Daniel Bergan is Westpac's lead on customer experience and has been at the forefront of the bank's recent technology transformation. Despite Westpac being around for 200 years, Bergan says the company has gone through many transformations. But the pace of change has accelerated recently. At the Verint Engage conference held in Melbourne on 6-7 September, he spoke about this transformation and how it impacts customer interactions.

It's a statement of the bleeding obvious but technology is an enabling force for companies that are trying to adapt to a rapidly changing world. The problem for technology managers is that other branches of management can be skeptical as they can feel IT teams are pushing their own agenda for the latest tech rather than what's best for the business. That's why a recent article from McKinsey is useful as it comes from a business, rather than technology, perspective.

'Hyperscale' cloud providers (the big guns like AWS and Azure) have assumed a dominant position in the cloud market. But scale brings its own set of problems, as any obese person can attest.

IBM's AS/400 was first introduced way back in 1988, but a quarter of a century later, the midrange platform still plays a crucial role in IT for electronics retailer Dick Smith. Here's how it plans to eventually get rid of the aging system and replace it with a cloud-centred platform using different best-of-breed components.