The Border Agency’s pound 385m Immigration Case Work IT (ICW) project is running pound 28m over budget and one year behind schedule, the National Audit Office has said. The agency is undertaking transformation of immigration and ...
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Ramzi Rahal, Director of IT, Daman Red Hat today announced that Daman, the UAE’s first specialised national health insurance company, has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform. The move intends to significantly ...
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Key HMRC IT implementations have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The report called for a better understanding of the costs of benefits of the ...
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When economic times are hard there is always pressure on budgets in every area of business operations. Indeed justifying any spend at all has become subject to ever more intense scrutiny and in IT this has been reflected by vendors ...
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Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
Zurich Insurance has extended an IT application outsourcing contract with CSC, which could lead to the relationship spanning 19 years. A seven-year extension to a deal originally penned in 2004, which will start in 2013, also has the ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped year-on-year in the third quarter, with contract values also decreasing, a research firm said. Everest Group, which had reported a drop of 20 percent ...
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Economy (i)GDP Data The overall GDP value in 2005 was RMB 194.2 billion: RMB 35.92 billion from the primary industry, RMB 82.28 billion from the secondary industry, RMB 76.0 billion from the tertiary industry. The proportions of its ...
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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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The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Japan's Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance's European unit (MSIEu) and banned its former executive chairman, Yohichi Kumagai for serious corporate governance failings. The UK watchdog has fined ...
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The Computer Weekly European User Awards honours IT professionals across Europe that have excelled in their approach to using technology, focusing on the key areas of networking and mobile; storage; security; datacentre and virtualisation; ...
How does Electra Bicycles turn a tidy profit marketing products to a nonenthusiast customer base the rest of the industry is largely content to ignore? Electra Marketing Director Elayne Fowler knows. But aside from a few tantalizing hints, ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
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Morrisons today (8 November) announced commercial director Richard Hodgson will leave the UK retailer - on the day it reported another quarter of falling like-for-like sales. Third-quarter sales came in lower than expected as the UK ...
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