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RSS AAHong Kong International Airport Engages Datacraft Experts to Keep Airport Systems in Peak Condition
White Paper The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) needs the dedicated on-site presence of an expert IT team to ensure the airport's critical IT backbone is available 24x7x365 days. Datacraft's Team Empowerment Services is ideally... [01 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.08
Round-Up While we can't stand in the way of progress we can make the active and life-preserving decision not to plug the AA batteries into the killer robot. 'A fool and his money are easily parted' was always a good idiom, even... [15 Aug 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile Before arriving at Homeserve, Trevor Didcock was CIO at the AA for four years and a member of the executive team responsible for the highly successful private equity backed development and sale to a consortium with Saga... [11 Jun 2008]
SAP Support to Reduce Maintenance Cost and Increase Operational Efficiencies for a Large Global Food Retail Chain
White Paper This engagement involved providing technical, application, and enhancement support to users for various SAP R/3 modules including Financials (FI), Controlling (CO), Purchasing, Project Systems (PS), Investment Management, (IM) and Asset... [28 Mar 2008]
Jargon-filled software licences baffle consumers
News The software the NCC surveyed included Adobe Photoshop CS2, Apple iLife 06, GSP AA Route Planner and Microsoft Office for Mac 2004. Consumers are being forced to accept software licence agreements full of confusing... [20 Feb 2008]
Improving Business Agility and Efficiency With Help From Symantec and NetApp
White Paper Challenged by exponential growth in data storage requirements - in particular with email messages increasing in volume and size - the AA (Automobile Association) decided to deploy a centralized storage infrastructure. [18 Jan 2008]
CIOs vital in mergers and acquisitions
News Two CIOs who respectively played a major role in the £1.75bn sale of the AA to CVC and Permira and the merger of TI Group and Smith Industries agreed that IT input was vital to the deals. Trevor Didcock, former CIO of... [10 Jan 2008]
Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year
News The deal was signed in 2005 when the AA separated from Centrica and needed to build an entire IT department and infrastructure in just 12 months. Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal While the... [18 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up After all, would you want to get in a crash and call the Canadian version of the AA or RAC from the side of the road? We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under... [14 Dec 2007]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Cobain is the latest in a series of high-profile CIO departures which have included the AA, Diageo, the Post Office and the Royal Mail. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the... [14 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: CIO central
Comment I'll sell ourselves a bit more here - you don't get to write exclusives about major CIOs, their thinking, their career twists and turns, including appointments such as Robin Dargue going from Diageo to the Post Office or the... [17 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal Another big hitter was the exclusive story that the AA will end its £50m outsourcing deal with IBM three-and-a-half years early, as a result of its merger with Saga. [28 Sep 2007]
A call centre in your bedroom?
News In the UK the AA is a big user of home-working call centre agents, although it employs these workers itself rather than using a third-party. The AA has almost 300 home-based call centre agents across its... [27 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal This is a good combination of some breaking news and an on-the-spot interview ¦ CIO... [27 Sep 2007]
CIO Essentials: Nerdy techies, SaaS and social networks
News The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories... [25 Sep 2007]
