The federal Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (DITR) has detailed plans to implement at least three new customer relationship management (CRM) systems based on Microsoft software.
When UK-based online trading site Betfair was granted a licence to operate in Australia this January, it built a new data centre and flew the entire set-up from the UK to Tasmania on two chartered aeroplanes. In the first three weeks of going live, the company has achieved 100 percent uptime.
The federal department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has gone to market for a new PC supplier for the next three years, specifying any new hardware it buys must be ready for Windows Vista.
WatchGuard Technologies and Citrix Systems have teamed up to release an SSL VPN gateway solution aimed at undercutting competitors and ousting IP-Sec technology from the Australian mid-market.
The Department of Defence is upgrading the IT environment for staff of its national intelligence assessment agency, the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO).
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