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• Microsoft Office 365 chosen for HeartKids IT system overhaul

  By Nermin Bajric | 21 May, 2012 16:14

  HeartKids Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that works to improve the lives of children with heart disease, has deployed Microsoft Office 365 as phase one of its IT system overhaul.

• Microsoft extends app building to the Cloud

  By Paul Krill | 28 March, 2012 02:15

  Microsoft on Tuesday will preview a cloud-based application build service and improvements to its Visual Studio IDE to make it easier to build SharePoint programs.

• U.K. survey: SharePoint users freely ignore security measures

  By Tim Greene | 20 January, 2012 04:26

  Copying documents out of Microsoft SharePoint to less secure media such as email and thumb drives is common among users of the collaboration platform, at least in the U.K.

• UberGlobal, Parallels and Microsoft target health community cloud automation

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 July, 2011 15:08

  Virtualisation and automation software provider, Parallels, has partnered with IT giant, Microsoft,to deliver a complete cloud automation solution that meets the global needs of the health industry.

• OpenText appoints IQBG as premier partner

  By Hafizah Osman | 13 July, 2011 17:42

  Global ECM company, OpenText, has established the IQ Business Group, Australia (IQBG), as a premier partner to better support its financial services clients in the area of information governance, document management and archiving.

• AvePoint recruits DSC-IT

  By ARN Staff | 04 March, 2011 12:42

  Infrastructure management software vendor, AvePoint, has taken on DSC-IT as a value-added reseller.

• Windows Small Business Server 2011 shines

  By Keith Schultz | 25 February, 2011 01:58

  Many small businesses have relied on Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) family of servers to get their feet wet with their first server and network. Introduced back in 1997 as BackOffice Small Business Server 4.0, SBS has matured into a tightly integrated platform of the most important services a small company needs: file and printer functions, email, calendar and contact sharing, and document collaboration. While it is limited in the maximum number of concurrent user connections, SBS doesn't shirk core services, providing enterprise-grade features at a price point almost every small business can afford.

• Report: Cloud computing is driving demand for more skilled ICT workers

  By ARN Staff | 18 October, 2010 11:39

  The September Clarius Skills Index shows there is a demand for more than 2800 computing professionals across the country

• Aquion starts reseller recruitment drive for Mindjet

  By Spandas Lui | 12 August, 2010 11:55

  Aquion is seeking new specialist resellers for information mapping software vendor, Mindjet.

• Aconex wins huge Panama Canal deal

  By Jenna Pitcher | 28 July, 2010 17:40

  Australian company, Aconex, has announced a deal that has the potential to put it on the global stage in its role as a provider of software as a service-based project collaboration solutions to the construction and engineering sectors.

• Seven social SharePoint apps built in a week

  By Network World staff | 01 February, 2010 12:32

  Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps.

• SharePoint 2010 overkill for some, Forrester says

  By John Fontana | 28 January, 2010 03:53

  Despite platform improvements coming in Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 server, the software is likely to be overkill for users seeking to meet isolated and specific requirements, according to a study by Forrester Research.

• Is SharePoint unstoppable, or mostly smoke and mirrors?

  By Eric Lai | 20 October, 2009 05:02

  Guessing what eye-popping growth figures Microsoft will trumpet for its popular portal and collaboration app, SharePoint, has become an annual parlor game for fans and detractors alike.

• Google set to take on collaboration giants

  By Paul Krill | 25 September, 2009 08:23

  Signaling an intent to compete with giants in the collaboration software space, Google is introducing an API to extend the Google Sites collaborative content development tool, featuring a capability to migrate files from workspace applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Sites.

• SharePoint search bolstered with MetaVis tools

  By John Fontana | 23 June, 2009 07:18

  MetaVis Technologies Monday released a set of tools to classify and organize data to help users improve the search capabilities in Microsoft's SharePoint Server.