Budgets are exceeded, deadlines are over-run and the quality of the new system is far below the standard agreed upon when the project was undertaken.
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Westpac is set to ink a $1 billion outsourcing deal with EDS this week to manage the bank's mortgage processing operations in Adelaide.
A Tasmanian city council has set itself up as an ASP, hosting IT services on a commercial basis to four other local government authorities.
Australia's Internet industry launched an online election campaign last week warning politicians that the Internet has mighty political leverage with access to more than six million voters.