Australian entrepreneur John Orrock has sold his CRM systems integration business Okere to the US arm of Fujitsu Consulting in a multi-million dollar deal.
The CIO of local financial services company Asteron has signalled his group is ready for the extensive technology integration work due to commence shortly as Suncorp swallows Asteron's parent Promina.
The multi-billion dollar merger of financial services giants Suncorp and Promina looks set to create a new chief information officer role at what would be one of the nation's largest companies.
Companies are struggling to pull together disparate information stored in their IT systems--and the larger the business the bigger the problem.
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In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
Financial organisations are slowly embracing the notion of unified communications, but significant organisational hurdles remain
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Australian businesses need to make IT leaders part of the executive team to drive business strategy, according to one leading CIO.
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