apps: 10 of the best for business

October 2, 2013 | Clare Coulson

With more than 1000 apps being submitted to the Apple App Store each day, not to mention those created for Android, the apposphere is a fast-changing environment…

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Gen-i says goodbye to training cash cow Auldhouse

October 2, 2013 | Newsdesk

The ICT provider continues to realign its business, divesting IT training company Auldhouse through another management buy-out…

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CIOs lose control of the enterprise IT budget

October 1, 2013 | Newsdesk

A recent report from Forrester Research reveals that chief information officers are losing their grip on enterprise IT budgets with line-of-business managers taking up the slack…

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Oracle 2013

Ellison snubs Oracle World to go sailing

September 27, 2013 | Newsdesk

Despite the Oracle world conference currently being held in San Francisco, iStart’s source on the ground says founder and CEO Larry Ellison seems to have his mind firmly on his other pet project…

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Companies without a mobile offering are missing out

September 26, 2013 | Newsdesk

SAP’s mobile strategy expert says businesses need to go mobile now…

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Accounting for time

Accounting for time

September 24, 2013 | David McNickel

In a service-based economy where time really is money many businesses are literally leaking dollars and cents like a sieve. David McNickel investigates the new wave of service automation systems that can help manage service workers more profitably…

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Gartner: SAP an ERP leader but Epicor a visionary

September 23, 2013 | Newsdesk

The SAP Business All-in-one solution remains squarely in Gartner’s ERP Magic Quadrant ‘leaders’ category while Epicor ERP maintains its ‘visionary’ status for the fourth consecutive year…

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Cybercrime scene investigation

September 20, 2013 | Stuart Corner

Stuart Corner takes a look at how security intelligence software is helping those involved in corporate security and justice to narrow the field of suspects, and keep the cybercriminals at bay…

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Xero receives offshore data storage approval for NZ customers

September 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

Following updates from the IRD that allow tax data to be stored in offshore clouds, Xero is one of the first companies to be given approval…

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LinkedIn and Facebook battle for territory

September 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

LinkedIn opens up to teens while Facebook adds a professional skills category…

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Chief digital officers tipped as key to future business success

September 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

Almost half of Australian businesses surveyed already have a chief digital officer but the new role must be better articulated to avoid conflict with existing CIO responsibilities and promote acceptance.

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Big data buzz gets ‘BS’ tag

September 17, 2013 | Anthony Doesburg

Is big data “bullshit”? Anthony Doesburg sifts through the big data brouhaha and considers the reality behind the buzz…

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Business intelligence: what are you really investing in?

September 17, 2013 | Ian Bertram

Gartner’s Ian Bertram looks at the evidence on business intelligence and asks whether it’s worth the investment…

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Is Forex breaking your bank

Is forex breaking your bank?

September 12, 2013 | Beverley Head

Bank fees are part of life, but when it comes to international transaction payments we could be paying over the odds. Beverley Head reports…

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Online habits too expensive to change

September 11, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

Web specialist Gerry McGovern says you are likely to be much more successful on the web if you try to leverage existing behaviour…

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2013 iStart ICT Investment Intentions Survey

September 9, 2013 | Hayden McCall

Mobilising management is the key objective of IT investment plans for 2013 says iStart’s annual investment survey. The mid-market is investing in mobile business intelligence while small business is doing more with less in the cloud.

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Online voting to be trialled at 2016 elections

September 5, 2013 | Newsdesk

Government aims to boost voter turnout with a digital solution…

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Public cloud services spending grows; focus shifts to innovation

September 5, 2013 | Newsdesk

The forecast hails a shift into ‘chapter two’ of cloud adoption, where businesses are focused on innovation and industry transformation…

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Xero breaks through 200,000 user barrier

September 3, 2013 | Newsdesk

Cloud based accounting software upstart Xero has broken through the 200,000 customer barrier marking what chief executive Rod Drury refers to as the “end of the beginning”…

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Software patents thing of the past with new Patents Bill

August 30, 2013 | Newsdesk

IT industry bodies are celebrating the near unanimous passing of the Patents Bill in Parliament, which will effectively remove software patents from New Zealand…

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GeoOP follows in Xero’s footsteps with IPO plans

August 28, 2013 | Newsdesk

Indications from cloud-based company GeoOP and its bank investors, who led the Xero IPO, suggest the company has the potential to be the next major Kiwi cloud-computing success story…

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Poor ICT contractor behaviour spotlighted by anti-corruption body

August 27, 2013 | Newsdesk

A new report has identified five steps that organisations need to take to ensure that their ICT projects are not held hostage by unscrupulous contract staff…

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CIOs consider server virtualisation for mission-critical ERP

August 26, 2013 | iStart

A growing number of ERP users are seizing scheduled technology refreshes as an opportunity to consider moving workloads onto virtual servers…

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

August 26, 2013 | Newsdesk

After effecting the transformation of the software giant, Steve Ballmer will retire a happy man, but has committed to staying on until his successor is named…

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Some manufacturers just don’t get IT!

August 22, 2013 | Hayden McCall

Keith Jessop laments the lost opportunities that he sees from 20,000 feet when manufacturers do not leverage their system capabilities to do better business.

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The iStart guide to buying tech

August 21, 2013 | Xavier Russo

Half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations. If you don’t want this to be you then you had better get your metaphorical ducks in a row…

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The right ERP solution

Back the right ERP solution to win

August 21, 2013 | Newsdesk

Purchasing and implementing an ERP system is a complex undertaking and continues to be regarded as a high-risk project by most companies. Subject expert UXC Eclipse offers its top recommendations for successfully choosing and implementing a new ERP solution…

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New Kiwi tech alliance creates significant export opportunities

August 14, 2013 | Newsdesk

New Zealand is already globally recognised and respected for the important contribution its technology companies make to the security sector and the new alliance will help us to further leverage this high growth export market…

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The secret to keeping your ERP project on time and on budget

August 13, 2013 | Newsdesk

ERP implementations are seldom straight forward but here is how to avoid underestimating the ERP project challenges.

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Millions wasted on projects by NZ business

August 13, 2013 | Newsdesk

A new KPMG report shows only a third of projects are delivering the desired results, resulting in a “staggering waste of resources”…

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Why do organisations hate their content management system?

August 9, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

There seems to be a major disconnect between those who purchase a content management system (CMS) and those who actually have to use it, says Gerry McGovern.

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Big data analytics promise lures hundreds

August 9, 2013 | Newsdesk

It was standing room only at SAS Forum in Sydney, which drew the cream of the Australian and New Zealand big data crowd, eager to learn how to unlock the value of predictive analytics.

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Security legislation: living in strange times

August 9, 2013 | Paul Brislen

Paul Brislen takes a look at the two pieces of legislation currently making their way with, what he believes, “undue haste” through New Zealand’s parliament…

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QlikView and the power of gray

August 8, 2013 | Newsdesk

Letting the mind wander can often throw up better results than a direct answer to an initial question. This associative thinking style can also be applied to software queries as the experts from QlikView explain…

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Tipping point looms for laggard ICT investors

August 7, 2013 | Newsdesk

Enterprises must act immediately to invest in ICT or risk nimbler rivals developing an insurmountable lead in terms of revenues, productivity, profitability and market capitalisation.

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What are eBusiness functions?

August 4, 2013 | Newsdesk

There are 6 key areas of e-business processes that organisations can look to e-enable in the coming months and years…

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NZ focus for ERP in the cloud

August 1, 2013 | Newsdesk

With New Zealand businesses clamouring for cloud solutions, ERP vendors are joining the bandwagon.

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Software delivers sound results for not-for-profits

July 31, 2013 | Newsdesk

More than ever, charitable organisations and other not-for-profits need to operate on a sound business footing and technology can help…

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“Day of reckoning” delivers TechnologyOne win

July 31, 2013 | Newsdesk

Listed Australian software company TechnologyOne has won deals to supply its systems to 21 Western Australia government departments and agencies claiming rivals’ business models are broken.

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Google tells advertisers to heed Kiwi mobile trends

July 26, 2013 | Newsdesk

Study shows every second New Zealander now owns a smartphone, but advertisers lag behind…

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NZ leads way with CloudCode progress

July 25, 2013 | Newsdesk

The next major version of the New Zealand Cloud Computing Code of Practice has been released by the Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP), garnering enthusiastic support from the likes of Xero’s Rod Drury and Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff…

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Platform as a Service cranks up software options

July 25, 2013 | Newsdesk

Linux house Red Hat is readying a public cloud version of its Platform as a Service for New Zealand organisations keen to dial up tools to allow them to develop, test and deploy bespoke software…

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Enterprises yet to reap full benefit of mobility

July 18, 2013 | Newsdesk

A slavish fascination with mobile apps targeted at consumers may be robbing enterprises of the full productivity benefits that mobility has to offer…

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The problem with silos on the web

July 17, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

No link is an island says Gerry McGovern who says there are no silos on the web…

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Why businesses are slow to take up video-conferencing

July 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

The cost of infrastructure has slowed the adoption of video-conferencing…

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App economy to more than double by 2017

July 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

Appnation has announced the launch of a new research arm and its first report shows the increasing importance of video and emerging platforms such as cars and TVs in the app economy…

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SAP to launch full cloud offering in NZ

July 11, 2013 | Newsdesk

The new solution will be introduced at the company’s New Zealand Cloud Forum later this month…

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How malware could kill BYOD efficiency

July 10, 2013 | Dylan Persaud

Dylan Persaud asks if the future of BYOD will be compromised by the rising threat of malware-laden apps

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Big data adventures fail to deliver

July 4, 2013 | Newsdesk

Three quarters of Australian and New Zealand organisations claim to use big data analytics for better insight and decision support, yet so far only a handful are reporting any great success…

