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“[Lotus Sametime] means senior auditors can interact with junior auditors over our network and meet auditing requirements, yet be geographically independent, with the cost benefits that come with that.” Ross Schamburg, Queensland Audit Office CIO
Does it take either a significant service outage or a sea change in your business, like a major acquisition or a downsizing, to get business leaders to re-examine seriously whether your Information Technology infrastructure and resources are performing efficiently and effectively? All too often, businesses only re-examine their IT infrastructure and resources when a major snafu has occurred or some external force has turned the business model on its head.
"Our business is driven by data - we have huge volumes through the information we collect as part of our day to day activities - and analysing and using it to influence strategies is a key part of what we do." - Alex Cruden, Baycorp IT&T manager
Traditional marketing is all talk and no trousers. Your customers don’t care what you say, they want to know what you do. By James Hurman
Koppers Australia needed a reliable hardware platform for its new ERP system, which would enable the company to centralise its Asia-Pacific operations and report to its United States parent company. It also wanted to lower its operational and IT management overheads and minimise downtime.
Midsized companies are moving toward an infrastructure that is optimized and responsive to help them meet new business demands. This article looks at the short- and long-term benefits of cloud computing and how midsized companies can start integrating some cloud services into their existing IT environments.
Firth is using IBM’s Cognos business intelligence software to keep tabs on the concrete-maker’s financial performance and fleet of concrete delivery trucks.
The Collaborative CxO: Today, organisations spend a significant proportion of their IT budgets on storing, governing and securing their corporate data. In all these efforts, it is often forgotten to capture and leverage the business value of their corporate intellectual property. Enhancing the value of information by turning it from just 'noise' into knowledge, however, is the crux for the creation of strategic advantage.
“This isn’t in any way about ICT leading the business into ICT solutions. This is about understanding and getting people to think about what the business needs and us enabling it.” - Mark Marshall, Director, ICT Division , CPIT
When Jericho faced spectacular growth, it needed to rebuild its computing model. The result is equally spectacular.
"It was a very, very successful rollout — we never really faltered." Noel Leeming Group CFO Mark Conelly
Queenstown Lakes District Council uses IBM's Component Business Model to map relationships internally and between its various agencies to improve information flow.
Fast-growing Queensland-based Super Cheap Auto Group has used a combination of IT leasing and close management of its IBM-supplied infrastructure to maximise return on investment and system uptime.
"We've never looked back - now I don't understand why everyone doesn't have Lotus Notes.", Mark Bennett, Salvation Army information systems group manager
In turbulent economic climate, companies are coming to the realisation that integrated systems are the key to creating competitive advantage through flexibility, agility, adaptability and access to real-time information for effective decision making.
Achieving success in today's business environment depends on many factors such as speed to market, agility and protecting your technology investment. How has Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) embraced changed and used it to its advantage? By thinking of the customer first.
An IBM-developed IT integration strategy for national accounting group WHK is delivering enormous cost savings.
An elite team is scanning your internet security for the slightest flaw. Luckily, they work for us. Be among the first to hear the latest findings of the IBM X-Force team and discover the issues that can leave your business exposed.
“To do what we do we really need a quality of infrastructure that is best-of-breed … high-speed, high-performance systems.” Zero One general manager Suraj Keshvara
