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Global software giant SAP has appointed 20-year IT industry veteran Colin Brookes as chief operating officer for its Australia and New Zealand business.

Not-for-profit aged care and support services provider Feros Care has opened a new state-of-the-art technology hub that it says is transforming the way health and aged care is delivered.

ICT solutions and services group NEC Australia has been appointed by the Western Australian Government as one of three suppliers to assist with the implementation of its whole-of-government digital transformation programme.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has signed an 11-year deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to become a major sponsor of the summer and winter Olympics.

Northern Territory energy group, Power and Water Corporation, is upgrading its mobile workforce communications system with a solution designed and supplied by Tait Communications.

US-based global provider of cloud-based, digital experience management solutions, Acquia, has appointed former White House and US State Department technology leader, Tom Cochran, as vice-president and chief digital strategist for the public sector.

Taxi payments company Cabcharge sees substantial opportunities for growth in taxi, rideshare and hire car trips in the current Australian market for these services, markets in which all taxi companies are under growing pressure from newcomer Uber.

SkyBus, operators of Melbourne’s express CBD to airport transport service, has rolled out self-serve ticketing on its Melbourne routes using omni-channel solutions from global transactions technology provider NCR.

The Victorian government has awarded a $103.6 million contract to global software applications, digital solutions and outsourcing services for the public sector, Civica, to provide an integrated infringements enforcement and warrants management system for the state’s justice system.

Retail e-businesses will face numerous challenges in 2017 from wooing cautious consumers and creating rich personalised customer experiences to offering free and fast delivery, in the battle for customer loyalty, according to a new survey of the global retail ecommerce market.

A lot of the talk around "digital" revolves around external relationships, for example easier or better interaction with customers, partners and suppliers. But what about the things that happen inside the organisation?

Many Australian small businesses have reached an advanced level of digital engagement and are much more likely to be creating jobs and growing revenue than their counterparts who are less digitally engaged.

Microsoft has launched its first combined Transparency Centre and Cybersecurity Centre in Singapore to service the Asia-Pacific region.

Global digital transformation company Cognizant is establishing a Digital Works Collaboratory in Melbourne to facilitate open collaboration for customers and partners to design prototype, and build digital solutions of the future.

DocuSign is expanding its leadership team with Grant Cleary’s appointment "to serve a growing customer base moving from paper to digital in the region".

Internet Australia wants to see the country do more to achieve its potential as a world-leading “innovation nation” and has repeated its call for a Digital Future Forum of government and industry leaders, trade unions and academics to develop a roadmap for innovation.

Machine learning algorithms used to enable more efficient ad bids over real-time bidding (RTB) networks will generate about US$42 billion in annual advertising spend by 2021, up from an estimated US$3.5 billion this year.

Trans-Tasman IT services group, Datacom, continues on a strong growth path across the Australian and New Zealand markets, and increasingly in international markets, with revenue climbing to A$955 million (NZ$1.058 billion) for the year to the end of March.

Not everyone can spring for a stylus-equipped iPad Pro or Samsung Galaxy Note phone or tablet, and sometimes you just want to capture ideas, text and drawings on paper.

Satellite communications and network service provider SpeedCast has integrated with Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress service to offer a new service worldwide through the Speedcast global sales network.