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LG Electronics Nordic AB Reduces Administration Costs by 50% With Integrated Web-Based System
White Paper LG Electronics Nordic AB worked with Explit AB to implement Oracle Database as a scalable platform for the company's cost control system in its marketing department and integrated different kinds of information with new... [01 Jul 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Zurich, one of the world's largest insurers, has revealed how outsourcing helped turn around its IT department and a $3.4bn loss. In 2003 Zurich Financial Service's sprawling IT department consisted of... [10 Jun 2008]
Lloyds TSB offshores 450 tech jobs to India
News Lloyds TSB will offshore up to 250 permanent and 200 contractor posts in the technical delivery department from the UK to India from June this year. The bank is considering outsourcing further jobs in the programme... [19 May 2008]
TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs
News Discount department store chain TJ Hughes has managed to save more than £10,000 in administration costs by using an email alerts system to communicate tasks to store managers. Exclusive Special... [14 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment Clouds vary in detail but all are designed to overcome capacity limitations, usually in the IT department. Others are services to the IT department such as email spam-filtering, for example. Exclusive... [09 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network... [09 May 2008]
Childnet helps parents get web savvy
Case Study The charity was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (called the DfEE at the time) to build the resource in 2006, as part of the educational programme 'Computers for Pupils'. [08 May 2008]
Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats
News A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials. Exclusive Special... [07 May 2008]
NHS cleans up keyboard act
News The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the Department of Health tech agency, Connecting for Health. Exclusive Special Report: CIO... [07 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse signs $200m Indian IT deal
News Post said aside from the obvious cost-benefit of using offshore services the deal also gives his IT department more flexibility in terms of tapping into resources. He said: "Carphone Warehouse is a business that has... [18 Oct 2007]
Are corporate networks wide open to abuse?
News In a recent silicon.com CIO Jury, two-thirds of the 12-strong panel of IT chiefs said businesses are failing to properly enforce AUPs because they are leaving it up to the IT department to do all the work - when in fact... [18 Apr 2007]
Co-op inks £100m extension to Xansa deal
News In a separate announcement Xansa's NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) joint-venture with the UK's Department of Health has been awarded a £19m deal to provide finance, accounting and payroll services to NHS Professionals... [02 Apr 2007]
Editor's blog: Rambling questions, tricky answers
Comment The payment department couldn't tell me what the outstanding balance was, while the benefits and tax department, which knew the balance, couldn't take payment. You can read more about how companies can... [07 Mar 2007]
India - the inside track on outsourcing
News But most importantly it will help to explain what all this means for your IT department and your business. And it's this success and its consequences for the UK that are the subject of silicon.com's Inside India... [05 Mar 2007]
Vista security got helping hand from US gov
News The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nist, had a similar role, the software behemoth said. Neither the NSA nor any of the other agencies, however, had a special... [10 Jan 2007]
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