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Tesco Develops Online Ordering System That Processes 5,000 Orders Per Hour

whitepaper Since 1996, United Kingdom retailer Tesco PLC has seen a rapid increase in the number of its customers and has added many nonfood products and services to its catalog. To accommodate this growth, Tesco created the Tesco Direct service and built a...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Partnership Working Pays Off in Getting U.K. Hospitality Trading Online

whitepaper The United Kingdom hospitality and licensed trade industries are enthusiastically embracing online ordering. As a result, the leading Web site operator for the trade, barbox, is netting sales of around £320 million (U.S.million) a year since it...

Tags: customer support services

[12 May 2008]

Online Retailer Adopts Software-Plus-Services to Connect With Customers

whitepaper Play.com is the fourth largest online retailer in the United Kingdom.the company has been investigating new ways to interact with its customers. Having successfully incorporated customer reviews into the site, Play.com decided to enhance the Web...

Tags: infrastructure management

[03 May 2008]

Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead by US$414,000 by Migrating 24% of Spend to Online Purchasing

whitepaper Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. The council implemented Oracle iProcurement as part of the council's Modernization and Improvement Plan...

Tags: procurement - purchasing

[24 Mar 2008]

Solution Provider Brings Cost-Effective, Comprehensive System to Small Businesses

whitepaper BackupAgent is expanding rapidly beyond its roots in the Netherlands, offering services in Europe, the United Kingdom, and, soon, the United States - growth that would be unattainable without its subscription-based business model.

Tags: back-up

[10 Jan 2008]

Tailored Software Solution Helps Public Sector Web Site Cope With High Traffic and Hacking Threats

whitepaper Get Safe Online - an initiative from the United Kingdom government - aims to raise public awareness of online security issues and provide the public with free access to educational information. The organisation decided to create a Web site to...

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

Comic Relief Builds Multi-Channel e-Commerce Site

whitepaper Comic Relief is a charitable organization set up by Richard Curtis in the United Kingdom to help end poverty and social injustice by raising funds. The company wanted to build a scalable, high-performance e-commerce platform capable of live...

Tags: application servers, fundraising, scalable, oracle database

[05 Sep 2007]

Improving Customer Service With Unisys Internet Commerce Enabler

whitepaper Nationwide Building Society, based in the United Kingdom, was established in 1848 as a home loans and savings institution. The organization wanted to improve customer service by providing online inquiries for branches and head office departments...

Tags: application development, united kingdom, departments, commerce

[09 Jun 2007]

NETELLER Rewrites the Rules to Build Vital Online Services

whitepaper To maintain Financial Services Authority accreditation - essential for banking operations in the United Kingdom, NETELLER must perform a Know-Your-Customer (KYC) identity verification process when a new account is established.

Tags: business management, transfer, account, funds

[09 Jun 2007]

House Builder Improves Customer Service, Bolsters IT Infrastructure With Web Solution

whitepaper Since it was established in 1934, Miller Homes has built more than 60,000 properties and become one of the largest house builders in the United Kingdom. This has given the company more control over its online business and increased online custom by...

Tags: application servers, united kingdom, chain, supply

[22 May 2007]

Developers Lay the Foundation for Expanded Online Banking Presence

whitepaper Created from the merger of two banks in 2001, Halifax Bank Of Scotland (HBOS) is a formidable player in the retail and business banking space in the United Kingdom. HBOS offers an impressive and expanding array of services, with its online retail...

Tags: .net, framework, commerce, retail

[31 Mar 2007]

HMV Brings Any Time, Easy-to-Use Digital Downloads Service to Music Lovers

whitepaper HMV is the largest music retailer in the United Kingdom, with more than 200 stores and a successful online store - www.hmv.co.uk. HMV was interested in taking advantage of the growth in digital downloading as a music and entertainment channel and...

Tags: music, united kingdom, microsoft sql server, microsoft .net

[22 Feb 2007]

Engaging Interfaces Provide Winning Solution for Online Betting Exchange

whitepaper Betfair, an online betting exchange based in the United Kingdom (U.K.recognises this. For businesses, a danger lies in seeing customers as a single mass. The truth is - customers represent a heterogeneous group of individuals with different tastes...

Tags: develop, desktop, windows vista, united kingdom

[16 Feb 2007]

Online Travel Company Empowers Remote Workers With Messaging Solution

whitepaper Based in Bellevue, Washington, Expedia operates internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, and China. Expedia is the world's leading online travel company, providing business and leisure...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, travel, microsoft windows, employees

[28 Nov 2006]

Flexible Learning Method Ensures 96 Per Cent First-Time Pass Rate

whitepaper For one of the leading IT training providers in the United Kingdom Xpertise, this meant finding a way to deliver high-quality courses in the workplace. With its 'Time-lapse learning' approach combining face-to-face and online methods, Xpertise...

Tags: training and certification, face, training, courses

[21 Nov 2006]

Online pirates face Redmond legal blitz

News The actions include 15 lawsuits in the US, 10 in Germany, 10 in the Netherlands, and five each in France and the United Kingdom, it said. Microsoft is planning to file more than 50 lawsuits worldwide against online merchants who allegedly peddle...

Tags: pirates, ebay, piracy, microsoft

[31 Oct 2006]

Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: R/GA

whitepaper R/GA contacted Kikucall to deliver the custom ringtones to domestic and international clients in the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Finland, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, clients, ringtone, greeting

[12 May 2006]

Bush agrees web control pact with UN

News The US and allies such as the United Kingdom unreasonably "insist on being world policemen on the management of the internet," and that must change, Mugabe said. The forum is meant to be a central point for global discussions of everything from...

Tags: control of the net, control, un

[16 Nov 2005]

eGovernment Leadership: Rhetoric Vs Reality - Closing the Gap

whitepaper From the United Kingdom to the United States, Belgium to Brazil and Malaysia to Mexico, governments are talking about the significant benefits that can be realised by migrating traditionally paper based and face-to-face services to the Internet.

Tags: face, citizens, agenda, delivery

[30 Aug 2005]

XML in the UK Government

whitepaper The government of the United Kingdom (UK) has recognised that Information Systems have the potential to transform government and the services it provides to the public. The UK aims to have all government services online by 2005.

Tags: enterprise architecture, united kingdom, government services, aims

[14 Jul 2005]

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