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Standard Life's virtual presentations mean real sales
Case Study However the WebEx software enables sales staff to share digital content from their desktop PC - including PDFs and PowerPoint presentations - with one or more clients while conducting a telephone conference call. [17 Mar 2009]
Leicestershire police save time with virtualisation
Case Study The force has installed Citrix XenDesktop on 200 Panasonic CF-19 ToughBook laptops to be used in conjunction with docking mounts in patrol cars, or demounted and taken into premises while 3G and GPRS provide the connectivity so officers... [11 Nov 2008]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study Each office has the same hardware, the same desktop, the same standards. It's not hard to see that the UK financial services landscape is changing in quite fundamental ways. While the specialised insurance market isn't... [09 Oct 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Other benefits have included improved wide area network performance and ease of desktop migration due to less data being held on each machine. He added: "Where we are now today, we have email that isn't tied down to your... [10 Jul 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Today the Swiss insurer outsources nearly half of its IT work, some managed application services are run by Accenture, CSC and Wipro, its network and telephony services by Orange Business Services (OBS) and managed... [10 Jun 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study It must be freeing up thousands of hours for our desktop PCs and servers. Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft... [28 Mar 2008]
Building a better intranet with Google
Case Study Taylor Woodrow already uses Google Earth to produce 3D models of its proposed constructions and plans to pilot Gmail and the business version of the Google Desktop app. Taylor Woodrow Construction has bolstered its... [16 Aug 2007]
BlackBerrys juicing up work/life balance
Case Study Billy Campbell, manager desktop services at Standard Life, told silicon.com: "Mobile working has enabled Standard Life to provide technology to staff to increase productivity by allowing them access to data which... [13 Jul 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study The authority extended the procurement programme - based around a three-tier standard build of desktop, laptop and tablet PC hardware supplied by Fujitsu Siemens Computers - to a fully outsourced service provided by... [11 May 2007]
Isle of Man building for a tech future
Case Study But with the 'Host Man' programme to install two new data centres to support the network and a complete refresh of the desktop computer infrastructure this began to change. The Isle of Man has completed the rollout of an... [28 Mar 2007]
Property managers bin BlackBerrys
Case Study He said: "The reason we chose Windows was we wanted a development front-end to match up to what people were used to on their desktop and have reduced time frame for development - that was big asking point for us - and it... [06 Mar 2007]
How to grow your own eco-friendly tech team
Case Study The charity has 250 desktop users on its Cisco network and 65 Epos units across the site. The eco-friendly stance of the Eden Project is also shaping the decisions made in its IT operations. Eden gets around 1.2 million... [13 Sep 2006]
Unilever scales an Iron Mountain
Case Study Tony Farah, head of global desktop strategy at Unilever, told silicon.com the Iron Mountain service will remotely back up data from the 30,000 laptops across Unilever's IT estate. Consumer packaged goods giant Unilever... [21 Aug 2006]
Newcastle City Council saves millions from IT overhaul
Case Study In the IT department, the new thin client system meant fewer IT staff were needed to support users' desktop PCs, and the fact the council was no longer developing its own software for the mainframe meant fewer developers... [15 Jun 2006]
London council improves search with Google
Case Study He said the council is also trialling the Google Desktop search. Camden Council is making it easier to find information on its websites and intranet by installing Google search technology. The north London council has... [09 Jun 2006]
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