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• Kevin Angland of Mercury: ‘We want to remove any barrier to collaboration’

  The GM digital services at Mercury talks about essential actions to prepare any organisation for continuous, massive change in the digital era

• Gough Group taps DXC for Microsoft Dynamics 365 rollout

  “This new Dynamics 365 platform was driven by the vision of our group CEO, Liz Ward, to improve visibility to critical business information and make many of our older processes either redundant, or more efficient,” says Grant Taylor, chief digital officer at Gough Group.

• IT versus OT: why they’re converging... and why you should care before it’s too late

  The marriage of these systems need not be a major barrier to Industry 4.0 adoption, writes Greg Purcell, industrial IoT lead Engineer at Facteon

• SaaS, silos and shadow IT: Business units now dominate IT budgets

  New study reveals HR, finance, customer service and operations control majority of technology budgets across Australia and New Zealand

• Northern district health boards start building regional clinical portal

  The portal will form the largest patient information ecosystem in New Zealand, says project sponsor Neil Beney of Northland DHB

• Craig Sims departs ANZ, joins ASB Bank

  Takes over role vacated by Russell Jones

• CIO upfront: In praise of intelligent bots, not smart ones

  If your chatbot replaces one kind of wasted time with another, or makes information harder to find, bin it. If it’s a decorative replacement for a checkout process, don’t build it, writes Ian Lurie of Portent

• US hospital deploys cloud-based integration service from Orion Health

  "Working in a cloud environment is already adding expansive value to our IT systems,” says Doug Jones, chief information officer, University of Louisville Hospital in Kentucky.

• Christchurch City Council launches open data API programme

  'The potential for innovation is limitless when the right data is accessible,' says Adrian Dawson, council service manager.

• CIO upfront: How to avoid vendor lock-in and keep your options open

  Organisations looking for a new tool or building a new application should allow the business to drive the decision on which tool to pursue instead of having their vendors dictate what they must pursue, writes Steve Griffin of Epicon.
  

• Why chief digital officer appointments are on the rise in NZ

  Trend highlights the convergence of traditional IT and marketing roles, reports Madison Recruitment.

• Why ANZ banks are among the most digitally innovative in the world: Forrester

  ...but NZ ahead in digital money management tools, according to Forrester's retail banking trends report.

• CX and complexity: ‘Integrate or die’

  Investments in marketing technologies are on the rise, but syncing them with existing systems is another story.

• ​Dell/EMC reshapes IT landscape, but what happens next?

  Andrew Neff of Gartner cites the positives and challenges ahead for the merged company.

• IBM customizes cloud services for the enterprise

  Hoping to jump out in front of providers of generic cloud services, IBM has launched a portfolio of cloud packages, called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, designed to run specific business processes such as asset management and customer care.