State Agency Begins IT Integration Project

In an effort to streamline its IT operations, the Department of Education and Training in the Australian state of New South Wales has launched an effort to integrate a mix of mainframes and other systems.

A spokesman for the NSW DET confirmed that the data-integration project is under way but wouldn't provide any details because "the project has only just begun."

A source said the agency began work in January and plans to integrate data from "numerous disparate systems, including older mainframes." The NSW DET is using integration software from IBM and Redwood City, Calif.-based Informatica Corp. as part of the project, the source said.

The project also calls for installing an Oracle 10g database cluster running on Red Hat Linux servers from either IBM or Hewlett-Packard Co., according to the source.