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News: Attunity Q2 Results

Not that IBT is advocating risk taking on the share market, but Attunity’s second quarter results were published over night and as one investor said, “this share is a raw diamond with lots of potential!” Though this seems promising enough, it certainly shows that their technology is making waves and IBT is pleased to be a part...

IBT's blended project approach drives down costs
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IBT announce 2 key technology partnerships

IBT is proud to announce that it has signed partnership agreements with another two world leading technology providers across two of our core market segments – Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence. IBT will become a sales, implementation and support partner for NetSuite, the world’s leading cloud business software suite. NetSuite lowers costs and reduces...

Information Security and why we must be as vigilant as ever
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Information Security and why we must be as vigilant as ever

With the news this week of yet more financial losses brought about by hackers, this time a Russian, who has been indicted by the US  after stealing almost a $1m from a plastics firm in Pennsylvania and $100m in total, UK firm Clearswift has urged businesses and individuals alike to be remain on alert. A recent...

Petrie to dish out ice culture
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Petrie to dish out ice culture

Following on from the Paralympic success of founding director Evan Hodge in 1988 at Innsbruck, Austria, IBT’s Practice Manager, Andrew Petrie, is representing the Sydney Hammerheads, an Australian ice hockey team of over 35’s, in a tournament in Thailand, of all places. There he and his team will face others from eleven different nations to...

Twenty years on, the unknown still beckons
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Twenty years on, the unknown still beckons

The Internet in Australia 1994-2014 Though the internet has been around for much longer, 1994 was when it truly kicked off, commercially at least, here in Australia. In 1994, internet usage in Australia was around 2% of the population, mostly from those involved with academia. In 1995, AARnet, the organisation that ran the Australian internet,...

BI & Big Data Q&A
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BI & Big Data Q&A

Resident BI / Cognos expert and founding Director, Evan Hodge, has just celebrated a decade of working with this technology. We chased him down to get his views of the industry and where he sees it going:  1)       How long have you been working with BI technologies? About 10 years 2)       What have been the...

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PeopleSoft HCM v9.2 Q&A

Founding Director, Scott Stenhouse, has recently been an integral part of Asia Pacific’s first upgrade to PeopleSoft HCM  v9.2. We asked him a few questions regarding the project and though we are unable to go into too much detail, we hope his answers can be helpful to those considering a similar undertaking.  1)      Considering this...

Bringing Decision Makers Together In One Forum
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Bringing Decision Makers Together In One Forum

IBT is proud to announce our first discussion forum – a relevant and ‘easy to access as time permits’ discussion between Federal Government and University Peers Federal government organisations and universities are amongst Australia’s largest technology users. Both institutions are completely reliant on today’s technology, and need to keep track of future trends and solutions....

Outsourcing – what risks should you be aware of?
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Outsourcing – what risks should you be aware of?

Outsourcing (BPO)  – Risk Evaluation Business Process Outsourcing is not a new idea, the first “outsource” deal was struck almost 40 years ago when it was termed “timesharing.” Today, it is more than merely outsourcing IT functions to an external supplier to provide application management or development for instance. BPO covers anything that is not...