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IT outsourcing
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September 08, 2014
08
Sep'14
Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro
Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal
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September 05, 2014
05
Sep'14
'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings
Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive
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September 01, 2014
01
Sep'14
Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director
Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
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August 28, 2014
28
Aug'14
Spanish bank spends €500m on contactless ATMs
CaixaBank has commissioned Fujitsu to build 8,500 ATMs that will be contactless
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August 19, 2014
19
Aug'14
Government major projects watchdog needs more powers, says MPs
Major Projects Authority needs stronger powers to improve project delivery across government, say MPs
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August 18, 2014
18
Aug'14
Raytheon wins £224m from Home Office over e-Borders cancellation
Tribunal says Home Office unlawfully terminated a contract with Raytheon Systems Limited over its e-Borders programme
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August 13, 2014
13
Aug'14
Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards
The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards
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August 08, 2014
08
Aug'14
Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly
Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?
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August 06, 2014
06
Aug'14
Cabinet Office COO Stephen Kelly takes Sage Group CEO role
UK accountancy software supplier Sage appoints Cabinet Office chief operating officer (COO) Stephen Kelly as CEO
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July 31, 2014
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Jul'14
£700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre
Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance
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July 04, 2014
04
Jul'14
Contact centre value-add services on the up
The global contact centre outsourcing market was worth almost $75bn in 2013 after growing 7% since 2011, according to research
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June 27, 2014
27
Jun'14
Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships
Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP
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June 26, 2014
26
Jun'14
Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts
IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year
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June 20, 2014
20
Jun'14
Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years
Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
Six suppliers shortlisted for NHS HR system replacement
Six suppliers have been shortlisted for the NHS electronic staff record project – the world's largest HR and payroll software implementation
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Just Eat builds in-house IT workforce in Ukraine
Online takeaway service Just Eat has built a team of software development and project managers in the Ukranian capital Kiev
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform
Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Register to vote online goes live
The latest online transactional service from government has gone live as part of the ‘digital by default’ initiative
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May 28, 2014
28
May'14
NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing
NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use
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May 27, 2014
27
May'14
Atos buys Bull for £503m
French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe
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May 23, 2014
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May'14
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost
A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
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May 22, 2014
22
May'14
Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services
Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco
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May 19, 2014
19
May'14
Public sector dominates UK outsourcing so far this year
Public-sector outsourcing accounted for three-quarters of spending in the first three months of this year, according to analyst NelsonHall
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May 16, 2014
16
May'14
Why did GPs turn their back on Choose and Book?
NHS England has scrapped its £356m outpatient booking system, Choose and Book, which was largely ignored by doctors
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May 12, 2014
12
May'14
Government should use influence to cut outsourcer executive pay, says think tank
The government should use its outsourcing budget to influence service providers to reduce executive pay, says a think tank report
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May 01, 2014
01
May'14
Virgin boss Richard Branson backs Ukraine's IT industry
Richard Branson backs IT entrepreneurs' plan to grow Ukraine’s economy during and after the nation's showdown with pro-Russian forces
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April 30, 2014
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Apr'14
SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries
The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation
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April 29, 2014
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Apr'14
Golder Associates plans global WAN
Engineering company Golder Associates is rolling out a wide area network (WAN) across its 180 global sites to optimise connectivity for its diverse and often remote locations
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April 28, 2014
28
Apr'14
Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems
Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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April 23, 2014
23
Apr'14
Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours
Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours
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April 17, 2014
17
Apr'14
Centerprise ICT 2015 Treasury contract guarantee of SME commitment
HM Treasury has handed a four year media and wireless contract understood to be worth around £2.5m to Hampshire-based services provider Centerprise, under the auspices of its ICT 2015 contracts
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April 04, 2014
04
Apr'14
Cabinet Office vetoed Home Office plans for 'critical' e-Borders replacement
Home Office plans for IT systems to replace ageing border security systems that contain “critical vulnerabilities” were vetoed by the Cabinet Office
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
Competition from FinTech startups keeps big suppliers on their toes
Big suppliers in the financial technology space are becoming more agile because of the competition from startup technology companies
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March 26, 2014
26
Mar'14
TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations
TechUK criticises a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging anti-competitive behaviour and collusion between public sector IT suppliers
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March 20, 2014
20
Mar'14
Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%
The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs
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March 12, 2014
12
Mar'14
Government finally ends e-Borders programme
The government has formally ended the troubled e-Borders programme, with its intended functions merged into a new project
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
IT sector sees sharper rise in insolvencies than overall economy
Information and communications companies in the UK are suffering a rising number of insolvencies
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February 28, 2014
28
Feb'14
Liverpool council to end BT IT joint venture
Liverpool City Council is to cancel a £70m-a-year IT joint venture deal with BT and bring services back in-house
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February 24, 2014
24
Feb'14
Atos to distance itself from controversial DWP contract
Atos is trying to exit its disability testing contract with the Department for Work and Pensions early as the controversial contract enters its final 18 months
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February 20, 2014
20
Feb'14
Diageo selects TCS for global services
Drinks maker Diageo has chosen Indian IT services firm TCS to support its IT infrastructure transformation
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February 20, 2014
20
Feb'14
Gloucestershire County Council replaces Capita with Steria to transform IT delivery
Gloucestershire County Council has signed a five-year ICT managed service deal with Steria to support a major change to IT delivery
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February 18, 2014
18
Feb'14
Indian suppliers face recruitment challenges as visa rejections increase
US clampdowns on Indian IT firms bringing staff to its shores is forcing Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to increase local hires
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February 14, 2014
14
Feb'14
BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal
The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Why IT outsourcing is increasingly blamed for IT failures at banks
Are the IT problems at UK banks caused by outsourcing or the use of decades-old mainframe technology – or is it a combination of the two?
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February 05, 2014
05
Feb'14
The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?
The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project
Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor
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January 28, 2014
28
Jan'14
BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO
The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"
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January 24, 2014
24
Jan'14
DWP refuses to release value for money reports on Universal Credit IT suppliers
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refuses to publish details about Universal Credit IT suppliers' performance
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January 16, 2014
16
Jan'14
HCL and CSC partner to modernise applications
Indian IT services firm HCL and US competitor CSC are working together to win business in the application modernisation and cloud migration segments of the application outsourcing sector
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January 15, 2014
15
Jan'14
The IT risks facing Universal Credit
Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount