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Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

By Marc Ferranti | 25 May, 2012 22:22

Tags: Investments, business issues, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, workday, Eloqua, palo alto networks, sap, Ariba

Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

TechnologyOne helps Samoa transition from paper to software

The Government of Samoa has turned its human resources and payroll system from paper-based accounting to software-based systems.

By Stephanie McDonald | 22 May, 2012 10:17

Tags: TechnologyOne, payroll systems

Q&A: Xero's Australian MD, Chris Ridd

Former Microsoft southern region manager turned managing director at accounting software company, Xero, talks about the role of Cloud computing in the software and SME market.

By Lisa Banks | 17 October, 2011 10:24

Tags: chris ridd, startups, xero

Reckon pushes CashBook into the Cloud

Accounting software vendor Reckon has launched a new Cloud service, CashBook Online which allows small businesses to manage their accounts online or without and Internet connection.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 July, 2011 15:07

Tags: accounting software, CashBook Online, cloud computing, quickbooks, Reckon, SaaS

Suncorp Bank offers online budgeting app

Suncorp Bank’s Internet banking suite now has an integrated online financial management application that allows people to set budgets and monitor spending patterns.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 December, 2010 10:06

Tags: banks, Jeff Smith, online banking, Sandstone Technology, Suncorp

County will rip and replace ailing SAP system

Officials in Marin County, California, decided on Tuesday to replace the county's ailing SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, an option that would cost less than trying to fix widespread problems with the software, according to officials.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 August, 2010 06:52

Tags: applications, business issues, Deloitte Consulting, enterprise resource planning, ERP, sap, software, USA government

Newcrest signs three-year contract for process management

Newcrest, one of the world's top 10 gold mining companies and Australia's largest gold producer, is aiming to improve its process for metal extraction and gold recovery across its key mine operations, licensing the Mincom Production Accounting (MPA) application.

By CIO Staff | 11 August, 2010 13:47

Tags: accounting, business process management, gold, MINCOM, mining, Newcrest Mining Ltd

New guide pushes IT governance to SMEs

Accounting and ERP software vendor, Attache Software, has released a guide for small to medium businesses aimed at improving the use of IT within their organisations.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 July, 2010 14:56

Tags: attache software, governance, Infonomics, IT Governance and Compliance, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

SBR gets open source tool, AUSkey coming to Linux

National Linux advocacy body Linux Australia has added its support for the federal government's Standard Business Reporting initiative by planning an open source SBR integration project, meanwhile work begins at the ATO on AUSkey for Linux.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 July, 2010 10:18

Tags: ATO, Auskey, Department of Treasury, government, Linux, linux.conf.au. Linux Australia, open source, pki, SBR

Construction group AJ Lucas adds ERP on private cloud

Local engineering and construction company AJ Lucas Group (Lucas) will transform its core business processes by consolidating on one ERP platform for financials, payroll, HR and business intelligence.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 June, 2010 11:39

Tags: asset management, CIOs, cloud computing, construction, ERP, oracle, Primavera Software, private clouds, project management

Public prosecutor shops for software upgrade

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 April, 2010 13:09

Tags: federal government, financials, government, HR, sap, soa

Oracle extends Hyperion for more financial duties

Oracle has augmented the capabilities of its Hyperion financial analytics software with new modules to help bean counters streamline specific financial management tasks.

By Joab Jackson | 12 April, 2010 08:11

Tags: business intelligence, financials, oracle

Amberdms gives open source accounting green light

New Zealand software company Amberdms has release a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 December, 2009 12:42

Tags: accounting, accounting software, Amberdms, billing systems, open source

Salesforce.com, Coda form new SaaS financials company

Unit 4 Agresso and on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com will announce Wednesday they are launching a new company called FinancialForce.com that will incorporate the Coda 2go on-demand financial application.

By Chris Kanaracus | 01 September, 2009 07:10

Tags: accounting, CODA, FinancialForce.com, financials, SaaS, salesforce.com

Oracle buys financial reporting software from HyperRoll

Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday.

By James Niccolai | 30 September, 2009 07:01

Tags: accounting, analytics, financials, mergers & acquistions, oracle

Once:radix hits 1.5 release, eyes clustering

Local software company, Once Technologies, has released the next generation of once:radix, an open source, Web-based application development environment that promises significant performance improvements and paves the way for load balancing of applications across mutliple servers.

By Rodney Gedda | 26 August, 2009 13:26

Tags: application development, clustering, load balancing, once:radix, once:technologies, rapid application development, web development

Simplot plants new business analytics software

Food production company Simplot Australia will implement a new enterprise business intelligence package from September 2009 in conjunction with a new ERP system.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2009 09:02

Tags: business intelligence, cognos, Simplot

Metcash moves financials from PeopleSoft to SAP

Grocery distribution company Metcash will invest in SAP ERP software and Fujitsu services to replacement its PeopleSoft core finance system.

By Rodney Gedda | 12 August, 2009 09:36

Tags: accounting, finance, Metcash, oracle, peoplesoft, sap

Open source webERP takes on the big guns

ERP software may be largely the realm of large enterprises, but little known open source application, webERP, is becoming more popular and fits into businesses of all sizes.

By Rodney Gedda | 25 June, 2009 10:04

Tags: accounting, ERP, HR, lamp, open source, php, webERP

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