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New Zealand loses software pioneer Don Bowman

June 27, 2013 | Newsdesk

New Zealand’s software industry has lost a pioneer with the passing of Don Bowman, founder of Auckland-based global business software developer Greentree International…

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Sir Ray Avery: Big data mining the “gold” in medical tech

June 27, 2013 | Newsdesk

Sir Ray Avery and other heavyweights debated the future of medical technology at a public panel discussion ahead of the Health Congress 2013…

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Convenience trumps security

June 25, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

Encryption that is very hard to crack by the NSA (the US spy agency) has existed for years. But it’s not easy to use so hardly anyone does. We trade convenience for security says Gerry McGovern…

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KiwiNet shines spotlight on Research Commercialisation Awards

June 24, 2013 | Newsdesk

The winners of the inaugural KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards were recently announced at a two-day forum and awards dinner…

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Cloud the only future for ERP

June 20, 2013 | Leanne Graham

When IBM asked Australian companies about their cloud computing progress it was surprised to learn many remained at the researching or planning stage…

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Telstra wins major Agile benefits

June 20, 2013 | Newsdesk

Telstra, which runs the biggest IT shop in Australia, has achieved an 80 percent reduction in infrastructure rollout cycle time, using a 55 percent smaller team – all thanks to Agile…

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Fairfax closes tech titles

June 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

Fairfax Magazines will resign the licences, owned by IDG, to publish Computerworld, and sister publications Reseller News and PC World early next month…

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CRM automation: efficiency versus effectiveness

June 18, 2013 | Praveen Sengar

Gartner analyst Praveen Sengar says you need to judge sales tools by their impact on sales success, not the cost of sale…

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Cloud

5 cloud myths unplugged

June 18, 2013 | Craig Deveson

Cloud computing is one of the most popular yet continually misunderstood terms in the modern technology world. Cloud expert Craig Deveson sets out to dispel some of the enduring myths…

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Does social media suck for B2B?

June 18, 2013 | Clare Coulson

In the last few years every business has jumped on the social media bandwagon. It has fragmented marketing budgets and sucked up time and money, but to what end?…

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Six reasons to use LinkedIn for B2B

June 18, 2013 | iStart

Earlier this year LinkedIn broke through the 200 million member barrier and is continuing to grow by two new members per second…

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Is the public cloud right for your business?

June 18, 2013 | Newsdesk

Amanda White answers the question thousands are asking with these highlights from her MBA thesis on the subject of businesses moving to public cloud technologies…

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Are you responsible for your data?

June 18, 2013 | Newsdesk

The Unisys Security Index reveals that Kiwis are not taking individual responsibility for the data being collected by their mobile apps…

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IT project failures tackled with new training course

June 18, 2013 | Newsdesk

SAP and New Zealand training company Auldhouse are offering a course that aims to close the widening gap between IT and non-IT managers…

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Fibre wars: the future of super fast internet

June 17, 2013 | iStart

Some millions of column inches and billions of public funds have been dedicated to the broadband initiatives on both sides of the Tasman, but serious questions remain unresolved…

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Mobile payment world first makes waves at GTB Awards

June 14, 2013 | Newsdesk

VeriFone Mobile Money’s mobile payment implementation for the Pacific Islands combines NFC and biometric security for payments on the go…

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New trans-Tasman cable comes one step closer

June 13, 2013 | Newsdesk

Telstra, Telecom and Vodafone have gone to tender for a builder and are considering landing sites for their new telco cable…

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Weigh up your BYOD strategy

June 11, 2013 | George Ferns

Security vendors whip us in to a frenzy of paranoia when it comes to keeping our businesses safe…

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Considerations and best practices for BYOD

June 11, 2013 | iStart

While not every organisation has a formal bring-your-own device program, every organisation should develop policies and processes regarding the use of personal devices for work. Citrix offers some best practices to consider when defining and implementing BYOD…

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Business cases: are you setting up to fail?

June 11, 2013 | Clare Coulson

Any investment has to stand up to commercial rigour, IT projects even more so given their risk profile. A weak business justification for a project can lead to poor management buy-in and ultimately an unsuccessful project…

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Social CRM a Sage choice

June 11, 2013 | Newsdesk

Recent announcements from key vendors show CRM is changing from a database of contacts to an interactive platform for communication and collaboration…

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Novopay inquiry results show catalogue of errors

June 6, 2013 | Newsdesk

The results of the Novopay inquiry are out and show that a lack of overall governance and quality assurance were instrumental in creating the massive payroll issues…

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Top port pushes boat out with sophisticated mapping tech

June 6, 2013 | Newsdesk

The world’s largest bulk commodity port is using geographical information system mapping technology to help build its future responsibly…

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5 ways to stuff up your ERP

June 6, 2013 | Newsdesk

Failed ERP projects litter business history books the world over. Here Sourya Biswas captures some of the lessons that time has taught those who have succeeded in getting their companies into the annals of IT infamy…

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Companies warned on social media: engage staff first

June 5, 2013 | Newsdesk

Organisations which want to more closely engage with clients on social media first need to ensure their staff are properly engaged or risk missing out on the benefits…

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Snakk revenue results

Snakk’s revenue results prove it’s no small fry

June 5, 2013 | Newsdesk

Brainchild of Hyperfactory founder Derek Handley continues to rack up successes and begins to think about acquisition…

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Cloud computing

Australia launches National Cloud Computing Strategy

May 30, 2013 | Newsdesk

The Australian Government has unveiled a National Cloud Computing Strategy intended to boost public sector, consumer and enterprise cloud confidence…

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IBM Innovation Index: New Zealand lags behind in innovation intensity

May 29, 2013 | Newsdesk

New Zealand continued to innovate in a challenging global financial environment but more needs to be done, particularly in bringing new products to market…

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Kiwi ‘crowd marketing’ social media platform takes off overseas

May 29, 2013 | Newsdesk

A new way of promoting products and services is proving popular with everyone from the All Blacks to Mike Pero Real Estate and further afield…

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Google stepping on Microsoft’s toes

May 29, 2013 | Newsdesk

The two technology giants could well be competing for the same enterprise customers before long, says Dylan Persaud…

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ICANN now have a .kiwi domain

May 28, 2013 | Newsdesk

International regulator ICANN has cleared the way for .kiwi websites and email addresses…

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Gen-i and SAP ink new deal

May 23, 2013 | Newsdesk

Gen-i reinvents itself with a software partnership in the mobility space…

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Gen-i to work with Davanti Consulting despite sell-out

May 22, 2013 | Newsdesk

Management buy-out will see Davanti continue to operate as a strategic partner based within Gen-i premises…

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Kiwis still concerned over online payment security

May 22, 2013 | Newsdesk

Retailers must be aware buyers are actively looking for signs that their payment information is secure, says MasterCard…

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NZ Hi-Tech Awards 2013 winners and amusers

May 20, 2013 | Newsdesk

Cloud was king, quality high and acceptance speeches displayed typical Kiwi candour at the annual NZ Hi-Tech Awards last Friday…

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Samsung surprises with first 5G

May 17, 2013 | Newsdesk

The telco announced it has developed a new 5G wireless technology several hundred times faster than current 4G networks, but critics are dubious…

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Autodesk and NetSuite combine in the cloud

May 16, 2013 | Newsdesk

The vendors have tapped in to the growing cloud manufacturing trend that will see almost half of all manufacturers using SaaS by 2015…

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Wynyard Group signals IPO and NZX-listing to fuel growth

May 15, 2013 | Newsdesk

Ex-Jade software company looks to the share market to step up its game…

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Survey: Kiwis want more on-the-job training

May 10, 2013 | Newsdesk

As skills shortages become more prevalent, particularly in IT and engineering, fewer than half of New Zealand employees are happy with the training they get at work…

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Home-grown app puts payroll in the cloud

May 9, 2013 | Newsdesk

A New Zealand company has moved from reselling to developing its own software that addresses the costs of payroll for small and medium businesses…

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Telco-TV partnership redefines the industry

April 19, 2013 | Newsdesk

Telcos partnering with content providers was predicted at MindStorm as one trend to emerge from the upgraded fibre network and they’re likely to become the norm as Slingshot and Igloo are demonstrating…

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Tech shame

How to avoid the IT hall of shame

April 5, 2013 | Paul Matthews

IT security and project stuff-ups are certainly nothing new in our field. But things seem to be getting worse and sadly, most of these issues are preventable…

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Algorithms vs people

Quality search requires quality people not just algorithms

March 28, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

On its own, search technology will not help us find the right things quickly. We need human expertise and human management…

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Greentree takes a slice of $25m grant

March 20, 2013 | Newsdesk

The ERP specialist is in good company amongst the likes of the Hamilton Jet parent company CWF Hamilton & Co and Methven as recipients of government technology…

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Project success comes from the top

March 18, 2013 | Marg Roberts

Approximately half of all significant ICT projects fail in terms of delivering what the business expected. Marg Roberts considers what needs to be done to improve the success rate…

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Management practice lags behind tech innovation

March 18, 2013 | Gerry McGovern

In many organisations management practice is about 20 years behind the web. Gerry McGovern discusses what this really means…

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Gartner predicts mobile analytics as top CIO priority

March 18, 2013 | Daniel Yuen

Every business is looking at how to make better use of the data it has and to make sense out of all the small details. As 2013 gets well underway, Gartner analyst Daniel Yuen outlines a number of BI trends that will shape the strategies and tactics that organisations will need to consider over the next four years…

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Billing best practice: Tips for a healthy debtors ledger

March 18, 2013 | David McNickel

We feel like we are being held to ransom by our invoicing, but if we don’t get the dollars in the door more easily and effectively, our livelihoods will be on the line…

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Carbon accounting: burden or benefit?

