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S4i Systems, a global document and disk management software provider for IBM Systems i, has appointed a new director of marketing and channel development in a bid to further expand the awareness and recognition of the company.

Hewlett Packard has appointed a new man to drive its sales effort for enterprise servers and storage systems in the South Pacific region.
 

The Trujillo dynasty at Telstra continues to dissolve with today’s resignation of strategic marketing boss, Bill Stewart who is returning to the United States after four years in the job.

BMC Software, with worldwide revenues of $1.86 billion, is boosting its business development efforts in the Australian and New Zealand markets and says it’s confident of growth in its Australian business despite the tough economic conditions.

When the going gets tough the tough get going, and no more than at the moment as all sectors of business and industry, including the technology sector, face a much tougher job marketing and selling their products and services as the economic downturn bites deeper.

The Australian arm of business analytics and business intelligence vendor, SAS, has beefed up its sales effort in the Australian market by creating a new position for a sales director and consolidating all sales functions and industry approaches under the new appointee.

Australia technology and business services consultants, Oakton, have just appointed a new manager to give added focus to what the company says is its growing ERP solutions business.

Macquarie Telecom seems to be defying the economic downturn with rapid expansion and growth in its hosting and data business now accounting for one third of overall revenue and a resulting doubling of its sales and operations team over the past three months.

Australia’s O4 Corporation, a global provider of sales force automation software for consumer products companies, has appointed a new head of its Asia Pacific operations at a time when “demand for the company’s software systems is at an all time high despite the worldwide economic downturn.”

Lawson Software seems to be bringing a whole new meaning within the company to customer focus with the establishment of a new business department called the “Customer Experience Office” and the appointment of a “chief customer officer”.

Business software provider, SAP, has formed a new business division for its Australian and New Zealand operations and appointed a new man to head up the division and to spearhead sales of integrated solutions for business users.

Isilon Systems Australia, a provider of in scale-out NAS, says its local operation is increasing staff despite the slowing economic conditions, and the latest appointment to a newly created position is Peter Gjersoe as general manager, strategic accounts.
 

In a concerted bid to drive sales and grow market share in Australia, France Telecom brand, Orange, has appointed a new general manager for Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Interwoven, a provider of enterprise content management solutions, has appointed a new managing director for Australia and New Zealand to drive business in the region and to generate new deals for its “class-leading” enterprise CMS and document management products.

Strong growth in the Asia Pacific region has prompted the Australian arm of Isilon Systems, a company supplying scale-out NAS-clustered storage systems for digital content and unstructured data, to beef up its team with the appointment of a Business Development Manager.

MTV Networks Australia has a new head of advertising sales for its business in Australia and New Zealand.

Internet service provider EFTel Limited (ASX: EFT) has expanded its Wholesale Division - to be known as EFTel Wholesale in the wake of its recent acquisition of the Concept Group.

The Australia arm of SAS, the business analytics software and independent business intelligence vendor, has appointed Warren Donnelly as head of Sustainability Management, SAS Australia & New Zealand. 

Global technology research and advisory firm Gartner has appointed Sydney-based Peter Wilson as regional vice president, Events in Asia Pacific and Japan.