Stories about: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has decided against separating itself from its IT consulting unit, Deloitte Consulting, 14 months after it announced it would do so to avoid possible conflicts of interest. Deloitte Touche blamed a "tight credit market and the uncertain state of the economy" for its decision.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu will implement VoIP across its 13 site interstate office network in what the company estimates will pay for itself within 12 months of completion.

The managed security services field narrowed on Tuesday, as TruSecure announced that it had acquired Vigilinx Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

At ESAB North America, Tim Luce, director of application development, is determined to "liberate corporate data from the IT bottleneck," and turn IT workers from hard-core coders into savvy business people. His ultimate goal: to have IT at the $1 billion supplier of welding and cutting equipment provide business users with tools and training so that users themselves can retrieve and manipulate the data they need to make better business decisions.

Customers of Microsoft's ERP products can expect new releases for "years to come", the company says.

A parliamentary committee will continue its inquiry today into research and development (R&D) spending by Australian business.

IT services provider KPMG Consulting has signed a letter of intent to acquire most of Andersen Worldwide SC's IT services operations.

Mobile-connected personal digital assistants (PDAs) got the thumbs up within the enterprise today from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has become the latest accounting firm to separate its core financial auditing services from its consulting services, to avoid conflict of interest concerns raised by Enron's bankruptcy and the dual role of auditor and consultant played by Arthur Andersen LLP.

Dun and Bradstreet Australasia's Chief Executive has warned of serious legal and business implications for companies that fail to prepare and comply with federal privacy legislation due to come into force on 21 December.

The information security aspect of the forthcoming privacy legislation is missing out as companies become bogged down in what it all means, according to new study by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Dimension Data.