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• The big promise of big data

  By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

  For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

• Is the future of CRM in the Cloud? - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 18 April, 2011 11:22

  It is just on 10 years since Salesforce.com unveiled the first preview of its customisable online customer relationship management (CRM) software at the annual DEMO conference in California. DEMO had previously been the launch platform for ground-breaking technology such as Netscape Navigator, Sun’s Java and Adobe Acrobat, but attendees in February 2001 would have had little idea that they were witnessing something that would turn the world of customer management software — and enterprise software generally — on its head.

• NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm: Part 3

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 April, 2011 17:33

  The development of a greenfield private Cloud is facilitating NAB’s IT revolution, but compared with more traditional banking platforms the new technologies is not without challenges.

• NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm: Part 2

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 April, 2011 16:04

  A three-year journey in fundamental technology and business architecture design has resulted in a private Cloud at National Australia Bank that may eventually be used to host all its applications and services.

• NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm: Part I

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 April, 2011 15:56

  A three-year journey in fundamental technology and business architecture design has resulted in a private Cloud at National Australia Bank that may eventually be used to host all its applications and services.

• Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

  By Tim Greene | 25 January, 2011 03:08

  A Web hack that can endanger online banking transactions is ranked the No. 1 new Web hacking technique for 2010 in a top 10 list selected by a panel of experts and open voting.

• Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier

  By Paul Krill | 13 January, 2011 06:33

  Look for more robust voice recognition to take hold in the realm of personal computing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a brief interview this week that also touched on topics ranging from tablet computing, Oracle's acquisition strategy, and enterprise memory technology.

• Business intelligence evolution

  By Brad Howarth | 01 October, 2010 18:24

  Australian CIOs may be thankful this year’s flu season was relatively sparing on their employees, but many have themselves become the source of another form of infection within their business - the ever growing call for more robust business intelligence.

• Private clouds? A walk in the park

  By Rodney Gedda | 07 April, 2010 07:10

  With a jurisdiction that covers nearly 4 million hectares, Parks Victoria is the central authority in Victoria for the management of natural areas across the state. The information systems requirements at Parks Victoria were becoming increasingly demanding, and a recent implementation of a virtualised private cloud has set the stage for rapid growth.

• Oracle and SAP Are Big: Too Big for Their Own Good?

  By Thomas Wailgum | 18 January, 2010 07:00

  The battle and competition in the enterprise software market between SAP and Oracle has fast become one of the hottest rivalries in high-tech. And while it might not have the pop-culture pizzazz of Red Sox-Yankees or Coke-Pepsi, the passion of the thousands of the combatants involved makes it no less fervent or important a battle.

• Reporter's Notebook: Oracle OpenWorld 2009

  By Thomas Wailgum | 16 October, 2009 03:08

  Highlights and lowlights from this year's show: Cloud talk eclipsed by real-life rain, too many #oow09 tweets, not enough specifics about Fusion or Java plans, and an action-packed visit by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

• The Buzz at Oracle OpenWorld 2009

  By Thomas Wailgum | 13 October, 2009 10:22

  Impressions from Oracle's annual get-together: Ellison disses IBM; Where are Fusion Apps?; Charles and Safra on Red Stack integration.

• What to expect at Oracle OpenWorld

  By Thomas Wailgum | 08 October, 2009 04:18

  Oracle's annual gathering will have some foxes in the hen house and many recession-weary customers. Can Larry Ellison possibly top his recent rant on cloud computing? Will there be more answers than questions on the Fusion Apps Suite?

• Rimini Street ups third-party maintenance ante

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 October, 2009 06:28

  Rimini Street fired the latest salvo in the ongoing war over software maintenance this week, announcing that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.

• Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server

  By James Niccolai | 16 September, 2009 10:49

  Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.