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All about the cloud as Microsoft readies for 2016 Partner Awards
Record number of submissions set to make NZ Partner Awards the biggest in nine years of existence… read more...
SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent… read more...
ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear
The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept… read more...
IoT will be the only way by 2020
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time… read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Your Chariot app-ily awaits
Kiwi ride-sharing app launches in Beta today, against the backdrop of Auckland bus driver strikes… read more...
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...