Stories about: Unique World

In the second part of Computerworld's analysis of the Office Open XML debate, platform strategy manager for Microsoft, Sarah Bond, and several Microsoft gold partners offer their views on why the OOXML format should become an internationally approved standard.

SharePoint Portal Server User Groups have been launched in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. The groups are for users of the SharePoint platform from portal vendor Unique World which opened an office in Melbourne this week.

The spin-off software development arm of local system integrator Uniqueworld is finding sales for its product offerings offshore to be almost 10 times that in Australia.

Setting its sights on the world stage, a newly launched Australian independent software vendor (ISV) has announced plans to launch two software products for the business and government sectors to support Microsoft’s server solutions.

It’s hard to remain immune to the fancy allure and excessive folly that is the business of information technology.

Thanks to a third party developer and some of its own .Net medicine, Microsoft Australia has improved its internal Siebel CRM software in just a few months.

From soaring heights during the dotcom boom, the portals name suffered by association and plunged into obscurity for a while. But their usefulness and accessibility seems to be returning them to the fore.

A few Internet minutes ago, it was easy to exit corporate offices with banknotes bulging from every pocket. All it required was a working knowledge of HTML, a nodding acquaintance with graphics design -- and a "you can't win it if you're not in it" mantra. Times are tougher nowadays. Web designers still in the brochure and billboard space face cut-throat competition and ever-shrinking margins. Developers morphing into the greener fields of "full-monty" e-business solutions can't breathe easy either. Hanging on them is an industry legacy of over-promises and under-deliveries.

US-based e-business application vendor Great Plains has announced a new partnership deal with recently rebranded local e-commerce developers Unique World.