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Public Sector Service Achieves 100 Per Cent Uptime for Business Critical Messaging Server

whitepaper COPFS is also achieving significant cost savings on administration. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in Scotland provides an independent public-prosecution and deaths-investigation service.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

University Improves Remote Access, Cuts IT Costs, and Enhances Student Experience

whitepaper The university wanted to increase access to essential applications without compromising its security standards, while simplifying administration and cutting costs. With Windows Server 2008, the university simplified its network administration, cut...

Tags: vpns

[14 Apr 2008]

Modernizing Healthcare Coverage

whitepaper This study provides an overview of the HIPAA legislation regarding Administration Simplification, which contains the provisions that pertain to reducing the costs and burden of paper-based healthcare administration, and the protective measures...

Tags: ssl - tls, client, healthcare, administration

[10 Apr 2008]

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount

News The NAO said in its report that IT systems were "not well suited to the efficient administration of income tax where people have more than one job or change jobs on a regular basis". An HMRC spokesman said: "This will bring together separate...

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

[02 Apr 2008]

'Fundamental' flaws in Child Support Agency IT

News The CSA was branded one of the "worst public administration scandals in modern times" by MPs in 2006 and was axed following a review by Sir David Henshaw. It has emerged the Child Support Agency's (CSA) troubled £1.1bn computer system has needed...

Tags: government, eds, child support agency, maintenance

[04 Mar 2008]

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome

News Also, the coincidence of the release of Windows Server 2008 to the release of 2007 Exchange, and their common architecture and administration, is important to our decision. If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small...

Tags: microsoft, cio jury, windows server 2008, cio

[28 Feb 2008]

Child Support Agency IT system 10 years late

News The CSA was branded one of the "worst public administration scandals in modern times" by MPs in 2006 and was axed following a review by Sir David Henshaw. Delays in processing claims meant that in 2006 there was still £3.5bn of outstanding...

Tags: csa, eds, public sector, cases

[22 Feb 2008]

The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust Provides Quick and Easy Access to Critical Information

whitepaper In order to overhaul the existing Web site and intranet to ease site administration, reinforce brand messages, and ensure that information provided to staff and the public is both accurate and up-to-date, the Trust turned to Oracle, implementing...

Tags: web content management

[08 Feb 2008]

Providing Comprehensive and Effective Storage Management in Critical Open Environments

whitepaper Excessive time was devoted to administration and the solutions were closely aligned with the respective hardware. As Austria's leading IT services provider to the public sector the BRZ (BundesRechenZentrum) was juggling an assortment of different...

Tags: storage management

[17 Jan 2008]

PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate

News If it is such a good thing, then just why is this administration so evasive about its database-government scheme? He's not levelling with the public. Brown replied: "Because there has to be a vote of Parliament.

Tags: cards, identity, commitment, documents

[10 Jan 2008]

Top 10 government IT stories of the year

News On a more positive note, the public sector - both central and local - has been able to demonstrate a number of IT projects that clearly save money and make administration more efficient. A story that draws together two popular issues - the...

Tags: public sector, hmrc, government, chips

[19 Dec 2007]

Easy, Integrated Solution Gives Workers Remote Access, Improved Productivity

whitepaper ROI, the Dutch Institute for Public Administration, is a nonprofit foundation based in the Netherlands that provides training to government offices in Europe. Many ROI training consultants work from home, accessing the ROI system through a Virtual...

Tags: roi - tco

[18 Dec 2007]

Secretaria de Salud del Estado de Tamaulipas Consolidates Systems and Achieves Budgetary Control

whitepaper The organization wanted to consolidate disparate systems to establish a system of budgetary control over payroll expenses in order to assure good administration and transparency of processes in the use of the secretariat's funds.

Tags: erp

[18 Dec 2007]

Army Corps of Engineers Uses iSCSI SAN to Meet Critical Storage Challenges

whitepaper Simplify administration Despite having owned a fibre channel Storage Area Network (SAN) for six years, the Huntington District Army Corps of Engineers was still using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for the bulk of their data, which includes critical...

Tags: back-up, files, channel, san

[29 Nov 2007]

On Alert With Mobile IP at the Coast Guard

whitepaper Cisco Systems collaborated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to invent the Cisco 3200 Mobile Access Router, a miniaturized router suitable for use in mobile deployments, particularly for military, Homeland Security, law...

Tags: anti-hacking, military, deployments, cisco

[05 Oct 2007]

TechNet Webcast: Overview of Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (Level 300)

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast explains continued investments made in Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA); increased availability models; new management tasks, such as public folder administration, built into the Exchange Management Console.

Tags: application servers, models, microsoft office, outlook

[28 Aug 2007]

MoD trailblazes travel-booking service

News Once the service is up and running, it will be offered to other government departments as a shared service in the hope of reducing administration costs across central government as a whole.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: online travel, shared services, mod

[07 Aug 2007]

Why do public sector projects fail?

Comment The NAO branded the project, "one of the worst public administration scandals of modern times".silicon.com Public Sector The last decade has been littered with huge public sector IT flops. Paul Bentham goes through the hows and whys of those...

Tags: supplier, outsourcing, nhs, public sector

[24 Jul 2007]

Tech to suffer in Brown's new look Whitehall?

News Parliamentary scrutiny of ID cards and other technological and scientific issues could be seriously undermined by the new administration's reorganisation of governmental departments, according to members of a crucial committee.

Tags: id cards, dius, dti

[13 Jul 2007]

Meeting US FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Requirements

whitepaper Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced 21 CFR Part 11 (Part 11) regulations to promote wide usage of electronic technology in the life sciences industry in a way that is compatible with FDA's responsibility to protect public health.

Tags: back-office, life, sciences, life sciences

[13 Jul 2007]

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