January 18th, 2012 Posted by Donna Thompson
Was it a bird? Was it a plane? No….it was JDS racing for charity!
JDS participates in the Annual Corporate Games 25-27 November 2011.
Listed as one of the top 50 best places to work in Australia by BRW, JDS is constantly engaging its people to develop skills, teamwork, and a unique sense of corporate spirit. Participating in the annual Australian Corporate Games for the fourth year running was no different, with the upside contributing to a well deserving charity, the Epilepsy Foundation.
January 17th, 2012 Posted by Donna Thompson
JDS, a leading IT consulting company that specialises in application performance through monitoring and testing has further solidified its affiliation with HP by participating at the HP Discovery EMEA conference held in Vienna in December, 2011.
Already a leading source of HP certified professionals in the marketplace in Australia, JDS joined the event to leverage the strategic and operational developments for its ever increasing client base.
September 27th, 2011 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
JDS Australia’s work at RMIT, performance testing the MyResults (student results) website, has been written up by HP as a case study.
Twice a year, RMIT publishes course results for its students on the student portal of the university’s website. These two days in the calendar generate the highest volume of website traffic. With such huge spikes experienced in a 24-hour period, RMIT’s student portal was being saturated and not handling the volume effectively. This resulted in poor performance and students reported difficulties in accessing their results in a timely fashion.
June 24th, 2011 Posted by Steve Smith
JDS Australia has been successful in their bid to be included in the Victorian Government eServices panel from the 1st July 2011 through to the 30th June 2014. Under this arrangement with the Victorian Government, JDS will be able to provide a broad range of valuable services ranging including performance testing, quality assurance, application monitoring of performance and availability.
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June 23rd, 2011 Posted by Kelly Cooke
JDS Australia has ranked #20 on BRW’s prestigious Best Places to Work list 2011, a catalogue of the 50 best employers nationally.
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February 16th, 2011 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
JDS Australia’s work at Flash Group, performance testing the Global Corporate Challenge website, has been written up by HP as a case study.
In 2010, the GCC website experienced a peak load of 8,403 visitors in the first hour after launch, and over 130,000 visitors on the first two days. Testing with LoadRunner before launch helped Flash achieve 99.99 percent uptime for the duration of the 16-week Global Corporate Challenge.
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November 29th, 2010 Posted by Daniel Tam
The annual Australian Corporate Games event is held over the third weekend in November in Melbourne, where over 900 participants from 300 plus organisations partake in 20 various sports. With profits going towards the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, the event which builds team spirit, improves fitness and generates a sense of company pride, was once again a resounding success in 2010.
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June 24th, 2010 Posted by John Bearsley
Melbourne 24 June 2010 – Today BRW released their 2010 list of the 50 Best Places to Work which included JDS Australia. The list of top organisations was based off the results of the Great Place to Work survey conducted in April 2010. The survey measured companies against five main benchmarks: credibility, fairness, camaraderie, pride and respect, with a total 160 companies surveyed.
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April 9th, 2010 Posted by Steve Smith
JDS Australia recently took part in the Great Place to Work survey. This is run by the Great Place to Work Institute Australia which is dedicated to building a better society by helping organisations to transform their workplaces. Their work is based on the major findings of more than 20 years of research – that trust between managers and employees is the primary defining characteristic of the best workplaces. This is a principle that JDS recognises and constantly strives to achieve.
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March 5th, 2010 Posted by Steve Smith
This week JDS Australia shared their software testing knowledge at the ANZTB 2010 testing conference in Melbourne.
JDS consultant Stuart Moncrieff delivered a presentation on “The Non-Functional Requirements Every Project Forgets” to a crowd of enthusiastic Australian software testers.
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December 7th, 2009 Posted by Trevor Murray
Beijing, China – 7 December 2009 Today HP Software & Solutions presented JDS Australia (JDS) with the 2009 Partner Excellence Award – South Pacific. JDS’ Partner Excellence Award was the only accolade presented to a partner in the South Pacific, and tops off what has been a very exciting and successful year for JDS.
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November 23rd, 2009 Posted by Trevor Murray
On the 21st of November, JDS Australia joined over 8,000 participants from 300 organisations in this year’s Australian Corporate Games. This year represented our strongest involvement yet, fielding a team of 23 employees. JDS competed in the 10km Run and the Open Men’s touch football.
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October 23rd, 2009 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
Today the Rust Report, a well known IT publication, named JDS Australia in a section on Aussies worth watching – A roundup of companies making waves at home and abroad.
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September 22nd, 2009 Posted by John Bearsley
Sydney, Australia – 22 September 2009 Today Hewlett Packard announced that JDS Australia has been awarded the FY08 HP Software and Solutions Business Service Management Partner of the Year. Remarkably, this is the fourth consecutive year JDS have received one of the coveted HP Partner of the Year awards, an unparalleled achievement of which JDS is particularly proud.
