Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Business software developer Oconics has won a $3.8 million contract to redevelop and support the Hansard system that publishes proceedings of Australia’s federal parliament.
Oconics CEO, Jonathan Ruckert, says Hansard has
awarded the company a six-and-a-half year contract following its
decision to overhaul its core business system due to concern that the
10-year-old system had become “expensive to maintain and cumbersome to
use.”
Under the contract with the Department of Parliamentary Services, which
runs until October 2015, Oconics will provide five years of support
once the new system is delivered by the end of 2010.
Ruckert said the Commonwealth Parliament Hansard contract had created
greater visibility for Oconics in Canberra and the company was “already
discussing work with other Federal Government agencies.
“We have experience in developing systems that integrate disparate
systems and improve employee efficiency by automating business
processes. One such system was the Hansard system that publishes
records for the South Australian Parliament on the web. However, this
project will be a much more complex and integrated project.”
Ruckert said that to service its rapidly expanding client base, the
company planned to open an office in Canberra and to recruit new
employees.
According to Ruckert, Oconics will design the new Hansard production
system using Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office 2007 technology
with a framework based around the Microsoft SQL Server database.
“This redevelopment will provide all Hansard staff with Web 2.0
interfaces to the data whether they are in Microsoft Word or on the
Web. This will give them easier access to information and streamline
the workflows required to produce a document. It will also reduce
manual interactions and swapping between unconnected systems, allowing
fewer errors and producing more accurate record-keeping.”
Ruckert said Oconics had undertaken ground-breaking software
development projects for major clients including the parliament of
South Australia, SA Water and the NSW Department of Commerce.
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