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by Peter Dinham
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Listed Western Australian IT services vendor, Empired, says it has accelerated its east coast expansion with a major, multi-million dollar contract win with the Melbourne-based, Chinese owned, Minerals and Metals Group (MMG).
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by Peter Dinham
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Capgemini Australia has been added as an associate partner to the Federal Government’s Rapid Prototyping, Development and Evaluation (RPDE) program, a joint defence and industry initiative which looks at solutions to issues and problems faced by Australia’s Defence Force Warfighter organisations.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian software company, Media and Gaming, has had its first overseas sale of its software betting platform to the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) which the company claims will “revolutionise wagering systems worldwide”.
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by Peter Dinham
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Two New South Wales schools are to replace 225 notebooks for all teaching and administrative staff with HP notebook PCs.
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by Peter Dinham
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The Queensland Police Service has expanded use of its Objective solution to more than 2,000 staff across the state, under a whole of government procurement arrangement with Objective Corporation.
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by Peter Dinham
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Unisys Australia has been awarded two contract extensions valued at around $52.7 million by the Federal Government’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to continue to deliver outsourced desktop services and biometric and identity management solutions.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian-based Internet services provider, WebSpy, is set to acquire procurement and materials management system provider, Marketboomer, with its announcement that it has entered into share sale agreements for a full buyout of the Marketboomer Group.
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by Peter Dinham
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Global software and IT services company, Compuware, has signed an agreement that will see it acquire privately-held Web applications provider, Gomez, in a $259 million cash deal expected to be completed in November.
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by Peter Dinham
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Western Australian IT services provider, Empired, has secured a $3 million infrastructure outsourcing services contract with the Victoria Government’s Department for Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD).
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by Peter Dinham
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Epworth Healthcare, Melbourne’s largest not-for-profit private hospital group, has selected a new IP communications system that it says will significantly improve the quality of its patient and client customer service, help generate substantial cost savings, assist in providing improvements in quality and capabilities for users of the telephone system, and help support the healthcare provider’s plans for significant future growth.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australia’s National Safety Agency (NSA) has selected an NEC integrated voice and data communications platform which it says will underpin one of the most advanced law enforcement vehicle packages in the world.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australia’s largest dairy company, Murray Goulburn Co-operative (MGC), has implemented a SAP ERP solution to transform its loan management systems, which MGC says has increased data clarity, accuracy and transparency, and allowed it to increase the opportunities to offer finance to Australian dairy farmers.
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by Peter Dinham
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SMS Management & Technology has acquired specialist systems integration provider, Aipex, in a deal which SMS said today will add over $13 million in revenue and in excess of one million dollars in net profit after tax in the first year.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian pharmaceutical group, API Consumer Brands, is to implement business software vendor, Infor’s, automated scheduling and planning system in its New Zealand manufacturing plant to replace what it says is a “failing spreadsheet-based process” that could not handle production demands.
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by Peter Dinham
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Queensland-based national banking and financial services group, Suncorp, has consolidated its storage environment and implemented an IT as-a-service model based on a dynamic data centre concept developed by NetApp.
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by Peter Dinham
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Listed Australian health fund group, nib, has signed a five year contract with BPO solutions vendor, HEALTHStream, to automate and manage over 600,000 high-volume paper-based transactions annually.
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by Peter Dinham
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Western Australia’s Health Corporate Network (HCN) has deployed Objective Corporation’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution for processing up to 6,000 daily transactions for the WA Department of Health and for use by the department’s 600 staff.
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by Peter Dinham
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Enterprise systems management vendor, Quest Software, has secured a contract with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to implement Foglight, an application management solution that Quest says lowers operational costs and reduces application downtime.
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