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Five years ago: Civil service will spend £2.5b on IT this year
News London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. The big benefator here is EDS which took in the region of £264.7 million in Kable's estimate. First published 14 April, 1997.
[April 13, 2002, 7:01]
Civil service will spend £2.5b on IT this year
News London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. The big benefator here is EDS which took in the region of £264.7 million in Kable's estimate. Kable can be contacted by telephone on 0171-608...
[April 16, 1997, 16:31]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
News The latest research from Kable has highlighted a massive increase in public sector outsourcing, with IT contracts driving the increase in value. Kable's report, Public Sector Outsourcing 2000-06, reveals that by 2005-06, the total value of all UK...
[June 28, 2004, 16:25]
UK Government set for big intranet spend
News Following prime minister Tony Blair's pledge to make government more efficient and customer focused, the research, from the Intranets in Government: the Kable Guide report will come as welcome news to a wide range of suppliers currently in sales...
[July 9, 1997, 13:39]
Study finds ID scheme cancellation could save £3.1bn
News A detailed analysis of the National Identity Scheme's costs for UK citizens by Kable suggests the £4.95bn to be spent over 10 years could be reduced by £3.08bn to £1.88bn if a future government abandoned identity cards, the National Identity...
[August 13, 2009, 10:02]
HP to overtake BT as top government IT supplier
News New research from Kable shows that the state sector spent £2.1bn with BT last year; but the combined ICT spending with HP and EDS, which are on course for a merger, was £2.235bn. The Kable research, The supplier landscape in the UK public sector...
[May 22, 2008, 8:26]
ID card bill could reach £15bn
News A full cost breakdown, released today by Kable, estimates that the cards could cost up to £248 each with the entire programme reaching £15.6bn. Similar calculations using Kable's costings model form the basis of the London School of Economics (LSE...
[June 27, 2005, 17:08]
UK leads way on public IT spending
News Total expenditure for the UK is estimated at €21bn (£14bn), a figure which is 40 percent larger than either Germany or France, according to latest research from analyst Kable. Kable analyst Scott Bryan, said: "There are other countries spending...
[May 31, 2005, 16:40]
UK schools' IT spending to drop by £9.8m: Report
News By comparison, Kable estimates that the average IT spending for each primary school for 2010-11 will be about £19,786, and £129,458 for secondary schools. The difference the Besa and Kable projections can be explained by the latter's inclusion of...
[October 1, 2009, 9:12]
Public sector outsourcing boom to continue
News The UK public sector is set to outsource a further £20bn worth of services - representing a growth of 50 percent over three years, according to research from the public sector research, publishing and events firm Kable.
[April 18, 2005, 17:00]
Public sector mobile technology explosion predicted
News Public sector spending on ICT for mobile workers is set to increase by nearly five times over the next decade, according to research from market analyst Kable. Kable expects dramatic growth from a market where mobile workers already account for 1.1...
[March 21, 2005, 16:20]
ID projects to boom and run late
News The latest research from public sector IT analyst Kable says that over the coming decade, government departments are likely to set up a range of "medium sized" identity projects. Kable foresees that the virtual phone number could become part of a...
[September 29, 2005, 17:55]
Dell number one in declining government market
News The accolade came from Kable, an IT researcher specialising in the public sector, which added that the government market has declined 17 per cent in two years thanks to budget trimming. Kable can be contacted by telephone on 0171-608 0901.
[April 10, 1997, 11:04]
Third supplier drops ID cards procurement bid
News Kable understands that Steria decided to end its bid after a review of the framework procurement process, but is still interested in acting as a sub-contractor. However, Philippe Martin, senior analyst at Kable, said this was a further setback for...
[February 28, 2008, 8:50]
Wales to adopt mobile average-speed cameras
Blog The Welsh government is moving towards adopting the use of mobile average speed cameras, according to Kable. The cameras, which use automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) to gauge the average speed of a car between two points, will initially be...
[October 2, 2009, 17:23]
Courts on track for e-working by March 2010
News Programme director Nigel Kelly told Kable's Delivering Efficiencies in Public Sector IT conference that funding for the project will end in March of next year. HM Courts Service is aiming for a March 2010 deadline to implement its electronic...
[September 14, 2009, 8:51]
Public sector embraces open source
News A snapshot survey organised by Kable and sponsored by Red Hat shows that just over a third of respondents are actually using open source, and close to another third are giving it consideration in their plans for the future.
[May 2, 2007, 10:14]
London 2012 to be boon for UK IT
News The 2012 London Olympics will demand major investments in IT for transport management, security and other areas of the public sector, according to a new report from Kable. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) has a projected...
[January 17, 2006, 15:05]
But how much is it going to cost us?
Talkback Current estimates for the cost of this thing is anywhere from £5.8 Billion (Home Office) to £15 Billion (Kable). But how much is it going to cost us before someone finally puts this arrogant scheme out of our misery?
[June 23, 2008, 14:43]
Five years ago: Dell number one in declining government market
News The accolade came from Kable, an IT researcher specialising in the public sector, which added that the government market has declined 17 per cent in two years thanks to budget trimming. First published 10 April, 1997.
[April 10, 2002, 7:01]
