web services in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. It did change my perception of these kinds of services... [15 Jul 2008]
Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni
Case Study But what the 30,000-odd students at Birmingham University don't get to see as they update their MySpace page over a late breakfast or browse course modules during lectures, is the network infrastructure that lies behind this moveable... [18 Mar 2008]
Calor Gas smelling of tech success
Case Study Once this has been achieved, Went said there are other plans in the pipeline including service oriented architecture (SOA): "We will be looking perhaps to make more use of web services/SOA once we've got... [17 Mar 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study This year revenues should be in at £15m and the company is expected to grow that to £35m to £40m next financial year.beatthatQuote.com extended its channel late last year through offering white label services to other... [29 Jan 2008]
Wireless network boosts college options
Case Study The converged IP network, installed by Scalable Networks, allows students and staff at the college to access web-based services wherever they are. Hereward College, the national integrated college for... [04 Jan 2007]
Digital archive replaces paperwork at Lloyd's Register
Case Study This task was completed last year and now documents - including giant ship plans - are made available to surveyors, ship owners or other groups that need access to the data via a web portal. The organisation decided to... [02 Nov 2006]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study A couple of our services are available from web-based applications. Apacs, the UK's payments association, has signed a contract with outsourced services company Attenda to bolster its... [08 Aug 2006]
Paramedics treat patients with BlackBerrys
Case Study To do this, it used a software package called AppSwing, which delivers records on encrypted web pages to the BlackBerry message servers. We thought there would be a good return on investment over three years - and... [24 Feb 2006]
Alliance & Leicester brings intranet closer to staff
Case Study On the operational side, she said the upgrade has "taken away a layer of web publishers across the business". He also considers Percusion's experience with other financial services firms was a tick in... [11 Nov 2005]
Jewellery database helps to slash fraud
Case Study The system is now developing links to Microsoft Retail Management Solution (RMS), as well as other Microsoft staples such as the .NET web services environment and SQL Server database technology. Besides... [28 Jun 2005]
Health insurance giant opts for IT "heart transplant"
Case Study Health insurance provider HSA is working on a £10m IT "heart transplant" which will replace the core administration systems with a new web-based system. IT is a key competence in financial services - we... [23 Jun 2005]
Meadowhall retailers profit from warehouse tech
Case Study Hope said one of the features retailers like most is remote access via the web and a wireless (802.11g) system. The web access means both shop workers and the retailer's head office can log onto the... [15 Jun 2005]
Royal Mail tightens hacker defences
Case Study The postal service, which is starting to use more web-based business processes, has outsourced vulnerability and penetration testing to security company QinetiQ. He said vulnerability scanning on individual products was... [14 Jun 2005]
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