Tourism Australia is seeking to replace a variety of internal IT systems in November, with the prospective to move to Windows 8 and adopt a lot more cloud-based solutions, like Office 365.
The request for tender issued final week specifies that the government agency charged with selling the advantages of going to Australia each domestically and to the rest from the planet is seeking a single operator to provide numerous new important systems. The systems that demand replacement consist of finance, price range, procurement, human resources, and payroll.
The systems would be employed by employees across the globe, such as in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the UK, Canada, the US, and Indonesia.
Tourism Australia has recommended that the proposed companion would potentially upgrade to Windows eight for desktops and tablets ?a but not smartphones ?a and the companion should really look at upgrading to SharePoint 2013 from SharePoint 2007.
In line with the document, Tourism Australia can also be at the moment trialling Microsoft's cloud-based software package Workplace 365, and has mentioned that all the systems needs to be in a position to be delivered by way of the cloud.
"The capacity to scale infrastructure elastically is very important. Virtual servers really should be able to be provisioned at brief notice and with little interaction either from Tourism Australia or the appointed companion," the document states.
Tourism Australia's infrastructure is at the moment operated by the agency out with the Global Switch datacentre in Sydney, but the agency has stated that responders can propose that sources be hosted either on-site or off-site, but would be managed by the partner, as well as the services and infrastructure usually do not have to be hosted in Australia.
The agency has requested that tenders clarify whether they've had any troubles in dealing with the Chinese firewall, and no matter whether that may pose any difficulties with making use of the systems in China.
For the replacement human resources and payroll systems, the tender states that Tourism Australia has begun using social media website LinkedIn for recruitment, and tenderers must consider taking a look at integrating LinkedIn in to the human resources and payroll systems.
The tender will close on September 9, as well as the commencement date has been scheduled for November four. Tourism Australia stated it would just like the finance systems in spot by July 1, 2014.