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Microsoft has established a multi-year strategic partnership with BHP to deploy Microsoft Azure as the resources giant’s preferred cloud for its global applications portfolio.

The Science and Technology industry sectors have been one of the few growth areas for employment in Western Australia in an otherwise employment downturn for the State, according to a newly published jobs index.

Listed Australian IT services company Empired has secured a five-year, $20 million contract to provide application managed services to global mining giant Rio Tinto.

IBM’s cognitive computing system Watson will be deployed by oil and gas company Woodside as part of the resource giant’s strategy to use predictive data science to leverage more than 30 years of collective knowledge and experience as a leading liquefied natural gas operator.

Resources giant BHP Billiton has selected Loc8’s cloud-based asset maintenance, service and job management platform for use at its Mooka iron ore facility at Mooka in Western Australia.

Hiring intentions are at their highest level since 2012, with 17.1% of employers looking to increase permanent staffing levels between April and June this year, and with the ICT market leading the way with contract hiring.

Despite avoiding a drop off in October, demand for executives in the IT sector dropped 9% in November, continuing a three-year period of generally flat demand in the technology industry.

Cloud-based workforce management application vendor Enverro, formerly PRM Cloud Solutions, is seeking to raise $4 million through an IPO next month to fund Australian growth and international expansion.

Business analytics and software services provider SAS has announced the appointment of a former Oracle senior manager as its state manager for Western Australia.

In Australia and around the world, businesses across industries are faced with a myriad of challenges to growth, sustainability and profitability. This includes the oil and gas sector, which is confronted with daily pressures to improve reliability, productivity, production and safety. Oil & Gas producers must also compete in an increasingly rigorous environment marked by intensifying regulation, declining supplies and recovery, and an ageing workforce, among other issues.

Australian-based communications networks provider to the mining, resources and industrial sectors Mine Site Technologies (MST) has appointed former ‘Executive of the Year” recipient, Mark Brayan, as its new global CEO and Managing Director.