Solid Energy is a major New Zealand energy company and a leading producer of high-quality coal. The company invests in research and commercialisation of new, sustainable forms of energy that use coal and renewable energy sources, such as biomass and biodiesel. Solid Energy has grown significantly over the past five years - in some sites, such as its Stockton open-cast mine on New Zealand’s South Island, employee numbers have increased four-fold during that time - and demands on the company’s IT infrastructure have multiplied.

The Taronga Conservation Society Australia (TCSA) has selected ELO Digital Office to provide document, records and email management solutions for Taronga and Taronga Western Plains Zoos.

Located in remote north Queensland, Hinchinbrook Shire Council provides a wide range of services to over 12,000 residents, covering an area of 2600 square kilometres — roughly three times the size of Canberra.

When Hell Pizza managing director Mike Hird first contemplated launching the New Zealand pizza franchise concept into the Queensland market, he knew that success was about getting noticed fast.

As a cooperative company currently comprising 23 private health insurers across Australia, HAMBS provides a health fund management application for its members, along with related IT services and application hosting.

A unified communications (UC) solution has garnered for the Cooma-Monaro Shire Council savings to the taxpayer of $1600 per month in voice-link costs, a 50% reduction in power consumption, up to 60% less TCO than other systems, and an ROI, including maintenance costs, of less than four years.

With the threat of a natural disaster impacting its operations, Southern Rural Water (SRW) looked to a fully managed disaster recovery service to minimise risk to its business, and protect the organisation’s ability to operate in the face of several disasters.

“To pay wages and to deal with emails we used to have to drive 500 km to Coober Pedy to sit in a little internet cafe at the Ampol station,” Gayle recalled.

The Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (POWMRI) has selected a new IP communications system that will result in significant cost savings and offer a host of unified communications (UC) features for the rapidly expanding Institute.

Brookfield Multiplex has standardised on Websense web security software and cloud-based email security services to provide safe and secure internet and email access for its 2000-strong workforce.

Luther College is a private senior school in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs which prides itself on providing high-quality education to more than 1000 students.

The solution to these issues was to have their IT support provider Geforce Technologies install the NetAssure managed network service. The mail sanitisation functions of NetAssure proved an effective answer to the spam email issue, immediately freeing up two hours a day of a senior manager’s time.

“A lot of our sites are in extremely remote locations where getting access to a suitable WAN connection is either not possible or extremely expensive,” he explains. “It’s simply not practical to add bandwidth to these remote sites, which is why we started looking at WAN optimisation.”

St John Ambulance Australia’s National Business Centre (NBC) has chosen QlikView business intelligence software, which will bring additional operational and financial focus to the management of its business.

Intelledox’s software-as-a-service system for creating documents has been implemented by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) to automate the creation of low-cost legal contract templates as part of AIIA.biz, a new member portal to provide online business support to members.