Industry Insider

  • Esker signs $US300,000 deal with Asian airline

    Esker has signed an agreement worth approximately $US300,000 with one of Asia’s leading airlines to implement end-to-end vendor invoice automation. As the first cloud-based solution to be deployed at the company, the Esker Accounts Payable on Demand solution will deliver improved process and business efficiencies.

  • Auditor blasts Victorian agency for missing paperwork

    A Victorian government agency responsible for managing over $A36B of major projects has been blasted in an Auditor-General's report that found it was unable to produce records of the contracts it was managing and undertook dubious employment practices.

  • Ricoh Australia acquires IT service provider

    Ricoh Australia has acquired the IT services business of IMC Communications whose customers include some of Australia’s largest companies including Network Ten, Bankwest, SBS, Lloyds International and Amalgamated Holdings.

  • Dataline attacks P2P with new SaaS solution

    Sydney technology group Dataline is looking to broaden mid-market adoption of SaaS-based Purchase to Pay (P2P) solutions in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region – in partnership with US-based technology company Verian Technologies.

  • Asia-Pac BPO industry will top US$9.5B In 2016: Gartner

    The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) business process outsourcing (BPO) market is forecast to reach US$9.5 billion in 2016, up from $5.9 billion in 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2012, BPO in Asia Pacific is on pace to total $6.45 billion.

  • Mimecast wins $62M VC funding

    UK firm Mimecast has received a $US62 million boost for its cloud-based email platform in the form of venture capital funding.

  • Victorian Tribunal OK’s CenITex FOI refusal

    The agency which provides IT services to the Victorian government has been let off the hook from an FOI request from the Age newspaper, with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) deciding the expensive and time-consuming job of restoring email and calendars from backup tapes was too onerous.

  • Divided road for corporate file-sharing

    A survey into filesharing at enterprise and government organisations in Australia and New Zealand conducted by IDM and Australia’s Institute for Information Management (IIM) came up with an almost even split between those who restrict the use of popular filesharing apps such as DropBox and YouSendIt and those who turn a blind eye.