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Unified business communications provider, Interactive Intelligence has established its first training centre in Australia with a purpose-built facility in North Sydney.

A Christian writers’ website, Faithwriters.com, boasting 1.1 million unique visitors per month has apparently been hacked, with some 40,000 passwords believed to have been stolen and emails compromised, including those of hundreds of writers from Australia and New Zealand.

Public sector spending on enterprise networking equipment throughout the Asia Pacific market is holding up well despite the ravages of the economic downturn.

Fuji Xerox Printers has given the responsibility for its marketing and communications functions in Australia and New Zealand to Brad Monsbourgh, communications manager for Asia Pacific and China, in a move which the company says recognises the strategic importance and growth opportunities in both countries.

TiVo, the creator of television services and advertising solutions for digital video recorders, is to launch its TiVo service in New Zealand later this year.
 

ArcSight, a global provider of compliance and security management solutions, is establishing an operation in Australia with the aim of expanding its market presence in the Asia Pacific region through the appointment of a chief salesman for Australia and New Zealand.

Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Cisco has unveiled its first Australian Customer Briefing Centre (CBC), a US$3 million Internet protocol networking technology showcase in its Sydney offices.

Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company, says its Gentran Integration Suite has now been certified by GS1 Australia for interoperability with suppliers and manufacturers using GS1net.
 

Websense, integrated web, data and email security solutions vendor, has named Queensland’s Data# as its 2008 Websense Partner of the Year for Australia and New Zealand.

Software AG is launching AlignSpace, which it says is the first and largest social network for business process management (BPM) professionals in the market.

Business management software vendor, Sybiz, says escalating sales volumes in the Australian and New Zealand market has brought about two new appointments to its sales and marketing team.

Power supply provider APC by Schneider Electric, has appointed a new data centre solutions advisor for the Pacific region to promote its energy efficient data centre solutions and to develop key partnerships in the region.

Lexmark is looking for profitable growth in the enterprise, government and SMB markets in Australia and New Zealand and has appointed a new country manager to lead the new business drive.

Strong growth in the managed print services (MPS) market is forecast for the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, with the market value in 2011 expected to be US$825 million compared with just a US$392 million market value in 2007.

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.

Trans Tasman supplier of transport and logistics solutions, TransLogix, has implemented an enterprise-wide 3PL (3rd party logistics) warehouse system for New Zealand’s Maxwell Group of Logistics Companies.