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Today, we demand access to information no matter the device, location or time. However, this on-demand mentality, in particular with Cloud services, exposes the enterprise to new risks that are more often overlooked than understood.
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Andrew Stevens IBM ANZ’s Managing Director speaking at the recent ACS Foundation lunch in Sydney highlighted that The Digital Business Transformation is the tectonic shift brought about by new technologies that affect every business, industry and government.
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It’s that time of year when just about everyone in the analyst business and the broader technology industry comes up with their prognostications and predictions for the year ahead. Inevitably, many of those will prove wildly inaccurate, overly optimistic or simply embarrassing.
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What are the major data centre trends in Australia for 2013? | What is the spending forecast for Australian data centres? | Where is the Australian cloud market heading in 2013? | What is the adoption rate of cloud in Australia?
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IQ Group is a member of a global group, IQ BUSINESS, with more than 500 employees world-wide. Here in Australia we serve the Financial Services sectors, principally Superannuation and Wealth Management. With over 80 talented people in our team, we focus on integrating technology with business strategy and business process.
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The iAwards is recognised as Australia’s premier technology awards program and 2013 will be its 19th year having been established in 1994 by the AIIA. The iAwards boasts the most comprehensive array of awards which recognise the achievements and contributions that ICT makes across all facets of the Australian economy.
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If you ever wanted evidence that success in the analyst business is about more than good research, then the latest financial results from Gartner and Forrester tell the story – it’s as much about sales performance as anything else.
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News that consumer expectations have changed forever is not new. We know the customer of today is always connected and wants to be engaged consistently via multiple channels, whether that’s via social media, email, the contact centre or in-person.
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At a recent software CEO briefing conference I was invited to attended in Macau, the new CEO of Progress Software, Jay Baht, presented a perceptive summary of what industry analysts see as the new key imperatives for next-generation business applications
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With many European banks in turmoil and the Euro arguably on the brink of collapse, it is well worth recognising the important role that IT has played in ensuring Australia’s banking industry has remained strong and robust throughout.
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One of the banking industry’s biggest challenges today is to change the way it uses IT to achieve its business objectives. Too many banks and financial services institutions look at IT purely as a way to reduce costs.
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I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a very difficult time. Windows 8 is such a deviation from any prior version of Windows I have a...
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