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Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study We will recoup £50 per PC per year. But Microsoft has wheeled out two public sector customers who are both upgrading to Vista and happy with the benefits. Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public private partnership set up to maintain the... [30 May 2008]
Childnet helps parents get web savvy
Case Study The best solution was to distribute a CD-ROM through schools.copies have been distributed through schools and another 200,000 have been pre-loaded onto PCs sold through the PC World retail chain. Internet awareness charity Childnet International... [08 May 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC users to Windows XP was streamlined using Centennial Discovery (CD). Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated... [28 Mar 2008]
BlackBerrys juicing up work/life balance
Case Study The company has several flexible working methods, such as working from home and hotdesking, where staff in certain areas have no fixed desk or desktop PC, as well as wireless connectivity through BlackBerrys and laptops. [13 Jul 2007]
Durham college betters campus life with wireless
Case Study The college has already saved around £150,000 with the new IP network, as it requires less cabling, maintenance and PC management than the previous network. Durham's New College has rolled out a wireless and converged IP network which it claims has... [26 Jun 2007]
It's good to talk, says supermarket chain
Case Study The Ring2 service allows conference call organisers to control proceedings remotely through a PC or BlackBerry handset. Somerfield has reaped the benefits of improved communication flow by upping its use of conference calls, including improvements... [13 Jun 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study Northumberland County Council (NCC) has slashed its PC maintenance bill by streamlining and outsourcing its procurement. NCC IT director Peter Gallon said: "Like a lot of other local authorities, we had an ageing and varied PC estate. [11 May 2007]
Unilever scales an Iron Mountain
Case Study The Connected Backup/PC offering from Iron Mountain is currently being rolled out across Europe, and North and South America. Consumer packaged goods giant Unilever is rolling out automated back-up across its global operations to beef up its... [21 Aug 2006]
PCs turn to PC blades to improve reliability
Case Study A Welsh police force is using PC blades to increase reliability and security in its communications centre. IT services manager Aled Williams explained: "The new strategy and new building was the opportunity to look at what we could do with the... [18 May 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study Morning said he has spotted a tool that will allow deskside support remotely to a user's BlackBerry screen across the enterprise by simply connecting the device to a PC with a USB cable. With nearly 4,000 BlackBerrys across 75 countries and... [17 May 2006]
Insurer monitors staff use of PCs
Case Study The system monitors the behaviour of a PC and stores this information on a database which can be interrogated by IT staff. Insurer Royal London is testing security software which could allow its IT security team to monitor staff use of PCs. [07 Mar 2006]
Bank builds grid out of idle PCs
Case Study Platform said the PC grid could be extended out to 2,000 desktops, and the Symphony software will also be used with 500 servers to further boost BNP Paribas' processing capacity. French bank BNP Paribas is saving money by connecting idle desktop... [31 Jan 2006]
Lloyd's of London updates key system software
Case Study Lloyd's had previously been using software from Information Builders called PC Focus but as this package began to age it started looking for an alternative, and decided last year to upgrade to the same software company's WebFocus product. [20 Oct 2005]
Bank replaces desktops with PC blades
Case Study When Anglo-Dutch private banking group Insinger De Beaufort moved offices it also took the chance to replace its existing desktops with something much more cutting edge: PC blades. Bryant put in place a PC blade pilot scheme with half a dozen users... [30 Jun 2005]
Jewellery database helps to slash fraud
Case Study Getting less-than-tech-savvy jewellers, many of whom had never even touched a PC, to use the software was tough. When jeweller Chris Stevens came up with an idea for cutting down on fraud he eventually found himself with that rare but very... [28 Jun 2005]
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