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RSS payroll in newsBPO: There may be trouble ahead
News Other BPO services approaching maturity include payroll outsourcing, benefits administration, card processing and telesales, according to Gartner. Half of business process outsourcing (BPO) deals over the next three years will run into trouble with... [23 Aug 2006]
Lloyds TSB banks on Xansa for HR
News Previously, the company's HR interests had encompassed payroll (which has been a natural extension of its finance and accounting BPO engagements on accounts such as BT, MyTravel and the NHS shared services initiative) and its small IT staffing... [10 Aug 2006]
Yorkshire Water's ERP cuts £12m per year off IT bill
News Yorkshire Water invested £30m on the project to introduce SAP for its finance, supply chain, human resources and payroll back-office functions back in 2000, and Harrison said this has now led to annual savings of between £11.5m and £12m. [11 Jul 2006]
HR let down strategically by IT
News However lower value, administrative processes such as payroll - though this is often outsourced - are generally seen to be successfully catered for by the IT department, according to the survey. Human resources functions in medium-sized and large... [21 Jun 2006]
Building society in-sources HR using SAP and partners
News Britannia Building Society is moving its HR and payroll systems back in-house, using software from SAP. Despite a general trend towards more outsourcing, she described executives at the building society as "exceptionally open-minded" about bringing... [19 May 2006]
NTL cuts 35 per cent of staff, talks up future
News NTL has today confirmed that 6,000 jobs will be cut from its 17,000-strong payroll as the cable company seeks to find £250m of cost savings before the end of 2007. Some 1,535 employees will be taken on by IBM, which NTL already has an outsourcing... [09 May 2006]
Software as a service hits sweet spot
News Once you have a lot of people using not only CRM, payroll, HR but also software such as word processors and calendaring online that's going to put a big dent in the shrink-wrapped software market. Universal broadband and near-ubiquitous wi-fi... [12 Apr 2006]
Equant trumpets outsourcing contract wins
News Getinge CFO Ulf Grunander said the company is outsourcing all its IT with the exception of ERP - typically covering areas such as payroll, manufacturing and HR systems - to Equant. Equant has this week announced two large network and IT outsourcing... [15 Mar 2006]
Delayed £53m Foreign Office IT system slammed by MPs
News The seven-year Prism IT project, which began in 2002, is intended to replace and integrate 30 existing separate finance, payroll, personnel and procurement systems in more than 200 FCO posts worldwide. [09 Mar 2006]
Easynet flush with Kohler contract win
News It carries data relating to enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions such as payroll, HR and manufacturing. Luxury bathroom fittings maker Kohler has selected Easynet to manage its wide area network in a deal worth €1.2m over three years. [02 Feb 2006]
Tech giants attacked for web censorship stance
News She said China has the most sophisticated internet-filtering system in the world and tens of thousands of "internet police" on its payroll. Politicians on Wednesday attacked Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! [02 Feb 2006]
Tax credit ID theft to be probed by Info Commissioner
News HMRC executive director David Varney told MPs before Christmas that he believed criminals had somehow obtained staff payroll records from the DWP. The UK's data protection watchdog has launched an investigation into the tax credit fraud fiasco that... [24 Jan 2006]
Sage snaps up payments firm Verus for £184m
News Software and online services are converging, and the ability to offer a well-supported integrated set of services [Sage already offers payroll] is potentially very attractive to SMEs. Accounting software company Sage has announced it is to buy... [10 Jan 2006]
5,000 companies miss vital IT project deadline
News He added: "We are pleased with 95 per cent but we're not complacent because five per cent didn't hit the deadline and that's somebody's payroll. But despite all the warnings, even some companies that were using payroll bureaux - and thus didn't... [10 Jan 2006]
Taxman admits to "virulent" mass ID fraud
News He told the MPs this latest ID fraud appears to have come from criminals using a list of staff details leaked by an insider at the DWP, which according to BBC News is from DWP payroll records from the 2003-04 financial year. [16 Dec 2005]
