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Greentree ERP moves to the cloud
Thousands of businesses rely on Greentree daily and, following Greentree’s announcement of its Web3D Project, they will soon be able to do so entirely in the cloud – if they desire… read more...
SugarCRM looks for sweet spot in APAC
The CRM software company has announced its intention to invest in the expansion of its market share in the Asia Pacific region by replicating its successful American model… read more...
Cloud specialists challenge traditional services players
The latest IDC MarketScape report for companies which implement Salesforce solutions confirms the rise of a new class of services business which is focused entirely on cloud solutions… read more...
Contact centres invest in technology to cut churn
Four out of five Australians and New Zealanders still prefer to pick up the phone when they need to contact an organisation; it’s driving strong growth of contact centre solutions through to 2019… read more...
CIOs face yet another white anting
The white-anting of chief information officers continues with the rise of a new c-suite executive – the chief data officer… read more...
Aussie telco ventures into start-up game
Telstra, which last year established its start-up accelerator programme muru-D, has revealed the list of ten organisations that will receive six months’ specialist support and a $A40,000 kicker… read more...

Wearables to worm way into enterprise IT
While Google Glass and other wearable technologies might still have something of a gimmicky feel about them, they will inevitably percolate the enterprise and CIOs need to be ready… read more...
Big data pioneers secure competitive beach-head
Enterprises which exploit multiple data sources and implement systems to instantly identify patterns and act on them are going to secure a hard-to-erode competitive edge… read more...

Top level domain names: build it and they will come
Monash University manages more than a million web pages – it will also now manage the .monash generic top level domain which CIO Ian Tebbett believes will simplify things for end users… read more...

Spending flurry woos A/NZ cloud seekers
As enterprise enthusiasm for cloud computing mounts, vendor investment is surging from the likes of IBM, Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and Fujitsu as the global cloud land-grab gathers pace… read more...

Wynyard Group shoots for stock market success
Wynyard Group, which provides threat assessment and advanced crime analytics software, has seen its highest share prices ever following a number of high-profile announcements this month… read more...

4G spectrum sales: should we be happy?
Paul Brislen, CEO of TUANZ, looks at the pros and cons of Telecom winning the final block of the 700MHz spectrum and asks if it should have been sold at all… read more...
Gartner: Many CIOs unprepared for digitalisation
Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning but, according to a global survey of more than 2300 CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs, most CIOs do not feel prepared for it… read more...

Getting your business on the map
In this ‘social, local, mobile’ world we live in, being able to pinpoint where we are, what is in our immediate vicinity and how to get there, is vital… read more...

Freelancers take flight
The way we work is changing. The market for recruiting creative and project resources has gone global… read more...

Why broadband black spots are damaging the economy
Filling in Australia’s broadband black spots would boost productivity says Rob Stummer… read more...

Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? – restructuring and redundancy
When changing markets or new technology result in the ‘R words’, the processes and systems need to be in place to avoid staff challenging the outcomes and further extending the pain…. read more...

How to justify your technology choice
As technology plays an ever-stronger role in modern business models, predicting and measuring productivity gains from technology investment is becoming paramount to getting project sign off… read more...

Man, machine and the productivity story
Technology has increased productivity and emancipated humankind from day-to day tasks, enabling automation over drudgery, hasn’t it? The march of the machine continues into the digital age… read more...

AMI claims improved service with tech refresh
The New Zealand insurance company gets with the programme, updating its core platform to enable multi-channel customer service… read more...