PCEHR under review, but is it “unfixable”?
07 November, 2013 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe government has launched a review into the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project, claiming poor take-up rates to date among Australian clinicians.
Three risks of poor software licence management
31 October, 2013 by Susan Lang*With an increasing number of devices being used across the enterprise and the eagerness with which many individuals, departments and branches tend to pursue their own software purchasing plans, is it any wonder that few organisations are able to easily identify their true software licensing costs?
Knowledge management projects should focus on the practical
25 July, 2013Organisations need to rethink their approach to knowledge management, putting greater emphasis on practical knowledge that can deliver measurable results, one recent report says.
Mapping childhood obesity factors in Australia
05 March, 2013 by Andrew CollinsCouncils in South Australia will soon have access to information to help reduce childhood obesity, thanks to a geographic information system (GIS) project at South Australia’s Department for Health and Ageing.
PowerCenter Big Data Edition data analytics
30 October, 2012Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition helps enterprises augment traditional transactional data with social, mobile, cloud and machine data.
Migrating to SharePoint 2013
30 October, 2012 by Chris McNulty, strategic product manager, Quest SoftwareSharePoint is a powerful tool for enterprise collaboration - when used well. With the release of SharePoint 2013 pending, now is a good time to examine your organisation’s use of the tool, and the merits of migrating to the new version.
Software AG webMethods 9.0 big data management product suite
23 October, 2012The webMethods 9.0 suite combines management of big data from multiple sources with automated business processes and applications deployed in the cloud, on mobile devices or in-house.
MicroStrategy 9.3 business intelligence software platform
24 September, 2012MicroStrategy 9.3 includes new capabilities and improvements to the data discovery software Visual Insight; increased support for advanced analytics from ‘R’ - an open source language for predictive analysis; and improved connectivity to Hadoop.
Australian researchers create operational silicon-based qubit
24 September, 2012An Australian-led research team has successfully written data to and read data from a silicon-based quantum bit (qubit), essentially creating the world’s first working silicon-based qubit.
Ray White Group deploys business intelligence from Tableau Software
17 September, 2012 by Andrew CollinsReal estate franchise the Ray White Group has deployed business intelligence software to help drive its geographical expansion strategy.
Tracking graduated students and donors with PeopleSoft Contributor Relations
11 September, 2012 by Andrew CollinsThe University of Ballarat (UB) has implemented a new system to help manage its alumni and its fundraising activities. The PeopleSoft solution, implemented with help from ASG Group, has revealed 95,000 previously unidentified graduates from the university.
Quest Software Toad Business Intelligence (BI) Suite
04 September, 2012Toad Business Intelligence (BI) Suite is a suite of tools that links traditional and non-traditional data sources to bridge the gap between business intelligence environments and distributed big data sources.
Opening up big data
21 August, 2012The mountains of structured and in many cases unstructured data that is building everywhere is being seen as an opportunity, not a problem, in Europe where it is thought that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
Advanced analytics growth surpasses expectation and set to rise, says IDC
22 June, 2012In 2011, IT analysis firm IDC estimated the Australian Business Intelligence (BI) software market generated $324.12 million in software licensing and maintenance revenue. This has resulted in a revenue growth of 5.4% from 2010 to 2011 and is forecast to grow at 8.0% CAGR between 2011 to 2016.
Quest Software Toad for Oracle 11.5 database development tool
10 May, 2012Quest Software’s Toad for Oracle 11.5 includes several enhancements from the Toad Idea Pond, a user community where ideas for enhancing Toad are submitted, discussed and voted upon for inclusion in the next release.
