rail services
RSS rail servicesThe Role of ICT in the Rail Industry: Getting From A to B
White Paper The challenges of running rail networks are immense, as rail operators need to deal with the complexity of rail networks, while maintaining services, and customer and... [02 Oct 2009]
U.K. Engineering Consultancy on Track to Visible Project Management With New Portal
White Paper Atkins provides services covering every aspect of rail operations. Atkins is Europe's biggest multidisciplinary consultancy and the largest consultant engineer for the United Kingdom... [25 Jul 2009]
Photos: The UK's top CIOs
Photo Among the CIOs to take in the view was the winner of the 2009 silicon.com CIO50 - Catherine Doran, director of corporate development at Network Rail. Marc Earl, CIO of global business services and... [19 Jun 2009]
Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
News The report adds the government is looking at "cost-effective" ways to support railway rollouts - with one possible option being to make high-speed broadband services part of the rail franchise... [17 Jun 2009]
Revealed: The UK's top technology executive
News Catherine Doran, director of corporate development at Network Rail, has been voted the UK's most influential technology leader. Doran topped this year's CIO50 list as she heads a programme to transform the way Network... [10 Jun 2009]
Asciano Improves Application Performance Fourfold With Grid Computing
White Paper Asciano was formed in 2007 following a merger between rail freight services provider Pacific National and ports and stevedoring operator Patrick. With the merger came the need to standardize on one... [03 Mar 2009]
Meiko Uses Improved Customer Information Management to Expand Maintenance Business
White Paper Meiko Construction wanted to improve customer information management to support diversification from rail into broader public and private sector construction and maintenance and upgrade sales systems to share and... [30 Dec 2008]
Fujitsu lands £13m rail info contract
News Under the deal, Fujitsu will continue to run Atoc's Rail Journey Information Service. The service forms the IT systems underpinning the Rail Enquiry Service and is also used by the 22 Atoc members and... [03 Dec 2008]
Swedish IT Agency on Track With Virtualization Solution That Boosts Customer Service
White Paper Banverket ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is the IT and communications services provider for Banverket, the Swedish rail authority. It also provides ICT services to... [07 Nov 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: What next for mobile email?
Comment Catherine Doran Network Rail There have been a number of products and services aimed at the mobile consumer but despite the success of mobile email in certain broad business user sectors, consumer... [16 Oct 2008]
CIOs back call for common skills scheme
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Neil Bath, group head of information services, Brewin Dolphin Securities said: "It is really the experience and projects that candidates have been involved in that count. Rob... [13 Oct 2008]
Associated Newspapers' CIO quits
News Catherine Doran Network Rail The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) group is merging the IT organisations of Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Media to create a new department, called A&N Media IT... [08 Oct 2008]
Why CIOs aren't on the Chrome straight
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Chrome is the latest product in Google's reasonably successful attempt to expand into the business software and services market and it's clear that some CIOs have already had... [03 Oct 2008]
Built-in email, editing ditched in Windows 7
News Catherine Doran Network Rail The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista but later chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially... [23 Sep 2008]
CIOs: All our apps will be in the cloud by 2013
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Google and Microsoft have been leading the push to the cloud, with popular online collaboration services in the shape of Google Apps and Office Live Workspace, while the... [08 Sep 2008]
