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Working in Unison: HP Blade Videos: How BladeSystem Brings It All Together

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast talks about HP BladeSystem. It shows how the sum of the BladeSystem is greater than the parts, & how it brings multiple assets into one.

Tags: blades, bladesystem, hp bladesystem, assets

[13 Nov 2007]

Carry Your Customers in Your Pocket With Microsoft CRM Mobile

whitepaper Microsoft CRM Mobile works in unison with Microsoft CRM 1.2 on Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2003 and Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition devices to provide the mobile sales force with instant access to the important...

Tags: windows ce, microsoft windows, crm, pc

[16 Apr 2007]

Swansea ditches outsourcing plans

News Swansea finally inked the £83m 10-year contract for phase one of the service@swansea project last year after a bitter 18-month battle with IT staff and trade union Unison over whether workers would be permanently transferred or seconded to Capgemini.

Tags: swansea, capgemini

[12 Jan 2007]

Microsoft and Yahoo! IM working in unison

News Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Microsoft and Yahoo! have done it. The companies are set to today release a limited beta test of a service that will enable users of Windows Live Messenger...

Tags: google talk, yahoo, im, microsoft

[13 Jul 2006]

Outsourcing row breaks out at Westminster City Council

News But public sector trade union Unison has threatened strike action if Westminster staff, originally transferred to Vertex under the terms of the outsourcing deal, who refuse to move to Dingwall are threatened with redundancy.

Tags: vertex, westminster city council

[22 Feb 2006]

Tracking the Transit Tracks in Brussels

whitepaper Understanding that each of these railway assets needs to work in unison to safely move trams from A to B, STIB/MIVB adopted a GIS based on STAR INFORMATIC software to enable personnel to work together to manage effectively these physical assets...

Tags: assets, physical, personnel, serve

[16 Feb 2006]

£30m council outsourcing deal up for grabs

News The contract will also be made available as a framework agreement to members of the London Contracts and Supplies Group, a procurement body made up of other boroughs, universities, the Metropolitan Police, Unison and a number of charities.

Tags: southwark, outsourcing

[03 Feb 2006]

Council finally inks controversial £83m IT deal

News Swansea council has finally signed an £83m IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini after a protracted and bitter 18-month battle over jobs with staff and the trade union Unison. That resulted in the threat of further strike action after Unison...

Tags: outsourcing, swansea, capgemini

[04 Jan 2006]

IBM secures £158m deal with Bradford Council

News After reaching an agreement with union representatives at Unison, the council completed its £158m deal with IBM. Chris Jenkinson, regional officer for Unison, told Government Computing News on 4 July, 2005, that the union is now satisfied with the...

Tags: bradford-i, bradford, ibm

[05 Jul 2005]

IT staff vote for strike over outsourcing job losses

IT staff vote for strike over outsourcing job losses

News IT staff were balloted on industrial action after union Unison claimed the council had broken promises during earlier rounds of contract negotiations that there would be no job losses as a result of the Bradford-i outsourcing project.

Tags: bradford, outsourcing

[13 Jun 2005]

Outsourcing job losses trigger strike ballot

Outsourcing job losses trigger strike ballot

News Trade union Unison claims the council has broken promises made during earlier contract negotiations that there would be no job losses as a result of the Bradford-i outsourcing project. Patrick Kerry, lead negotiator for Unison, said: "Industrial...

Tags: bradford, outsourcing

[31 May 2005]

IT outsourcing redundancies may spark strike

IT outsourcing redundancies may spark strike

News Trade union Unison is now also claiming that Serco plans to make a third of the 105 IT staff redundant within a year of the outsourcing contract starting, even though the council had previously assured staff there would be no job losses.

Tags: bradford-i, serco, bradford council, bradford

[23 May 2005]

Swansea IT staff lose outsourcing transfer fight

Swansea IT staff lose outsourcing transfer fight

News Over 100 IT staff at Swansea went on an eight-week strike last year over the 'service@swansea' outsourcing plans, with trade union Unison claiming council leaders had failed to consult staff and evaluate an in-house alternative.

[15 Apr 2005]

£100m outsourcing strike row resurfaces

£100m outsourcing strike row resurfaces

News Over 100 IT staff at Swansea went on an eight-week strike last year over the Service@Swansea outsourcing plans with trade union Unison claiming council leaders had failed to consult staff and evaluate an in-house alternative.

[08 Apr 2005]

Swansea settles on Capgemini for 10-year outsourcing

Swansea settles on Capgemini for 10-year outsourcing

News Jeff Baker, Unison's regional officer, said the trade union gave the deal "a cautious welcome" but the wrangling which has dogged the deal is far from over. Baker told silicon.com while Unison's evaluators had a "clear preference" for Capgemini...

Tags: noa, acas, outsourcing, swansea

[17 Dec 2004]

Swansea strike action called off

Swansea strike action called off

News Trade union Unison has called off a series of one-day walk outs by council staff at Swansea over a proposed £100m IT outsourcing deal. But a Unison regional branch meeting today voted not to proceed with the action and a planned overtime ban has...

Tags: strike, outsourcing, swansea, it

[25 Oct 2004]

Striking Swansea IT workers return to work

Striking Swansea IT workers return to work

News The trade union Unison and the council agreed the terms for the suspension through a deal brokered by arbitration service Acas, which was called in to break the deadlock last month. A joint statement issued by Swansea and Unison said: "After a...

[11 Oct 2004]

IT strike escalation backed by over 1,000 council staff

IT strike escalation backed by over 1,000 council staff

News The council has largely managed to keep its main systems up and running during the strike but in an attempt to turn the screw Unison balloted 5,000 members at the council claiming the project is part of a wider privatisation agenda in Swansea.

[06 Oct 2004]

Thousands balloted on IT strike escalation at Swansea

Thousands balloted on IT strike escalation at Swansea

News Trade union Unison started sending out the ballot papers yesterday asking non-IT council workers if they are prepared to vote for industrial action in support of the 102 IT staff who have been on strike since August over the service@swansea project.

[24 Sep 2004]

Acas brought in to end Swansea IT strike

Acas brought in to end Swansea IT strike

News Swansea council and Unison will today begin talks to end the bitter five-week old strike after arbitration service Acas was brought in to try and break the deadlock. Unison is currently in the process of balloting 5,000 staff across the council on...

[17 Sep 2004]

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