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Inland Revenue Business Transformation project goes offshore

May 30, 2014 | Clare Coulson
Inland Revenue has taken the next step in its Business Transformation project announcing the release of its Request for Proposal to its two shortlisted multinational vendors for its core systems upgrade… read more...

CMOs and CIOs told to compromise for customers’ sake

May 28, 2014 | Newsdesk
Chief marketing officers and chief information officers need to come to a compromise about technology risk or lose the attention and interest of their customers… read more...

Jade Software on track for expansion with three leadership hires

May 28, 2014 | Clare Coulson, Newsdesk
Jade Software has this week announced appointments to three new leadership roles including CFO, director of sales and director of marketing, bringing new blood into the organisation… read more...

Telework popular – but hard to pin down

May 22, 2014 | Beverley Head
While the majority of Australasian employees now spend some time working outside of the office there are mixed signals about the level of technical support that they want or receive… read more...

NZ ERP firm launches award to honour founder

May 22, 2014 | Newsdesk
Greentree International wants its new award to reflect the spirit of excellence and innovation of its inimitable founder and has announced its inaugural recipient… read more...

Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network

May 21, 2014 | Beverley Head
Telstra has announced plans to spend $100 million creating a wi-fi network made up of two million hotspots in the next five years – the devil however may yet prove to be in the detail… read more...
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2014 NZ Hi-Tech Award winners announced

May 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
The 20th anniversary of the Hi-Tech Awards competition was a reflection of the strength and vibrancy of New Zealand’s technology industry, said Chairman, Wayne Norrie… read more...

Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities

May 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...
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Capital not an issue for Kiwi start-ups

May 16, 2014 | Hayden McCall
iStart’s Hayden McCall spoke with Cat Robinson at the Kiwi Landing Pad in San Francisco this week and found that the Kiwi tech start-up landscape is rapidly growing up… read more...

Search for supply chain riches drives SAP

May 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated… read more...

Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre… read more...

Cloud still demands careful taxpayer consideration

May 13, 2014 | Newsdesk
The special exemption granted to TechnologyOne by New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) shouldn’t be interpreted as a cloud free-for-all either for Australian or NZ taxpayers… read more...

Salesforce leads in CRM stakes

May 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Cloud-based customer relationship management specialist Salesforce has grown its share of the global CRM market – even though almost 60 percent of new CRM deployments are still on premise… read more...

Executives warn social media has marketing limitations

May 7, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australian airline Qantas runs 50 marketing campaigns a month – and despite senior executive enthusiasm for it, social media marketing isn’t delivering a standout success… read more...

IT managers blast cloud SLAs

May 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology executives may buy cloud services, but they have little faith in the service level agreements on offer and almost three in four think cloud companies actively hide problems… read more...

Top Kiwi tech start-up acquired by Microsoft

May 2, 2014 | Newsdesk
Microsoft Azure has strengthened its Big Compute offering with the acquisition of its partner and successful New Zealand technology company GreenButton… read more...
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MasterCard launches digital wallet ecosystem in New Zealand

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk
While Visa has publicly admitted it is considering changes to its current model for digital wallets, MasterCard is getting closer to its dream of a virtually invisible payments process online and in-store… read more...

Cebit kicks off new venue, new line-up

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk
One of the highlights of the region’s information technology calendar kicks off in Sydney next week in a new venue and with a whole new line-up…hopefully… read more...

Tait secures Brisbane Airport contract ahead of G20 summit

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk
The communications company will design, deploy and manage a critical new communications system for the airport, allowing it to focus on its core business… read more...

Vodafone M2M reaches one million connections with new deal

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk
Vodafone New Zealand has reached over one million machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, thanks to a five year global agreement with International Telematics Limited (ITL) signed last week… read more...

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