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• Coles’ Roger Sniezek talks about getting cosier with Microsoft

  Coles chief information and digital officer Roger Sniezek told CIO Australia the long-standing relationship with Microsoft just got even more intense.

• Patriot games: NAB CTOO Patrick Wright’s tech insourcing play

  In November last year National Australia Bank (NAB) announced a bold and urgent ambition: to directly hire 600 technology specialists before the year was out.

• Enterprises enter the 5G spotlight at MWC

  Enterprise uses of 5G are the focus for many participants at this week's Mobile World Congress, a shift from flashy promises of mobile broadband speeds a year ago. The key enterprise benefits worth exploring, vendors say, are high reliability, low latency and longer IoT battery life through more efficient networks.

• Splunk's ambition to weave machine data fabric through your entire business

  When Splunk CTO Snehal Antani walked on stage to deliver closing keynote at the seventh annual Splunk user conference in Orlando last week he carried with him a new addition to the company's line of funny slogan t-shirts. It bore a pun to sum up the company's new outlook: "Don't be a tool".

• Q&A: CTO Geoff Purcell on the changing tide at Melbourne Water

  ​When Geoff Purcell joined Melbourne Water in January last year, he arrived to a fragmented IT team, ageing asset management and business process systems, and endless disparate databases. But there was also a multi-million dollar, cross-business digital strategy that hoped to bring the government owned statutory authority up to date.

• Microsoft touts new security capabilities with Enterprise Mobility Suite

  Microsoft is targeting the enterprise with its new security capabilities in its Enterprise Mobility Suite, which it touted at Microsoft Ignite on the Gold Coast today.

• Australian businesses falling behind in digital uptake

  Australian enterprises are lagging behind in the use of digital technologies, resulting in stalled economic growth, new research reveals.
  

• BlackBerry Classic unlikely to make 'momentous shock' to market, says analyst

  The release of a familiar handset could help BlackBerry improve its market share but is unlikely to win back all of the enterprise customers the phone maker lost to Apple and Android, according to analysts.

• Windows 10 to corral 'disillusioned' enterprise users: analysts

  Microsoft has given Windows 7 users more reasons to skip to Windows 10.

• Deloitte predicts 're-enterprisation of IT' in 2015

  Stand aside, consumers – the enterprise will drive growth of drones, wearable devices and 3D printing in 2015, according to Deloitte.

• 5 ways to spur business innovation

  Corporates can learn much about innovation and entrepreneurship from startups, according to panellists from the startup scene and academia at Microsoft TechEd in Sydney.

• Enterprise must shake core to be innovative: Telstra

  To be innovative, a large corporation must do more than build an "innovation centre," according to panellists from Telstra and major Web companies.

• Windows 10 could salvage 8, but is it compelling enough for enterprises to upgrade?

  Several CIOs have welcomed news of Microsoft’s Windows 10, arguing it will make amends for what Windows 8 failed to deliver to enterprises, even as they question its third-party applications compatibility.

• NRMA accelerates startups with Jumpstart

  The National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA) is the latest large organisation to engage with Australian startups, launching an accelerator program called Jumpstart.

• Are startups and enterprises better together?

  Australian startups are receiving increased attention from corporate enterprises, according to entrepreneurs at the York Butter Factory co-working space in Melbourne.