Public Sector IT
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What a NHSIT year for CSC
31 Dec 2011 -
Open standards rift tears UK policy to shreds
22 Dec 2011 -
Suppliers got sweeteners in MOU deals
19 Dec 2011
Tuesday was a good day to bury bad news. With 60m Brits digesting their Christmas Bank Holiday feasts in front of crap telly, news outlets were running skeleton crews. The most work done anywhere ...
Cabinet Office scrapped its open standards policy before opening it to consultation last month, opening the way for a major policy U-turn.
Systems integrators got contract extensions in return for cutting costs in their government contracts when they did their bit for the UK austerity drive by signing memoranda of understanding with ...
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Never-ending megadeals embarrass gov ICT strategy
13 Dec 2011 -
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 -
CSC bags phone support for cyber warriors
08 Nov 2011 -
US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
03 Nov 2011 -
Open standards: UK dithers over royalty question
26 Oct 2011
Ten days before Cabinet Office gave a recent progress report on its flagship ICT policy to end oligopolistic megadeals, it signed two such megadeals worth over £1bn combined.
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 ...
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 ...
UK and Portugal are both about to decree a list of open standards that must be used in all public computer systems. But while the UK is still trying to decide what an open standard is, Portugal has ...
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CSC chief declares exit after scandalous year
19 Oct 2011 -
The limits of Agile: Emergn CEO on Universal Credit
14 Oct 2011 -
DoH deploys flimflam in battle for hearts and minds
22 Sep 2011 -
How FiRe Control burned £494m hole in public finances
20 Sep 2011 -
Police chiefs get FOI spirit
12 Sep 2011
CSC chief Michael Laphen announced his retirement today after a year of unresolved scandals.His statement followed reports of the resignation yesterday Carsten Lind, CEO of CSC Denmark, the centre ...
The Department of Work and Pensions set out in January to achieve the seemingly unachievable: develop a £2bn Universal Credit system in two years. An Agile software development methodology would ...
The Department of Health dramatically announced a non-story today, breaking from negotiations with disfavoured ICT suppliers to publicly condemn - again - the computer systems they supplied under ...
MPs published yet another account of bodge and splurge in government IT today. It was a familiar story. But one that for once had lessons for the coalition government.The topic of today's autopsy ...
Time to check down the back of the sofa for the police ICT strategy. First the Home Office said it didn't have the plans. That was after the home secretary announced them. Now police chiefs can't ...