IT services and outsourcing

Future of NHS National Programme for IT in critical condition following NAO report

The remaining NHS National Programme for IT could be scrapped entirely, as the project's aim to deliver electronic records for every patient has fallen far below expectations, according to a National Audit Office report. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Multinationals show growing interest in cloud computing, survey reveals

Multinational corporations have significantly increased their take-up of cloud services over the past year, research by analyst firm Ovum reveals. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Cloud applications: Five migration tips from Gartner

Gartner offers tips on how IT organizations which desire to carry out cloud application migration can do so in an effective manner. Continue Reading

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• Richard Watson

Banks create roadmap for IT outsourcing

Stability is returning after the recent economic meltdown and banks are leading the way with a new approach to IT outsourcing which could become a roadmap for other sectors to follow. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MPs told of flawed Oracle iSupplier project at Department of Work and Pensions

A flawed implementation of Oracle iSupplier at the Department of Work and Pensions has been highlighted in written evidence to MPs. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

BT to become a public sector network service provider

BT Wholesale is set to become a key supplier to Government Conveyance Network services which will interconnect the Cabinet Office's Public Sector Network services. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Outsourcing contracts cost businesses more than expected, finds Lieberman survey

Most IT outsourcing contracts turn out more expensive for businesses than were initially anticipated. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Capita integrates hospital IT for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Pembury site

Capita has installed an integrated IT system to support an NHS Trust's move from two to one hospital. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Case study: Examples and Results from the Hotel, Online, Retail, and Consumer Products Industries

A popular lodging company, with several thousand locations around the world, needed to improve the conversion rate for booking rooms on its own Web site vs. on online travel agency sites. Web-savvy customers, searching for the best deals, were finding and booking lower rates on the online travel agency sites. That resulted in the lodging company needing to pay substantial fees to those sites. Over time, customers became educated to book on the third-party intermediary sites, not on the company’s site. Continue Reading

HSBC Insurance works with IBM to solve Solvency II

HSBC Insurance in the UK is using IBM Global Services to support its European Solvency... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Global cloud market to reach $240bn by 2020

The global cloud market is set to explode in the next 10 years, growing from $40.7bn in 2011 to more than $241bn in 2020, according to Forrester Research. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

National Archives scoops Queen’s Award for Enterprise

The National Archives has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the first public sector body to receive the gong in more than ten years. Continue Reading

In 1966 England won the World Cup and Computer Weekly launched the world's first weekly IT newspaper

After 45 years in print, Computer Weekly, the award-winning title for senior IT decision-makers, is to become a 100% online publication. Here is a celebration of 45 years in print. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Dell set to unveil cloud plans

Dell is due to make a global announcement later today, where it is expected to unveil its plans for cloud computing. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CSC to acquire troubled NHS supplier iSoft

IT services giant CSC has agreed to acquire troubled healthcare software firm iSoft after the latter suspended shares and put itself up for sale last week. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Exclusive interview: Deputy government CIO Bill McCluggage on the new government IT strategy

Bill McCluggage, deputy government CIO, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about the changes in the government's new IT strategy. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Government puts open source at the heart of its new IT strategy

The government has launched its much-anticipated new IT strategy, highlighting open source and a promise that the coalition will do things better. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Marks & Spencer extends Cognizant outsourcing deal

UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has expanded its outsourcing relationship with offshore IT service provider Cognizant, which extends a deal signed in 2009. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MoJ signs £22m shared services deal with Accenture

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a £22m contract with Accenture to implement shared services across its human resources, payroll, finance and procurement operations for the next five years. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

European Commission clears Atos bid for Siemens IT

The European Commission has cleared the proposed €850m acquisition of Siemens' IT Solutions and Service (SIS) by French IT service provider Atos Origin. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Offshore IT workers in the UK avoid paying taxes but are not breaking the law

I write a lot about how UK IT professionals are often replaced by workers from overseas using Intra Company Transfer (ICT) visas. These workers are attractive to UK businesses because they cost ... Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Mark Ballard

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Interxion hits colocation sweet spot and sees market shares soar

Colocation provider Interxion recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and saw its shares soar 18%; plus more news in brief. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

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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• Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics

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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• Ian Grant

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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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Third-party cloud management tools do the trick

Cloud customers are increasingly turning to third-party tools or add-on functions to meet specific cloud-management requirements Continue Reading

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• Harshal Kallyanpur, Special Correspondent

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Collaboration in the Cloud: everything to everyone, or too good to be true?

IT decision-makers are already looking to the cloud to support new IT delivery models - such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Continue Reading

$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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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

The six roles that drive successful business process transformation

CIOs must change how they approach BPM Continue Reading

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• Connie More
• Alexander Peters

Analyzing cloud computing's past and future

The credit crunch, broadband penetration and the maturation of Web-based services have all contributed to cloud's increased adoption levels. But where will the cloud go from here? Continue Reading

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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• Computer Weekly Staff

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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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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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• Clive Seddon
• David Barker

Gartner dispels concerns surrounding cloud computing services in India

Diptarup Chakraborti, a principal research analyst at Gartner Inc., says fears related to cloud computing are overblown in India and shares his advice for IT departments that want to adopt cloud-based services. Continue Reading

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• Anil Patrick R, Chief Editor, SearchDataCenter.in

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• Computer Weekly Staff

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Charts: Outsourcing demand increasing according to Equaterra research

Outsourcing demand increasing according to Equaterra research. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: IT at the O2 arena

How IT supports one of the world's biggest entertainment venues. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

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

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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• John Riley

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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• Jessica Twentyman

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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• Danny Bradbury

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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• Antony Savvas

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.

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The VPN dilemma

With traditional networks choking on data, Liz Biddlecombe investigates the pros and cons of managing a VPN yourself or... Continue Reading

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