Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task for CIOs – especially if you want it to be successful. Originally, the idea of handing all or parts of your IT infrastructure to a third party was to exploit economies of scale ...
Tags: outsourcing, CIO, IT infrastructure, IT, IT service
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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Dry cement may look like a hodgepodge of soot and gravel when it pours out of the bag, but each package is the result of a carefully calculated process. With more than a dozen possible components – which can differ based on the ...
Tags: quality control, dashboard, PLC, control and information systems, PC
(Free-Press-Release.com) December 4, 2012 -- WATERFORD, Mich. and BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 4, 2012 – Kors Engineering, a premier service provider for manufacturing and industrial organizations and ISONAS Security Systems, Inc., the ...
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Let's talk about software. When that topic comes up at Modern, we're generally talking about warehouse management systems. And for good reason. During the late 1990's, when I began writing about materials handling automation, end users were ...
Tags: software, management systems, warehouse, shipment
The Netherlands - For the third year in a row, InfoComm International will host a one-day Future Trends Summit the day before the Integrated Systems Europe 2013 tradeshow. Running from 11.00am to 5.30pm on Monday 28 January, the Summit ...
Tags: Netherlands, integrated systems, tradeshow, 28 January
Olmec-UK, a Vision Systems Integrator, has collaborated with the Italy-based packaging machine maker, Marchesini, to come out with a vision system to address a packaging inspection problem for the healthcare industry customers. Marchesini ...
When Bastian Solutions was incorporated on October 31 1952, the company’s products consisted of conventional casters and shelving. Fast forward 60 years and the global material handling systems integrator is enjoying a record-setting ...
Tags: global material handling systems, software, robotics, automated systems
Denmark - As specialists in providing optimised conference room displays, dnp denmark have published a new 13-page step-by-step guide on their website, in the form of a sub-page in its Conference Room section. The Guide answers the ...
Tags: conference system, conference screen, projector, AV presentation
GMI Ratings has selected InfoTech Solutions for Business, Inc. to manage IT infrastructure and software product development. NEW YORK, NY, November 19, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GMI Ratings, the leading provider of research on ...
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The United States Air Force(USAF)has scrapped a troubled Oracle enterprise resource planning(ERP)software implementation after spending$1bn(£630m)over the past seven years–and concluding that it would still cost too much to ...
Tags: USAF, ERP, ECSS project
Chairman and CEO, Netgear, talks about market competition and partner strategy in the India market. CW: Over the years, what has redefined the networking market, which was more about switches and routers? Lo: Presently, the network is ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending US$1 billion, concluding that finishing it would cost far too much more money for too little gain. ...
After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
Tags: open standards principles, blueprint, IT architecture, policy statement
Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
Tags: SME procurement, mega-contracts, Victor Baldorino, UK