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When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Chris Broad, head of IT, UK Atomic Energy Authority If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who... [06 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study The opportunity to clean out core systems and have a common user interface for them in Vista, they both said would make it easier for collaborating local authority organisations to share IT resources. [30 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News Speaking to silicon.com Steve Brandwood, programme manager at the IDeA, said: "We've been working with local authorities for the last 10 years to help them create standardised address lists within each authority. [30 Apr 2008]
Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police
News A spokesman for Intellect said it is a complicated situation: "There are a lot of stakeholders who have an interest in tackling e-crime, you have the consumers, the retailers, the Financial Services Authority, the government and police. [17 Mar 2008]
Sussex Council outsources desktop role
News The deal, which involves management of the council's desktop and printer estate, lasts seven years and is expected to save the authority 25 per cent of its desktop budget over that time.silicon.com Public Sector [13 Feb 2008]
Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…
Comment In the outsourcing deals of the late 1990s it was common for suppliers to take on board everything from a public sector authority's entire IT infrastructure through to software development. Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [04 Feb 2008]
Fire services share Dream finance software
News The fire authority will use Dream finance software, supplied by CODA, hosted by Cambridge & Peterborough Fire Authority at a significant cost reduction compared to Essex FA's current system.silicon.com Public Sector [04 Dec 2007]
Scottish council boosts network
News Although Renfrewshire is one of the smallest councils in the country, its staff are decentralised around 60 buildings, including the authority's schools. The authority covers 67 square miles south of Glasgow and supports a population of 89,000. [18 Oct 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study The unitary authority is responsible for 142,000 citizens and 7,000 local businesses of which the majority are in the tourism sector. According to the council's assistant director for ICT, Phil Baron, prior to the upgrade the authority was plagued... [06 Aug 2007]
Council switches off PCs to save £40,000
News Staffordshire County Council has developed software that detects and turns off idle PCs and could cut £40,000 per year off the authority's energy bill. Mick Clarke, the county council's cabinet member for organisation and performance said the... [26 Jul 2007]
Data breach rules 'creating uncertainty for execs'
News For example, a financial services company that suffers a leak of customer information is pretty much obliged to notify the Financial Services Authority, while a retailer that loses credit card details is likely to have to proactively notify its... [24 Jul 2007]
UK needs cyber-crime reporting body
News David Roberts, chief executive of Tif, the Corporate IT Forum, told silicon.com there is a need for an organisation that businesses can talk to: "At the moment, there isn't anywhere a large or small corporate can go to find somebody who can... [19 Jul 2007]
Capgemini wins $40m childrens database deal
News The data repository will be partitioned into 150 parts, relating to each local authority in England. Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. The project is being funded by the newly created Department for Children, Schools and... [17 Jul 2007]
Scottish council spends £1m on contact centre
News The council is the second largest Scottish local authority in geographical terms, covering six towns, 25 islands and more than 2,700 miles of coastline. Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [24 May 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study There were a further 200-300 installed in libraries around the authority. During 2003 the authority underwent a change programme and centralised its IT function - and it was then the council realised the high cost of its PC maintenance budget... [11 May 2007]
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