IndustryThe international organisation of IT solution providers, HTG Peer Groups, is to hold its first ever summit outside of the United States when it stages an Australia-New Zealand summit in Melbourne in two months time.
Transport and logistics management software provider, TransLogix, has launched its Sapphire Transport Management System (TMS) as a cloud-based software-as-a-service after six months of development following the acquisition of the company by WiseTech Global.
The new Optus direct sales strategy, mooted last year, is taking shape.
CRM data integration solutions provider, Scribe Software, has released what it says is significant enhancements to its award-winning cloud platform to make the time-intensive, “complex process of data integration open, user-centric and available to key stakeholders beyond those with deep technical programming expertise.”
Australian IT solutions company, Indicium Technology Group, has secured a long term partnership with ASEAN investment banking and securities trading organisation, CIMB.
Bank websites have drawn criticism from independent experts for the clutter and poor design of their websites, making them difficult to access by disabled users of the Internet. But a website for police and nurses drew the greatest criticism of the seven websites assessed.
As part of its Information Heritage Initiative to protect the world’s information for future generations, EMC is providing 2.8 petabytes of storage to help the Vatican Apostolic Library digitise its entire catalogue of historic manuscripts and incunabula, constituting books or pamphlets printed before 1501.
Telstra has gone to the Eurozone to raise more than a billion dollars. It seems the money will be used to buy more spectrum in next month’s Digital Dividend auction.
Bowing to public pressure, Microsoft has changed its licencing policies for the new version of Microsoft Office.
Australia continues to be one of the world leaders in cloud computing policies, ranked the second most prepared country for cloud adoption, one notch below Japan in first place, and with a particularly high score for its up-to-date cybercrime regime, bolstered by ratification of the Convention on Cybercrime.
