Media Monitors upgrade infrastructure
Media Monitors, an Asia-Pacific media intelligence company, provides more than 4000 clients with the media intelligence to enable effective communications. Its suite of products provides the tools and insight for PR and communications professionals to monitor their interests across all media, analyse the brand or message and more effectively connect with relevant journalists and editors. Read more »
Automated deployment of master PCs saves time
Located in the Geelong region of Victoria, Christian College is a K-12 school focused on quality education. It has a current enrolment of around 1800 students and 240 administration and teaching staff across five campus locations. Read more »
Trojan challenge for photography firm
Arthur Reed Photos is a 48-year-old business specialising in school and graduation photography. The company has built its reputation on quality and affordability and today employs around 70 people as a leading supplier to the school photography market in Victoria. This year it has changed to AVG as its antivirus software supplier after ongoing problems, including a significant trojan infestation that its previous antivirus software failed to detect. Read more »
Virtualisation improves Parks Victoria performance
The Melbourne-based organisation Parks Victoria is the custodian of 3.96 million hectares of parks and reserves - 17% of Victoria’s total land mass - and is also responsible for the recreational management of Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, and the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers. Read more »
Satellite network connects crew and clients
Two-storey swells, gale-force winds and a shifting, toothpaste-like ocean floor are just some of the more common hazards facing the subsea geotechnical survey crews of Benthic Geotech, a pioneering Australian company specialising in sampling the sea floor for its oil, engineering and scientific clients around the world. Read more »
Honda turns the corner with IP comms
In 2009, Honda Australia Motorcycles and Power Equipment (MPE ) turned to Dimension Data to provide cost-effective monitoring of its mission-critical IP telephony network and ensure the system is always running and revenue is protected. Read more »
The MCG goes digital
As part of a major security system overhaul, the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is in the process of installing over 300 indoor and outdoor IP network cameras. The installation by Integrators Australia includes an upgrade to the existing security software and closed circuit television (CCTV) management system and is expected to be complete over the next few years. Read more »
E-health rollout at new hospital
Macquarie University Hospital had a host of e-health systems installed by iSOFT in time for the new 199-bed, state-of-the-art hospital to operate paper-free from day one, under a $7.8 million deal agreed in March 2010. Read more »
Dallas Cowboys’ stadium deploys converged network
The Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium in Texas is the United States’ largest and most spectacular domed venue. Befitting a site of this stature, it operates what is claimed to be the most sophisticated, high-performance and world-class communications infrastructure of any sporting facility in the world, courtesy of CommScope. Read more »
City Automobiles drives business gains with VoIP
City Automobiles has watched customer call volumes increase and its business grow following the implementation of a next-generation Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Office telephony system. The VoIP solution ensures customer calls reach the automotive group’s sales and service staff first time and has reduced its call and line rental costs. Read more »
Marine Rescue navigates on Toughbook
Panasonic Australia has donated a lightweight, heavy-duty, military-strength Toughbook notebook to Marine Rescue Middle Harbour for navigation on its ‘vintage’ Waveney Class lifeboat, which began life 40 years ago in service with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in the English Channel. Read more »
Mounties’ wireless network improves productivity
The Mounties Group has implemented a business-class, centrally managed, secure wireless networking solution to improve staff productivity from D-Link. Read more »
Set-and-forget network security for Parade College
Parade College is a dual campus Catholic boys school which since 1871 has sought innovative, creative and effective ways of achieving best practice teaching and learning. Protecting a network that is used by close to 2000 students and teachers is not a job for the faint-hearted. Parade College has a network with over 720 personal computers for the use of students, 270 personal computers for teachers and a suite of ‘e-rooms’ or shared spaces containing computers within a cluster of classrooms. Underpinning the IT strategy is a program to continuously evaluate and deploy new technologies to strengthen the security of its network. Read more »
Flight Centre takes off with a managed data centre
Flight Centre is one of Australasia’s best-known travel agency groups. In 2008, in line with the company’s increasing focus on corporate sustainability and with the rising cost pressure of Brisbane’s office space, Flight Centre decided to outsource to an external data centre provider to allow its IT team to focus on supporting the business’s 900-plus stores and eight head offices nationally. Read more »
Wodonga City Council provides responsive online services
One of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities, Wodonga, has a municipal population of approximately 35,000 in a region of 170,000 people. The Wodonga City Council serves this rapidly growing provincial city and plays a vital role in raising community living standards through improved delivery of services to residents. Read more »
Productivity boost from IT management suite
With more than 300 stores across Australia and New Zealand, and nearly 5000 team members, the Super Cheap Auto Group Limited (Super Cheap Auto) has grown to become one of the largest retailers in the region. Read more »
Kimberly-Clark field force stays in front with CRM
Kimberly-Clark Australia (KCA) had committed nearly six years to developing a highly successful instore business model for its consumer products field services team and was ready to drive productivity gains and increase sales opportunities with the support of a sophisticated CRM system. Read more »
Cloud computing saves a million a year
Sydney-based Fresh Produce Group (FPG) replaced multiple software systems, including a DOS-based financial system which was actively used by only a handful of accounting staff, and Excel spreadsheets which were used to compile forecasting and inventory, with a NetSuite cloud computing ERP system. The company improved its net profit margin by 100% and realised savings of approximately $1 million a year. Read more »
Largest police jurisdiction in the world gets connected
The Western Australia Police (WA Police) is responsible for the largest single police jurisdiction in the world, an area covering over 2.5 million square kilometres with a structure comprising three regions, 14 districts and 162 police stations. Read more »
Network upgrade strengthens voice quality for VoIP service provider
As the leading Indonesian VoIP service provider, with an estimated market share of 60% in 2009, Gaharu Telecom Indonesia brings retail and wholesale VoIP to both consumers and corporate customers and also meets the demanding standards required for international carrier connections. Its Hallophone brand is known for its premium voice quality and customer service and in Indonesia customers ask for a Hallophone when they want to purchase a prepaid VoIP calling card. Read more »