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Case Study Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC...
[28 Mar 2008]
Case Study Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative to share back-end business processes.silicon.com Public Sector The county council is responsible for social services, children's services and...
[05 Feb 2008]
Case Study An online benchmarking tool is helping Staffordshire County Council assess the skills of its IT staff in order to more effectively target training and help raise standards in accordance with a government push for increased IT professionalism in...
[24 Jan 2008]
Case Study Blackpool council has consolidated a number of citizen records databases to reduce IT costs by £2m a year. According to the council's assistant director for ICT, Phil Baron, prior to the upgrade the authority was plagued by a haphazardly built...
[06 Aug 2007]
Case Study Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy to reduce the council's power bills and deliver applications quicker. The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running...
[05 Jul 2007]
Case Study Northumberland County Council (NCC) has slashed its PC maintenance bill by streamlining and outsourcing its procurement. The council serves a population of 310,000 people between the borders of Newcastle and Scotland.
[11 May 2007]
Case Study The Sports Council for Wales has replaced ageing server and storage infrastructure and improved its disaster recovery capability to boot. IT manager at the Sports Council for Wales, Simon Napper, told silicon.com: "The hardware we had was coming to...
[01 Nov 2006]
Case Study Diane Downey, assistant head of ICT at Sunderland City Council told silicon.com the council is "trying not to target one particular group". Michael Edwards, deputy leader of Nottingham City Council, told silicon.com GameCity's aim was to "get...
[02 Oct 2006]
Case Study It's not really that difficult but there are council officials [in other areas] that are not as well-situated as Jiangsu or other more well-developed places. Dan Ilett explains what you need to know about this phenomenon as he visits a future park...
[06 Jul 2006]
Case Study Newcastle City Council has saved millions of pounds as a result of a massive IT overhaul which saw it move from mainframes into the modern era of technology. Ray Ward, CIO of Newcastle City Council, told silicon.com: "Most of our IT was centred on...
[15 Jun 2006]
Case Study Camden Council is making it easier to find information on its websites and intranet by installing Google search technology. The north London council has bought two Google Search Appliances to help users of its websites find their way through the...
[09 Jun 2006]
Case Study Loveless said the group wanted to focus on using IT to improve service requests - for example, asking the council to empty a bin or remove a wasp's nest from a public area. Ten local government agencies in Staffordshire have teamed up to share...
[04 May 2006]
Case Study Waltham Forest Borough Council in London is working through a major IT refresh programme, rolling out Novell's eDirectory and Groupwise 6.5 across its desktops and upgrading its network infrastructure.
[01 Mar 2006]
Case Study Alan Shields, ICT development manager for Cambridgeshire County Council told silicon.com: "In essence it's based on saving money. The council paid Vodafone £30,000 to link the BlackBerrys with the council's Anite Swift index database, which holds...
[24 Feb 2006]
Case Study Crawley Borough Council is giving the public better visibility of planning applications by allowing the public to view more information online. The council processes around 1,000 planning applications each year - which creates a huge amount of...
[08 Feb 2006]
Case Study The council decided it would save time and money by putting this online. The council decided to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for the publication scheme and Ciber UK to make it run on the website.
[04 Jan 2006]
Case Study Faced with difficulties recruiting high-calibre IT staff and a mandate to implement new technologies as part of the e-government scheme, Lichfield Council knew it was time to consider outside help to deliver IT services.
[14 Oct 2005]
Case Study Helens Council has saved £300,000 in hardware and software costs by switching its key applications from a mainframe to Windows and Unix servers. The council's ICT business manager Ste Sharples explained that the council had been an IBM OS390...
[07 Sep 2005]
Case Study Council house tenants are sending text messages to their local authority to request better housing. But this is not in protest - Ashford Borough Council has especially built a system to receive SMS messages when residents wish to move house.
[06 Jul 2005]
Case Study Councils in Suffolk are combining their infrastructures to cut costs and provide better services to customers - without pushing up council tax. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have created a joint venture with BT called...
[05 Jul 2005]
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