Addressing the Disruption of our Digital World
A high-speed national broadband network (NBN) will pave the way to a new vision for Australia. One of the most important benefits of the NBN is how it will push Australia as a nation into a technology leadership quadrant rather than staying as laggards. CSC has a Point of View.

The Halls of Justice just got more organised
For the first time in Europe, legal authorities in Germany have a digital alternative to time-consuming paperwork and inefficient inter-agency communications. eJusticeSOA, a winner of CSC's 2009 Chairman's Awards for Excellence, is relevant to al kinds of cross-government and cross-organisational process integration projects.

I've already Virtualised my Servers why would I touch the Desktops?
Desktop rollout, management and support never ends does it? Every year some application requirements change. Every few years hardware no longer seems to be able to cope. Today you're struggling to rationalise applications following last year's merger or acquisition. Tomorrow you need to set up an office on the other side of the world.

Doing Business in the Cloud only works when there is a level of trust
While millions of people and thousands of businesses already use it - whether they know it or not - we believe the benefits of cloud computing are just beginning to unfold. Businesses today need a trusted cloud service that has the capacity to meet their growing needs as they move from single services to comprehensive integrated solutions leveraging cloud computing advances.

Mining and Manufacturing

Digital Dashboards - putting you in the driver's seat
Ultimately, the only thing that all enterprise information systems have in common is a human that is expected to monitor the data they produce and to make high-quality business decisions based on this information. Digital dashboards are the final manifestation of business information before it is handed back to a human.

Public Sector

What if: "Opt-in" meant "Everybody-in" to reform programs?
Releasing a discussion paper for comment on payment and information delivery systems reform recently, Minister for Human Services, Chris Bowen MP stated that, "Each year the Human Services Portfolio handles more than 304 million health and welfare outbound payment transactions with a total value in excess of $100 billion." How can we make it easy and reassuring to enrol in Federal Government programs so that Australian citizens will welcome the changes and tell their friends?

Financial Services

Putting the money back into your business
The average company has over 40% of their assets tied up in its debtors' ledger... Are you ready to put money back into your business? The debt management process is costly, labour intensive and complex. Whilst the process is designed to help reduce the amount of bad debt it is also important to manage your good customers sensibly to reduce attrition and maintain revenue streams for future profitability.

Events

VMware VForum, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
October 27 - 28 (CFO and CIO Luncheons)
Virtualisation is one of the hottest growth areas in IT and VMware is a significant market leader and thought leader in this space. Globally and locally, CSC has been strengthening our partnership with VMware - and is a Platinum Sponsor at this event.

Mastering Business Intelligence with SAP, Novotel Manly Pacific Sydney
October 19 - 20
Effective Business Intelligence systems are essential for companies wanting to stay on top of the markets they choose to serve as they provide the means to continually assess and redirect their actions in a timely manner. CSC is sponsoring a presentation and booth at this event.

Announcements

SKM implements Organice to manage and control project documentation
CSC Australia will implement Organice at leading engineering, sciences and project delivery firm, Sinclair Knight Merz. CSC will rollout Organice a SharePoint based solution for engineering document management and document control, to all SKM users across 4 continents and almost 50 offices.

Western Australia Government justice agencies renew infrastructure contract
Under the new five year contract, CSC will deliver IT services to the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Corrective Services including network security, a help desk and infrastructure supporting the courts and prisons. CSC will also support computer links between WA Police and the Department of Transport.

CSC appointed to SME Panel of the National Smart Metering Program (NSMP)
The NSMP will develop a smart metering framework to enable consumers to make more informed choices and better manage their electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions, reduce demand for peak power with potential infrastructure savings, and drive efficiency and innovation in electricity business operations and retail market competition. Panel members will provide specialist input to the technical and operational aspects of the framework.