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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...

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...

A case in point: The value of back office transformation
What’s the value in a more efficient, automated back office?… read more...

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...

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...

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...

ITP steps up to qualify ICT immigrants
New Zealand’s IT Professionals association to provide qualification recognition… read more...

Space downunder the final frontier
The Southern skies are set to be busy as governments open space for business… read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CFOs: Your company’s newest data specialist? Or back room bean counter?
It’s supposed to be a heady new high-tech world for CFOs, industry’s most transformed role. So where’s the tech?… read more...

Govt rides success of recent digital-first initiatives – where to next?
With online census success, new digital petitioning and a fresh commitment to open data, some think NZ might just turn out to be a global GovTech leader… read more...

Fonterra debuts new VR training tech
The dairy co-op has developed possibly the hippest risk reduction training in the country: virtual reality H&S… read more...

NZ makes the at-risk ‘Cyber Five’ list
Geographic isolation doesn’t count for much in the cyber stakes – so why are we unconcerned? read more...

Predictable disruption: How to expect the unexpected
Disruption is, by its very nature, unpredictable, right? Well, not so fast. According to Accenture, that ain’t necessarily so… read more...

How not to suck at digital transformation
Why do the best laid digital plans of so many companies go awry? Research company McKinsey offers its two cents… read more...