Welfare agency Centrelink has flagged plans to overhaul the way it procures a raft of ICT services, consolidating two separate panel contracts into one overarching deal with between 10 and 15 vendors.
SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business-intelligence company might merge with its former rival, data warehousing software company Teradata.
Australia's fifth largest bank St George has completed a refresh of its data warehouse systems on the eve of its likely merger with larger rival Westpac.
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Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.
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Graeme Wood, the founder of one of Australia's most successful online businesses, made a very salient point yesterday about the challenge of delivering personalised online services.
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Compliance with increasingly rigorous reporting obligations and a thirst for customer behaviour information are driving the financial sector's rising investment in data warehousing and analytics.
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The National Australia Bank has consolidated responsibility for customer relationship management projects across its retail banking and wealth management arms in Australia under one senior executive.
SAP is the first vendor to tie multiple components together by common metadata with NetWeaver, which Meta Group believes will increasingly be adopted for broad technical architecture usage.
New notebooks, mapping software and data warehousing software can't compete with wine software in our book. Check out all of this week's Australian product announcements.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
From digital images to digital cameras, and monitors to view it all on, we've got this week's product announcements covered right here in Reviews News.
Plenty of business applications from small developers this week, and if you're a mobile communications company, or just geographically dispersed and do a lot of travel, we've got something you need, baby.
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