What is 4IR and why does government need to adapt?

The fourth industrial revolution is here and governments need to keep pace if they want to maintain trust, a technology conference has heard.

7 March, 2019

Lack of leadership, funding hinder digital success: research

A lack of senior leadership to steer digital transformation in the public sector is the biggest concern of government executives, writes Keiran Mott.

5 July, 2018

Governments to increase spending on cloud, cybersecurity and analytics

Gartner’s Rick Howard Leading IT analyst group Gartner predicts that cloud computing, cybersecurity and data analytics will be the top technology spending priorities in the public sector CIOs in 2018. And data centre infrastructure will be the most commonly targeted technology for cost savings. A global Gartner survey of government CIOs found that 16 percent […]

1 February, 2018

ATO hopes for clear skies as it moves to public cloud

Cybersecurity has been the top priority for government agencies when migrating to digital services. A universal expectation from the government is that they will keep our personal and state information safe But this comes with a price. User experience has been poor and speeds and uptime have suffered. After a series of embarrassing failures, including […]

23 November, 2017

Lockheed Martin pulls rip cord on government IT outsourcing

Where to now for ATO and Defence Department contracts?

15 December, 2015

Defence taps SAP for new $86 million deal across finance, logistics and engineering

Five year upgrade deal for incumbent vendor.

3 August, 2015

Australian Bureau of Statistics forced to sell advertising, data to pay for new technology

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7 May, 2015

Just Sign Here: Adobe wants your digital autograph on its new PDFs

Acrobat Document Cloud touts device agnosticism, workflow integration.

17 March, 2015

Open Windows buys Canberra’s eValua

Trade sale secures multi-tenant cloud eTendering.

17 March, 2015

Halton admits Finance will cede tech powers to Turnbull

Bets on for big shake-up of government technology in Budget.

9 March, 2015

NSW government plugs into cloud ERP

Software mega fauna as a service

12 February, 2015

Vendors float up to Turnbull’s G-Cloud

Di Data and Telstra spur-on highly secure local hosting.

24 November, 2014

Could Australia Post tech outsourcing be Telstra’s win?

Potential for government divestment to go full circle.

29 September, 2014

Fed’s single web system edges closer

Acquia clicked for open-standards govCMS build on Drupal using public cloud.

15 September, 2014