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...

NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft Azure has strengthened its Big Compute offering with the acquisition of its partner and successful New Zealand technology company GreenButton… read more...

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...

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...

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 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...

Listed New Zealand technology company Wynyard is predicting strong Australian demand for its crime analytics platform as it becomes predictive… read more...

TechnologyOne has been granted permission by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to store data for its New Zealand customers in Australia on the TechnologyOne Cloud as a third party provider. The IRD’s approval exempts TechnologyOne customers from data sovereignty rules requiring financial records to be stored in New Zealand… read more...

While Microsoft continues to gain traction for its cloud-based Office 365 – the company grinds on slowly toward opening a local Azure data centre, almost a year after one was first promised… read more...

The mega-vendor took time to reflect on the changes it is making as a company and highlight the importance of its partners as it goes cloud and mobile-first – but it hasn’t forgotten about Dynamics… read more...

The New Zealand-based e-commerce company is continuing its growth spurt with the acquisition of a UK-based direct debit billing provider… read more...

Recent evidence suggests that the Heartbleed vulnerability is something business should be genuinely concerned about… read more...