Sydney Water has spent AU$20 million on a workforce management IT upgrade for its engineers and service crews in the hope it will save several million dollars annually by reducing paperwork and increasing accuracy.
The federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has flagged plans to refresh its international telephony network, in a move that will affect the systems of other agencies.
Centrelink continues to allocate substantial amounts of capital to IT projects, with multinational technology giants as well as local companies grabbing a piece of the welfare agency's pie.
The local arm of mining machinery group Joy Global is close to completing a corporate telephony refresh, a move taking place in the context of a wider international push to consolidate the group's ICT resources.
Marion Macleod is set to stick her oar into almost every aspect of Primus Telecom's operations as she endeavours to push forward the telco's new business improvement program.
Tis the season to be jolly, to give, to receive, to have a sherry or two and fall asleep in front of the telly. And, if you're a mobile network operator, it's definitely the season to share.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.
We have all heard the phrase "IT needs to align with the business" but what does it actually mean, and how are businesses achieving it?
As Australian information technology professionals continue to struggle with a stagnant job market, recruiting firms are beginning to develop a picture of the IT labour market for 2003.
Telstra will start to deploy personal digital assistants to nearly 8000 field workers early in the New Year, a move with significant cost savings and which should progressively improve the integrity of information stored on its database.
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