The National Australia Bank has unveiled details of a plan to unify its current fragmented data warehousing system onto a single platform as it fights to remain competitive with new online banking rivals.
While IT executives can see the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, minimal budgets and a lack of mature technology are holding back adoption, according to the research house.
Fujitsu is hoping to grab an increasing share of business from rival IBM as it pursues plans to reduce its reliance on the stagnant Japanese IT market.
While Australian businesses are showing increasing interest in service and process management approaches such as ITIL and CMM, that enthusiasm drops off dramatically once outsourcing comes into play, according to new data from research firm Forrester.
The Australian Stock Exchange has rolled out an enhanced network for data recovery as it prepares for the 2006 rollout of its new trading software.
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