Software NZ Homepage

The New Zealand Software Association (NZSA) is the country's national software association. It has relationships with regional software clusters and other ICT sector groups, organizations and associations. NZSA is also closely aligned to government agencies responsible for software sector growth, development and investment.

The New Zealand Software Exporter’s Association (NZSEA) was founded in 1989 as a joint action group between the Information Technology Association of New Zealand and Trade New Zealand (now known as New Zealand Trade and Enterprise). The software sector was recognized as having the potential to become a key contributor to the growth of New Zealand’s economy. Today it is the fastest growing sector.

NZSEA later became known as the New Zealand Software Association.

NZSA continues to evolve, becoming more inclusive and nationally-focused. It recently built a collaborative alliance - Software New Zealand - between New Zealand's primary software associations: Canterbury Software Inc (CSI), Website Developers Association NZ (WDANZ) and Wireless and Broadband Forum.

Vision & Purpose

NZSA's vision is to help software companies succeed. It's committed to helping members acquire, grow and hone the essential industry knowledge, business management, sales and marketing skills needed to enter and grow profitable export markets.

Strategic Objectives

To add value for members, energies and resources are focused on delivering initiatives in the following areas:

• Advocacy: lobbying on behalf of members on issues that affect them and the software industry at large, ie one voice. This includes collaboration with other ICT organizations on ‘common good’ issues.
  
• Communications, Information and Marketing: disseminating information that helps members keep up with the latest industry trends, events, news and business developments. And developing resources that raise the collective profile of members and promote New Zealand’s ICT industry strengths.
  
• Collaboration & Networking: facilitating networking opportunities and events on a national basis. Where possible, promoting inter-organisational and cluster collaboration for the purpose of solving common problems, reducing duplicated effort, promoting export partnering and ultimately - deal flow.
  
• Education: providing educational opportunities which help entrepreneurs/founders acquire the business, sales and marketing skills needed to take their company to the next stage of development.
  
• Services: helping members reduce business costs through cooperative buying of products/services and benchmarking against industry best practice.