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Western Australia Department Shifts to Open Source Database Management

The Department of Education and Training (DET) in Western Australia has gone live with an open source data management system that uses Ingres Database, an open source database management technology. The solution powers a range of applications to manage administrative activities and programs delivered by 11 colleges and 8,000 staff throughout the state. The systems also collectively manage a million student records, with 120,000 students processed through the state`s training systems annually. Read more

 

Podcast: Talking MDM With Gartner's Andrew White

What do organizations stand to gain by implementing MDM?

Organizations stand to gain on many different fronts from the master data management. MDM itself is a technology-enabled discipline. It supports multiple initiatives. Some initiatives focus on running the business, some focus on growing the business and some focus on transforming the business. MDM itself sits underneath a lot of business and IT initiatives to make those initiative work better. So for example, very topical today are efforts and programs around cost optimization. Many companies are focused on minimizing costs, cutting costs, streamlining their operations. Watch the Webinar
 

Gartner Places SAS in 'Leaders' Quadrant

SAS, a vendor of business analytics software and services, has been placed in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management Software for Financial Services by Gartner. Read more

AGIMO readies data centre panel contract

The panel contract for the biggest-ticket item on the Australian Government’s ICT shopping list – the provision of data centre services – will be announced by the end of the month, the Commonwealth’s chief information officer Ann Steward says. Read more

Australia Post release new AMAS dataset - 2009.4

The Address Matching Approval System (AMAS®) is a software approval program that has been developed by Australia Post to improve the quality of addressing. They announced the release of the 2009.4 updated dataset. Read more