Queensland's ICT industry is up in arms about a state government proposal to handle the recruitment of all IT contractors through one master vendor to drive down contracting costs.
The Queensland Government has picked the vendors to nurse it through its massive roll-out of Microsoft Exchange 2007 to 80,000 public servants.
The Queensland Government's master vendor model to procure temporary IT workers will most likely lay to rest after having discussions with the IT recruitment industry, according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).
The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office reached a preliminary agreement this week with the state's IT contracting industry on a new model to achieve the government's saving aims, according to the Australian Information Industry Association.
Queensland Health has settled its long-running lawsuit with e-health vendor TrakHealth and its parent InterSystems.
As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.
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Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.
Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) is showing signs of gaining critical mass with two emerging players gaining traction with both enterprise and small- to medium-sized organisations in Australia.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
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