The retail markets in both Australia and New Zealand are in a state of technology-induced flux even though consumers in both countries still spend less than $7 out of every $100 online… read more...

Last week’s partnership announcement between Microsoft and Salesforce shows a pragmatic Microsoft leadership that wants to integrate more with existing ecosystems… read more...

Mike Bowman, former executive director of Bancorp New Zealand and son of the late Greentree founder Don Bowman, has been appointed to Greentree’s board of directors… read more...

Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

Dimension Data’s newly announced enterprise mobility as a service solution will be served up to local users out of its data centres around the world, including A/NZ, and is just one sign of significant growth in the managed mobile services market… read more...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...