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RSS local authorityUK Police Authority Supports Investigations With Powerful Solution and Reduces Expenditure by 90 Per Cent
White Paper The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. The authority needed a scalable and powerful solution to run its business-critical application. [05 Jul 2008]
More BT pay phones face the axe
News Local authority consent is not required to remove call boxes if there is another payphone within 400 metres, however. The telco said it is writing to local authorities to test the water about closing 14 per cent of its remaining estate of call... [03 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study The opportunity to clean out core systems and have a common user interface for them in Vista, they both said would make it easier for collaborating local authority organisations to share IT resources. [30 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News Speaking to silicon.com Steve Brandwood, programme manager at the IDeA, said: "We've been working with local authorities for the last 10 years to help them create standardised address lists within each authority. [30 Apr 2008]
Judicial Authority Saves $2 Million With Centralized IT Management Tools
White Paper The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) of Lower Saxony, the region's highest judicial authority, supports its activities with a complex IT infrastructure. Because new deployments at each branch depended on the capabilities of local technicians, the quality... [26 Apr 2008]
Local Authority Improves ICT Services for Schools, Boosting Classroom Innovation
White Paper Warwickshire Local Authority sought to improve its managed ICT service for schools by streamlining application delivery and improving security for remote access to school networks. Now, IT technicians are freed up to focus on delivering better... [29 Feb 2008]
New IT Platform Improves Kalmar Local Authority's Services
White Paper The introduction of a structured, standardized IT platform means that the Kalmar local authority is well-equipped to offer new services both to residents and employees. Traditionally, Kalmar's local authority has had a highly decentralized decision... [19 Feb 2008]
Local Government Authority Saves £55,000 Through Efficiencies With Business Management Solution
White Paper Macclesfield Borough Council, a United Kingdom (U.K.based local government authority, had trouble satisfying government targets on the use of Information Technology (IT) while using its legacy mainframe-based financial management system. [08 Feb 2008]
Web services slash CO2 emissions
News Parmjit Dhanda, minister for e-government, said people should be encouraged to talk to their local authority via the web due to these benefits. Online services increasingly being rolled out by local government are saving thousands of tonnes in CO2... [18 Jan 2008]
Local Government Improves Responsiveness, Positions Departmental Database Integration
White Paper The local governmental authority for one of London's 32 boroughs, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, provides services for more than 150,000 London citizens. They wanted to increase productivity and increase customer satisfaction. [18 Dec 2007]
Credit Agricole Unified Communications Solution Significantly Increases Productivity
White Paper Credit Agricole is France's leading high street bank with 21 million personal customers, 9,170 branches, and 1.4 million professional, corporate, and local authority customers. The bank is the market leader in France for savings as well as for... [18 Dec 2007]
E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent
Comment The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Local Authority Trading Standards Services are planning a sweep of the UK's top 600 retail websites to ensure they meet key legislation. Do your ecommerce operations comply with the law? [14 Dec 2007]
Chip and bin to combat climate change?
News Pre-Legislative Scrutiny and Public Consultation report states: "The government plans to tackle further the issue of landfilling waste by providing power to pilot local authority incentives for household waste minimisation and recycling. [31 Oct 2007]
London Borough of Newham Chooses Microsoft Solution Over Open Source as Best Overall Value Option
White Paper Newham Council, an innovative and leading-edge local authority in the United Kingdom, was faced with the need to lower cost and risk, while providing a financially predictable, stable, and innovative Information and Communications Technology (ICT... [28 Sep 2007]
Best Practice Procurement Cuts Costs for Cheshire
White Paper It is the 14th-largest local authority in England and Wales. Cheshire County Council provides environmental, community and children's services to 672,000 people in Cheshire. The council wanted to capture and analyze purchasing data to gain insight... [05 Sep 2007]
