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… read more...

The financial software business, headquartered in Sydney, has unveiled MYOB Advanced, a cloud-based ERP for the enterprise market across New Zealand and Australia… read more...

ASX-listed IT services company UXC Limited has started 2015 at a fast clip with growing enterprise demand and a push into the healthcare sector… read more...

Consumers in New Zealand rushed to the shops at the last possible minute in 2014 while Australians took a more sedate approach to the Christmas rush… read more...

Advances being made in Australian and New Zealand Universities are beating a path toward information systems which offer orders of magnitude improvements in security… read more...

Good Technology has released software that allows personal and corporate consumption of data on a BYOD device, making employee reimbursement somewhat easier… read more...

Enterprise software is a standout in Gartner’s 2015 IT spending forecast – though market competition and consolidation may threaten some vendors’ coffers… read more...

A Sydney-based business is taking on ERP and financial software vendors with a tightly integrated bolt-on for Office 365 that is being hosted in Microsoft’s Australian data centres… read more...

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… read more...

An initiative designed to block online advertisement fraud will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand in the second quarter of 2015… read more...

There has been a surge in confidence regarding digital marketing from professionals in Australia and New Zealand… read more...

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… read more...

Three of Australia’s biggest banks open innovation centres to spur technology development while PayPal offers small business loans as the lines blur between the technology and finance sectors… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

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