Chinese home appliance makers are giving dimensions of reality to the "Internet Plus" strategy championed by Premier Li Keqiang. Slowly but surely, they are pressing ahead with the task of integrating Internet technologies with their ...
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of Information Availability services, has signed a five year contract with Serco Group, a British government services company. This new arrangement will see SunGard take responsibility, on behalf ...
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Enterprises must innovate and adapt to the emerging trends, or be left behind. This was the message imparted by IT solutions provider Dell during the Philippine leg of its Solutions Tour 2013. The company said that cloud computing and ...
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Provider of integrated communication solutions, Telefónica, has announced that it will deploy Microsoft Office 365 and Yammer across its operating businesses to employees worldwide. The technologies are part of the company's global ...
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The BMW Group has hired Infosys to help manage the carmaker’s global IT infrastructure. The five-year contract will see Infosys cover services such as maintenance and operations of the Web infrastructure, content management, SAP ...
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Payments made by Nationwide customers were taken twice after human error at the bank duplicated the payment process. Some payments made by current account holders on Tuesday 24 July were duplicated the next day. According to reports, 2 ...
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The main thrust in enterprise systems this year has been the introduction of Windows 8 as the new Windows client OS. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, a new programming model for Windows software development, as well as a new way of thinking ...
Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year transformation project, with the roll-out of a mortgage application system to some 740 branches. In 2008, Nationwide embarked on a 1bn project to transform its technology after ...
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General Motors (GM) is hiring 3,000 staff from HP as part of its aggressive plan to bring outsourced IT work back in-house. GM announced plans to bring its outsourced IT, which was about 90% of the total, back in-house and recruit 10,000 ...
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The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months,despite continued tough market conditions. With customer demands changing,banks have to innovate around things like mobile ...
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When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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Network Rail chief information officer (CIO) Susan Cooklin has taken on the added responsibility for finance and HR shared services. The expanded role, which has officially commenced on 30 November, sees Cooklin’s team expand from ...
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Southwark Council is upgrading all IT that supports the delivery of council services, with the biggest IT changes in over a decade planned. The London local authority has outsourced the upgrade and management of the IT to Capita for 10 ...
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Phil Pavitt has stepped down as HMRC’s CIO to join insurance giant Aviva as global director of IT transformation. Mark Hall has taken over as CIO of HMRC, having worked as deputy CIO at the department for two years and director of ...
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Next year, Peter Weis, CIO of Matson, an ocean transportation and logistics company, will see the completion of a long-term IT transformation project that he conceived and nurtured for most of a decade. "We're heading into our eighth and ...
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