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Emerging Technologies: RFID and the Asynchronous Student

Many learners within the VET system learn on-the-job or through distance education, but occasionally learners need to physically attend a Registered Training Organisation RTO for block release to study the theory behind their chosen vocation. This is the case for the cabinet making apprentices at Wodonga TAFE. However, Wodonga TAFE...

Tags: Induction, Student, Training, Commonwealth Of Australia, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, E-learning, RFID, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-12-01

NSW Government Procurement Guidelines: Procurement Planning

Procurement planning is a process where agencies review current procurement processes, identify future needs and direction for procurement management and investment. The NSW Government Procurement Policy establishes a comprehensive procurement framework, which assists government agencies in the efficient delivery of services and ensures procurement strategies are consistent with the Government's...

Tags: Government, Procurement, Commonwealth Of Australia, Procurement Planning, NSW Government Procurement Policy, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

White papers 2001-03-01

Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study

This study involved an investigation of the practice of online teaching and learning in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. It examined this context at a particular point in USQ's history, namely at a stage where it is grappling with the emergence of online education. The...

Tags: Education, Commonwealth Of Australia

Case studies

e-Commerce in Supply and Demand Chains: Case Studies & How-To's

An important reason for an electronic business strategy in a demand chain is to improve the performance of participating businesses in terms of their efficiency, sustainability and profitability. It is also about encouraging and facilitating interdependency. Case studies of working electronic business applications provide a mechanism for eliminating the fear...

Tags: Business Application, Demand Chain, E-business, Commonwealth Of Australia, Pricing, Marketing

Case studies

LeAP Project Case Study: Implementing Web Services in an Education Environment

The case study documents the overall architectures and the key components supporting the core business functions of Plan, Deliver, Report and Assess. A comparison with key current standards frameworks suggests that the current trend in e-Learning standardisation to develop specifications which include behaviours and binding of these behaviours as Web...

Tags: Education, Web, Environment, Web Service, Commonwealth Of Australia, LeAP Experience, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Cloud Computing, E-learning, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies

Additional Resources

Bank Supports Staff Efficiency and High-Quality Service With Technology Update

Commonwealth Bank is one of Australia's largest financial institutions, providing banking and financial services, with a national banking network of more than 1,150 branches. One of Australia's largest financial institutions, the bank maintains high levels of customer service and staff productivity by supporting employees with the latest technologies. Commonwealth Bank...

Tags: Bank, Australia, Financial Company, Microsoft Corp., Commonwealth Bank, Banking, Financial Services

Case studies 2009-02-25

Health care is rationed and people die

Health care is rationed and people dieWrong approachThe health care provisions in the current "stimulus" package are a prescription for the elimination of the aged and no amount of "data"worship can change that fact. What's next "Soylent Green"?Government Run Health Care == VA HospitalsWant to see how government mandated...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-02-15

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Oracle's president meets unhappy customers in Australia

The Financial Review reports that Charles Phillips, Oracle's president, traveled to Australia this week to meet with unhappy customers: In the case of the Commonwealth Bank, friction came after Oracle software code related to a database for the institution's CommSee customer service application was found to contain an abnormally...

Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Australia, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-07

'Server in the Sky': FBI international biometric db planned

Right around Christmas, I wrote about a new FBI program to build a massive, $1 billion database of biometric data. I quoted a WaPo story that said: Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds...

Tags: Database, FBI, Server, U.K., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte - Transcript

ZDNet Australia: Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Michael Harte of Commonwealth Bank. Thank you Michael, for joining us today. What technologies are you particularly excited about? Harte: We’re a very diversified financial services group, and we cover...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte

In a CIO Sessions interview, Michael Harte, CIO of Commonwealth Bank, speaks to ZDNet Australia about new customer support technologies his company is investing in and deploying inside the financial management organization, and shares his views on the latest IT trends including, security, open-source software and out-sourcing. by Andrew...

Tags: Bank, CIO, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Commonwealth Bank CIO: Michael Harte

In a CIO Sessions interview, Michael Harte, CIO of Commonwealth Bank, speaks to ZDNet Australia about new customer support technologies his company is investing in and deploying inside the financial management organization, and shares his views on the latest IT trends including, security, open-source software and out-sourcing.

Tags: CIO, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Michael Harte, Software, Bank, Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Customer, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, Tool, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Videos 2007-10-30

Plastic to help water and gas industries

Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Membrane, Molecule, Polymer, Researcher, Roland Piquepaille, Separation

Blog posts 2007-10-15

A telescope as big as the Earth

A week ago, seven telescopes around the world were linked together to watch a distant galaxy called 3C273 in real time and create a single world telescope. The data from these telescopes, which are located in Australia, China and Europe, was streamed around the world at a rate of 256...

Tags: Earth, Network, Europe, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Fractal Technologies: The Power of Progress ObjectStore for Geospatial Visualization

Fractal Technologies began as an early 1990's development project sponsored by Australia's Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization's CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining. Fractal Technologies needed to store complex data types and interrelationships in support of their products. Leveraging the capabilities of Progress ObjectStore, Fractal has implemented a sophisticated...

Tags: Fractal, Progress Software Corp.

Case studies 2007-08-05

Ready for a virtual beer?

If you're attending SIGGRAPH 2007 next week in San Diego, don't miss a demonstration done by Australian and South Korean researchers. They will pour virtual beer during the conference. They say that 'the physics of bubble creation in carbonated drinks like beer is complex,' but add that their fluid special...

Tags: Fluid, Beer, Bubble, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-04

Google hard copy email service: Gmail Paper next year

“Gmail Paper is not a real product or feature of Gmail. No, we dont plan on sending you boxes and boxes of your email in hard copy form,” so disclaims Google this April Fool’s Day.Really? Last April Fool’s, Google Romance was the supposed Googley hoax. What hoax though?Today, Google Personals...

Tags: Google, Gmail

Blog posts 2007-04-01

A (nano)jacket for riding your bicycle

If you want to try a luminescent jacket to improve your safety when you ride your bicycle at night, you'll have to be next week in Melbourne, Australia. This prototype jacket, embedded with nano polymers, will be on display at the Melbourne Design Festival's Fabric of the Future exhibit, as...

Tags: NanoVic

Blog posts 2006-07-08

Top online advertisers in Australia in Q4 2005

In Q4 2005, online display ad impressions in Australia steadily grew from 961 mln in October 2005 to 1.5 bln in December 2005, while the number of advertisers peaked at 752 and the number of campaigns reached a record of 1400 in the Christmas month. The big spenders in the...

Tags: advertiser

Blog posts 2006-02-25