The tyranny of distance is no more for US vendor LiveOps, which is actively growing its development team in New Zealand to spearhead further global customer growth… read more...

Mining and construction businesses in Western Australia have driven sales at specialist ERP vendor IFS over the last 12 months, but the company is now seeing a spike in New Zealand activity as the economy picks up… read more...

The potential of mobile solutions to improve the field of critical communications has led Tait Communications to form a new strategic partnership to help it grow its software and services expertise… read more...

With cloud computing being embraced by enterprise, research firm Ovum predicts that the need for cloud services will accelerate rapidly as organisations seek advice on the best cloud ecosystem for their needs… read more...

The BYO trend is impacting corporate travel budgets as employees use online booking services such as Wotif and Webjet to book accommodation and trips… read more...

The Government’s calculation of the baseline valuation of the New Zealand welfare system was a world first and now it is taking analytics even further in to the realms of predictive risk modelling… read more...

The changing landscape of telecommunications in New Zealand is forcing one of our largest firms to re-invent itself with a rebrand and the launch of an internet-delivered TV and movie service… read more...

Thousands of businesses rely on Greentree daily and, following Greentree’s announcement of its Web3D Project, they will soon be able to do so entirely in the cloud – if they desire… read more...

The accounting software company has announced a number of cloud and mobile product releases and a naming refresh at its 2014 Roadshow but mention of the developer ecosystem was scarce… read more...

The CRM software company has announced its intention to invest in the expansion of its market share in the Asia Pacific region by replicating its successful American model… read more...

The latest IDC MarketScape report for companies which implement Salesforce solutions confirms the rise of a new class of services business which is focused entirely on cloud solutions… read more...

Four out of five Australians and New Zealanders still prefer to pick up the phone when they need to contact an organisation; it’s driving strong growth of contact centre solutions through to 2019… read more...

The white-anting of chief information officers continues with the rise of a new c-suite executive – the chief data officer… read more...

Telstra, which last year established its start-up accelerator programme muru-D, has revealed the list of ten organisations that will receive six months’ specialist support and a $A40,000 kicker… read more...

While Google Glass and other wearable technologies might still have something of a gimmicky feel about them, they will inevitably percolate the enterprise and CIOs need to be ready… read more...

Enterprises which exploit multiple data sources and implement systems to instantly identify patterns and act on them are going to secure a hard-to-erode competitive edge… read more...

Monash University manages more than a million web pages – it will also now manage the .monash generic top level domain which CIO Ian Tebbett believes will simplify things for end users… read more...

As enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing mounts, vendor investment is surging from the likes of IBM, Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and Fujitsu as the global cloud land-grab gathers pace… read more...

Wynyard Group, which provides threat assessment and advanced crime analytics software, has seen its highest share prices ever following a number of high-profile announcements this month… read more...

Paul Brislen, CEO of TUANZ, looks at the pros and cons of Telecom winning the final block of the 700MHz spectrum and asks if it should have been sold at all… read more...