Tag: IBM

The NSW Department of Education and Training has awarded IBM the contract to give Lenovo’s $110 million stripped-down laptop wireless connectivity in over 463 secondary schools.

Worth $70 million, the contract requires IBM to provide wireless connectivity support to the 220,000 laptops supplied by Lenovo, for users comprising both teachers and students in years 9-12.

This is a significant government ICT contract by any measure, the size of which has rarely been seen in NSW government.

The contract therefore represents a major success for IBM, which historically has n...

Access Economics has conducted research into the ‘Economic Benefits of Intelligent Technologies’ for IBM Australia...

For many years, mainframes have been typecast as the dinosaurs of the IT industry. However, today’s reality is a very long way from earlier perceptions. Indeed, the mainframe market is again showing clear signs of growth.

In the Federal Government market, IBM is reporting 20% compound growth in mainframe usage. Some of this growth is showing up in government hardware contracts monitored by Intermedium. Other growth is appearing as part of various infrastructure outsourcing agreements...

Many suppliers and vendors organise their marketing and sales activities around “portfolios" of agencies or territories.  Typical examples include: Defence, revenue, justice, law and emergency services, intelligence and security, and human services.

The chart above summarises contracts reported by agencies within the Federal Government’s Human Services portfolio.  This covers Centrelink, Medicare, the Department of Human Services, the Child Support Agency, the Commonwealth Rehabilitation...