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Award-winning South Australian projects will be on display in a major project management showcase in Adelaide this week.

The annual Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) Showcase is running this Friday, November 5, at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Adelaide. The theme is Versatile Project Management - Adapting to Changing Community and Environment.

SA recently won two major awards at the National Australian Institute of Project Management Conference in Darwin. The Project Management Achievement Award-winning projects were: SA Health Medical Research Institute in the Organisational/Change Management category and SA Water/United Water/Kellogg Brown & Root/Jeffries Group in the Sustainable category.

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Alan GreigAfter running some of SA’s most successful software companies, IT entrepreneur Alan Greig has headed for the hills with his wife Jane Mitchell to run a restaurant in one of SA’s oldest buildings.

Alan and Jane, who has an extensive background in recruitment and professional development, have bought the historic Leonards Mill restaurant and function centre on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

The restaurant, which they are in the process of refurbishing before a planned pre-Christmas launch, is in a building that dates back to 1859, just 23 years after the colony of South Australia was founded.

Located in Second Valley, the bay was imaginatively named by SA’s visionary Colonel William Light who came across the sea-facing valley shortly after discovery Rapid Bay – which was the first valley!

With a professional pedigree that includes being CEO of SA-based software innovators Prophecy and Empower, Alan has accepted second fiddle position at Leonards Mill, where he will stock and manage the bar while Jane will be in charge of the overall operation.

Alan said the immediate challenge after getting the keys next month was to refurbish Leonards Mills. “We want to refresh it a bit,” he said. “Our intention is to brighten up the main bar and restaurant area and to make it feel a bit more contemporary, while keeping the heritage flavour.

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Steve KirkbyInnovative website analysis software developed in Adelaide by Maxamine - now owned by Accenture - will be deployed on the Windows Azure software-as-a-service platform.

In early 2008, Accenture bought Maxamine, the SA-founded company that had developed the website diagnostic software since the late 1990s. The digital diagnostics engine scans websites to identify performance problems and structural deficiencies.

Maxamine co-founder Dr. Stephen Kirkby is now a senior Accenture executive, leading a large engineering team working on 15 enterprise products, including 23 engineers in its Adelaide office.

Accenture is deploying the diagnostic engine into the Windows Azure platform through Accenture Interactive, the company's digital marketing, marketing analytics and media management business.  The Windows Azure platform is a flexible, high availability cloud–computing platform that offers pay-as-you-use computing services without upfront investment on expensive infrastructure.

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