Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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Agri-business giant Syngenta has put multi-sourced IT at the heart of its ambitious plan to double its revenues in the next eight years. It has moved from having thousands of suppliers across the world to a selected few who it has close ...
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French Connection has cut costs by deploying a stock replenishment automation system. The clothing company signed a deal with IT company Redwood to deploy its Cronacle process automation software. Previously French Connection had two ...
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Recruitment firm SThree has taken on mobile device management provider Good Technology's Good for Enterprise product to manage mobile devices being used by nearly half of its 2,000 workforce. SThree was looking into challenges it faced ...
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Mobile phone group O2 is gearing up to introduce a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme to its operations in Europe and South America, following a successful roll-out in the UK. O2, part of Spain's Telefonica, said the policy has helped ...
Telefonica Digital has partnered with augmented reality(AR)technology company,Aurasma,to broaden its range of AR media services. The plan is to roll out across 25 countries,starting with O2 in the UK. AR provides the ability to liven ...
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Jo Stanford joined the hotel and leisure chain De Vere Group six years ago as IT director. She says the backup challenges she faces in IT at De Vere Group are not specific just to her business. ''The challenge is what data you retain and ...
Managing the availability of businesses'customer-facing online presence is moving away from IT departments and towards marketing.That is according to a newly released report commissioned by SunGard availability services. Delivering ...
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Change in approach to the network Ethernet fabrics Software-defined networking Combining Ethernet fabrics and SDN to cut complexity In an age of innovation in the technology industry,we are blessed with new infrastructure on what feels ...
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MONTEVALLO, Ala.- Summer Classics, a leading outdoor furniture manufacturer and retailer, celebrated its annual Garden Party, Aug. 6-10. The weeklong event allowed customers to view the company's six new collections, additions to existing ...
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David Weymouth, group director of operations and risk at insurance giant RSA, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of training the next generation of IT leaders; the key changes affecting finance technology; and why a government ...
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Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
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The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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