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.
Application modernisation and management software developer, Micro Focus, has appointed two new account directors in Australia with a brief to build business and service customers for the company’s application lifecycle and financial services solutions.
Micro Focus Australian and New Zealand country
manager, Keith Mante, said today Simon McCrostie, previously with
services company Crossmark, has been appointed as account director –
application lifecycle solutions for New South Wales and Queensland, and
Martyn Bartlett, formerly with Sun Microsystems, takes up the role of
account director financial services sector for NSW and Queensland to
work with customers through legacy application modernisation projects.
Mante said the appointments would help the company better service its
customers “at a time when the IT industry is pushing barrows full of
new and distracting concepts – Green, Cloud, Web 3.0, to name a few.
“Customers continue to face the challenges of shrinking budgets, fewer
human resources, and increasing demands from the business to help find,
keep and grow the customer base.
“Simon and Martyn bring with them skills and experience that will be of
great benefit to our business and customers and we expand our
operations following the acquisitions of Borland and Compuware. They
will give us both tactical and strategic depth with a view to listening
to and supporting our clients in optimising their applications, and
meeting the strict challenges posed by business, the industry and the
general economy.”
According to McCrostie, succession of Y2K, ERP, Web and legacy
modernisation projects over the last decade has left businesses with a
“fractionalised adoption of software quality practices and tools.”
And, Bartlett says that after a decade of changes, coupled with an
unprecedented cost cutting regime, “the quality, agility and financial
burden of legacy code needs to be reviewed and modernised to ensure
businesses stay competitive.”
David Bass
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