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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.

Tags: windows xp, council, leeds

[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...

Tags: savings, open source, media, platform

[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...

Tags: shared services, bpo, bt, saving

[05 Feb 2008]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study The budget for the entire project was less than £1m over two years. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Mark Zuckerberg

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[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.

Tags: case study, procurement, public sector

[11 May 2007]

Staffordshire councils save millions by joining forces

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". Ten local government agencies in Staffordshire have teamed...

Tags: staffordshire

[04 May 2006]

Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover

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. Cosmetics giant Coty has saved millions by using a...

Tags: soa

[26 Apr 2006]

Harvey Nics goes shopping for security

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...

Tags: harvey nichols

[17 Jun 2005]

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