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• Overcoming the cloud integration challenge

  Why successfully integrating SaaS apps and data with your existing on-premise software and systems is crucial to cloud maturity.

• MYOB dives into mid-market cloud

  MYOB is moving deeper into the mid-market with the release Wednesday of its cloud-based ERP software, MYOB Advanced.
  

• Will cloud replace shared services in government?

  The increasing availability of commercial cloud service offerings, combined with emerging hybrid cloud models, will challenge the value proposition of shared-service organisations.

• ANZ Banking Group leverages SaaS for global growth

  ANZ’s international expansion strategy will see an expanded use of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to support its global trade program, supported by an extended seven-and-half-year agreement with technology and business process firm CGI Group.
  

• Larry Ellison: Extend your SaaS apps in our cloud

  Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison claims that the computing giant is the only cloud vendor on "planet Earth" that allows organisations to use its platform to extend their software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

• APRA to take risk management to cloud

  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will soon abandon manual processes used to determine its risk and manage compliance requirements in favour of a system delivered from the cloud.
  

• New dynamic in IT services see spending power come back into CFO hands

  The CFO’s influence over IT services spending in on the rise as the industry undergoes a transformation of who it sells to and the services on offer, a new report claims.

• 2016: All in the Cloud?

  If there is one top-of-mind issue among CIOs today, it is Cloud computing. But how will it be positioned five years from now — as an innovation that brought about overriding change in the way IT delivers business service or, as some predict, something responsible for nothing more than incremental change to the familiar hosting arrangements and one that back in 2011 was wrapped in massive hype?

• Opinion: Webmail gets hacked, corporate passwords exposed

  This week, one of our C-level executives suffered a personal security incident that spilled over to the workplace. Here's what happened.

• Wood Group Information Solutions moves to the Cloud

  Technology consulting firm, Wood Group Information Solutions, are deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) across the company following client demand for Cloud computing services.

• Sqware Peg signs partnership agreement in bid to spread cloud services across APAC

  Leading cloud computing consulting and solutions provider, Sqware Peg, has announced a partnership agreement with Informatica Corporation.