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To stay ahead of the curve, businesses are embracing a new crop of innovative technologies: market-optimisation software that helps you make more informed decisions, wireless campaigns, and email messages that actually let customers complete a transaction without going online.
Using beta software may be kind to your bottom line, but you should exercise caution. Tim Landgrave explains that the best beta implementations involve partnerships between your company and the vendor.
'Rightsizing' need not be ominous management-speak for losing your job. Here's how to make sure your IT infrastructure is the right size for the job.
Tools for remotely controlling a PC have become favourites within telecommuting circles, but real estate software development house Rockend has slashed its support costs by putting the technology to other uses.
Given the frantic activity and unpredictable movement of all kinds of hard objects within the pit, it's little surprise that the Holden Racing Team recently standardised on Panasonic's ruggedised Toughbook as its notebook platform of choice.
Andrew Beeson, CFO at Patties Foods, the savoury foods manufacturer famous for labels such as Herbert Adams, Nanna's and Four 'n' Twenty, explains how new ERP software keeps the factory line running smoothly.
Maintenance work is a major expense for BlueScope Steel but thanks to a $1.1 million investment in resource management software by its primary maintenance contractor, Transfield Services, things have been looking up.
Technology firms make their living advising customers how to reinvent their IT, but Dimension Data found a dose of its own medicine to be highly instructive. David Braue explains how.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Google should come clean on datacentres
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