Covid-19 has created a clash of market drivers. Which will out?… Market predictions in any vertical are tricky at the best of times, and the ERP market is no exception. This year, Covid-19 brings an overdose of risk and uncertainty as the pandemic’s tumultuous impacts roll out

As the economy buckles under Covid-19, Gartner advises cutting all non-critical tech… What a difference a global pandemic makes: With Covid-19 quarantine measures undermining industries, economies and IT departments everywhere, Gartner is advising CIOs to put a match to all unnecessary costs – including IT. The research

Shoptech hits local market with full SaaS offering… Shoptech, which specialises in providing comprehensive ERP systems for small to mid-sized manufacturing companies, has set its sights on the New Zealand and Australian markets, and aiding local companies with their move to Industry 4.0. The 36-year-old North American

Report highlights notable performance variations between public cloud providers… When it comes to choosing your public cloud provider, there’s a lot to consider, from the services offered and pricing tiers to global data centre presence. But one metric that has been hard to gauge, has been the

Smarter diagnostics needed to unravel root causes across multiple platforms… If you trust the literature, there’s not much the enterprise cloud can’t offer. Greater collaboration? Check. Faster innovation? Check. Happier customers? Double check. But while the advantages of that cloud-first strategy are crystal clear, its application into

‘Systemically important’ cloud providers lack oversight in financial markets… The big guns of the cloud world are facing increased scrutiny in the United States with two congresswoman gunning for more Federal oversight into AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in the wake of the Capital One data

Our 2020 future looms and for ERP vendors that means staying true to the promises upon promises that they have made to keep relevant. Are they on track for lift-off?… Let’s not beat around the bush. Reading between the lines of our latest ERP Buyers Guide, there isn’t a

It’s a case of agile or irrelevant as the c-suite reboots for resilience… Agility is the new currency of business with CEOs needing to be comfortable disrupting their business models in the current volatile, uncertain complex and ambiguous (or Vuca) world. That’s placing extra emphasis on digital

The Melbourne-founded fintech has big expansion plans following its US$1b valuation… Dubbing itself “the new way to create bank accounts globally, access interbank exchange rates and send funds to more than 130 countries,” Airwallex is an Australian company currently doing everything right in the cross-border payment –

Retaliation fear cools interest in ‘Facebook tax’… The New Zealand Government’s plans for a digital services tax, aimed multinationals such as Google, Facebook and Uber, has been slammed by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), who say the plan is flawed, puts NZ out of