Melbourne's Monash University has revealed plans to overhaul and beef up its information technology support division, with the creation of an over-arching chief information officer position and the launch of a new shared services strategy.
State-owned ICT services vendor Citec will shortly bring in external consultants to develop a new business model as the Queensland-based group reins back services to the private sector in favour of government work.
A wide-ranging review released on the eve of Good Friday has severely criticised the Department of Defence's internal IT department for being unable to provide basic services to users.
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.
One of Australia's largest brewers, Lion Nathan, has committed to an enterprise-wide rollout of Microsoft's brand new Exchange 2007 collaboration suite.
The average annual salary of an Australian IT professional is currently $82,507, according to an extensive survey of the sector recently conducted by ZDNet.com.au.
Queensland interim state government CIO Peter Grant and CTO Bob Gurnett tell ZDNet Australia they're making progress on statewide ICT reforms announced last year.
A survey of IT decision makers has revealed their spending priorities for 2003 focus heavily on security and VPNs.
While Sun Microsystems' hope of capturing a share of NSW government desktop market is fading, StarOffice 6.0's prospects in the private sector have brightened.
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