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How to do an SAP rollout - top CIO tips
News Electricity supplier to Irish businesses ESBIE installed SAP's IS-U utilities industry package as its customer and billing system in a 10-month project which also involved building in support for dual currencies, euro and sterling, and picked up... [25 Jun 2007]
Broadband over power lines to beat DSL?
News According to the report, consumers in rural areas where other broadband delivery mechanisms don't reach will spur growth, while utilities offering broadband services will drive availability. Chris Roden, research analyst at Parks Associates, also... [19 Jan 2007]
Satellite tech to map cables under UK roads in 3D
News The project, called Vista, is being led by the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and 19 companies and organisations from the utilities, transport and engineering sectors. [22 Mar 2006]
SAP tops CRM and ERP market
News Lykkegaard said: "SAP has successfully sold its CRM solution in the industries where it has a strong ERP installed base such as manufacturing, transport and utilities. Bo Lykkegaard, IDC's European enterprise applications programme manager, said in... [23 Feb 2006]
Browser wars: Dell and Google to buddy up?
News However, just about every PC user who's connected to the internet uses the browser at least once a day, and browser toolbars that contain useful utilities such as Google's search engine will grab a user's attention, he said. [08 Feb 2006]
Tax breaks fail to halt decline in UK R&D investment
News One of the reasons cited for the UK and Europe's poor performance in the R&D league table is that they have fewer companies in R&D intensive high-tech sectors such as IT and electronics and are instead over-represented by 'old industry' food... [24 Oct 2005]
Hacking fears spark power-plant security clampdown
News The current computer system used by utilities and public transportation facilities was not designed with the internet in mind, said Clarence Morey, senior manager for product strategy at Internet Security Solutions, a company that counts public... [17 Aug 2005]
IT staff voted top for new ideas
News Companies in utilities, transport, healthcare and finance trailed at the bottom of the list. And when the statistics are split by industry sector, companies in IT (35 per cent) and media/marketing (43 per cent) are the ones that respondents... [06 Jun 2005]
120,000 foreigners needed to plug India's skills gap
News At an offshore conference in New Delhi back in April, Dan Sandhu, CEO India and head of offshore business at United Utilities' business process outsourcing arm Vertex, warned that only a small percentage of the two million English-speaking... [03 Jun 2005]
Offshore data protection law flounders
News Speaking to silicon.com at the Offshore Customer Management conference in New Delhi last week Dan Sandhu, CEO India and head of offshore business at United Utilities' business process outsourcing arm Vertex, acknowledged that the lack of data... [03 May 2005]
Telcos told 'you're no better than the gas board'...
News Incumbent telecoms providers have been told to start falling into line with utilities companies as bandwidth and connectivity become commodity products, piped into customers' homes like gas and electricity. [28 Feb 2005]
NTL loses CIO - cue more Telewest merger talk
News A frequent contributor to silicon.com's CIO Jury feature, Pavitt has been leading IT at NTL for about two and a half years and won't immediately be moving to another company, though he said he will ultimately be looking for another CIO position... [20 Dec 2004]
UK call centres still booming despite offshoring threat
News A "clear majority" of those with more than 500 staff said they expect the workforce to grow this year, especially those in financial services, telecoms, utilities and the public sector. The UK call centre industry is still showing strong growth... [05 Oct 2004]
Majority of call centre work 'to remain in UK'
News Offshoring will hit the finance, telecoms and utilities sectors where there will actually be a decline with a net loss of 5,000 jobs. The UK call centre industry is still set to see strong growth over the next few years, despite hype about the... [05 Aug 2004]
Users spending more on mobile bill than electric or gas
News Gunda Lapski, JD Power director of European telecommunications and utilities, said: "The striking thing about this year's survey, and we also cover utilities, is that people spend as much on their mobiles as they do on electricity and gas. [26 May 2004]
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