Cenitex on track to complete ‘Program Fortify’ by end of year
Cenitex expects to complete by the end of the year its most ambitious technology overhaul since the Victorian government shared services agency was established in 2008.
Cenitex expects to complete by the end of the year its most ambitious technology overhaul since the Victorian government shared services agency was established in 2008.
After starting her public service career with the Australian Tax Office in September last year, virtual assistant (VA) Alex is now three months into her job with IP Australia.
To say Victoria’s CenITex has a chequered history is putting it mildly. But although the government shared services organisation still has its critics, the organisation has fundamentally transformed itself over the last half decade according to CEO Michael Vanderheide.
The government is aiming to save money with shared services consolidation and rake in more revenue by boosting the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) data analytics capabilities, the Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has revealed.
Infosys will be providing finance, accounting and human resources services to over 6000 NSW government employees from its office in Parramatta, West Sydney over the next six years.
The government is seeking private sector input on a move to consolidate shared and common service delivery, including ICT.
Victorian shared services organisation CenITex will live on as an ICT provider, the government has revealed.
The NSW government has established a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Infosys and Unisys to progress detailed discussions for both companies to provide shared ICT services to agencies.
The NSW government has invited 50 companies that filled out a registration of interest (ROI) for ICT shared services in March 2014 to submit their plans via a request for proposal (RFP) process.
Up to 36 Australian federal government agencies will be merged or scrapped as a result of the federal budget, meaning the remaining IT departments may not be across shared services and cyber security, according to Dell Software Australia managing director Ian Hodge.
A standards-based approach to IT Service Management (ITSM) adopted by the Queensland Public Safety Network Management Centre has resulted in consistent and reliable delivery of IT to the state’s law enforcement and public safety agencies, according to the centre’s director, John McIntosh.
CenITex, the Victorian Government's shared services IT agency, will adopt a new IT governance, risk and compliance (ITGRC) package to improve its information security function.
In the wake of its well-publicised shared services disaster last year, the Queensland government has announced it will appoint a state government CIO to implement its digital economy strategy.
Really, they should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. Queensland Health, a state government department responsible for paying its 78,000 staff some $210 million in salaries fortnightly, was in dire need for a replacement to its existing payroll system.
The WA Government must provide certainty for employees of its Office of Shared Services (OSS) around transitioning back into public sector agencies, or risk losing them before it has been decommissioned.