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Jonathan Cotton
Welcome to the New Intelligence Era (courtesy of SAP)
SAP continues to target APAC with new Singapore Leonardo Centre launch. iStart was there to check it out… read more...
The end of ownership: The subs economy booms
It’s not new, but then again, it kind of is. Goodbye pay-per-product – the subscription economy has come of age… read more...
Breaking down the biggest worries of tech managers
The numbers are in: Complexity, lack of skills and lack of cloud visibility are the biggest headaches for those on the front line… read more...
AI meets CX: The ultimate test of…human patience?
The robot hordes are coming to manage the customer experience. Welcome to hell… read more...
NZ needs to address its lack of tech marketing savvy
The Number 8 Wire approach just doesn’t cut it in the modern world says new tech marketing group… read more...
Cloud migration: Why ‘lift and shift’ is not enough
With Amazon, MS and Google all upping their enterprise cloud game, why do businesses so often fail in their great migrations?… read more...
Rave about the machine: Auckland to host AI conference
Auckland has won the bid to host a top international artificial intelligence get-together in 2020… read more...
This week in Kiwi telcos
Sporty Spark also extends into infosec-as-a-service and ComCom lays charges against Vodafone – it’s just another week in telco 2.0… read more...
Is CRM the largest software market in the world?
According to Gartner it is, but it’s more about the rise of martech and CX than core CRM rollouts… read more...
Youth in revolt: Google employees protest Pentagon drone work
Brave stand or naive youth grandstanding? 3,000 Google employees say ‘no’ to military drone tech… read more...
Tech and disruption lead agenda for 2018 CIO Summit
Top international tech experts will descend on Auckland this June to show just how CIOs can drive digi-tech disruption… read more...
The stalled Oracle DHB ERP project: Time to review the review?
Yes, there’s a conflict of interest but no, nothing to see here, says Minister for Health David Clark… read more...
IoT cleans up Sydney Fish Market (among other things)
Clever tech is changing the way Australasia catches, monitors and markets its seafood… read more...
iPod laws in a smartphone world: Will we ever get copyright right?
Innovation-unfriendly laws prevail as A/NZ lawmakers struggle to keep pace with technology… read more...
New Canberra Azure regions target high-security and govt data
The MS megalith continues to spread its high-specced tentacles across Australia and the globe… read more...
Championing the ‘why’: Securing business buy-in for change
Cigna CIO says when the business understands the rationale behind strategic decisions, execution gets a whole lot easier… read more...
In the realm of the sensors: Oil and gas industry gears up for transformation
Data is the new Texas-tea as a conservative industry wakes up to the value of IoT… read more...
B2B fintech: The $216 trillion opportunity
In the latest from our ‘whoa-that’s-a-big-number’ dept, Juniper predicts boom times in burgeoning B2B payment industry… read more...
Facebook and the age of data enlightenment
With #DeleteFacebook trending, the creepiness of the social giant’s data-enabled reach is beginning to hit home… read more...
Salesforce buys Mulesoft for US$6.5 billion
The CRM giant pays top dollar for the integration specialist in its bid to tempt new customers… read more...