VARs set to ride ASP wave
Systems integrators and VARs are in an excellent position to take advantage of application service provider (ASP) growth, according to Paula Hunter, president of the ASP Industry Consortium.
Systems integrators and VARs are in an excellent position to take advantage of application service provider (ASP) growth, according to Paula Hunter, president of the ASP Industry Consortium.
Only 6.7 per cent of Australian bricks-and-mortar retailers have cited developing an e-commerce strategy as a major business concern, according to Stuart Lee, managing director for Telstra's Convergent Business.
Retek, a retail management software vendor, launched its business-to-business "trading community", called retail.com, yesterday at the Retail Business 2000 show in Melbourne.
System integrators and VARs are in an excellent position to take advantage of application service provider (ASP) growth, according to Paula Hunter, president of the ASP Industry Consortium.
Melbourne-based Advanced Communications Technologies (ACT) has received a $12 million grant from the Federal Government's Industry Research and Development Board to develop wireless communication network technology.
An incubator jointly set up by the federal government and the private sector is committing $20 million to assisting 250 startups over five years.
EDS is offering customer relationship management (CRM) solutions via its EDS Business Solutions Provision (E.BSP) service, launched at the Customer Contact World show in Melbourne.
Majority union-owned IT venture GetOnBoard Ventures could attract a significant cash injection following its signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Australia Net.Com, a diversified industries group.
Melbourne online training application service provider Southrock Corp and German e-commerce company Teles AG are jointly setting up Southrock Europe AG.
Despite its recent share price dip, Melbourne IT has unveiled plans for the coming year which include expanding its domain name business, developing e-commerce tools and setting up more incubators.
The Victorian state government has allocated $9 million to improving internet access for Victorians out of its overall IT budget of $22 million.
A $6 million regional operations centre has been established in Melbourne to offer e-commerce security services to business and government.
Rental finance supplier RentSmart is giving Australian small businesses a pre-GST boost with a bundled promotion of accounting software and Microsoft Office 2000.
Bricks-and-mortar businesses must resolve the issue of using valuable data residing in host or legacy systems to support their ebusiness initiatives.
To extend its reach to Unix users for its distributed systems monitoring tool, Candle Corp has appointed Unix reseller OSIX to resell its Candle Command Center.