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New Zealand's largest company, dairy group Fonterra, is considering outsourcing its worldwide information services functions to HCL in India.
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.
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Troubled metals and plumbing company the Crane Group has written down the carrying value of a new PeopleSoft enterprise resource planning system by AU$28.8 million due to "significant cost and time overruns" and is considering a claim against the vendor.
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