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View us online at www.rustreport.com.au Video channel at www.rustreport.com.au/video/ Send media releases to newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Issue #19, May 18, 2015 Aussie digital transformers In this week’s industry player profile interview we speak to Troy Westley, CEO, CareMonkey. View the interview in a new window here. RUST BUCKET Len Rust Over 450 exhibitors from Australia and around the world recently showcased their innovation at CeBIT Australia 2015. From Aussie start-‐ups to global players each exhibitor highlighting how things are changing. Aussie start-‐ups this year showcased Cloud Apps, Mobility, Digital Business, Big Data and Analytics, 3D printing, Robotics and more. The wide range of new-‐to-‐market solutions using enabling technologies all highlighted the current market moves and the future challenges. The 90 Aussie start-‐ups and 60 mobility suppliers were all synonymous with “the future” – a “sunrise” as compared to the industry’s traditional ‘sunset’ players! Over the past fourteen years of CeBIT in Australia we have witnessed many players blossom and others fail. The chorus of local voices have raised many reasons for measures to favour the Australian Technology in its development, investment and also in our growth locally and globally. Australia can always do better in developing its ICT capabilities and applying them in areas that will yield substantial national and social beneKits. The more one examines our track record and our strengths and weaknesses, the more we see that our constraints are attitudinal and derive from one of reluctance to collaborate, both with our peers, customers and institutional researchers. Talking to many exhibitors at CeBIT, highlighted it is clear that Aussie ICT is need of a ‘stocktake’ to form an analysis of future options, directions and opportunities. This should be approached by looking back at tracking what has happened to the ICT industry in terms of aspirations, major inKluences and resulting policy responses! One area it would be great to see is the development of innovative companies around global specialist vertical and horizontal applications/ solutions where Australia has proven expertise and where a global-‐scale impact is achievable. These clusters would open up opportunities for local specialist products and services which will revive the Klagging mining and manufacturing sectors. If this could be pursued purposefully and successfully, Australia would retain leadership status in the productive use of ICT and also transform some important selected areas of the economy. We also need to raise the proKile of the Aussie ICT industry to a favourable status with investors, government, economic and market analysts, business leaders -‐ the community at large. This will not happen overnight, it will all take time. The Aussie ICT industry vendors are not regarded as part of our core business infrastructure as they are in the United States, Europe and most Asian countries. Improving perceptions of the ICT industry is also needed to attract more talented entrants to ICT careers and opportunities. Courses need to be updated, more traineeship are needed to be made available, as well as post-‐graduate places and also we need to retain our most talented graduates in the local Aussie companies. Over the fourteen years of Aussie CeBITS, the Web, the Internet on which it rides plus the various devices and apps have been evolving so rapidly, creating so many business opportunities and challenges. The great news is; Things are not going to slow down. The RustReport enjoys covering Aussie vendors and will continue to track and cover their growth from the local to global markets until CeBIT 2016. 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Any information or advice contained on this advertisement is general in nature only and does not constitute personal or investment advice. © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 1 | May 18, 2015 Budget puts focus on ICT INSIDER EDITION Budget highlights inaction on ICT Commentators have largely given the Abbott Government a cautious tick for its Tuesday Budget, though many close to the IT and telecommunications industries felt it did not go far enough to push the nation into a closer embrace of digital and online technologies. Joe Hockey announced big tax cuts for small business and conKirmed plans for the new Multinational Anti-‐Avoidance Law – popularly known as the Google tax – and moves to attempt to get overseas-‐based online stores to charge and remit GST on digital products and services sold to Australians (the NetKlix tax). Critics however have been quick to point out some problems the Government may face in collecting. Hockey said the Government had identiKied 30 multinational companies he claimed were guilty of diverting proKits earned in Australia to "no-‐ or low-‐tax jurisdictions". Ovum welcomed an increased commitment to the Australian technology sector. “The most important news is not just about the money. This Budget contains a welcome focus on strategic IT investment. Gone are the days of short sighted commodity cost-‐cutting. Following the hefty cuts to public service numbers in 2014, government staff headcount remains largely comparable to previous years. Headcount is an important indicator for IT activity as it is the primary driver for Laptops, desktop support and personal productivity tools. For vendors of such tools, 2015 should be a much more predictable year. However, strong market opportunities will create some big headaches in meeting skills