There are different kinds of tips and tricks on how to win corporate backing for IT projects. It ranges from the staid consultant-speak advice more suited to a management manual to the in-your-face, sometimes not-so-ethical kind that typifies corporate cunning and political maneuvering often at play in the real world.
A serious wireless network technology flaw that could lead to the breakdown of some critical infrastructures in just five seconds has been identified by Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Information Security Research Centre, a finding that is likely to have worldwide ramifications.
The sale of Telstra will not proceed until the 2006/07 financial year, according to federal Budget papers released this week.
While most companies claim they would rather use local providers, almost one in six Australian organisations have outsourced IT projects offshore or are planning to, a new survey shows.
Spend a little time with SAP Australia MD Geraldine McBride and one could get the impression that she can hardly contain her delight at Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is planning to introduce mandatory standards governing the use of customer information by telecommunications companies.
Australian unions and the opposition Labor party have signalled their support for US-style legislation that penalises companies that engage in offshore outsourcing.
Keen to save 15% on software development costs in a large project, many companies jump at the opportunity of the offshore option, according to Powerlan managing director Tomislav Matic. However, those savings, he said, are soon spent on simply managing a long-distance contract.
Large-scale vendor consolidation continues to shape market activity and is enforcing the conservative and risk-averse buying strategies of enterprise customers today.
When it comes to tackling security, governance and compliance in 2004, Australian organisations are likely to take the same approach they have taken for the last few years, that is, continuing to "spend as little as they can get away with".
In its latest move to protect critical infrastructure, the Australian federal government yesterday launched a secure web site to report information security attacks, but the initiative has raised the ire of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCert) which has spent the last two years establishing a national reporting and alert system with a broad membership base.
When it comes to in-house IS units competing with outsourcing service providers, the CIO of mid-sized law firm Spark Helmore Peter Beck is willing to go toe-to-toe with any vendor.
In a harsh assessment of the tough economic climate that has profoundly impacted the state of IT today, Gartner placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of industry, claiming much of the current malaise is self-inflicted.
IT departments will shoulder the costly burden of updating marketing databases and cleansing client lists to comply with Australia's Spam Bill, Baker & McKenzie e-commerce expert Adrian Lawrence warns.
SYDNEY (11/06/2003) - Spammers have become even nastier in the fight to maintain their income sources and are using malicious code to send unsolicited junk by piggybacking on mass mailing viruses to reach more addresses at rapid speed.