britannia
BT Helps Britannia Building Society's Business Transformation
White Paper To remain competitive in this tough environment, Britannia, the UK's second largest building society, called on BT to improve its network infrastructure - a core resource for the company's 188 branches. [04 Aug 2008]
Airline Soars with Secure and Simple Flight Briefing System
White Paper Britannia wanted to enable staff to access the briefing information securely online, whether in the airport or remotely when abroad. After extensive research, Britannia decided on RSA SecurID two-factor authentication from RSA Security. [03 Jul 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile His route to the top is via 25 years in both public and private sectors, including roles as a business troubleshooter and MD of Britannia. Although not a CIO in the traditional sense - each government department has its own CIO - John Suffolk is... [11 Jun 2008]
Britannia Gets Cooking With mySAP ERP and IBM
White Paper A joint partnership between the Wadia Group and Groupe Danone, Bangalore-based Britannia Industries employs more than 2,600 people making cakes, cookies and other bakery products, and is the largest manufacturer of biscuits in India. [03 Dec 2007]
CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News Britannia cuts call queues 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 from the past seven days and explains why they matter. [16 Oct 2007]
Britannia cuts call queues
News Building society Britannia has rolled out a call management system at its Bristol call centre. The move follows a previous installation of the system at another Britannia call centre in Leek, Staffordshire. [10 Oct 2007]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile Suffolk's route to the top job in government IT is via 25 years in both the public and private sectors, including roles as a business troubleshooter and MD of Britannia. What they say about him: "Has come into government to help deliver massive... [06 Jun 2007]
Building society in-sources HR using SAP and partners
News Britannia Building Society is moving its HR and payroll systems back in-house, using software from SAP. Helen Bates, HR change manager at Britannia, said: "We needed to be able to do a lot more around people and we needed to give our managers the... [19 May 2006]
Analysis: Who is the new government CIO?
Comment He also comes with heavyweight private sector experience as former MD of Britannia and a business trouble-shooter. The government finally appointed a new CIO this week and opted for John Suffolk, who is currently director general of the £2bn... [26 Apr 2006]
Broadband boosts building society's network
Case Study Britannia Building Society has upgraded its network to broadband to cope with the increase in traffic created by the new applications it is rolling out. The UK's second biggest building society, Britannia was spurred into the network update by the... [02 Sep 2005]
Cost and compexity sunk Dixons outsourcing deal
As ZDNet UK reported on Thursday, CIO Iain Andrew, who negotiated an IT outsourcing deal with LogicaCMG at his previous company Britannia Airways, has left Dixons to "look at career options elsewhere". [25 Jul 2005]
Dixons IT deal collapses over cost and complexity
News As revealed by silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK yesterday, CIO Iain Andrew, who negotiated an IT outsourcing deal with LogicaCMG at his previous company Britannia Airways, has left Dixons to "look at career options elsewhere". [22 Jul 2005]
Britannia Building Society Teams With Pitney Bowes
White Paper Britannia Building Society is the UK's second largest mutual Building Society. In 1999 Britannia Building Society transferred the ownership and management of its Design, Printing and Direct Mailing facility to PBMS. [10 Jun 2005]
Wales beats Bangalore for new LogicaCMG service centre
News Around 115 clients will be supported from the new facility, including the Crown Prosecution Service, Britannia Airways and the British Council. LogicaCMG has chosen Wales over other UK locations and the cheap offshore location of Bangalore as the... [21 Mar 2005]
Inside offshoring: Location, location, location
Comment An example is our Britannia Airways contract where the project management and business analyst people who need front-end integration work with the client onsite. A wealth of qualified graduates promises to keep India at the top of the tree for some... [23 Jun 2004]
