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White Paper A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Area Network (SAN) enabled... [02 Oct 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile He has also worked in various different industries during a 20-year IT career, including insurance (Friends Provident), transport (British Airways), FMCG (Pepsi) and retail (Safeway Stores). Tony Mather is CIO of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Safeway Insurance Uses Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Arrays to Increase I/O Performance for a Critical SQL Server Application by 20 Percent
White Paper A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's online application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Area Network (SAN) enabled... [06 Nov 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile In 1995, he joined Safeway as director of business services moving across to director of business IT development. As group CIO Rod Angwin is responsible for IT across Wolseley Group. He is in charge of delivering the... [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Arthurs started out as an IT analyst at Beecham Group, then worked his way up the IT career ladder at Safeway over a period of 14 years, moving from an IT project manager role to director of IT programme management, and... [11 Jun 2008]
SAP to sell TomorrowNow
News Since its conception it has signed up some big clients - including Circuit City, Coors Brewing, Lockheed Martin, Petco and Safeway. German software giant SAP is to auction its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, only two years... [16 Jan 2008]
CIOs vital in mergers and acquisitions
News Ric Francis, executive director of operations with the Post Office, was involved in both the Smith Industries merger and Safeway merger with Morrisons. I was less involved in the Safeway deal and think... [10 Jan 2008]
Post Office COO moves on
News Francis joined the Post Office in 2005 from Safeway, where he was CIO until it merged with Morrisons. The Post Office director of operations Ric Francis is leaving the organisation to embark on a career in independent... [05 Nov 2007]
The secret of making the CIO grade
News Ric Francis, operations director of The Post Office and former Safeway CIO said: "I found myself constantly being frustrating by the organisation I was in, and always believed I could do a bit more [by] going out to find... [17 Oct 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment Post Office operations director and former Safeway CIO Ric Francis says there is little business sense in investing in proprietary core systems. Retail technology touches our daily lives at almost every turn and that's... [02 Jul 2007]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile In 1995 Angwin joined supermarket chain Safeway as director of business services and then moved across to become director of business IT development. What they say about him: "One of the many Mars IT guys who's used that... [06 Jun 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
CIO Analysis Post Office operations director and former Safeway CIO Ric Francis says there is little business sense in investing in proprietary core systems. Yet retailers traditionally spend proportionally less on IT than almost any... [06 Jun 2007]
CIOs: 'Wise up and the empire could be yours'
News And the idea that CIOs can develop the necessary skills to secure the top job is shared by Ric Francis, former CIO at Safeway, who is now COO at the Post Office. When companies have selected a new CEO in past years it... [07 Mar 2007]
Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum
Photo Asked why CIOs and heads of IT often miss out when the top job of CEO is to be filled Royal Mail COO, Ric Francis, himself a former CIO at Safeway, suggested it may be because: "The marketing guy and the sales guy have... [26 Sep 2006]
Don't let IT damage your M&A success
Comment The following year after relentlessly struggling and stalling with the integration of Safeway's IT systems, Morrisons announced it was switching off the supply chain management systems that it had inherited from... [23 Jun 2006]
