Stories about: IBM GSA

IBM customers are often left feeling like they are dealing with a giant, which is no fairytale for end-users seeking fast, flexible support.

When it comes to making choices about furthering professional qualifications and training there are certainly no shortage of academic options. For the last 30 years, an MBA degree has been seen as the benchmark that the business community sets for managers to progress to senior executive level. Yet with the rise and rise of the information technology industry, most tertiary institutions offering an information sciences or computing degree are adding a Masters option — often in the form of a Masters in Business Technology or a Masters in Information Technology Management — while almost every tertiary institution in Australia offers an MBA. The question for many about to take the plunge back into academia is which one will hold more sway when times get tough, and which will bring in more bacon when the sun shines.

National Australia Bank's CIO wealth management, Geoff Wenborn, shares his IT experiences with Computerworld's David Beynon.

Less than a month after Telstra issued guidance that it would slash IT costs by half over three years, it has again spooked analysts with confused messages over sourcing and two major contracts awarded to Indian-based software house Infosys.

As part of a $3.5 million project to improve response times to scheduled and emergency repairs, the Water Corporation in Western Australia will start implementing a mobile computing system next month.

Telstra has been condemned for signing an outsourcing contract with an Indian firm Infosys for the number of local jobs it will send offshore

IBM has announced it will acquire all of Lend Lease and Telstra's shares in the IBM Global Services Australia joint venture.

Qantas is set to slash up to a third of its 1000 IT staff as part of plans to slice $1 billion off its operating costs over the next two years.

Defence grade IT security vendor Tenix Datagate will reposition its business as a US- and UK-centric operation in an effort to expand sales and leverage Australia's most favourable status with its military partners in the wake of Australian operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Is every outsourcing agreement a success?

After nine long years together in the outsourcing sack, VicRoads has revealed it will break up its $20 million IT outsourcing contract with IBM GSA in favour of three smaller, best-of-breed 'bundles'.