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How to ensure collaboration really works
Articles But while productivity savings can be hard to measure, Frank Modruson, chief information officer at consultancy Accenture, says it is sometimes possible to "defer costs into other areas, which means the hard dollar benefit will pay for any...
[November 16, 2009, 11:07]
The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog Granted, the business model isn’t quite the same as, say, a consultancy company using a CRM system to track complex opportunities with their customers, but Laurent questions whether the same fee model couldn’t be used all the same.
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
'G Cloud' offers new approach to security, gov't told
News This ties in with the view professed by ISC2 and the ISF that there is a growing segmentation of skills, between those with a deep knowledge of specific areas of technology, the group who understand the business and have consultancy skills, and...
[October 21, 2009, 10:12]
Citrix changes XenDesktop licences after feedback
Blog Ewen Anderson, MD of UK consultancy Centralis, told ZDNet “It’s not clear whether the earlier furore over licensing models was a real issue or just a mis-interpreted release, but Citrix have moved swiftly to dispel the dark clouds and thrown in...
[October 20, 2009, 15:37]
Is cloud computing a solution for software licensing woes?
Blog Comment With the right discovery tools, giving a clear view of which assets need to be licensed, combined with the high-level consultancy, organisations can ensure they are wholly and compliant, whether they are in the cloud or not, in a stress-free manner.
[October 19, 2009, 15:20]
Wind turbines suspended after flaw discovered
News The report, which was undertaken by the Gas Dynamics consultancy and released on Friday, also said the control system often cut out when large gusts of wind triggered its vibration sensor. We've only seen the problem with the seal on one turbine...
[October 19, 2009, 15:17]
IBM launches systems management in a box
News Prices start at £1,000 per month, including systems integration consultancy. Kace has pioneered the systems-management appliance market with its KBOX Systems Management Appliance, designed to help small and medium-sized businesses build helpdesks...
[October 19, 2009, 9:07]
Mandelson: UK needs entrepreneurs
News The study found university researchers engaged more in consultancy and training rather than patenting or spin-off activities. It's about having a business instinct and acumen, but it's also about being fantastically tough.
[October 14, 2009, 16:38]
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Cuts Timesheet Settlement Bottlenecks for 60,000 Staff
White Papers In addition to traditional temporary staffing, Randstad offers comprehensive personnel services, including personnel consultancy, providing outsourced personnel management as well as on-site, in-house services that support major projects for its...
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
Virtualisation - a progress snapshot
Blog Dell's been pretty aggressive in its efforts to market its consultancy services in recent months so you'd think that it would be noticed that customers don't always leap at the latest technology. And he's also disparaging about companies who don't...
[September 21, 2009, 12:41]
O2 adds fixed-line services for business bundles
News The Joined Up service, announced on Wednesday, will include mobile, fixed-line, data, broadband and consultancy services. By moving into the fixed-line market we are now able to provide our business customers with a genuine end-to-end service which...
[September 16, 2009, 17:33]
Is Gartner a victim of its own terminology?
Blog It seems to me that Gartner is doing rather well out of the hype wave by branding it and using it as a platform for comment and consultancy. There’s that thing about acronyms when it comes to technology that leaves the non-techies out there blank...
[September 16, 2009, 11:59]
Fragmentation good for the user, says Nokia
Blog According to Rob Taylor of the open-source consultancy Codethink, Nystrom was right to say that fragmentation can be preferable to a unified code-base because "you can [work with] an old platform that's stable.but you won't be able to do much that...
[September 15, 2009, 15:58]
Is Freeware the new Open Source?
Blog Plus of course you can hire them for consultancy and support services as much as you please. As open source technologies continue to pound an increasingly heavier footprint throughout the world’s enterprise IT portals, could we be about to see a...
[September 2, 2009, 12:47]
Driving Lower TCO and Rapid ROI Through Unix Migrations: IT Decision Maker Perspectives
White Papers Mercer Management Consulting, a global strategy consultancy, was engaged by Microsoft to conduct primary research with 30 global senior IT decision-makers representing enterprises that have recently migrated servers across or (more often) away...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
High-speed rail's a waste of money, says consultancy
Blog It was saying this when leased lines of a megabit per second were starting to become common in enterprises, it's saying it now that connections ten times faster and a hundred times cheaper are commonplace.
[August 28, 2009, 12:03]
IT Consultancy Teams With Microsoft for Leadership in Service-Oriented Architecture
White Papers Formed in 1999, glue: is a respected IT consultancy in the United Kingdom. As glue: increasingly encountered Microsoft BizTalk Server in the market, management realized that glue: and Microsoft were on a collision course - both focused on...
[August 28, 2009, 1:24]
Consultancy Drives Project Success and Cuts Costs With Proven Methodology
White Papers And because Assistus can store its project information, including custom code, in Sure Step as templates, the company benefits from economies of scale through repeatability, enabling it to improve margins or cut costs on competitive bids to win...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog Comment The government could save a bloody fortune employing these minds as advisers to tackle the current computer security issues they face today, rather than waisting ten's of millions of pounds on stupid consultancy agency fees, where there biggest...
[August 27, 2009, 16:03]
Significant Savings Through a Business Testing Center of Excellence
White Papers The client used a combination of internal IT delivery and 3rd party suppliers and selected AppLabs due to their extensive experience in delivering operational testing and consultancy. The risk of IT not fulfilling the business needs was great and...
[August 22, 2009, 1:24]
