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RSS automate in newsBritish Gas engineers get @Road assistance
News Andy Burling, head of planning and development at British Gas Services said in a statement: "With the deployment of @Road Taskforce, we wanted to further automate the way work is dispatched, improve the productivity of... [10 Feb 2006]
Botched IT blamed for hole in Home Office accounts
News The implementation of the accounting module of the Home Office's Oracle-based Adelphi finance, HR and procurement system in May 2004 was supposed to automate manual processes and bring greater efficiency. [01 Feb 2006]
Alliance and Leicester to cut 350 jobs
News The company is rolling out workflow software to automate some of the back-office jobs in its Merseyside offices. Alliance and Leicester, the UK mortgage bank, is to axe up to 350 paper-processing jobs in the north of... [27 Jan 2006]
Oracle's top brass talk Fusion and more
News Since acquiring PeopleSoft, Oracle has scooped up several smaller software companies, including retail software specialists Profit Logic and Retek, in a bold effort to overtake SAP in the $50bn global market for business applications,... [19 Jan 2006]
Testing times: Microsoft unleashes Exchange 12 trial
News The company is also adding a scripting tool that enables power users to write code to automate repeated tasks, such as building new email accounts for each new employee. Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has released... [14 Dec 2005]
IT helps slash £4.7bn off public spending
News Another IT project cited by Brown is a new Probation Service computer system that will automate the preparation of court reports and save 110,000 hours of probation officer time each year. IT has helped deliver £4.7bn of... [06 Dec 2005]
IT the key to cutting SOX costs
News For many companies the next step is to automate as much as they can of the compliance work. The Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) has already celebrated its third birthday. And like many three-year-olds it can still create lots... [15 Nov 2005]
Amazon wants to pick your brains
News But for a computer programmer, this could become the job of a lifetime to automate. The concept, he wrote at the time, was "a programming language to query a global brain, tackling previously... [11 Nov 2005]
Hospitals install wireless to improve patient care
News Kruger told silicon.com: "You can automate one of the key functions of the nurse which is dispensing the medicine. Mini-cameras that transmit from inside your body, and drug trolleys that will only dispense tablets to... [06 Oct 2005]
US call centre jobs worst hit by offshore outsourcing
News Narrow profit margins are increasingly forcing outsourcers to move call centre work from the US to cheaper locations such as Canada, India and the Philippines, or to automate the service altogether where viable. [16 Sep 2005]
BT tied up by unbundling system bugs
News These problems occurred in new systems that should automate local-loop unbundling (LLU) - the process where a rival telecoms operator can take control of BT telephone lines and offer its own services to businesses and... [09 Aug 2005]
US fires up RFID immigration border trial
News The goal of the technology is to speed up - if not automate - secure entry and exit of visitors at the nation's ports, according to a Homeland Security press release. The US Department of Homeland Security has begun... [09 Aug 2005]
Microsoft: IT isn't sexy enough
News Microsoft is also looking for research proposals from those who want to study software tools that can automate work for scientists doing research in different areas. At Microsoft's annual gathering with university... [19 Jul 2005]
HP bags Randy Mott as new CIO
News Prior to Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores where he was a key figure in helping the big-box retailer automate its supply-chain systems. Hewlett-Packard has named former Dell CIO Randy Mott as an executive vice... [12 Jul 2005]
End of the road for the IT department as we know it?
News IT will focus on the things that people do that you can't automate, "and figure out where you can augment these things that make the strategy [of the business] come alive", he said. IT departments could be in for a major... [09 Jun 2005]
