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Business applications
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November 02, 2012
02
Nov'12
Endsleigh Insurance goes nearshore for application development
Endsleigh Insurance Services chose nearshore application development resources when it was stretched during the busiest time of the year
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November 02, 2012
02
Nov'12
How will open standards change the future of government IT?
Are the government's open standards principles a blueprint for a radically new open IT architecture, or just another empty policy statement?
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November 02, 2012
02
Nov'12
RBS pays customers extra £50m for IT failure
The IT failure that struck Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in June will cost more than expected as customers are paid an extra £50m compensation
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November 01, 2012
01
Nov'12
SwissCom removes BI from IT to support business transformation
At a time of strategic integration, the business intelligence function at Swiss telecoms provider SwissCom proved the only place to get a view of the whole organisation. Find out how it supports business transformation.
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October 31, 2012
31
Oct'12
Southwark Council outsources IT transformation
Southwark Council is upgrading all the IT that supports the delivery of council services, through a deal with Capita
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October 31, 2012
31
Oct'12
Government dips toe in water for single ERP
The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform across Whitehall
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October 31, 2012
31
Oct'12
Irish construction company reduces SQL Server storage with AvePoint
Walls Construction has saved €31,000 by moving stale content from SQL Server to cheaper storage, using software from AvePoint.
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October 31, 2012
31
Oct'12
Apple squashes BlackBerry as Brent Borough deploys iPads
Brent Borough Council replaces BlackBerry and deploys MobileIron to securely manage almost 3,000 iPads and iPhones
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October 30, 2012
30
Oct'12
Virtual Instruments opens development office in Tech City
The competition for engineers in Silicon Valley is so fierce that Virtual Instruments is opening an office in London’s Tech City to find new talent
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October 30, 2012
30
Oct'12
Teradata brings big data into the SQL family
Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.
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October 30, 2012
30
Oct'12
UK datacentres are not ready for big data impact shows study
UK datacentres are not prepared for the changes that big data will bring, a study of 125 senior IT decision makers revealed
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October 29, 2012
29
Oct'12
BSA fines First Choice Facilities after licence shortfall following an M&A
Safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined £18,000 for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition
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October 29, 2012
29
Oct'12
Could GM’s decision to insource IT start a trend?
As General Motors brings its outsourced IT in-house, Computer Weekly examines whether others will follow or whether it will prove a one-off
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October 29, 2012
29
Oct'12
Manage licences and virtual machines to avoid VM sprawl
When considering asset management, firms should select a system to manage both software licences and virtual machine lifecycle
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October 29, 2012
29
Oct'12
Big data could transform staff management
Data analytics has the potential to help businesses make dramatic returns by managing their workforce more effectively
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October 26, 2012
26
Oct'12
Customer understanding drives investment in big data analytics
Better customer understanding is the main motivation for big data programmes, survey finds
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October 26, 2012
26
Oct'12
Beware of unfair SaaS HR contracts
Businesses must be wary of signing unfair contracts as software as a service takes over from traditional HR technology
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
Businesses invest in learning management systems to reskill staff
Businesses are stepping up their investment in sophisticated IT systems to manage the training and development of their workforce
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
Microsoft launches Windows 8
Microsoft has finally released Windows 8, Windows RT and the Windows Store at a packed launch event in New York
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
Windows 8 OS is available now – but is it the right choice for your business?
