Australian start-up technology distributor and Oracle partner, Nextgen, has selected Oracle's business suite and CRM solutions to provide the backbone for its business.

A leading food company has achieved measurable benefits by replacing its sales staff's ageing PDAs with iPads.

  Data integration software services company, Informatica, has adopted cloud-based ERP software vendor, NetSuite's professional services automation solution to manage its worldwide services business.

The Retail Prodigy Group - the master franchise holder for Nike Australia - has successfully deployed Pronto Software's latest enterprise resource planning and business intelligence solution in three Nike stores to help the group drive its aggressive growth strategy in the Australian market.

Australian-listed, Perth-based IT services company, Empired, says it is now delivering on a 'serious growth agenda', after recording record half year earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of $1.421 million for the half year 2012, an increase of 173 percent compared with the previous half year period.

IFS is preparing to release a new version of its ERP product. IFS version 8 is currently being tested by half a dozen customers in an early adopter program, and is due for general release in May.

Business software vendor Infor has revealed Infor10 Motion, its cloud-based platform for mobile applications that integrate with Infor's ERP software.

ComOps has appointed Don Fletcher as its general manager of development.

Business technology solutions and managed services provider, Avanade has unveiled a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) offering which it says is partly a response to customer feedback. The wholesale distribution solution is built on Microsoft Dynamics AX platform.

Brisbane-based specialist business software provider, Markinson, has been acquired by international software and services group, Constellation Software, part of the Friedman group of companies.