Carbon emission reporting

Cintellate is a software product that simplifies carbon emissions reporting for Australian businesses.

Workforce management

PerformanceEdge has announced that workforce management capabilities will be available in eWorkforce Management 7.2. These features are intended to streamline the scheduling process.

Synergy finds synergy cutting printing costs

Western Australian electricity retailer Synergy was established in 2006 when Western Power was disaggregated into separate electricity generation, electricity transmission and electricity retail organisations. While there is a contestable market for large electricity users, Synergy has an effective monopoly over electricity retail to small and medium enterprises and domestic users in South-West Western Australia.

Managed security protects school from spam, viruses

In an effort to curtail a growing stream of spam, Brisbane Grammar has outsourced its email and web security.

Infrastructure management

Unisys has expanded its suite of real-time infrastructure solutions.

Migrated email retention

Dynamic Data Migrator allows enterprise users migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange — and vice-versa — to access legacy emails created in their previous messaging environment.

Mobile application development

The 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine from Cisco is an appliance-based platform, offering an open application programming interface (API) for consolidating and supporting an array of mobility services across wireless and wired networks.

Data governance

The joint Communications Logical Data Model and Enterprise Data Warehouse Roadmap (CLDM/EDWr) solution helps develop processes that govern how data flows through service providers’ systems.

Technologies aid early disease diagnosis

E-health research is making headway in early diagnosis aided by ICT technologies.

CA's R&D lab reorganised

CA has found it has a duplication of R&D skills after acquisitions.

Green IT is still a long way off

Data centre connection manager

The HP ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager (DCM) is a rackmounted datacentre appliance designed to help formalise and automate the handling of workflows between network and server support teams.

Good deal, bad deal — Fujitsu's acquisition of Kaz from Telstra

Ovum’s Principal Analyst for ICT Services and Sourcing, Asia Pacific, Jens Butler, questions whether this a winning deal for Fujitsu.

Telstra to take a hit with sale of Kaz to Fujitsu

In 2004, Telstra bought KAZ for $333 million and now it is off-loading it to Fujitsu at a greatly reduced price.

Organisations axe IT budgets in real terms, but fly blind in deciding where to cut

Overall IT budgets have been cut according to a recent survey but the problem is a high percentage of organisations only use a manual process to work out where these cuts should be made so they are flying blind.