Displaying items by tag: SaaS

COMPANY NEWS:  Vertice launches its solution for cloud cost control - a Cloud Cost Optimization Platform to give finance and tech leaders shared visibility and control of cloud investments, enabling companies to cut cloud costs by up to 25%.

Key stats:

• Cutting cloud spending is revealed as the number one cost-saving priority for over a third of finance leaders, but only 9% of technical leaders say that managing cloud costs is a top concern. 
• Over a third (34%) of tech and finance leaders disagree on their approach to cloud spending.
• 41% of finance leaders said the main cause of friction is a lack of transparency from tech leaders, whereas 55% of tech leaders say that non-technical staff don’t have the right knowledge or expertise to understand cloud investments.
• Friction is most acute in scale-up environments, with leaders reporting almost twice the level of friction than inside enterprise-sized organizations.
• 50% of organisations struggle to scale cloud usage efficiently as they grow.

SaaS provider Zoho has extended its Zoho for Startups program to Australia.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its first half 2023 global threat analysis report.

COMPANY NEWS:  Agreement will enable both companies to support increasing demand for governance, risk and compliance solutions among public sector agencies and enterprises.

Cloud SMB ERP provider Wiise has announced its partner program, with KPMG Australia, Momentum Software Solutions, Solutions+, Stratus Consulting Group, and Wild Tech the first to achieve elite status.

Self-styled work operating system monday.com is now running in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, its first data centre presence in APAC.

Cloud assets are the most attacked targets in New Zealand, the global security vendor Thales claims, adding that 67% of businesses in the country suffered a data breach in their cloud environments last year.

COMPANY NEWS: Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, today announced the appointment of Niranjan Vijayaragavan as chief product officer. He brings more than two decades of technology leadership experience to Nintex, having driven product strategy, vision and execution at organisations like Microsoft, BCG, Expedia, Avalara and – most recently – at Nuna, a health-tech company.

Data platform company Vast Data and enterprise data protection provider Commvault have forged an agreement to deliver integrated data protection and security solutions to customers and partners.

COMPANY NEWS: Pax8, the leading cloud commerce marketplace, announced groundbreaking news by unveiling its marketplace vision at its sold-out inaugural partner conference, Pax8 Beyond.

COMPANY NEWS: OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, today announced the appointment of Christine Nurnberger as chief marketing officer to its accomplished executive leadership team.

ASX-listed enterprise software-as-a-service vendor TechnologyOne has reported a 24% rise in its half-year profit after tax, to $41.3 million.

If global contact centre platform provider Genesys had one key take-away message for the approximately 300 delegates to its APAC Partners Summit in Phuket this week, it was that significant numbers of legacy in-premise clients are ripe for the inevitable move to the cloud.

COMPANY NEWS: Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, today announced Boomi AI – a first-of-its-kind, simplified user experience that harnesses generative AI to connect and integrate applications, data, processes, people, and things across organisations – creating business outcomes faster than ever before.

GUEST CASE STUDY: Monson, a leading Australian global shipping company, was hostage to a slow-moving third-party legacy SaaS product. The company wanted to become master of its own destiny, to digitally innovate and offer its clients unrivalled speed, transparency, and flexibility. Working with OutSystems delivery partner Kiandra, Monson developed MB2, giving clients faster service, richer insights, and seamless integration to real-time data concerning vessels, port visits, and financial data.

Over a third of Australian organisations (36%) experienced a data breach in the last 12 months leading 45% of IT professionals surveyed to believe that security threats are increasing in volume or severity, according to the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report, based on a survey of nearly 3000 IT security professionals in 18 countries.

Enterprise software company TechnologyOne has called a halt to trading after discovering its systems had been breached through its internal Microsoft 365 back-office system.

The Ulla browser isn't Zoho's only new product. Zoho Publish, Zoho Tables, and Zoho Solo have gone into public beta, and are expected to be available to Australian businesses later this year.

GUEST OPINION: Australian businesses have been challenged with money laundering, fraud, and financial crime for years, and this threat landscape is continually evolving. In the last financial year alone, the Australian Payments Network reported there was AU$502 million worth of fraudulent transactions made. AUSTRAC continues to monitor banks, gaming companies and enterprises to ensure anti-money laundering (AML) regulations are followed and, where appropriate, accountability is taken for any breaches.

Security specialist Varonis Systems has opened its first Australian data centre in Sydney.