March 18, 2013 | Richard Chirgwin

The sustainability age has, in theory, replaced bean-counting with carbon-counting. Richard Chirgwin looks at what is happening in practice…

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Mind the knowledge gap – IT in the boardroom

March 14, 2013 | Clare Coulson

Following a number of high-profile project train wrecks last year, iStart asks if there is enough understanding of IT at board level…

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Intermodal and Boffa Miskell opt for same ERP system

March 14, 2013 | Newsdesk

ERP specialist, Greentree has recently triumphed over some big names to win some of its newest customers…

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Epicor mobilises its HCM; opts for browser not app

March 7, 2013 | Newsdesk

The new online platform allows mobile access for manager and employee self-service HCM tasks in a browser environment…

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IBM loves students

February 15, 2013 | Newsdesk

Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key, has opened the first IBM Delivery Centre in New Zealand, with the aim to help students earn as they learn…

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Jaguar

My Jaguar versus your systems

January 17, 2013 | Owen McCall

Owen McCall talks cars, computers and reliability…

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IBM predictions

IBM makes bold technology predictions for the coming years

January 12, 2013 | Newsdesk

IBM is generating both cautious ‘maybes’ and more than a little eye-rolling and with its latest round of five-year tech predictions that include mind-reading smartphones and a revolution in the way we view spam emails…

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Greentree’s UK investment will benefit people in poverty

December 17, 2012 | Newsdesk

A competition in the UK run by New Zealand-based software company Greentree has captured the imaginations of businesses, and the public, from Britain to Africa, Asia and South America…

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Ditching the leather: mobile wallets here to stay?

December 12, 2012 | Clare Coulson

We’ve been talking about digital wallets for years, but now they are actually here Clare Coulson takes a look at the payments landscape and asks if we will be putting away our wallets for good…

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From hire to fire

From ‘hire to fire’

December 12, 2012 | Erin Boyle

Can you accurately account for every employee in your company? How about the management of every individual’s performance, training, objectives and payroll information?…

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Branding not just a logo

IT branding: not just a logo

December 12, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

Just what is the IT industry’s problem when it comes to getting noticed in the super trendy and oh-so-social marketplace?…

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Would you like an app with that?

December 12, 2012 | Clare Coulson

If you’re in business then you gotta have an app, right? Well, maybe. Before you rush out and build your new mobile application you need to decide just how your new solution fits into your overall business strategy…

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Office 365 beats Google for Opus business

December 5, 2012 | Newsdesk

Opus global infrastructure consultancy has chosen Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity solution to support its bid to be one of the top 20 consultancies in the world…

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Who cares about ERP?

November 22, 2012 | Brett Roberts

Brett Roberts ponders the state of the monolithic ERP model and offers some disruptive ideas of his own…

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Big data, 4 million jobs, large skills gap – Gartner

November 15, 2012 | Newsdesk

Analysts say there are big opportunities for big data on the horizon in APAC, but warn that we may not have the skills to fulfill them…

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IT failure: an industry shame

September 14, 2012 | iStart

With around half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations it’s safe to say that there’s something seriously wrong with the way IT projects are being both planned and executed. iStart cornered Simpl founder and CEO Bennett Medary to find out just what’s behind such a dire statistic…

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IT projects

Why am I doing this project?

September 14, 2012 | Scott Groombridge

Been assigned onto yet another IT project, but not entirely sure what the project is, why you’ve been put on it and what it all means? Scott Groombridge has some advice…

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Company Executive charged with project abuse

September 14, 2012 | Owen McCall

Running a successful IT project is a lot like raising a child. So why do project managers so often abandoned them at birth?

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The best of the bank apps

September 14, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

The rise of the consumer bank app has well and truly taken place, and why shouldn’t it have? We can do everything else on our phones these days, it makes sense that we should be able to move our money around, when we’re on the move, too. But are all banking apps created equal? What’s on offer from the big names? And what’s in it for enterprise? iStart decided to find out…

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Eclipse wins national accolade from Microsoft

September 12, 2012 | Newsdesk

UXC Eclipse has won the MAPA 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Microsoft Dynamics ERP…

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Smartphone apps

The ultimate guide to smartphone app testing

September 12, 2012 | Jae Russell

So the hard yards of your smartphone application design and development are complete. Now it’s time to put it in the appstore, sit back, and watch the money roll in, right?…

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Google SEO

The perils of search engine optimisation

September 11, 2012 | Gerry McGovern

Search engine optimization (SEO) tactics often make it harder for customers to do what they need to do, says Gerry McGovern…

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Fibre rollout

NBN vs. UFB head to head comparison

September 10, 2012 | Brendan Ritchie

With the government-sponsored fibre rollouts under way in Australia and New Zealand, iStart takes a look at just what’s on offer with the NBN and the UFB initiatives…

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Unified communications comes of age

September 10, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

Three years ago iStart prophesised that unified communications was going to be the next big thing. But three years, in the days before BYOD and when the cloud was in its infancy, is a long time ago. So where are we now?…

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Business data mapping enters a brave new world

September 10, 2012 | Brad Spencer

The ‘Spatial industry’ has for decades appreciated the real, exciting and powerful benefits of geospatial analysis. But if geospatial tech is so wonderful and is such a ‘no brainer’, why haven’t small to medium enterprises embraced the technology?…

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Windows 8

Windows 8 Review

September 6, 2012 | Gunnar Berger

I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a very difficult time…

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Ignoring the gut feel: The emerging world of predictive analytics

September 1, 2012 | David McNickel

With promotional dollars more precious than ever, smart marketers are always looking to refine their methodologies and increase their return on investment…

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Tim Smith Worldxchange

WorldxChange gets serious about growth plans with new COO

August 29, 2012 | Newsdesk

WorldxChange, the first telco company in New Zealand to implement an exclusively run IP network, has hired industry veteran Tim Smith as Chief Operating Officer, a real coup for the business as it ramps up its growth plans…

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Greentree defies the recession with rapid UK expansion

August 15, 2012 | Newsdesk

Tough times are providing the ideal growth environment for Greentree software with the announcement of several new UK partners and customers for the ERP software provider…

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Four tips for happier customers

August 9, 2012 | MYOB

Customer relationships have never been more important, but how well are you managing yours?…

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Simple hack spells big problems for Apple, Apple users

August 9, 2012 | Newsdesk

A simple social engineering-based hack has seen Apple suspend password changes over the phone as internet journalist’s online information, as well as iPhone, iPad, and MacBook content, is erased…

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Gold award

Third gold competency for Koorb

June 25, 2012 | Newsdesk

Kiwi IT company Koorb Consulting has been awarded its third ‘gold’ competency by Microsoft, distinguishing the company as one of the top BI partners in New Zealand…

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Management buyout sees WxC eyeing up big business

June 15, 2012 | Newsdesk

A management buyout has given WorldxChange (WxC) a seal of approval for continuing its successful Corporate and Government SIP services. With six key managers taking a stake holding position, the company is now pushing even harder to challenge giants Telecom and Telstra…

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14 things your CRM system could be telling you about your customer (but probably isn’t)

May 29, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

CRM software is about as crucial as it gets when it comes to managing your sales activities. But while it may be crucial, it’s hardly sexy, and therefore it’s something of a ‘set-and-forget’ piece of tech…

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The expert’s guide to Sharepoint

May 29, 2012 | iStart

Information overload. It defines the age we live in…

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Council_Auckland_tower

Council IT amalgamation – rate buster or consultant cash-in?

May 28, 2012 | Chris Bell

iStart investigates what Councils are doing with technology to improve service and asks if amalgamation is the answer…

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The allure of mobile apps

The allure of mobile apps

May 28, 2012 | iStart

And a six-step reality check you should complete before being seduced by shiny enterprise app extensions and sexy gadgets…

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Has Kim Dotcom killed the cloud?

May 22, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

Jonathan Cotton unravels the seemingly far-fetched but very real story of Dotcom, and asks if he has killed the cloud…[View as PDF]

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Auckland Council bosses front on IT spending

May 4, 2012 | Chris Bell

After persistent rumours questioning the IT decisions inside the Super City, iStart embarked on a wide ranging investigation into council IT systems, and whether amalgamation works. Auckland’s CEO, CFO and CIO fronted – here is the full interview…by Chris Bell

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Dwight was right – planning is useless, but indispensible

April 11, 2012 | Brett Roberts

For successful companies, says Brett Roberts, it’s all about preparing for the battle. But while you can’t succeed without adequate preparation, planning can quickly veer into ‘useless’ territory, especially when those ‘best laid plans’ equate to little more than opportunities lost…

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Vaughan Rowsell

Point of Interest: Vaughan Rowsell founder of VEND

March 13, 2012 | Jonathan Cotton

How a Kiwi start-up is revolutionising the retail payment industry with a clever cloud-based POS alternative that’s rapidly going global…

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iPhone used in bed

You don’t need a mobile strategy

March 13, 2012 | Gerry McGovern

Mobile is a platform. It is a tactic, not a strategy. What you need is a strategy for the connected customer. Gerry McGovern explains…

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BYOD – Mobility goes viral

February 28, 2012 | iStart

A year ago it was the development no employer wanted to know about; now, it’s the movement every employer has to deal with. Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing is the trend du jour, but is it really the Holy Grail of increased productivity, customer engagement and happy employees? Or are we just nearing the peak of inflated expectations before the inevitable trough of disillusionment?…[View as PDF]

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Apple opens up over sweatshop allegations

February 16, 2012 | Newsdesk

Tech giant Apple has enlisted an independent investigator to inspect its Chinese operations, in an attempt to quell a potential consumer backlash over allegations of worker abuse in its supply chain…

