Tag: software

With backups: Salesforce set to stay core NDIS system

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Salesforce looks set to remain the core case management system for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with the agency in charge moving to protect the system from data loss...

Defence signs $720m Microsoft deal, its largest ever

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Defence department is set to spend as much as $720 million on Microsoft software over the next five years under its largest-ever volume sourcing deal with the company....

NDIA’s Salesforce procurement probe drags into third year

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A review of a scandal-linked technology procurement at the National Disability Insurance Agency has dragged on for three years and remains ongoing eight months after the minister was assured...

Canberra pays Microsoft $100m for tech support

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will pay Microsoft more than $100 million just for technical support over the next three years, dwarfing the costs of a previous support deal with the...

TechOne tips UK to match top Aussie market in two years

Posted on   |  by Byron Kaye, Jasmeen Ara Islam Shaikh and Kumar Tanishk
Australian software company TechnologyOne on Tuesday said it expects to continue benefitting from cost cuts at a time when a surge of populist lawmakers is set to come to...

NSW Police tech overhaul stalls as costs blow out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A decade-long upgrade of New South Wales’ core policing system will cost another $493 million and take four years more to complete, a damning audit of the troubled project...

Defence inks $17.5m Adobe software deal

Posted on   |  by Staff Writer
Defence will pay almost $6 million a year for access to Adobe’s design and collaboration software for the next three years, continuing a two-decade long relationship with the US...

Finance returns to SAP for post-GovERP upgrade

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Department of Finance has settled on German software giant SAP for its future enterprise resource planning system, returning to the same technology that underpinned the failed GovERP program....

UK regulator probes Adobe over cancellation fee concerns

Posted on   |  by Muvija M
Britain’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into Photoshop maker Adobe to examine whether its early cancellation fees were unfair and misleading, the watchdog said on Thursday (Friday AEDT)....