As the end of the year and Christmas draw rapidly closer, it is particularly pleasing to look back at the extensive progress we have made during 2018 on our Altus Research & Development program.

Last week marked a milestone for IT Vision Queensland customers with the inaugural IT Vision Queensland user group meeting being held at Cairns Harbour Lights Hotel.

Get your team up to speed before the end of the year with our training courses and workshops. The October to December 2018 training schedule is now available via the client portal.

The new Altus Inspections application will be released in both the App Store and Google Play Store in November.

Moore Stephens and IT Vision come together again this year to bring you an integrated Nuts & Bolts and Finance Essentials workshop.

IT Vision’s annual iNNOVATE conference is back for 2018 with the theme “Working Smarter, Not Harder.”

The first half of 2018 flew by! Find out what's been happening at IT Vision in our latest newsletter. Read about our ongoing and completed projects, meet our newest staff members, and learn more about the Altus Procurement Suite.

Peter Marklew has been a professional in the IT industry for over 30 years and joined the IT Vision team in late 2017 as Consulting Services Manager and National Business Development Manager. Since joining the team, Peter has demonstrated that he is a level-headed, strategic thinker who is passionate about delivering innovative solutions that bring...

Smart Foreign Object Detection The Public Transport Authority (PTA) recently launched a pilot project in order to find a solution to an ongoing operational issue with their escalators. When an object such as a screw, coin, or other hard object becomes lodged within the end tongs of the escalator, it starts to abrade the aluminium...

What is Single Touch Payroll? Single Touch Payroll (STP) is a new taxation reporting process that replaces Payment Summaries (Group Certificates). From 1 July 2018 onwards, payment details will be provided electronically to the ATO each pay period, and there is no need to produce a payment summary to either the ATO or employees at...

IT Vision, in collaboration with Market Creations, have designed and created a Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery service for the SynergySoft application and other critical data that can be provided to local governments as part of the annual services provided by IT Vision. This service has been designed to meet the needs for local governments...

A recent article published on GovenmentNews.com.au reported that ‘Current contract arrangements often prevent consultants from being held accountable for the advice they give to government while ambiguous reporting makes it difficult to determine the value for money of outsourced work’. This is a hot topic in local government; is there enough accountability and transparency within...

Aim: The Shire of Gingin wanted to introduce a system which would improve report generation and automate system management reporting. Solution: IT Vision’s CPM solution Impact: Time saved on producing reports; having the most up to date information at the click of a button. Now able to spot trends, and seamlessly connect to data...

By Esma Valegic As I sit at my first cubicle, I wonder how I ended up here. Tis the season to contemplate after all. I’m the intern at IT Vision. I recently chose to do an internship over one of my final units at university. I was always in the internship office, kept an eager...

Today marks World Teacher’s Day, which according to UNESCO, represents a significant token of the awareness, understanding and appreciation displayed for the vital contribution that teachers make to education and development. So as I sit thinking about the meaning of life (as you do), Dolly Parton’s song, 9 to 5, springs to mind, especially the first couple of...

Do you suffer from FOMO? If so, you will have already registered for iNNOVATE 2017 at the Duxton Hotel in Perth on 7-8 September. If not, and you do suffer from the fear of missing out, register now! http://members.itvision.com.au/annualconference This conference is jammed packed with speakers sharing their experiences and thoughts around Influencing the Future,...

What has 310 million users? I’ll give you a clue; it’s not Facebook… Need another? 500 million* tweets are sent a year… That’s right, it’s Twitter! Twitter wasn’t the overnight success that Facebook was, it started off more slowly, and in recent times has become the go to platform for customers posting feedback on company...

IT Vision acquires Insight Informatics flagship product, CivicView Perth, WA: IT Vision is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Insight Informatics flagship product, CivicView. This is a great step in the continued future of both IT Vision and CivicView, cementing two Australian businesses with solid Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience and solutions together. The...

We are very excited to announce our newest customers: a group of five councils, Barcoo Shire Council, Boulia Shire Council, Diamantina Shire Council, Longreach Regional Council and Winton Shire Council, as well as the Indigenous Shire of Kowanyama, Shire of Carpentaria and the Shire of Richmond, all of which are based in QLD. This has...

Every organisation is exposed to a wide range of risks whether they it’s aware of them or not. To remove all risk is rarely an option, but to achieve significant improvement in identification, mitigation and management is now within your control. IT Vision’s Enterprise Risk Management solution, altusERM, enables you to stop gambling with your...

No one likes to pay their bills, but it’s an expected and accepted part of life. Except what happens when people or companies don’t pay their bills? Do they stop to think about the impact that non payment has on the organisation not being paid..? IT Vision, working in partnership with the IT Vision User Group,...

As invitations start hitting desks for iNNOVATE 2017: Influencing the Future, we are offering 20% off all additional delegates who book before 30th June 2017. The conference, for the second year, will be held at the Duxton Hotel, Perth on 7-8 September. With an action packed agenda, and an evening entertainment theme of ‘Oktoberfest’, we can’t...

IT Vision is pleased to announce the dates of its national conference – iNNOVATE. 7-8 September 2017 The IT Vision national conference provides a valuable two days for council staff to discuss the latest challenges within local government, and look at how, using the technology available to you, you can influence the future of your...

As our national day looms, and the official Australia Day website www.australiaday.org.au encourages us to celebrate #AustraliaDayYourWay, it is simultaneously sobering and inspiring to remember its purpose. 229 years ago, a stake was planted in the sand by Captain Arthur Phillip, from Great Britain after the first 11 convict ships arrived in Sydney. A chain...

At the 2016 federal election, the Turnbull government committed to deliver a Working Holiday Maker Reform package. As part of the reform package, a bill was put before parliament in relation to tax arrangements for working holiday makers which received royal assent on 2 December 2016. From 1 January 2017 the tax to be withheld...

So what? Research is a fundamental part of a business strategy – knowing who your competitors are, what other products are competing for your customers’ dollars; how to continually grow your business. But is there a point where research is done just for the sake of research? 74% of consumers use their mobile phones to...