Companies are shying away from outsourcing 'megadeals' in favour of spreading smaller contracts between several suppliers.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is seeking a vendor for a new taxonomy application as part of a simplified business reporting initiative led by the federal Treasury.
Telstra has announced today that it plans to release a $0 upfront laptop and broadband package for consumers and small business, but the inviting initial price tag belies the real cost of the deal.
CSC Australia has won a AU$20 million deal with the Department of Defence as the system integrator for its Joint Command Support Environment.
In a month that has seen Commander fending off rumours of a sale, its lawyers Freehills have accidentally revealed a list of potential buyers.
Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
I wasn't surprised when I heard about the uproar up in Queensland over a proposed government model for hiring contractors. Sure, it seemed to take the industry by storm and they're peeved, but there's definitely an underlying issue here that something needs to be done about an issue which has made itself into a monster on the sly.
The long-awaited launch of New Zealand's newest mobile operator 2degrees took place this morning; but the offering isn't as hot as it could be by a long shot.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
Four out of five outsourcing deals will be renegotiated during the lifetime of the contract, because many deals have been too focused on cutting costs.
IT managers and CIOs need to take care in the details when signing contracts with software suppliers, to avoid expensive and time-consuming problems later. ZDNet Australia examines the pressing issues surrounding IT contract negotiation.
The demand for IT contractors in Australia is growing, according to one recruiter who credits the resurgence to businesses freezing permanent staff numbers.
Too often haste to get new enterprise resources in place sees management insufficiently prepared for calling for contract bids. ZDNet Australia provides you with tips for success.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
The HP Compaq dc7900 is a solid business offering in the premium desktop space, but the competition is a small step ahead.
RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
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