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NSW government set to refresh tech advisory and buying panels
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government is on the hunt for a new technology industry and procurement experts for the two key advisory panels it…
IBM banished from new QLD government work
By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government has moved swiftly to punish multinational technology and services vendor IBM over the $1.2 billion software disaster that crippled the state’s health department payroll…
NSW Budget holds tight reigns on IT spending
By Kevin Noonan The announced public sector staffing cuts will also hurt IT, both in terms of reduced IT staff numbers and in reduced IT demand. With the…
Victoria’s budget calls for creative IT projects
By Lilia Guan The Victorian Government’s recent release of its budget gives IT projects a little bit of breathing space, however with a billion dollars worth of cuts on…
Managing risk in IT contracts
By Lilia Guan The recent bankruptcy filing of Kodak Eastman showed that even well established companies are susceptible to financial problems. This means that government agencies must factor in…
Reduced IT services panel is not a bad thing
By Lilia Guan Special Minister of State Gary Gray has announced a policy that will halve the number of IT services panels currently operating across the Australian Government. …
Opinion on federal public servants and the mini-budget
By Kevin Noonan, Research Director at Ovum Federal public servants will be among the biggest losers from the federal mini-budget announced by Treasurer Wayne Swan. Accompanying his announcement of the…
Green IT becomes valuable to the bottom line
By Lilia Guan About three-quarters of chief information officers have deployed green IT within their organisation, with an additional eight per cent planning to do so by the end…