Sandra Rossi

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to service orientated architecture (SOA) adoption but globalization pressures will force these organizations to act, according to Saul Cunningham, SOA principle at Oracle Australia/New Zealand.

BT and Avaya Tuesday launched a new 'pay-as-you-go' service for contact center operations allowing businesses to avoid costly capital investments.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have ranked business intelligence (BI) projects as the number one technology priority for 2007 with revenue expected to grow 12 percent in Australia topping CDN$91.8 million.

Enterprise priorities are no longer around cost cutting but improving response times to meet customer needs and increasing employee productivity, says Nortel CTO Phil Edholm. Accomplishing this requires the integration of collaboration applications: the Web, video and audio conferencing, mobility, Instant Messaging and presence.

Ensham Resources Pty Ltd. and Rio Tinto Coal Australia Pty Ltd.'s Hail Creek Mine have both inked deals with Australian software mining company, Runge Pty Ltd., to implement a short-term scheduling system.

A new tool being developed by researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) can help organizations can measure the value of enterprise IT systems.

Half a dozen engineers that recently left security vendor Fortinet have resurfaced at Reflex Security which officially opened its Australian headquarters in Sydney last week.

More than A$7 billion worth of outsourcing contracts are up for grabs in Australia this year with many customers opting for the selective sourcing model.