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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...
[06 May 2008]
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...
[28 Mar 2008]
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.
[13 Mar 2008]
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...
[03 Mar 2008]
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...
[05 Feb 2008]
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...
[23 Jan 2008]
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...
[11 Dec 2007]
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.
[09 Nov 2007]
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...
[16 Oct 2007]
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...
[11 Oct 2007]
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
[10 Oct 2007]
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...
[06 Sep 2007]
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...
[03 Sep 2007]
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...
[23 Aug 2007]
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...
[13 Aug 2007]
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...
[05 Jul 2007]
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...
[28 Jun 2007]
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...
[26 Jun 2007]
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...
[19 Jun 2007]
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...
[12 Jun 2007]
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