NHS Wales expects to save £1m per year once it has gone live with document management solutions from software provider V1, as well as a range of e-trading solutions across the health service. Further reading Caldicott review: ...
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State-owned investment organisation NS&I has awarded Atos a £660m, seven-year outsourcing contract, which it says will save taxpayers more than £400m over the contract period. The contract is for the delivery of ...
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BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices. Analysts regarded the move -- announced today at BlackBerry Live -- as mostly positive, since it could help an improving BlackBerry expand its ...
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Sainsbury's Bank, the 50/50 joint venture between the supermarket chain and Lloyds Bank, will outsource its entire banking IT platform when Sainsbury's takes complete control of the financial services organisation. Further reading ...
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The business will be headquartered in Luxembourg and will comprise Britton Group, Paragon Print & Packaging, Paccor, Kobusch and Exopack, creating a plastics business with both rigids and flexibles operations in 70 countries and turnover of ...
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Aimed at keeping workers connected to each other and the back office Alliant Energy, a US Midwest-based energy holding company, announced it's aiming to better connect its field technicians across a large geographical area, thanks to the ...
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Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners has announced merging of five of its plastic packaging portfolio companies to form a single company Exopack Holdings, which will be based in Luxembourg. The combined revenue of all the merging ...
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Department stores chain John Lewis has sold more than £1bn of merchandise via its website in the last 52 weeks, the first time it has broken through the £1bn-mark, following a 40 per cent increase in sales generated via the ...
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Zurich-based DKSH has expanded its partnership with Lindt & Sprüngli to Singapore to support Lindt's continued growth in this strategically important market in Asia. Under the agreement, DKSH will provide marketing, sales, ...
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Samsung announced today that its next-generation Galaxy S4 smartphone will be available by the end of April on seven major U.S. carriers, as well as seven retailers. The device runs Android 4.2.2 and includes a 5-in. Super AMOLED ...
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Aircell, a leading provider of in-flight connectivity equipment and services to the business aviation market, has completed its acquisition of the Airfone business unit of LiveTV, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JetBlue Airways ...
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Lincolnshire County Council is seeking a new outsourcing partner following the issue of a tender for services, expected to weigh in at between 85m and 110m. The contract is expected to be awarded in April 2014, with the winning bidder ...
Canadian mutual insurance firm Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company has chosen Guidewire’s PolicyCenter and BillingCenter as its new underwriting and policy administration technology and to manage its billing operations, respectively. ...
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Dovetail Insurance, a provider of cloud-based insurance product delivery services, has completed acquisition of NetComp Insurance, a Colmbia-based growing web-based distributor of workers compensation insurance. The deal combines ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has launched two new SFP optical network ...
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