Huntingdonshire District Council is to switch from enterprise software vendor Aptean's Onyx CRM solution to Microsoft Dynamics and Optevia Local Government Essentials(OLGE)to cut costs. he council had shared the Onyx CRM platform under an ...
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Five local authorities have saved£31m by moving to shared services arrangements,according to a report. The study,commissioned by public sector lobby group the Local Government Association,and produced by consultancy Drummond ...
Somerset County Council is making preparations for legal action from Southwest One, the shared services joint venture it formed with IBM in 2007. The stand-off is the culmination of 18 months of crisis talks over the joint venture's ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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There's little doubt that multi-sourcing enterprise IT services. The average U.S. IT shop is working with 13.5 service providers overall, according to Gartner. But managing multiple providers remains a challenge for most IT organizations. ...
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Sound system maker Bang & Olufsen is rolling out Microsoft Office 365 to its 2,000 employees as it moves email away from Lotus Notes. The decision was taken when the company decided to upgrade its email system and the cloud was seen as ...
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Welch Allyn has commenced a global restructuring program to reshape its business and realign resources over the next three years to meet the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing global healthcare environment. The global ...
The Cabinet Office must show strong leadership if it is to make shared services work, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned. The comments follow a PAC report, which echoes the National Audit Office’s findings in March that ...
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Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group. The community cloud project is built on a multi-tenanted cloud platform installed and supported by ANS Group in partnership ...
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Mutuals need to be effectively promoted across the whole public sector, not just Whitehall, MPs have warned. The Cabinet Office is making moves to mutualise government services, particularly in the area of shared service IT systems ...
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Barnet Council will cut 70%of staff from the back-office functions it is outsourcing to Capita in a controversial deal to automate council services. The London borough's Cabinet is expected to approve the deal in a vote this evening,that ...
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International supplier of recycled packaging for consumer goods DS Smith Recycling has announced investment in a new shared service center at Caerphilly Business Park in the UK to centralize its IT, HR and finance operations. According to ...
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Cheshire Constabulary has adopted software from SolarWinds to monitor and track the performance of its IT systems across the county. The police force has headquarters in Winsford, between Manchester and Liverpool, and serves almost one ...
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Supercar maker Automobili Lamborghini has migrated its legacy servers onto Amazon Web Services (AWS), halving the running cost. The car company has replaced an outdated website and infrastructure with AWS. The new website was built in ...
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