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Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment From studying several leading-edge companies and helping dozens of others improve their IT organisations, the answer is a structure that captures the benefits of both centralisation and decentralisation but does not force management to choose one... [09 Apr 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News Gavin Whatrup, group IT director for advertising and marketing agency Creston, said a centralisation strategy in IT may lead to an increased capital expenditure in the short term, but he added the long-term picture is to reduce spend. [17 Dec 2007]
Specialist Consultant Helps IT Company Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Services
White Paper With the ESC, EDS initiated the centralisation and consolidation of the existing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 infrastructure and enhanced the services provided in various sites. Employees at the Europe, Middle East, and Africa division of... [05 Nov 2007]
Mobile working: Get a strategy, businesses told
News Butler Group said many remotely accessed apps are mission-critical to businesses but IT managers face issues with centralisation and manageability, poor performance, reliability and security. As the trend for flexible and remote working marches on... [03 Oct 2007]
Three steps for successful IT outsourcing
News And while this may seem like an obvious step, Forrester found companies are failing to analyse the degree of IT centralisation and the role of IT in the overall performance of the business before picking an outsourcing option. [02 Oct 2007]
SICK AG - On Its Way to Information Lifecycle Management
White Paper It needed centralisation for its entire globally-operative corporate group, which had large volumes of data. SICK AG had a highly complex heterogeneous storage environment which had associated high costs. [12 Dec 2006]
Brampton Factor: NHS IT - can this project be saved?
Comment With ever increasing centralisation, data becomes the property of faceless bureaucrats. Martin Brampton tallies up the organisational and financial missteps that have put the NHS IT overhaul in dire straights - and surveys what solutions could be... [19 Sep 2006]
NHS IT "sleepwalking towards disaster"
News A paper by Bacon and Pugh says the problems with CfH are a consequence of "over-centralisation, over-ambition and an obsession with quick political fixes" and they are now calling for the programme to be decentralised and for more control to be... [11 Sep 2006]
Dundee City Council Chooses IBM System z9 Business Class
White Paper The Council wanted to consolidate servers and reduce software licensing costs; introduce full disaster recovery capabilities; make more effective use of IT budget through centralisation of resources and management. [23 Aug 2006]
Fire service to get £350m Airwave emergency radio system
News Procurement of a digital communications network for the fire service has been delayed until now because of an ongoing row about the centralisation of fire service control rooms. The Fire and Rescue Service has awarded a £350m contract for a new... [31 Mar 2006]
Council targets £1m savings from Microsoft desktop deal
News The enterprise-wide licensing deal with Microsoft is part of wider standardisation and consolidation initiatives at the council following the centralisation of Staffordshire's four separate IT functions at the beginning of the year. [25 Oct 2005]
O2 wins £390m deal for ambulance digital radios
News The rollout of a £2.9bn Airwave network for police forces in England, Scotland and Wales was completed on time by O2 earlier this year but the procurement of a digital communications network for the fire service has been delayed because of an... [19 Jul 2005]
Server Streamlining
White Paper Server consolidation is the centralisation of resources into a unified management approach. It can range from client desktop applications to corporate data centres, bringing together applications, databases and services. [10 May 2005]
RAC software development motors to India
News The restructure will also see the centralisation of the business systems operation, which currently employs around 125 staff, consultants and contractors across sites at Bescot in Walsall and in Bristol. [22 Feb 2005]
CARA Group Deploys Business-Critical Applications for AIB Capital Markets Worldwide
White Paper It was this constant demand for new applications, centralisation of IT functions and higher system performance, which led AIB Capital Markets to choose a Thin Client Solution. In today's information-based economy, achieving and maintaining a... [26 Jan 2005]
