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• NSW Government iCare claim platform cost $360M

  A bespoke platform to power the NSW Government's recently-merged insurance provider has cost $360 million dollars, a recent committee revealed.

• Checking in with the chatbots

  The rise and rise of chatbots in Australia has been impressive. But are they any good?

• Salesforce in advanced talks to acquire MuleSoft for $6B

  Salesforce is in advanced discussions to acquire U.S. software maker MuleSoft, as the tech giant looks to expand its offerings beyond CRM software.

• API push paying off for Australian businesses

  The adoption of APIs in Australia continues at pace with half of businesses having an API strategy already in place, according to a survey. Another third (32 per cent) will implement one this year.

• Ricoh Australia inks deal with MuleSoft for quicker connections

  Ricoh Australia has implemented MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform in a bid to support its services-led, customer-first strategy, a move the company said will increase operational efficiency and accelerate innovation.

• REA Group adopts cloud-first IT model in its digital transformation push

  REA Group has “grown up quickly,” embarking on a digital transformation journey over the last five years to adopt a cloud-based model, which has already transitioned 90 per cent of staff and workplace systems.

• NSW Family and Community Services taps MuleSoft to accelerate ChildStory program

  ​The New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services has selected MuleSoft platform technology in a bid to replace a number of existing IT systems with one integrated platform for the delivery of its state-wide ChildStory IT initiative.

• Google tops Glassdoor's best places to work; F5 outranks Facebook, Qualcomm, Apple

  Google is No. 1 among employees, according to Glassdoor's seventh annual Employees' Choice Awards.

• Salesforce Lightning Connect marries old apps to new

  Salesforce has a solid lock on the SMB space, and more forward-looking large organizations have moved to its cloud CRM, marketing and sales solutions, <a href="http://www.citeworld.com/article/2115522/social-collaboration/virgin-america-salesforce-chatter-intranet.html">apparently to great success</a>. But for every Virgin America or Burberry, there are many, many more older companies out there with siloed-off, older systems; they couldn't get their data into the Salesforce cloud even if they wanted to. 

• Cloud-first strategy at News Corp requires new skills

  The CIO of News Limited Australia has set a goal of moving 75 per cent of the organisation’s compute into the cloud by the end of 2015.

• Dick Smith replaces legacy IT infrastructure by stealth

  The IT manager of Dick Smith says he is replacing legacy systems by stealth as the consumer electronics retailer navigates a business turnaround.

• MuleSoft catches the API fever, buys ProgrammableWeb

  Following in the footsteps of Intel and CA Technologies, open source middleware provider MuleSoft has acquired a vendor of API (Application Programming Interface) services and technologies, ProgrammableWeb.