Laiki Bank extends infrastructure outsourcing deal
Cyprus-based Laiki Bank Australia has extended its infrastructure outsourcing agreement with KAZ Group for another five years.
Stories by Helen Han
Customers overlooked in merger mania
Customers have been abandoned in an acrimonious battle for shares that has emerged in the takeover fight between Oracle and PeopleSoft.
EDS Australia awaits local details of job cuts
IT services provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS) is unable to rule out job cuts on the local front following the announcement this week of a global restructure to reduce costs and improve its bottom line.
Vendors clamp down on licence compliance
Vendors have upped their use of software audits in recent months in a desperate bid to generate additional revenue from existing users.
Ongoing support issues trouble users
PeopleSoft Australia executives are banned from discussing the Oracle takeover bid but the impact looms large considering the company has 153 customers in Australia and JD Edwards has a further 152 customers locally.
PeopleSoft declines comment on local job cuts
PeopleSoft senior vice president for Japan and Asia-Pacific, Murray Creighton, said it is too early to comment on any Australian job cuts, but admitted redeployment may occur in the short term as a result of the merger with JD Edwards.
ISPs caned in spam debate
ISPs have little interest in stopping the spam menace especially when it comes to corporate customers as they profit from charging for the amount of information downloaded.
Showbag won't make us buy: Microsoft users
In an effort to appease its disgruntled customer base after last year's Software Assurance licensing fiasco, Microsoft has unveiled a showbag of freebies that come into affect on September 1, but IT managers have already warned they can't be bought that easily.
CBA outsources online system upgrade
The Commonwealth Bank is upgrading its online banking system, outsourcing the project work to an IBM Business Consulting Services and EDS consortium.
Zurich hones competitive edge with Net reporting tool
Establishing efficient risk management processes was not Zurich Australia's forte until the company replaced a manual reporting process for its motor insurance business with an Internet reporting tool.
Basel II compliance pressure heats up
Spiralling compliance cost is compounding the pressure on Australia's financial services sector to set a risk management methodology under the New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) by the end of this year.
Rio Tinto outsources, selectively
International mining giant Rio Tinto is outsourcing the support of its technology infrastructure in a two-year agreement.
Hagemeyer dumps legacy system in supply chain rollout
Multinational electronics distributor Hagemeyer Electrical Group (HEG) is completing a national supply chain system rollout as part of a global project to standardise distribution.
IT, business execs spar in chilly climate
The need for business managers to show an ROI on all IT investments made within their organisation compels them to work more closely with IT, but the relationship between the two is far from cosy because of politics and infighting.
IT projects feel SARS impact
IT projects could face significant delays unless companies tighten workplace policies and activate solid business continuity plans as the epidemic economists are calling the $US30 billion disease spreads.