Torbay Council has selected business intelligence (BI) vendor Logi Analytics to replace its BI system, enabling it to cut costs and improve functionality. The council's previous BI system was used to run a range of daily, weekly and ...
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The UK's rail industry is to roll out high-speed mobile broadband across the rail network. The plans, which will be funded by the rail industry, were announced by the transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin, who said that people would ...
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West Coast Trains has issued a tender on behalf of Virgin Trains for the provision of a new HR and payroll system. Virgin Trains operates about 330 train services per day, serving 43 stations, 17 of which are operated directly. It employs ...
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The Australian state of Queensland has said that it will not allow IBM to enter any new contracts with the state government "until it improves its governance and contracting practices". The ban was made in a statement today by Premier ...
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It may not be "feasible" to complete a gigantic SAP software project meant to unify California's many public employee payroll systems, according to a report issued this week by the state's Legislative Analyst's office. California ...
California has terminated its contract with SAP in connection with a $371 million software system that was supposed to overhaul the state's payroll system but instead ended up mired in major delays and cost overruns. Some $254 million has ...
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Electric utility National Grid is still trying to resolve problems with its recently implemented SAP payroll system that cropped up after Hurricane Sandy, the major storm that caused widespread damage on the U.S. East Coast and the ...
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Controller John Chiang Following a spate of major delays and cost overruns, the U.S. state of California has terminated a contract with SAP that would have overhauled the state’s payroll system at a cost of $371 million. Some $254 ...
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Welcome Break Group, which runs UK motorway service stations and hotels, is starting a project to deploy SuccessFactors, the cloud-based human resources (HR) system from SAP. The SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite will provide ...
Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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The cloud played a pivotal role in separating insurance group Direct Line from parent company the Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to launch on the stock market. Direct Line had less than 6 months to re-engineer its HR process to prepare for an ...
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