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  • CBA, BankWest tie IT knot in 2011

    BankWest's existing technology platform would continue to underpin its operations until the Commonwealth Bank has fully moved across to its new core banking system in 2011, the bigger bank revealed today as it detailed its takeover plans.

  • Accenture wins Telstra maintenance deal

    Accenture this morning announced it had won a five-year, multimillion dollar contract with Telstra to maintain the new customer care and billing platform that the IT services giant helped develop.

  • Accenture Australia escapes job cuts

    The Australian office of technology consulting company Accenture has no plans to lay off staff, despite outlining significant redundancies in its UK office in response to the global financial services crisis.

  • Accenture UK cuts staff

    Accenture UK has confirmed it is to cut 300 to 400 jobs in the wake of the downturn in the financial services sector.

  • ATO delays Change Program schedule

    The Australian Taxation Office has pushed back the completion date for its $724 million IT Change Program by 18 months in order to comply with new government requirements and allow more bedding down time for major updates.

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb outsources IT

    US-based pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has signed a 10-year outsourcing deal worth US$550 million with Accenture.

  • CommBank CIO gets $1m pay rise

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief information officer Michael Harte received an increase just shy of $1 million to his total remuneration package in the 2008 financial year, according to the bank's annual report released today.

  • TCS Australia chops 15 staff

    Citing a slow down in financial services, IT outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services has chopped 15 SAP specialists from its Australian financial services division.

  • AGL's Phoenix saves $25m

    Project Phoenix, AGL Energy's four-year revamp of its billing and computer systems, has produced $25 million worth of savings for the gas giant, with 1.6 million customers migrated to the company's new billing platform.

  • CommBank chops IT spend

    Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris today said the bank had cut its technology spend by 6 per cent on last year, and had claimed "first-mover advantage" in its decision to overhaul its core banking systems ahead of other major rivals.

  • ASIC's $115m IT overhaul revealed

    The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) today said it would shortly go to market for technology suppliers for a $115 million IT core systems refresh project that had been in limbo since the federal election in November last year.

  • Unis tackle student shortage catastrophe

    Today 38 Australian universities held their first joint meeting to tackle what some have described as a "catastrophic" drop in the numbers of Australian students enrolling in information and communications technology courses.

  • Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

    The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.

  • NAB buy could create bigger IT shop

    National Australia Bank this morning said it was in discussions to buy the local arm of Dutch investment bank ABN AMRO, in a move that could enlarge NAB's IT support operation, already one of the largest in Australia.

  • NAB adds to offshoring review

    It's crunch time for National Australia Bank's technology operation with a review kicked off this week into offshoring opportunities and a replacement of the group's core banking platform on the horizon.

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