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Microsoft partner awards

All about the cloud as Microsoft readies for 2016 Partner Awards

March 8, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

March 7, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

March 4, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
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

March 3, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

FlyBuys spreads wings to the cloud

March 3, 2016 | Clare Coulson
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

Mayoral candidate brands Super City $1.2 billion IT spend “shambles”

March 2, 2016 | Clare Coulson
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

March 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
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

Hi Tech Awards 2016: Entries close next Monday

March 1, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

Data-driven experience electrifies energy consumers

March 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
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

February 29, 2016 | Beverley Head
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

February 29, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

February 26, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

Government tech summit underlines opportunities and challenges

February 25, 2016 | Clare Coulson
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

February 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
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

PwC’s Next big thing is in the cloud

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

IBM approves of Kiwi firm’s gamble

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

February 23, 2016 | Newsdesk
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

Vend’s ex-CEO talks fear and the future

February 23, 2016 | Clare Coulson
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

Your Chariot app-ily awaits

February 19, 2016 | Newsdesk
Kiwi ride-sharing app launches in Beta today, against the backdrop of Auckland bus driver strikes… read more...
Business slow connect to UFB

Businesses slow to connect to UFB could cost economy dear

February 19, 2016 | Clare Coulson
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...

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