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Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile Yasmin Jetha was appointed CIO for the Financial Times (FT) in January 2006, where she is responsible for IT services, as well as procurement and purchasing functions. Her main role is to ensure the FT.com website is available 24/7 and to maintain... [11 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment Uncoordinated procurement is not only time consuming but also costly because it reduces purchasing power and complicates service control. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window. [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up According to Gartner, end users' preferences will soon account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up. [18 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment Place I worked at - the 'Purchasing/Contracts/Legal' departments took a cheap contract, made cheaper as they accepted a condition that the 'environment' would not be changed over the life of the project. [10 Apr 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment But this tends to affect those on more formal licence agreements or in more affluent areas, whereas for qualifying governments purchasing Windows-based PCs, Partners in Learning provides a full stack of Windows XP Starter Edition, Office Home and... [07 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment What kind of a world would that be and how soon would we change our purchasing habits, or get our toolkits out? Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. [05 Feb 2008]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment That's where it starts to break down because many times companies identify themselves by some unique business processes or some unique way they do pricing or purchasing or manage their inventory. Big complicated and expensive enterprise resource... [01 Oct 2007]
Leader: Videoconferencing stepping up a gear
Leader Expect an invite, if you have a say over purchasing such a service/product at one of the country's biggest companies. It's here right now. In tech, how often have we heard such claims? How often does the reality live up to the hype? [24 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Laptop error
Comment It turns out that getting out of this correlated purchasing loop is expensive and the only route is to buy yet another new machine to break the cycle. Written in a coffee shop in Seoul and despatched to silicon.com via a really fast, and I mean... [04 Sep 2006]
Leader: Listen to SMEs
Leader As part of the report, analysts at Quocirca pointed out that SMEs do indeed have unique habits - including who makes IT purchasing decisions (usually an FD or MD) and the fact they're unlikely to purchase pricey analysts' reports. [20 Jul 2006]
SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Comment Newtel began purchasing Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server edition from Red Hat partner Abtech Computer Services in 2004 with 29 Red Hat Enterprise Server licences. Small businesses can benefit from switching to open source, says Danny Bradbury - just... [11 Jul 2006]
IT suppliers: Size does (and doesn't) matter
Comment Alan Brown, director of information management and technology at West London Mental Health Trust, said: "I am comfortable using [small suppliers] within my IT purchasing strategy provided I know and have assessed the risk. [06 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How Linux is hurting Microsoft
Comment For example, an application can be developed to run on the JBoss application server, and it is only when it comes to deployment time that the purchasing department becomes aware of the need to buy a supported version. [12 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight delete
Comment So we tried cannibalising the pair to make one good unit - but without success and we had to resort to purchasing two enclosures to reinstate two of the four. Written at home after a few frustrating hours trying to recover from a dual hard-drive... [03 Jan 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile email - get it right
Comment On top of their email, workers need access to those confidential files and databases built up over many years of bespoke public sector IT purchasing. Mobile email shows plenty of promise but will be an expensive, messy failure unless organisations... [21 Dec 2005]
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