IBM has secured a multi-million dollar deal to develop a complete cross-channel retail platform for Australia’s longest-standing department store group, David Jones, which IBM says will allow consumers to buy on their terms, according to their preferences.

New Zealand IT decision-makers are optimistic, but cautious, about their investment plans this year, and an analyst report just published suggests that businesses will just get on with business as usual and still spend on IT despite the prevailing caution.

Flurry, a mobile app analytics and advertising platform, has released some analysis showing, Amazon’s Kindle Fire equalling the “session usage” that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is seeing in astounding record time.

A new survey carried out by a major analyst firm suggests CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be relatively flush with cash compared with their counterparts in the US and Europe.

CRM systems provider, StayinFront has secured a contract to supply its on-demand consumer goods CRM solution to Australian supplement and sports nutrition manufacturer, Vitaco.

Big data analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012, according to a new report, which also predicts that CIOs will become major enablers of innovation for the business, playing a central role in operational & commercial strategy.

The Melbourne-based Metro Spinal Clinic is using IBM predictive analytics software for tracking and recording data that will allow clinicians to more accurately track and manage patient pain.

The industry body representing Australian analytics professionals is boosting their value with predictions that they are going to be even more highly sought after – even in hot demand - over the next seven years as the use of analytics by business continues to grow.

The big movers in IT at the moment are mobile computing, cloud services, social networking and big data analytics technologies, with one analyst firm predicting a high-stakes battle next year as vendors fight for market share. Microsoft, HP, SAP, Apple and RIM are all expected to go head-to-head in the frontline battle for market dominance.

IT consulting firm, Transpire, and service intelligence software company, eMite, have teamed up in a partnership to tackle the ‘challenge’ of unifying siloed information sources into a single view.