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Forecast: Partly Cloudy

February 3, 2012 | Peter Dickinson

When it comes to computing solutions, it’s what they do – not how they’re delivered – that really counts. Duncan Campbell from ERP solutions provider Greentree takes a closer look at hosting ERP solutions in the cloud…

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KiwiNet hits innovation ball into business court

January 31, 2012 | Newsdesk

Innovative NZ science research projects are being put up to attract investor interest for commercial development…

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$8m boost for hi-tech start-ups

December 7, 2011 | Newsdesk

Wellington-based angel investment group Angel HQ is partnering with the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund to invest up to NZ$8 million into start-up companies…

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Bigger than Apple – Samsung surges ahead to become world’s biggest smartphone seller

October 31, 2011 | Newsdesk

Samsung has kicked Apple off the top of the heap as sales of Samsung electronics overtake those of former market-dominator Apple Inc…

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Fujitsu entices SMEs with free cloud offer

October 26, 2011 | Newsdesk

Fujitsu is targeting SMEs and ISVs by offering a free trial of its Australian-based computing cloud platform as it attempts to push beyond the enterprise sector…

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Orion strikes major e-Health deal with Microsoft

October 18, 2011 | Newsdesk

Orion health Asia Pacific has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s hospital information software assets which will enable it to offer to provide solutions to the global eHealth market…

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7 things to hate about IT recruiters

October 11, 2011 | iStart

Business forums, professional networking sites and the internet in general is awash with stories detailing just how difficult dealing with an IT recruiter can be. But is all this online odium justified? Are they really the new ‘used-car salesman’? Or are recruiters just the fall guys for frustrated job-seekers in a down-turned economy?…

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Innovation NZ: What we need to do to matter on the global stage

October 7, 2011 | Jonathan Cotton

While New Zealand may be a small country at the bottom of the world, it is nevertheless a hothouse for entrepreneurship and innovation, boasting some of the savviest and most creative risk-takers in the world. Why then are we labouring in obscurity? iStart sat down with some of the country’s best and brightest to find out…

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Hurry up and wait

October 7, 2011 | Owen McCall

For large enterprises, the cloud is a revolution for those processes that are necessary, but not necessarily that important. Therefore, think very carefully before you move any process or application into the cloud, especially if it’s a source of competitive advantage, says Owen McCall…

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Switched on CEO: How tech took the V8 Supercars to international stage

October 6, 2011 | iStart

The cutting-edge tech required for modern-day V8 racing means that you’re just as likely to find computer engineers and grease-monkeys in the pit…

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Convergence in the cloud with Esker

October 3, 2011 | Convergence

Convergence Limited is partnering with Esker to bring enhanced document process automation solutions to organisations across New Zealand…

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What we can learn from Yahoo!

September 22, 2011 | Gerry McGovern

Yahoo is an extremely popular website, yet its stock has performed really badly. Why? Because it sells stuff (banner ads) people don’t want to buy…

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NZ feels surge in spending during the first week of RWC

September 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

NZ businesses are enjoying a sharp increase in spending, as RWC tourist spending spikes dramatically, even before the opening ceremony kicked off on Friday night…

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Simon Power: SMEs to be freed from general purpose financial reports

September 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

The Minister of Commerce has announced proposals that will see SMEs enjoy drastically simplified financial reporting, a move expected to cut business compliance costs by $NZ90 million a year…

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What’s wrong with NZ’s take on copyright?

September 15, 2011 | Allan Freeth

Now that the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 has come into effect, many Kiwis will have a raft of new worries when it comes to their internet writes TelstraClear chief executive Allan Freeth…

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Yellowfin praised in ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ BI survey

September 6, 2011 | Vendor - media release

BI software vendor Yellowfin has beaten out some major players in a recent BI vendor survey…

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Cloud computing code of practice proposed

September 2, 2011 | Newsdesk

Plans for the development of a voluntary Cloud Computing Code of Practice to inform and safeguard the public around cloud computing issues have been announced…

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Online advertising continues to climb as advertisers look ‘beyond the click through rate’

August 24, 2011 | Newsdesk

Online advertising in New Zealand experienced double digit growth for year-on-year ad revenue in Q2 says a new report, as mobile devices, video and social media continue to attract advertisers…

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MYOB sold to US firm

August 23, 2011 | Newsdesk

The bidding war over MYOB has ended with the accounting software giant being sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital for a reported $A1.2 billion…

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science and innovation

NZ IT firms score big with science and innovation grants

August 18, 2011 | Newsdesk

The government has announced a $50 million round of technology grants this week, to aid the research and development projects of several Kiwi companies…

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funding

NZ IT firms score big with science and innovation grants

August 18, 2011 | Newsdesk

The government has announced a $50 million round of technology grants this week, to aid the research and development projects of several Kiwi companies…

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iPad makes compulsory stationary list at Auckland school

July 19, 2011 | Newsdesk

Parents of Orewa College students have been told that they will need to purchase an iPad2 for year nine students for 2012…

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Business Intelligence: at the forefront of business investment

July 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

As last issue’s iStart 2011 Investment Intentions Survey clearly showed, Business Intelligence has become the ‘must-have’ application of the moment…

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Smart card

Smart card technology: A pocket guide

July 14, 2011 | iStart

When it comes to engaging with your customers, there’s plenty to know in the realm of card technology. So if you don’t know your ICC from your NFC, read on to find out just how smart cards can serve your businesss…

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The iStart Smartphone Roundup

July 14, 2011 | iStart

Thinking about buying a smartphone? Before you take the plunge check out the iStart Smartphone Roundup – it will help you navigate the pros and cons of six of the most popular units on the market, as well as important specs before you buy…

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New network highlights emerging NZ ICT project opportunities

July 13, 2011 | Newsdesk

The launch of the Kiwinet collaboration network is promoting NZ ICT projects looking to commercialise…

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ICE Ideas Conference a sellout success – review

July 13, 2011 | Newsdesk

NZ Inc needs to get aggressive and get noticed if kiwi innovation is to leave its mark – that was the conclusion from last Friday’s hectic Ice Ideas Conference in Auckland…

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Virtual desktop

The desktop goes virtual

July 12, 2011 | iStart

You may shudder at the thought, but modern enterprise architecture is slowly but surely returning to the mainframe fold, at least conceptually, and never more so than with the idea of virtual desktops – hosted in ‘the cloud’…

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5 email tips to boost personal productivity

July 12, 2011 | Debbie Mayo-Smith, iStart

If you or your team are not managing email effectively, they are not managing their time effectively. Office productivity expert Debbie Mayo-Smith has provided iStart with a few ‘freasy’ tips to get on top of the email overload…

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The web is critical. The web team is not.

July 12, 2011 | Gerry McGovern

Most organisations consider their website to be critical, yet web teams rarely have respect, power or resources. Here’s how to change that…

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Stop your data going rogue

July 12, 2011 | David McNickel

Every digital transaction you do generates data, and chances are that data is being stored. Mobile apps, web transactions, loyalty schemes & more provide a wealth of potential information resources. But with so much data being collected, how do you stop it becoming a rogue elephant and actually apply it to inform your business?…

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Cloud resilience at what price

Cloud resilience at what price?

July 11, 2011 | Chris Bell

What factors should businesses consider, and what questions should they ask prospective providers, to ensure their operations and their business critical data stay safe in the cloud?…

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Glitch sees Dick Smith giving items away for free

July 11, 2011 | Newsdesk

Dick Smith was forced to take its site down this morning after a glitch allowed customers to purchase items for the mistakenly displayed prices of zero dollars…

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Google+ unleashes the spam

July 11, 2011 | Newsdesk

Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam…

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Alasdair Thompson sacked from the EMA

July 6, 2011 | Newsdesk

Alasdair Thompson has been dismissed from the role of chief executive with the EMA following comments about female employees taking excessive sick leave due to their periods…

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NATO server hacked, files now online

July 6, 2011 | Newsdesk

Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have been breached again, this time with some 2,646 files from the server posted online as proof of the exploit…

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Microsoft Launches Office 365: full iStart review

June 30, 2011 | Newsdesk

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand…

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Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope sends first Tweet

June 30, 2011 | Newsdesk

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has broadcast his first Twitter message, praising Christ and informing the faithful that the Vatican’s new news site has been launched…

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$1.5 million kick-start business fund announced

June 22, 2011 | Newsdesk

The public and the private sector have teamed up for a new initiative that could provide up to NZ$1.5 million to encourage SMEs to expand their businesses…

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IBM lands NZ border management system

June 22, 2011 | Newsdesk

IBM has won the contract to build the Joint Border Management System (JBMS) for a reported NZ$75 million for the first stage of the four year project…

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Something to shout about: researchers developing the sound-powered mobile phone

June 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

New technology that turns sound waves into electricity is being used to develop mobile phones that charge themselves using the sound of the human voice…

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India to issue 1.2 billion biometric cards

June 14, 2011 | Newsdesk

In an attempt to bring the nations census data into the 21st century, India, home to 1.2 billion people, has outlined plans to begin issuing state-of-the-art biometric IDs to its citizens…

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Fairfax to sell TradeMe?

