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Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition

Case Study Finally Paleomylites hopes to be able to use the same profiling procedure to automatically determine which this cross-sell attempt should be made through: email, direct mail or pop-up window. beatthatQuote.com is one of the increasing numbers of...

Tags: financial services, experian, comparison sites, banking

[29 Jan 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study Global pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, has just completed a huge project to upgrade its ageing email system, helping the company reduce the number of servers it uses and save money. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in...

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

Rugby club scores with automated backup

Case Study The system is so precise it allows the club to restore anything down to an individual email without the disruption of having to restore an entire server. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data critical to...

Tags: rugby, back-up, asigra, data

[21 Jan 2008]

Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying

Case Study Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to help fight email bullying. Based in the west of London, the university is one of the main higher education centres in the city and uses a distributed email system.

Tags: bullying, email, brunel, college

[11 Jan 2008]

Monarch soars with Google search tech

Case Study The airline saw a significant increase in email queries following its introduction of online check-in earlier in the year and the tightening up of airport security last summer. As well as improving the site's search engine, the system also cuts in...

Tags: google, web services, airport, search

[03 Dec 2007]

How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

Case Study E is for Email As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software and network coverage...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

[27 Nov 2007]

Somerfield gets serious about wireless security

Case Study E is for Email Somerfield has undertaken a security audit on its wireless networks, leading to a less draconian security policy that allows the retailer's IT department to take full advantage of wireless technology in the future.

Tags: somerfield, security, wireless, stores

[05 Nov 2007]

BlackBerrys juicing up work/life balance

Case Study Campbell said: "Mobile solutions, like the BlackBerry, provide business users with the ability to communicate with ease from whatever location they find themselves in, without needing to locate access points or negotiate security systems to access...

Tags: standard life, blackberry, handheld, home working

[13 Jul 2007]

Tate makes e-bulletins an artform

Case Study Arts website Tate Online has tailored its email bulletins system to pull in more people to its websites and increase sales. Users can pick which email bulletins to receive based on their interests or geography - for example if they want to know...

Tags: lyris, tate modern, bulletin, email

[06 Jul 2007]

Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings

Case Study The council is currently running its email and printing systems over the virtualised environment and is now planning to move larger apps over to the virtual environment. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy...

Tags: virtual, virtualisation, virtualization, storage virtualisation

[05 Jul 2007]

NHS procurement hub streamlines mobile suppliers

Case Study E is for Email The East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub (CPH) has slashed its costs by streamlining its mobie phone contracts. The CPH represents NHS Primary Care and Acute Trusts across the east of England, and has a combined spend of...

Tags: procurement, norfolk, nhs, t-mobile

[20 Jun 2007]

NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance

Case Study It already had some tools in place to monitor its hardware estate but needed the technology to scrutinise shared applications such as its email or radiology systems. The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has started monitoring its...

Tags: software, nhs, health, nhs it

[20 Mar 2007]

Property managers bin BlackBerrys

Case Study Now workers who regularly go out into the field will be equipped with either an M600, an M30100 or a C600 Orange-branded HTC device and will have access to the core nuggets of their PIM (personal information management), namely contacts, calendar...

Tags: windows mobile, nelson bakewell, property management, microsoft windows mobile

[06 Mar 2007]

BlackBerrys set legal beagles free

Case Study David Murphy, director of IT at MacRoberts, said they decided to opt for BlackBerrys as access to email was one of the most important facilities for staff away from the office. Law firm MacRoberts has never looked back after dishing out BlackBerrys...

Tags: mobile working, blackberrys, lawyer, blackberry

[15 Feb 2007]

Wireless network boosts college options

Case Study E is for Email Hereward College, the national integrated college for disabled students, is hoping its newly installed wireless local area network (WLAN) will provide huge benefits to both students and staff.

Tags: vowlan, education, wlan

[04 Jan 2007]

New Star beefs up disaster recovery

Case Study Fund manager New Star Asset Management has beefed up its disaster recovery system at four international locations to protect its email service. It has also added email replication to the disaster recovery site from its offices in Dublin and from...

Tags: asset management, business continuity disaster recovery, disaster recovery

[15 Dec 2006]

Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK

Case Study and ‘email anywhere? This is surprisingly high, but may well indicate how important applications such as email anywhere have become. Networks (VPN), which is surprisingly high, but may well indicate how important applications such as email...

[07 Dec 2006]

Publisher gets smart about marketing

Case Study They can now figure out which products customers might be interested in and which formats - email, direct mail, telemarketing - are most effective. Publisher Wolters Kluwer has invested nearly £1m in business intelligence tools that are increasing...

Tags: business intelligence

[28 Nov 2006]

Arsenal FC emails get 'bouncebackability'

Case Study Arsenal football club has protected itself against costly email problems, which could in extreme cases jeopardise player transfers, by rolling out archive and restore software from CA. Paul Farmer, head of IT at Arsenal, told silicon.com that email...

Tags: arsenal, ca

[17 Nov 2006]

Vimto puts the fizz into document system

Case Study Execs are sent an email once per day reminding them of the electronic invoices they need to sign off in the system. The manufacturer of Vimto, Sunkist and Panda is saving £100,000 per year by consolidating its offices and installing electronic...

Tags: document management

[23 Oct 2006]

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