strategy in case studies
Expedia's got no reservations on hotel analytics
Case Study Given a choice between slicing and dicing search results to find the perfect hotel or just trusting the judgement of an online travel agent, most consumers will pick the latter, according to Dan Lynn, Expedia's director of... [31 Oct 2008]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study Along with this shift in business strategy was a move away from the 'old school tie' approach to insurance, opening the company up to a wider talent pool in terms of recruitment and career progression and to new ideas in... [09 Oct 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study Oaklands has worked with IT services company, Computacenter, to form the technology strategy and plan its new IT network. Oaklands College near St Albans is planning to offer its students the best in high-tech learning... [02 Jul 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Zurich CIO Michael Paravicini said that there was no global IT strategy and that its outdated infrastructure relied on too many data centres and incompatible software platforms, with 30 different claim systems in place. [10 Jun 2008]
Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study He added: "We've used Tibco for about four years now to do our integration as part of our middleware strategy and we haven't used the web services-SOA approach at all really. Calor Gas has been using integration software... [17 Mar 2008]
Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs
Case Study It says Waas will help boost the company's strategy to double in size and revenue by 2010. A shipping services and cargo company that looks after the US Navy and Shell is hoping for massive CO2 and cost reductions by... [21 Feb 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study BT's role in the deal was to invest £52m into the councils' infrastructures, paying for replacement network and server infrastructures and implement a business continuity strategy. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk... [05 Feb 2008]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study As part of that strategy, it signed a deal to take travel services through SkyTeam, a global airline alliance of nine members - Aeromexico, Air France, Alitalia, Continental Airlines, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines,... [03 Oct 2007]
Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings
Case Study Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy to reduce the council's power bills and deliver applications quicker. The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50... [05 Jul 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study Carpetright is rolling out a rip-and-replace solution to streamline its IT systems following an intense period of growth. The retailer, which operates 600 stores across Europe and employs 3,500 staff, had acquired a number of different... [25 Jun 2007]
Lloyds TSB banks on SAP SRM
Case Study Mark Swyny, service and systems director of group procurement at Lloyds TSB told silicon.com: "The system strategy (SRM) is one strand. Lloyds TSB has rolled out a new e-procurement system which it hopes will reduce... [12 Jun 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study The strategy was in line with the authority's strategy of centralising all of its IT systems. Northumberland County Council (NCC) has slashed its PC maintenance bill by streamlining and outsourcing its... [11 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Half of the 160 staff employed at the EMEA branch of Foster's are mobile workers and the virtualised environment has enabled the company to buff up its disaster recovery strategy, in particular if something goes wrong... [11 Apr 2007]
Property managers bin BlackBerrys
Case Study The move is part of a major overhaul of its corporate mobility strategy. Property management company Nelson Bakewell has ditched BlackBerrys in favour of Windows Mobile-based devices. It means smart phones replace a... [06 Mar 2007]
How UCAS made its website a high achiever
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Steve Harrop, strategy and planning manager for digital services at UCAS, said: "We've certainly learned to understand what [the] infrastructure can deliver through load testing. [16 Feb 2007]
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