IT workers in case studies
Tewkesbury cleaning up waste with SOA
Case Study Agents now only have to access one application - previously staff had to enter details into all three systems meaning requests took longer to process and temp workers were needed to input data. The council estimates the... [16 Jan 2009]
How tech keeps young offenders on straight and narrow
Case Study The transformation, which began in April 2007, has already allowed close to 30,000 workers within the justice system and private sector to share care and risk management information on young offenders in England and... [06 Jan 2009]
AstraZeneca on the quest for perfect data
Case Study Failing to spot a problem with a dataset will throw the company's models off and lead to AstraZeneca workers working from reports that aren't in sync. With more than 300 separate databases, each with a possible 100... [04 Dec 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as a service by adopting Google Apps Premier Edition to improve mobility and flexibility for its workers. Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto... [10 Jul 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study It also allows greater collaboration between workers in the company by allowing them to view calendars to organise meetings, while the security has also been improved. The company worked with HP to move... [23 Jan 2008]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study In 2001, Baron initiated a review of operations to bring the council in line with central government guidelines on service delivery, based around how citizens wanted to be supported rather than the convenience of council... [06 Aug 2007]
Software gets Nasa back to the moon and Mars
Case Study Leonard said workers used to get tired of having to go through so many pieces of paper and thus made mistakes - but the online system makes sure the design documents are reviewed and tracked appropriately. [22 Jun 2007]
NHS procurement hub streamlines mobile suppliers
Case Study For the future Gooch plans to distribute T-Mobile phones to lone workers. The CPH represents NHS Primary Care and Acute Trusts across the east of England, and has a combined spend of £1.5bn. Due to the nature of their... [20 Jun 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study In 2003, the council held around 7,500 PCs, with 3,000 for office workers and the rest situated in its schools. Northumberland County Council (NCC) has slashed its PC maintenance bill by streamlining and outsourcing its... [11 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Drinks company Foster's is using virtualisation to save cash and improve disaster recovery for the company's mobile workers. Half of the 160 staff employed at the EMEA branch of Foster's are mobile... [11 Apr 2007]
Property managers bin BlackBerrys
Case Study Now workers who regularly go out into the field will be equipped with either an M600, an M30100 or a C600 Orange-branded HTC device and will have access to the core nuggets of their PIM (personal information management),... [06 Mar 2007]
BlackBerrys set legal beagles free
Case Study To make sure its employees could keep in constant contact with the offices and their clients, MacRoberts handed out BlackBerrys and 3G datacards to its mobile workers. Law firm MacRoberts has never looked back after... [15 Feb 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study The new system has proved fairly easy for workers to learn - after just a few months, the vast majority of users are comfortable with it and "can't imagine life without it", said Turner.... [28 Nov 2006]
University liberates users with business intelligence
Case Study The university hoped to empower workers with the new system. Roehampton University is using business intelligence tools to enable end users to independently and quickly analyse data. Before the switchover to the new BI... [13 Nov 2006]
Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge
Case Study Sunderland also plans to build on its current e-Champions project, where 95 volunteer workers are armed with laptops and sent out to communities considered difficult to reach, to encourage the take up of ICT. [01 Oct 2006]
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