Dutch bank ING has signed a £274m, seven-year document processing contract with UK outsourcing supplier Astron. The deal is part of the IT multisourcing drive announced by ING last November.
British Airways is expanding operations at its IT centre in Newcastle, as it gears up to streamline its back-office systems and develop BA.com as its primary IT system.
Voice over IP (VoIP) has revolutionised communications at Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, and saved the local authority hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Britannia Building Society is to bring its payroll and human resources systems back in house to give it more control over future developments, which include providing “self-service HR” functionality for its 4,500 employees.
Liverpool City Council is to extend its document management system to social workers in an effort to cut costs by streamlining administration and freeing up buildings used to store paper records.
Audatex, which provides motor claims services to insurers such as Norwich Union and Royal & SunAlliance, has deployed archiving technology from EMC to give insurers improved access to closed cases.