Perth-based electricity utility Western Power has handed another parcel of IT services work to US outsourcing giant CSC, this time relating to desktop services.
CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.
One of HP's executives has been appointed to lead the Australia and New Zealand division of its new subsidiary, IT outsourcing giant EDS, with the group's acting managing director Neil Emerson being shunted aside in the process.
update: Insurer Allianz Australia has re-signed CSC to manage its desktop services in an AU$8 million deal over three years.
After expanding its supply chain outsourcing agreement with IBM late last year, Telstra warned of job losses by June as the computing giant replaced the telco's staff with its own in some technical areas, but the union representing the workers has stepped in to broker a stronger deal for those facing redundancy.
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Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
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