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• Bankwest launches ‘Halo’: A ring for contactless payments

  Bankwest customers will be able to use jewelry to make contactless payments. The bank today unveiled ‘Halo’: A ring that supports tap and go payments.

• Telstra’s investment in digitisation paying off, CIO says

  A year ago an agent in Telstra’s service centre may have had to access nine systems in order to help a customer deal with a fixed-line NBN fault. Today, the same task can be done from a single interface.

• Telstra charts agile future for itself and its customers

  An agile approach and an increasingly reliance on cloud has helped Telstra slash software development cycles, in some cases from six to eight months to 10-12 weeks.

• Businesses need to get agile and empower employees, Westpac CIO says

  An agile approach to delivery, less emphasis on hierarchical management structures and a culture of continuous learning are vital as enterprises grapple with the “digital revolution”, argues Westpac’s chief information officer, Dave Curran.

• ANZ pushes forward with agile transformation

  ANZ has launched a formal process to find a technology partner that will help support the bank’s agile transformation program.

• Former IBM CIO joins ANZ tech panel

  IBM’s former chief information officer, Jeff Smith, has joined ANZ’s International Technology and Digital Business Advisory Panel.

• ANZ plans massive Agile transformation

  ANZ uses Agile for around a fifth of its tech projects, and now the bank’s CEO wants to spread the approach throughout its Australian operations.

• Bringing agile to life

  Similar to leading companies ING, Spotify, Google and Netflix, Property Exchange Australia (PEXA) has embarked on an agile transformation - but what does this really mean for the PEXA team?

• In pictures: Computerworld Roundtable: Hybrid cloud on your terms

  IT departments are constantly faced with the challenge of managing complex, multi-cloud environments that combine best-of-breed public and private services with traditional on-premise infrastructure. A group of IT thought leaders gathered at Vue De Monde in Melbourne to discuss their hybrid cloud journeys.​

• Inside Domain’s technology transformation

  It’s fair to say that rise of digital has taken a toll on many Australian publishers, Fairfax Media among them. But although Fairfax has battled falling revenues as print fades, its multi-platform property business, the Domain Group, has delivered a string of outstanding results for the publisher, particularly in the digital sphere.

• DevOps: The right tools, the right teams

  Just as accepted definitions of what DevOps entails have morphed and grown over the years, so too have the toolsets and management approaches employed to build and manage a DevOps culture within the organisation.

• DevOps: Keeping your cloud transformation under control

  Just when you thought it was safe to go back and visit your developers, along comes a new buzzword to empower your software processes and raise eyebrows at boardroom meetings. That buzzword is DevOps – a portmanteau of 'development' and 'operations' – and it is already revolutionising the way many IT organisations work.

• Is DevOps secure?

  DevOps — one of the biggest trends in software development among startups and big business alike — first began in 2007. Its aim is to increase the speed at which companies develop and publish software.

• Red Hat to launch DevOps training services

  Red Hat is preparing to launch new training services focussed on helping organisations develop DevOps capabilities, according to the company's director, consulting and training, for Australia and New Zealand

• How Bank of New Zealand developers got (really) close to customers

  If you really want to know what customers think, why not go to where the customers are — and ask them? That was the thinking of Bank of New Zealand’s Nigel Manning and Eric Mattlin when they embarked on what they described as “the experiment”.