Windows 8 combines a desktop operating system (OS) with tablet-touch functionality, which will bring benefits to some organisations - but not all
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
HR needs to understand business to avoid IT failures
The failure of human resources departments to understand how a business works is a common reason why HR IT projects fail
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October 25, 2012
25
Oct'12
Government expected to unveil eight IDA suppliers for online services
The government is to announce suppliers – including PayPal, BT and the Post Office – to provide identity assurance (IDA) for online public services
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October 24, 2012
24
Oct'12
CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games
As the job of a lifetime nears its end, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his Olympic experience
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October 24, 2012
24
Oct'12
SAP exceeds €1bn software sales in Q3, profitability weaker than 2011
SAP reports growth in Q3 revenue for HANA, mobile, cloud, but EMEA performance was weaker than in 2011
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October 23, 2012
23
Oct'12
Smaller companies use IT to drive business in downturn
Almost half of small businesses will use IT to become more efficient according to an Economist Intelligence Unit Study
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October 23, 2012
23
Oct'12
NFU Mutual automates paper processes with Tibco
Insurance company NFU Mutual is to automate its paper-based claims handling using business process management tools from Tibco
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October 19, 2012
19
Oct'12
Case study: Novus Leisure doubles sales after IT upgrade
Bar chain Novus Leisure has moved its IT infrastructure into the cloud, boosting sales through lower costs and scalable IT
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October 19, 2012
19
Oct'12
Microsoft revenues suffer as users wait for Windows 8 upgrade
Microsoft has blamed lower-than-expected results on businesses delaying desktop software upgrades until after Windows 8 is launched
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October 18, 2012
18
Oct'12
Oracle pushes proprietary systems to avoid expensive IT consultants
Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees
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October 18, 2012
18
Oct'12
Citrix debuts mobile virtual apps as analysts warn of obsolescence
Citrix debuts cloud and mobility releases, but analysts warn they may soon be left behind in an increasingly competitive and evolving market
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October 17, 2012
17
Oct'12
Advanced analytics skills shortage stymies big data programmes
A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes, research finds
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October 17, 2012
17
Oct'12
Mike Lynch: Firms happy with 95% IT functionality should move to cloud
Former CEO and founder of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, believes cloud is right for a number of applications, but says ERP will always stay in house
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October 16, 2012
16
Oct'12
Telefonica Digital saves 40% with cloud HR platform
Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce, saving 40% on the cost of non-cloud HR
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October 15, 2012
15
Oct'12
Austrian hospital improves access to patient data with Imprivata
Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen hospital in Austria explains how it improved speed of access and security to its works stations.
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October 12, 2012
12
Oct'12
Finance CIOs reveal plans to recover from recession
Research among bank CIOs reveal how financial services companies ravaged by recession are investing in IT to help them emerge stronger
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October 11, 2012
11
Oct'12
Job prospects improving for IT graduates, says HECSU report
Job prospects for IT graduates have improved for the first time during the recession, says the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU)
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October 10, 2012
10
Oct'12
Nationwide Insurance builds IT ledger for chargeback
Nationwide Insurance controls IT expenditure using VMware ITBM to provide a service catalogue and pricing for internal departments
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October 10, 2012
10
Oct'12
HDS, NetApp and Nexenta launch storage stacks at VMworld 2012
Hitachi Data Systems revamps stacks to become VMware-centric; NetApp adds SME ExpressPod stacks to existing FlexPods; Nexenta launches VDI bundle
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October 10, 2012
10
Oct'12
Shell plans to save 100s of millions with 'semantic' search
Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut training time for engineers with technology to identify and deliver information from databases, blogs and social media
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October 10, 2012
10
Oct'12
SAP users voice licensing concerns, call for greater clarity
SAP users in the UK and Ireland demand more transparency in licensing and better value for money from the supplier.
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October 09, 2012
09
Oct'12
The latest tech preserving Bletchley Park's past
Bletchley Park is embracing a range of modern technologies in order to boost visitor numbers, Iain Standen, CEO, tells Computer Weekly
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October 09, 2012
09
Oct'12
Hays and Fiat welcome new enterprise search features from Google
New expert location, “entity recognition” and translation features have impressed Hays Specialist Recruitment and Fiat in Google’s new enterprise search appliance.
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services
Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
How French Connection automated stock replenishment to cut costs
Fashion retailer French Connection cut costs by deploying a stock replenishment automation system
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October 05, 2012
05
Oct'12
Lloyds TSB system error causes ATM problems
Some Lloyds TSB customers have been unable to get money from ATMs or use online customer services as a result of a system problem
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October 05, 2012
05
Oct'12
Samsung promises profit despite Apple patent battle
Samsung claims its profits will almost double this quarter, despite its high-profile court case with Apple over iPhone and Galaxy S3 patents
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October 04, 2012
04
Oct'12
Meg Whitman unveils HP turnaround plan
HP CEO Meg Whitman has unveiled a five-year plan for the troubled enterprise, admitting the turnaround would take longer than expected
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October 03, 2012
03
Oct'12
Strata spotlights data science in media sector
Strata in London: data science, data scientists and automation are changing the face of journalism. Opportunities abound for new IT programmer-journalists in face of data illiteracy.
