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Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines
White Papers The Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines (CPGs) apply to procurement conducted by all officials in agencies and in relevant CAC Act bodies. Procurement encompasses the whole process of acquiring property or services.
[June 21, 2005, 0:00]
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts: Using HP OpenView To Pre-Empt User Problems
White Papers Glasberg's team, the Technical Assistance Center (TAC), supports 20,000 users in 170 agencies across the Commonwealth. The solution had to be scalable to meet the Commonwealth's future needs. In order to continue to support them effectively, the...
[April 9, 2005, 0:00]
Commonwealth Securities Chooses A Windows 2000 Distributed Architecture
White Papers Commonwealth Securities Limited (ComSec) was established in 1995 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They have chosen Microsoft Windows 2000 over UNIX solutions to deliver non-stop financial services to more than...
[November 21, 2003, 23:00]
Commonwealth Bank Transforms Information Management With Solution From IBM And Mercury Solutions Centre
White Papers The Commonwealth Bank found that its previous Draft Incident Management System (DIMS) was unable to cope with the thousands of drafts - international financial transfers - generated by the bank each week.
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Commonwealth Games Providing Real-Time Results
White Papers As the official provider of Information Technology (IT) network hardware for routing and switching to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Cisco is working closely with Games organisers, and systems integrator Australian Project and Consulting...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts Manages People And Paychecks With PeopleSoft
White Papers Facing economic changes and the need to consolidate independent stovepipe systems throughout Massachusetts, the Commonwealth required insight into its human capital resources. The Commonwealth's Comptroller, Personnel Administrator, and CIO joined...
[March 9, 2005, 23:00]
TelCove Case Study: The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
White Papers The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a leader in creating and implementing advanced technology solutions. To maintain its position as a global leader in technology and government services, the Commonwealth needed a telecommunications partner that...
[October 31, 2004, 0:00]
Virginia Commonwealth University Graduates To A Higher Level Of Data Access
White Papers As the 1990s drew to a close, the administrative information technology department of Virginia Commonwealth University more than had its hands full, while still needing to make several systems Y2K-compliant and in the midst of installing a student...
[May 20, 2004, 0:00]
Local Government Handbook For GIS Implementation Within The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
White Papers A Geographic Information System or "GIS" requires a continuing commitment. Too, GIS requires the organized and concerted effort of individuals as well as inter- and intra-agency staff teams. It also requires a well maintained and efficiently...
[August 22, 2005, 0:00]
Foreign And Commonwealth Office Chooses Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains As Its Global Financial Solution
White Papers With 230 overseas offices in 190 countries, all of which regularly consolidate their finances into the FCO's London headquarters, the FCO needed to quickly and cost-efficiently replace its obsolete finance system with a flexible, user-friendly...
[October 13, 2005, 0:00]
Legal Worries Led Massachusetts To Open Standards
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has cited legal concerns over Microsoft's software as a factor behind its decision to only use document formats based on open standards. Eric Kriss, Secretary of Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of...
[September 5, 2005, 17:40]
Watchdog Warns Foreign Office Over Data Breach
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been found to have breached the Data Protection Act following an investigation. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after Channel 4 News alerted...
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
Massachusetts Finalises Open Standards Proposal
News The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office. Alan Yates, Microsoft general manager of information worker business strategy, said in a...
[September 26, 2005, 11:50]
Aussie Agencies Accused Of Locking Out Open Source
News Australian Democrat senator Brian Greig yesterday accused commonwealth purchasing agencies of maintaining a closed shop favouring proprietary software. Greig's comments kicked off parliamentary debate over a bill the senator formally put before the...
[September 19, 2003, 9:30]
Fujitsu Case Study: Woolworths
White Papers Woolworths has taken one step further with an in-store electronic banking service that, through an alliance with the Commonwealth Bank, lets shoppers organise their financial transactions at the same time as buying dinner.
[July 15, 2004, 0:00]
Massachusetts To Use Both Open XML And ODF
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival Office Open XML document format. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division on Wednesday, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
UK Police Help Fight Outsourcing Cybercrime
News The Metropolitan Police and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) have joined forces to set up a working party to tackle the increasing threat of global cybercrime especially in offshoring companies.
[July 12, 2005, 18:45]
Australians Hit By Online Bank Fraud
News The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed that some customers have been tricked into revealing their online banking client numbers and passwords after receiving a spam mail claiming to be from the bank.
[March 18, 2003, 10:46]
BizTalk Server Portal Helps Businesses Slash The Time And Work Of Registration
White Papers To promote development of new enterprises, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides a one-stop business registration portal. Aggregating and automating the business-registration requirements of the Commonwealth's Departments of Revenue, State, and...
[April 24, 2008, 0:00]
Hackers Wreak Havoc On Aussie Banks
News The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is just one of a long list of banks that have been the target of a security breach, with one industry expert claiming there were more than 20 banks hit in Australia last year.
[July 19, 2001, 10:26]
