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  • SA CIO: Govt data sharing no threat to privacy

    South Australian citizens will soon be asked for their consent to allow government agencies to share their personal information, allowing departments to circumvent privacy legislation.

  • Outsourcing deal drained SA IT expertise: CIO

    Ten years of outsourcing have left the South Australian government with a shortage in skilled technology workers and at "the mercy of the market", according to the man behind its AU$250 million infrastructure procurement program.

  • SA govt picks hosting panel

    The South Australian government has selected a panel of three vendors to supply the agencies' hosting needs over the next three years.

  • Sept '09 start for Westpac IT integration

    Westpac has given itself until 31 March 2009 to come up with a technology integration strategy for St George and hopes to commence systems integration by September next year.

  • SA nursed back to e-health with AU$17m Web plan

    Nurses and midwives working in South Australia's public hospital system will soon have automated access to patient records through a new AU$17 million Web based information system.

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  • SA eyes Apple, Red Hat to dodge vendor lock-in

    The South Australian government is looking at a software overhaul that could see Apple or Red Hat taking over from Microsoft on the state's PCs. Analysts warn, however, skills costs could still lead to a software environment dominated by a single platform.

  • The cuture vultures: Managing cultural change

    New technologies have changed just about every aspect of workplace culture. But how long can we go on with these changes without close examination of their overall effect?

  • BPO: Save money or fix your processes?

    Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.

  • Security wake-up call

    The recent worm attack on SQL Server should be a warning to all CIOs focused on Web services security. Here are five tasks CIOs and their staff need to do to better secure the enterprise.

  • Time waits for no one, not even Microsoft

    Microsoft sees its near-term future as a series of "waves" of software that are key to its growth over the next couple of years. But with those waves slow to reach shore, the company--and its customers--may feel like they're caught in a riptide.

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