requirements. The Federal Government is a big market. Any sudden movements in that market can create consequential challenges in other sectors. This would be a very opportune time to lock in contractors and permanent staff, before they start to pack their bags for growing job markets in Canberra. After years of funding neglect, the government has moved to tackle some of the big problem areas. These include: • $60.5 million to commence work on the welfare system replacement for Human Services. This is a massive task, replacing a 30 year old system still running on Model 204 • $234.7 million for business transformation at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ABS had previously indicated that without a signiKicant cash injection major statistical research work, including the coming national census, would have to be abandoned. • $485.1 million to Kix the troubled health electronic record system (PCEHR) with the renamed system MyHealth • $295.8 million to strengthen national security capabilities for ASIS • $164.8 million to strengthen and enhance the government’s border protection services • $10 million to develop in house analytical, economics and research capabilities for Health Greg Miller, Vice President and General Manager, Global Partner Operations, SAP Australia and New Zealand,welcomed the Opposition’s push for science and technology for schools and jobs, which complements a Federal Budget that took steps in realising the importance of Australia’s digital economy. “For Australia to compete in a growing digital and global economy, it is imperative that ICT skills – such as computer coding – are introduced into our curricula early and meaningfully,” Mr Miller said. “We also welcome the Leader of the Opposition’s call for a write-‐off of HECS debts for 100,000 science, technology, engineering and maths students. Curricula, partnerships and programs that integrate education and work experience, provide the skills that tomorrow’s talent need to compete.” SAP also announced that its Klagship youth innovation program, the Young ICT Explorers (YICTE) competition, has expanded across six states and territories – inspiring thousands of students to innovate in ICT-‐related projects. Ninja Blocks goes under Australian start-‐up Ninja Blocks has run out of money and will shut its doors. Ninja Blocks has been building and selling home automation systems that allow users to control electrical devices via a smartphone. The company was launched three years ago and grew through sales and a series of successful crowdfunding campaigns, raising $103,000 in 2012 and $164,000 in 2013. But the company said that it was receiving far below what it would expect to get "somewhere else" and its burn rate could not be sustained. Redflow welcomes Tesla to advanced energy storage sector Australian battery technology leader RedKlow has welcomed Tesla’s arrival to the advanced energy storage sector, after the US company recently announced its Lithium-‐ion based battery modules. RedKlow CEO Stuart Smith said attention generated by Tesla’s announcement actually assisted RedKlow. “This announcement has raised the public proKile of affordable energy storage as a disruptive technology that enables renewable generation sources to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, increase distributed generation and deliver energy independence,” he said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange. Read the full statement here. “The increased interest in energy storage and generation technology, and the opportunities this presents, is both timely and appropriate.” ASX-‐listed RedKlow (ASX:RFX) presently delivers one of the world’s only currently available commercial modular Klow batteries. The RedKlow ZBM DC battery module and its grid-‐scale LSB (Large Scale Battery) storage systems are in commercial production today via its North American manufacturer, Flextronics. RedKlow is on course to make signiKicant commercial sales during this calendar year, using funds from its recent oversubscribed capital raising, in which technology entrepreneur Simon Hackett increased his shareholding. © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 2 | May 18, 2015 http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/ default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http:// www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/ default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http:// www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/ default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http:// www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/default.aspx http://www.mitraissoftware.com/ Performance driven IT solutions critical to reduce fragmentation in healthcare RUST E-RESEARCH In comparison to other Asia-‐PaciKic (APAC) countries or the US and Europe, Australia’s healthcare system allows easy access and provides quality care. However, as of 2014, of all APAC countries, Australia had the highest healthcare expenditure at AUD$6,400per capita, per annum, and ranks amongst the highest healthcare spenders in the world. 