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SAP has revamped its certification program, introducing an e-learning option although students who want to sit the course at home will be disappointed.
SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smartphone.
IBM announced yesterday that it had signed a four-year contract with the Queensland government as part of its Shared Services Initiative in a significant step towards consolidating the management of its business processes.
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While we continue to talk about Australia's ICT skills shortage, more than 3,000 potential sponsorships are being blocked by impediments to the 457 visa scheme.
It wasn't all smooth sailing when Woolworths upgraded to SAP's BI 7.0 recently, but as the retail chain put it: "An ASX Top 10 company cannot consolidate their results on an Excel spreadsheet".
CS Energy's ERP upgrade -- which was rolled out early this year -- has enabled it to develop a more efficient internal system for staff training and knowledge transfer.
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