After saving millions on hardware and telecoms through shared procurement -- where agencies unite to approach the market as a single buyer -- the New South Wales state government is now considering where else it can shave its IT costs.
NSW is embarking on a program of standardising its portals to help the state's residents better negotiate the maze of government agency Web sites.
Telco AAPT picked up work at homeware specialist HomeArt and clothing manufacturer Canterbury in the three months to September 30, among other wins.
New South Wales hospitals have received a AU$4 million grant to deploy an e-health system to diagnose patients over broadband.
New South Wales has signed new whole-of-government telephony deals with Telstra, Optus, AAPT and Macquarie Telecom as part of the state's attempt to cut down its annual AU$260 million telecommunications spend.
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The IT job market in Australia is experiencing a boom due to increased spending on technology infrastructure, with opportunities greatest for SAP, Oracle and Peoplesoft specialists looking for engagements in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.
As the place where all legislation governing New South Wales originates, NSW Parliament has more than your basic obligations when it comes to ensuring the security of its data. But how can a small government department, with just five network staff looking after a main office and network of 94 branch offices spread across the country, ever hope to keep up?
IT executives should not get too excited about the "massive" 46 percent increase in job advertisements in the IT executive sector, according to Grant Montgomery, managing director of E.L. Consult.
The John Hunter hospital in New South Wales has adopted storage solution provider StorageTek's D-series disk products to support its rapidly expanding picture archiving and communications system (PACS).
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