The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has revealed plans to overhaul its information technology and communications outsourcing contracts, which have been dominated by CSC since 1998.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has dropped Telstra and CSC from consideration for its managed network services contract, worth up to $385 million over seven years.
Optus has won Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's five-year, $500 million managed telecommunications and network overhaul contract.
Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris today said the bank had cut its technology spend by 6 per cent on last year, and had claimed "first-mover advantage" in its decision to overhaul its core banking systems ahead of other major rivals.
Utility Origin Energy overnight said a number of IT staff could be affected as part of a billing system overhaul it has inked with Indian IT services firm Wipro.
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A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
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