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 ...
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Mark Hurd has used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today to outline the four main pillars of Oracle's strategy. "First,we want everything to be best of breed at every level of the technollogy stack.We want ...
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Nathan Brown is one of a growing number of CIOs who are experienced in moving from one sector to another,including from commercial to government and from for-profit to nonprofit.He's currently in an IT leadership position at Care.com after ...
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HM Revenue&Customs has become the first government department to sign a contract for G-Cloud storage services,which will see data moved from on-premise ssytems to the cloud. Hampshire-based Skyscape Cloud Services has been awarded the ...
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The CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,according to Groupama Insurances CIO Jem Eskenazi(pictured). In an interview with Computing,Eskenazi said that the CIO role that he currently performs is going through a ...
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HMRC is the first major government department to use the G-Cloud to procure centralised data storage,in a deal with Skyscape. Phil Pavitt,CIO of HMRC(pictured),said:"This change will save over 1m pounds a year in running costs and will ...
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The need for IT staff in the nation's healthcare facilities is more critical now than two years ago,with two-thirds of healthcare operations in the U.S.reporting a shortage,according to a survey of CIOs(download PDF). The survey,conducted ...
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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 ...
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General Motors plans to discontinue outsourcing arrangements and pull most of its IT work back in-house -- a move the automaker said will result in the hiring of 10,000 IT professionals worldwide over the next three to five years. As part ...
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For years,the Tennessee Valley Authority help desk was an IT career graveyard--and customers suffered for it.Only about half of user problems were resolved in the first call,well below the industry average. The TVA's help desk woes led to ...
Buckinghamshire County Council has signed a four-year deal with Updata for a public services network (PSN) worth up to £100m. The network is hoped to yield cost savings of up to 30%, according to the council's CIO, Caroline Cooper. ...
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Suffolk County Council is to roll out an app development tool to enable students across the region to design their own smartphone apps. Suffolk County Council will trial the Weejot.com mobile app publishing tool from Jadu across five ...
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Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff(pictured)kicked off the firm's Dreamforce event with a keynote entitled"Business is Social".He drew on the experiences of high-profile customers and their thoughts on the importance of social in business. ...
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Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business. Implemented by Infosys, the portal, called Hawk, is integral to the strategic ...
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IT budgets will continue to prioritise security for the next four years at least,despite the economic slowdown,with$60bn to be spent on security technologies this year. According to Gartner research,this is 8.4%higher than in 2011 and it ...
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