The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
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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 ...
Tags: Cloud HR, share offering, RBS, Peoplesoft system
The government has launched gov.uk as part of its Digital by Default agenda, to provide a single point of access to government information and services. The site, which has replaced the Directgov and Business Link services, forms a key ...
A number of parishes in Exmoor are set to have their street lighting reduced, as the council's plans to cut costs, reduce energy mission and reduce light pollution in the area are under way in a new trial. A total of seven parishes will ...
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According to a new report from Fuel Cell Today, a London-based market intelligence firm, annual global fuel cell shipments are set to triple between 2011 and 2012, with shipments of fuel cells for materials handling vehicles (MHV) set to ...
Over 5,000 residents of Watford have signed a petition to encourage Hertfordshire County Council to turn the street lights back on, after the decision was made to turn the street lights off in the town at the end of 2011. The council ...
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By demonstrating that LED-based SSL delivers excellent ROI on taxpayer investment, SEMI hopes to secure increased levels of funding to support LED manufacturing in the US. A delegation of SEMI members and other stakeholders in LED ...
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Disability activists intend to protest against Olympic sponsor and IT supplier Atos Origin for the way it carries out work capability assessments. Activists say Atos mistreats disabled people when assessing them for disability employment ...
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The Government has asked the public about smart meters, and found that it is generally positive, but needs help in understanding the subject. For example, the survey indicates that half of energy bill-payers living in Great Britain had ...
Tags: smartmeters, respondents, consumer-focused, quantitative research
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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Residents whose TV signal is affected by the 4G roll-out may have to pay for their own solutions to the problem, according to the government minister responsible. The spectrum freed up by the TV switchover from analogue to digital will be ...
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The letters of one of the most inspirational man in history are to be auctioned in London.Wanting to acquire Mahatma Gandhi memorabilia offered for auction at Sotheby's London on July 10,the Indian government is now pitted against relatives ...
The use of retrofit LED lighting has provided impressive first year savings in kilowatt hours,CO2 and electricity costs for a High Wycombe sports centre.Supplied by Surrey-based manufacturer LED Eco Lights,the new lighting system ...
In preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,London's Tower Bridge has been fitted with an LED lighting system from GE. Tower Bridge,which crosses the river Thames in the center of London and is one of the world`s most ...
General Electric and EDF Energy have got the go-ahead to install energy-efficient LED technology and a cabling system to illuminate the 800-foot Tower Bridge in London, enhancing the bridge's gothic features in time for the 2012 Olympic ...
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