Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: DealsOne of the world’s largest business applications companies, Infor, has acquired Australian Market Resource Management (MRM) business, Orbis Global.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketThe worldwide optical networking (ON) equipment market declined in the second quarter, with spending down overall, despite modest growth in the Asia-Pacific region and solid growth in spending in the South and Central American region compared to the same quarter last year.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ComputingWorldwide IT spending is on track to reach US$3.6 trillion this year with a modest three percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion, and with enterprise spending on public cloud services one significant growth area in what analyst firm, Gartner, describes as a “lacklustre growth outlook” for the global IT market.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketInterest in using the Internet to market their businesses, sell products and services or take advantage of cost-free, marketing opportunities on social networks has, surprisingly, declined with Australia’s small to medium business sector despite an increasing number of SMEs now running their own website.
That’s the unexpected result of new research b
The Australian business intelligence (BI) software market generated $324.12 million in software licensing and maintenance revenue last year, representing revenue growth of 5.4 percent.
The Asia Pacific PC market is forecast to grow 20.3 percent this year to reach 114.6 million unit shipments, with spending on PCs in the region tipped to grow by 12.4 percent compared to a meagre 2.9 percent in 2009 due to a sharper decline in average selling prices for PCs last year.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketMegadeals with public sector organisations valued at more than US$1 billion have largely driven recent global growth in IT services, with revenues up by 82 percent in the second quarter of this year, as the market rebounds from a downturn.
Data management solutions vendor and wholly-owned SAS subsidiary, DataFlux, has installed a new managing director to spearhead business growth in Australia and to boost its expertise in the emerging data management market.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketCloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in priorities in the global application development market which is predicted to grow worldwide to more than US$9 billion, and to reach A$153.4 million in Australia, by year’s end.