german in comment and analysis
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment In terms of overall security, German organisations take the most proactive security stance among respondents and are the most advanced in terms of building security into the software applications that they develop. [20 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment While one German regional government body had a DBI of two, another one from the UK scored 30. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. But actually measuring how distributed a business... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed the codes used by the German Enigma machine. [20 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment At the top of that list sits data protection - the single most important legal issue by a wide margin, according to a recent Quocirca survey of 250 German, UK and US executives. Organisations are using identity management systems to cut the risk of... [18 Mar 2008]
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Comment As a result, consolidation is already happening with the creation of Equens, the merger of Dutch, German and Italian processors. Complex and far-reaching compliance regulations around the world are putting payment operations under intense scrutiny. [20 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came up with the idea of eternal recurrence. It's the idea of history repeating itself but for the stroky-beard brigade. [16 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Moving on, if you were to ask one of our German cousins if they know how old silicon.com turns today there is a very good chance they would get it right. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of the... [06 Jul 2007]
Steve Williams
CIO Profile Williams has a degree in economics and German and his career experience includes various IT roles at Mercedes-Benz, ICI, Viasystems and the Health Clinic. Steve Williams is head of IT at one of the UK's best-performing local authorities, serving... [06 Jun 2007]
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile Brannan also led the purchase of WorldPay, Grupo Santander's German card business and People Bank's cards division. An aggressive acquisition strategy that started at the beginning of the decade with NatWest has seen the Royal Bank of Scotland... [06 Jun 2007]
Ian Cramb
CIO Profile Cramb has a background in finance, joining Citigroup as a junior auditor in 1992 after graduating from the University of Durham with a degree in French and German. Ian Cramb is one of the rare IT leaders to climb the corporate ladder into a wider... [06 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Media merger mania
Comment I don't profess to be an expert in auto-makers but in 1998 the German-US tie-up I began writing about above, while a gamble, probably looked more of a sure bet than what we're seeing now in media and information services. [15 May 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What we can learn from the death of T-One
Comment Deutsche Telekom, German's number one telco, announced last week the death of its FMC service, T-One. Just as a wave of new converged fixed-mobile services are being announced in the UK, Germany's biggest telco has killed off its own FMC product. [27 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: SAP-Oracle news spreads
Comment Searching under "SAP + Oracle" in Google News now shows me (at latest count) 700 articles on the subject of Oracle bringing legal action against its German arch-rival. You'd think I'd be more aware than most about how news spreads these days across... [23 Mar 2007]
McCue Interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
Comment Alex Robinson, CIO at Norwich Union, however, is a literally bilingual CIO - fluent in English and French, pretty good at Russian and with a smattering of Finnish, Norwegian, German and Spanish thrown in for good measure. [27 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: Deutsche Telekom targets services
Comment The providers of the German system, via various JVs and subsidiaries, are Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems unit. This week, as I mentioned in my last blog, saw me in Germany. I was really interested to find out all about that country's road-charging... [02 Feb 2007]
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