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Council mega-project set to double savings
News Speaking at an event in Birmingham, the council's corporate director of business change, Glyn Evans said: "We're currently on target to achieve twice what we aimed for. The council is working closely with a number of tech companies including SAP as... [07 Aug 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Software giant SAP has its only UK research facility in the region while BT, Cisco, Citigroup and Nortel are other big players with a presence. ECIT hosts tech companies - such as TDK - and also provides services to boost the research capabilities... [02 Jun 2008]
SAP SaaS delay - no surprise
News SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts. When SAP's first real foray into software as a service was... [01 May 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News SAP also announced three new members to its executive board: Erwin Gunst, president of SAP's EMEA region; Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP Americas and Asia Pacific Japan; and Jim Hagemann Snabe, managing director of the SAP Nordic region and general... [04 Apr 2008]
Nationwide banks on SAP
News Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the foundation for its £300m Voyager business transformation project. The first phase of Voyager is due for completion by the fourth quarter of 2009 and will see... [18 Mar 2008]
Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts
News In a statement Geraldine Fox, director of sourcing services at Compass, said: "We are seeing aggressive, high-level targets plucked from the air in contract negotiations which bear little relation to what the business needs. [11 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing growth expected in 2008
News Kurt Potter, research director at Gartner, said in a statement: "Because these organisations lack the basic building blocks for successful vendor management and outsourcing success, expected cost savings and other benefits are difficult to obtain. [10 Jan 2008]
Data sharing 'could sap public confidence'
News Naomi Eisenstadt, director of the Cabinet Office's Social Exclusion Task Force, said a large amount of informal data sharing already exists. He added: "If you don't tell the DVLA of a change of address, after a month you're liable to a fine of £1... [12 Nov 2007]
Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs
News Cameron said: "We are looking to make it more connected with what already exists here in the SAP landscape. Royal Mail is aiming to save £300m on procurement costs by 2009 with the help of a hosted e-sourcing application from SAP. [26 Oct 2007]
Tech giants team up for secure software
News The five founding members of the body known as the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) - EMC, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, SAP and Symantec - will try to identify and promote best practices within the IT industry for... [24 Oct 2007]
Royal Mail hires new CIO from Diageo
News Robin Dargue has already left his position as CIO and business process director at the drinks giant and will take up his new role at Royal Mail shortly. He became Diageo CIO aged just 36 and he has been responsible for implementing a wall-to-wall... [11 Oct 2007]
Businesses cool on software as a service
News Richard Rundle, IT director at BAA, said: "The reason is it changes the dynamic between capital funded and revenue funded investments and therefore the profit and loss profile. If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small... [18 Sep 2007]
Boots axes IT chief
News High-street health and beauty retailer Boots is axing the role of IT director as it comes to the end of a major, multi-year IT transformation programme. The decision means current IT director Rob Fraser will leave the company this week and Boots... [02 Aug 2007]
Indian company to create 200 tech jobs in Belfast
News BT's group CIO Al-Noor Ramji is a non-executive director on the company's board. ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore The company said it will generate £21m in wages and salaries over the... [02 Jul 2007]
Harrods integrates back office with SAP
News Harrods IT director David Llamas said: "SAP allows us to integrate common accounting processes and gives us one version of the truth. Harrods has completed a full SAP enterprise resource planning implementation that should harmonise back-office... [27 Jun 2007]
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