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Commission of Audit wants shared services push

The national Commission of Audit (CoA) has recommended the Australian Public Service consolidate its vast range of bespoke and off the shelf corporate ICT in order to facilitate a move to shared services. The incoming Liberal Government established the Commission of Audit in October 2013 to review and report on the performance, functions and roles of the Commonwealth government.

Fugro implements AP Smart for workflow automation

AP Smart has been chosen to streamline the purchase requisition, procurement and Accounts Payable processes at Fugro TSM and Fugro Survey, global subsea contractors servicing the oil and gas and marine industries with offices in Perth and Brisbane.

GIS and SharePoint form tag team for Santos

At the 5th Annual Australian SharePoint Conference, oil and gas producer Santos will outline a solution it has implemented to automate the tagging of documents held in SharePoint through integration with an Oracle Spatial Geographic Information System (GIS).

ReadSoft wins large NSW invoice automation bid

The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities, the largest single organization, public or private, in Australia, has chosen ReadSoft’s SAP -certified invoice automation solution to streamline its existing invoice processing operations and enable greater efficiencies across its Shared Services Centre.

Wearable Electronics at the Novelty Peak

Last Christmas and New Year the ideal present, for a girl of a certain age, from Japan to the UK was the neurowear clip-on of floppy ears driven by brain waves to reflect your mood. They would have been played with for one day and then put away forever. Such novelty peaks can be expected with many forms of wearable technology as it enters its manic phase with hugely overpriced acquisitions. Facebook is buying tiny Oculus VR, a Californian company which specialises in virtual reality headware, for around $2 billion. Is it worth that much? 

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