With Alexa drawing up documents and blockchain explainers going viral, there’s no question the legal community is waking up to the wonders of modern technology. But are these developments purely disruptive, or are there benefits for the legal system?
Either way, there are opportunities to be grabbed, and Aussie startups are at the forefront of the revolution.
Read MoreAn Australian-based legal technology company has created a prototype virtual lawyer, built using Amazon’s Alexa platform, as a test for whether lawyers will eventually be replaced by robots.
Smarter Drafter, located in Sydney, has developed what it is calling the “world’s first virtual lawyer for Amazon’s Alexa”, which creates legal documents instantly, in the same way a human lawyer would do.
Read MoreManila-based tech start-up FlySpaces, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest flexible office space marketplace operators, has expanded its regional footprint with a deal to acquire Quickspaces, a local competitor in Hong Kong.
While Singapore and Jakarta corners much of the spotlight when it comes to startup success stories, FlySpaces attests to the viability of Manila as a location where startups can grow and thrive.
Read MoreA fast-growing Australian legaltech start-up has attracted a seasoned executive to be its finance chief.
Ben Rosswick has joined Smarter Drafter as CFO. He moved from Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, where he was the director in charge of G10 foreign exchange options in Asia. He has also held leadership positions at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Read MoreThe Rising Star Award recognises, high-growth nominating companies with less than three years revenue to report (and who, therefore, do not qualify for the Technology Fast 50 list), are (in order): cloud-based technology solutions provider Barhead Solutions Australia (16,330%); inspirational war veterans employment specialist WithYouWithMe (3,427%) and advertising disruptors Playground XYZ! (3078%).
Read MoreBarhead Solutions’ directors Ken Struthers and John Orrock are no strangers to business applications or software-as-a-service - their last company was Salesforce partner Cloud Sherpas.
The pair ran that company from 2012 in Australia, until it was acquired by Accenture in 2015.
Their sophomore venture is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, and to say that decision has paid off would be an understatement.
Read MoreExplore the 2018 edition of the Financial Review Fast Starters list, featuring the fastest growing startup businesses in Australia.
Read MorePhilippines’ IT distribution giant Wordtext Systems, Inc. Group (WSI Group) has announced today that it has backed tech skills learning platform CloudSwyft. The undisclosed amount raised will be used for supporting the market expansion plan across the Asia Pacific.
CloudSwyft uses an IT-Labs-as-a-Service approach that helps companies create and manage IT training and assessments, so far the company has managed to generate its revenue through platform subscription and certificate vouchers.
Read MoreAustralia’s largest IoT conference and exhibition, IoT Impact, was held last month at the University of Technology Sydney and has been hailed a great success.
The event saw the presentation of the IoTAA IoT Awards, held at the grand opening of the state-of-the-art University of Technology Sydney Tech Lab in Botany.
Read MoreThe winners of the prestigious 2018 Communications Alliance Awards were announced last night at the 12th Annual ACOMM Awards Dinner in Sydney. Attended by more than 450 industry leaders, the evening’s keynote address was delivered by Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield, Federal Minister for Communications and the Arts.
The individual category awards were taken out by a star-studded line-up of Australian service providers - featuring long-established players and ‘new faces’.
Read MoreBarhead is honoured by Microsoft for achieving outstanding sales achievement and innovation.
Barhead Solutions, a born in the cloud Business Applications consultancy, has been named a member of the prestigious 2018/2019 Inner Circle for Microsoft Business Applications.
Read MoreAdvvy today announced it has won the 2018 Microsoft Partner of Year Media and Communications Award. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Read MoreRhipe, Velrada, Vector Risk, Adopt & Embrace and Advvy are among the Australian Microsoft partners named as winners in the vendor’s Inspire Global Awards tally, while Datacom has been tapped as a finalist.
Read MoreCRN Impact Award winner Reekoh has signed up DNA Connect as the first distributor for its IoT integration platform-as-a-service.
The Brisbane-based startup's platform lets enterprise customers to easily deploy and connect IOT technologies within their existing environment, allowing them to deploy a myriad of sensors in a network and manage complex IoT solutions.
Read MoreReekoh is a leading IoT data and API management platform, designed to help enterprise customers manage the complexity of IoT solution components and accelerate IoT adoption.
Read MoreJohn Orrock and Ken Struthers know CRM. They founded Cloud Sherpas, grew it to one of the largest and most successful Salesforce partners, then sold it. That was then. This is now. And now the two have founded Barhead, which builds CRM exclusively on Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Read MoreContinuing our series of interviews with impactful women for International Women’s Day, Dyean Moodley spoke to Amreeta Abbott about her passion and determination to succeed.
Read MoreDemand for more data and greater control is accelerating the deployment of internet connected devices across all sectors of the Australian economy.
Analyst Gartner estimates that this year 8.4 billion connected “things” will be deployed globally, and that will soar to 20.4 billion by 2020.
Read MoreCloudSwyft partners with Microsoft to provide cloud-based training modules for technology skills.
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