IT outsourcing
IT outsourcing is a critical consideration for IT managers, but is always a sensitive subject with significant implications for IT department staff. Offshore outsourcing continues to grow in popularity, and the sourcing options for IT managers are increasingly varied. We examine what approach UK organisations are taking to IT outsourcing.
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01 Dec 2023
Post Office lawyer with his fingerprints all over IT scandal spreads blame
Senior Post Office criminal lawyer was just following orders and claims his only mistake was believing those that told him the Horizon system was robust Continue Reading
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30 Nov 2023
Slow government response to Post Office scandal compensation forces new legislation
Subpostmasters who exposed widest miscarriage of justice in UK history still waiting for compensation after decades of fighting Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2011
DWP cancelled £300m Fujitsu deal over transition deadline failures
The decision by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to cancel a £300m desktop support deal with Fujitsu before it even began will lead many in the public sector to question some IT suppliers' ability to deliver on their sales pitch. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2011
Department for Work and Pensions cancels £300m Fujitsu contract
The DWP cancelled its desktop support contract with Fujitsu before it passed to the supplier from incumbent HP. Continue Reading
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08 Mar 2011
Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud
The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it" Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2011
Rugby Football Union joins software driven buying group
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has joined an online buying group and is using software to cut an estimated £300,000 of the procurement bill every year. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2011
Government publishes first contract in transparency drive
The first contract to be published under the government's new transparency drive has been posted on BusinessLink's Contract Finder website. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2011
Government losing billions by not moving to the cloud
The public sector could be making unnecessary redundancies due to a reluctance to innovate in IT and shift to the cloud, says former CIO John Suffolk Continue Reading
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01 Mar 2011
Government spends £9.4bn on top 10 most expensive ICT contracts
The government's top 10 most expensive IT contracts are worth a combined value of £9.44bn, Computer Weekly has found. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2011
Ten safest places to offshore your IT
Here are the ten safest cities to offshore your IT in 2011 Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2011
IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010
The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2011
Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India
Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India. Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 Jan 2011
Software as a service can breed dependency so choose suppliers with care
SaaS is not utility computing: it matters who delivers it and how Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2011
Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband
Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company. Continue Reading
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25 Jan 2011
HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand
HP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2011
Eli Lilly signs Cognizant deal
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has signed a multiyear deal with Cognizant to provide a range of business services Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2011
Carlsberg agrees probably its best outsourcing deal
Carlsberg has signed a five-year contract with Accenture for application services for its European brewery operations. Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2011
iGate acquires outsourcer Patni in deal worth $1.22bn
American IT services firm iGate has acquired Indian outsource company Patni in a deal worth $1.22 billion.
iGate said it would pay $921m to buy a 63%...
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06 Jan 2011
$21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud
Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2011
TPI and Compass come together
The US owner of sourcing consultancy TPI has acquired Compass Management Consulting, to increase the transformational services it can offer. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2011
BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry
David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading
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20 Dec 2010
Government shelves FiReControl
The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m. Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2010
FireControl project could be axed before Christmas
The government's controversial FireControl project could be flagged for review today. The Fire Brigade's Union (FBU) said it was expecting an announcement from fire minister Bob Neil later today, in which it hopes the project designed to reduce the number of fire service control rooms from 46 to nine will be shelved. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Sep 2010
The IT behind Glorious Goodwood
IT services provider CMS Group is now the provider of IT helpdesk services for the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex. See this picture gallery to understand what goes on at Goodwood as well as some of the IT that underpins the venue. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
03 Sep 2010
IT supplier MindTree celebrates 10 years in pictures
Indian IT services provider MindTree is celebrating 10 years supporting the Spastics Society in Indian state Karnatica which was formed in 1999. Continue Reading
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News
11 Aug 2010
The six roles that drive successful business process transformation
CIOs must change how they approach BPM Continue Reading
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12 Jul 2010
NHS National Programme for IT set for major changes
The controversial £12bn NHS IT project looks set for an overhaul as a result of a major reorganisation of the health service Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2009
Israel carves a niche in IT security
IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.
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08 Sep 2009
EDS v Sky: the most significant judgement in an IT case ever?
It is now about a year since the trial in the dispute between BSkyB and EDS drew to a close. At the time, judgment was expected within a couple of months. The absence of a judgment becomes more conspicuous by the day. We can surely expect a verdict this side of Christmas. Can't we? Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2009
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03 Mar 2009
Photos: Most dangerous places to outsource your IT
A report published by the Brown-Wilson Group details which locations are the most risky places to offshore your IT. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2009
Charts: Outsourcing demand increasing according to Equaterra research
Outsourcing demand increasing according to Equaterra research. Continue Reading
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Photo Story
09 Jan 2009
Photos: IT at the O2 arena
How IT supports one of the world's biggest entertainment venues. Continue Reading
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News
08 Dec 2008
Tens of thousands of IT jobs at risk in global finance sector
The investment banking industry will see thousands of job cuts as mergers are completed and companies prepare for a slowdown in business. Continue Reading
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News
18 Nov 2008
Union calls for return of 4,000 offshored jobs
Lloyds TSB Group Union will use the bank's extraordinary general meeting today to encourage shareholders to support the return of 4,000 jobs...
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18 Jul 2006
Midsized firms reach out to backup service providers
Data growth and ever-tightening compliance rules are among the factors driving some organizations to turn to service providers for help with backups. Continue Reading
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News
03 May 2006
Shifting services back indoors
Almost a quarter of blue chip firms in the UK are so disillusioned with outsourcing they are hauling their services back in-house. Continue Reading
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News
25 Apr 2005
Tight contract management vital, users told at SSRG debut
The Strategic Supplier Relationships Group, which brings together 10 of the UK's most influential IT user groups, was formally... Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Mar 2005
Managed services: Looking to the long term
IT directors looking for an easy way to manage increasing volumes of data by buying more hardware could be storing up problems... Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Jan 2005
Financing the future
Don't get a headache working out the best ways to pay for hardware and software. Danny Bradbury offers a user-friendly guide to... Continue Reading
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News
17 Sep 2004
Swansea strike battle to go to Acas
Swansea Council and its striking IT staff are set to go to arbitration service Acas to settle a six-week dispute over a proposed... Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Dec 2000
Sema suffers sharp share drop
A 10% fall in the share price of software and services company Sema has raised questions about the company's financial stability.Sema, responsible...
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Feature
06 Dec 2000
The VPN dilemma
With traditional networks choking on data, Liz Biddlecombe investigates the pros and cons of managing a VPN yourself or... Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Oct 2000
How to scour the world when outsourcing
Thanks to Y2K compliance programmes, it is now perfectly acceptable for a firm to consider moving all or part of its systems development and support... Continue Reading