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Cleveland Police sign IT outsourcing deal

...as its partner for delivery of its control room, community justice and back-office functions through a shared service partnership. The company said that the... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Kable

RBS to axe 1,000 IT staff

...will cut a total of 3,500 staff, including 1,000 performing back-office functions, primarily as a result of the divestment of branches Read more

3 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Ariba buy parks SAP on Oracle's cloud turf

...Ariba, which specialises in business-process management software for buy, sell and back-office functions. Like Oracle, SAP has watched from the sidelines as IBM... Read more

23 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

CIO tips on how to survive losing your budget

...back office Given that many public bodies perform the same roles - from back-office functions such as HR, finance and procurement to front-line services... Read more

1 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

Police IT agency plans £1bn in cuts

...75m coming from police forces setting up shared service centres to deliver back office functions, such as HR and finance. For more on this story... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Nick Heath

NYnet broadband rolls out to North Yorkshire region

...made possible through NYnet's technology such as shared council services, and back office functions, has provided excellent value for money and delivered huge cost... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Kable
Emperium Hospitality Point of Sale Software 1.18

Emperium Hospitality Point of Sale Software 1.18

...Send orders to kitchen. Compatible with handheld order-taking. Comprehensive reporting. Full back office functions. Integrate with third parties with ease Read more

18 November, 2011

IT spending cuts in government will 'last forever'

...cost of provision, for instance, by setting up shared service centres for back-office functions such as HR and finance, she said. She added that... Read more

29 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

Police tech agency chasing £1bn savings by 2015

...75m coming from police forces setting up shared service centres to deliver back office functions, such as HR and finance. Other savings will be delivered... Read more

30 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

IT firms expand from PCs to payroll

...or business-process outsourcing -- which involves an outside company taking over various back-office functions including procurement, invoice processing and the like -- has become a... Read more

14 January, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim
<endeca_term>Back-Office Functions</endeca_term> for Knowledge Economy

Back-Office Functions for Knowledge Economy

The whole discussion of excellence versus quality is extremely relevant, but also one where it is extremely difficult to... Read more

15 October, 2009

Gov't to implement shared business services

...Brown has announced the setting up of business service companies to handle back office functions for government department. In a speech on Britain's digital... Read more

23 March, 2010 by Kable

Gov't to cut £500m in IT spending

...Meanwhile, the Department for Transport said that savings of £40m from streamlining back-office functions across finance, HR and procurement and £30m from reducing spending... Read more

25 March, 2010 by Kable

Gordon Brown spends £30m to plug Britain into semantic web

...establish a number of business service companies that will handle the routine back office functions of Whitehall departments". Brown said that every time a service... Read more

22 March, 2010 by Nick Heath

Vodafone culls 375 'mainly back-office' jobs

...announced on Tuesday. According to Vodafone, the people going are "primarily in back-office functions" such as admin, human resources and finance. A number of... Read more

9 March, 2010 by David Meyer

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