Network equipment maker Cisco will shut its US and Canadian operations for four days over New Year, and will encourage its British staff to take holiday over the same period, to help save $1bn in costs.
SAP's controversial decision to roll out Enterprise Support to all customers dominated the general sessions of the SAP UK & Ireland User Group 2008 conference in London. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Forrester Research enterprise applications and strategies vice president Ray Wang about this issue and others.
The benefits of converged voice and data networks have been on the horizon for some time, but it is only now that they have become a viable option for the majority of firms.
McKinnon's extradition now unavoidable; the inside track on Specsavers deal for flexible IT procurement with Fujitsu Siemens; the outsourcing dilemma facing today's CIOs - outsourcing to cut costs, or to improve business innovation. All this and more in this week's IT news round-up from ComputerWeekly.com.
IT security specialists are calling on suppliers to provide what users want - not what suppliers want to sell. The call came at a roundtable discussion...
Tony Collins discusses Labour's poor record on government IT projects and, separately, the current landmark BSkyB / EDS legal dispute with Warwick Ashford in this week's IT news round-up for the week ending 26 September.