The NZ Correspondence School (Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu) has declined to comment on whether it followed any of the recommendations in a third of a series of quality assurance reports on its Student Management System (SMS).
Agile development specialist Alistair Cockburn acknowledges "agile is not for every project, but the hard part is to name which projects it's not for."
New Zealand open-source company Catalyst IT, has developed an electronic training (eTraining) platform in Saudi Arabia targeting two million users. It was launched last month
Despite a wide range of faults identified in the current state of the Novopay school payroll system, Deloitte’s technical review says the system can be made stable to deliver payroll for the next eight to 10 years.
Multicore computing is progressing so fast that it's difficult to forecast "what tomorrow may bring", says Barbara Chapman of the University of Houston, Texas.
Given two start-ups, one selling itself on its parallel-processing nous and the other not emphasising that aspect, would investors be significantly more attracted to the former?
The music industry is "recovering" from the depredations long said to be due to illegal digital downloads, says a report by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for desktop-as-a-service which will initially include 9800 virtual desktops.
Social welfare swallows up a quarter of New Zealand's gross domestic product, so it is important to identify where that money can be most productively and efficiently used, says Mike O'Neil of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD).
A group of New Zealand organisations responsible for critical infrastructure have established voluntary standards for the security of such systems against digital attack.
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is considering a “freemium” business model as a way of ensuring free public access to a multi-sourced database of land imagery of “national significance”.
Opening up of large spatially-based data resources, particularly by governments, brings into contrast and potential conflict the personal and the objective or authorised views of the same set of data.
SilverStripe’s successful bid for the all-of-government common web platform contract represents an initial stage of development and the New Zealand company may have as little as a year’s window to exploit its exclusive status.
After years of cumbersome paper-based processes for approving loans, Kiwibank is about to take its second step towards completely paperless operation.
The New Zealand Correspondence School’s Student Management System is still incomplete in its core functionality, although the chief executive says everything required for day-to-day operation is in production.