The New Zealand government has flagged a major shift towards technology shared services within the state sector.
InTACT, the ACT Government's shared services agency, has selected Sophos' end point security in a three-year deal worth $544,000.
IBM announced yesterday that it had signed a four-year contract with the Queensland government as part of its Shared Services Initiative in a significant step towards consolidating the management of its business processes.
Perth IT integrations company ASG Group has won a contract to consolidate the Oracle financial applications of 12 different ACT government agencies into one.
Victorian shared services agency CenITex signed a contract with its then CIO Bruce Carlos which agreed to pay him $396,000 for a year's work, the state's tendering system has revealed.
Spend enough time in the IT industry and you'll soon realise that many of the new trends we see are cyclical: fat vs. thin clients; various development methodologies falling in and out of fashion; and shared vs. distributed services.
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.
As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.
Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.
Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?
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Victoria Police needs to appoint a pinch-hitter chief information officer with a mandate to implement a long-term solid ICT strategy and scrub the bilge from its decks.
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