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RSS farmingHow Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR's move to Google Apps is the company's first step towards simplifying the IT infrastructure it runs in-house and farming out more of its IT services to outsourcers and cloud providers. Following its sale by parent... [26 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet The market has evolved and today business process outsourcing - where an entire function such as HR, finance or customer service is outsourced to a third party - has become a multibillion-dollar market while a relatively new offshoot... [11 Sep 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News He could have been farming for personal information like email addresses and phone numbers. The teenager who takes credit for the worms that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a web application development... [20 Apr 2009]
Dell CEO: On "steady" PC demand and farming in China
News Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell appeared optimistic about the PC market during a speech on Thursday, with high hopes pinned on the Chinese market. Speaking about the global market, he said during his speech in China: "Week on week, the... [27 Mar 2009]
Thin clients find slim pickings at Defra
News Minister for farming and the environment, Jane Kennedy, revealed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had decided against using thin client technology, where lightweight, low power machines... [03 Mar 2009]
Wireless Internet Links Highland Community to the World
White Paper Heavily dependent on the nearby town of Sapa as a market for its farming goods, as well as a source of tourist dollars, Internet access promises to widen the linkage to Sapa and beyond. A successful deployment in remote... [01 Jan 2009]
Pharmaceutical giant strikes $550m outsourcing deal
News The multinational firm, which has its UK headquarters in Uxbridge, Middlesex, is farming out its application development and maintenance, as well as a range of finance and accounting support services across the company. [12 Sep 2008]
UK students outsource IT coursework to India
News A-level and university pupils are logging onto computer coding websites and farming out their work to foreign IT graduates. UK IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 a go. [25 Jun 2008]
Bernard Matthews streamlines order processes
News The company, which specialises in turkey farming, is using a unified electronic trading platform to process electronic orders from retailers and other customers. Poultry products supplier Bernard Matthews has streamlined... [17 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment In many cases this was a handover from father to son of trade and experience - such as occurs in farming - which ensured the prosperity and well-being of families. Written in a Florida hotel and dispatched via a free but... [29 Oct 2007]
Integrated Poultry Farming Group Turns to SAP for Fast Results and Future Growth
White Paper As Malaysia's leading producer of fresh farm eggs and chicken related products under the Nutriplus brand, Lay Hong Berhad is well aware that having real time visibility and the ability to maintain internal efficiencies are some of the... [28 Sep 2007]
Agribusiness Portal a Ray of Hope for Farmers
White Paper The consortium wanted to collect essential information relating to farming, such as weather, market data, production techniques, significant events, government policies, and new research ideas; educate farmers about... [05 Sep 2007]
Grupo Los Grobo Streamlines Business Processes and Improves Collaboration
White Paper Since its establishment in 1984, Grupo Los Grobo has evolved from a farming and livestock family business to one of the primary grain producers in Argentina. The challenge was to improve operational efficiency; enable... [11 Jul 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment Technology can make this all happen - for example, through the use of image-based training in better farming practices, in animal husbandry and food storage, to communication and collaboration with more remote... [27 Apr 2007]
Insurance Company Improves Operational Efficiency 25 Percent by Improving Data Access
White Paper Grange Insurance Group is a mid-sized personal and commercial insurance company that caters to farming communities and suburban areas in the United States. The company has more than U.S.million in assets. [01 Jan 2007]
