international in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft... [15 Jul 2008]
Childnet helps parents get web savvy
Case Study Internet awareness charity Childnet International has produced an interactive learning resource for parents who want to know more about the internet, so that they can guide their children through it safely. [08 May 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study The contract Atos Origin has with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the largest IT contract in sport and Beijing will be the fourth games where the company has run the IT infrastructure - the first being the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt... [16 Apr 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament, which sees nations... [12 Mar 2008]
How tech drives the World Rally Championship
Case Study Speaking at Gartner's ITxpo in Cannes, Simon Long, managing director of International Sportsworld Communications, which owns the rights to and runs the WRC, said: "This is a sport that's incredibly hard to follow. [08 Nov 2007]
Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade
Case Study International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its communications network. Salter added the network saves the company time and money with international internal calls made across the IP network. [23 Aug 2007]
Engineers use their SaaS for recruitment
Case Study Engineering company Atkins has implemented software as a service (SaaS) to improve the international reach of its recruitment process. The overall cost per hire has been reduced by 60 per cent since the SaaS system was introduced because the... [25 Apr 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. The company is replicating Microsoft Exchange data between its Knightsbridge office and its disaster... [15 Dec 2006]
Cities rise to the £7m digital challenge
Case Study The city's international GameCity festival - held in the last week of October - was also part of the bid to engage digitally excluded families and communities.silicon.com Public Sector Ten councils are battling it out to win a £7m prize for... [02 Oct 2006]
China's future - a stroll in the tech park
Case Study There are hundreds at the moment as the owners fight to bring in business from Chinese and international companies. Ross Curtin, international business director for California Technology Park, says: "We're just starting construction on a Silicon... [06 Jul 2006]
Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover
Case Study Last July, the company, which owns cosmetics brands including David and Victoria Beckham, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rimmel, bought Unilever Cosmetics International for $800m, adding perfume licenses for brands including Calvin Klein to its portfolio. [26 Apr 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Aspen uses Verizon - the old MCI international network - on the other side of the Atlantic and for back up in Europe but says COLT could have equally been the winner of the bulk of the business if offices had been outside the Square Mile. [11 Apr 2006]
Newspaper cuts costs with mainframe migration
Case Study The publisher used Micro Focus and MSS International to help migrate from proprietary Unisys hardware and software, Cobol and a hierarchical database system to HP/Intel Xeon hardware running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft SQL Server. [27 Feb 2006]
Bank group cuts out software duplication
Case Study The group - which includes Clerical Medical Financial Services, Clerical Medical International and Halifax Financial Services - is using activesam asset management software from Monactive to ensure it doesn't buy more licences than necessary. [07 Nov 2005]
Stockbroker cuts paper chase with online ID check
Case Study The URU system asks prospective clients a series of questions and compares the information gathered to a series of databases including 38 million DVLA records, 33 million UK passport records and 5,770 million international population and mortality... [28 Jul 2005]
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