June 8, 2011 | Newsdesk

Reports suggest that Australian media giant Fairfax is currently reviewing the status of New Zealand online auction site TradeMe and may sell the asset…

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eBay acquires Magento – looks to create “global commerce operating system”

June 7, 2011 | Newsdesk

eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of a leading open source ecommerce platform…

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MS McKinsey report: The web is a job creator, not killer

June 1, 2011 | Newsdesk

A new report once and for all dispels the myth that the World Wide Web is destroyer of jobs…

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Apple to unveil iCloud next week

June 1, 2011 | Newsdesk

It’s official: Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the unveiling of its upcoming cloud services offering, called, predictably, iCloud…

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Great minds come together for ICE Ideas Conference

May 27, 2011 | Newsdesk

The ICE Ideas Conference is bringing together some of New Zealand’s best thinkers and doers to talk turkey about growing great kiwi businesses…

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4 things you must know before choosing an ERP vendor

May 26, 2011 | MYOB

Choosing the best vendor partner is critical to any successful ERP implementation – because in this instance the word ‘partner’ isn’t just a figure of speech…

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Free Wi-Fi for Wellingtonians

May 26, 2011 | Newsdesk

Announcing the initiative today, Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says Wellington will be the first city in New Zealand to offer free wireless internet services across most of its CBD…

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Shared services costs

Shared services cost is the bottom line

May 25, 2011 | iStart

Can lessons from the UK government shared services experience be applied to New Zealand’s public sector? A UK expert in implementing shared desktop services in govtt recently visited these shores to meet with key customers and industry leaders…

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Salesforce looks to calm sovereignty fears by building an Australian datacentre

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk

Cloud computer provider Salesforce has said that it will build a datacentre in Australia as fears over offshore data escalate…

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Google Android now sitting at the top of the mobile OS heap

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk

It’s official: Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, says technology research group Gartner Inc…

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IBM more valuable than Microsoft for the first time in 15 years

May 24, 2011 | Newsdesk

While the lead may be only temporary, IBM has indeed edged out old rival Microsoft for the first time since April 1996, becoming the second most valuable tech company in the US, behind market leader Apple Inc…

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Expecting an economic boost from the World Cup? Yeah, right.

May 17, 2011 | Newsdesk

According to a nationwide survey, Kiwi business owners are not expecting much, if any, of an economic recovery from the Rugby World Cup…

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Microsoft’s online suite kicks users out of cloud

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

Those thinking that cloud computing has yet to reach acceptable levels of stability have received more ammunition following Microsoft’s latest online malfunctions…

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Sam Morgan’s surprising new investment

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

TradeMe founder Sam Morgan has given New Zealand-based social game SmallWorlds a $2.5m shot in the arm…

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Christchurch earthquake shakes investor confidence

May 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

The February Christchurch earthquake has had a significant negative impact on investor confidence according to the latest ASB Investor Confidence Survey…

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Satisfaction flunk

May 12, 2011 | Jonathan Cotton

Almost 80% of business decision makers responsible for customer satisfaction think they deliver ‘poor’ or ‘average’ results…View as PDF

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How to build mobile apps – tips and pitfalls from the experts

May 10, 2011 | Belinda Simcox

The move from the desktop internet computing of the 90s to the new era of mobile internet is happening with unprecedented velocity – eight times as fast as the PC web was adopted…

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2011 NZ Hi-Tech Awards winners announced

May 9, 2011 | Newsdesk

Rakon chips in big time winning both the PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year Award and the NZTE Hi-Tech Company of the Decade Award…

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NZ high-tech industry gears up to court China, employ robots, during the RWC 2011

May 9, 2011 | Newsdesk

The local high-tech industry is pulling out all the stops to make the most of the international attention set to be generated by the 2011 Rugby World Cup…

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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence shoots up the charts

May 4, 2011 | iStart

iStart’s annual investment survey shows BI has jumped into the limelight among the ‘must-have’ applications in 2011 as business shines the crystal ball to track market changes in volatile times…

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Police issue warning around PlayStation hack

April 28, 2011 | Newsdesk

The New Zealand Police are warning people to be vigilant following the hacking of 77 million Sony PlayStation accounts worldwide…

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Amazon outage the ‘worst in cloud computing history’

April 27, 2011 | Newsdesk

Amazon’s Web Services goes down, calling into question the reliability of cloud services…

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‘Localist’ launches, looks to take on Yellow Pages

April 19, 2011 | Newsdesk

New Zealand Post has launched a new local information and directory service called Localist, which looks set to compete with business directory veteran, The Yellow Pages…

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Subway

Subcard hits the small screen

April 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

Loyal Subway customers are breathing a huge sigh of relief as they can now ditch their Subcard from their wallets…

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Study shows internet more important than ever for business

April 14, 2011 | Newsdesk

A new survey shows that the internet is now permeating every aspect of New Zealand business – from where farmers buy supplies to how retailers reach customers…

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Smartphones, tablets defeat netbooks as most popular mobile Internet device

April 14, 2011 | Newsdesk

Tablets and social networking services are key revenue growth opportunities for operators in Asia-Pacific according to mobile broadband industry survey…

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EFTPOS at the Rugby World Cup? Forget it.

April 14, 2011 | Newsdesk

Fans hoping to use their EFTPOS cards at the upcoming Rugby World Cup are headed for disappointment – none will be available…

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Vodafone NZ pulls out of Egypt – brings jobs home

March 31, 2011 | Newsdesk

Vodafone has announced it is creating 125 local jobs by consolidating all of its contact centre operations in New Zealand…

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David Kirk predicts All Blacks to win World Cup – Microsoft grins

March 31, 2011 | Newsdesk

Microsoft announces deal for NZ$2 million sponsorship of the RWC 2011 tournament…

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Adaptable completes merger

March 23, 2011 | Newsdesk

Adaptable Solution’s change signals another round of local and international IT vendor consolidation as integrated solutions seen as the future…

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Free online stores for Canterbury

March 23, 2011 | Newsdesk

Website builders Smallfish are offering to help small Christchurch stores affected by the quake to start trading online…

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NZ nearing shared services tipping point, says provider

March 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

New Zealand’s public sector is lagging behind the UK in the take-up of shared services, says a British provider, and could learn some lessons from its adoption in rural Scotland…

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Satellite images capture Japan before and after

March 15, 2011 | Newsdesk

The NY Times has published a before and after pictorial of the coastal towns impacted by the recent earthquake…

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Kiwis flocking to the cloud

March 10, 2011 | Newsdesk

New Zealand has been named the most cloud savvy country in Asia Pacific, according to a recent business survey…

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Online auction competition heating up

March 10, 2011 | Newsdesk

Auction and trading website Sella has promised to remain commission free after a major boost in activity…

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Lessons for all in NZ website study

March 10, 2011 | Newsdesk

A recent NZ website study has found plenty of room for improvement when it comes to engaging users…

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Rapid software response helps Christchurch stricken

March 3, 2011 | Newsdesk

Quick thinking volunteers had disaster relief website Christchurch Recovery Map up and running within hours of the devastating earthquake hitting Christchurch on February 22…

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Mobile operators need to wake up to Facebook threat

March 2, 2011 | Newsdesk

An industry expert says mobile operators are helping grow competitor’s market share.

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‘Nokiasoft’ partnership sees laggards in catch-up mode

February 23, 2011 | Newsdesk

Opinions may be split on the Microsoft and Nokia partnership but most agree the Finnish mobile phone maker did not have much choice…

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CallPlus chooses OneAccess for local managed services

February 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

New Zealand telecommunications provider CallPlus has joined forces with OneAccess, the second largest branch office router vendor worldwide, to provide its customers with access to managed services over their IP network…

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Business seeks eased compliance in election promises

February 16, 2011 | Newsdesk

Filing tax returns electronically in exchange for tax credits would be a popular option aimed at easing the compliance burden for New Zealand businesses according to a new survey…

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Payroll provider brings first .Net4 product to market

February 9, 2011 | Newsdesk

Australasian HR software provider PayGlobal’s chief executive Hugh Martyn says new product is the first to leverage the latest workflow tools from Microsoft…

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Eighty jobs set for Two Degrees Mobile expansion

February 9, 2011 | Newsdesk

Two Degrees Mobile is increasing its investment in New Zealand with a second contact centre. It is set to open in Christchurch’s CBD this year…

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Smart reshuffle set to grow merchant services company

February 2, 2011 | Newsdesk

NZX listed SmartPay plans to expand in the Australian market with the help of newly appointed chief executive officer Andrew Donaldson…

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$300 million RBI investment not enough for farmers

February 2, 2011 | Newsdesk

Federated Farmers chief executive officer Conor English says the Government’s rural broadband initiative (RBI) needs significant change to deliver real value…

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Orcon unbundles local loop network

February 2, 2011 | Newsdesk

Orcon has unbundled exchanges in Hamilton and Tauranga…

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Google ANZ pulls new managing director from News Ltd

January 26, 2011 | Newsdesk

Ex-Deputy CEO of News Ltd Australia Nick Leeder has been appointed as the regional manager of Google Australia and New Zealand after a lengthy search…

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CallPlus’ new product connects with small business

January 26, 2011 | Newsdesk

CallPlus’ new voice solution aims to give big player options to small businesses…

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New Kiwi technology gets nod from old UK University

January 19, 2011 | Newsdesk

New Zealand based multi-media learning company Vital English will partner with the prestigious Cambridge University for a new online programme…

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Digital literacy: Getting your workplace up to speed

December 21, 2010 | Colin Phillips

A business isn’t getting the best out of their work staff if workers aren’t using the technological tools given to them to the best advantage. An expert explains what needs to be done and how best to approach it….[View as PDF]

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Business communications will be the next cloud

Business Communications will be the next cloud wave

December 21, 2010 | Brendan Maree

An expert in business communication solutions reveals that cloud service delivery has become more than a novel new way to deploy applications. He says it’s bringing huge value, ending the days of long deployment cycles, huge investments, and costly support contracts…

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orcon

Orcon ups its offering

December 9, 2010 | Newsdesk

Government owned Orcon adds another notch to its belt with the purchase of business management services provider Bizo…

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Nothing super about council governance says business survey

December 9, 2010 | Newsdesk

Confidence in local and national government is low according to a MYOB Business Monitor survey…

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SEEK moves smartly on mobile market

December 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Job seeking on-the-go just got easier for Smartphone users…

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Google and Microsoft meet in the cloud

November 30, 2010 | Newsdesk

Business users are testing a new Google Doc plug-in that enables it to sync with Word documents…

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Govt tender gives companies chance to prove NZ is innovative leader

November 24, 2010 | Newsdesk

New Zealand trade and enterprise is inviting tenders for a multi-channel project “to position New Zealand as a world leader in technology innovation”…

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New security challenges loom in 2011

November 24, 2010 | Newsdesk

Unisys’ predictions for the next 12 months note that the consumerisation of IT trend has created vulnerabilities in organisations’ network perimeters…

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Survey: Feel strongly about customer satisfaction? Tell us about it and get yourself a new phone…

November 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Provide your views on which NZ industries are achieving high (or low) customer satisfaction, and why…

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Is your mobile secure? Many Kiwis are slack with security

November 3, 2010 | Newsdesk

New research reveals that New Zealanders are leaving themselves vulnerable by not securing their mobile devices…

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Blackberry upgrades local mapping application

November 2, 2010 | Newsdesk

BlackBerry users in Australia (and NZ) can now access a free Blackberry maps app that will help them find local direction fast…

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Which companies are really making a green difference?

