user in case studies
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study The running costs per user (excluding the initial hardware) for the managed service are small - around £2 per week - and in future Kehoe envisages an ad-funded model being able to support service provision, with public sector organisations such as... [17 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows... [30 May 2008]
Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed
Case Study Unlike conventional user acceptance testing tools, which report an aggregate of user behaviours, the Tealeaf software captures every movement the customer makes on the site, giving a much richer impression of their experience. [09 May 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study Speaking at the London launch of SQL Server 2008, van Manen said: "You need to be able to deal with a large amount of data and present it to the user. McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as it prepares for the... [03 Mar 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study Rotherham PCT IT infrastructure manager Derek Stowe said the organisation was already using business recovery systems from Quest Software, which identified a discrepancy between the number of user accounts and the number of employees listed on the... [25 Jan 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study The average interruption of service was just 15 minutes per user and when the migration was in full swing, around 2,000 mailboxes were being migrated overnight. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in around 60 countries - HP's... [23 Jan 2008]
ICI takes the plunge with WLAN
Case Study He added that ICI held off implementing a WLAN due to concerns that it wouldn't be sufficiently transparent to the user or automatically secure. Simmonds said: "It's provided a very user-friendly experience for our users, coupled with a secure... [10 Oct 2007]
Cambridge Uni keeps tabs on web traffic
Case Study During this process, online access to the university network was made available to the entire student population, meaning the user-base jumped from around 150 staff to 20,000 people. The University of Cambridge is using network management software... [05 Oct 2007]
BlackBerrys juicing up work/life balance
Case Study Recent research from RIM found an average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day and ups their overall team efficiency by 38 per cent. Standard Life has increased productivity and improved its staff's work/life... [13 Jul 2007]
Visit London gets 'WebTrendy'
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Jeremy Willmott, user experience and design manager at Visit London, said: "What we saw was we could do a lot more [with the site].silicon.com Retail & Leisure Tourism group Visit London has received a significant boost in... [21 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study Coggon said the flexibility of the Hitachi-based infrastructure also means once an application has been developed within tier three, it can be easily moved up or down the tiers once it is ready for user acceptance testing or going to production. [23 Apr 2007]
NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance
Case Study The Trust is using NetIQ AppManager to monitor the running of its IT services from an end-user perspective and measure application performance. Chilton said: "Being in a centralised data centre, our perception of how things are ticking over and... [20 Mar 2007]
Property managers bin BlackBerrys
Case Study If the user is out of reach of the network, the information is stored and transmitted as soon as connectivity makes it possible. Property management company Nelson Bakewell has ditched BlackBerrys in favour of Windows Mobile-based devices. [06 Mar 2007]
Southampton FC tackles internet security
Case Study The system works by applying user-specific policies to govern internet access through the club's firewall.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Southampton Football Club is protecting its web users and IT network with an internet filtering system. [08 Jan 2007]
Arsenal FC emails get 'bouncebackability'
Case Study The automated archiving element of the service is intended to pick up the shortfall which results from user behaviour, said Farmer. Arsenal football club has protected itself against costly email problems, which could in extreme cases jeopardise... [17 Nov 2006]
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