News (24)

  • NSW fills CIO vacancy to fix e-gov worries

    The NSW Minister for Commerce, Eric Roozendaal, has the state government's new chief information officer, after a five-month interruption to its "People First" IT overhaul.

  • Defence fails basic ICT services test

    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.

  • Defence pledges ICT reform agenda

    The federal Department of Defence has committed to a substantial information technology reform agenda in the wake of a damning review of its ICT systems.

  • Fledgling safety agency creates CIO role

    The 18-month old Perth-based National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) has created a new chief information officer position -- but just for two or three years.

  • Worst CIO job in Australia?

    The Department of Defence has massive ICT problems and pays poorly ... do you want to be its chief information officer?

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • Will a US recession demolish global IT budgets in 2008?

    The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.

  • US Air Force Reserve Command: Colonel John Hayes, CIO

    Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.

  • Escaping the jaws of Microsoft

    Since taking the reins of Germany's SAP last year, Henning Kagermann has hardly had a dull moment. In this interview, he talks about Microsoft's bid to acquire the company, and where the enterprise software market is headed.

  • Microsoft's alpha tester

    If anyone has a right to complain about buggy Microsoft products, it's Ron Markezich, the software maker's chief information officer. In this interview, he tackles several issues including the company's no Linux policy.

  • Microsoft does open source u-turn

    Microsoft is now cosying up to the open source movement, and there are sound business reasons behind the about-face.

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