News (21)

  • Aussie enviro dept contracts SAP

    The federal Department of the Environment and Heritage (DEH) has recently shifted a heavy amount of work the way of German enterprise applications vendor SAP.

  • DFAT's apps get facelift

    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has embarked on a series of initiatives surrounding the modernisation and development of its enterprise applications.

  • Queensland plans huge Exchange 2007 project

    The Queensland state government has kicked off one of Australia's largest email and identity management projects, in a move that will see up to 80,000 email accounts consolidated into one overarching Microsoft Exchange 2007 system by mid-2010.

  • Wanted: CIO to energise IT governance

    Energy Australia is on the lookout for a new chief information officer who can bridge the divide between business and IT as it looks to complete an overhaul of IT governance.

  • Hosted CRM fails university test

    Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) hype has failed to convert Open Universities Australia (OUA); with the distance education provider's inhouse PeopleSoft rollout sure to be closely watched by the tertiary sector.

Features and Case Studies (19)

  • SharePoint: Why not?

    In many organisations, expansion of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies seems to be inevitable due to unofficial grassroots adoption and standardisation on Microsoft Office. However, other options should still be evaluated, says Meta Group.

  • Australia: SAP vs Oracle

    SAP's Geraldine McBride and Oracle's Leigh Warren, leaders of two of the world's biggest enterprise software companies, go head to head.

  • Australia: ERP in government

    Phase two of government ERP implementations is set to take off. What can you expect? Also: Find out why one local city council had to ditch Oracle.

  • Degradation of independence

    Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.

  • A Gates reality check

    Microsoft's chairman talks about taking on the big guns in the business software market. "We are patient people," he says.

Reviews (4)

  • Dancing with documents

    Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.

  • Six CRM packages tested

    CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?

  • What was that again? 3 backup packages tested

    It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.

  • Surrendering security

    Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.

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