technology aCanary Wharf Group is opening a centre for start-ups to work on financial services nd services early next year. The space,known as Level39,will enable accelerator programmes,software engineers and builders of financial ...
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Gathering numbers of NHS trusts are investing in the Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), making it one of the more successful examples of NHS IT. Increasing storage costs could drive the use of the cloud. PACS is a ...
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Spanish bank Banco Santander has pulled out of its multi billion pound agreement to take over 316 Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)branches,and the customers associated with them,because of IT integration problems. But sources say that IT ...
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Accenture is the best outsourcing service provider in the world for the fifth year running according to outsourcing profession group The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals(IAOP). The IAOP ranks the top 100 outsourcing ...
Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce in a project that is expected to pay for itself in under two years. Telefonica Digital is to spend several million on Workday's cloud-based ...
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EE has launched the UK’s first superfast 4G broadband services for consumers and businesses in 11 cities. EE 4G services are now available in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, ...
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Almost three quarters (70%) of experience IT pros claim to have considered a move to the NHS, according to a survey by IT healthcare recruiter max20. Questioning 130 IT professionals, that work outside of the NHS, 46% said ‘career ...
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Almost 60% of IT executives have a plan in place to retire applications, according to a UK study by Accenture. The survey of 250 IT executives and 250 business executives in companies with 1,000 or more staff found that the amount of IT ...
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IDG News Service - A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies. Sponsored by The Partnership for New York City Fund and Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab seeks novel technologies ...
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Outsourcing services giant Accenture has launched an apprenticeship programme in Newcastle, offering 40 places on the three-year programme over the next 12 months. The first 20 apprentices will start in February 2013, with another 20 ...
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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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This year’s program features more than 100 leading industry speakers across 10 conference tracks: Leading-edge technology – IT, e-business & Lean; Operations planning; Global supply chain – agile models; Human factors; ...
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Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture to expand the manufacturer's recruitment activity into social networking. The contract extension will see outcome-based targets as well as the traditional service level ...
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Three-quarters of charities believe technology has enabled them to help more people, but 80% have no plans to use cloud computing. Research from Accenture was conducted to coincide with Byte Night, which sees workers in the IT industry ...
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Accenture has introduced an enhanced version of its claims management software platform, claim components (release 10.2), to assist property and casualty (P&C) insurers to process claims more quickly and efficiently. Accenture Software ...