Facing closer government scrutiny and pressure to reduce costs, social security agency Centrelink is moving to improve the way mission-critical internal reports and information are provided to its users.
SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than US$6.8 billion.
Patrick is taking a "business as usual" approach to a large-scale business intelligence (BI) deployment despite not yet knowing the full ramifications of its just-completed AU$6.2 billion acquisition by Toll Holdings.
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It's time for workers in ICT to switch their focus from the business of technology to the technology of business.
One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.
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Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
These strategies will help companies ensure they are distributing the kind of high-quality, actionable BI necessary to make real-time business decisions.
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Fraud, data theft, e-crime. These may not be the first terms that come to mind when thinking of business intelligence software but, sophisticated analysis of data can indeed help companies beat nefarious activity.
Government fleet management body StateFleet relies on business intelligence tools to increase its forecasting accuracy in an effort to save millions of dollars annually.
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At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.
Big Blue plans to boost artificial intelligence by unifying the different schools of thought.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
The tendency for mobile devices to stay faithful to the first access point they connect to is leaving users with weak signals and awful throughput rates.
They may not be perfect, but intrusion detection systems should be a part of your enterprise security arsenal.
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