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Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Software company BDNA surveyed its customers and identified the 10 most important issues CIOs should be aware of to cut the risk of security breaches and effectively manage a modern IT environment. Insecure PCs: Another customer had several PCs... [29 May 2008]
Shell's outsourcing plans face legal threat
News Amicus is hoping legal action will force Shell to reinstate the more favourable HR policy before the IT outsourcing contracts are signed. The oil multi-national is in the process of finalising contracts with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems to run the bulk... [07 Jan 2008]
Bank IT spend to rise despite credit crunch crisis
News As the UK banking sector steadies itself in response to the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, IT suppliers will be pleased to learn tech spending in the sector will rise over the next three years. BPO will be particularly demanded for processes such as... [11 Dec 2007]
BA to roll out email to workers' mobiles
News It was the construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow that prompted the switch to an electronic method. Huish told silicon.com: "It seemed pointless to build 20,000 pigeonholes into a new building. Up until now, the service was used mainly as a conduit... [31 Oct 2007]
SMEs just want to grow
News These include finance (37 per cent), HR (30 per cent) and sales and marketing (25 per cent). It also found 60 per cent of new businesses are started from home. The UK's 4.5 million small businesses are keen for the government to do more to help... [29 Oct 2007]
Nielsen to outsource IT in $1.2bn deal
News It covers financial services in such processes as accounts receivable and payable, billing, credit and collections, general accounting, and HR processes including workforce administration, global reporting and payroll services. [19 Oct 2007]
Norwich Union automates HR enquiries
News Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier for staff to find out about employment policies themselves. The system has been so successful, Norwich Union will roll it out to its RAC subsidiary by the end of... [15 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News What it had in the attachment is an executable RTF file. F-Secure security expert Patrik Runald recently postulated that the perfect attack would be a zero-day attack using a rootkit-cloaked Trojan sent to an HR manager who, due to company policy... [26 Sep 2007]
Gov shared services spending to hit $1.27bn
News The Outsourcing and Shared Services in Government IT Management report predicts spending on shared services across the US and Europe combined will hit $76bn by 2012 compared to $57.4bn this year.silicon.com Public Sector [06 Sep 2007]
How to do an SAP rollout - top CIO tips
News No one implements a company-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system over a weekend - it's a big project that can mean major changes to any organisation taking on such a task. Like other customers picking up gongs from SAP, NATS senior... [25 Jun 2007]
In-brief: iPhone rival launches, military RFID, Berners-Lee gong
News MusicStation says the handsets will be cheaper than the iPhone and predicts it will sell ten times more handsets than the 10 million Apple is aiming to ship over the next 12 months. Sheffield City Council has attracted 31 bidders for its ambitious... [14 Jun 2007]
Retailers fill their baskets with tech
News It's been a busy week for the UK's shopping giants - the Retail Solutions show in Birmingham showcased new technologies for the sector, while a number of companies took the opportunity to unveil IT deals. [07 Jun 2007]
Shared services 'about more than cost savings'
News The Gershon Report of July 2004 calculated that the government could save as much as £20bn annually if departments found ways of sharing back-office functions such as finance, HR and IT - and the concept of shared services has been rising up the... [30 Apr 2007]
Are corporate networks wide open to abuse?
News In a recent silicon.com CIO Jury, two-thirds of the 12-strong panel of IT chiefs said businesses are failing to properly enforce AUPs because they are leaving it up to the IT department to do all the work - when in fact other departments, such as... [18 Apr 2007]
Mobile banking rings the changes
News Capgemini global retail banking expert Paul Willis said: "It's true that emerging markets will be early adopters of mobile banking because of the lack of other infrastructures but there is also a mindset in other more developed regions, such as... [05 Apr 2007]
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