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Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Online services allow citizens to put in maintenance requests and enquire about rent balances. Hackney homes head of ICT services Trish Haill said in a statement: "Rather than update existing systems we wanted... [15 Aug 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Both Davey and Connell praised Vista's ability to facilitate systems to be shared more effectively in helping set up shared services agreements. They don't need to be seen to keep their user interface software... [30 May 2008]
Government flexes its shared service muscle
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) has signed on to a managed desktop shared service run by Fujitsu Services. Fujitsu will provide Cafcass with managed desktop services for 2... [20 Mar 2008]
Sussex Council outsources desktop role
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! West Sussex County Council (WSCC) has signed a £14m desktop contract with services company Serco. The council will also work with Serco to offer a shared service to other councils, agencies and partners across... [13 Feb 2008]
Fire services share Dream finance software
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Essex Fire Authority (FA) is to use the financial systems of another Fire and Rescue service as part of a shared services agreement. He added both fire services have small financial teams which will be able to... [04 Dec 2007]
Data sharing 'could sap public confidence'
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The government has been warned increased data sharing between departments and services could result in a decline in citizens' confidence in public bodies. He said schemes such as the National Identity Register... [12 Nov 2007]
Thomas Cook outsources to Accenture
News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! Accenture will deliver the services through a shared services centre in the UK, as well as additional resources from its "global delivery network". Leisure travel specialist Thomas Cook Group has extended its... [06 Nov 2007]
Cabinet Office flexes its shared services
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Recently the Cabinet Office has embraced shared back-office services under the guidance of public sector CIO John Suffolk. Earlier this year, the Cabinet Office announced a deal with Fujitsu Services for a... [25 Oct 2007]
Gov shared services spending to hit $1.27bn
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! UK government spending on shared services is expected to rocket over the next five years as demand for centralised services increases. Shared services spending in the UK public sector is forecast to hit $1.27bn... [06 Sep 2007]
East England Ambulance rides the Airwave
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Airwave, which has already been adopted by a number of police forces, gives users a resilient, clear comms line that can be shared by many users within each service or by two or more emergency services at one... [24 Aug 2007]
£50m boost for IT in schools
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! IT services provider Civica predicts the contracts with Sheffield City Council and Essex County Council could generate around £50m in revenues over the next decade. [08 Aug 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study Sign up for the PS newsletter today! He decided to consolidate citizens' records as a resource that would be shared by a number of departments, based around a contact management system provided by software and services specialist Lagan. [06 Aug 2007]
Retiring House of Fraser IT boss not being replaced
News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! At John Lewis, for example, the department store arm of John Lewis Partnership (JLP), the role of director of computing services, which focuses on systems shared by all JLP divisions, now reports directly to... [01 Aug 2007]
North London NHS workers get remote access
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! The IT service provider for the areas, Camden and Islington ICT Shared Services, has been working on the project with NTL: Telewest Business for three years. Steve Guise, senior technical project manager at... [21 Jun 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment Sign up for the PS newsletter today! If IT suppliers are worried shared services might mean fewer big government contracts, they should look at the recent past. Since the launch of Sir David Varney's report on transformational government, shared... [20 Jun 2007]
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