Governance
Improving cash visibility is the top priority for treasury departments across the Asia-Pacific yet technology adoption remains inadequate, according to the first-ever regional survey of the treasury function.
Governance
From time to time, organizations are asked to provide access to data for legal reasons. Those requests can be more complicated when the data is in the cloud. But a new report sheds some light on one critical aspect of such requests.
Governance
Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type.
Governance
Things to consider when an employee releases sensitive data -- intentionally or not
Governance
Australian policy makers need to explain the benefits of cloud services clearly if state and federal government adoption is to improve, according to Ovum Australia's research director, Steve Hodgkinson.
Governance
Predictive analytics methodologies and better use of broader data sets will help the insurance industry prepare for future market challenges, new analyst research claims.
Governance
To land or keep a job people may soon be forced to buy a personal smartphone, sign away some of their privacy rights and use the phone for work. It's called a BYOD mandate and, according to research firm Gartner, you better get ready for it.
Governance
One of Australia’s largest accounting consulting groups warns corporates will be a key target in filling the $12 billion gap in the Prime Minister’s tax revenues by the end of the financial year.
Governance
Ask 100 CFOs which day-to-day issues stress them out, and you are likely to hear 25 different answers. But ask them if the list includes 'finances surrounding asset management' and they may start nodding their heads vigorously.
Governance
The UK Government has announced the appointment of six ‘private sector experts’ as crown representatives to work alongside departments to squeeze further savings from suppliers.
Governance
Someone at my seminar in Los Angeles last month asked about challenges that the cloud poses for software licensing. That's such a broad and complex topic that it could warrant an entire seminar of its own. But this column can at least provide an overview of the issues.
Governance
As more and more companies come to terms with the unknown factor that is the length of this downturn they fundamentally reposition themselves. Many do this to merely survive the storm. Some, however, see this as an opportunity to thrive by pushing their boat out.
Governance
Australian footwear retailer, Spend-less Shoes, has chosen Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail solution to cope with rapid national growth and deliver an integrated multi-channel retail experience to customers.
Governance
How do you choose the right software (or app) for your organisation? How do you sort through the sales hype? And how can you tell which vendor will be with you for the long haul and which will disappear after the sale?
Governance
As IT outsourcing has evolved so, too, have IT outsourcing customers' benchmarking needs. As a result, a new approach to benchmarking is necessary, a new method for establishing new and better ways of operating.
Governance
With a BYOD twist, AT&T agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for overcharging corporate customers for almost seven years. But like most things involving BYOD, this gets complicated.
Governance
It's still a long, hard climb to get to a high level of security in cloud computing, according to Gartner research vice president Jay Heiser, who said business and government organizations with sensitive data appear likely to hold back from cloud-based services until things improve.
Governance
“Improving users' experience” is not justification for using consumer information in Big Data projects according to Europe's top data protection officials.
Risk
The online education sector is growing at a rapid pace internationally. According to research undertaken by analysts at IBISWorld, the sector is one of the top five growing industries, worth $5bn in annual revenue in Australia. It employs nearly 20,000 people and is also expected to outperform the overall economy through 2017-2018.
Governance
Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for Google, Red Hat, BlackBerry and EarthLink.
Governance
Do your IT outsourcing services deals fail to deliver more than the basics? IT outsourcing customers need to focus on developing and training their outsourcing management staff so that their IT services deals are better than just 'good enough.'
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