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• Australian enterprise app spending to reach $9.4 billion: Gartner

  Australian spending on enterprise apps is set to reach $9.4 billion this year driven by modernisation, expansion and digital transformation projects according to Gartner.

• Apps drive business productivity, respect for IT

  Mobile applications have streamlined business processes and increased the capabilities of Swisse Wellness, Stockland and Eastern Tree Services (ETS), the companies said on a customer panel at the AirWatch Connect conference in Melbourne.

• Software licence optimisation critical to enterprise app store success

  Gartner recently predicted that 25% of organizations will have their own app store by 2017, and while app stores can improve flexibility and empower staff, once the floodgates open it can be incredibly difficult for enterprises to manage software licensing, control entitlement and track actual software usage.

• Transfield goes mobile with SAP

  Construction company Transfield has tapped SAP for mobile device management (MDM) and other related services.

• NetSuite joins Google cloud

  NetSuite will make its cloud computing enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite available on Google Apps Marketplace — the online storefront for Google Apps products and services.

• A new way to get iPhones under control

  TrustDigital has released an updated version of its mobile device management software, with improved support for the Apple iPhone, including the new 3GS model, and iPod Touch.

• Open source biz apps coming to the cloud

  There's open source software, then there's the cloud, and thus far, the two have been mutually exclusive. But that is starting to change.

• Open-source ERP, BI firms take a tag-team approach

  Two open source companies have partnered to provide an integrated enterprise resource planning and business intelligence offering that should minimize the complexity that an open source deployment typically renders.