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June 22nd, 2009 Posted by Steve Smith
Three JDS staff members are freshly back from HP Software Universe 2009 in Las Vegas.
HP Software invited Linden Darling and Stuart Moncrieff to give presentations on Web Application Security and Performance Testing at the world’s largest HP Software conference.
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May 18th, 2009 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
This week JDS delivered a presentation on Performance Testing to the attendees of the Melbourne Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGIST).
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March 30th, 2009 Posted by John Bearsley
JDS is pleased to have helped Superpartners, the largest superannuation administrator in Australia, use HP Business Availability Center to optimise the availability, performance and effectiveness of its business services and applications.
The work that JDS performed at Superpartners has now become an HP case study, which is available here [164 KB, PDF].
March 27th, 2009 Posted by John Bearsley
Two JDS consultants were invited by the Australian and New Zealand Testing Board to present topics at the ANZTB Test 2009 Conference in Sydney this month.
The presentations by Linden Darling and Stuart Moncrieff were well received by the conference delegates.
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February 16th, 2009 Posted by Mark Bensemann
JDS Australia’s continued expansion into the IT Services Management space has gained momentum with the signing of a contract to supply the Queensland Department of Main Roads with a software license asset management system.
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January 21st, 2009 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
It has been less than a year since HP certifications for ex-Mercury products (BAC, Quality Center, QuickTest Pro, LoadRunner) have been available, and JDS is pleased to announce that 79% of our consultants are now certified in one or more of these products.
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December 1st, 2008 Posted by Daniel Tam
On Saturday 22nd November, Melbourne hosted 11,200 people representing 354 organisations across 20 sports in the Australian Corporate Games. For the first time, JDS partook in the competition by entering a team of 12 into the Touch Rugby Competition.
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November 6th, 2008 Posted by Steve Smith
As a reflection of its continued growth and desire to offer its loyal customer base a broader range of services, JDS has recently moved to new office space in Melbourne’s CBD. Formerly on the corner of Elizabeth and Collins Streets in Melbourne, JDS last week moved into new premises in Russel Street in the CBD’s east end.
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October 10th, 2008 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
JDS is pleased to announce that 64% of staff now hold HP certifications.
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August 18th, 2008 Posted by Steve Smith
On Friday of last week through to Saturday afternoon JDS Australia held its inaugural Staff Retreat at the Nepean Country Club, just outside of Rosebud on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Held over two days on a ‘live-in’ basis, the focus of the Retreat was both professional development and social interaction.
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June 30th, 2008 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
The Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, CITCON Asia Pacific was held last weekend at the Jasper Hotel. It brought technology professionals together to explore ideas around continuous integration, an area where software development and testing meet.
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June 2nd, 2008 Posted by Eanna O'Duill
Phuket, Thailand – 1 June 2008 - JDS Australia (JDS) was today awarded the HP Software Technical Specialist Excellence Award South Pacific 2007. This marks an unprecedented third year in a row that JDS has won a major award as a leading Mercury/HP Software partner. This result comes as part of a breakthrough year for JDS as it continues its growth in the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane markets.
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May 19th, 2008 Posted by Steve Smith
JDS has been appointed to the Victorian Government eServices panel as a specialist provider.
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April 29th, 2008 Posted by Eanna O'Duill
Over the last several years JDS has provided numerous clients with expert training across the HP Software product suite as part of the HP Certified Training Partner Program. We are pleased to continue this successful partnership and we look forward to continuing to provide you, the customer, with the very best in HP Software training. Details of the training courses offered as well as our training schedule can be found at Training at JDS.
April 17th, 2008 Posted by John Bearsley
The first two JDS consultants sat and passed the new HP Software Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) Exam for the HP Business Availability Center in the past week.
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February 26th, 2008 Posted by Vi-Lam Truong
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – 21ST February 2008 – JDS Australia (JDS) today announced its reseller agreement with MARSYS, providing regional clients with access to MARSYS Global Monitoring Services, a global network of monitoring points of presence for HP Business Availability Center clients.
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January 8th, 2008 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
Three JDS staff are amongst 7 people worldwide chosen to review (and provide feedback on) the new HP certification exams for Quality Center, QuickTest Pro and Performance Center before they are made available to the public.
December 15th, 2007 Posted by Kelly Cooke
JDS recently became Bronze Partners of Grow Me The Money, a program to help businesses meet sustainability goals.
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October 22nd, 2007 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – 22ND October 2007 – JDS Australia (JDS) today announced its support for HP Business Service Management (BSM) software.
February 15th, 2007 Posted by Stuart Moncrieff
This month JDS Australia was featured in a Business Victoria case study on how a supportive company culture can help recruit and retain quality staff
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