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• Ursula Phillips joins The Real Pet Food Company

  Former PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand technology boss, Ursula Phillips, will join The Real Pet Food Company in August as its Sydney-based chief information officer.

• Red Rock gets $83M for TAFE NSW's new ERP system

  The price tag of the deal awarded to Red Rock Consulting for TAFE NSW's new ERP system is $83.2 million.

• Transport NSW seeks own procurement panel for ERP maintenance

  Transport for New South Wales has opened a request for tender to establish a panel of application developers for its ERP system.

• Blackmores boosts dev team, seeks lead

  ​Supplements and vitamins brand Blackmores is building an ‘industry leading’ digital and applications development team, to better engage with customers via online channels at home and overseas.

• 15 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

  The history surrounding the complex and expensive enterprise software market is packed with tales of epic failures.

• CIO gives Sydney Water a new flow

  At the Sydney Easter Show last month, CIO George Hunt was at Sydney Water's booth, handing out merchandise and talking to visitors.

• Sydney Water selects Wipro led consortium for ERP, CRM overhaul

  ​Sydney Water has selected a consortium led by Wipro to design, build and run new ERP, billing and CRM systems in what has been dubbed a 'once in a generation investment'.

• ​Pickles Auctions in public cloud push

  Pickles Auctions has spent decades building what its CIO, Claudio Salinas, describes as ‘monolith systems.’ It wasn’t a good scenario for an Australian auctions and valuation organisation looking to pick up the pace when dealing with customer demands.

• LSC modernises operations, touts digital moves

  ​When you think of digital transformation, locksmithing may not come to mind. But for the 90-year-old company, LSC (Locksmiths’ Supply Company), the journey to modernise and jump into the digital age is all encompassing, both in terms of updating internal operations and in educating locksmith customers.

• Blackmores plans major ERP cloud shift

  ​Vitamin and supplement maker Blackmores is planning to move its 15-year-old ERP to the cloud.

• ​Digital strategies too often ‘copycat reversions to e-business’: Gartner

  Many companies are struggling to find a strong digital business direction and lack a "breakthrough ambition” when creating strategies.

• ​Wedderburn CIO Vi Lam made redundant

  Wedderburn’s Australia and New Zealand CIO, Vi Lam, has been made redundant following a restructure at the weighing scales, packaging and POS system manufacturer.

• NSW Transport ERP overhaul put on notice

  ​The NSW Audit Office has warned Transport for New South Wales that delays in its $196 million SAP-based ERP mega-project could impact the project’s total cost.

• Hungry Jack's whopper of a transformation

  ​Hungry Jacks is kicking of a major cloud first strategy in coming weeks by replacing a number of its decade old, internally developed business applications.

• ​Rimini Street hit with another Oracle infringement fine

  Third-party Oracle support provider, Rimini Street, has been ordered to pay a further US$27.7 million in ‘prejudgment interest’ to Oracle for infringing the ERP giant’s copyright.