When All3Media, a medium-sized TV programming producer, inherited an inflexible communications system, it turned to a more appealing, hosted alternative.
In the first of two case studies, Antony Adshead reports on how mobile technology helped BT Industries simplify its truck maintenance scheduling and service system and save £1.7m a year
Deutsche Bank has conducted an exercise to assess the impact of a potential avian flu pandemic on its business during a continuity planning exercise in Hong Kong.
Travel agency STA Travel is moving most of its IT infrastructure into a managed, outsourced datacentre. The infrastructure migration is part of STA's efforts to combat the high IT complexity and cost that had crept into the organisation over the past decade.
Barclays Bank has made improvements to the way it manages the risks of outsourcing IT and business processes to third-party suppliers after creating a specialist audit unit.
Marks & Spencer is expanding a trial of radio frequency identification tags on clothing from nine to 53 stores, in preparation for a possible roll-out across the business. The retailer said it would decide in June whether to move to a full implementation.