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RSS project per yearEurope's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News The Commission wants both public and private investment to go into the project, in order to speed up the pace of digitisation, with just one per cent of national libraries' contents now digitised. The... [12 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment Yet the company has no established measurement of ROI post project. I have been told all capital requests must provide a minimum of 15 per cent ROI. As part of the budget exercise, I went back over some... [11 Aug 2008]
Birmingham to "enrich lives" through tech
News The council says it's on course to save around £2.1bn through efficiencies generated by the 10-year project which is due for completion in 2016. Through the project the council aims to... [08 Aug 2008]
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study The IT department secured funding for the virtualisation project from the council's Invest to Save initiative, which funds projects to deliver longer term savings. Dawson added: "It's simplified, it's more manageable,... [08 Aug 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News Hybrid IT/business courses have also been championed by tech industry skills body e-skills UK, which most recently supported the creation of an Information Technology Management for Business degree which combines tech learning with... [06 Aug 2008]
Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Save Engineering Firm More Than $1M Per Year
White Paper They needed to overcome frustrating delays that were hindering inter-office project collaboration and work sharing, avoid mishaps with miscommunication across the offices, and at the same time deploy technology that... [04 Aug 2008]
Internet betting a dead cert for William Hill
News The project is on target for delivery by the end of November 2008. Betting chain William Hill has reported half-year earnings showing its online growth outstripping the rise in its high street earnings... [01 Aug 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment To spare thousands of their employees from getting stuck in the never-ending traffic jams that choke the arterial road taking them to Electronics City, companies are chipping in to fund the government's project to build... [30 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Pavitt says: "It wasn't the hardest sell ever as you can probably imagine - a self-funded project to transform your IT and to give long term significant savings, reducing our running costs from seven to eight... [29 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google. More than 90 per cent of the sample gave positive... [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News It outsourced the project to online specialist Parity to provide a portal that would allow charities to file returns securely online and distribute information to them, based on data in each return. The Charity... [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for... [24 Jul 2008]
Take part in the silicon.com skills survey
News Nearly half of the 2007 survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed there is a skills crisis - and 45 per cent said there are IT jobs in their business they are unable to fill, and project management... [16 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study That de-risked the project immensely for us because issues such as capacity and availability were all answered," Ramsay added. Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and other services,... [10 Jul 2008]
NHS head defends major IT delays
News NHS CEO David Nicholson defended the delays in delivering the NPfIT, saying the project was "incredibly ambitious, nowhere in the world delivers an IT system quite like the one we want for the NHS" but said the health... [18 Jun 2008]
