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WA Department of Treasury & Finance and ASG win shared services excellence award

Industry recognition creates groundwork for a government private cloud

The WA Department of Treasury & Finance (WA DTF) has won an award at the the 14th annual Australasian Shared Services and Outsourcing Network conference in the 'excellence in people and communication' category.

The awards were judged by a board of industry professionals – including the heads of shared service centres across corporate and public sectors.

The department displayed a solution based around Oracle E-Business Suite, IBM's infrastructure and local IT business solutions provider, ASG's hosting and managed services.

WA DTF shared services business executive director, Brian Roche, said winning the award was a significant achievement considering some of the competition included major players like Rio Tinto, NAB and Qantas.

The award signifies the government’s focus on implementing a world-class shared services platform. WA DTF is already in their 6th year of shared services operation – ahead of many other governments. It plans to expand delivery to 90 agencies and 35000 employees.

The success of this undertaking will form the basis of a government private cloud, which could potentially decrease government IT spend considerably and provide better government initiative delivery. The move to a government cloud is a key strategy in ensuring proper use of IT to provide cost-effective IT services and presenting considerable benefits to WA.

ASG's general manager of sales and delivery, Murray Rosa, said, “We are seeing an increased trend towards shared services throughout both the private and government sectors throughout Australia.“

ASG is a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

Public sector strategic programs director for Oracle A/NZ, Brendan Wright, said adopting a shared services delivery model and reducing the cost and risk around ICT service delivery creates the transformation.

Nominations for the 2012 ARN IT Industry Awards open on Tuesday, June 12.

More about: AB, ASG, etwork, IBM, IBM Australia, NAB, Oracle, Qantas, Rio, Roche

Comments

1

citizen

Wed 20/04/2011 - 20:32

You have got to be kidding! This undertaking has cost the WA taxpayer hundreds of millions of $ with no demonstrable benefit or savings. There has been no transparency and cost blowouts are hidden from scrutiny.

2

wot the

Mon 13/06/2011 - 13:24

Just makes this Award and whoever gives it totally worthless!
6 years of a total debacle! incorrect payments, system failures, no savings what so ever!
I think the board of industry should review it's award and retract it! or it will be implicated in the whole mess that will unravel from it all!

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