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BBC Is Planning to Implement a New Newsroom Computer System
Sep 11, 2013The BBC is planning to implement a new Newsroom Computer System, which will be delivered under a contract that could reach up to £104 million. The software will support over 11,000 users in the BBC’s main news functions, ...
Tags: Newsroom Computer System
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BBC Invited Suppliers to Bid for The Provision of Newsroom Computer System Softwar
Sep 10, 2013The BBC has invited suppliers to bid for the provision of newsroom computer system software to support more than 11,000 users. The BBC issued a tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), stating that the software was ...
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The BBC Is to Abandon a £98m Digital Production System
May 28, 2013The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system and suspend its chief technology officer (CTO), John Linwood, after the organisation's chief executive Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money". ...
Tags: BBC, IT Project, CTO John Linwood
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The BBC Has Closed Its Multimillion Pound DMI
May 24, 2013The BBC has closed its multimillion pound Digital Media Initiative (DMI) that was meant to create new digital production tools and link them with a central, digital archive that would allow BBC staff to access a seamless digital chain ...
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BBC Is Currently Looking to Upgrade Its Entire Enterprise Resource Planning Estate
Feb 26, 2013The BBC is currently looking to upgrade its entire Enterprise Resource Planning estate – a major project sure to take several years to complete at a likely multi-million pound cost. Analysis: SAP stares down its licensing critics ...
Tags: BBC, Enterprise Resource Planning, SAP
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Big Data Is Important to The BBC in Helping to Understand Audience Behaviour
Feb 26, 2013Big data is important to the BBC in helping to understand audience behaviour and sentiment, BBC CTO John Linwood recently told Computing. "There's a piece of work going on now in understanding the relationship of a member of the audience ...
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The BBC Feeds Into Apple on Its Products And Services
Feb 25, 2013BBC CTO John Linwood has stated that the BBC feeds into Apple on its products and services – including the iPhone and iPad – though he admitted that he is unsure as to how much weight the organisation places on his views. In ...
Tags: BBC, Apple, mobile device
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The BBC Covered Every Sport From Every Venue During The Entire London 2012 Olympic Games
Dec 28, 2012The top IT leaders in the UK talked to Computer Weekly throughout 2012 to share their opinions and experiences of modern technology leadership and transforming business and government through IT innovation. Their views are valuable not only ...
Tags: Interviews, CIO, IT leaders
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Demand for IT Contractors Increased While Demand for Permanent Staff Fell
Dec 27, 2012Demand for IT contractors increased during the last three months while demand for permanent staff fell for the first time since 2009, according to figures from recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk. Vacancies for contractors increased 3% ...
Tags: IT, Jobs, Computer Products
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But Linwood Says The Operational Running Was Remarkably Calm During The Event
Dec 26, 2012“There was a moment at the end of the closing ceremony where we breathed a sigh of relief,” says BBC CTO John Linwood. It’s not surprising given the scale of Linwood’s task, having delivered 2.8 petabytes of data ...
Tags: Computer Products, John Linwood, BBC CTO
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On 23 November 2012,Gerry Pennell Will Leave The Job of a Lifetime
Dec 24, 2012And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
Tags: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games, IT systems
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More Than Half of Peak-Time Traffic to London 2012 Web Servers Came From Mobile Devices
Dec 24, 2012More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
Tags: mobile devices, web servers, mobile app, Gerry Pennell
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Digitisation Is Becoming Pervasive. Organisations Are Moving Spending to Digital
Dec 17, 2012According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
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This Move Comes as The Met's Director of Information,Is Due to Step Down Next Year
Dec 10, 2012The Metropolitan Police Service's IT director talks to Computer Weekly about the Olympian challenges facing IT transformation at the Met now the London 2012 Games are over. Steve Whatson(pictured),director of ICT for the Olympics and ...
Tags: Metropolitan Police, ICT, Steve Whatson, cloud-based
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Our Aim Was to Once More Identify The 50 Most Influential Leaders in UK IT
Nov 22, 2012Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com