Microsoft Deployment Fund Injects more than $320,000 into Government - April 2009

Five government agencies have been successful in gaining a total of more than $320,000 in the final round of Microsoft Deployment Funding under the G2006 agreement.

Gaining $50,000, Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) are being funded to work together with Microsoft Consulting Services for their ASPIRE project. This project seeks to improve the management of electronic healthcare records and access to them by Healthcare providers. This project will deploy ILM, SQL Server 2008, MOSS, SCOM, DPM, Windows Server 2008, BizTalk Server 2006.

Wairarapa District Health Board together with Altis Consulting have also been funded $50,000 to improve management reporting capability in order to better understand what is happening in the organisation and to drive performance improvement. To achieve this, WDHB are looking to deploy SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003, MOSS and Visual Studio.

Successful in gaining $100,000, recently merged Plant and Food will work with Intergen to pilot the use of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for their new intranet. This organisation needs to be able to collaborate on documents that are stored centrally as well as the ability to be PRA compliant.

HealthAlliance together with Microsoft Consulting Services will be working on a desktop refresh. Gaining $60,000 in funding, this organisation will be deploying Windows XP, Office 2007 and System Centre Config Manager.

Finally, Porirua City Council have been funded $60,175 to work with Gen-i to deploy a Unified Communications solution. Specifically, they’re looking to deploy Presence, IM, voice and/or video conferencing. This would also involve a Windows Mobile 6.1 deployment.

Information on any future funding opportunities will be made available as soon as possible.

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