Cost pressures and the rise of cloud computing have led many businesses to turn to lower-cost virtual environments on premise and in the cloud, but a lack of expertise and experience may be exposing these organisations to unnecessary ...
Tags: cloud computing, virtual server, physical server, physical networks
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 ...
Tags: public sector, IT services, Atos Origin, revenues increased
"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
Tags: Interview, NATS, air traffic control, virtual desktops
The number of customers making payments with their mobile phones is estimated to grow to 17 billion transactions in 2013. This compares with 141 million in 2011, according to research from Capgemini, RBS and retail association Efma. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Electronics, Transactions
Global High Net Worth Population Increases Slightly as Their Investable Wealth Declines Asia-Pacific becomes region with the most HNWIs,while North America retains the most HNWI wealth Asia-Pacific surpasses all regions with the ...
Tags: HNWI, economic uncertainty, risk-aversion
Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications,as part of the company's multi-vendor IT strategy. The news follows HP's loss of its large 12-year outsourcing deal with Rolls-Royce in March,with Capgemini named ...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, HP, IT strategy, outsourcing
Utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five-year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m. The deal will see Capgemini provide application lifecycle services for E.ON's ...
Tags: E.ON, Capgemini, IT services, lifecycle services
Organisations are struggling to manage the challenges of the mobile era,with less than a third formally testing their mobile applications,a survey has revealed. Where organisations are conducting mobile Quality Assurance(QA),they are ...
Tags: Mobile Apps, Security of Mobile Apps, software applications
Audit Scotland, the Scottish government's public spending watchdog, has called for a single pool of IT expertise to help deliver IT programmes more efficiently and to cut costs. In a report, entitled Managing ICT Contracts: An audit of ...
Tags: Audit Scotland, NHS, CRM contract, ICT
After 7 times of successfully being hosted, now the exposition has its loyal exhibitors, experienced staff. The visitor’s person time amounted to more than 400,000 in the past 7 years. They were manufacturers, distributors, importers ...
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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 ...
Tags: Oracle, shared services, HR, finance, software
Outsourcing giant Capgemini announced flat profits of €237m (£153m) for the first half of 2012, with like-for-like sales up 2.3% to €5.15bn compared with the same period in 2011. In its report, the company said that ...
Tags: Capgemini, Outsourcing, cloud computing, mobility, big data
Securing Cloud Services:A pragmatic approach to security architecture in the Cloud'written by Lee Newcombe of Capgemini,provides an overview of security architecture processes.This book explains how such processes may be used to derive an ...
Tags: Securing Cloud Services, security architecture processes, Lee Newcombe
Sales via smartphones and tablets grew exponentially in June,leaping 356%compared to the same month last year,according to an IMRG Capgemini report. The total online spend in the UK for June was 6bn pound,a 13%increase compared to last ...
Retailers without a mature multichannel offering could soon start haemorrhaging cash, as customers expect a unified shopping experience in the next two years, according to research. Some 60% of respondents said they expect converged ...
Tags: IT services, Retailers, multichannel offering, tough economic climate