Researchers share lab findings faster
Researchers at one of Australia’s leading health research facilities are sharing important findings with colleagues around the world faster, following the installation of a new Cisco IP telephony system by Comscentre. Read more »
Storage system provides Gippsland Water certainty
Central Gippsland Water Region Corporation (Gippsland Water) provides water, wastewater and waste recovery services to domestic and commercial clients across central Gippsland in Victoria. The organisation distributes about 64,000 megalitres of water to 41 towns spread across more than 5000 square kilometres. Its clients also include businesses in the manufacturing, power generation, health service, timber, paper and dairy industries. Read more »
Kathmandu scales the heights with Pronto
Kathmandu is an iconic outdoor equipment and clothing retailer that has been helping travellers reach the summit of their adventures for more than 20 years. The brand is synonymous with quality, functional design and rugged high performance. Read more »
Perisher optimises throughput for skiers
Perisher, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest ski resort, has deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and ProxyClient software to improve the performance of its business applications, particularly its point-of-sale transaction systems, enabling the company to serve more customers more quickly. Read more »
Hyundai’s printing system makes eco-sense
Throughout its 20 years in the Australian automotive market, Hyundai has continued to evolve itself and its market offering to reflect the company name, a Korean translation for ‘modern era’. It is a company that reflects the spirit of innovation fostered and celebrated since its inception. Read more »
Barfoot & Thompson secures distributed network
New Zealand’s largest privately owned real-estate company, Barfoot & Thompson, has deployed Fortinet’s analysis and management appliances, FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager to secure its network. Read more »
Lion Nathan optimises operations
In an ongoing project to streamline Lion Nathan’s logistics processes, the company has gone live with Infor SCM Advanced Planning Optimisation across the seven breweries in Australia, enabling them to greatly reduce the complexity of their logistics and brewery planning operations. In addition, Lion Nathan has deployed Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler in the six main Australian breweries to provide an integrated, advanced, uniform scheduling process. Read more »
Six Senses switches on to green network
The boutique Six Senses Hideaway Yao Noi resort is located on the tropical island of Yao Noi in Thailand. It is one of the six renowned Six Senses resort and spa management and development company’s resorts and is managed by Susan Noonan, an Australian. Read more »
Carey fights cyberbullying with security appliance
Carey Baptist Grammar School is a co-educational independent Christian school for students from Kindergarten to Year 12 and is one of the top schools in Victoria - Australia’s most densely populated and urbanised state. Carey Baptist Grammar School was founded in 1923 and has a student population of more than 2300. Read more »
Coalminer centralises servers
NSW mining operation Donaldson Coal has deployed a Juniper WAN Acceleration solution from NSC Group to enhance file transfer performance between head office, three remote mines and one remote administration centre. Read more »
Financier consolidates maintenance services
For Toyota Financial Services, one of Australia’s leading financiers, its IT systems are critical. Therefore, Toyota Financial Services decided to source a hardware maintenance provider to maintain the robustness of its IT systems, guaranteeing parts availability and a quick service response. Read more »
Toughbook safeguards against infection
The Department of Health and Human Services in Tasmania (DHHS) has bought 5 Panasonic Toughbook H1 Medical Clinical Assistants (MCA) to be used by clinical pharmacists in highly infectious wards. Read more »
State-of-the-art data centre
The iSOFT Group, one of the largest providers of healthcare IT solutions worldwide, has completed a data centre transformation project with Hewlett-Packard (HP) that has reduced operating and energy costs while enabling growth. Read more »
HD videoconferencing boosts productivity
Ricoh has rolled out a Telstra and Polycom end-to-end, high-definition videoconferencing system increasing employee and enterprise productivity by using the system for around three hours per day across all its offices. Read more »
SA Health optimises its data centre
SA Health ( in South Australia) has over 30,000 employees providing healthcare to a population of 1.6 million people. To help run its ICT services efficiently, the organisation has a network of 380 sites servicing over 18,000 PCs. Read more »
High-resiliency network keeps IRESS operating
When it comes to share trading, timing is everything. That’s why, in 2006, IRESS Market Technology decided to replace its outdated frame relay/ISDN hybrid network with a primary Optus fibre WAN with full redundancy provided by Uecomm’s ethernet network. Read more »
Pure IP comms provides functional infrastructure
Point to Point Technology (PTP) was established in Melbourne and is a distributor for a wide range of mobile communications accessories and after-market products. Within a relatively short time, the company established a Sydney sales office and expanded into New Zealand. Furthermore, PTP was moving into the lucrative US market, with further international representation planned in the medium term. Read more »
Hornsby Shire Council deploys customer interaction centre
Hornsby Shire Council has completed the deployment of a 20-site, 500-seat unified communications solution using the Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Centre (CIC) application suite. Read more »
Mater links clinical systems
Mater Health Services, which operates the Mater group of seven Queensland hospitals, has linked over 95 clinical systems to fulfil their vision for a single Electronic Patient Record (EPR) by implementing the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform. Read more »
RMH transforms communications systems
The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is Melbourne’s oldest hospital, treating hundreds of thousands of patients each year. It was recognised as Australia’s busiest public hospital in the Commonwealth Government’s The State of Our Public Hospitals Report 2008 and, during that year alone, fielded a massive two million telephone calls. Given the reliance on its phone system, it needed to replace its ageing PABX, which was becoming ineffective and increasingly expensive to support. Read more »