operational management in news
Risk management: Be afraid
News CIOs should use marketing-style 'fear, uncertainty and doubt' (FUD) tactics to pressurise boards and senior management into properly resourcing and prioritising operational risk management, a veteran CIO claims. [03 Aug 2005]
Cisco shells out for Sheer Networks
News Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire privately held Sheer Networks, which makes network and service management products, in a deal valued at up to $122m. Technology from Sheer will be used to develop Cisco's next-generation management products for... [27 Jul 2005]
Ideal Hardware cuts jobs as shares tumble
News We had a very bad month in May& we didn't have the right management in place, but that has been rectified today. Despite Wickes' assertion that management problems have been rectified, InterX's share price plummeted from 435p at opening to... [10 Jun 1999]
Tesco thinks inside the box with tech package
News Tesco is using products from CA as part of the project, including desktop management and security software, and products called Service Desk, Support Bridge and Network and Systems Management. The retailer has developed an operational model - a set... [26 Apr 2007]
Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze
News We have the second in June when we will have almost all the venues involved and many more people involved - and other areas like transport management to make it as close to the Olympic Games as you can come from a technical point of view," he said. [13 May 2008]
Informix chief blames crisis on 'operational' problems
News Matt Hanrahan, analyst at Bloor Research, said: "It has had a bad time with mis-management. The new worldwide boss of beleagured database vendor Informix has blamed "operational" issues for the company's recent poor performance. [22 Aug 2000]
Cops puts police office data in the frame
News West Yorkshire police have installed a tailored knowledge management system from Computasoft Consulting. The Contingency and Operational Planning System (Cops) is designed to replace paper manuals and files for office-based operations. [16 Jul 1999]
easyJet wants CRM ROI right here RightNow
News The budget airline is looking to save about £750,000 in operational costs by rolling out customer relationship management technology costing £300,000. RightNow said it comes up with a one-off price as opposed to other 'on demand' hosted CRM vendors... [15 Dec 2004]
Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Overall service management will be handled by Capgemini in the UK, with operational management done from its command centre in Krakow, Poland and additional technical support from a Capgemini centre in Mumbai, India. [17 Apr 2008]
Reuters charges on with IT cost-cutting drive
News We can start to bring the benefits of virtualisation and operational automation, where we can bring remote management and far higher degrees of standardisation to our infrastructure to really make some quite dramatic changes. [13 Oct 2006]
Bank beefs up phishing and online fraud protection systems
News The move is part of a package of measures to improve the ANZ's framework for operational risk management and capital allocation, which was first implemented in 2000. In addition, ANZ said in its earnings statement that it had set up a specialist... [28 Apr 2004]
Barracuda customers left high and dry
News Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda, said: "What we have built in to our spam firewalls is a protection mechanism, so that when an incomplete virus definition comes through the system, it will queue the email rather... [14 Jun 2006]
Server consolidation cuts costs by a quarter
News Server and storage consolidation and a more centralised infrastructure mean a reduction in system overheads, easier data management and a simpler infrastructure and can lead to operational cost savings of between 15 and 25 per cent, claims the... [28 May 2003]
HBOS inks multi-million pound security deal
News He told silicon.com: "Essentially they supply us with their security experts to work under our management so we are not actually handing over any of the management of any of the security to Ernst & Young, specifically not operational security. [22 Jul 2003]
Is this the end of the techie?
News There will be opportunities in process design and management in terms of competitive business processes, design of process automation and operational processes. Relationship and sourcing management will gain ground, demanding strengths in managing... [11 Nov 2005]
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