Australian Taxation Office (ATO) second commissioner Greg Farr said his staff are performing the equivalent of one regular Siebel implementation per week as they keep a case management system deployment on track.
Senator Eric Abetz on Wednesday launched a free open source content management system (CMS) for use by government departments and not-for-profit organisations.
Local software vendor Squiz has re-licensed its MySource Matrix tool under the popular GNU General Public License, nearly two years after facing criticism the software's previous licence wasn't open enough.
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A AU$6 million integration project will soon give Victorian businesses easier access to the government departments they need. David Braue weighs in on one of Australia's largest single sign-on deployments.
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) is no stranger to electronic record keeping, but in 2002 it realised that some of its most crucial information might soon become inaccessible.
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If all goes to plan, Australia's fourth-largest local council will kick the paper habit once and for all. Getting to that point, however, has been less about cold turkey than about gentle weaning, says Sutherland Shire Council's Chris Fripp.
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