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    Coca-Cola Amatil's journey: Lotus Notes to BPOS

    Beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is halfway through the massive task of migrating its over 8000 employees from Lotus Notes to Microsoft's hosted Business Productivity Online Suite, the company revealed in a presentation at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference on the Gold Coast this week.

    Written by Jenna Pitcher • 27 Aug. 10 09:34

  • CIOs looking to increase business value from technology

    Post credit crisis CIOs will not be totally focused on cost reduction, but instead looking to use technology to add value to the organisation. In the same month that saw the announcement that the next CEO of retailer Tesco will be its CIO; a study by KPMG finds that CIOs are looking beyond the recession to really drive the business forward through technology use, just as Tesco did.

    Written by Mark Chillingworth • 21 June 10 23:49

  • ABC music mashup shows off the Semantic Web

    Until recently, the idea of a World Wide Web in which information and services are defined - the Semantic Web - has remained something developers aspire to rather than a reality. That is starting to change. Earlier this year, the ABC launched three new socially networked digital radio websites which aggregate content from several different sources, including MusicBrainz, YouTube, Last.fm and Wikipedia. It is not only a new approach for a content-rich organisation such as the ABC, it is a working example of the possibilities of Semantic Web technology.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 11 Oct. 09 14:42

  • Telstra off-shoot dishes up AI

    When New Zealand pizza franchise Hell Pizza made the journey across the Tasman to set-up shop in Brisbane, it needed to get noticed fast.

    Written by Kathryn Edwards • 27 May 09 14:38

  • Planning Helps Data Centre Move Go Smoothly

    It isn't often that you have access to your local neighborhood data centre, literally a few steps down the block. But I did. I live in a residential area of the US state of St. Louis called the Central West End, and I pass by the offices of the Regional Justice Information Service (REJIS) almost every day. When I learned that it was going to be moving its data centre, I knew that I had to be there for the actual move.

    Written by David Strom • 21 June 07 16:15

  • Linux, Open Source Software Pay Off for PayPal

    When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?"

    Written by Phil Hochmuth • 26 March 07 09:20

  • Gartner, Align Thyself

    When Gartner's current CIO took the helm and called attention to terminal misalignment, was it a case of the emperor's new clothes? Here's a candid look at where Gartner's been and where it's going.

    Written by Marc Ferranti • 14 Dec. 01 12:40

  • Change in Perspective

    Announced in 1996, AMPlus, the IT alliance between AMP and then Andersen Consulting, was hailed as an "engine of transformation" by then CEO George Trumbull. Today, AMP is minus the "plus" and going it alone - welcome to IT@AMP

    Written by Keith Power • 08 Sept. 01 11:00
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