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Kiwi SMEs put Aussie counterparts to shame
New Zealand’s SMEs are showing their highest growth in more than half a decade thanks to hard work and technology says new report… read more...
Fancy a free holiday? Stop turning up late to meetings
Meetings are the bane of the workplace; the average worker attends five a week, an executive ten – and because of habitual late starts we lose several days of productive work time each year… read more...
Infor steps up search for “beautiful” software
Global enterprise software company Infor has embarked on a mission to develop and deliver “beautiful” software and hired New York-based designers to help… read more...
NZ Councils to cut costs with launch of free online process knowledge library
From this week New Zealand councils can take advantage of each other’s process knowledge and experience for free thanks to a new online library that could save some councils tens of thousands of dollars… read more...
Success not guaranteed: preparing an ERP business case
A rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution… read more...
Teen’s sophisticated drone invention wins Bright Sparks award
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
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
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
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...
Tenth TIN100 report celebrates $8 billion NZ tech industry
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
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
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...
NZ’s first fibre-only ISP MyRepublic promises to challenge incumbents
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
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
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...
Heroes of tech recognised at ITx conference
The industry conference in Auckland last week culminated in the ITx Awards celebrating the best IT professionals from 2014… read more...
IRD chooses Accenture for first stage of $1.5 billion transformation project
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
A “uniquely Kiwi” joint-venture will see a common mobile wallet available to Android smartphone users by early next year… read more...
ICT professionalism a focus for ITx 2014 conference
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
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...
