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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… read more...
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… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...
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… read more...

PayPal offers Aussies business loans; lines blur between technology and finance

October 22, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...

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… read more...
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The new ISP says it is designed specifically for the UFB world and will challenge outdated incumbent attitudes on the importance of customer experience, products and pricing… read more...

Navman Wireless targets ‘people and plant’ with fleet management BI product

October 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
Navman Wireless, a global leader in GPS-based fleet optimisation products and services, has today launched its cloud-based BI-as-a-service solution for enterprise fleets called Adaptive Intelligence… read more...

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… read more...
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… read more...
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… read more...

Semble launches NZ’s own mobile wallet

October 10, 2014 | Clare Coulson
A “uniquely Kiwi” joint-venture will see a common mobile wallet available to Android smartphone users by early next year… read more...
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… read more...

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… read more...

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… read more...
Ricoh Korax award

Ricoh New Zealand picks up rare Kofax Diamond Partner status

October 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
The company is the only Kofax partner in New Zealand to receive such high recognition… read more...
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… read more...

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… read more...

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