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RSS disparateThe McCue Interview: United Business Media CIO Matthew Graham-Hyde
Comment Now, as CIO of UBM, Graham-Hyde has around 6,000 end users to keep happy and is spearheading a move towards a standardised IT platform to replace the many disparate systems that have resulted from years of acquisitions and the variety of... [22 May 2006]
Campbell Soup boosts supply chain management
News Michael Mastroianni, vice president of North American planning, reliability and operations at Campbell Soup, said in a statement: "The solution's analytical power and simplicity enable our employees to access critical information from disparate... [24 May 2007]
How call centres caught the teleworking bug
Comment These are drivers behind the emergence of the virtual call centre, allowing companies to integrate together disparate call centre locations along with home workers into a single unified whole. Virtual call centres emerged in the nineties with a... [29 Oct 2003]
Soham murders report slams police IT systems
News Bichard cited the disparate development of local IT systems, many of which do not communicate with each other, as one of the reasons for the difficulty in accessing relevant information needed for decision-making. [22 Jun 2004]
MoD parades £1.5bn networking deal
News Features of that contract include replacing disparate legacy systems and systems interoperability across all the armed forces. The Ministry of Defence has signed a five-year, £1.5bn contract extension which will see BT providing voice, data and... [01 Apr 2005]
What's the fuss about... virtualised IT infrastructure?
Comment Spend might have dried up for the moment but progress continues as previously disparate areas of IT overlap and merge. Here is convergence in all its glory, allowing CIOs to focus on the problems it has to solve, rather than the knock-on effects of... [20 Sep 2002]
Sarbanes-Oxley windfall ahead for techs
News Other sectors set to benefit include document and record management; business process management to integrate disparate business systems; applications compliance management software; and application suites to standardise the business processes for... [16 Nov 2004]
Data warehousing projects reap rewards
News Goodheart said the Littlewoods warehouse project involved a migration from a number of disparate mainframe systems onto a central Unix platform. Many UK companies are discovering how the potential of their data warehousing projects can be fulfilled... [02 Nov 1998]
IBM offers DNA research tool
News Web services is the name given to many Web-based standards and protocols designed to let organizations connect disparate applications and share data. IBM is giving away free web services technology to help scientists track down DNA, as the company... [22 Apr 2003]
IBM announces server division shake-up
News This signifies IBM has finally managed to merge its once disparate hardware divisions. IBM has confirmed it is planning to drastically reorganise its server business, with an announcement on the changes scheduled for October. [24 Aug 2000]
Criminal Justice IT opening cheque book
News The system will "require high availability and reliability to a large number of disparate users", says the tender notice. The UK government's £1.2bn criminal justice IT programme is looking for suppliers to deliver software and data hosting... [13 Jul 2004]
£4bn MoD deal down to two bidders
News The winning bidder will get a 10-year contract to design and build a single information infrastructure for the MoD, covering 177,000 desktops and disparate systems worldwide. Two consortia have made today's deadline for bids for the tough 10-year... [05 Apr 2004]
Google adds wikis to its arsenal
News Google won't have to piece it all together from disparate parts. Google's empire building has swallowed up JotSpot, a company which provides a hosted service to corporate customers building wikis. In a blog post announcing the deal JotSpot co... [01 Nov 2006]
'Mix-and-match' drives offshore cost savings
News Datamonitor said Centrica is one company that has taken this approach of outsourcing a single customer accounts entity to India rather than a number of disparate systems and that as a result its cost of servicing each customer will fall from... [07 Sep 2006]
Perot Systems bags £108m slice of NHS IT
News BT awarded another chunk of the London contract earlier this year to SeeBeyond, which will provide the software to integrate a number of disparate systems throughout London that currently have minimal connectivity. [15 Dec 2004]
