london in case studies
NHS brushes up on Itil
Case Study However, getting so much training on the south coast was tricky, as Pavitt said there are no large training companies located there - and she was keen to avoid everyone having to travel up to London. NHS IT delivery organisation Sussex Health... [11 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public private partnership set up to maintain the infrastructure of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines in London are both part-way through their respective Vista upgrades.silicon.com... [30 May 2008]
Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel
Case Study Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit in London, Steve Scott, director of technology services at Pearson, which deployed Teliris' immersive videoconferencing system around seven years ago, said the key business... [24 Apr 2008]
VoIP a perfect fit for Gieves and Hawkes
Case Study The tailor, which has a history dating back to the late 1700s, has 25 outlets in the UK and a flagship store in Savile Row, London. Bespoke tailor Gieves and Hawkes has moved over to a VoIP link between its two back offices to improve customer... [15 Apr 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study Speaking at the London launch of SQL Server 2008, van Manen said: "You need to be able to deal with a large amount of data and present it to the user. McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as it prepares for the... [03 Mar 2008]
Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts
Case Study The London publishing house, which has printed classic authors from TS Eliot to WH Auden, found hundreds of thousands of unlicensed fonts on their machines using software from Monotype Imaging. The haul could have cost hundreds of thousands if left... [22 Feb 2008]
Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs
Case Study Waas allows information that was previously processed and stored on hundreds of local servers to be dealt with at ISS' single data centre based in London. A shipping services and cargo company that looks after the US Navy and Shell is hoping for... [21 Feb 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study 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. Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to help fight email bullying. [11 Jan 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Even with a traditional betting engine, Betfair processes five million transactions per day - much more than the London Stock Exchange's transaction processing system is capable of. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [15 Nov 2007]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study The bet broker and clearing house, based in London's Canary Wharf, was launched in 2003 and offers punters one account to access all the markets and the best available prices for any sporting event without the need to manage a range of accounts... [19 Sep 2007]
Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade
Case Study The legal firm moved from six offices to a single London-based building in May this year and needed to consolidate its communications network. International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its... [23 Aug 2007]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study Speaking at a recent event in London, Andrew Gordon, technical infrastructure manager at Standard Life, explained how the company had been keen to improve its IT services without recruiting additional staff or incurring greater costs - meaning... [11 Jul 2007]
Tate makes e-bulletins an artform
Case Study Users can pick which email bulletins to receive based on their interests or geography - for example if they want to know only about London-based galleries. Arts website Tate Online has tailored its email bulletins system to pull in more people to... [06 Jul 2007]
Visit London gets 'WebTrendy'
Case Study Tourism group Visit London has received a significant boost in website traffic following changes made using intelligence gained from web analytics. London's visitor and marketing agency has been working with WebTrends since the beginning of 2006 to... [21 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study Speaking at a roundtable event in London, Channel Five CIO, Ken Davis, said: "The ecology and framework for media is changing - we're in a time of great flux. Channel Five is revamping its IT infrastructure by embracing virtualisation as it adjusts... [22 May 2007]
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