Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
Foreign fund managers have begun selling Australian bank stocks, and while some may choose the big miners, the Australian dollar's fall is exacerbating the market exodus.
Both sides of politics have an interest in pretending Australian prosperity was their handiwork. But before long, global headwinds will reveal Australia’s true position.
In the ultra-fluid technology sector, many an acquisition shock has paid off – and vice versa. Yahoo's big cheque for Tumblr isn’t the only deal that may be judged differently in hindsight.
The cloud ERP vendor is starting to move up the software as a service food chain but it will have to surmount a few hurdles before its ready for big time.
The Solar 2013 conference in Melbourne carries the theme of an industry trying to prevent a possible race to the bottom, where weaker firms damage the industry in compromising quality for price.
The reverberations from the Newman government’s bulldozing of Queensland’s vegetation protection laws will be felt in Canberra, with the Coalition's Direct Action plan now at risk of a $1 billion budget blow-out.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
The cloud ERP vendor is starting to move up the software as a service food chain but it will have to surmount a few hurdles before its ready for big time.
Most companies have discovered the value in crunching enterprise-related data, yet the largest source of potential insight remains largely untapped. That's next frontier for the business intelligence trend and it's called 'Big Content'.
Microsoft has plenty of BI technology in the bag but the patchwork of overlapping tools and applications risks confusing customers. The company needs to consolidate its portfolio and start formulating a mobile BI strategy.
Retailers should embrace big data and analytics to help eliminate the guessing game. Why speculate about what customers want, when the trends and numbers can tell you exactly what's in vogue.
Public sector CIOs need to start exploring design-thinking techniques and incorporate relevant elements into ICT projects characterised by “wicked problems."
The enterprise IT discussion might seem stuck in a rut but at a time when the role of a CIO is evolving, there's are still plenty of interesting points to ponder.
There’s money to be saved by the public sector and money to be made by the private sector from mining big data to build next generation cities. But who’s going to pay for it?
As businesses juggle return on investment and total cost of ownership, Hitachi Data Sytems (HDS) chief economist David Merrill explains why traditional data storage concepts need to be challenged and why IT departments need to shift from being cost centres to profit centres.
While cloud, mobile and social will continue to dominate the enterprise tech agenda in 2013, it's the accelerated use of geospatial data that's going to really turn heads.
The APAC region is leading the charge when it come to Big Data but is the region doing enough to derive the neccesary insight from the raging torrent of information?
The use of big data by matchmaking service eHarmony is a thing to behold and highlights the potential power and reach of this massive technological change.
ReutersGerman business software group SAP said its profit would grow faster than revenues from traditional software and related services, helped by new web software products like cloud-computing and data analysis.
Business analytics is has advanced in leaps and bounds over the past 12 months. So, in light of its rise here's five trends to look out for this year that are set to help companies live up to the hype.
Complications and high costs have prevented many businesses from creating their own data disaster relief plan. But the advent of cloud services tailored towards data recovery are now set to make planning for the worst a lot easier.
A company's future success will depend on how it views its IT department. It's up to CIOs to convince execs that enterprise IT should be used to create value rather than to just drive down costs.
Melbourne-based business intelligence firm, Innogence has been acquired by the global Data analytics company, NTT Data Business Solutions for an undisclosed amount.
