News (51)

  • Unisys bags AU$240m Defence IT deal

    The Department of Defence has signed a AU$240 million, five-year contract with Unisys to provide support services such as network security, infrastructure support and server and desktop support.

  • DIMA signs AU$140m deal with Unisys

    update: The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) has signed a AU$140 million contract with Unisys for a range of outsourced desktop services.

  • 2007: How was it for outsourcing?

    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.

  • CSC sneaks into Immigration's tech revamp

    A lack of available Siebel skills on the part of its prime contractor IBM has prompted the Immigration Department to hand AU$6.7 million of work to rival vendor CSC.

  • DIMA inks AU$200m IBM deal

    The federal Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) yesterday signed an AU$200 million contract with IBM as part of the department's four-year Systems for People project.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (17)

  • Privacy legislation sparks local security spike

    Australian managed security providers (MSPs) are looking forward to healthy growth in 2002 as the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 begins to force the hand of business of all sizes.

  • Scandinavian Airlines pilots SOA

    Service oriented architectures (SOAs) can ease application development but they impose a significant administrative burden. David Braue finds out how Scandinavian Airlines dealt with the challenge of SOA proliferation with flying colours.

  • IT left out of outsourcing decisions

    Most companies view outsourcing as a good way of cutting costs and don't ask for input from the IT department when making such decisions, according to research released this week by Unisys.

  • Outsourcing: The trouble with mega deals

    As mega outsoucing deals begin to lose their shine, is it time for selective sourcing to take centre stage?

  • Outsourcing: when is it better not to do it yourself?

    When is the right time to outsource versus managing a project inhouse? ZDNet Australia looks at some tips to help you make the right decision.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (1)

  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

Create an e-mail alert for "outsourcing"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
outsourcing


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 application service providers
  2. Popularity: 2 asps
  3. Popularity: 2 ato
  4. Popularity: 3 bankwest
  5. Popularity: 2 bill gibson
  6. Popularity: 2 biometric
  7. Popularity: 3 biometrics
  8. Popularity: 2 bpo
  9. Popularity: 2 case
  10. Popularity: 10 cio
  11. Popularity: 2 communications
  12. Popularity: 3 contract
  13. Popularity: 7 csc
  14. Popularity: 2 data
  15. Popularity: 5 defence
  16. Popularity: 2 dell
  17. Popularity: 3 department
  18. Popularity: 2 desktop
  19. Popularity: 2 diac
  20. Popularity: 3 dima
  21. Popularity: 3 division
  22. Popularity: 2 eds
  23. Popularity: 2 fujitsu
  24. Popularity: 7 government
  25. Popularity: 3 greg farr
  26. Popularity: 8 ibm
  27. Popularity: 4 ict
  28. Popularity: 5 immigration
  29. Popularity: 2 implementation
  30. Popularity: 7 it
  31. Popularity: 3 java
  32. Popularity: 3 mainframe
  33. Popularity: 3 management
  34. Popularity: 4 manager
  35. Popularity: 2 microsoft
  36. Popularity: 3 network
  37. Popularity: 3 outsource
  38. Popularity: 2 process
  39. Popularity: 3 project
  40. Popularity: 3 railcorp
  41. Popularity: 3 security
  42. Popularity: 3 services
  43. Popularity: 2 siebel
  44. Popularity: 2 soa
  45. Popularity: 2 software
  46. Popularity: 2 support
  47. Popularity: 2 systems for people
  48. Popularity: 3 t&b
  49. Popularity: 3 technology
  50. Popularity: 3 telstra

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured