One of the founders of MYOB has boosted his stake in cloud accounting provider Xero.

Software testing services company, TestPro, has selected IBM’s smartcloud enterprise solution to increase the flexibility and timeliness of its IT service delivery.

Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company’s Sydney headquarters.

The Axe Group software company’s eClaims software system has been implemented by life insurance company, AIA Australia, and made available, through their portals, to the 2.2 million members of AIA’s client companies, REST and GESB.

How can you test composite systems realistically without running a complete test system? CA subsidiary ITKO seems to have found the answer: simulation.

N-able, the Canada-based supplier of the N-central platform for managed service providers, is investing in the Asia Pacific region. That includes Australia, where it already serves the most MSPs per capita.

New Zealand-listed accounting software vendor, Xero, has raised a further $15.5 million from existing strategic investors in the company to support its future growth in Australia and globally, at the same time as it announced the acquisition of practice management company, Max Solutions, the developer of job, time and invoice management solution WorkflowMax.

The challenges which enterprises are facing in terms of managing ballooning end user data stores, and information stored on virtual servers or in clouds, has prompted CommVault to update its Simpana suite of information management tools, bringing forward the release of some functions originally slated for inclusion in Simpana 10 which isn’t expected to be released before 2013.

Is there ever a “final cut” when it comes to constantly evolving software? Clearly, when it comes to Apple’s Final Cut X, the answer is no, with a brand new version 10.0.3 having just been launched as a “significant update”.

Following the 'liberation' of source code for the 2006 versions of many of its products, Symantec initially indicated that the latest versions were so different that there wasn't a problem.  Perhaps that wasn't true of pcAnywhere.