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UK firms ill-prepared for power blackoutsUK firms are ignoring the 'energy crunch', despite warnings that power blackouts could grind businesses to a halt within four years.
Source : Computer Business Review | 11-Sep-2008 11:56
Compuware changes project management at NERC
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has installed Changepoint, Compuware's IT portfolio management suite to help manage all its projects.
Source : Computer Business Review | 09-Sep-2008 12:24
UK IT techies unpaid for longer days
UK IT techies are putting in longer working hours without extra pay, according to a survey by online recruitment firm www.theitjobboard.co.uk.
Source : Computer Business Review | 27-Aug-2008 10:55
SuccessFactors to manage Lancaster Landmark Hotel staff performance
Lancaster Landmark Hotel Group hopes to gain better insight into internal talent, training and career succession as well as streamline employee performance towards its business objectives, by implementing SuccessFactors' Performance and Talent Management suite.
Source : Computer Business Review | 19-Aug-2008 15:58
Software AG expands app modernisation suite
Integration and application development company Software AG has upgraded its webMethods Application Modernisation Suite to include automated application discovery, code analysis, and identification of code for reuse.
Source : Computer Business Review | 19-Aug-2008 10:19
Fair Isaac launches fraud alert forum
Analytics and data management software provider Fair Isaac has launched an online community to enable financial institutions to fight fraud and crime.
Source : Computer Business Review | 18-Aug-2008 17:39
Next turns to Tealeaf to understand online customers
Fashion retailer Next hopes to gain better insight into online customer behaviour by implementing Tealeaf's customer experience management (CEM) system Tealeaf CX Suite on its e-commerce site.
Source : Computer Business Review | 14-Aug-2008 10:50
Kronos to schedule Carphone's employees
Kronos will automate employee scheduling for The Carphone Warehouse across the retailer's stores in seven European countries.
Source : Computer Business Review | 13-Aug-2008 11:05
Gartner pinpoints transformational technology
Gartner has identified eight technologies that will transform business over the next decade and should be on the radar of CIOs today.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Aug-2008 10:57
UAV takes first flight to record images of vegetation in UK
An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by QinetiQ in partnership with Aberystwyth University's new biosciences centre IBERS, has flown for the first time in the UK for agricultural monitoring.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Aug-2008 10:42
Derby and St Edmundsbury Borough councils take the GreenRoad
Derby Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council will install GreenRoad Technologies' Safety Center across their fleet of vehicles, to assess drivers' driving skills and give them an instant feedback.
Source : Computer Business Review | 08-Aug-2008 10:43
Sofitel London Heathrow gets IDeaS to optimise revenues
Luxury airport hotel Sofitel London Heathrow will manage its pricing strategies with the help of IDeaS Revenue Optimization's hospitality revenue management suite IDeaS V5i.
Source : Computer Business Review | 06-Aug-2008 17:01
Unisys focuses on mortgage market
IT consulting company Unisys will integrate Focus Solutions' focus:technology into its own multi-channel mortgage origination platform, to offer a single processing model to banks and building societies dealing with mortgages.
Source : Computer Business Review | 04-Aug-2008 16:42
Metroline drives on GreenRoad
Metroline hopes to improve the travel experience of its passengers by ensuring that its drivers are careful enough on the roads. It has deployed GreenRoad Technologies' Safety Center in its fleet of 100 buses at Perivale depot in West London, to assess the driving skills of its drivers and provide them with instant feedback.
Source : Computer Business Review | 31-Jul-2008 10:52
Oce Technologies to streamline HR processes with Cezanne software
Oce Technologies, a Netherlands-based print and document management company, has selected Cezanne's talent management software, in an attempt to gain better visibility of its talent pool.
Source : Computer Business Review | 31-Jul-2008 10:37
Infonic and Lexalytics set up text analytics joint venture
Infonic, a provider of information management software, will combine its text analytics division with that of Lexalytics, to form a new $40m UK-based company called Lexalytics Limited.
Source : Computer Business Review | 29-Jul-2008 15:34
NHS selects Trillium Software to measure patient and clinical data
The Commissioning Support Service (CSS) of the NHS has selected Trillium Software System from Harte-Hanks, to measure the quality of patient, clinical and service data collected from health provisioning services in the London region.
Source : Computer Business Review | 29-Jul-2008 10:55
Business collaboration tops CEO priority list
CEOs are making collaboration a key priority over the next three years and expect IT to support their increased interaction with customers, partners and suppliers.
Source : Computer Business Review | 25-Jul-2008 10:55
Foundry Networks helps British Library deliver digital content
The British Library has upgraded its network infrastructure to support its ongoing projects to digitise content and embrace virtualisation.
Source : Computer Business Review | 24-Jul-2008 13:50
Telephonetics and Lagan to speed-up government contact centre services
Telephonetics VIP, a provider of voice automation and speech recognition technology, has integrated its Contact Centre telephony with Enterprise Case Management software from Lagan, to enable government organisations to improve call handling abilities.
Source : Computer Business Review | 24-Jul-2008 11:41
J&L Industrial Supply borrows sales-i's intelligence
J&L Industrial Supply, a metalworking distributor, has selected sales support service sales-i to provide real-time customer information to its first field-based sales team in the UK.
Source : Computer Business Review | 22-Jul-2008 17:49
Kwik Fit Insurance to gain online customer visibility with Tealeaf
Kwik Fit Insurance, a motor insurance distributor in the UK, has selected Tealeaf's customer experience management (CEM) suite to gain visibility into online customer activity on its website and identify fraudulent insurance claims.
