make up in case studies
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study Before the work the council found its servers were running at around 10 per cent capacity, meaning there was significant scope to make more efficient use of the hardware. Dawson added: "It's simplified, it's more manageable, it's actually speeded... [08 Aug 2008]
E4 embraces web 2.0 audience
Case Study Channel 4's entertainment channel, E4, has overhauled its website to make it more web 2.0 friendly. The decision to make the site more community focused came after an experiment with MySpace around teen drama Skins, where characters communicated... [31 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study D is for Dial-up The company predicts it could save around £1m in terms of up front costs with each of the 1,800 licences costing just £25 per year for 25GB of storage. Ramsay said: "We had to make sure that as we adopted into the new mail... [10 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The company also needed to make its disaster recovery system more reliable and up-to-date. We were getting to the point where the computer room was filling up and things like our UPS, our generator, our air conditioning were all requiring some... [20 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study D is for Dial-up The project is aiming to give digitally excluded families a leg up onto the internet by installing thin client Windows PCs, complete with the MS Office suite, in their homes. But the hope is to turn the pilot into an ad-funded... [17 Jun 2008]
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. Pavitt explained: "We resell courses ourselves... [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 Rather telepresence has freed them up to travel more strategically - i.e.to locations where the company is looking to expand its business. Other benefits are that meetings can be set up in minutes, said Scott. [24 Apr 2008]
Pitney Bowes boosts efficiency with mobile worker app
Case Study The AMPower Service app from Antenna allows Pitney Bowes engineers to have real-time visibility of corporate systems via their PDA and to make updates from the field, rather than relaying the info to a call centre operative - the previous method... [08 Apr 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study He added: "So as we come up with new ideas about how we can increase efficiency and make the system work harder for us we can actually get in there and make those changes. LinkedIn CEO: On 'grown up' social networking [20 Mar 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study The wi-fi network would have cost more but the university was able to make a saving of £87,000 by reusing fibre freed up when the core network was recently upgraded from 8MB to 10MB, said Turnbull. Students at The University of Birmingham will soon... [18 Mar 2008]
Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study Once this has been achieved, Went said there are other plans in the pipeline including service oriented architecture (SOA): "We will be looking perhaps to make more use of web services/SOA once we've got those packages on board," he said. [17 Mar 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study The Carma 2.0 system from Reveal Media is used to store video and make it searchable, helping the force comply with the Management of Police Information (Mopi) government guidelines. The software flags up recordings more than 31 days old, deleting... [12 Mar 2008]
BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Phil Hawker, communications networks manager for BA said: "We're live and we're up and running. The testing involved up to 3,000 volunteers at a time passing through the check-in process including the bag drop and boarding... [08 Feb 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study Sign up for the PS newsletter today! In 2004, the councils decided to take advantage of funding from BT to set up a joint venture (JV) that would manage IT, supporting processes within both organisations, called Customer Service Direct (CSD). [05 Feb 2008]
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