prism
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Under the 10-year deal, CSC's Prism Alliance, which also includes BT and Steria, is responsible for running RMG's datacentres, data networks, voice services, desktop computers, and hundreds of business application systems. [20 Nov 2009]
EventTracker Architecture Handling Millions of Events Each Day: The Importance of Consolidation, Correlation, and Detection Enterprise Security Series
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major advantages of employing EventTracker to consolidate, correlate, and manage event log data. The paper introduces at a high level the major design concepts that enable EventTracker to... [13 Nov 2009]
Management Excellence: The Metrics Reloaded
White Paper The fact that there are many management methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, performance prism, and five forces to name just a few, makes it harder. The key to enterprise performance management is to identify... [02 Sep 2009]
Creating Award-Winning Posters & Presentations for Biomedical Sciences
White Paper Previously, Sucic relied on Microsoft Word and GraphPad Prism, the statistical software used in her lab, to complete her projects. And any fears Sucic had about SmartDraw working with Prism were quickly... [14 Apr 2009]
The Design and Performance of Configurable Component Middleware for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
White Paper Third, it presents an empirical comparison of CIAO's static configuration mechanisms to the static configuration mechanisms in Boeing's PRISM avionics component middleware solution. This paper makes three contributions... [03 Jan 2009]
Future Firecrest tops Foreign Office £686m IT spend
News Smaller IT projects include the £5.3m simplification of the Prism enterprise resource planning system. Both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Justice have revealed the costs of their ongoing IT... [25 Nov 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News This has been compounded by the need to spend £6.5m simplifying its Prism project, an Oracle-based enterprise resource planning platform to rationalise 30 different IT systems. Meanwhile the £6.5m planned spend on... [07 Jul 2008]
Prism: Lightweight Filesystem Virtualization Via Selective Cloning
White Paper This paper describes the design of Prism, a file server that supports lightweight cloning and centralized file management of multiple filesystems. Unlike copying in standard file systems or cloning operations on virtual... [01 Mar 2008]
Royal Mail hires new CIO from Diageo
News His achievements include delivering a substantial reduction in IT costs through a major outsourcing deal with CSC Prism Alliance and the creation of a decentralised IT model. Royal Mail has hired the Diageo CIO to... [11 Oct 2007]
Littlewoods automates back-office
News Littlewoods is using an application from Blue Prism to automate three credit and collections processes within its Everyday Financial Solutions financial services division.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Our IT team fully... [04 Oct 2007]
Virtual staff speed up bank queues
Case Study The staff replaced by the Blue Prism Automate system are now working in more customer-facing roles. Co-operative Financial Services has automated a credit checking process to free up staff and help treat customers... [31 Aug 2007]
Will future networks be faster than light-speed?
News After they were moved apart, most of the photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector. German scientists claim to have broken the light-speed barrier, which could blow away the... [17 Aug 2007]
David Burden
CIO Profile Burden's achievements include delivering a substantial reduction in IT costs through a major outsourcing deal with CSC Prism Alliance and the creation of a decentralised IT model. What they say about him: "With British,... [06 Jun 2007]
Navigating the Enterprise Database Selection Process: A Comparison of RDMS Acquisition Costs
White Paper To assist organizations in the decision process, Microsoft commissioned an independent third-party consultant, Value Prism Consulting, to conduct a transparent, realistic comparison of the licensing costs of the three... [08 May 2007]
Young people don't trust offshoring
News The survey was conducted earlier this year by Blue Prism, a maker of an automated customer system, and Sheffield Hallam University. Young people don't trust overseas call centres and are critical of companies that... [21 Jul 2006]