Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council are sharing all their front-line services after moving their major departments to a joint venture. The move has cut the time taken to respond to enquiries from the public, without requiring additional money from taxpayers.
A three-year IT investment programme at insurance firm Royal & SunAlliance has allowed it to press ahead with plans to cut £130m costs from the business, including the loss of 1,000 jobs in the UK.
Mittal Steel, the world’s largest steel manufacturer, is to implement HRM Connect Executive human resources software to support a worldwide development programme for its executives.
Barking Power Station, the UK’s largest independent power station, plans to streamline its business processes with a £1.2m Oracle-based system bought to replace its legacy asset management system.
Newcastle Building Society, one of the UK’s largest mutual societies, is rolling out advanced encryption and digital rights management software to its business partners to control access to financial information
Business Link for London, the government support service for SMEs, has spent the last two years reducing duplicate data in its database from 25% to 2.5%.
International directories company Yell plans to meet compliance regulations by using fingerprint recognition devices to authenticate thousands of staff logging on to its computer systems.
Progress, friendly society Royal Liver’s e-business service for independent financial advisers, has evolved a multisourcing strategy to buy in the functionality it needs on a project-by-project basis.