IM uptake on the move but is it a boost?
More than 60 percent of Australian organizations polled by Meta Group have adopted Instant Messaging (IM) but respondents also claimed the application contributed to a drop in productivity.
More than 60 percent of Australian organizations polled by Meta Group have adopted Instant Messaging (IM) but respondents also claimed the application contributed to a drop in productivity.
On the tail end of a three-year upgrade plan that began in the year 2000 the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE will invest $1.5 million on both hardware and software refreshes this year.
Linfox has learnt some valuable lessons in risk management after executing a multimillion-dollar systems integration project following its recent acquisition of Mayne Logistics.
While the Microsoft Sydney .Net Users Group blames a "few big, noisy corporates" for Microsoft's decision to maintain support for the Windows 98 operating system, the OS has to go, it says.
E-business software company AXS-One has made three new appointments to its local senior management team.
New South Wales Police has gone live with a converged Internet Protocol network to enable storage, retrieval and transmission of its multimedia-based data traffic.
The Computerworld editorial team has collected the views of analysts and the industry about what to expect in the New Year. In this instalment, journalist Helen Han speaks to the experts about their 2004 outlook for the IT services and outsourcing market.
Two years in the making, rego.act, Canberra's $6 million vehicle registration and driver licensing project, scales to 600 concurrent users and gives the public 24x7 access to the ACT's Road Transport Authority's business transaction processing.
A third of the NRMA's patrol workforce is refusing to the use the group's computerised job allocation system amid union claims it is being used to track whether people are working or not.
CCH is the Australian face of Dutch business publishing firm Wolters Kluwer (WK) which has completed a $1 million project to create a 'shared services' environment which gives its Asia-Pacific staff a first-time integrated finance and accounting system.
Sydney-based Energy Australia has signed a multimillion-dollar contract for the supply and maintenance of its distribution network management system in New South Wales with LogicaCMG.
Savage cost cuts in recent years has had a devastating impact on call centre performance reducing agent responsiveness and customer satisfaction.
IT executives who shaft corporate governance responsibilities back to the business unit face the wrath of shareholders and regulatory authorities if obligations under legislation like the US-based Sarbanes-Oxley Act are neglected, according to Morris & Patron principal Chris Morris.
Yarra Valley Water has streamlined its purchasing processes by deploying an integrated e-procurement system to control all financial transactions in involved in the process over the Web.
Few CIOs are able to meet the deadlines for corporate data availability and most are struggling to integrate core applications.