implementation software in news
Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News The software replaces a system based on a set of 64 Excel spreadsheets and will have a significant effect on financial planning for the university, according to its head of business systems, Ken Burt. [16 Oct 2008]
Tech helps logistics firm speed up 20 per cent
News The suite also includes billing software that sends out invoices and reports to multiple customers. Logistics company Davies Turner has raised productivity by 20 per cent following the implementation of... [13 Oct 2008]
Notts police turns to tech for better crime handling
News Eggleton said the software will also help improve the exchange of incident information with other systems, boosting efficiency. Nottinghamshire Police is trialling new incident management tech that it hopes will improve... [19 Sep 2008]
Google slashes time to search anonymity by half
News A posting on the official Google Blog by the company's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer; senior privacy counsel, Jane Horvath; and software engineer, Alma Whitten, said the step was taken to address regulatory... [09 Sep 2008]
iPhone 3G apps, Microsoft cloud OS, Facebook ban, YouTube police...
News Apple issues iPhone 3G software update The iPhone 3G may have blasted off on 11 July but August was the month Apple's shiny handset was put through its paces and managed to churn out all sorts of headlines - even as... [01 Sep 2008]
£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News The union has also raised concerns about disruption caused by the implementation of SAP enterprise resource planning software at Southwest One, due to go live in February 2009. Southwest One has hit back... [06 Aug 2008]
Unilever right on track with SAP
News Unilever's global rollout of SAP technology is on track with around three-quarters of the business now live on software from the German software giant. In the summary of its second quarter results,... [01 Aug 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Microsoft has been coming under increasing pressure from open source software, especially as more and more web-based activity relies on open standards. Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's... [07 Jul 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News While Android is a full mobile software stack, LiMo - a rival industry consortium to the OHA - is only developing a common middleware component, on top of which its members can then put proprietary applications. [13 Jun 2008]
SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys
News SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smart phone. The companies announced last week that the... [06 May 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer... [22 Apr 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News Release 1 gives handset makers and carriers the basic operating system software needed to run a phone, leaving it up to them to install a user interface and applications on top. Google boasts a roster of many of the same... [31 Mar 2008]
Nationwide banks on SAP
News The first phase of Voyager is due for completion by the fourth quarter of 2009 and will see Nationwide pay SAP around £15m in software licence costs and up to £35m for implementation. Nationwide Building... [18 Mar 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News William Hill announced in January it was scrapping an in-house software upgrade, dubbed NextGen, because the project was delayed. Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit... [27 Feb 2008]
Toy retailer entertains web upgrade
News Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh and contracted ecommerce specialist Escalate Retail to provide a software suite for the back-end. Called Blue Martini E-Commerce suite, the... [30 Jan 2008]
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