Public Sector IT
November 2011
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HMRC rethinks £8.5bn megadeal as large suppliers resist flagship IT reforms
30 Nov 2011 -
Oracle has 70 per cent of software licences in central government
29 Nov 2011 -
CSC elevates moustachioed mesmerist from Kingston University
15 Nov 2011
HM Revenue & Customs has begun reassessing its £8.5bn IT deal with Capgemini in advance of it expiring in 2017.The rethink will shed light on how tough it is proving for the government to push ...
Central government buys the majority of its standard software from just one supplier: Oracle.
A few losers may have scraped through their time at Kingston University, but surely few have reached as high as Michael Shove, precariously appointed global head of Managed Services at Computer ...
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CSC bags phone support for cyber warriors
08 Nov 2011 -
US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
03 Nov 2011
Troubled US outsourcer Computer Sciences Corporation has been offered $145m to do telephone support for US cyber warriors and other grunts connected to an overseas extension of the Navy Enterprise ...
The world's most muscular military machine is still operating on creaky old computer systems after a decade of modernisation by systems integrators and ERP software suppliers whose problematic ...