The budget for the Change Program has again been bumped up as the Australian Taxation Office says it needs $105 million to finish the project over the next two years on top of the $749 million it has already spent.
National Australia Bank CEO Cameron Clyne has said that the bank's Next Generation core banking project is running on course, but declined to give any details of its progress.
The Australian Taxation Office's Change Program steering committee last week approved the decommissioning of the office's 30-year-old income tax processing system, which has been the backbone for handling the income tax payments for millions of Australians.
Federal welfare agency Centrelink and research organisation CSIRO will be working together on better IT to deliver services to the agency's clients.
Now that Office Open XML (OOXML) has been certified as an ISO standard, there is a possibility that the vote leading to that result will be challenged. It seems Microsoft is already counting on it.
Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.
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Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology, which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.
Company directors undervalue their IT staff and still believe that automation will help them cut IT budgets without affecting their core business, according to David Boyles, chief information officer of ANZ Bank from 1998-2004.
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The Norwegian company says that rendering glitches with Microsoft's MSN site show that the software giant is undermining its browser--just a year after locking it out altogether.
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