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Video app the highway to healthy roads

News The cost of the trial is expected to be up to £20,000 for the first year of operation, including consultancy fees from Yotta DCL. Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems with an asset-counting application...

Tags: video, road, hampshire

[12 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News But the consultancy says India must be prepared to let go of the exemption and accept the short term growth shrinkage as the country's outsourcing market matures. India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Scottish Water splashes out on tech

News The contracts have been signed with BT for mobile, data, voice and network services, Fujitsu for service desk and infrastructure support and India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for application management.

Tags: transformation, managed services, fujitsu, water

[28 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Capgemini will also provide consultancy services for Croydon's transformation programme to improve the level and efficiency of local services. Croydon Council has signed an extension to its IT outsourcing deal with Capgemini, worth an estimated...

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Miserable at work? Live in London? Join the club

News In a separate report, communications consultancy CHA's Worthwhile Work also found those in the South West more content than their London counterparts, who hanker after more meaningful roles that have a positive impact on society.

Tags: work, staff, london, survey

[21 Apr 2008]

NHS CIO jumps ship

News The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed Swindells - who has been working for the department for three and a half years - is moving out of the public sector to work for Tribal Group, a consultancy to the public sector.

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News The department's expenditure on these services is allocated across a wide range of firms, from small, specialist companies with niche expertise and few employees, to global multinational organisations offering a broad spectrum and substantial...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland

News His earlier career includes stints at Glaxo Wellcome - before the pharmaceutical giant's merger with SmithKline Beecham - Guinness and a spell in management consultancy at Coopers and Lybrand. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Reuters CIO...

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

[01 Apr 2008]

Apacs IT chief steps down

News She is not expected to move into another head of IT role immediately and it is understood she may leave in-house IT altogether to pursue a consultancy role. Apacs IT chief Sue Yoe has left the organisation following a management restructure at the...

Tags: id management, it director, apacs

[28 Mar 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News A report by consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research for recruitment company Harvey Nash into the impact of skilled migrant workers has predicted the IT, telecoms and transport sector will need an extra 19,000 skilled migrants...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News In a trend becoming known as 'reverse offshoring' Wipro and Indian rivals Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are using this tactic as they are forced to expand deeper into western countries to extend their global reach.

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News This first phase of Voyager will cost around £160m including - in addition to the SAP technology - hardware upgrades from IBM and consultancy work from KPMG and CapGemini. Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts

News Buyers have forced discounts of up to 23 per cent on outsourcing deals during the first two months of this year, a study by Compass Management Consultancy (CMC) has found. Outsourcing prices have slumped in response to aggressive cost bargaining.

Tags: offshoring, ito, outsourcing, deals

[11 Mar 2008]

Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told

News Internet security consultancy company NTA Monitor says recent testing showed that organisations are still failing to ensure the smart phone devices are locked down. Companies are being warned to make sure they correctly configure BlackBerrys - or...

Tags: blackberry, hacker, security, balance

[10 Mar 2008]

India losing status as offshore king?

News China's emergence as a global sourcing hub has traditionally been slow but the report found that BT Global Services, EDS, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have all opened sourcing facilities in the country in the last 18 months.

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing, china

[03 Mar 2008]

Guardian site gets million-pound makeover

News The project was assisted by Thoughtworks, a consultancy specialising in 'agile and lean' best practice. Guardian News & Media (GNM), the proprietor of The Guardian and The Observer is about to complete an 18-month project to revamp its website...

Tags: media, navigation, content management, management system

[29 Feb 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Chris Robinson, European IT partner at property consultancy Davis Langdon, said his firm plans to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 sometime in the next 12 months. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched Windows Server 2008 this week, calling it the most...

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

Jaeger invests in data mining to cut stock loss

News These efforts include a training programme, called Thinkschool conducted by consultancy Oris and security specialist Checkpoint, to train store managers in managing shrinkage and rely less on EAS tags on garments to deter thieves.

Tags: jaeger, data mining, cctv, retailer

[06 Feb 2008]

Top five takeovers that shook the tech world

News IBM also shelled out the relatively paltry sum of $3.5bn on the consultancy arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2002. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a...

Tags: time warner, aol, deal, ibm

[04 Feb 2008]

Finance giant breathes new life into outsourcing contract

News Diligenta is a UK-based, FSA regulated subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. Sun Life Financial of Canada (SLF) has signed a £100m contract for Diligenta to provide it with business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

Tags: bpo, finance, diligenta, life

[31 Jan 2008]

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