67% of Australia’s total health expenditure is government funded. After Japan, Australia is the second largest market for medical technology adoption in APAC. The Australian healthcare Information Technology (IT) market, which includes clinical, Kinancial, and administrative software and software related services (excluding hardware), devices and connectivity solutions, is expected to be worth AUD$1.20 billion by the end of 2015, accounting for 18% of the total healthcare IT spend in the APAC region. The market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.3% between 2013 and 2020. On average, Australian hospitals spend 3%-‐5% of their total expenditure on IT. Large, public hospitals are the highest and most frequent spenders. In2014, Frost & Sullivan estimated that 54% of hospitals in Australia spent at least AUD$1.5 million on health IT. This trend is expected to continue to rise in the coming decades in order to effect improvements in the health system and control costs in the long run. Penetration rates are expected to increase to 57% by the end of 2015. Natasha Gulati, Industry Manager, Connected Health, Asia PaciKic, Frost & Sullivan said, “Although, health IT penetration is expected to continue to rise, it will be mainly in the form of facility upgrades and hi-‐tech adoption across existing hospitals, and to a lesser extent, in the emergence of green-‐Kield digital hospitals. By 2020, health delivery is expected to rise to the level of digital hospitals, with Kirst movers being St. Stephen’s at Hervey Bay, Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia, and the Royal Adelaide Hospital.” “While the signiKicant spend on health IT contributes considerably to the high medical expenditure, because Australia’s healthcare system is severely fragmented, the expenditure on IT has not delivered proportionate improvements or beneKits across the healthcare system,” said Gulati Fragmentation in the healthcare system prevents information that has been collected from being managed, shared and used effectively. Data collected across systems not communicated safely and efKiciently is a hazard for consumers who are subject to unwanted repeated diagnostic tests, misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, insufKicient long-‐term care, and medical errors. Also, continued episodic care is more costly to both the consumer and the provider. “Healthcare in Australia is provided at numerous levels by various types of providers, starting from home care, primary and community care, all the way to tertiary hospitals. Across these facilities, private and public services operate very differently from each other. Compounding the complexities, payments are fragmented across government reimbursed, private insurance and out-‐of-‐pocket spend,” added Gulati. Australia already faces resource constraints with many public and private hospitals reporting decline in proKit margins. A shortage of nurses and physicians, especially in specialties such as anaesthesiology and emergency care is expected over the next two decades. Yet, there is tremendous wastage in the provider environment. Australian hospitals are reported to be inefKicient in hospital inventories, management of devices and consumables, and even staff scheduling. Arrant inefKiciencies exist with administration of goods as well as processes; with medical staff spending a sizeable amount of their time on unproductive activities, such as searching for devices across departments, manually capturing patient notes, or frantically chasing colleagues for queries and clariKications. Compared to other Asia-‐PaciKic countries, Australia is categorised as an advanced health IT market, gauged by spending on clinical information systems rising further than hospital IT spending, with many providers investing in niche departmental solutions that help to integrate information with the patient’s electronic health record (EHR). Integrated healthcare IT is expected to reduce day-‐to-‐ day inefKiciencies, with the larger goal of addressing the country’s major health challenges, including controlling healthcare costs, improving healthcare access; especially in remote regions, and providing for an aging population. Healthcare providers are interested in data collation and accurate analyses being used to enhance quality of care but © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 3 | May 18, 2015 better collaboration amongst healthcare providers and governments is crucial to effect integration across the healthcare delivery value chain. At an industry level, Government incentives and initiatives continue to be the most important driver for healthcare IT growth and adoption. Digitisation of healthcare delivery is being given paramount importance as healthcare policy makers expect that technology will help to reduce cost and improve transparency. Integration of patient information at various levels of care including primary, tertiary, community and home healthcare is a key area of investment. Federal and state governments are providing funding and incentives as well as entering into public-‐private partnerships to encourage IT investment from the private sector. With increasing IT penetration in primary and community care, a key area of investment will be care coordination. There is a palpable need for managing care as well as patient information across various healthcare facilities. Providers have realised that care coordination solutions are an integral part of IT that can help them improve patient experience and expand their services beyond the hospital. While technology theoretically promises to improve hospital workKlows, challenges in the real environment have led to underperformance and failure of some turnkey IT projects in Australia. As a result, healthcare providers in Australia are now insisting on investing in “technology that makes sense”. IT decision makers as well as end-‐users in healthcare insist on critically analysing the needs, applications and beneKits of various investments. Nonetheless, the Digital Healthcare Consumer is Kinally making its presence felt in Australia with the growing adoption of connected