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10,000 unpaid invoices ‘stuck’ in Birmingham Council SAP system

Birmingham City Council - Europe's largest local authority with a £3bn annual turnover - says it has about 10,000 unpaid invoices from its suppliers "stuck" in a SAP-based financial system, more than six months after going live.

Agile software development underpins Standard Life IT strategy

Software development managers could reduce the risk of project failure by using an agile methodology to build applications, such as the one being used by Standard Life.

Norwich Union signs £300m deal with Cable and Wireless

Aviva Insurance Group, which owns Norwich Union, has signed a six-year IT outsourcing contract worth £300m with Cable and Wireless.

Web passports system canned as costs soar

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has cancelled an over-complicated replacement online passport applications system after rising costs and glitches, which led to about 5,000 applications becoming stuck in the system.

Cranfield seeks key to understanding change management

How can you maximise the chances that a large-scale IT project will succeed?

Update: lack of software testing to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco, BA executive tells MPs

A lack of IT testing contributed to the disastrous opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5, British Airways' chief executive, Willie Walsh, told MPs last week.

Lack of software testing to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco, BA executive tells MPs

A lack of IT testing led in part to the disastrous opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5, British Airways' chief executive, Willie Walsh, told MPs this week.

NPfIT: back to choice of suppliers for NHS trusts?

The NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has taken a different direction with NHS trusts being given a choice of a range of systems from various suppliers - which they were able to do before the advent of the NPfIT in 2002.

Transforming NHS services requires flexible evolution, BCS delegates say

"There is no point in informatics trying to enable a change in one direction when budgets are encouraging maintenance of the status quo," said Sheila Bullas, secretary of the BCS's Health Informatics Forum, at a recent BCS leadership debate on transforming health services.

Connecting for Health faces criticism over national IT programme

Connecting for Health, which runs much of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT , is expected to come under strong criticism in a report commissioned by the government into the progress of online health records.
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