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October 03, 2012
03
Oct'12
Case study: Johnston Press rolls out Salesforce CRM on iPads
Johnston Press has mobilised its field sales team by running Salesforce.com CRM cloud software on iPads
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October 02, 2012
02
Oct'12
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn adopts BI dashboard
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Trust deploys Intuitive Dashboards, a business intelligence dashboard, to give staff a clearer view of each patient’s pathway through hospital
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October 02, 2012
02
Oct'12
Toyota uses Microsoft for global communications
Toyota Motor Corporation is globally deploying Microsoft software through a mix of cloud and on-premise software for its 200,000 staff
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October 01, 2012
01
Oct'12
Family-run distributor uses Claranet to boost IT capabilities
Spray nozzle distributor Bete has adopted Claranet to support home workers
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October 01, 2012
01
Oct'12
O2 to expand BYOD scheme
Mobile phone group O2 is to introduce its bring-your-own-device scheme to operations in Europe and South America, following successful UK roll-out
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September 28, 2012
28
Sep'12
Buro Happold adopts Polycom video conferencing
Engineering firm Buro Happold cut costs and travel time with video conferencing facilities using Polycom RMXs and Microsoft Lync
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September 28, 2012
28
Sep'12
BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses
Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked
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September 27, 2012
27
Sep'12
B2B data integration offers bigger bang than big data, says Freeform Dynamics
Business-to-business data integration “could do better” as British and Dutch firms over-rely on manual process, says Freeform Dynamics study.
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September 27, 2012
27
Sep'12
Martial arts retailer Blitz Sport drops Sage for SuiteCommerce
Blitz Sport, a supplier of martial arts equipment, is among a handful of UK firms implementing NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce platform
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September 26, 2012
26
Sep'12
Skandia Team GBR analysed its way to victory at the Olympics
Business analytics software helped British sailing team, Skandia Team GBR, sweep up five medals against a target of four at the London 2012 Olympics.
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September 25, 2012
25
Sep'12
Domino Printing Sciences puts service desk in the cloud
Manufacturer Domino Printing Sciences is cutting costs by putting its IT service desk in the cloud
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September 24, 2012
24
Sep'12
Gartner: Stick with Windows 7 migration, Windows 8 is too risky
Businesses migrating from Windows XP should upgrade to Windows 7 rather than risk deploying Windows 8, says analyst organisation Gartner
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September 20, 2012
20
Sep'12
Salesforce launches Marketing Cloud BI tool for social enterprise
Public cloud provider Salesforce launches its Marketing Cloud business intelligence (BI) tool to promote cloud in companies' campaign strategies
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September 19, 2012
19
Sep'12
Activision uses Salesforce to serve gaming community
The Call of Duty designers use the Service Cloud and Chatter Communities to solve customer queries
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September 18, 2012
18
Sep'12
White House deputy CTO praises NHS open-data strategy
The deputy CTO of the White House, Chris Vein, is working with the NHS to pass on experiences of making data more open in the public sector
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September 18, 2012
18
Sep'12
EDF app enables smartphones to snap meter readings
Energy supplier EDF has released an app that enables customers to submit meter readings by using the camera on a smartphone
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September 18, 2012
18
Sep'12
Microsoft updates Office 365 pricing
Microsoft offers 25GB storage and support for multiple devices to tempt users to its cloud-based Office 365 suite
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September 18, 2012
18
Sep'12
Government plans for 200 digital managers
Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments as part of its transition to transactional digital services
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September 17, 2012
17
Sep'12
E.ON outsources applications to Capgemini
Utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five-year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m
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September 17, 2012
17
Sep'12
Anglian Water uses InfoSys to deploy SharePoint 2010 intranet
Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business
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September 14, 2012
14
Sep'12
Dynamic Markets: CFOs see worth in data on balance sheet
About 20% of UK companies are assigning a financial value to their data, according to research sponsored by SAS. But only 16% of UK companies have a formal data management strategy.
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September 14, 2012
14
Sep'12
CIO interview: Andy Haywood, Co-operative Business Group
The new group CIO at the Co-operative Group talks about his plans for technology across the organisation’s businesses
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September 13, 2012
13
Sep'12
CIO interview: Simon Moorhead, Bank of England
Simon Moorhead began his career as Bank of England CIO with a baptism of fire, having started two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed
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September 12, 2012
12
Sep'12
Cut network complexity with Ethernet fabrics and SDN, says Brocade
Brocade says abstraction layers, such as Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN), can eliminate complexity from the network
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September 11, 2012
11
Sep'12
Ten killer questions for choosing an HR IT system
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) chose a cloud-based HR system, to manage its 3,700 disparate global staff, on the basis of 10 killer questions
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September 11, 2012
11
Sep'12
Is the consumerisation of IT beneficial to anyone?
