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• Sydney Water names acting CIO

  Sydney Water has named the program director of its customer experience platform roll out Sridhar Pydipati as acting CIO.

• Energy provider Unison cuts 10-year software deal with TechOne

  New Zealand energy provider, Unison Networks has signed a multi-million dollar, 10-year deal to deploy a TechnologyOne suite that will better connect its mobile workforce.

• Sydney Water CIO: Risk and courage are my best friends

  ​Sydney Water’s chief information officer George Hunt has called on fellow CIOs to “be courageous” within their organisations in order to “do the right thing”.

• Origin Energy innovation hub to trial first project

  Origin Energy’s O Hub – an offsite colocation space where Origin staff work alongside tech start-ups – has announced its first project.

• 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'.

• Melbourne water utility seeks first CIO

  City West Water (CWW), one of three Victorian Government owned retail water businesses serving metropolitan Melbourne, is seeking its first CIO.

• Yarra Valley Water CIO departs for auto parts leader

  ​Yarra Valley Water CIO Leigh Berrell has departed from the utility for a role at auto parts company Bapcor.

• Q&A: CTO Geoff Purcell on the changing tide at Melbourne Water

  ​When Geoff Purcell joined Melbourne Water in January last year, he arrived to a fragmented IT team, ageing asset management and business process systems, and endless disparate databases. But there was also a multi-million dollar, cross-business digital strategy that hoped to bring the government owned statutory authority up to date.

• Sydney Water's new CIO hits reset

  "We can reset the operating model in a way that we become a digital business rather than an analogue business with a digital veneer. That’s the vision."

• ​Western Power speeds up electricity outage detection

  WA-government owned energy supplier, Western Power, has deployed a cloud-based data analytics solution that enables engineers to investigate the locations and underlying causes of repeated outages across its 250,000 square kilometre network.
  

• Electricity network pricing changes to drive utility ICT spending: IDC

  ICT spending within the utility sector in Australia is forecast to grow by five-year compound annual growth rate of of 2.3 per cent to more than $1.9 billion in 2015, according to IDC's Utilities Market Forecast and Analysis report.