HCL Technologies has signed a wide-ranging deal with financial services software vendor Misys that will see the Indian outsourcer make further inroads into Australia's banking sector.
A financial services group and a Victorian water utility are among the first Australia customers of Microsoft and Nortel's unified communications alliance
Security start-up Veracode updated its SecurityReview tool this week to allow companies to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process, a class of security holes often missed by existing scanners.
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NAB is planning an upgrade to its Internet banking platform that will include targeted cross-selling of products to users of the service.
Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors.
Around 90 percent of European SAP customers could save six or seven-figure sums each year by avoiding the creation of bespoke code on top of the ERP platform, an IT consultant has claimed.
Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.
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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.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
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With logical domains, Sun's Niagara systems will catch up this year to rival Unix and x86 servers.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
The National Australia Bank has taken a pre-tax writedown of AU$409 million on its software assets for the year as botched initiatives such as its notorious global enterprise resource planning project take their toll on the financial institution's full-year bottom line.
Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.
Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
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The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
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Online businesses are scrambling to get their Web sites on every pager, PDA and mobile phone. But they're learning that today's mobile technologies go only so far.
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