Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.
Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has released its half-yearly results reporting that greater spending on its investments at large has been offset by a reduction in its IT costs.
Marking a second round of layoffs this month, IBM announced on Wednesday that it will cut 1,566 jobs from its global workforce, primarily in its US strategic outsourcing services business.
update: The Australian Customs Service has dished out the first slice of work resulting from the lapsing of a giant AU$550 million outsourcing deal with EDS, awarding a AU$160 million mainframe processing contract to IBM.
NAB may send around 400 jobs overseas in a bid to improve operational efficiencies.
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The office of the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts has backed Telstra's decision to use offshore software developers.
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