November 1, 2010 | Newsdesk

Too many companies are making promises about their “green” appliances, according to Greenpeace New Zealand…

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Online merchants get client-aware cloud

November 1, 2010 | Newsdesk

NetSuite marries a new Intel Web API and promises merchants a competitive advantage…

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Kiwi iPhone developers conference

November 1, 2010 | Newsdesk

Jade Software will host the country’s first conference dedicated to iPhone and iPad developers in Christchurch on 4 December, 2010…

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Buying local: The case for reform

October 28, 2010 | Jess Meyer

Are Kiwi ICT innovation and jobs being stifled by an unwillingness from government departments to look more seriously at local vendors with smart solutions? Labour MP Clare Curran thinks so, and so she is lobbying for the introduction of the Kiwi Jobs Bill to take a closer look at the issue across not only ICT, but all of government…[View as PDF]

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Report reveals global mobile market almost saturated

October 26, 2010 | Newsdesk

A report out today reveals 90% of the world’s population now has access to mobile networks but growth is slowing…

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Ovum says multinationals must step up in managing mobile costs

October 26, 2010 | Newsdesk

In a new report, the independent telecoms analyst claims that multinationals are struggling to manage the ever growing cost and complexity of business mobility…

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Auckland buses

Auckland buses track their performance better

October 21, 2010 | Newsdesk

Auckland’s transport authority is using SAP BusinessObjects BI reporting and analysis tools to report on the performance of bus operators in the region…

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IPv4 addresses going fast

October 20, 2010 | Newsdesk

Less than five percent of the world’s IPv4 addresses remain unallocated, according to The Number Resource Organization…

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Mobile voucher scheme launched

October 20, 2010 | Newsdesk

Numerous deals of the day and voucher services are being launched as competition in this space hots up…

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Mobile payments about to explode in this region

October 18, 2010 | Newsdesk

Mobile payments in Asia-Pacific are expected to more than double to US$3.6b in the next five years…

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Government ICT direction gets the thumbs up

October 13, 2010 | Newsdesk

A government paper setting the policy for Government ICT use has been welcomed by the industry…

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HR Cloud systems

HR systems shift to the cloud

October 12, 2010 | Ulrika Hedquist

With people wanting access to information anytime and anywhere, web-based HR systems are proving to be the way to go. Ulrika Hedquist finds moving to the cloud affords a flexible and cost-effective solution…

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IT to make Eden Park a world-class stadium

October 12, 2010 | Newsdesk

ICT will play a major role in creating the ability for the RWC venue to add value to the spectator experience as well as generating new revenue streams…

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NZ’s internet story told in video and song

October 11, 2010 | Newsdesk

This is the 21st anniversary of New Zealand’s connection to the Internet and a Wellington digital agency has created a site to tell its story…

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Infor unveils new family of applications

October 11, 2010 | Newsdesk

Infor’s new family of applications combine industry-specific functionality with rapid implementations to speed time-to-value…

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Fujitsu puts its head further in the Cloud

October 11, 2010 | Newsdesk

Fujitsu is launching a self-service Cloud Services Portal, to offer a fully flexible model for IT infrastructure, platforms and applications…

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Fast broadband moves ahead

October 6, 2010 | Newsdesk

New Zealand is another step closer to ultra-fast broadband today…

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Start of new Google search bidding war?

October 4, 2010 | Newsdesk

A search specialist says some marked changes in the paid and natural search landscape could be ahead after he noticed a tweak in Google’s instant search results…

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Developers get phone challenge

October 4, 2010 | Newsdesk

NZ software developers are being challenged to come up with some of the world’s first apps for the new Windows Phone 7 platform…

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RIM unveil social platform

October 1, 2010 | Newsdesk

Research In Motion has unveiled the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform, giving developers the tools to build applications that take advantage of the social aspects of the popular BBM service…

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Fuji Xerox

Beyond the photocopier

September 27, 2010 | Johanna Bennett

Office copiers have been transformed into business process management tools. We look at some of the offerings available and find out what they can do to make document management easier… and deliver your coffee just so, too…[View as PDF]

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Smart maps show traffic patterns

September 20, 2010 | Newsdesk

Location intelligence helps retailers choose the right site by assembling key metrics – including customer behaviour records, demographics, traffic patterns and competitor information – from various sources…

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mobile technology

Learn the secrets to exploiting mobile technology

September 14, 2010 | Newsdesk

A conference late October will provide invaluable help for companies working out how to effectively manage their mobile workforces, deliver cost savings and in turn deliver a high level of customer service…

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Law Enforcement Analytics: fighting crime with business intelligence

August 12, 2010 | Rob Mills

Ask any field officer what his most important weapon is, and chances are he’ll tell you, information. Armed with the right information at the right time, police officers can carry out their duties more quickly, effectively, and safely…

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Vodafone launches iPhone App for VNZMAs

August 7, 2010 | Newsdesk

Vodafone’s gone geek chic with a FREE Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards iPhone app, launched today…

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5-minute Supply Chain Survey from University of Auckland Business School

July 27, 2010 | Newsdesk

Your chance to help ascertain the current status of supply chain practices in NZ and help SMEs to better understand the supply chain of tomorrow…

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Infor vs Oracle

Infor on track to trump Oracle in the integration game

July 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Infor may be on track to beat rival Oracle in delivering the Holy Grail of a properly integrated ERP-and-essential-business-applications suite…

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New animal tracking standard opens door to Chinese advantage

July 21, 2010 | Newsdesk

A recent government standards announcement could mean losing another agri-tech race after kiwi’s do all the hard work…

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Power-hungry internet needs to nap

July 13, 2010 | Newsdesk

The internet’s energy consumption is growing fast. It may need computers to help it sleep if it’s not to pose a green threat…

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SAP goes mobile with Sybase

July 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

SAP’s acquisition of mobile specialist Sybase will allow it to deliver its ERP software to mobile devices…

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Sky City

SAP and the Supercity

June 17, 2010 | Newsdesk

Major contracts worth over NZ$90 million altogether have been awarded to build the new Auckland Council’s customer-focused ICT infrastructure…

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Electronics still toxic, but Apple and HP show the way

June 14, 2010 | Newsdesk

Greenpeace’s latest Guide to Greener Electronics shows some electronic companies making headway while others are falling behind…

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Event: The business benefits of entering the 2010 Plain English Awards

May 25, 2010 | iStart

iStart is supporting the annual WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards. The awards promote businesses that communicate clearly and raise awareness about the benefits of using plain English. Businesses enter to gain recognition for the way they communicate and to show their commitment to clarity. Entry is free and there are categories to suit any business…

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How secure is your smartphone?

May 5, 2010 | Newsdesk

With staff increasingly mobile and mobility applications burgeoning, security threats are becoming as real on smartphones as they have been for some time on PCs. Being aware is the key to staying clean…

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Switched on CEO: Bruce Hassall navigating stormy weather

April 16, 2010 | Johanna Bennett

PwC’s chief executive, Bruce Hassall, took the helm in September, in a tough 2009. But, with some strategic help from technology, he’s set fair ahead…

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LG’s Android lands in New Zealand

April 16, 2010 | Newsdesk

Mobile phone maker LG announces its first handset based on Google’s Android operating system will be available in the local market…

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Epicor’s next-generation ERP looks to SMBs’ needs

April 16, 2010 | Newsdesk

ERP goes mobile, as well as focusing on helping users reduce costs and encourage a better response from their own customers…

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Social CRM: Hype or Holy Grail

April 15, 2010 | Graham Medcalf

Social CRM is the new buzz-phrase. But what does it mean and, more importantly, what can it do for your business? Graham Medcalf investigates…

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Has big ERP had its day?

April 13, 2010 | Newsdesk

It’s good for big business, but large-scale ERP can be an unwieldy and expensive beast for smaller businesses to handle. Many have opted for a modular upgrade approach, but getting the various modules to ‘talk’ to each other is a challenge…

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Where is business focusing for technology ROI?

