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  • BI: Shaking out the superpowers

    Business intelligence has become the latest technology to fall victim to the power struggle between the key technology superpowers. Angela Priestley searches for the disappearing mid-market

  • Virtualisation: Virtual Hype?

    Getting caught up in hype can be wonderful. It gets the blood pumping and the adrenaline flowing, you feel like you’re a part of something because you’re in the know and doing something about it.

  • Enterprise 2.0: An evolution in social networking

    2008 is inching closer and aside from the usual predictions for the New Year, one idea seems certain for lift off. Enter Enterprise 2.0, a change that could see business respond to the fundamentals of human nature – interaction.

  • Video Conferencing ready to play ball

    10,000 kilometres away from each other, colleagues are coming together in the meeting rooms of the future. It’s not quite the medium for the average enterprise just yet, but adaptive telepresence conferencing solutions are certainly turnin...

  • Life in the crystal ball

    The word analyst is often uttered to back up wild claims about where a market is heading and in response to being challenged on said fact. Should you be ensconced in corporate small talk and be called out in just such a way, there always se...

  • Pictures paint a thousand words

    For a company that markets itself off an extensive image library, getting access and simplicity right is essential for customer communications. Tait Electronics worked with DataBasics to learn and effectively utilise the extensive features ...

  • Games Workshop goes on the asset hunt

    Games Workshop ran into problems with its fixed asset management system where a serious business risk can skew everything from inventory control to stock exchange results.

  • An Antarctic Odyssey in weather forecasting

    Crossing a number of different horizons, the Tasmanian Partnership for Advance Computing has opened up a distributed data reservoir suitable not only for weather forecasting in the ocean, but a new look at the evidence of Climate Change.

  • S3 Outage Illustrates Outsourcing Risks

    One of the perils of online data storage and the outsourcing of critical business functions in general was highlighted late last week when online retailer Amazon.com’s data storage service went down for a number of hours.