TechOne chief slams “fake” cloud experts as company bags new deal
February 17, 2014
Grazed from AFR. Author: Paul Smith.
Adrian Di Marco, executive chairman of ASX-listed software company TechnologyOne, has hit out at a growing army of “false prophet” consultants and systems integrators who claim to be able to provide expert advice on cloud computing strategy, saying they waste customers’ money and are a blight on the industry.
Mr Di Marco was speaking to The Australian Financial Review to mark the signing of a new $15 million contract for TechnologyOne to provide a state-wide school administration software package to the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. He said the deal was evidence that customers were beginning to recognise the value of signing on with vendors who built the software, implemented it and then took responsibility for managing the infrastructure…
TechnologyOne will work alongside fellow software provider Synergetic Management Systems to create a new integrated school administration package called eAdmin for the Integrated Catholic Online Network (ICON), encompassing 486 Victorian schools…
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