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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Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
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Outsourcing firm Capgemini is on the hunt for more UK apprentices after raising its planned intake figure for 2012 from 98 to 200. After reporting a surge in applications,mostly from school leavers looking for an alternative to ...
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Contents HR lags behind in consumerisation of IT Useability a driving force behind HR technology Big data can be a powerful HR tool Read more on SaaS HR Read about cloud-based HR implementations Read more on big data in HR Businesses must ...
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Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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"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 ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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UK citizens think the police should use digital communications technology such as social media to better connect with the population,claiming it would put them in a stronger position to fight crime. In the research carried out by ...
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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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Energy group Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut the training time for young engineers by rolling out technology to automatically identify and deliver the information they need,from databases,blogs and social media. The project,which is ...
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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with Accenture to implement a hospital computer system that will give doctors access to over a million patient records. Accenture will integrate TPP's SystmOne system to enable the ...
Thomas Cook online has signed a seven-figure deal with SME cloud provider CatN to host its e-commerce site. The agreement comes on the back of recent work by CatN,initially brought in by Thomas Cook as a skunkworks operation,which ...
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CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash. The rapid shift towards digital technologies,from big data to social ...
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Allianz Life Insurance of North America (Allianz Life) has appointed Tom Mundt as the new vice president of Infrastructure in the IT division. Mundt will spearhead overall infrastructure strategy, including assessing hardware and software ...
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BP has outsourced finance and accounting (F&A) services to Accenture in a deal that will see the energy giant standardise processes and harness analytics. Accenture will work alongside BP's in-house and captive centres. The value of ...