devices, including patient monitoring devices, wearables, sensors and mobile devices. Consumer demand for quantiKied self concepts is growing exponentially due to the high rate of technology adoption. Niche vendors and app developers have already launched products and services that leverage health data and analytics. As a result of increasing generation and collation of patient data, healthcare providers as well as insurance companies have started taking an interest in how this data can be used to improve patient care and reduce cost by exploring Population Health and Risk Management solutions. These trends indicate that the Australian healthcare IT market is rapidly moving towards predictive and preventative care. However, there needs to be more done on the regulatory side to ensure that people are indeed paying for outcomes, not treatment. While reporting and compliance steps have been taken in this direction, decisive measures that obligate providers to keep patients out of the hospital are missing. In reality, regulatory reform lags far behind technology evolution and that is what needs to change if the Australian healthcare landscape must truly transform in the next Kive years. Australian utility sector ICT spend set to exceed A$1.9 billion by 2018 RUST E-RESEARCH The Australian Utility sector ICT spending growth will remain moderate at 2.0% Kive-‐year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to 2018. IT investments by utilities companies remain focused on delivering cost savings and efKiciency gains, but change is in the wind. Utility sector business priorities highlight the increasing importance of customer related initiatives. These changes are also reKlected in the role of IT amongst utilities organizations which is moving from being about productivity improvement to creating new customer engagement points and operating models. In 2014, the Australian utility sector ICT spending reached A$1.7 billion, representing 4.0% of the total Australian ICT spending. It is forecasted to grow to A$1.9 billion by 2018. IT services represents the largest spending category valued at A$7.6 billion, also with the strongest 5-‐year CAGR growth of 3.5%. "Although overall IT priorities amongst utilities organizations in Australia are conservative – we are seeing investment in 3rd platform technologies continue, as companies seek to drive efKiciency across all parts of the business. In particular we are seeing IT workloads moving into the cloud, investment in mobility technologies, – particularly across Kield teams, and an ongoing increased focus on driving excellence in customer experience.", says Emilie Ditton, Head of Asia PaciKic Energy Insights. The utility sector in Australia is continuing to change – organisations are transitioning from being engineering http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/ technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/ Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http:// & Data Center Summit 2015 www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/ technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/ 18 – 19 May | Sydney, Australia data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http:// gartner.com/ap/datacenter www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/ technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/ Transform Service Delivery for Digital data-center/ http:// Businesshttp://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ — Take Charge, Lead the Change www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/ http://www.gartner.com/ © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 4 | May 18, 2015 focused government enterprises, to privately owned organisations that place customers centrally in their operations and are challenged by the dynamics of competition. Energy sector utilities are facing considerable challenges competing and managing uncertainty in a market environment that involves more off-‐grid generation, more non-‐fossil fuel generation, new sources of energy supply and requirements. Providing consistent, reliable energy to Australian consumers and businesses will be increasingly challenging and will require a whole new set of investments. Amongst strategic priorities security and cloud investments are the leading priorities, reKlecting the fundamental role that data and data integration will play in the operations of utilities organisations. Changing requirements around utility network management, fulKillment and customer experience will have implications for the importance of data integration across systems and processes. Utilities organisations will need to have in place consistent and forward looking data strategies enabling approaches to data collection, storage, access and utilisation across IT and operational environments, that will support steps to build out the operational transparency and agility that utilities organisations require. "Being a services sector, utilities organisations will increasingly strive to deliver to the expectations of their customers – to provide accurate and timely information and quality services. For most utilities this is less trivial than it sounds and data will be the foundation that these capabilities are based on," says Head, Asia PaciKic IDC Energy Insights, Emilie Ditton. Do shadow apps leave IT in the dark? Niall King, Senior Director APAC Sales, Centrify GUEST SPOT Many of the greatest dangers faced by enterprises today originate from within the organisation rather than malicious attacks from without. Although threats can come from anywhere in the world to any connected