Archives
![Flybuys](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/03/Flybuys-99x66.jpg)
FlyBuys spreads wings to the cloud
Loyalty New Zealand, the company behind New Zealand’s largest loyalty programme FlyBuys, is using cloud technology to provide instant satisfaction… read more...
![Auckland IT spend](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/03/Auckland-IT-spend-99x66.jpg)
Mayoral candidate brands Super City $1.2 billion IT spend “shambles”
With more than 20-years’ ICT industry experience under her belt, Victoria Crone has not pulled her punches when criticising Auckland Council’s IT expenditure over the past five years… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/03/CSC-UXC-merger-99x66.jpg)
Dust settles on CSC/UXC merger
Of the 2,500 organisations that CSC and UXC provide services to in this region, there are apparently only about ten where there is any significant overlap… read more...
![High Tech Awards](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/03/High-Tech2015-99x66.jpg)
Hi Tech Awards 2016: Entries close next Monday
What do Xero, Phitek and Umajin all have in common? They were big winners at last year’s Hi Tech Awards. If you think you have what it takes to be the next big name, Chairman Wayne Norrie wants you to enter… read more...
![manapouri](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/03/manapouri-99x66.jpg)
Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers
Electricity retailing. It’s not really the sort of business ripe for innovation or differentiation for customers, you say? Well, according to Flick founder and CEO Steve O’Connor you are “wrong”… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/MYOB-cloud-finance-99x66.jpg)
MYOB edges closer to all-cloud business
Accounting software company MYOB has released its first set of financial results since it relisted on the sharemarket last May… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Internet-of-Things-tech-99x66.jpg)
Gartner’s Top 10 IoT tech predictions
The global analyst firm has outlined ten technologies that it believes will allow organisations to go full speed ahead with the Internet of Things over the next two years… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Dick-Smith-99x66.jpg)
Good bye Dick Smith
In a statement issued by receivers Ferrier Hodgson, it was today announced that the remaining Dick Smith and Move stores (excluding airport locations) in Australia and New Zealand will close… read more...
![Tech summit](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Tech-summit-99x66.jpg)
Government tech summit underlines opportunities and challenges
This week 100-plus government leaders, technology decision makers and leading lights of the technology industry gathered at the first ever NZTech Advance: Government and Technology Summit… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/liberal-arts-degree-99x66.jpg)
Rejoice, liberal arts student, your career in data analytics awaits
There’s plenty of hype around analytics and Gartner is tipping this sector of the industry for big things throughout 2016. But just how ready are businesses to take practical advantage of their data stores?… read more...
![Easy cloud business](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Easy-cloud-business-99x66.jpg)
PwC’s Next big thing is in the cloud
PwC is bringing clarity to cloudy data in Australasia by integrating more than 60 cloud accounting tools and other applications in one centralised platform to be launched in March… read more...
![IBM partnerworld conference](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/IBM-partnerworld-conference-99x66.jpg)
IBM approves of Kiwi firm’s gamble
The IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference took place in Orlando, Florida, last week, unveiling a new partner programme and digital experience for its partners to help serve their clients in “the cloud and cognitive era”… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/cdo-design-99x66.jpg)
CDOs ‘not aware how to successfully design organisation’ – Gartner
The rapid adoption of the chief data officer (CDO) role — from 400 in 2014 to 1,000 in 2015 — raises important questions about the structure and positioning of the office of the CDO in organisations… read more...
![Vaughan Rowsell](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/vaughan-Rowsell-99x66.jpg)
Vend’s ex-CEO talks fear and the future
Vaughn Rowsell has a reputation for being the moustachioed maverick of the New Zealand tech industry and last week he did not disappoint, stepping down as CEO of his company Vend… read more...
![Auckland bus driver strikes](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Auckland-bus-driver-strikes-99x66.jpg)
Your Chariot app-ily awaits
Kiwi ride-sharing app launches in Beta today, against the backdrop of Auckland bus driver strikes… read more...
![Business slow connect to UFB](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Business-slow-connect-to-UFB-99x66.jpg)
Businesses slow to connect to UFB could cost economy dear
UFB connections are up 135 percent on last year. Although businesses are lagging behind consumers in uptake, Minister for Communications Amy Adams says she is not concerned… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/UXC-acquisition-99x66.jpg)
CSC’s UXC acquisition a done deal
Global technology solutions company CSC is to complete the acquisition of UXC Limited within the next few weeks… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Home-Insurance-99x66.jpg)
Insurance industry next on IT innovation hit list
Insurers are starting to take stock of how IT can help boost business as the industry exits its rocky patch… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/technology-lock-in-99x66.jpg)
Technology lock-in could be holding your company back
One of the single biggest barriers to digital strategy is the impact of capital depreciation and multi-year licensing contracts… read more...
![](https://istart.co.nz/wp-content/uploads//2016/02/Cloud-money-99x66.jpg)
Cloud arbitrage headed for A/NZ
Global Cloud Xchange is within a month of switching on its first A/NZ node, intended to allow local enterprises to deploy a cloud arbitrage strategy… read more...