Source : Computer Business Review | 22-Jul-2008 17:39
CFOs ignore IT element in finance outsourcing
Finance chiefs' failure to include IT early in finance outsourcing deals is jeopardising their ability to realise maximum benefits from their contracts.
Source : Computer Business Review | 21-Jul-2008 17:57
Manx to track parcels on NetDespatch portal
Manx Independent Carriers, a distribution company in The Isle of Man, is equipping its drivers with special mobile devices incorporating barcode scanners and a touchscreen, for tracking parcels and freight via web portal PODXchange.
Source : Computer Business Review | 18-Jul-2008 16:27
Lack of investment in real-time analytics threatens UK agility
UK firms are lagging behind their European counterparts in their use of real-time analysis to aid making agile business decisions.
Source : Computer Business Review | 14-Jul-2008 13:42
The Fostering Network selects COA's accounting software
The Fostering Network will replace its existing accounting system with OpenAccounts financial and reporting system of COA Solutions, to improve the flow of financial information among the charity's four sites in London, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Source : Computer Business Review | 11-Jul-2008 16:46
VMware Ousts CEO
The surprise ousting of VMware founder and chief executive Diane Greene this week immediately sent shares of the virtualisation powerhouse tumbling by 28%.
Source : Computer Business Review | 10-Jul-2008 13:02
Customer focus drives UK firms' competitiveness
Customer focus has ousted cost savings as the major driver of IT development, according to a CBI survey.
Source : Computer Business Review | 04-Jul-2008 17:48
UK survey finds green apathy setting in
UK IT professionals are becoming immune to the green message and are less concerned than a year ago about the impact of their businesses on the environment.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 10:57
DynaTrace Diagnostics to help Fraport monitor ICCO
Frankfurt Airport (Fraport) has selected dynaTrace, a provider of lifecycle application performance management services for business-critical Java and .NET applications, to monitor and clear performance issues arising in the airport's proprietary software Integration of Contract and Calculation data to Operations (ICCO).
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 10:42
Pointon York implements Qube Property Management system
Retirement planning services provider, Pointon York SIPP Solutions, will be implementing the six concurrent user Qube Property Management system in an attempt to streamline its business and property management process.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 10:27
Capita helps Stafford Collegiate keep track of student progress
Stafford Collegiate has implemented SIMS (Schools Information Management System) Partnership Xchange software from Capita to share students' achievement and attendance information among its seven member schools in real-time.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 10:12
Quintiq's software to enable FirstGroup to optimise resources
Transport operator FirstGroup has selected resource optimisation software from Quintiq to highlight the optimal requirements for train units, drivers and crew, in an attempt to improve cost efficiencies.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 09:57
Revel Entertainment selects Synchro's software for new resort construction
Revel Entertainment has selected UK-based Synchro's construction management software for a resort project along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 09:42
Thomas Cook books Site Intelligence for web reports
Travel company Thomas Cook has signed a deal with Site Intelligence to provide online business intelligence to track all web activity, bookings and enquiries.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 09:27
Abbino to help Gardena with process automation
Gardena, a Europe-based provider of gardening tools and system components, has sought the help of abbino, a software consulting services provider, for the automation of the stocks and ordering processes within the company's supply chain.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 09:12
Finsbury introduces Spreadsheet Workbench software
Finsbury Solutions, a provider of spreadsheet management and compliance software to the financial services sector, has launched Spreadsheet Workbench, an enterprise-wide spreadsheet management system, specifically designed for Microsoft SharePoint 2007.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 08:57
HeidelbergCement chooses Cornerstone OnDemand
Germany-based provider of construction material, HeidelbergCement, has chosen to implement Cornerstone OnDemand's compliance management software, Cornerstone Compliance.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 08:42
Logica to deliver BI at Royal Mail
Logica has announced that it has won a 5-year contract with Post Office Limited, part of the Royal Mail Group, to install and support two centralised business intelligence systems. The systems are expected to go live in 2009.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 08:27
NetIQ's software to automate Principality Building Society's IT processes
Principality Building Society in the UK has selected systems and security management services provider NetIQ's process automation platform Aegis, to automate time and labour-intensive tasks such as server re-boots, event response, server maintenance and new file system updates.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 08:12
SQS to assist Anglo Irish Bank in software testing
Anglo Irish Bank has selected software testing and quality management consultancy Software Quality Systems (SQS), to assist it in testing banking technology projects.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 07:57
Maxymiser to help ViewLondon.co.uk test performance
ViewLondon.co.uk has selected content optimisation technology from Maxymiser to measure the effectiveness of various components of its website and understand the impact of personalised web content on click-through and conversion rates.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 07:42
Scopus launches Journal Analyzer
Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literature, has launched a new feature, the Scopus Journal Analyzer, which is aimed at enabling users to evaluate and compare journals using article and citation data.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jun-2008 07:27
Companies struggling to fill BPM gaps
Organizations still have major gaps to plug in their Business Process Management strategy, according to a global report.
Source : Computer Business Review | 21-May-2008 10:52
PizzaExpress to implement Alphameric's Caterwide
End-to-end enterprise software provider Alphameric has signed a contract with PizzaExpress for the implementation of Caterwide, a web-based ERP software developed by Alphameric.
Source : Computer Business Review | 21-May-2008 10:52
Choice Hotels selects Radiant Systems to enhance guest service
Radiant Systems, a provider of technology to the retail and hospitality industries, has signed an agreement with Choice Hotels International. Under the agreement Choice Hotels will implement Radiant's Aloha TableService point-of-sale solution, Aloha Enterprise.com reporting system, and POS terminals in the hotelier's franchisee locations.
Source : Computer Business Review | 21-May-2008 10:37