Employees' personal devices are being used in business every day, and that is posing new challenges for IT departments
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September 11, 2012
11
Sep'12
Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders
The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk
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September 10, 2012
10
Sep'12
HP axes a further 2,000 jobs
The firing line has just got longer as a filing from HP reveals 29,000 staff are set to go, rather than 27,000
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September 10, 2012
10
Sep'12
Microsoft set for EU Internet Explorer U-turn as EC investigates breach
Microsoft will introduce browser choice in Windows 7 in the EU to comply with a 2009 IE anti-trust settlement the EC says it breached in July 2012
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
Southwest One is blocking Somerset cuts, says county councillor
Somerset County Council's troubled outsourcing contract with Southwest One has stalled the authority's programme of cost cuts, according to a Conservative member of its cabinet.
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
Polycom teams with IBM for cloud video services
The two firms will join forces to develop new solutions utilising the cloud for video applications and unified communications
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
Google lacks enterprise credibility
IT directors do not consider Google a credible supplier to the enterprise market, according to the Corporate IT Forum
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
FSA demands review of RBS software failure
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) wants to know how banks plan to prevent a repeat of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) software glitch
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
EMI Music moves to global SaaS-based service desk from Sunrise Software
EMI Music Publishing has deployed Sostenuto cloud-based IT management software-as-a-service (SaaS) to support 900 users
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
Data ethics: Author warns of ethical pitfalls of data collection
Heedless data collection in business analytics programmes is breeding moral hazards, according to author Frank Buytendijk.
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September 04, 2012
04
Sep'12
In-depth: Windows Server 2012 goes after VMware
The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users
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September 04, 2012
04
Sep'12
NHS claws back £1bn as CSC negotiations come to an end
The Department of Health claws back £1bn from CSC as negotiations with the troubled supplier come to an end.
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August 31, 2012
31
Aug'12
Department of Health announces digital services funding
The ‘Information Sharing Challenge Fund’ will give NHS organisations up to £99,000 for new digital services
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August 29, 2012
29
Aug'12
VMware demos Horizon for workspace aggregation
VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with products designed to make desktop computing more manageable
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August 28, 2012
28
Aug'12
Villa Plus implements IBM business analytics software
Holiday company Villa Plus is using IBM business analytics software to support its advertising campaigns as it increases its number of properties by 40%
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August 21, 2012
21
Aug'12
CIOs will have to share control of IT budgets
CIOs will increasingly have to share their control of IT budgets with marketing departments as customer relationship management (CRM) software becomes critical to customer retention.
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August 20, 2012
20
Aug'12
De Vere Group slashes Telecity server racks in switch to UCS
The hotel group has cut its hosting fees in a deal with ANS to migrate to a Cisco private cloud
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August 16, 2012
16
Aug'12
Gartner: Prepare for hybrid cloud pain
Hybrid clouds are set for a big fall as businesses feel the pain of implementation
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August 16, 2012
16
Aug'12
Cisco boosts sales and income in 2012
The networking giant announces a 7% rise in sales for the year, along with income of $8bn
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August 15, 2012
15
Aug'12
SMEs driving $2.2bn cloud industry growth
The global cloud industry is set to be worth an extra $2.2bn before the end of the year, according to KPMG
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August 14, 2012
14
Aug'12
How has banking IT changed after the industry's Armageddon?
Five years after Northern Rock was forced into privatisation, what effect have the many changes in the financial sector had on IT?
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August 13, 2012
13
Aug'12
Companies struggle to get past open source ‘big data’ experimentation
Open source big data technologies are attracting enterprise interest. Experts say, Experiment, but have business value in mind.
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August 10, 2012
10
Aug'12
Case Study: Welcome Break Group revamps HR with SuccessFactors
Welcome Break Group is starting a project to deploy SuccessFactors, the cloud-based HR system from SAP.
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August 09, 2012
09
Aug'12
NHS sees £100m reduction in exposure to CSC contracts
The Department for Health’s financial exposure to its contracts with troubled supplier CSC have decreased by £100m in just three months.
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August 07, 2012
07
Aug'12
Microsoft attempts to simplify MS Office integration
Microsoft has unveiled an app store for MS Office 2013for utilities and add-ons
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August 06, 2012
06
Aug'12
Putting innovation on the outsourcing menu
Cliff Saran investigates what happens when systems integrators are asked to innovate
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August 06, 2012
06
Aug'12
Cloud Industry Forum aligns standards for easier procurement
CIF's latest code of practice aligns with ISO standards to simplify certification and make purchasing cloud services easier