Stories about: Meta Group

The Western Australia Department of Health has extended its information management alliance contract with Fujitsu Australia for another five years.

Are you finding it more difficult lately to construct a good business case? Infrastructure managers are probably screaming, "Lately? For years!" But now it's becoming more difficult for development teams, too.

During the past 10 years, we in IT have done a solid job of weaning ourselves from the notion that custom applications are a good idea.

Scope creep. Just saying the words out loud is scary. It sounds like the name of a monster from a horror flick.

The prospect of Gartner inheriting a monopoly of the end-user analysis market in Australia after cannibalizing the Meta Group has taken a tumble. Ovum, the UK and Europe-based analysis and consultancy is ramping up its local activities to snatch market share.

Siebel Systems on Tuesday unveiled Release 7 of CRM OnDemand, a version that integrates the third leg of CRM, customer service, with sales and marketing.

Tech investment plans at Australia's largest organizations came under the microscope last week with the release of a survey on enterprise spending plans for the next 12 months.

About a month ago, Mumbai, India-based Mphasis contacted Victor Rodriguez, CIO at Carolina Care Plan, to discuss its business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Mphasis officials also asked Rodriguez about Eldorado Computing, which provides the health benefits management system used by the company.

When it comes to business integration projects Australian organizations are simply failing to deliver.

Welcome to Computerworld Live for the week of March 14, 2005.

This week the Australian Computer Society has released its work/life policy to the federal government seeking tax rebates to fund parental leave. We examine the policy statement and talk to ACS president Edward Mandla.

Novell throws users a Linux lifeline. With the local release of Open Enterprise Server this week users are cautiously optimistic about moving to Linux but admit Netware is headed for the great museum of OSes. We talk to NetWare user Shawn Sijnstra, University of NSW faculty of commerce and economics desktop server manager.

And finally, the looming merger of IT research firms Gartner and Meta Group has local clients worried. Users fear with only one company standing, the quality of analysis, service levels and vendor independence are all set to degrade.

With the looming merger of IT analyst shops, Gartner and Meta Group, some clients say they are worried about a drop in analysis quality, service levels and vendor independence.