Author Archives: Bain Hollister
Data Heavy Lifting – the Digital Blue Collar Labour of our time
The arrival of the corporate PC desktop in the 90s and associated productivity tools delivered enormous power and productivity end users. Today there are an estimated 600m Microsoft Excel users world-wide, with approx 10m of these thought to be ‘power … Continue reading
ClearPoint 192nd in Deloitte 2011 APAC Technology Fast500
The results are out in the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2011. This year ClearPoint came in ranked 192nd. This growth reflects the ongoing trust and engagement from our fantastic clients - thank you to all. This result also … Continue reading
Enterprise IT Capability Part Two: Software design and development
In Part One we talked about the types of IT in the enterprise. Once an organisation has an understanding of the role of technology and the elements of IT that the organization needs to be good at, what to do … Continue reading
ClearPoint 30th in 2011 Deloitte Fast50
A great evening last night at the annual Deloitte Fast 50. After ClearPoint’s 6th placing last year – its fantastic to be in the mix again in 2011 placing 30th with 234.86%! Fast 50 evaluates entrants purely on revenue growth over 3 … Continue reading
Go Xero! Go kiwi!
ClearPoint was recently asked to comment on Xero. We have nothing but admiration for the people and vision behind Xero. It is fantastic to see a Kiwi company serving and succeeding internally in the Software as A Service “platform play” … Continue reading
ClearPoint NZHerald Success article
Huge thanks to NZHerald and Nick Smith for our article in todays business section. In terms of how we work, ClearPoint defines ‘Agnosticism’ in that we have deep technical understanding in many different enterprise technologies and platforms. With our client … Continue reading
ClearPoint TechDrop: “Data Mining 2.0″
Thank you to everyone who came along to our “Data Mining 2.0″ TechDrop last Wednesday; a look at the data mining tools and technology used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. The world is seemingly drowning in data – and … Continue reading
TechDrop: “Data Mining 2.0″ Mine your data like Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo do.
Confirming we are on for our next ClearPoint TechDrop this Wednesday 17th August 4.30-6.30pm. This session is entitled ”Data Mining 2.0″ and is a look at the tools and technology that Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and Google use for data mining - … Continue reading
Enterprise IT Capability Part One: What is your IT?
Information technology is pervasive across many facets of business, from the basics of communications and collaboration through corporate, MIS to strategic platforms for execution. Innovating, managing, and executing with information technology is challenging. In this three part blog series we … Continue reading
TechDrop Two! SmallWorlds Virtual World gaming
The 2nd ClearPoint TechDrop of the year! …. and tonight we were delighted to host Darren Green Co-Founder and CEO of SmallWorlds. Darren and his business partner Mitch Olson have been working hard over the last 4+ years making inroads into … Continue reading