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College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study The college network will serve as a platform for e-learning and audio visual tools as well as a high-tech building management system to create an "intelligent building". Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to offer its students the best in... [02 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study To solve these issues, Travis Perkins worked with IT services company Logicalis to refresh its technology infrastructure on an HP platform. Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much... [20 Jun 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Press Association (PA) is moving to an open source platform for its editorial content management system (CMS) to take advantage of flexibility and cost benefits. The national news agency for the UK and Ireland started working with the Nuxeo Open... [20 Mar 2008]
National Carphones dials in to SaaS
Case Study Bringing all of these onto one platform has made life much easier for the company’s customer-service staff. National Carphones is using on-demand CRM software - software as a service (SaaS) - to help boost its growing business. [13 Mar 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study Pemble said: "The biggest benefit is having a platform we can completely rely on. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament, which sees nations battling it out in the biggest annual team competition in sport. [12 Mar 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study The new email system was designed by HP Services and Microsoft based on the Exchange 2003 platform. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in around 60 countries - HP's biggest ever migration project - onto a new bespoke email... [23 Jan 2008]
Law firm beefs up search power
Case Study The firm has been using Recommind's MindServer search platform since last October to help its global employees access and manage information both within and outside the organisation. European law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has improved... [18 Jan 2008]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study American Golf finance director Ged Gould told to silicon.com that previously the head office ran its retail systems, mainly controlling sales and distribution data, on the Navision platform. American Golf has upgraded and integrated its store and... [14 Sep 2007]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study Kerr knew he needed a more integrated system but waited until the retailer updated its electronic point of sale (Epos) system in February 2006, so he had a more advanced platform at store level on which he could build one. [03 Jul 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study Mike Courtney, senior systems engineer at the RSPB, said virtualisation has helped the RSPB develop a flexible and scalable platform to manage its back-up and restore process. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up its... [04 Jun 2007]
Concert hall makes sure callers don't sing the blues
Case Study Woods installed an IP call routing system based on Avaya's 8720 platform, which was up and running by March this year. Home of the Proms the Royal Albert Hall (RAH) has updated its call centre systems to make sure music fans don't get left hanging... [30 May 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study The Leeds-based company moved onto a Linux-based platform last year after deciding an open source environment was the right choice for its growing business in a rapidly changing regulatory landscape. The new platform has also reduced the time to... [18 May 2007]
Engineers use their SaaS for recruitment
Case Study The company chose a SaaS platform because it is quick to implement - with the Stepstone-based system working within the three-month milkround deadline - and there is no need to own, manage or operate the technology in-house. [25 Apr 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study Martin Gill, head of new media at Comic Relief, told silicon.com: "All those things - supporting what [the users are] doing, doing our own stuff or giving them applications where they can provide a bit of information about themselves and get tools... [15 Mar 2007]
Small and Medium Enterprise Business Communications in the UK
Case Study the ability for businesses of all sizes to gain improved business efficiencies and possibly effectiveness from a common communications platform. Demand for new products and services, including unified communications [07 Dec 2006]
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