A number of large public sector contracts buoyed IT services company Atos Origin in the third quarter, with the outsourcer reporting double-digit growth. Atos Origin grew its UK market 10% to €426m, compared with the same quarter the ...
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The government is expected to announce eight suppliers to provide identity assurance (IDA) to consumers of online public services. The move will enable consumers to choose from a range of providers to verify their identity in accessing ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to announce the first suppliers in the government's identity assurance (IDA) scheme at the end of October. The IDA scheme is intended to provide UK citizens with a choice of providers 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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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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The Cabinet Office has blacklisted Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for government IT contracts because they constitute too high a risk. According to FT.com, Fujitsu will not be considered by the Cabinet Office for new ...
Jeremy Hunt has been replaced as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport by Maria Miller (pictured), who moves from the Department for Work and Pensions. The move comes as part of the government's ministerial reshuffle, which ...
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Ex-government CIO Joe Harley has hit back at his former deputy CIO Bill McCluggage's claims that the government is unable to achieve its IT goals. Harley worked with McCluggage in his year in charge of government ICT before retiring from ...
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Earlier this week,former government CIO Joe Harley announced that he would be taking up the role of strategic adviser at managed services company Amor Group. Further reading At the helm of government ICT:interview with Andy Nelson ...
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has appointed Larry Hilsheimer as director of its Retirement Plans, while Anne Arvia will lead Nationwide Direct, Affinity and Growth Solutions. Nationwide chief executive officer Steve Rasmussen said ...
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Six London councils are undergoing an Oracle shared services implementation, in a move expected to save £18m over four years. The London Boroughs of Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Lambeth, Lewisham, Havering and Croydon will be ...
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"It's not our policy to comment on things like that,"said a spokesman for ArcelorMittal,the world's largest steel producer,which outsourced its IT to CSC in July 2011. Transport for London(TfL),which in January renewed a CSC contract on ...
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Technology firm CSC has said that its global insurance software suite Integral is available on Microsoft's Windows Server with a SQL Server database. CSC said that the addition of the Microsoft technology to Integral's portable Java-based ...
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