Unprecedented federal budget problems are creating a new reality for the software development operations of government IT units. The days of the big, lumbering, multiyear government IT projects are likely coming to an end as more and more ...
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The nominations are open for the fourth Network World Middle East Awards, the major networking awards event on the regional IT calendar. Recognising both users and vendors, the Network World Middle East Awards recognises innovation on ...
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HTG, Inc., a Vancouver, WA based technology integration firm, has been awarded a multi-million dollar nationwide contract with a well-known early education giant, in what CEO Kermit Macaulay calls another "David and Goliath" experience. ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to investigate what happened with a massive, failed U.S. Air Force ERP (enterprise resource planning) project, amid a rising tide of calls for action on Capitol Hill to reduce wasteful IT spending. ...
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HTG Inc. awarded ITIL3 Best Practices certifications, leads to winning Excellence in Global IT Support award from international client. VANCOUVER, WA, January 28, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- HTG, Inc. announced the successful completion of ...
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U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged government officials to clamp down on bad IT contracts and limit duplication across projects, with an estimated one quarter of federal spending on IT wasted every year. The U.S. government will spend nearly ...
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An Arizona school district is mulling over whether to continue working on a major software project, upgrade its legacy system or restart from scratch with a different product. The Tucson Unified School District began working on the Lawson ...
Cloud computing services must become more federated and automated to help enterprise IT use them to deliver more for less,according to Intel. "At a time when IT budgets are tight and when the IT teams are expected to deliver more for ...
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CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation. The analyst company is urging CIOs to focus on technology-led business transformational change, instead of ...
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Law firm Addleshaw Goddard is using an IT service management (ITSM) service in the cloud as part of a programme to improve IT for the business that has 1,250 IT users in the UK and Singapore. After analysing the market and putting out a ...
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More than half of IT decision-makers have cited power efficiency as their number one priority in the datacentre for the next three to five years, according to a study of 250 IT executives. The research by Computacenter revealed that ...
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Family business Bete, which specialises in distributing industrial spray nozzles, has adopted Claranet to support a staff of 10 home workers. The approach Bete has taken with its IT has put it in a position to offer specialist warehousing ...
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Sally Howes, IT director at the National Audit Office, has extensive experience in the IT sector and was brought in to boost the government watchdog's technical skills. Under her guidance the NAO is expanding its role beyond project ...
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In an IT industry obsessed with the "next big thing", questions about how IT leaders are changing their strategies to cope with global economic turbulence are common. But if you ask something along those lines to the CIO of oil services ...
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When David Anderson published From Worst To Best In Nine Months, he thought he was writing a Microsoft case study about something called "Drum Buffer Rope." Turns out that Anderson was also in the process of defining Kanban for software ...
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