development support in case studies
Danone on health kick with Itil
Case Study Danone has improved the management and development of its IT infrastructure after implementing an IT infrastructure library (Itil) framework. Until a few years ago, the food manufacturer operated a fairly localised IT and support infrastructure... [30 Jul 2008]
Carphone Warehouse's 'bumpy road' to outsourcing success
Case Study From 2006 to date, the company has outsourced an increasing number of services, including software development and testing, product and incident management, some infrastructure support and a limited amount of IT consultancy. [28 May 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study The organisation has been using a pre-release version of SQL Server 2008 to run mission-critical applications for the F1 team's testing and development work and will also use it at races once the season starts. [03 Mar 2008]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study Gordon Perry, IT director at TalkTalk Direct, said it was clear that the company's old servers, installed three or four years ago, could not support business growth. With the switch to the new servers Perry said the company is on course to save... [11 Oct 2007]
Supercomputer boosts brain research
Case Study The team has been using the supercomputer for 10 months to support its neuro-imaging and data analysis research. As the MRI tech is able to scan the whole body, the engineering department has been able to use it in the development of a new... [14 Jun 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study These applications are backed up to a central library at a secondary site from where they can be restored for disaster recovery or testing and development purposes. Courtney added this technology has provided significant benefits in terms of... [04 Jun 2007]
British Energy lights up with SOA
Case Study The move to SOA has forced the company to change the way it thought about the development and management of business services and IT operations. If you're not careful, added flexibility can result in greater complexity and create a support burden... [02 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. Connect Man - along with the development of the government website - was... [28 Mar 2007]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study The testing software gets regular use, Peter Bates, Friends Provident development support manager, added: "We might have ecommerce delivering every two months but there will be other projects. We were looking for a test management product that we... [08 Nov 2006]
Great Ormond Street Hospital overhauls IT
Case Study The donations will help the world-famous paediatric hospital to modernise its facilities, treat 20,000 more young children, buy vital up-to-date equipment and support pioneering research. Saldanha said: "This software will affect any kind of... [07 Sep 2006]
Halfords cuts costs with IT revamp
Case Study When the company was acquired by CVC Venture Capital Partners from Boots, the race was on to move the company's systems off the ageing mainframe which couldn't support its growing online business, or multi-buy promotions. [30 Aug 2006]
Insurer slashes servers down from 100 to just six
Case Study The company started with a proof of concept, moving its Windows-based development, testing and user acceptance testing environment over to the VMWare ESX environment. What we decided we needed was a single box configuration for development/test... [26 Jul 2005]
Coventry Uni picks Microsoft over Novell's Netware
Case Study It will provide faster log-in for users and greater levels of resilience, and puts in place the infrastructure to support single sign-on and remote working by staff and students. Rather than just sending staff to training courses, Bruce was keen... [18 Jul 2005]
Software helps agency hit FOI target
Case Study The agency prepares the Mayor's business plan for London and invests more than £300m in projects to support the creation of new jobs and the development of new communities. The London Development Agency (LDA) is using content management software to... [20 Jun 2005]
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