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Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment And the idea that the government can effectively manage an IT project on this scale with five different suppliers, none of whom will actually be in competition, is farcical. I live in an urban environment but rarely get connections more than a... [29 May 2008]
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment Almost three-fifths of respondents are implementing a large-scale SOA, including web-enabling existing applications. These tools are useful in automating traditional code reviews and uncovering possible security issues so that they can be dealt... [20 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment But many eventually turn to outside specialists with managed print services because of the scale, complexity and escalating costs of printing. Most organisations simply do not know how much their print environment costs. [22 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment As a biometrics integrator on large-scale programmes, we understand biometric projects require exactly the same business case underpinnings as any other system deployment. I can categorically say that the deployment of biometrics in the airport... [28 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Whatever that cost, I'm certain that given the needs of online businesses and with the scale of the information flow there are major gaps in the handling of personal data. The other day we shipped a disk of information to one of the largest... [25 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Let's fast forward to the start of the industrial revolution before we invoke health and safety systems: no large-scale smelting of ores, no engines, no advanced tools or weapons, no wire, no mass-produced glass or anything else, and certainly no... [03 Oct 2007]
Why do public sector projects fail?
Comment Since differences or disputes are inevitable in relation to large-scale technology projects, mediation and adjudication - which exist as legal mechanisms for resolving disputes - should be more widely utilised. [24 Jul 2007]
Go real-time with your data
Comment With terabyte-scale databases readily available, the new generation of data warehouse appliances offer real benefits to organisations analysing large volumes of transactions - such as financial services and telecoms. [15 Mar 2007]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment A hosted solution offers them clarity in costs through subscription and the ability to scale so that they can grow their business while keeping the same platform. While hosted CRM service providers offer service levels, they are only able to do so... [02 May 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?
Comment At a simple level it might be the location for tracking, for example on the large scale the shipments of goods around the planet or on a small scale the precise location of valuable artefacts in a museum. [16 Mar 2006]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards - another reason to protest
Comment The history of government IT projects of this scale makes cost overrun a near certainty. Great classical composers would have had a hard time in this environment. Martin Brampton weighs in against national ID cards in the UK once again - this time... [29 Nov 2005]
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
Comment Some have pointed to the demise of several multi-billion-pound 'mega-outsourcing' deals recently as the death knell for large scale outsourcing. This is not just because right-sourcing requires a coherent, long-term procurement strategy but also... [31 Oct 2005]
Q&A: BT CTO Matt Bross
Comment The Welsh Development Agency and the ecosystem they have developed make it somewhere that trials of this scale have the highest chance of success. There are examples of this but not at this scale. It's a good environment for what we are doing. [22 Sep 2005]
IP poised to storm the call centre
Comment Consider that there are four million call centre agents around the world today and that post-2008 half of all spending will be on IP - and you see the scale of IP's success is impressive. As more proof of the scale of the BT project comes to light... [16 Feb 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simplify the basics
Comment The problem is that the exception is now the rule and any broad-scale change requires armies of technical staff on hand just to deal with these 'exceptions'. And it's got more difficult for us to understand this environment. [11 Feb 2005]
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