ICF International has received a new task order under the multiple-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) CDC Information Management Services (CIMS) contract from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for ...
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Ailsa Beaton, CIO at the Metropolitan Police, the top IT job in the police service, is to leave her post in mid-2013 after 12 years in the role. Further reading Analysis: Police forces investigate new ICT strategies Met Police system ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
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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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Law firm Slaughter&May has selected information management provider Recommind's knowledge management search solution to replace its"flaky"Hummingbird document and knowledge management platform. Further reading Case study:SaaS-based ...
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The Royal Free Hospital has implemented SAP's Business Objects dashboarding technology to enable staff to fathom more efficiently its own workings. Will Smart, director of information management and technology at the Royal Free Hospital, ...
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Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority has upgraded its storage infrastructure to support a web-based core database application. Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) replaced its legacy information management system with a ...
Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials—is pleased to announce the appointment of Tania Garcia as ...
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Security is still the primary barrier to adopting mobile business applications, a study has found. More than three-quarters of the 300 UK firms polled said they planned to adopt mobile business applications in the next 12 months. But ...
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Computerworld-CIOs are being predictably cautious with IT budgets for next year,and are focusing on increasing use of cloud technologies and offshore outsourcing,according to the annual report of technology trends by the Society for ...
European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is implementing Intuitive Dashboards,a business intelligence(BI)dashboard,in order to give staff a clearer view of each patient's progress through their stay in hospital. ...
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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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Research from analyst Freeform Dynamics has given a"could do better"verdict to business-to-business data integration in the UK and the Netherlands. Freeform Dynamics'research reveals British and Dutch companies still rely too heavily on ...
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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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