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• Inland Revenue: Payroll software providers sign up to offer payday filing

  “Now more providers are on board, we’re hoping employers will put payday filing on their New Year to-do list,” says Richard Owen, customer segment leader at Inland Revenue.

• New game teaches skills required to run a business

  Ministry of Social Development, BNZ and Xero have all placed their products and services into the game

• CIO upfront: CTO tracks changing role of developers in the space industry

  With industries rapidly undergoing digital transformation and deploying the IoT, developers are no longer just building applications for consumer mobile needs but also for businesses, writes Michele Franci of Inmarsat

• Why CIOs should never put on the ERP project sponsor hat

  The mark of a good CIO is to know when to hold a position — and not taking on this business sponsorship role is certainly one of those occasions.

• Giving Enterprise Software a Social Makeover Attracts Users

  When it comes to developing enterprise applications, organizations are increasingly realizing that user experience is as important as functionality. In response, vendors are taking a more agile approach to building those apps in order to better meet users' needs.

• Business growth driving Specsavers' move to Google Apps

  Specsavers is migrating its 2,500 staff across the world to <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3257491/twenty-companies-to-watch-in-2011/">Google Apps</a> in an effort to ramp up the pace of <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/786/specsavers-goes-global-cio-michel-khan-explains-his-vision/">expansion into new markets</a>.

• What to do with CRM systems after a merger

  Extensive academic research shows that the majority of mergers fail to increase shareholder value, often because the integration of acquired business units takes longer than anyone planned. So the ability to effectively integrate the information systems of merged business units is a key success factor for any acquirer.
  Even though there are a lot of corporate integration consultants, the execution of their strategic plans seems to go awry...particularly when it comes to CRM systems.

• Tips for enterprise software licensing negotiations

  For any business today, purchasing enterprise software ( ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain apps) is probably unlike any other corporate activity.
  &quot;Of all the assets that an enterprise acquires, enterprise software brings with it the most unusual, onerous and restrictive set of constraints,&quot; notes Forrester Research VP and principal analyst Ray Wang, in a brand-new report on software licensing best practices.