Mid-market ERP provider, Epicor Software Corporation, has won a deal to provide a manufacturing system for Nu-Con Engineering, a New Zealand manufacturer of precision valves for handling bulk dry food materials.

Smartcard access systems provider BQT Solutions (ASX:BQT) and technology services provider to the education market, Monitor Business Solutions, have partnered to deliver a smartcard access system to schools and universities.

Teradata, the high speed number crunching division of NCR, and IT outsourcer EDS have won a contract with the Australian Customs Service  to provide a passenger analysis system to improve service and security at Australian border points.

IBM Australia has won a contract with automotive company DaimlerChrysler Australia/Pacific to provide services, software and hardware in a supply chain transformation project.

Fujitsu Australia today has won a contract with Queensland Health to upgrade the department's ICT service management structure, processes and systems.

Pronto Software has beaten seven other vendors to win a contract to provide an ERP solution for Australian mining communications company, Mine Site Technologies.

In a global multi-million dollar deal, spanning 140 countries, Indian outsourcer Satyam has won an order to implement an Oracle ERP system for the World Health Organisation (WHO).

CRM vendor StayinFront has been chosen to develop a CRM solution for listed tanning pills pharmaceutical firm, Epitan Ltd.

Anti-virus vendor, Sophos, and Sun Microsystems have struck a development and reseller agreement, in which Sun will become an accredited Sophos reseller and will add Sophos products to its price list.

PC vendors, Optima Technology Solutions (ASX:OPI), HP and Apple have won a share of the spoils to supply notebook computers to the New South Wales Department of Education and Training for a $16 million project to integrate learning technologies into classrooms.

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.