Tag: Accenture

Accenture’s $7 billion diversity gamble

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
One of government’s biggest technology service sellers has ditched diversity policies in the shadow of the Trump administration, raising questions about how it can remain a responsible supplier. Accenture,...

Health re-ups with Salesforce for vaccine data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Health department has signed up for another year of Salesforce to help manage its COVID-19 vaccine data, after tightening assurance controls to verify its technology suppliers’ data security...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say exactly what...

Defence returns to Accenture for ageing aircraft software

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has extended its engagement with Accenture for aircraft maintenance software for another three years, handing the tech services giant another $28 million for work it has led for...

Gig Guide: Stela Solar now Accenture’s AI lead

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The National AI Centre’s founding general manager Stela Solar has joined the Australian arm of multinational consulting and services giant Accenture as its managing partner for data and AI, less...

Muddied mixing, messaging plagued Defence vetting tech

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defence’s troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. That’s...

Health agency ‘captured’ by Accenture looks to reset

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The lone technology supplier for the national health record system “captured” the government agency responsible for it in an arrangement that is taking years to unpick but could be...

$562m aged care tech overhaul off course from the start

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government’s overhaul of aged care technology was poorly planned and beset by delays as consultants and foreign software vendors were handed more than half a billion dollars....