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Donovan Jackson
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Which vendors come short when measuring up the big boys of ERP?
Panorama Consulting’s ‘Clash of the Titans 2017’ report compares SAP, Oracle, Dynamics and Infor… read more...
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Demand for ‘intelligent automation’ accelerates
Vendor strengthens in-country representation as service management catches on… read more...
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Field service at the sharp end of digital transformation
Doing the same thing again and expecting a different result is, apparently, at least one definition of insanity… read more...
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‘Don’t panic’ as AWS goes down
There’s a broader lesson in the downing of Amazon Web Services’ S3 service in North America and that is simply ‘don’t panic’… read more...
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Word soup with new name, expansion for SAP PaaS
In SAP-land, everything good is called HANA. Except HANA Cloud Platform… read more...
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Have your employees got the best tools for the job? Probably not
Less than half of respondents to a global study have the ‘latest technology’ to do their jobs… read more...
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Smart glasses tipped for big things, despite probably still making you look stupid
Google Glass might be dead, but the segment in which it inspired a good deal of public opprobrium isn’t… read more...
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M&A activity continues as Fusion5 and Myriad join forces
Australasian business solutions company Fusion5 merges with Myriad IT… read more...
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Culture shift needed before transformation
Fear of the machines is real, so focus on people first, then tech… read more...
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ANZ spoilt for choice with more cloud options
Oracle expands cloud coverage with PaaS, IaaS… read more...
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The robots are coming (and they’re going to clean your house)
Succour for those afraid of the robot invasion… read more...
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Chatbots take flight in New Zealand
But it is more Kitty Hawk than Cape Canaveral right now… read more...
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Automation and the death of work
The end of the world will arrive through sheer indolence… read more...
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Shift to the cloud as minnows nip at big energy retailers’ flanks
The big boys of the electricity industry aren’t taking this digital transformation malarkey lying down… read more...
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Chatbots hit the perfect pitch
With bots taking over the world, isn’t it a good thing they are so friendly… read more...
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Productivity, technology and targeting NZ’s biggest IT spender
‘Technology is at the heart of improving productivity of government services’… read more...
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Does software licensing equate to theft?
Software vendors perpetuating a billion-dollar heist (or are they?)… read more...
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Data science gets automated, but the devil is still in the detail
More than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020 reckons Gartner… read more...
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Digital technology rendering government redundant
‘Digital’ has replaced multiple devices, industries and ways of doing things. Could it see off government, too?… read more...
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‘Over the top’ puts a hundred billion back in your pocket
A figure is put to internet protocol gains… read more...