April 12, 2010 | Johanna Bennett

A good return on dollars spent on IT in these tough times should be a pre-requisite to investment – right? iStart asked those who know where to find it and got some surprising answers…

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There’s sales in them thar blogs

April 1, 2010 | Newsdesk

Once upon a time, those with a sharp commercial eye might have mined the hills, with pickaxes, for gold, now they mine the web with software tools for the golden sales opportunities out there…

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Wirelessly yours: Mobico wins double award

March 11, 2010 | Newsdesk

It was a double act for Mobico at the recent Motorola ANZ Awards – it picked up two major awards…

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No.8 fencing wire ‘innovation’ no longer enough

February 24, 2010 | Newsdesk

The traditional, resourceful Kiwi ‘You can fix anything with No.8 fencing wire’ take on innovation once served us well, but no longer. An IBM study found Kiwi innovation flatlined between 2000 and 2007, and then nosedived…

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Local software market tipped to continue recovery

February 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Ovum says major vendors are well-placed as the economy improves…

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Timetable for Government’s ultra-fast broadband network announced

February 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Crown Fibre Holdings announces indicative timetable for network build partner selection process…

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Fast-paced data centre growth continues

February 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Energy-guzzling business shows no signs of slowing down, says Frost & Sullivan…

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Geographic Information Systems pioneer to attend NZ summit

February 17, 2010 | Newsdesk

ESRI founder Jack Dangermond to present keynote address at Annual GIS Senior Executive Summit in Wellington…

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Auckland IT event to feature leading vendors

February 17, 2010 | Newsdesk

Organiser Eagle Technology hopes the initiative – allowing direct interaction with a range of providers – will become an annual event…

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Microsoft seeking ‘road warrior’ sales staff to promote Office 2010

February 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Top salespeople invited to apply for audition and four-month contract…

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Intergen first to win elite SharePoint status

February 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Kiwi integrator’s expertise pays off as it becomes the world’s first Microsoft SharePoint Elite certified partner…

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Social media ‘key to increasing customer engagement’

February 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Survey finds New Zealand businesses believe social media builds customer relationships, but few are prepared to invest in it significantly…

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Malware and Spam rise 70% on social networks

February 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

Report finds three out of four businesses fear corporate security risks from staff use of social networking sites…

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Dell signs Simms International as NZ distributor

February 8, 2010 | Newsdesk

New arrangement in local SMB channel mirrors a similar approach Dell has taken in other markets, the company says…

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Free-to-call directory delays launch citing testing issues

February 3, 2010 | Newsdesk

Co-founder Prentice Robb says many businesses are still finding their feet after the summer break and have been slow to complete listings. Businesses are asked to fork out $129 per month to list on the service. “We are a couple of months behind our s

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Internet reaches critical turning point

February 3, 2010 | Newsdesk

New Zealand businesses must sit up and take note of the need to migrate to the new method of addressing computers and servers, says the IPv6 Taskforce…

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Businesses demand more reliable broadband

February 3, 2010 | Newsdesk

Survey finds a need for more consistency of service. Regional service providers promise to deliver…

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Ovum forecasts modest recovery for local IT services market

February 3, 2010 | Newsdesk

Research firm expects 2010 to “an optimistic year, sprinkled with a healthy dose of cautiousness”. Project-led consulting and systems integration work also tipped to rebound…

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New ISO standard signals Risk Management is maturing

January 26, 2010 | Newsdesk

ISO 31000 aims to help organisations develop, implement and continuously improve their risk management framework…

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NetSafe launches Cybersafety resource for businesses

January 26, 2010 | Newsdesk

Whatsit business security resource website simplifies IT security policy implementation, especially for smaller businesses

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Avoiding data loss and digital footprints

January 26, 2010 | Newsdesk

Mobiu USB data key targets mobile staff who need access to sensitive files while out of the office…

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TracMap secures major US deals

January 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Local GPS guidance systems business sees big market potential in the large North American rural fire-fighting industry…

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Simms International opens for business in New Zealand

January 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Former Renaissance MD Paul Johnston tasked with building up the IT distributor and supplier’s new local operation…

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Growth in PC shipments hits seven-year high

January 22, 2010 | Newsdesk

Gartner says all regions around the world experienced positive shipment results during the final quarter of last year…

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Unisys predicts a ‘biometrics boom’ in 2010

January 21, 2010 | Newsdesk

While organisations go on the offensive to protect data, advances in surveillance systems and continued Trojan attacks are also on the horizon…

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Gen-i launches cloud strategy and services

January 21, 2010 | Newsdesk

ICT services provider gears up to tap into the growing Australasian market for cloud computing solutions…

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ECN Group partners with Innovit

January 21, 2010 | Newsdesk

Local business process management and messaging solutions specialist says its deal with Innovit will make implementing GS1net solutions easier for its customers…

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AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q1 2010

January 20, 2010 | Newsdesk

iStart’s monthly summary of news and deals affecting New Zealand’s enterprise ICT market, compiled by Simon Hendery – iStart News Editor…

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New Zealand outperforms other countries in technology innovation

January 12, 2010 | Newsdesk

Strong performance of kiwi companies in the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 shows local innovation is alive and well, says ICT industry body…

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Gartner predicts strong growth for open-source BI

January 12, 2010 | Newsdesk

Open-source business intelligence tools production deployments picked to grow five-fold through 2012…

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Fujitsu wins five year services deal with Meridian

January 12, 2010 | Newsdesk

Electricity generator says new converged operating and delivery model will major benefits, including significant cost reductions…

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‘Please sir, can I have some more productivity…?’

December 23, 2009 | Mobico

GM of leading NZ mobile solutions provider Mobico, Aldas Palubinskas, is passionate about productivity. He discusses how leading NZ businesses can achieve real world productivity gains and how they can get the dickens out of their day…

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IDC warns the rough economic ride isn’t over

December 23, 2009 | Newsdesk

Issuing its top 10 predictions for 2010, the IT analyst firm says while the economic recovery will accelerate IT-based business transformation, the rough ride isn’t over…

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New Zealand Defence Force awards Gen-i major licensing contract

December 23, 2009 | Newsdesk

Appointment as Microsoft and other software licensing management partner extends Gen-i’s existing relationship with NZDF…

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Microsoft releases Office 2010

December 23, 2009 | Newsdesk

The latest beta versions of SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight 4 can also be downloaded for a complimentary test…

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Bayleys’ MD, Mike Bayley: It’s all about people

December 18, 2009 | Johanna Bennett

Bayleys’ MD values technology for how it can support business – and the critical information it has brought to the fore during the recession – but real estate is ‘all about people’, says Mike Bayley…[View as PDF]

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VectorFibre launches ‘all you can eat’ business broadband service

December 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

Network company says its unlimited InterNet offer is a “critical departure” from standard business data plans…

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Survey shows ‘workforce planning’ is on most companies’ to-do list

December 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

Despite tough economic times, almost half of businesses expect to spend more on WFP next year…

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GeoSmart launches online route optimisation solution

December 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

The mapping company’s new software-as-a-service Route²GO solution is being promoted as a way for smaller businesses to save travel costs and time…

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Poll finds local businesses switching on to video communications

December 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

40% of New Zealand companies have invested in VC over the past year and almost half plan desktop implementations within five years…

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‘Human error’ causing more business data disasters

November 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

Data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack says human error is responsible for an increasing number of incoming enterprise data recovery requests…

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Organisations urged to start planning for Windows 7 migration immediately

November 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

FrontRange Solutions outlines four-stage plan to ease the pressure of switching to the new operating system…

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Most companies survive GFC without cutting IT staff

November 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

IDC survey finds that to survive the global financial crisis, firms have trimmed admin, operations and ICT budgets rather than making IT staff redundant…

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IMS Payroll launches online module

November 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

Major local payroll software provider adds web-based data entry and processing capabilities…

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Cortell shines at IBM Business Partner Awards

November 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

BI specialist picks up the Supreme Business Partner of the Year award for its deployment of a Cognos TM1 solution for burger chain Wendy’s…

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Is Facebook worth it for business?

November 19, 2009 | Newsdesk

Facebook hasn’t had much success with its advertising efforts so far, now it’s hoping that brand-oriented company Facebook pages will prove a winner…

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Warning to BlackBerry Users: Beware the PhoneSnoop

November 11, 2009 | Newsdesk

Could your competitors be listening in on your business calls? A simple BlackBerry app makes corporate espionage easy – at least in theory…

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IT Spending Survives the Global Recession

November 11, 2009 | Newsdesk

Survey finds CFOs are demanding efficiency gains and cost savings from IT initiatives, and modifying existing systems is often the preferred option…

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Humes signs Infor to support plant growth

November 11, 2009 | Newsdesk

As it builds a new state-of-the-art plant, New Zealand’s largest pipeline systems supplier is focused on improving planning processes and reducing stock levels…

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NextWindow selects Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management

October 30, 2009 | Newsdesk

Local optical touch screen exporter is the first company in New Zealand to deploy Oracle’s PLM solution…

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Pingar debuts kiwi-made enterprise search solution

October 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Local software developer says while half of all searches don’t find the correct answer, it has the solution…

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Local Microsoft partner takes the stage at international SharePoint conference

October 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Intergen’s Chris Auld shares his company’s experience with a global audience ahead of next month’s beta release of SharePoint 2010…

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Kiwi SaaS vendor launches new on-demand CRM tool

October 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

ActionStep says its new product – called CRM+ – can help businesses boost sales in a tough market…

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Author-it and Lionbridge launch multilingual content delivery solution

October 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Partnership focused on unified global content lifecycle solution for managing content in multiple languages and formats…

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Stuart Alexander deploys Lawson M3 7.1

October 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Distributor goes live with the latest version of the Lawson ERP application, including Lawson Smart Office…

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Punk legend Iggy Pop fronts for Orcon

October 12, 2009 | Newsdesk

Local telco’s latest promotion involves the music icon putting a band together – with kiwi talent he meets online…

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Plant & Food Research selects SAP Business Suite

October 12, 2009 | Newsdesk

Crown research institute says rapid deployment, and on-time, under-budget delivery adds up to good value…

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Motorola launches new rugged industrial mobile computer

October 5, 2009 | Newsdesk

Now available in New Zealand, the MC9500-K has a number of new features and improvements including display, data capture and wireless connection enhancements…

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Statistics NZ selects IBM for 2011 Census imaging services

October 5, 2009 | Newsdesk

Contract aims to improve quality and accuracy of data captured during the five-yearly national head-count…

