project manager in case studies
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Richard Dawson, IT services manager at the council, said: "We found [the network] was being heavily underutilised in terms of performance. The IT department secured funding for the virtualisation... [08 Aug 2008]
E4 embraces web 2.0 audience
Case Study As project manager, Tatam found the agile development approach beneficial. E4 decided to upgrade its website at the beginning of 2007 and, once web developer ThoughtWorks was selected, started a six... [31 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer, Wickes. Clive Carter, IT Infrastructure manager of Travis Perkins, told silicon.com: "We bought Wickes in February 2005 and we needed to look... [20 Jun 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Gary Keogh, global programme manager at AstraZeneca, said: "We hadn't invested in the email system for maybe 10 years or more, so we needed a big, big replacement project. Global... [23 Jan 2008]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study Mothercare project manager John Kerr recalled that the organisation previously used a combined AS400 messaging and paper-based system. Kerr decided he wanted to use Triangle's Retail... [03 Jul 2007]
L'Oréal gets business planning makeover
Case Study Keith Mattocks, project leader of sales and marketing IT at L'Oréal UK, said the Excel-based business planning system was "huge and complicated". One account manager produced five scenarios for Asda in... [19 Feb 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study Mike Turner, business systems manager at Wolters Kluwer, said the challenge with considering a new software option was: "How would we build on this to give us a complete view of the customer? So far the... [28 Nov 2006]
University liberates users with business intelligence
Case Study Marina Lim, SIS project manager at Roehampton, said the old system required "complex" queries and ran just once a week. Roehampton University is using business intelligence tools to enable end users to... [13 Nov 2006]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study Gibbons said that 30 to 35 per cent of the costs of doing a project are associated with testing. It's much quicker to find and fix defects earlier in the project than in production," he said. The testing... [08 Nov 2006]
Sports council cuts hassle with blades
Case Study IT manager at the Sports Council for Wales, Simon Napper, told silicon.com: "The hardware we had was coming to the end of its useful life and it was getting harder for the support company to find spares, especially for... [01 Nov 2006]
Sage signs schools science supplier deal
Case Study Philip Palser, operations manager at Scientific & Chemical, told silicon.com the company was previously using Sage Line 500 as well as ACT from Sage, which created too much complexity for a growing company. [06 Sep 2006]
Hospital puts wireless at heart of tech plans
Case Study Another 500 access points will be needed to cover the majority of the buildings on site, and by 2008 the hospitals could have full coverage across the 80 acre site, according to IT manager Paul Duffy. [17 Aug 2006]
Data clean-up pays off for Business Link
Case Study Not-for-profit start-up advisory group Business Link for London (BLL) has saved £100,000 after embarking on a business intelligence project to clean up duplicate and incorrect information in the organisation's databases. [09 May 2006]
Staffordshire councils save millions by joining forces
Case Study Mike Loveless, programme assurance and technology manager for Staffordshire Connects, told silicon.com: "We started four years ago with 15 projects for e-government in Staffordshire. Although at first there were a few... [04 May 2006]
Newspaper cuts costs with mainframe migration
Case Study Express Newspapers development manager Simon Cohen explained: "The system controls getting our main product - the newspaper - from an editorial office to all the print sites around the world. From conception to final... [27 Feb 2006]
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