The Australian Stud Book (ASB), the body responsible for ensuring the integrity of thoroughbred breeding in Australia, claims to have saved more than $200,000 on IT costs and vastly improved online access to its records database since migrating from a mainframe system to Microsoft Windows. 

CRM vendor, RightNow Technologies, has won a deal with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to implement on demand CRM solutions to automate and unify its communications with constituents across phone, email, web, and bricks-and-mortar channels.

ICT solutions provider, NetStar Australia, has been chosen by large second tier accounting firm Pitcher Partners to deploy a converged Cisco IP Telephony solution.

The war of words between HP and Sun continues with HP Australia lauding it over its high-end server hardware rival in a $450,000 deal with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Mobile wireless field sales solutions provider, O4 Corporation, has won a contract with Australian food group, Mrs Crocket’s, to provide a handheld field operations solution for its sales force.

Software delivery specialist Borland Software Corporation, and independent management consultancy M&I/PARTNERS have won a contract to optimise NATO's software delivery infrastructure using the CMMI methodology.

Redflex Traffic Systems, a US subsidiary of the Redflex Group (ASX:RDF), has been awarded a new US build-own-operate-maintain contract for a photo enforcement program with the City of San Leandro in California.

Satellite communications provider NewSat, a division of Multiemedia (ASX:MUL), has completed a trial with the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) of a portable satellite broadband system for Austrade's offices around the world.

Enterprise content management provider, Objective Corporation (ASX:OCL), has won a deal to provide an electronic document and records management system to be used enterprise-wide by the newly formed public sector agency, The Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia.