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Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News Seven in 10 government IT projects have failed, according to the chief information officer of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Andy Burn, head of information management and technology planning for CfH, said, while the project has... [18 May 2007]
Failed IT project costs clearing house €47m
News Clearing house LCH.Clearnet has written off €47.8m after scrapping a failed three-year project to build an integrated clearing IT platform for the company. A review of the GCS programme last year had already written off €20.1m on part of the... [25 Jul 2006]
Failed IT projects costing firms £13m a year
News One common reason for failed projects is staff's fear of telling a CEO when a project he has backed is going off the rails - leading to millions of pounds being wasted. UK firms are each wasting £13m a year by not ditching failing IT projects... [17 May 2004]
Mothercare loses millions with failed IT system
News Steven Buckley, marketing director at supply chain specialist Exe technologies, said: "It looks like they haven't sized the system properly, and failed to train staff properly. Retailer Mothercare learnt the value of robust IT systems this week... [09 Oct 2001]
MPs slam "appalling waste of public money" on failed IT projects
News MPs have called for the "cloak of commercial confidentiality" to be lifted after an eight-month inquiry slammed the "appalling" waste of taxpayers money on failed government IT projects. The Work and Pensions select committee inquiry into the... [22 Jul 2004]
US mobile phones failed in 'hour of need'
News In many ways these incidents represent the times when mobile phones should really come into their own - and yet twice now they have failed their users. US mobile phone services once are coming in for criticism in the wake of their failure to keep... [18 Aug 2003]
BT eyes up failed Energis division
News BT is reported to be interested in the assets of Ision - the failed German arm of troubled UK telco Energis. Energis pulled the plug on its German offering on Friday - taking a £500m hit in the process - but undeterred by Energis' failure to make... [13 May 2002]
Keytool and the "Failed to Establish Chain From Reply" Error
White Paper In order to explain the cause of the "Failed to establish chain from Reply" error message, some background on importing certificate replies is required. Using the two methods discussed in this paper, it should be possible to import a certificate... [27 Sep 2006]
How to Rapidly Recover from a Failed Application Security Audit
White Paper This paper describes the Audit and Penetration Test process and how to rapidly recover from a failed security audit of your web application. Many a web application owner and IT manager lie awake at night worried that one of their critical... [11 Nov 2005]
Verizon admits to $2.5bn failed investments
News Verizon Communications has said it will take a one-off hit of $2.5bn for its first quarter relating to a number of failed investments. The New York-based telecoms firm blamed overseas investment for its exceptional charge, having seen the share... [10 Apr 2002]
Recovering a Failed Exchange 2003 Member Server Using the Disaster Recovery Switch
White Paper In order to restore a failed Exchange 2003 Server, a person can install a "New" one using the Disaster Recovery switch, but there are several steps to it, and they need to be performed in the correct order. [20 Oct 2006]
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 5: Managing Failed and Unrecoverable Events With IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1
White Paper The WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1 enhanced, integrated administrative console lets one administer failed events. In this paper, learn how to troubleshoot and manage failed and unrecoverable events for business monitor model applications. [26 Apr 2008]
Failed website turns to online auctioneer for salvation
News Failed networks services company Madge.Web is to become the first European dot-com to have its assets auctioned over the web. The sale is being hosted by DoveBid - a company that specialises in selling off the assets of companies in trouble. [22 Oct 2001]
Failed Powernet generates buyer interest
News A spokesman for receivers Arthur Andersen said: "We had a number of offers before yesterday's deadline. Now we want to pull it down to a shortlist and get around a table. We hope to finish the sale as soon as is possible. [03 Nov 2000]
Akzo Nobel's Organon Business Unit Chooses Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for Its Global Portal and Reduces Failed Information Searches 50% While Increasing Productivity 10% Through
White Paper Organon is the largest of three pharmaceutical business units of Akzo Nobel, a leading global company in pharmaceuticals, coatings, and chemicals. Organon wanted to better organize and secure corporate information, create collaborative, flexible... [14 Jan 2008]
