budget and in case studies
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study Around £2.7m of the college's £9m IT budget has been earmarked for audiovisual technology with interactive electronic whiteboard planned for all 150 classrooms. The new building will bring together four existing campuses and the use of technology... [02 Jul 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Today, Zurich's IT department manages a budget of more than £1.8bn, more than 200 projects and 3,600 outsourced staff. Zurich, one of the world's largest insurers, has revealed how outsourcing helped turn around its IT department and a $3.4bn loss. [10 Jun 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study The council now also has complete visibility of its IT estate, enabling Wright to budget for and carry out software asset management in a much more efficient manner and to monitor its software licensing. [28 Mar 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Using the Nuxeo technology also provides costs savings as PA doesn't pay a licence fee but uses its budget to develop the platform to suit its needs. Press Association (PA) is moving to an open source platform for its editorial content management... [20 Mar 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study In terms of budget, Suffolk County is about £1bn per year and Mid Suffolk is around £10m per year. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative to share back-end business processes.silicon... [05 Feb 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study The budget for the entire project was less than £1m over two years. Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. [15 Nov 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study 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, which was running at about £300,000 a year. [11 May 2007]
Staffordshire councils save millions by joining forces
Case Study Although at first there were a few teething problems, Loveless said they were to be expected given the scale of the project and that overall it came in under budget, though "slightly late". Mike Loveless, programme assurance and technology manager... [04 May 2006]
Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover
Case Study By merging the companies, Berry said he has saved $7m off the IT budget, and using the SOA approach has saved money too: "I think it will cost half what it would have cost traditionally," he said. Last July, the company, which owns cosmetics brands... [26 Apr 2006]
Harvey Nics goes shopping for security
Case Study Smith would not share the value of the deal - but did say securing budget for IT is never easy when directors are more interested in selling clothes than securing computers. Retail chain Harvey Nichols has started using internet content security... [17 Jun 2005]
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