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India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) argues this is a reflection of nervousness about countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam, where tax exemptions are threatening to beat India on the cost competitiveness that allowed it to dominate the global...

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Virtualization Technology Enables a Common Automation Platform

whitepaper Virtualization should also be considered for other manufacturing applications such as a strategy for building a common technology platform for a Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) which can support all automation applications, including...

Tags: virtualization

[28 Mar 2008]

iPhone SDK downloaded by 100,000 developers

News Intuit (TurboTax), Namco Networks (Pac-Man and Galaga), NetSuite (ERP/CRM software), and Six Apart (blogging software) are a few of the companies whose PR departments graciously worked up executive quotes for Apple's announcement.

Tags: iphone, sdk, developers, party

[13 Mar 2008]

India losing status as offshore king?

News The competitive Indian labour market is driving companies to alternative destinations, say Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) in its report. Nick Mayes, senior consultant at PAC, said there is no "serious threat" to India's outsourcing dominance in...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing, china

[03 Mar 2008]

Tax payer still owed millions by EDS

News EDS agreed it would pay £26.5m of the settlement when it was awarded new contracts by the government but a report by the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found the IT services company has repaid "little" of...

Tags: eds, government, public accounts committee, tax credit

[05 Feb 2008]

Indian suppliers to double UK IT market share

News India's top five services companies - HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro - are on course to grow their share of the UK software and IT services market from just under three per cent to seven per cent over the next three years, according to...

Tags: india, deals, suppliers, tech

[23 Jan 2008]

Bank IT spend to rise despite credit crunch crisis

News Software and services spend in the sector should rise by 7.7 per cent between 2007 and 2011, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). PAC went on to say the introduction of the single euro payments area from next year will also be a driver to...

Tags: bank, infosys, tcs, bpo

[11 Dec 2007]

Microsoft still tinkering with Surface

News Originally code-named Milan, Surface looks a bit like a 1980s sit-down Ms Pac Man machine but uses infrared cameras and a projector to create a touchscreen that can respond to multiple users' hand gestures, as well as interact with other objects.

Tags: touchscreen, surface, microsoft, cnet news

[09 Nov 2007]

MiFID driving software and services outsourcing

News Consultancy Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) says data requirements around MiFID - such as the need to collect, consolidate and publish information from diverse sources in near real-time, and also storage requirements - has significant IT...

Tags: compliance, outsourcing, mifid

[16 Oct 2007]

Doubts over £13.3bn government efficiency savings

News A report by the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says there are question marks over £10bn - 74 per cent - of the £13.3bn savings claimed by the government. While some of the £13.3bn efficiency gains are robust...

Tags: efficiency, government

[11 Oct 2007]

UK passports face massive price hike

News But a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns the cost could increase even more with the introduction of the second generation ePassports in 2009.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: public accounts committee, id cards, epassports

[10 Oct 2007]

£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed

News The PAC report said: "Failure to test computer systems completely and adequately is a problem we have often seen with government IT projects. The PAC report said: "Development work on the computer system nevertheless continued and no contingency...

Tags: public accounts committee, rural payments agency, farmers

[06 Sep 2007]

Perceptive Admission Control for Wireless Network Quality of Service

whitepaper To enable high QoS for all admitted traffic, the paper proposes the Perceptive Admission Control (PAC) protocol. As wireless networks become more widely used, there is a growing need to support advanced services, such as multimedia streaming and...

Tags: quality of service, traffic, qos, quality service

[03 Sep 2007]

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for NetApp Filers With Folderscape

whitepaper Years ago, the terms "Server" and "File server" were almost synonymous. Centralized storage of data in the form of user-accessible folders and files was the primary function of most servers. Over time, servers have taken on a much wider set of...

Tags: file and network servers, tasks, files, function

[23 Aug 2007]

Perceptive Admission Control for Wireless Network Quality of Service

whitepaper To enable high QoS for all admitted traffic, the paper proposes the Perceptive Admission Control (PAC) protocol. As wireless networks become more widely used, there is a growing need to support advanced services, such as multimedia streaming and...

Tags: qos, traffic, quality service, admitted

[13 Aug 2007]

Child Support Agency IT woes continue

News The CSA is due to be replaced by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in 2008 but a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned there will be no quick fix to the ongoing problems collecting...

Tags: eds, csa

[05 Jul 2007]

BBC's £1.5bn outsourcing costs under fire

News In a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) it has now emerged the savings for the first year fell 38 per cent short of that figure at just £22m. Performance management by the BBC also comes under fire from...

Tags: public accounts committee, siemens business services, bbc

[28 Jun 2007]

Microsoft bulk-buy benefits by-pass public sector IT

News PAC chairman Edward Leigh MP, said in the report: "Very little public sector spending benefits at the moment from the range of products available from OGCbuying.solutions. Almost half of central government departments don't use the Microsoft bulk...

Tags: microsoft, ogcbuying.solutions

[26 Jun 2007]

Government "wastes" £2.8bn a year on consultants

News A report by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found the public sector spent £2.8bn on consultants for the financial year 2005/2006, a rise of £700m in just two years. The PAC slammed the government for wasting "vast...

Tags: public accounts committee, consultants

[19 Jun 2007]

HMRC slammed over Capgemini contract costs

News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), called the costs "hard to justify", following the costly transition of the Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) contract from Accenture and EDS to Capgemini...

Tags: hmrc

[12 Jun 2007]

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