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• Five vendors vie to rebuild the shared regional council platform, IRIS

  The information system developed and shared by several New Zealand regional councils is set for a makeover with five vendors shortlisted for the rebuild.​

• Vodafone NZ teams with CoreView for Microsoft 365 management

  Vodafone NZ is launching a software-as-a-service management platform designed to help Kiwi businesses achieve maximum value from their Microsoft 365 investments.

• Waikato Regional Council aims for a complete systems 'reboot'

  Waikato Regional Council is banking on SaaS software from Infor to deliver a massive systems transformation in an effort dubbed "Project Reboot".

• 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.