Five local authorities have saved£31m by moving to shared services arrangements,according to a report. The study,commissioned by public sector lobby group the Local Government Association,and produced by consultancy Drummond ...
Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce in a project that is expected to pay for itself in under two years. Telefonica Digital is to spend several million on Workday's cloud-based ...
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The Chinese people's main goal in most negotiations is to establish a relationship for future business opportunities. Guanxi is more important in these cases. The Chinese will spend considerable time on bargaining, drafting agreements, ...
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Barclays bank has adopted Salesforce’s enterprise social networking tool, Chatter, to help sales teams keep closer contact with their customers. At the roll-out, during this week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, ...
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The Department of Health has clawed back £1bn from troubled supplier CSC in a legally binding agreement. The deal will see Lorenzo electronic patient record systems used in just 10 trusts, down from 160. CSC will retain ...
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India's auction of mobile spectrum has not attracted new foreign investors, reflecting growing uncertainty about investment policies in the country and the growth potential of its mobile market. Telenor and the Indian joint venture of NTT ...
For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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Whitehall must measure the progress of its IT strategy more effectively, particularly the use of agile methodologies,if it is to achieve its technology transformation agenda, the Institute for Government has warned. In its report, System ...
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Reuters reported that General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen scrapped plans for a joint mid size car program, narrowing the scope for vehicle sharing within their nascent alliance while adding engine cooperation. The automakers in a ...
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The size and complexity of the county led Maricopa to search for specialist consulting firms to support the project. Maricopa selected Accent, a company with extensive tax assessment software consulting experience. VANCOUVER, WA, October ...
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IT services company Atos has launched its annual IT Challenge competition which asks students to design applications. For 2013 the company has partnered with car manufacturer Renault, to challenge students with the task of designing an ...
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With an extensive portfolio of services, dished out with a self-service portal, and priced with charge back mechanism, the Siva group is operating arguably one of the most mature private clouds in the country. Organization: The US$3 ...
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Weary travelers don't like waiting in line to rent a car. In 2011, Hertz became the first car rental agency to let customers at airports and neighborhood locations rent cars through a video kiosk featuring face-to-face chat. The project: ...
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