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NZSA is in the news!! 

An article relating to one of our Members - Abel Software, is below FYI.

(article in the Business Herald, Friday April 11th, 2008)

Low-key path leads overseas Foreign takeovers of kiwi businesses have helped an Auckland Software company score some very big clients. Read the the full article below: .

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Down To Business: Software Industry M&A: What's Next?

By Rob Preston
InformationWeek
November 17, 2007 12:00 AM

IBM's $6.8 billion deal to buy Cognos caps a frenetic five or six years of consolidation. But there's plenty more action to come.

The software industry is fast consolidating around only a handful of dominant players: IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and SAP (NYSE: SAP) in the first tier, and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP), EMC (NYSE: EMC), CA (NYSE: CA), and Symantec (NSDQ: SYMC) in a second, more narrowly focused one. Quibble if you want about which companies belong where, but it's clear that software is going the way of the PC, auto, lighting fixture, consumer goods, and other mature manufacturing industries: ruled by the giants.

Are we done yet? Hardly. Expect much more consolidation in the months and years ahead. What follows is a purely speculative though objective analysis on what could follow, company by massive software company.

Click here to read the full article online

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What, when, why and WhereScape

9:00AM Monday November 19, 2007
By Christine Nikiel, NZ Herald

Michael Whitehead says gaining credibility in the US is a huge issue. Photo / Brett Phibbs
The numbers have been good for Auckland software company WhereScape this year.

In September it was singled out as one of Asia-Pacific's 100 IT companies to watch by Red Herring magazine, the same outfit that once picked Google, Yahoo and Skype.

Software Magazine in the US picked WhereScape as one of its top 500 software service companies (out of thousands). And locally, CIO magazine chose it as one of its 25 rising stars. The company also signed up its 200th customer this year.

WhereScape develops data warehousing platform software. For the uninitiated, data warehouses are where market data is stored. WhereScape specialises in what is called "data lifecycle management" software - the software that allows customers to build data warehouses quickly, and the information in them to be easily changed when some of it no longer applies to the business or applies in a different way.

Founder and chief executive Michael Whitehead likes to give a plumbing analogy.   CLICK HERE to read more online.

Call to raise quality in New Zealand’s software industry

5 November 2007
 
The University of Auckland’s Centre for Software Innovation (CSI) is calling for software companies to take part in a research project to improve their business performance.

The project has been made possible by a $3.4million grant from the Foundation of Research Science and Technology.

Over the next 12 months, the Centre will survey companies on their software process and product improvement, or ‘SPPI’. It will then work with selected companies to significantly improve both the quality of their systems and the productivity of their software development.  CLICK HERE to read the full article
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