business in Australia, all too often poor password management permits unauthorised access to our corporate information systems. Adding to this problem is the increasingly complex structure of our corporate IT Niall King environments. Research by Elastica reports that most companies have more than 500 apps running on their networks at any given time. Risks arise where employees use these apps without the knowledge or involvement of IT – opening up potential security vulnerabilities and often violating corporate regulations. Employees are attracted by the ease and convenience of using these apps to do their jobs -‐ even if they circumvent corporate IT policies. If IT denies access to these apps, they are criticised for impeding productivity. This use of unauthorised cloud applications -‐ known as Shadow IT -‐ presents a dilemma for businesses. On one hand, these BYO apps offer an enticing option for budget-‐ conscious IT departments by eliminating the need for dedicated infrastructure and lengthy procurement processes. On the other, these unauthorised applications open up the business to a barrage of security risks. Allowing their indiscriminate use without the right controls in place could invite a security breach, putting both employees and the enterprise at risk. Earlier this year, a Centrify snapshot poll at Cloud Expo Europe in London identiKied that more than two thirds of organisations admit cloud applications are being implemented without the knowledge or involvement of IT, posing a security risk to the business. This Kinding reinforces the view that the size of Shadow IT is hugely underestimated. This situation was unthinkable just a few years ago when the IT department procured and tightly managed all internal applications. But our behaviour has changed due to the consumerisation of IT, epitomised by the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-‐ready apps, which has created a contagion of security threats and daily headlines about serious breaches. The nature of Shadow IT creates a void that leaves IT departments in the dark when it comes to who is accessing what, when and where. In the past, it was easy for IT to manage the identities of employees accessing corporate resources because these users and resources sat securely within the corporate Kirewall. Today, these same users often operate outside the data centre, either using an application authorised by IT, or – in the domain of Shadow IT – by business units within the organisation that deploy and use their own unmanaged (and unsecured) applications. With identities now residing on systems distributed beyond increasingly porous corporate Kirewalls – and with IT unable to oversee and control apps and the data they hold -‐ organisations desperately need to overhaul their Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure. A Centrify survey of 1000 UK workers last year identiKied that more than a quarter now enter a password online more than 10 times day – that’s about 4000 times a year. It’s no wonder employees are tempted to use the same password time and again or choose ones we can easily remember! The answer to this escalating challenge is to redeKine the problem: Instead of trying to control an impossible © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 5 | May 18, 2015 proliferation of devices and apps, IT needs tools that allow them to simply and securely manage the identities that are granted access. The best way to do this is by extending current corporate IT password policies and procedures, effectively leveraging the user’s corporate identity to authenticate access to applications and resources wherever they are and whatever device they are using – whether on-‐premises or remotely. Multi-‐factor authentication, such as requiring the user to acknowledge via their mobile phone that it is actually them trying to access an application, provides vital protection. Organisations can eliminate the security concerns of password re-‐use by incorporating Identity as a Service (IDaaS) and Single Sign-‐On (SSO) for all cloud applications. This requires employees to remember only one regularly changed password to access all corporate resources. It also enables the quick and easy provisioning and deprovisioning of users based on their role as deKined in a centralised directory service, such as Microsoft Active Directory. The responsibility ultimately lies with the IT department to secure user identities and to provide the proper access control and authority to use them. This requires organisations to develop security best practices for adopting cloud applications. The process starts with acknowledging that Shadow IT is a problem and then identifying the cloud apps your employees use. While it is true that the greatest dangers to enterprises today come from within rather than outside, there are enormous potential beneKits available to companies that Kind a balance between productivity and security by adopting a Single Sign-‐ On approach and centrally managing user identities. By giving both IT and employees the right tools for Identity and Access Management, you will increase both security and staff productivity by throwing light into the darkness of Shadow IT. DEAL MAKERS ACCC selects MITEL Mitel,a global leader in business communications, has been selected to provide the voice, uniKied communications and contact centre solution for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), via open RFT. According to Carl Jackson, Mitel ANZ Government manager, Microsoft Lync™, now Skype for Business™, is being widely adopted by Australian government departments as an enterprise-‐ready