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• NetSuite refines focus on SMBs facing growth challenges

  Cloud technology and the increasing pace of globalisation allow small and mid-size businesses to scale faster than ever, but also puts them in a bind.

• Australian Rugby Union enters new ‘phase of play’ with collaborative facility

  After 18 months of extensive collaborative work, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) is set to move into its new digs: a five-and-a-half storey ‘state-of-the-art’ facility in Sydney’s Moore Park on October 17. The facility, dubbed the Australian Rugby Development Centre, ​offers souped up collaboration and communications technologies.

• ​Oracle squares up to Cloud rivals with $US9.3 billion NetSuite acquisition

  Tech giant takes control of Cloud pioneer.

• ​Are ERP ‘dinosaurs’ on the road to extinction?

  David Gee asks if the ‘big two’ ERP giants have seen their day and are making way for more nimble enterprise software players.

• 5 freshly-funded cloud computing companies worth watching

  Investors made a crowd around the cloud this week, investing $175 million in companies focused on everything from storage to the WAN to the supply chain.

• 8 Ways to Create a Successful Multichannel Customer Experience

  Consumers today want it all. They want the convenience of shopping online but they crave the visual, emotional and physical experience of touching and trying on (or out) items, which they get by shopping in store.

• Are you ready for developers to be your new IT buyers?

  Over the last few years, thanks to the cloud, technology buying within businesses has changed. If your business uses Salesforce, for instance, it's likely because the marketing team signed up without ever asking IT about it and the service spread inside the company until you had to formally evaluate and standardize on it. Your CFO might have been the reason you're now using NetSuite. Get used to the same thing happening with developers as well, and this time for services beyond what you might normally think as part of the IT department's purview.

• Flexibility, asking questions key for recent college graduates looking to advance in IT

  When Cathy Lee started working at New York startup Faith Street last year, she quickly learned a lesson that could benefit other recent college graduates who want to advance their IT careers -- soft skills like being flexible, taking on new tasks and asking questions matter a lot.

• Enterprise apps in 2014: What's in store

  If recent history is any indication, 2014 will be a busy year for the enterprise applications industry as vendors jockey for position and customers ponder moves from legacy ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) implementations to cloud-based services. Here's a look at what some of the sector's main players are likely to do as the year unfolds.

• The year in tech quotes

  With 2013 coming to an end, we took our annual look back at quotes from news stories over the last 12 months. Here are a handful that stuck with us through the year:

• Oracle and Salesforce.com's love-fest: The ripple effects

  Oracle's string of high-profile cloud-computing partnership announcements with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite dominated tech news headlines this week.

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