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Qantas, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Suncorp-Metway yesterday said they were keeping a close watch on the situation, but had no immediate intention of following NAB's lead in suspending work with troubled IT outsourcer Satyam.
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Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo has been called in to settle complaints by CommBank and NAB that industrial action at the telco has threatened key transactional systems, the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) claimed this afternoon.
National Australia Bank in June will start trialling technology where chat-bots or what NAB calls "virtual agents" handle customer requests online -- a task handled by call centre agents today.
The ACCC is concerned that a Vodafone-Hutchison merger will stifle mobile competition, but after new figures reveal systematic deception by carriers it's prudent to ask: could the merger really make things any worse than they already are?
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The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.
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