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U.K. Mental Health Trust Improves Knowledge Transfer With Technical Support Contract

whitepaper Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust wanted to transfer knowledge to its IT people to improve operational excellence and prepare to bid for NHS Foundation Trust status. By automating daily tasks with the help of Microsoft Services, IT technicians...

Tags: customer support services

[12 May 2008]

Process Adoption Anti-Patterns: How - Not - to Make a Process Work for You

whitepaper Erich Gamma laid the foundation for software design patterns with his PhD dissertation in the early '90s. Patterns are part of the software professional's toolbox today. Specifically, one learns about design patterns - ways of designing the...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Promote Regular Team Interaction

whitepaper Successful teams are characterized by interdependence, a quality that is built upon the foundation of trust, confidence, and a willingness to openly discuss strengths and weaknesses with respect to processes, projects, and the team itself.

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News The Unesco-recognised scheme to revolutionise rural education, healthcare and sanitation through technology and business acumen, is the work of the Byrraju Foundation - a not-for-profit organisation set up by chairman of Indian outsourcer Satyam...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Construction Software Provider Equips Employees for Flexible Remote Access With Citrix GoToMyPC Pro

whitepaper GoToMyPC Pro gives Foundation Software employees the flexibility to work from home when it's difficult to drive into the office. Foundation Software provides the leading accounting and financial software management solutions for the construction...

Tags: remote access - ra servers, united states, contractors, clients

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work: Eesti Uhispank

whitepaper Eesti Uhispank selected Hitachi Data Systems' modular Thunder 9570V as the foundation of their new storage environment. A subsidiary of the Swedish banking conglomerate, SEB Group, Eesti Uhispank is now one of the most advanced banks in Europe...

Tags: sans, banking, terms, hitachi data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

Bill Gates: Windows 7 coming 'in the next year or so'

News Gates, who is due to leave his day-to-day functions at Microsoft and dedicate himself to the philanthropic efforts of the Gates Foundation in June, said the company aims, through its $6bn annual research and development budget, to take the...

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, windows, vista

[07 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News We have built the foundation blocks for success and assuming we achieve our goals there is no reason why we would not continue with the arrangement. Our goal is to make redundancies zero, there is a significant amount of work available both inside...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Business Drivers Behind the Online Spreadsheet Boom: Key Criteria for Secure Business Community Management

whitepaper The Web 2.0 concept is a vital foundation and enabler for using the Internet to deliver community management and specialized application services. The traditional structure of business is rapidly becoming obsolete - driven by fundamental shifts in...

Tags: business management

[27 Mar 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Building WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend (Level 100)

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn how to build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications with the help of the new WPF designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The attendee will learn the basics of building WPF applications in the...

Tags: programming languages, studio, designer, visual studio

[27 Mar 2008]

SoupMan Finds a Key Ingredient for Business Growth

whitepaper Soup Kitchen International evaluated running Citrix as a foundation with Windows Server 2003. Interoperability was critical: the solution would have to work with the existing accounting system, e-mail system (Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and...

Tags: application servers, outlook, windows server, kitchen

[23 Mar 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the foundation for its £300m Voyager business transformation project. This first phase of Voyager will cost around £160m including - in addition to the SAP...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

Arras Hospital Paves the Way for Connected Health Across Europe

whitepaper The challenge was to build foundation for a Connected Hospital as part of the wider connected healthcare system. Arras Hospital wanted to improve quality of patient experience with better care and shorter admissions as well as raise productivity...

Tags: collaboration tools

[04 Mar 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment And a new study by the Nasscom Foundation has explored and measured the social and wider economic impact of the industry. Retiring Nasscom president Kiran Karnik has increasingly pressed this issue and sought a greater focus on practical work.

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

Photos: Gates takes final UK bow and points to a green future

Photo He discussed everything from the future of technology to politics, as well as his upcoming plans and the charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates addressed the Institute of Directors in London this week in what is likely...

Tags: gates, surface, charity, london

[31 Jan 2008]

.uk branches out to fund "worthwhile" web

News We are extremely excited about the types of work the foundation will be able to fund. However, she was keen to emphasise the Nominet Foundation would not divert funding from Nominet's work on the UK's internet infrastructure and systems, claiming...

Tags: .uk, charity, foundation, google

[18 Jan 2008]

Which cities top the wealth league?

News A report by The Work Foundation has found cities in various parts of England - not just the South East - are thriving on the back of growth in 'knowledge intensive jobs'. The Work Foundation report backs this view: economic success in every region...

Tags: earnings, knowledge economy, london, workers

[07 Jan 2008]

Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

whitepaper The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the foundation for project planning and control. It is the connecting point for work and cost estimates, schedule information, actual work effort/cost expenditures, and accountability.

Tags: project management, manager, plan, project manager

[06 Jan 2008]

Real Results Report: Health services organizations comply with HIPAA using WebEx

whitepaper Iowa Foundation for Medical Care improved the quality of customer training by using WebEx to maximize training budgets and reduce travel time and cost. See how these four companies experienced phenomenal results by integrating WebEx into their work...

Tags: help desk

[20 Dec 2007]

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