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RSS NCCE-government 'approved' supplier register launched
News The new e-GIF Accreditation Authority has been set up by the Cabinet Office's e-government unit and will be delivered by the National Computing Centre (NCC). An accreditation body has been launched by the government to... [28 Jan 2005]
IT consulting: Compliance both complex and costly
Comment John Redeyoff, director of consultancy at Manchester-based IT consulting company NCC Group, says: "If you're a 30-person consultancy then you can easily run that with a bunch of spreadsheets. With the increased focus on... [19 Oct 2004]
5 years ago... UK firms could be caught napping over data protection
News 07.10.1999: IT services group, NCC, is warning that changes to the UK's Data Protection Act could catch companies unawares. After the Act is amended, users will have the right to demand to see what information is being... [07 Oct 2004]
IT budgets squeezed by upgrades and staffing costs
News The annual NCC Benchmark of IT Spending survey of 168 of end-user organisations in the UK found that over half expect IT spend to increase over the next year by an average of 1.9 per cent. Ian Jones, head of content and... [28 Sep 2004]
Float for NCC led by software failures
News Business software insurer NCC is the latest tech company to join the current wave of IPOs. The total value of the IPO would value the company at around £65m and raise £23m of capital, which will help NCC... [28 Jun 2004]
Privacy protection is not a luxury, RFID industry told
News The National Consumer Council (NCC) has called on government and businesses to put privacy at the heart of RFID technology or risk a consumer backlash that could set back adoption of the technology. The... [11 May 2004]
5 years ago... Experts slam UK encryption plans
News Also present at the committee hearing was the National Consumer Council (NCC). The NCC also expressed concern about the potential for social exclusion and asked that government plans be sure to include... [24 Feb 2004]
Leader: IT jobs market - the worst is behind us
Leader The skills in demand included management and systems consultants, software engineers and systems testing and auditing, while an NCC study found the highest IT salary increases in the utility and government sectors. [06 Feb 2004]
UK firms plagued by security dunces
News This situation is likely to lead to security breaches, warned the National Computing Centre (NCC), which published the survey results on Thursday. The NCC, an independent research organisation with... [03 Feb 2004]
Hackers resorting to password theft
News Paul Vlissidis, head of risk services at technology consultancy NCC Group, which carried out the survey, told silicon.com that the problem of staff - and especially those in IT who should know better - being lazy with... [22 Oct 2003]
Finance directors don't 'get' IT
News Just last week at an NCC conference on the future role of IT directors, industry experts warned that CIOs need to take a more proactive role on the board to avoid the CEO and CFO taking control of technology issues. [08 Sep 2003]
UK government to create CIO role?
News Speaking at an NCC conference today, Pinder said that although no formal government policy has been agreed there are moves to create, under the control of the Cabinet Office and the Treasury, a central CIO role that... [03 Sep 2003]
CIOs on the way out?
News Speaking at the NCC conference on 'The next role of the IT leader' in London, David Metcalfe, research director at Forrester Research, said investment in technology is coming under increasing scrutiny and control of... [03 Sep 2003]
PDAs increasingly an enterprise play
News The latest National Computing Centre (NCC) IT Strategy survey shows 72 per cent of organisations now reporting some use of PDAs - up from 61 per cent a year ago. The NCC welcomed the uptake of the... [06 Aug 2003]
Laptops, PDAs and Windows upgrades to dominate IT plans
News Those are the findings of the National Computing Centre's (NCC) 'IT Strategy Survey 2003' which is based on responses from 428 organisations in various sectors with a total of 20,000 IT staff serving between 20 and... [27 Jun 2003]
