contracts
RSS contractsContracts and Middleware for Safe SOA Applications
White Paper The paper seeks an approach to building such SOAs based on the specification of service requirements as declarative contracts, and the enforcement of these contracts at the level of the middleware. This... [15 Jan 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom (Part 02 of 15): Contracts (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast provides practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts - showing one when and how to employ each. Clients... [28 Aug 2007]
EC wants disabled access clauses in IT contracts
News Future government IT contracts could be forced to contain clauses that ensure the technology is accessible to elderly and disabled people, according to new proposals by the European Commission (EC). The EC cites support... [04 Apr 2005]
IT vendors bag share of £2bn NHS IT contracts
News Four new IT suppliers are to bag a share of the £2bn NHS IT contracts for the North East and Eastern regions of the country as part of a deal with Accenture. Accenture won the two Local Service Provider (LSP)... [01 Feb 2005]
Alcatel contracts boost Asian-Pacific networks
News Alcatel's presence in Asia Pacific is to expand after winning two large contracts in Taipei and China. Alcatel's CGA Transport division was awarded the $10m contract to supply Taipei's public transport network with a... [07 Apr 2000]
£2.7bn NHS IT contracts awarded
News IT contracts worth a total of £2.7bn have been awarded today as part of the NHS' IT modernisation plans. Two regional contracts have also been awarded. Other Local Service Provider (LSP)... [08 Dec 2003]
Novell and PeopleSoft seal Lufthansa contracts
News German airline Lufthansa has signed two massive IT contracts with Novell and PeopleSoft to provide directory services, security and CRM for its 70,000 workers. Defying the steep decline in the worldwide air travel... [15 Jan 2002]
Revenue and Customs merge IT contracts
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has integrated the two separate IT contracts that were in place before the merger of the Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue departments last year. The old Customs & Excise IT contract held by... [06 Apr 2006]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News IBM and CSC have been awarded contracts to run some of the technology behind the government's ID cards and passports schemes. These contracts bring ID cards and more secure British passports a step... [08 Apr 2009]
AremisSoft wins £1.1m healthcare contracts
News AremisSoft has just received NHS accreditation for two of its healthcare systems - Genisyst 4 NT and Global Clinical System V2 - which it will use in the latest contracts. US healthcare software supplier, AremisSoft has... [18 Jun 1999]
Probabilistic QoS and Soft Contracts for Transaction Based Web Services Orchestrations
White Paper Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on contracts established... [04 Aug 2008]
Long contracts more popular than wads of cash
News IT contractors are dreaming of longer contracts. A survey by IT recruitment company Parity Resources has found contract length is top of contractors' priorities, with a fifth (20 per cent) of survey respondents saying it... [15 Jan 2009]
£27m NHS IT framework contracts disclosed
News The purchasing arm of the NHS has issued contracts for vendors such as Cable & Wireless, Colt, Telewest and a number of smaller firms to carry out work in the health service throughout the UK. According to the NHS... [04 Aug 2005]
£3bn gov't IT contracts up for grabs
News Tech contracts worth a total of £3bn are up for grabs at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of plans for servicing and upgrading the organisation's entire infrastructure. Five IT... [01 Jul 2008]
Just one mega-deal as outsourcing contracts plummet
News The number of new contracts signed in Europe fell from 75 to 56 from the second to the third quarter, with total contract value decreasing from $18.5bn to $5.5bn, according to business advisory company TPI. [17 Oct 2008]
