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BBC Is Currently Looking to Upgrade Its Entire Enterprise Resource Planning Estate
Feb 26, 2013The BBC is currently looking to upgrade its entire Enterprise Resource Planning estate – a major project sure to take several years to complete at a likely multi-million pound cost. Analysis: SAP stares down its licensing critics ...
Tags: BBC, Enterprise Resource Planning, SAP
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Big Data Is Important to The BBC in Helping to Understand Audience Behaviour
Feb 26, 2013Big data is important to the BBC in helping to understand audience behaviour and sentiment, BBC CTO John Linwood recently told Computing. "There's a piece of work going on now in understanding the relationship of a member of the audience ...
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The BBC Feeds Into Apple on Its Products And Services
Feb 25, 2013BBC CTO John Linwood has stated that the BBC feeds into Apple on its products and services – including the iPhone and iPad – though he admitted that he is unsure as to how much weight the organisation places on his views. In ...
Tags: BBC, Apple, mobile device
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Demand for IT Contractors Increased While Demand for Permanent Staff Fell
Dec 27, 2012Demand for IT contractors increased during the last three months while demand for permanent staff fell for the first time since 2009, according to figures from recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk. Vacancies for contractors increased 3% ...
Tags: IT, Jobs, Computer Products
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But Linwood Says The Operational Running Was Remarkably Calm During The Event
Dec 26, 2012“There was a moment at the end of the closing ceremony where we breathed a sigh of relief,” says BBC CTO John Linwood. It’s not surprising given the scale of Linwood’s task, having delivered 2.8 petabytes of data ...
Tags: Computer Products, John Linwood, BBC CTO
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On 23 November 2012,Gerry Pennell Will Leave The Job of a Lifetime
Dec 24, 2012And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
Tags: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games, IT systems
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More Than Half of Peak-Time Traffic to London 2012 Web Servers Came From Mobile Devices
Dec 24, 2012More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
Tags: mobile devices, web servers, mobile app, Gerry Pennell
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Digitisation Is Becoming Pervasive. Organisations Are Moving Spending to Digital
Dec 17, 2012According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
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The BBC Is Partnering with UCL in a Four-Year R&D Programme to Investigate Digital Content
Nov 21, 2012The BBC is partnering with University College London(UCL)in a four-year research and development(R&D)programme to investigate the future of digital content. Over the next four years,the partnership between the BBC and UCL will focus on a ...
Tags: digital future, BBC and UCL, digital services, networking technology
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Paralympic Games Was Largest Live Broadcast Undertaking for Channel 4
Sep 7, 2012The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
Tags: Interview, Channel 4, London 2012 Olympic Games, network, Wi-Fi