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• A glimpse of the future: Inland Revenue's ICT spending shows signs of normalising

  Inland Revenue has provided a glimpse of what its "business as usual" ICT spending could look like as the end of its $1.8 billion transformation programme nears.

• Nextgen acquires Sydney sales outsourcing firm NovaTech Ventures

  ​Australian distributor Nextgen has acquired Sydney-based sales outsourcing firm NovaTech Ventures for an undisclosed sum.

• Consegna guides Wellington City Council into AWS

  Wellington City Council has moved on from a regional shared infrastructure model to embrace the cloud for most of its applications.

• Risk of old custom code drives Waikato University rollout of Oracle Cloud

  The risk posed by old bespoke code developed in-house since 1997 is one driver of an upgrade to Oracle Cloud software at the University of Waikato.

• Oracle to customers: Spend more on cloud, save on support

  With Oracle Support Rewards, the vendor hopes to tempt existing on-premises customers to move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• IN PICTURES: Oracle Modern Business Summit hits Sydney

  Oracle recently held its Modern Business Summit in Sydney, Australia, offering insight into the best practices for engaging customers and adapting quickly to constantly changing business needs.

• Software market grows as new Cloud players threaten vendor dominance

  "As the cloud value proposition becomes more clear, many platform as a service (PaaS) providers like Google, Engine Yard, Informatica and Dell Boomi are a threat to established players."

• Vendors find value as Oracle leads integrated systems market

  "The integrated systems market continued to exhibit strong momentum throughout 2014 and represents a growth opportunity for IT vendors."

• This isn't your father's enterprise software

  When Patrick Benson joined Ovation Brands back in September 2013, he was given a tall order: modernize an array of legacy IT systems that could no longer keep up with the restaurant-chain conglomerate's business processes.

• IN PICTURES: Oracle A/NZ Partner Forum heads to Queenstown

  Oracle's A/NZ Partner Forum was held in Queenstown last week, celebrating partner’s excellence across fourteen categories.

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