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BP Lets Staff Manage Their Own IT
Blog Oil giant BP is pioneering a "digital consumer" initiative that will give some employees an allowance to buy their own IT equipment and take care of their own support needs. The project, which is still at the pilot stage, gives select BP staff an...
[October 11, 2006, 17:37]
BP Harnesses Latest Microsoft Technology And Reduces Desktop IT Costs By 50 Per Cent
White Papers Consistent, reliable communication is central to a global corporation like BP. BP saw the potential of the Internet to host IT communications and are trialing a solution based on the Microsoft Office System and supporting technologies, which...
[November 13, 2003, 23:00]
BP: Cyberterrorism Threat Is Increasing
News BP has warned of an increasing terrorist threat to the critical national infrastructure. Martin said that BP had gained this information by talking to the secret services of several different countries, including the US and the UK.
[June 21, 2007, 11:43]
BP Standardizes On TIBCO Software To Manage Business Processes Across Its Global Energy Trading Businesses
White Papers TIBCO has been chosen by BP to integrate and automate its global energy trading and supply businesses. BP has selected TIBCO Software's Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), portal and Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software to develop...
[July 3, 2007, 0:00]
BP Employees Get DIY IT
News Oil giant BP is pioneering a "digital consumer" initiative that will give some employees an allowance to buy their own IT equipment and take care of their own support needs. The project, which is still at the pilot stage, gives select BP staff an...
[October 12, 2006, 9:25]
BP Declares War On The LAN
News Energy group BP has shifted thousands of its employees off its LAN in an attempt to repel organised cybercriminals. Rather than rely on a strong network perimeter to secure its systems, BP has decided that these laptops have to be capable of coping...
[February 20, 2006, 12:45]
BP Declares War On The LAN
Talkback I remember working for an outsourcing company providing IT support for BP, one of the main reasons to use this system was to reduct support costs. BP have been using this system for over a year now if I remember correctly and seemed to be taken well.
[February 20, 2006, 15:50]
BP Hits Out At Security Standards
News Energy giant BP criticised the security record of application vendors on Tuesday, which it said was pushing it towards open source software. Software firms are not keen on cooperating on security, as it would mean making their systems interoperable...
[November 25, 2005, 15:10]
Streamlined Processes And Cost Savings For BP Canada
White Papers Unfortunately, none of these solutions completely met BP Canada's needs. To reduce payroll processing costs and update an old mainframe system for Y2K and beyond, BP Canada looked for outside support - and found a total payroll and Human Resources...
[September 15, 2003, 0:00]
Business Needs 3G, Says BP
News Speaking to ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com, BP director of wireless and mobile Ken Douglas this week said GPRS works for email but doesn't cut it for collaboration, remote meetings and other needs.
[November 14, 2003, 14:45]
Digital Empowerment At BP Enables Value Creation Through E-Learning
White Papers BP’s senior management was determined to empower employees to succeed and transform the company into a digitally empowered organization. BP invited Accenture to assist in the creation of the Digital Skills training program and in the development of...
[December 14, 2003, 23:00]
Winning Strategies From Accenture: Outsourcing At BP In North America
White Papers One of the world's foremost energy enterprises, BP made a bold move to expand its brand across the North American continent through the integration of two companies nearly as huge as itself: Amoco in 2000 and ARCO one year later.
[December 16, 2003, 23:00]
BP Employees Get DIY IT
Talkback As a coder, I know for a fact that I can maintain and make far superior purchasing decisions, then any dork in our IT support services. A latch on my current laptop broke, and the baboons said it will cost £400 to repair, because they have to...
[October 19, 2006, 13:34]
BP Hits Out At Security Standards
Talkback "US Air Force chief information officer John Gilligan said in 2003 that it costs the military more to clean up the mess left by Microsoft than buying the software to begin with. If it is secure out of the box then it stands to reason it will be...
[November 28, 2005, 13:00]
.NET Enterprise Servers Solution Built By Quilogy Accelerates 800% Business Growth
White Papers When BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp.and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Quilogy designed and built the Gas Order Trading System (GOTS) on Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, BP Canada acquired a solution agile enough to turn the accelerating pace...
[February 20, 2008, 23:00]
Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: British Petroleum
White Papers For BP, time was of the essence in ensuring the safety of its facilities and 1,500 employees in its Gulf of Mexico Strategic Performance Unit. When Hurricane Katrina struck, BP needed quick access to accurate storm information and a complete...
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Stavanger: Pioneering Outsourcing To Cut Costs
White Papers With BP Norway as their first client, the client roster now has swelled to include: BP Amoco Norway, Norske Conoco, Norsk Hydro, BP/Mobil joint venture operations for Nordic countries, and Svenska Petroleum.
[December 16, 2003, 23:00]
Incorporating Business Process Management Into Network And Systems Management
White Papers Since many of the components of a business process now include network communications, devices, and applications, the time is ripe for integrating business process (BP) modeling methods and network management into real-time BP monitoring and control.
[October 31, 2003, 23:00]
NZ Bank Joins Ranks Of Linux Converts
News In Europe, BP and Banca Commerciale Italiana feature among the big companies that have moved to Linux. One of BP's techies managed to port the application to Linux over a weekend, and this was enough to persuade the company to change, according to...
[April 22, 2002, 11:14]
UK Security Industry Gets Professional Body
News Over 220 individuals have applied to join, and 20 organisations have applied for corporate membership including the DTI, NISCC, and the Cabinet Office, as well as BP, HP, Barclays, Ernst & Young, BT, and Vodafone," Coleman said.
[February 28, 2006, 8:50]
