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The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Speaking to silicon.com at his TfL office, Pavitt - recently voted one of the UK's top CIOs - says: "I was in a slight dilemma whether to completely retire or to do [the] typical CIO [thing] and become an allegedly qualified consultant and... [29 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment On the other hand, internet protocol security (IPsec) VPNs provide a level of network access that is comprehensive and offers an experience similar to being physically located in an office. On the one hand there are secure socket layer (SSL) VPNs... [25 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment Some 20 years ago I was running a series of experiments involving multiple home and office fixed and mobile devices. Being able to assume all is well across all work and domestic machines, data and applications would be a boon. [22 Jul 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. Laurie Heltsley, P&G Director of Strategic Projects, is responsible for various media-related initiatives across the organisation and reports direct to the... [19 Feb 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but all delivered on-demand via a web browser from one of Google's glistening data... [23 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of information back through the Windows management instrumentation (WMI) built into Windows, says David Solin, R&D solutions architect within the CTO's office at software vendor BMC. [10 Dec 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Granted, BT now has 104,000 staff compared with 130,000 in 1996 so its office estate is considerably smaller, and the telecoms provider is a major proponent of collaboration and conferencing tools instead of mile munching. [21 Sep 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment About two-thirds of that total investment - just over £200m - went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to replace the 17-year-old... [25 Apr 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment A number of high profile suppliers have emerged including WebEx, with its online conferencing service; Salesforce.com, which started out with CRM but has now created a whole new on-demand platform called Apex; and Google, which made its name in... [04 Apr 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment In addition, SAP's 'Duet' with Microsoft also promises to tie NetWeaver BI and analytic data to the Microsoft Office desktop, within the comfort zone of most business users today. Microsoft's BI strategy also extends to combining Office 2007 with... [01 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: Don't de-fang the Freedom of Information Act
Comment We, by the way, had one central department, the Home Office, deny an FoI request this year on the basis of time it would take - though other departments stumped up the same data, in that case about lost laptops. [18 Oct 2006]
Analysis: The way to security and compliance
Comment This is particularly important in the financial services industry where there needs to be a clear demarcation between front and back office activities, for example. Organisations worldwide are grappling with how to secure access to their... [04 May 2006]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment Analyst Forrester says many medium-sized businesses continue to seek an on-premise deployment rather than on-demand applications because many organisations of this size will only have one major office and will also have some IT administration... [02 May 2006]
Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
Comment It's simple and more office-like. If it becomes too much into the areas where it is critical for customers, then I think it is better that they rely on the office resources. Ask Henning Kagermann, chief executive of SAP, the world's largest... [18 Apr 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simple prescriptions for data headaches
Comment The solution is an implementation of the WebDAV standard, and enables users to open and save documents from industry standards applications such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite. However, for the true benefits of collaborative working to... [05 Apr 2006]
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