uniKied communications platform. “However,CIOs are concerned about the number of vendors required to deploy it -‐ as many as six different OEMs -‐ which requires the integration of numerous third party components as well as managing the complexity involved with maintaining offerings from multiple sources.” He said that adopting Mitel MiVoice for Lync, which is pre-‐integrated with the capabilities of Skype for Business, reduces the vendors involved to just two -‐ Microsoft and Mitel. “Mitel MiVoice for Lync is a low-‐risk, practical, least cost compliant way to adopt Skype for Business in government,” he said. “It embeds Mitel’s Call Control into the client, provides a contact centre that is fully integrated with Skype for Business, a reception console, remote gateways and a border gateway that are all guaranteed to work together,” he said. Mitel’s open RFT wins reKlect government’s trend toward the adoption of IP telephony, uniKied communications and collaboration and Skype for Business – without compromising high availability. Sabre to acquire Abacus International Sabre Corporation announced that it has entered into a deKinitive agreement to acquire Abacus International, the leading global distribution system (GDS) in the Asia-‐PaciKic region. Abacus is currently owned by a consortium of 11 Asian airlines along with Sabre, which has a 35% stake in the company. Sabre will purchase the remaining portion of Abacus for net cash consideration of $411 million ."The Asia-‐PaciKic travel market is the largest and fastest growing in the world," said Tom Klein , Sabre President and CEO. "Acquiring Abacus immediately combines the global capabilities of Sabre with the deep local market expertise of the leading Asia-‐PaciKic GDS. This powerful combination will give customers even more innovation and service options, while allowing Sabre to accelerate growth globally in a very capital efKicient way -‐-‐ and to gain regional synergies in all three of our businesses serving travel agents, airlines and hospitality companies." Abacus International President and CEO, Robert Bailey added, "With our extended network in Asia-‐PaciKic , Abacus has built a trusted brand of unique signiKicance and scale. We now have the opportunity to take the business forward even faster, broadening the scope within the Sabre family and with the support of our shareholder carriers. This is great news for the industry in Asia-‐PaciKic , and we look forward to passing the beneKits of integration to all sectors of this region's diverse travel community." ClearView opts for financial synergy Acurity specialist platform software Industry leading superannuation and investment software provider, Financial Synergy announces another successful implementation of its specialist platform, Acurity, with new client ClearView Wealth Limited (ClearView, ASX: CVW). Seeking to deliver a solution that is fully managed and easy to use for both members and advisers, ClearView has gone live with the new wealth management Financial Synergy Acurity platform to deliver WealthFoundations, an innovative product that is entirely transparent for its members and their advisers.Members can now safely and securely access and manage their accounts online in real-‐time as well as view important correspondence relating to their account. Advisers have the ability to instantly manage Kinancial transactions and monitor and control client portfolios online as well as being able to access the information required to effectively review and service their clients. The use of implemented model portfolios provides members and advisers transparency of portfolios whilst still enabling efKicient and experienced investment management. This new Straight Through Processing-‐based system will also support ClearView’s wealth product team to better manage the administration needs of contributions, accounting, Kinancial reporting as well as compliance reporting to agencies including the Australian Taxation OfKice and Centrelink. www.Kinancialsynergy.com.au © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 6 | May 18, 2015 Launchpad: Latest products, services and ventures LAUNCHPAD The Rust Report has created a new section announcing just-‐ released products, services and initiatives new to the marketplace. For information regarding possible listings please email newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Nutanix unveils free Community Edition of its full software stack Nutanix has announced the public beta of its new Community Edition software, a limited-‐scale version of the company’s full software stack. Available at no cost, the Community Edition removes economic and organisational constraints to adopting the industry’s most advanced enterprise computing platform. Open access eliminates cost and hardware procurement and compatibility barriers, enabling rapid deployment into existing development and staging environments. From June 8, 2015, the public beta will give enterprise IT professionals, application developers, channel partners, enthusiasts, and students the ability to implement a complete hyperconverged infrastructure deployment in 60 minutes or less. The milestone release demonstrates that the future of hyperconverged infrastructures is about software. As a 100 per cent software-‐based solution, Community Edition runs on standard x86-‐based servers from nearly any vendor, including Dell, HP, Cisco, Lenovo, Supermicro and others. IronKey adds Key Functionality to Windows To Go offering Imation has announced that its IronKey secure workspace devices are now fully Windows 10 ready. In addition, Imation’s new IronKey Workspace Command Line Utility provides the industry’s only solution for including hardware-‐ and software-‐ encrypted Windows To Go devices in regular desktop and laptop provisioning workKlows. Enterprises can now leverage Batch and PowerShell script samples, thus simplifying integration into their device preparation and Microsoft System Center ConKiguration Manager (SCCM) workKlows. This capability, when combined with the devices' small, light form factor, makes deployment of Windows To Go drives signiKicantly easier and faster than regular desktop or laptop deployments. 