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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...
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...
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...
Retailers ignoring contactless payment tech short-change themselves
Changing purchasing habits, including growth in the sharing economy, show retailers who don’t keep up will be left with an empty piggy bank… read more...
ERP giant steps up focus on key markets
SAP ANZ establishes Public Services and Financial Services business units… read more...
Xero promises big data for small business with new Microsoft ties
Power BI integration likely to get spreadsheet aficionados fired up… read more...
Technologies to disrupt digital commerce in 2016
Juniper Research reveals top transformational technologies in e-commerce… read more...
Xero updates tax and switches guard
Cloud accounting software company Xero has announced a slew of updates for its Australian tax module, along with a changing of the guard at the pointy end in both Australia and New Zealand… read more...
Worldwide BI to hit US$16.9 billion in 2016
Especially solid growth for analytics in ANZ in otherwise tepid IT market… read more...
Goodbye Koorb with latest Fusion5 acquisition
The wave of consolidation of trans-Tasman enterprise solution providers continues apace as Fusion5 snaps up the remnants of Koorb… read more...
More cloud consolidation as Plan B acquires ICONZ
Founding NZ ISP ICONZ is now part of Plan B as the acquiring company said it is ‘creating scale as a provider of business and continuity solutions’… read more...
Security blanky makes way for quilt
Enterprises need to rethink blanket rules regarding access to corporate information systems, and instead take more of a “patchwork quilt” approach according to a former FBI agent… read more...
Data proves as important as financial capital
Data is a form of capital on par with financial capital, even though it can’t yet be shown on a balance sheet, according to Paul Sonderegger, big data strategist for Oracle… read more...
Bulletproof to acquire Cloud House
NZ AWS partner snapped up by Australian cloud service provider… read more...
Cloud ERP? Make sure it is IRD-compliant
Businesses looking to move to cloud solutions should make sure their provider is compliant with applicable Inland Revenue Department requirements… read more...
Automation comes to live TV production
With the introduction of the Sony Hawk-Eye automated system, NZ Live set to revolutionise broadcasting… read more...
NZTech takes steps towards national alliance of industry bodies
Readies up to ink agreement with Canterbury Software Cluster… read more...
SAP enterprise omnichannel software available as a service (but not yet in ANZ)
A new agreement between systems integrator Dimension Data and SAP makes the vendor’s Hybris Commerce available on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis for the first time in APAC… read more...
New Zealand ranks 28th in global innovation
Just cracks top 30 in how domestic policies support worldwide innovation, according to Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) think tank… read more...
Promapp secures Callaghan funding, looks to build US presence
Cloud business process management (BPM) vendor awarded R&D Growth Grant… read more...