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Orcon launches locally-developed cloud computing service

October 5, 2009 | Newsdesk

ISP says the service, aimed at SMEs and launched under its iSERVE brand, is a first for New Zealand…

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IT confidence in US bodes well for New Zealand

October 5, 2009 | Newsdesk

KPMG says local technology firms will benefit from the new positive economic outlook of American IT companies…

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CourierPost marks birthday with super-fast Kiwi sorting system

October 5, 2009 | Newsdesk

The national courier is now 20 years old and still keen to innovate. Its locally developed automated sorting technology has increased parcel-sorting capacity by a whopping 600 percent, it says…

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AXA picks Gen-i for mobility solutions

October 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

Insurer has sights set on cost savings and improved productivity as it moves to the new XT mobile network…

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Amway signs mobile deal with Vodafone

October 2, 2009 | Newsdesk

Partnership will see Vodafone handsets and services promoted through Amway’s network of independent business owners…

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Vector’s Nigel Bernie appointed SAP User Group chair

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Infrastructure company’s IT business systems manager plans to expand the NZSUG’s reach as Business One and SAP BusinessObjects users come onboard…

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Survey finds over half of IT departments fail to deliver value

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Importance of ‘service value management’ tipped to grow as lack of real-time metrics aligning IT with business needs continues to frustrate corporates…

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Security concerns keeping businesses out of the cloud

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Poll finds corporate concerns about security and data privacy continue to be the major barriers to enterprise adoption of cloud computing…

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Microsoft gifts $1.4m of software to Barnardos

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Corporation says its donations to non-profit organisations in New Zealand topped $5.5 million over the past year…

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Improve your business pitch, NZX boss tells IT start-ups

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Investors looking to buy into fledgling technology companies want to hear business plans, not product details, says Mark Weldon …

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Agile expands Networks Group

September 29, 2009 | Newsdesk

Company appoints Phil Josephs as business development manager responsible for growing its carrier and service provider business…

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Windows Mobile app stores to sell business applications

September 23, 2009 | Newsdesk

The forthcoming iTunes-style store will offer downloadable applications aimed at small business as well as the more usual fun consumer apps…

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THRIVE despite the recession with mobile solutions

September 21, 2009 | Johanna Bennett

Current rhetoric is still focused on surviving the recession, but fortunes have been built in bad times. Mobico’s Aldas Palubinskas talks to Johanna Bennett about how business can thrive by focusing on managing the job – with a little help from mobile technology…

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Zintel Acquires Cogent

September 21, 2009 | Newsdesk

Communications solutions provider says the $1.9 million deal will broaden its telephony offering…

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Air New Zealand awards telco contract to Gen-i

September 21, 2009 | Newsdesk

Global network management services agreement aimed at saving costs and improving technology…

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TechEd gives customers a voice

September 18, 2009 | Newsdesk

Unusually, the recent New Zealand Microsoft developer’s conference showcased how six major customers are using technology to leverage business, help babies and more…

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Survey finds local organisations exposed to file recovery risk

September 16, 2009 | Newsdesk

Poll of senior ICT decision makers shows Australian and New Zealand organisations require ‘information intervention’ to improve governance processes…

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Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference hits Auckland

September 14, 2009 | Newsdesk

The country’s largest IT summit draws more than 2000 attendees to SkyCity…

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World-first claim for local online medical alert service

September 11, 2009 | Newsdesk

125,000 New Zealander MedicAlert users set to benefit from emergency access to vital medical records…

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Department of Building and Housing selects Objective

September 9, 2009 | Newsdesk

EDRMS specialist tasked with designing a solution to support the growth of the government agency’s knowledge base…

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SAP expands University Alliances Program in New Zealand

September 8, 2009 | Newsdesk

AUT joins University of Auckland and Waikato University as a third local participant in the ‘hands-on’ software education initiative…

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Open Source Society targets public sector with ‘Remix’ project

September 8, 2009 | Newsdesk

New Zealand Open Source Society initiative aims to encourage government agencies to look at open source as a way of cutting desktop computing costs…

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New Zealand contact centres continue to expand

September 8, 2009 | Newsdesk

Local call centres defy the impact of the global financial crisis, but growth is set to slow next year…

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New auction website targets local IT industry

September 8, 2009 | Newsdesk

DealFoundry promoted as a tool for consumers, small businesses, IT dealers, manufacturers and distributors…

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Fonterra moves mobile business to Gen-i

September 8, 2009 | Newsdesk

In a significant business win for Telecom’s ICT services business, the dairy giant is shifting more than half of its mobile connections away from Vodafone…

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Symantec donates software to non-profits

September 7, 2009 | Newsdesk

Enterprise software available to eligible charities, voluntary and community groups…

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Tasmania Fire Service selects ComOps for risk management reporting

September 4, 2009 | Newsdesk

Solution allows TFS to automate safety and hazard reporting, and generate detailed reports to support training and OHS…

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Queensland Prosecutions Office chooses LexisNexis for case management

September 4, 2009 | Newsdesk

Lexis Visualfiles promises an integrated case management and research solution to automate workflow and ensure timeliness…

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ASICS keeps finger on the pulse with SAP BusinessObjects

August 31, 2009 | Newsdesk

Sportswear firm implements SAP BI 7.0 for reporting and market analysis to support the company’s continued growth…

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Super Cheap Auto selects SAP for CRM and BI

August 28, 2009 | Newsdesk

Retail group adds to its existing SAP base as it revs up its niche marketing efforts…

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Green efficiency helps datacentres do more with less, as budgets stagnate

August 14, 2009 | Newsdesk

Analyst firm Aperture Research reports that the economic slowdown has had little effect on the demand for IT services. Datacentre managers are looking to energy efficiencies and better use of resources to cope with the demand…

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Netcat finds purr-fect satisfaction with net-based financial suite

August 13, 2009 | Oracle NetSuite

The CMS company needed a powerful, integrated system. NetSuite’s SaaS model and built-in job and time-tracking have provided a platform for painless global growth…

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Microsoft and Telstra unveil cloud software offerings

August 9, 2009 | Newsdesk

Microsoft Online Services now available through the Telstra T-Suite platform…

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Clunky mobile devices evolve into savvy, elegant tools

June 23, 2009 | Johanna Bennett

Mobile solutions can radically improve business processes, and make and save companies’ big dollars, says mobile solutions specialist Mobico…

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Beyond CRM: Location intelligence

April 24, 2009 | Phil Parent

Putting your customers on the map, using the newer GIS and GPS services, will help you find them – and sell the right products to the right people…

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Google takes the Latitude

March 25, 2009 | Newsdesk

Do you have reason to share your location with colleagues or friends, or your boss? If so, then a new free Google Maps add-on could prove very useful…

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Fleet management shifts up a gear

December 10, 2008 | Phil Parent

Advances in GPS technologies and location based services have made fleet tracking solutions more feature-rich and affordable. So what do you get for your money today and how are organisations taking advantage of the technology to gain a competitive edge?

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Carbon planet ready to take on the world

October 20, 2008 | Oracle NetSuite

NetSuite’s on-demand business operating solution is helping the carbon management company quickly build a distributed global enterprise…

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RFID technology investment bears fruit

September 14, 2008 | Newsdesk

A growing number of businesses are realising the productivity, efficiency and accuracy benefits to be made by technology to fully integrate their supply chains. But what’s holding others back?..

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Killer KPIs: getting your business metrics right

June 9, 2008 | Gary Collier

Performance management and business intelligence tools can be powerful business enablers. To make the most of them you need to start by getting your key performance indicators right…

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Gidday USA! Tips for doing business in the US

May 21, 2008 | Paul Trotter

Since he founded Author-it, info entrepreneur Paul Trotter’s unique content management solution has been implemented by over 3000 companies across 50 countries…

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Salmon company reels in a solution

April 28, 2007 | Newsdesk

Leading exporter New Zealand King Salmon is a medium-sized company but as a fish farmer, processer, distributor and marketer, its activities and needs are as complex as those of many much bigger firms…

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Switched on CEO: David Body, Glidepath

March 9, 2007 | Simon Young

Newly appointed Glidepath CEO, David Body, is over-seeing an overhaul of the company’s technology systems…[View as PDF]

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Is your website content delivering you results?

November 7, 2006 | Rob Williams

Imagine you’re the owner of a successful car dealership but when your customers look at the cars listed on your website they notice that the cars are a month or so old or, even worse, they call you only to find out that that dream car they were looking at sold a week ago?…

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Mobile termination & the Big Mac Index

May 22, 2006 | Newsdesk

Are the costs of making a mobile phone call in New Zealand as far out of whack with the rest of the world as the government would have you think? Is the grass really greener? Is legislation really the right way forward? David McNickel crunches the numbers with some startling results…

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ERP Tiers

6 ‘must ask’ questions when buying a mid-tier ERP solution

August 25, 2005 | David McNickel, MYOB

As more ERP vendors focus their offerings at mid-tier organisations, the ERP choices available in this sector can be bewildering. David McNickel asks Greentree’s Peter Dickinson (pictured right) what questions should be top-of-mind for managers when making this critical ERP partner selection decision…

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Understanding Bluetooth

October 1, 2004 | iStart

This article explains technology characteristics and workings of Bluetooth, a short-range wireless connectivity technology that lets devices automatically recognize, connect and transfer data between each other…

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WiFi explained

July 9, 2003 | Keith Newman

Everything you ever wanted to know about the latest communications revolution. Keith Newman answers the WiFi FAQ’s…

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Life’s a beach – why aren’t you working there?

June 27, 2003 | David McNickel

Working from home is a good idea, but working from paradise is better – David McNickel looks at the emerging reality of hi-speed access from (somewhat) remote locations, and how it’s changing the face of work in New Zealand…

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