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How an IT snag threatened a $1.7b paper merger

Lucas Baird
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Fujitsu had just delivered an ultimatum. The Tokyo-based IT giant told Opal Group – the product of a $1.7 billion merger between Orora’s paper assets and Nippon Paper – last August that it had eight months to find a new cloud services provider or else support for its network would abruptly cease.

Macquarie Telecom executive Luke Clifton says many companies do not have the in-house capabilities to manage large IT transitions so are turning to specialist firms. 

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Lucas Baird is a journalist based in The Australian Financial Review's Sydney office. Connect with Lucas on Twitter. Email Lucas at lucas.baird@afr.com

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