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The Victorian state government has become "gun shy" on big IT projects, prompting questions about whether overall IT spending is set to decline, according to an analyst firm.

Oracle has started up work again on a large data centre in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area, after suspending the project without public explanation last year.

It's always painful to lose resources during a project. Just when the momentum is building and the entire project team seems to be operating as one unit, a more critical initiative comes up and management decides they need your technical lead and one of your key developers. Ouch! Talk about throwing a wrench in your finely-tuned project management machinery.

Pay rates for project managers have continued to rise and are higher than before the financial crisis, a new salary survey indicates.

Originally used as a visual flow diagram application, Microsoft’s Visio will receive detailed systems management and SharePoint portal integration in the upcoming 2010 release.

All too often, the cries for mobility have come from vendors trying to sell you devices and add-on software. But in today's field sales and support environments, the business drivers to support road warriors are crystal clear. Many of your sales reps work from their home office. And all of your field force is supposed to be at client sites, not sitting at their desks in headquarters.

National hardware equipment chain Mitre 10 has implemented a business intelligence system in eight weeks to centralise its reporting while maintaining compatibility with spreadsheets.

More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group.

Thanks to a point SaaS solution, a temporary asset management project at engineering consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has resulted in a dramatic reduction in instances of some applications.

A forty-year veteran of engineering and project management says more people should consider the career as it is fun job that yields tangible results.

Lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss Vision is moving off internally developed systems to become an early adopter of Microsoft Project 2010 to facilitate its collaborative project management requirements.

Graduate interest in project management is on the rise, with a 150-fold increase in postgraduate courses in the discipline according to the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Do you find yourself getting into "fire-fighting" mode when deals need to be finalized? Forrester has found it's not uncommon for sourcing professionals to have contracts thrust upon them by impatient business or IT users that "must get signed in the next two days" or similar situations.

Businesses claim to have improved their management processes and the way in which IT supports them, more than a year after the recession began to bite hard.

It may be too early to call a full recovery to the local economy, but signs are beginning to filter through that IT projects, which were put on hold during last year’s downturn, will rapidly begin to come back online.

With around 750,000 customers and 3 million calls a year, pay TV provider Austar has improved its customer service through unified communications by reducing average call handling times by 15 per cent.

The Nickolaisen Model can be used in both large and small IT initiatives and can reduce the implementation timeline by as much as 50% and the budget by as much as 40%.

Is information technology an enabler of business strategy? It depends.

The project management triangle of cost, time and scope all too often goes out the window once a project starts. The Purpose Alignment, or Nickolaisen Model, shatters the project management triangle and provides a more workable alternative.

Epicor on Monday announced a new program aimed at containing the cost of ERP (enterprise resource planning) projects, which are notorious for running late and over budget.