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Aruba Networks has announced the appointment of highly experienced executive Steve Wood to the role of Senior Vice-‐ President for its Asia-‐PaciKic region. Based in Melbourne, Wood will be charged with driving sales and growing Aruba’s business across Asia-‐PaciKic. He will work closely with the company’s country managers to ensure activities are aligned for success. Wood has signiKicant experience in the Information, Communications and Technology industries as well as Global Professional Sports (Tennis). He has held senior executive and signiKicant leadership roles in technology Marketing and Sales at SynOptics, Bay Networks and Alteon Websystems. From 2001 to 2005, Wood was Nortel’s President for the Australia and New Zealand region and from 2005 to 2013 he was the Chief Executive of Tennis Australia, where he oversaw the transformation of Melbourne Park into the world’s best tennis precinct and generated more than $1 billion of investment into tennis infrastructure. More recently, he has served as an adviser and an angel investor to multiple technology startups, via New Wave Ventures and was appointed to the Aruba Advisory Board in January 2015. Mainpac announces appointment of Darren Covington as MD KEMP technologies appoints Channel Account Manager KEMP Technologies, the full-‐featured virtual load balancer software provider, has announced the appointment of Luke Holland as Channel Account Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, Holland will be responsible for growing mutually successful relationships between KEMP Technologies and its broad ecosystem of ANZ value added resellers, managed service providers and the channel community at large. At the same time, he will be charged with refreshing the company’s partner program and building further business with the appointment of more KEMPCenter Partners and authorised partners. Holland joins KEMP with over 10 years’ experience in IT sales and business development. He was previously Channel Account Manager at Webroot, where over the period of four years he played a key role in creating and further developing the organisation’s channel programme in Australia and New Zealand. Prior, he was Business Development Manager for Cloud Services at Sydney-‐based Applaud IT where he held responsibility for successfully driving new business and developing and bringing Applaud cloud solutions to the market. Holland has also held account manager, sales manager, consulting and business development roles in the UK reseller channel for organisations Mainpac, a leading provider of enterprise asset management solutions, has announced the appointment of Darren Covington as Managing Director. Based in Sydney, Covington joins Mainpac with more than 25 years of sales and management experience in the IT industry and will now be responsible for leading Mainpac to its next stage of growth with a focus on delivering a great customer experience while building top line revenue and bottom line growth. Covington was most recently Chief Operating OfKicer at ComOps where he oversaw all strategic delivery of workforce management solutions and developed corporate and operational strategies to facilitate the achievement of sales, revenue and customer retention targets. Previously, Covington was Director of Applications Portfolio and Industry Solutions Director at Logica where he lead the development of IT software applications and developed new markets within the transport, energy, utilities and public sector. Covington has also held sales strategy, business development and channel go to market strategies in leading software and services companies. He was previously Vice President – Enterprise Software for Asia PaciKic and Japan at Hewlett Packard, ANZ Managing Director for IDS Scheer and Vice President Channels for Silicon Graphics. A10 Networks names Song Tang Yih VP APAC Sales A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a technology leader in application networking, has announced that Song Tang Yih has been appointed Vice President of Asia PaciKic (AP) sales. Song will utilize his extensive sales and executive leadership experience to further expand A10’s global sales operations, including channel and regional divisions. He will also be responsible for developing new and existing C-‐level customer relationships and will report directly to Ray Smets, VP of worldwide sales. Song brings over 20 years of infocommunications sales and leadership knowledge to A10 Networks. Starting his career at companies including IBM and Lotus Development, he went on to serve as VP of Asia PaciKic for Palo Alto Networks as well as F5 Networks, where he was a key player in growing both companies’ global sales, shareholder value and industry recognition. Most recently, Song held key management roles at Metech International Limited and Advance SCT Limited. © Dialog Marketing Services 2015 | www.rustreport.com.au | newsdesk@rustreport.com.au Page 10 | May 18, 2015
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