Australian software company, Media and Gaming, has had its first overseas sale of its software betting platform to the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) which the company claims will “revolutionise wagering systems worldwide”.

Global software and IT services company, Compuware, has signed an agreement that will see it acquire privately-held Web applications provider, Gomez, in a $259 million cash deal expected to be completed in November.

Australian provider of corporate investigation and electronic discovery (eDiscovery) software, Nuix, is continuing its expansion in the North American market with the beefing up of its executive team with the appointment of a director of professional services.

- Sponsored Editorial - Robin Heizmann is the Head of IT in France for Credit Suisse and as the Keynote Presenter at this year’s Software and Systems Quality Conference he will talk about the challenges of software development and testing when working within the unique legislation that make up the Swiss Banking Secrecy laws.

TechnologyOne has secured a contract valued at more than $2 million to upgrade the ICT systems at Queensland south-east water authority, Seqwater, to integrate and standardise the utility’s business processes and planning.

Food and consumer goods distribution group, Metcash, has contracted SAP and Fijitsu to deploy a new financial software platform in its Australian business to improve efficiencies and compliance with financial, corporate risk and environmental regulations.

Tom DeMarco is co-author of one of the most timeless and seminal works on creating software, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Yet, this month DeMarco suggested to the IEEE Computer Society that maybe software engineering has had its day.

Spanish telco, Telefonica, the world’s third-largest telecommunications company, is to deploy an Australian-developed SaaS platform from NEC.

The global software storage market has declined for the first time in more than five years, with most companies in the market experiencing negative, or very low year-over-year growth.

The recent acquisition of Limehouse Software by Australian-listed Objective Corporation has paid off with the software vendor securing a four-year procurement agreement with the UK Central Office of Information (COI).