Hi there,

The name Zoho might not be a household name in New Zealand, but the Indian SaaS business applications company – which is also behind the ManageEngine ITSM software – is now establishing a bricks & mortar presence here.

With 300,000 global customers, and many locally including Qantas and Turners and Growers, strong growth with enterprise clients in the region has motivated it to get feet on the ground, with a local MD and the opening this week of offices in Auckland’s Britomart and Bryon Bay in Aussie, plus the building of two Australian data centres currently underway.

The company, which says it competes with Salesforce, Microsoft and Google (we'd question the latter two), is talking up its democratisation of "$1 dollar a day" enterprise-grade technology – and in particular its data privacy which it says is not compromised by data monetisation.

In other news:

Kiwi agritech sector a winner at evokeAG
Accenture heralds 'DARQ' forces in a post-DX apocalypse
The wrap from Barcelona's mobile extravaganza #MWC19
6G anyone? Silliness and Trumpisms continue as Huawei bites back
Automation takes on debt collection

Enjoy the read,

Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.co.nz

Zoho ramps up A/NZ push

Opens offices and data centres across A/NZ...

SaaS business apps and ITSM provider Zoho is ramping up its local presence investing ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in A/NZ following the opening of offices in both countries.

“We are seeing strong adoption of the Zoho suite in large enterprises so that’s naturally a key focus for us.”

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NZ agritech hits world stage at evokeAG

It’s agriculture 4.0, but what will it take for the great Kiwi agtech project to bear fruit?...

Last week the largest international agri food tech event in the Southern hemisphere went down in Melbourne.

“The big takeaway from evokeAG is that New Zealand’s agritech ecosystem is perhaps two years ahead of Australia’s.”

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DARQ days ahead as business enters ‘post-digital’ world

New rules apply as privacy and individualism take centre stage...

Distributed, Artificial, Reality and Quantum. Those are the key words behind a new acronym being touted by Accenture.

“Ambitious companies are looking at DARQ technologies for the next source of differentiation and disruption.”

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Faster, bigger and smarter at #MWC2019...

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5G has shifted from last year’s hype to industrial and consumer use-cases and how to monetise costly builds as quickly as possible.

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