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AstraZeneca on the quest for perfect data
Case Study SAS] allows us to report more flexibly than any of the other tools we have… and the added benefit is, when we're analysing things in SAS, the folks writing in SAS code are also aware of some of [the] data issues that the general report... [04 Dec 2008]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study Some of our products require us to hold personal data, including health records, for a specified amount of time. It's not hard to see that the UK financial services landscape is changing in quite fundamental ways. [09 Oct 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study There are also plans to use electronic swipe cards across the campus to access the building but also to automate collection of attendance records. Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to offer its students the... [02 Jul 2008]
Scottish Re evaluates risky data
Case Study Scottish Re receives anywhere up to 350,000 records per month pertaining to the individuals, or 'lives', being insured. Reinsurer Scottish Re Group has introduced an electronic data interchange (EDI) system for its... [04 Feb 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has improved network security using integration software to match staff records with systems access.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [25 Jan 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study It allows the club to protect its vast amount of sensitive and critical data, including video analysis of matches for researching the opposition's tactics and training the players, retail data from the two stadium shops, emails, all... [21 Jan 2008]
Cambridge Uni keeps tabs on web traffic
Case Study He explained that the software was brought in around a year after the rollout of Oracle/PeopleSoft Campus Solutions across the university which replaced the old, centralised student records system. The University of... [05 Oct 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study Blackpool council has consolidated a number of citizen records databases to reduce IT costs by £2m a year. According to the council's assistant director for ICT, Phil Baron, prior to the upgrade the authority was plagued... [06 Aug 2007]
University liberates users with business intelligence
Case Study Before the switchover to the new BI software, the university was constrained in the type of reports it could create from various databases holding student records, timetable information, financial data, course curricula... [13 Nov 2006]
Police crack down on dodgy data
Case Study It is using a software package - the Informatica Data Quality package - to standardise data across its crime and vehicle systems, and make sure its records are accurate and up to national quality standards. [09 Nov 2006]
Digital archive replaces paperwork at Lloyd's Register
Case Study We used to have crates of paperwork piled up all over the office but now we only see about 10 per cent of the drawings and the rest is to records for scanning," Neasham explained. Lloyd's Register has replaced crates of... [02 Nov 2006]
Sage signs schools science supplier deal
Case Study He said: "The switch has made information far more visible and created greater transparency across the business," adding office staff can now more quickly access customer records and move across various account functions... [06 Sep 2006]
Cornish brewery drinks to mobile working
Case Study It also has 40 users of its sales application which allows staff on the road to get quicker access to customer records. St Austell Brewery is speeding up decision-making and getting information to its sales team on the... [06 Sep 2006]
Paramedics treat patients with BlackBerrys
Case Study Paramedics are using the mobile messaging devices to access social records, so they can see if a patient has any allergies, find out which medication they are taking or get details of their next-of-kin. [24 Feb 2006]
London borough frees up access to its info
Case Study At the start of 2004 Kingston - and every other public sector organisation - had to make records available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Royal Borough of Kingston has increased the amount... [04 Jan 2006]
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