The Black Ink survey of small to medium accounting and legal practices has revealed a stagnation of business growth amongst SMEs, with only 3.8% of respondents saying their clients’ had experienced business growth during the preceding three months, down from 45.1% in June 2010.
Objective’s expansion into the UK public sector market has suffered under the austerity drive by the new coalition government, causing a 4% drop in revenue for the 2011 financial year. However the company has reported Asia Pacific revenue grew by 11% to $A31.7 million and there was a 37% growth in profit.
A new survey of over 3000 IT professionals has found 64 percent of North American and Western European organisations are currently using SharePoint, while an additional 12 percent intend to within the next 24 months.
Australia has made a strong contribution to record 17% Asia-Pacific revenue growth for Kofax, however reduced global software sales in the second half of 2011 caused a sharp drop in the company's share price after it announced its annual results.
Torrents of data flow in every day to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), as it tracks the ebb and flow of southeast Australia’s major inland rivers. Brian Catto, CIO of the MDBA, is tackling ever-growing volumes of structured and unstructured data.
A 3D simulation platform from Australian developer Simmersion has been customised to facilitate site planning, asset management and training for the mining sector.
Networking giant Cisco has acquired privately-held US startup Versly, developer of collaboration plug-ins for Microsoft Office applications, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations and email.
Major Australian law firm Allens Arthur Robinson has chosen Recommind's Decisiv Search and Matters & Expertise Tools to overhaul its information management Infrastructure.
With the need to increase the amount of productive time in the field for its Waste Management team’s mobile workers, New Zealand’s Hutt City Council (HCC) has turned to TechnologyOne’s new mobile offer.
The Council aimed to reduce paperwork, improve service quality and provide a significant increase in productive time through scheduling work orders while on the go.
