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How back office transformation drives IRD efficiency
With the Inland Revenue Department undergoing a massive systems upgrade, transformation of the back office is among the central raisons d’etre… read more...
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iPod laws in a smartphone world: Will we ever get copyright right?
Innovation-unfriendly laws prevail as A/NZ lawmakers struggle to keep pace with technology… read more...
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New Canberra Azure regions target high-security and govt data
The MS megalith continues to spread its high-specced tentacles across Australia and the globe… read more...
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Finalists in the 2018 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards announced
According to the judges, this year’s awards will also celebrate high diversity… read more...
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Championing the ‘why’: Securing business buy-in for change
Cigna CIO says when the business understands the rationale behind strategic decisions, execution gets a whole lot easier… read more...
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In the realm of the sensors: Oil and gas industry gears up for transformation
Data is the new Texas-tea as a conservative industry wakes up to the value of IoT… read more...
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B2B fintech: The $216 trillion opportunity
In the latest from our ‘whoa-that’s-a-big-number’ dept, Juniper predicts boom times in burgeoning B2B payment industry… read more...
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Facebook and the age of data enlightenment
With #DeleteFacebook trending, the creepiness of the social giant’s data-enabled reach is beginning to hit home… read more...
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A case in point: The value of back office transformation
What’s the value in a more efficient, automated back office?… read more...
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Salesforce buys Mulesoft for US$6.5 billion
The CRM giant pays top dollar for the integration specialist in its bid to tempt new customers… read more...
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Microsoft dominates Gartner’s BI & Analytics list
MS continues to outperform BI peers with slick product, great iteration and an attractive price point… read more...
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MYOB frees the data with AI-powered advisory dashboard
As accountants and bookkeepers wade deeper into advisor territory, MYOB looks to advise the advisors with free data crunching tool… read more...
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ITP steps up to qualify ICT immigrants
New Zealand’s IT Professionals association to provide qualification recognition… read more...
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Space downunder the final frontier
The Southern skies are set to be busy as governments open space for business… read more...
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Lather, rinse, repeat: Why design thinking is great for business
Design thinking evangelical says that a human-centred approach is the key to lightning-speed iteration and ultimately wild business success… read more...
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9 Spokes signs with BNZ to offer SME dashboard
The platform will integrate bank data and provide accounting, inventory, and payroll to SME customers… read more...
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Report: ERP implementations grow more popular, expensive and problematic
A new report finds that while ERP implementation numbers have surged since last year, customer expectations around costs, time and the overall human impact are way off… read more...
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Reengineering tech: A new approach to IT delivery
Deloitte offers big thinking for beleaguered CIOs looking to influence but feeling the weight of a raft of new responsibilities… read more...
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Mac attack: Malware targeting Macintosh computers soars 270 percent
Apple users aren’t looking so smug as almost undetectable malware threats to Macs go through the roof… read more...
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Travel and tourism’s big tech makeover 2018
AI, IoT and Wi-Fi everywhere: How the travel industry is embracing new technology to secure a bigger slice of the tourism pie… read more...