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RSS automate in newsGreggs tucks into centralised accounting model
News The product will interface to our existing manufacturing and Epos applications helping us to further automate our accounting processes. Greggs the bakers has signed a contract for financials software from Coda worth £600,000 in the first year... [10 Apr 2008]
Building society installs anti-money laundering tech
News Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations and ensure quality of service to third parties. The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception... [11 Dec 2007]
Admiral digitises supplier payments
News Insurance specialist Admiral Group has implemented an £80,000 document management system from Version One to automate its purchase-to-pay processes. The system digitises suppliers' invoices once they have been sent through to the finance department... [29 Oct 2007]
Littlewoods automates back-office
News Littlewoods is using an application from Blue Prism to automate three credit and collections processes within its Everyday Financial Solutions financial services division.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Our IT team fully supported the need to find a... [04 Oct 2007]
Serena launches business mash-up exchange
News Mashup Composer is a web 2.0 tool that enables users to visually design mash-ups that automate business activities. Serena Software has kicked off its Chicago developer conference by making available a software-as-a-service mash-up exchange that... [11 Sep 2007]
HP to buy Opsware for £1.6bn
News The acquisition of Opsware is intended to extend HP's software capabilities to automate an entire data centre - from the initial provisioning of networks, servers and storage devices to managing ongoing changes and compliance requirements. [23 Jul 2007]
Is social networking a threat to your security?
News And fewer than half (47 per cent) automate their policies by using web filtering software. Social networking sites could be exposing consumers and businesses to increased security risk, it has been claimed. [23 Jul 2007]
Threshers outsources core IT in £8m Xansa deal
News David Leigh, strategy director at Xansa, said retailers are increasingly seeing benefits from moving parts of their IT infrastructure offshore as technology continues to automate many business processes. [20 Mar 2007]
High staff churn hits UK call centres
News Morrell said UK call centres will increasingly offshore or automate the lower-end work but that this will mean the staff can focus on higher value services. The UK call centre industry is struggling to cope with high staff churn as attrition rates... [28 Sep 2006]
Spending on credit derivates IT rockets to $500m
News IT spending on credit derivate trading systems is set to rise by 45 per cent to almost $500m this year as banks rush to automate the settlement process and cut the cost of transactions. The investment in automation is vital for dealing with the... [17 Aug 2006]
MySpace targeted by cyber criminals
News It is possible to buy tools that automate attacks on defined swatches of the MySpace community. Social networking portal MySpace is becoming a major target for cyber criminals, with credit card fraud, phishing attacks and spyware all growing... [27 Jul 2006]
Sun takes a shine to patch management star
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Aduva, a small company whose products automate the installation of software patches on large numbers of Linux or Solaris computers. The acquisition, announced by Sun on Wednesday, dovetails with the company's... [23 Feb 2006]
Iris scans and passenger databases to protect UK borders
News As a result of this massive increase in travel, coupled with the fear of international terrorism, the government wants to tighten and automate security at borders. Around 200 million passengers passed through UK airports in 2003 - and if growth... [16 Feb 2006]
British 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 our engineers in the field... [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]
