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Leeds Council puts faith in Microsoft
News The agreement is already delivering benefits with a pilot project underway in the Children's Services department around secure joint working on document and case management files. There will be improvements around information and knowledge... [28 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Firstly, we have a feature-rich Content Management System that we're using on an increasing number of our web sites and this success is encouraging us to look for other open source solutions. Secondly, the high licensing and training costs for... [21 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News It provides a rapid snapshot of the criminal justice system allowing problems with offender management to be spotted and put right within weeks. The 'CJ Know-How' system should help deliver "real savings" to the billions of pounds it costs to... [17 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte said business applications of LBS, such as asset and vehicle tracking and workforce management, will become an important revenue generator for carriers in the future as more companies look to deploy... [17 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News Other IT systems have been cut down, with "financial constraints" forcing funding for the iRecords electronic document management system to be cut from £26.5m to £5.1m and predicted spend on an FCO web platform reduced from £13.5m to £9.7m. [07 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. In the past, Nationwide has developed and managed its IT operations in-house but is now shifting to a number of... [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft launches into virtualisation
News With survey respondents asked to rank operating-system features in order of importance, virtualisation came last, in 11th place, with scalability, high reliability and identity management taking the top three positions. [27 Jun 2008]
Global BPO market to hit $450bn by 2012
News The report predicts services such as customer management services, payments and other industry-specific financial sector services, and recruitment process outsourcing will benefit directly from the trend of companies buying into growth markets. [16 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Fabrizio Capobianco, the chief executive of Funambol - which makes personal information management and synchronisation software for handsets and has one of the largest mobile open-source developer communities - was one of many at the conference to... [13 Jun 2008]
BBC warned after busting website budget
News The BBC has been warned to improve its financial management after the corporation exceeded its website budget by almost 50 per cent last year. The BBC wanted to spend £39m of this in 2008/9 but the Trust will not approve the investment until it's... [30 May 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News The increased bandwidth will also allow Tesco to give global staff direct access to its corporate software, such as its management information systems. The supermarket is also looking at the possibility of increasing the use of cameras to monitor... [28 May 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of the single "framework contract", including a £500m deal to replace the existing passport application system, the £500m biometric fingerprint and photograph database... [23 May 2008]
Gov't department readies for Vista rollout
News According to Defra, Vista's power management features will help reduce the department's carbon footprint while the BitLocker encryption system will boost security. Shaw added the department was looking at 1E's Nightwatchman power management... [15 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News These include an e-learning programme, a self service toolbox allowing access to more internal services, the roll out of Soca's IT network to liaison officers overseas, the first phase of a corporate knowledge management system and the development... [15 May 2008]
UK companies: Leaking like a sieve?
News More than a quarter, 28 per cent, suffered data loss on a weekly or more frequent basis the report by IT management company CA found. IT departments were suffering from underinvestment, with 68 per cent of IT managers saying their budgets were... [12 May 2008]
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