Ailsa Beaton, CIO at the Metropolitan Police, the top IT job in the police service, is to leave her post in mid-2013 after 12 years in the role. Further reading Analysis: Police forces investigate new ICT strategies Met Police system ...
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The latest milestone to be reached in Nationwide's GBP1bn five-year IT transformation sees the launch of its mobile banking service as the project moves towards the final straight. The building society launched its mobile banking service ...
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SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Endsleigh Insurance Services chose nearshore application development resources from a supplier when it was stretched during the busiest time of the year. The finance firm, which specialises on the student insurance market, outsourced ...
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An IT recruitment expert has criticised government pay thresholds for overseas IT workers in the UK, claiming it groups vastly different jobs together and sets salaries too low, presuming an IT director in the UK can earn as little as ...
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Back-office service providers are failing to meet customer needs, with 70% of suppliers claiming projects are not being managed properly when transferring from an in-house to an outsourced function, says research from KPMG. According to ...
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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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After McAfee CTO Michael Fey yesterday pledged a multivendor future for the company as part of its dedication to stepping up real-time,global threat reporting in its software,Computing caught up with some partners and customers for their ...
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Cornwall council has frozen plans to outsource services after almost every councillor voted in favour of a motion to suspend the authority's outsourcing programme. A total of 93 members of the council voted in favour of the motion to ...
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Downturn drives renegotiation Position of strength Haggling Change is good Organisations in many sectors seek to renew the terms in their contractual agreements as they adjust to the economic climate. IT outsourcing is going through a ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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Office Choice's new website is expected to drive more web-based sales as online increasingly becomes the ordering method of choice for many of its customers. "The new contemporary, user-driven website is a significant step forward for the ...
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In the race to create slicker products,mobile phones are the new brains for hire. At Ceatec,Japan's largest electronics show,the booths are packed with the latest round of"smart"products,from cars that suggest what you should eat to ...
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Fifth&Pacific Companies Inc revised forecasted 2012 adjusted EBITDA from a range of$125 to$140 million to$100 to$115 million.The Company also announced preliminary Q3 2012 direct-to-consumer comparable sales(inclusive of e-commerce net ...
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