PZU Insurance Group (PZU) has selected Guidewire PolicyCenter and Guidewire BillingCenter for underwriting, policy administration and billing operations. In addition to Guidewire Rating Management, PZU selected Guidewire Reinsurance ...
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IBM has partnered with electric cars and vehicles charging infrastructure company ESB ecars to develop an integrated electric vehicle smart charging IT system that will manage electric vehicle public charge points in Ireland. Under the ...
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EDF blamed a major upgrade of its core systems for failing to meet customer complaint handling standards, but expects to have resolved problems by the end of the year. EDF recently migrated millions of customer accounts from multiple ...
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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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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims the IT behind its flagship Universal Credit (UC) project is being developed using agile principles. But just how agile is the £2.2bn seven-year project? Universal Credit is a complex ...
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UK domain registrar 123-reg is helping website owners to protect themselves and their visitors with a new tool that identifies and helps remove malicious code from legitimate websites. According to the latest Anti-Phishing Working Group ...
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Atis Artemjevs, a new independent boutique selling luxury womenswear based in London's prestigious Fulham Road, has chosen e-rmis and e-pos, the retail management system from Eurostop, a provider of solutions to the fashion and footwear ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition to test the ability of amateur cyber defenders to protect a simulated government IT system. The competition is designed and run by the government's communications ...
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The government has spent 638m pounds on universal credit IT to date, with 441m pounds going on design and development, the minister for employment Mark Hoban revealed in answer to a Parliamentary question. A breakdown of the IT ...
Cyber security is the biggest challenge for the government's universal credit roll-out,welfare reform minister David Freud has told a select committee. Speaking to a select committee,pensions minister Ian Duncan Smith said government had ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hit back at calls to delay its flagship welfare reform following concerns that the IT underpinning the Universal Credit project is not ready. Labour is now calling on the government to ...
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Inchcape Shipping Services(ISS)is implementing a cloud-based HR system to manage its 3,700 disparate global staff,after basing its choice of supplier on 10 key questions. ISS is now in the process of implementing a ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - At a Computerworld Hong Kong event years ago, I heard a senior executive explain how online retailer Amazon re-engineered their e-commerce process for the Christmas gift-giving season. Like many retail ...
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Manganese Bronze, the maker of the iconic black London taxi cab, has reported a £3.9m hole in its accounts caused, it says, by a software fault in its accounting systems. As a result, it has put back the release of its unaudited ...
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Without a properly functioning optical transceiver,any computer,laptop or IT system would be rendered useless.No one understands this better than FluxLight,the online leader for computer component retail.FluxLight makes shopping for ...
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