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March

SAP chief executive Christian Klein is concerned about the geopolitical climate, as his company makes progress in the AI era.

‘No winners’: CEO of software giant SAP urges end to Trump tariff war

The head of the group, which lists clients such as Coles, Woolworths and Woodside, says all countries and businesses will lose if the trade war continues.

February

DyFlex’s leadership team led by co-chief investment officers Jason Heaney and Richard Lissett.

SAP partner DyFlex embarks on acquisition strategy with Five V backing

The investment, from Five V’s new frontier fund, will be used to kickstart DyFlex’s acquisition strategy as it seeks to capture a boom in SAP cloud migration.

January

Atlassian chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes recorded a video on the company’s Loom platform to accompany his results’ presentation.

Atlassian rockets to three-year high after earnings surprise

Mike Cannon-Brookes says the company has had some “massive customer wins”, sending its shares soaring almost 20 per cent on Friday.

November 2024

TechnologyOne CEO Ed Chung.

Investors cheer TechnologyOne’s earnings surprise

Shares in the Brisbane-based enterprise software firm soared on evidence a new sales model and UK growth were helping it take on giants like SAP.

April 2024

Graeme Beardsell, Fujitsu’s APAC boss, says scale matters when protecting large clients from hackers.

Consulting giant builds $300m Aussie cyber group with acquisitions

Following a string of acquisitions, Fujitsu has created a 300-strong team of cyber professionals to take on IBM, Accenture and CyberCX in Australia and New Zealand.

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March 2024

Mary Wooldridge tells the National Press Club that action, not just acknowledgement, is needed to help close the gender pay gap.

Government contracts on the line if gender targets not met

Companies like BAE Systems, Microsoft, SAP and the big consulting firms stand to lose billions in government contracts if they can’t prove they’re meeting targets.

January 2024

White-collar jobs tumble, but shares soar as investors back AI future

Australian staff are likely to make up some of the 8000 jobs software giant SAP says will be affected by an AI-driven global restructure, as its shares hit a record.

November 2023

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher took the pragmatic approach and called time on the GovERP program, describing it as naive.

How to avoid another Canberra tech wreck

The ditching of a new $400 million back office system yet again reveals the federal government’s deeply flawed approach to technology and digital transformation.

September 2023

Daisey Stampfer, the group executive of strategy and transformation at Superloop, and Reid Elliot, the head of transformation.

Why these companies relied on staff – not consultants – to transform IT

Endeavour Energy and Superloop have pulled off complicated digital upgrades by relying on employees who understand customers and know the ins and outs of their businesses.

OpenAI is the best known, but a raft of AI firms have raised big money from investors this year.

The other AI start-ups that raised huge money in 2023

Despite a supposed ‘funding Winter’ hitting start-ups, some artificial intelligence companies have raised dizzying amounts of money to try and change the world.

July 2023

SAP Australia managing director Damien Bueno

SAP invests in new Aussie facility to target critical infrastructure deals

The Australian arm of German software giant SAP has opened a new sovereign cloud computing facility, at an undisclosed location, to meet increased demands from government agencies and some companies.

December 2022

Melbourne Uni start-up pulls in $15.8m from tech giants

Apromore is in one of the hottest M&A fields in tech, and Salesforce has bought into the local start-up to enter the emerging sector.

September 2022

More US workers are back in offices. It’s still nothing like before

Office occupancy in the United States remains below half of what it was in 2019, with a growing divergence between office attendance on the coasts and elsewhere.

March 2022

Newcrest is building a digital twin of its flagship Cadia gold mine.

Newcrest mines data in the cloud for a $100m virtual goldmine

Australia’s biggest gold miner, Newcrest will turn to emerging digital twin technology to improve the performance of its flagship Cadia mine, by replicating it virtually.

September 2021

Clipchamp’s David Hewitt, left, and Alex Dreiling will now join Microsoft.

Microsoft buys Brisbane start-up Clipchamp

The video editing software start-up, founded by a group of former SAP executives, will be integrated into Microsoft’s suite of online software products, in a win for local investors.

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Macquarie Telecom executive Luke Clifton says many companies do not have the in-house capabilities to manage large IT transitions so are turning to specialist firms.

How an IT snag threatened a $1.7b paper merger

The alarming experience of Opal Group is an example of difficulties merged entities face when trying to integrate and harmonise technical applications in the new organisation.

July 2021

Andrew Barnes, co-founder and CEO of GO1.

Brisbane’s Go1 becomes Australia’s newest ‘unicorn’ with mega-raise

The online training marketplace, founded by four former high school friends in 2015, is now worth more than $US1 billion after raising $US200 million.

Aaron Hornlimann, CEO of Alenium Automation know airlines and airports are struggling, so is looking at a different funding model to get them to upgrade technology.

Young Rich Lister makes $200m bet on tech for airports

Aaron Hornlimann’s Elenium Automation will fund a program designed to help install post-pandemic technology such as touchless check-ins and biometrics.

June 2021

How Macquarie blitzed the mortgage market

Each month when the prudential regulator releases mortgage lending data for individual banks, the first thing competitive bankers do is look at the performance of Macquarie Bank.

May 2021

SAP Australia and New Zealand managing director Damien Bueno says projects that used to take months, now take weeks.

SAP Australia back in black despite slump in services revenue

The software giant has returned to profitability in Australia for the first time since 2014, but revenue fell dramatically as projects were delayed by the pandemic.

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