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The Government Expects to Slash Its Software Licence&Maintenance Bill with Microsoft&SAP
Dec 28, 2012The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
Tags: government, software licence
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Liam Maxwell,Formerly The Deputy Government CIO,Has Been Appointed as First Whitehall CTO
Dec 28, 2012Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
Tags: Liam Maxwell, government, CTO, digital
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Government Forces NHS Suppliers to List Prices Online to Drive out £500m Overspend
Dec 27, 2012The government must force NHS suppliers to list their prices on a comparison website in order to drive out £500m of overspend caused by price variation, according to research. The study from Ernst & Young found that discrepancies in ...
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The G-Cloud Should Be Held up as a Model for How to Do Frameworks in Government
Dec 25, 2012The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
Tags: G-Cloud, Liam Maxwell, frameworks, Cabinet Office
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The G-Cloud Looks Set to Become The Future Model for The Way Government Buys Its IT
Dec 24, 2012The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
Tags: G-Cloud ramps, secure email services, user device services
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Liam Maxwell Has Been Appointed as The Government's CTO
Dec 14, 2012Former deputy chief information officer(CIO)Liam Maxwell has been appointed as the government's first ever chief technology officer(CTO)in a Whitehall IT shake-up. Maxwell will now report to Mike Bracken,executive director of the ...
Tags: Liam Maxwell, first ever government chief technology officer
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Crothers Is to Take a More Central Position Within The IT Leadership Team
Dec 12, 2012Government IT reformers have criticised the Cabinet Office's plans to give chief procurement officer Bill Crothers a more prominent position within the IT leadership team. Sources told Computer Weekly they were concerned the move could ...
Tags: Government, Criticise, Leadership
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The Government's IT Leadership Team Is to Undergo a Major Organisational Reshuffle
Dec 7, 2012The government's IT leadership team is to undergo a major organisational reshuffle,according to a notice from Cabinet Office chief operating officer Stephen Kelly seen by Computer Weekly. Under the shake-up Andy Nelson will remain ...
Tags: Government, IT leadership team, digital transformation agenda
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The One Per Cent of GDP Spent on IT Needs to Be Reduced
Nov 30, 2012The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per cent of GDP is spent on IT, and that's much ...
Tags: cloud, GDP, IT, G-Cloud store
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Government Departments Don't Pool Resources
Nov 29, 2012Government IT is no longer in a "19th century" state, but there's still much work to be done especially when it comes to G-Cloud. That's the view of the programme's director and director of Home Office IT, Denise McDonagh, who was ...
Tags: Government IT, McDonagh, G-Cloud, Business Cloud Summit
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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
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The Govt. Is to Test The Feasibility of Moving to a Single ERP Platform Across Whitehall
Oct 31, 2012The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
Tags: single ERP, Services programme, emergency services, Oracle
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Government's Addiction to Mega-Contracts Has Been Pegged as a Key Factor in The Exclusion
Sep 25, 2012Government’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 ...
Tags: SME procurement, mega-contracts, Victor Baldorino, UK
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Mike Bracken, Head of GDS, Spent Three Days Visiting The Country
Jun 20, 2012Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
Tags: Interview, GDS, public services, advanced online public service
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Microsoft Become Major IT Supplier to Publish Submission to Government's Consultation
Jun 6, 2012Microsoft has become the first major IT supplier to publish its submission to the government's consultation on the use of open standards. The consultation closed on 4 June, with the Cabinet Office IT team under deputy government CIO Liam ...
Tags: Microsoft, consultation on the open standards, software, open source