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Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Childnet CEO Steven Carrick-Davies said: "The purpose of the project was to promote the positive aspect of the internet and provide some balance to other messages out in the public perception. Internet awareness charity Childnet International has...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008

Case Study Preparations for the Beijing Olympics in August are nearly complete and for Atos Origin, it's the end of an IT project that has lasted nearly four years. Noblot said: "It's really an end-to-end project and as such, security has to be end-to-end as...

Tags: security, servers, infrastructure, olympics

[16 Apr 2008]

Calor Gas smelling of tech success

Case Study Another major integration project has been the rollout of 22,000 telemetry units on the company's bulk gas tanks, which are helping the company keep up to date on customer gas levels. Calor Gas has been using integration software to connect its...

Tags: telemetry, soa, integration, crm

[17 Mar 2008]

Scottish Re evaluates risky data

Case Study Scottish Re head of IT Andrew Wild was brought in to the company in the summer 2006, at the same time the project was kicked off. The project came in on time, despite a limited "business input" from the company which, at the time, was rationalising...

Tags: data mining, csc, insurance, life

[04 Feb 2008]

AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date

Case Study Global pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, has just completed a huge project to upgrade its ageing email system, helping the company reduce the number of servers it uses and save money. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in...

Tags: astrazeneca, migration, global, email

[23 Jan 2008]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study The technology the company came up with is so impressive, it was the clear winner of the CNET Networks UK Business and Technology Retail & Leisure Technology Project of the Year Award for 2007. Project 100X took two years to develop and was run...

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

[15 Nov 2007]

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth

Case Study Since this project was started, Philips has piloted expense management in collaboration with American Express Consulting for other global suppliers. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment...

Tags: travel, benchmark, american express, philips

[03 Oct 2007]

Blackpool saves £2m with contact management

Case Study The technology did not present any problems at implementation but Baron said the change of mindset was one of the biggest challenges of the project, with some departments unwilling to share their data.

Tags: council, crm, change management, bpo

[06 Aug 2007]

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. Mothercare has sped up communication times and boosted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns across stores by...

Tags: new look, bt, epos, retail

[03 Jul 2007]

Lloyds TSB banks on SAP SRM

Case Study The transition project was started in August 2006 and the system went live on time, towards the end of March. Lloyds TSB has rolled out a new e-procurement system which it hopes will reduce costs and make its overall procurement process much more...

Tags: savings, integration, procurement, sap

[12 Jun 2007]

RSPB wings it with virtualisation

Case Study If not, we will go through the cost-benefits of having a physical or virtualised server depending on what the project needs. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure using...

Tags: rspb, virtualisation

[04 Jun 2007]

Channel Five switches on to virtualisation

Case Study One array is dedicated to general content management - both internal and customer facing - and another for a data warehousing project for the new media being created. The broadcaster has been working with virtualisation specialists Equalogic and...

Tags: servers, storage, virtualisation, media

[22 May 2007]

Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker

Case Study The introduction of a new hardware OS was therefore a mission-critical project for the business said Michael Wheeler, finance partner at Redmayne-Bentley.silicon.com Financial Services Wheeler said: "It became a fairly major project - it was very...

Tags: migration, unix, open source, linux

[18 May 2007]

DFS reupholsters its financial system

Case Study Fortunately we achieved this very early on in the project which got the project off to a flying start. Furniture retailer DFS has integrated its finance and payroll operations into one system, making financial reports much easier to produce and...

Tags: dfs

[17 Apr 2007]

Isle of Man building for a tech future

Case Study The 'Connect Man' project, which was started in 2004, has now been completed with a full Multi-Protocol Label Switching network rolled out across the island. The Isle of Man has completed the rollout of an IP network that will form the foundation...

Tags: government, network, voip

[28 Mar 2007]

Deutsche Bank looks to Russia for 'Six Degrees' of CRM

Case Study Luxoft was chosen because of its ability to innovate and work on a project that started out small, with pretty interesting technology but a "roadmap that wasn't crystal clear", said Marovitz. As a result of the success of the project, Deutsche Bank...

Tags: deutsche bank, russia, crm

[16 Mar 2007]

L'Oréal gets business planning makeover

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". L'Oréal UK has buffed up its business planning and forecasting software to help it get the most out of...

Tags: forecasts, forecast, make up, cognos

[19 Feb 2007]

ING Direct completes mortgage IT push

Case Study Savings bank ING Direct has completed its largest tech project in the UK, using offshore developers to help with the introduction of its first mortgage product. He told silicon.com that the 18-month project was the largest programme the company has...

Tags: bank

[04 Jan 2007]

Publisher gets smart about marketing

Case Study So far the project has stuck to our schedule, goals and objectives," he said. Publisher Wolters Kluwer has invested nearly £1m in business intelligence tools that are increasing the effectiveness of its marketing campaigns.

Tags: business intelligence

[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 independently and quickly analyse data.

Tags: business intelligence

[13 Nov 2006]

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