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    Financial services company Aviva Australia has revealed it is in the midst of an extensive back office technology consolidation project, with Oracle software taking centre stage as a number of other platforms are eliminated.

  • E-marketplaces: Finally registering

    Special report: In the wake of the dot-com crash, e-marketplaces have learned their lessons and are now focusing on the bottom-line deliverables that enterprises are demanding.

  • Can you handle CRM?

    Trying to master customer relationship management (CRM) suites these days is somewhat akin to attempting to eat not-quite-solid Jell-O with a fork. In trying to do everything, some CRM packages wind up doing nothing. ZDNet evaluates three CRM vendors.

  • NAB buy could create bigger IT shop

    National Australia Bank this morning said it was in discussions to buy the local arm of Dutch investment bank ABN AMRO, in a move that could enlarge NAB's IT support operation, already one of the largest in Australia.

  • Challenger implements major system overhaul

    The Challenger Financial Group is replacing its core financial management software in a move bound to raise eyebrows in finance industry circles.

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  • Corporate chiropractics

    We have all heard the phrase "IT needs to align with the business" but what does it actually mean, and how are businesses achieving it?

  • How to integrate hosted applications

    As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • We are CRM, you will be integrated

    One of the great challenges of implementing customer relationship management is getting CRM to work together with your existing systems. What is the best approach for connecting CRM?

  • Will open source force a sea change in IT?

    Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?

  • Java does the business

    After the initial hype following its introduction, has the computing world lost its addiction to Java? Not on your life.

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