EDS (now known as HP Enterprise Services) and Fujitsu-owned Kaz Group have been taken out of the running for the Australian Taxation Office's $60 million a year end-user computing deal.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review's target of shaving off $1 billion a year.
The Australian Taxation Office is looking for a partner to re-platform its Australian Business Registration system which is reaching the end of its Microsoft support.
Second Commissioner of Taxation David Butler today said that the increased $879 million budget for the Australian Taxation Office's Change Program quoted in an audit report released yesterday was a worst-case scenario.
The budget for the Change Program has again been bumped up as the Australian Taxation Office says it needs $105 million to finish the project over the next two years on top of the $749 million it has already spent.
Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.
Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
Following a rash of Telstra customers reporting phishing attacks, the telco has issued advice on how to discern the real Telstra from fake ones -- but the advice it gives is more likely to help phishers than its customers.
What happens when you change the agenda of the ATO's Change Program, or program in some changes to the Agenda? Or which way actually is it? Not to mention whether there will be any change left in the budget after the program's agenda has changed.
The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.
The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.
A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
The Australian Taxation Office has issued a revised timetable for its $724 million Change Agenda IT refresh, which has recently been pushed back by 18 months.
The ATO changes its IT Change Program. Or is it adding to the agenda of its Change Agenda? Our comic duo investigates.
This week's Club Builder looks at fixing .NET's versioning problems, how ASCII art can help remembering SSH keys, and how the ATO intends to let people running OS X or Linux file tax returns.
Government CIOs from the Australian Tax Office, Customs, Defence and Centrelink, talk security.
Australian Tax Office (ATO) CIO Bill GIbson talks security.
Australian government CIOs from Customs, Defence, the ATO and Centrelink talk security. This video contains the highlights followed by individual interviews with the CIOs.
In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.
Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?
Need some help with your taxes this year? While they won't take the sting out of tax time entirely, some of the most recent accounting software offerings are designed to do more than just arithmetic.
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