Accounting & HR: All

Newcrest, one of the world's top 10 gold mining companies and Australia's largest gold producer, is aiming to improve its process for metal extraction and gold recovery across its key mine operations, licensing the Mincom Production Accounting (MPA) application.

Accounting and ERP software vendor, Attache Software, has released a guide for small to medium businesses aimed at improving the use of IT within their organisations.

National Linux advocacy body Linux Australia has added its support for the federal government's Standard Business Reporting initiative by planning an open source SBR integration project, meanwhile work begins at the ATO on AUSkey for Linux.

Local engineering and construction company AJ Lucas Group (Lucas) will transform its core business processes by consolidating on one ERP platform for financials, payroll, HR and business intelligence.

The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.

Oracle has augmented the capabilities of its Hyperion financial analytics software with new modules to help bean counters streamline specific financial management tasks.

New Zealand software company Amberdms has release a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.

Unit 4 Agresso and on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com will announce Wednesday they are launching a new company called FinancialForce.com that will incorporate the Coda 2go on-demand financial application.

Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday.

Local software company, Once Technologies, has released the next generation of once:radix, an open source, Web-based application development environment that promises significant performance improvements and paves the way for load balancing of applications across mutliple servers.