You are here: silicon.com > Tags

24 stories on

point

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni

Case Study Chris Lea, senior network specialist at the university, explains: "Instead of seeing a whole number of access points - potential connections for the client - [the client device] just see a single large, access point if you like or a single access...

Tags: wi-fi, security, birmingham, wired

[18 Mar 2008]

Calor Gas smelling of tech success

Case Study It's more efficient from our point of view. Calor Gas has been using integration software to connect its technology infrastructure and boost efficiency. The gas supplier serves around four million UK businesses and homes and has been using Tibco...

Tags: telemetry, soa, integration, crm

[17 Mar 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study The old system was becoming out of date from a support point of view. So users could be on either of the virtual systems and it would effectively, from their point of view, feel the same. The list from A to Z

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

Case Study At that point, one of NU's IT team tasked with taking this on to the next step asked several key questions, Lovick said, including - what's the world's biggest database? Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

[27 Nov 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.

Tags: new look, bt, epos, retail

[03 Jul 2007]

Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth

Case Study All of this needs to be recorded at the point of sale but most EPOS [electronic point of sale] systems can't cope with this level of complexity. Carpetright is rolling out a rip-and-replace solution to streamline its IT systems following an intense...

Tags: erp, microsoft, sap, epos

[25 Jun 2007]

It's good to talk, says supermarket chain

Case Study Heyes said: "I couldn't quantify the benefits we get from using conference calling, but since we have used it extensively, we have seen percentage point improvements in stock availability. Somerfield has reaped the benefits of improved...

Tags: retail

[13 Jun 2007]

St Paul's Cathedral upgrades shopping tech

Case Study St Paul's Cathedral Enterprises MD, Mark McVay, explained the cathedral's retail arm has used electronic point of sale (Epos) for 12 years, based on a DOS system which became too difficult to maintain.

Tags: epos

[09 May 2007]

Property managers bin BlackBerrys

Case Study He said: "The reason we chose Windows was we wanted a development front-end to match up to what people were used to on their desktop and have reduced time frame for development - that was big asking point for us - and it also simplified the world.

Tags: windows mobile, nelson bakewell, property management, microsoft windows mobile

[06 Mar 2007]

L'Oréal gets business planning makeover

L'Oréal gets business planning makeover

Case Study For instance, with the Cognos software, the national accounts team can develop sales and profit margin projections that are tailored to each customer's individual requirements, from their electronic point of sale (Epos) data - the list of which...

Tags: forecasts, forecast, make up, cognos

[19 Feb 2007]

How UCAS made its website a high achiever

Case Study A point will move from green to yellow once 6,000 concurrent users are active on the site, moving up to red for 6,500.silicon.com Public Sector The UCAS (University and Colleges Applications Service) website has developed considerably in recent...

Tags: university, testing, monitoring, website

[16 Feb 2007]

Cornish brewery drinks to mobile working

Cornish brewery drinks to mobile working

Case Study It is also looking at an 'ePod' electronic point of delivery project, which would see the drivers of its drays (delivery vehicles) equipped with handhelds. St Austell Brewery is speeding up decision-making and getting information to its sales team...

Tags: beer

[06 Sep 2006]

Hospital puts wireless at heart of tech plans

Hospital puts wireless at heart of tech plans

Case Study What we have to make sure is the technology is an enabler and not a sticking point. An anaesthetist doesn't have to go out to a central point to get their lab results and we've got that running in some theatres now and that's a fantastic benefit...

Tags: wireless

[17 Aug 2006]

Castle goes high-tech with IP

Castle goes high-tech with IP

Case Study Convergence has also seen the addition of a new electronic-point-of-sale system, which cuts out the need for staff to rekey data from the system into the company's accountancy package. Hever Castle was once home to Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn.

Tags: ip, case study, bt, convergence

[21 Jun 2006]

College uses PDAs for student registers

Case Study Most courses use PCs at some point, and the college has wireless coverage over 95 per cent of the main sites. A college in London's east end is using handhelds and electronic whiteboards to help kids stay in education longer.

Tags: pda

[08 Dec 2005]

Driving test examiners give digital pens green light

Case Study This form comes back to a central point at the DSA and is scanned into the agency's computer systems. The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) is trialing digital pen technology which is saving time for test examiners and getting licenses issued faster.

Tags: digital pen

[03 Nov 2005]

Environment Agency cleans up with CRM

Case Study From the cost and support point of view it's much more efficient than lots of different systems, she added. The Environment Agency is expanding the capabilities of its call centre and extending its use of customer relationship management (CRM...

Tags: environment agency

[29 Sep 2005]

Hasbro sorts its SOX with content management software

Case Study Elliott is also looking at automating some of the processes involved: "We have a retention policy that depends on lots of individuals following the policy - we'd like to get to a point where we can automate that.

Tags: hasbro, sox, compliance

[16 Sep 2005]

Broadband boosts building society's network

Case Study We wanted to be ahead of the game and we didn't want to get to the point where there were problems. Britannia Building Society has upgraded its network to broadband to cope with the increase in traffic created by the new applications it is rolling...

[02 Sep 2005]

'Electronic kitchen table' a hit for bank

Case Study From the customer's point of view we want to offer a service and the flip-side is we get data about customer behaviour. First Direct has integrated its account aggregation service with its customer relationship management systems to help it better...

Tags: first direct, case study

[15 Aug 2005]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: