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• Fonterra builds workarounds for 'lights out' processing

  Dairy giant Fonterra has a huge appetite for network bandwidth to operate its milk processing plants, which are becoming fully robotic, lights-out facilities requiring 24-hour video-monitoring.

• SMBs drive growth for SAP

  SAP New Zealand has posted increased local revenue for 2006 of $45.8 million, compared with $39.8 million in 2005.

• New Fonterra CIO

  Fonterra has appointed Chris Barendregt as CIO, following the promotion of Greg James to director of procurement, IS and business processes. Barendregt joined Fonterra’s IS department last year as head of solutions delivery and support, and has worked for EDS and Westpac in the past.

• EDS wins Fonterra contract extension

  Fonterra has negotiated a four-year extension to its seven-year global IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with EDS, signed in 2003.

• Fonterra puts SAP project on ice

  Dairy giant Fonterra has put on hold a major IT project, citing more pressing business priorities.

• Fonterra tipped to buy Sun vision

  New Zealand’s largest company is understood to be buying into the “utility computing” vision promulgated by Sun — ultrathin clients on the desktop with the processing grunt performed in a centralised server farm.

• Fonterra CIO to depart

  Van Den Assum to spend more time with family

• IBM surprise no-show at MAF

  IBM is a surprising no-show in a multimillion-dollar outsourcing tender issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

• Business Intelligence evolves at Fonterra

  Fonterra plans to add additional features to its Oracle data warehouse including a plant managers' dashboard, the company's business intelligence service delivery manager, Dave Scullin, said at a presentation at Oracle's Open World conference in Melbourne earlier this month.

• Fonterra staff take up EDS jobs

  Outsourcer soon to take control of $44m of dairy giant's IT assets

• Fonterra in countdown to EDS deal

  The finishing touches are being put on Fonterra’s outsourcing deal with EDS, says CIO Marcel van den Assum (pictured).

• Fonterra likely to outsource: analyst

  With Fonterra due in the next few weeks to announce whether it will proceed with an outsourcing contract with EDS, IDC New Zealand manager Dinesh Kumar says it’s unlikely the dairy giant will decide to keep its IT services completely inhouse.

• EDS gets nod from Fonterra

  Fonterra has selected EDS over Hewlett Packard to go to the next stage of negotiations over outsourcing the dairy giant’s global IT infrastructure.

• IDC gives blessing to HP-Unisys Fonterra bid

  Outsourcing not a fait accompli

• Unisys, HP team up on Fonterra bid

  Multimillion dollar outsourcing deal becomes two-horse race