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• SaaS firm Unleashed promotes internally for new COO

  ​Auckland-based software-as-a-service company Unleashed Software is promoting general manager Lisa Miles-Heal to global chief operating officer.

• Ministry of Justice looks to SaaS to address holiday pay failures

  The Ministry of Justice is aiming to replace its current AMS payroll system with software-as-a-service (SaaS) to fix Holidays Act compliance failures.

• Government ICT marketplace poised for go-live with cloud catalogue

  A new government digital procurement marketplace recently completed testing with agencies and suppliers and is set to go live shortly.

• The harbour pilot who got involved in 'the business of first impressions'

  While supervising the building of a luxury yacht, Hadleigh Ford got the idea of developing software to fill a service gap in the maritime industry.

• ​ Gentrack revenue and earnings both surge 43%

  Utilities and airports software company Gentrack has reported $75.2 million in revenue for the year to 30 September, up ​43 per cent.

• SaaS developer Unleashed Software secures $7M investment

  Auckland-based inventory management systems developer ​Unleashed Software has won Series C investment from Movac.

• LINZ' Landonline upgrade shifts to as-a-service model

  Changes will allow customers to connect own software into LINZ' system, access information on devices and represent property boundaries in 3D.

• Blerter expands in US, appoints channel expert

  New Zealand health and safety software start-up Blerter is eyeing the US market with three senior appointments, including channel expert and former Nokia executive Andrew Button.

• Core Govt agencies signal cloud payroll shift

  A government shared services organisation is preparing to shed its 25-year-old payroll software and shift to software-as-a-service.

• BNZ boosts posBoss point-of-sale with PayClip partnership

  BNZ is partnering with New Zealand iPad point-of-sale system developer posBoss to provide an integrated point-of-sale system for the hospitality industry.

• Slack cofounder: 'We didn't have a sense of the scale it could grow to'

  If there's anything Cal Henderson knows about, it's scaling technology to keep up with extremely rapid growth.

• GitHub launches desktop client to lure more developers

  Looking to expand its already considerable user base, GitHub has introduced a new desktop GUI client that streamlines many of the functions of the online code repository.

• IBM's new US$1B acquisition will help Watson 'see'

  IBM plans to buy Merge Healthcare in a $1 billion deal that promises to bring new image-focused capabilities to its Watson Health platform.

• Using Watson, IBM and CVS aim to predict when your health is about to decline

  Pharmacists at some 7,800 CVS drugstores across the U.S. will soon be able to tap IBM's Watson cognitive computing system in the hopes of predicting customers' health problems before they arise.

• IBM launches its data warehouse service into the Cloud

  Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house.