Home Office axes data-loss firm's contract
News The Home Office has terminated one of its contracts with PA Consulting, following the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. The Home Office has terminated the contract with PA Consulting that covered the handling of this data," Jacqui Smith, the home...
[September 10, 2008, 16:48]
Worker suspended over loss of prisoner data
News A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England and Wales, along with those of tens of thousands of offenders. A Home Office spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk that PA Consulting had...
[August 22, 2008, 12:40]
Bleak outlook for IT outsourcing
News Government organisations and suppliers are not aligned when it comes to interpreting and agreeing IT outsourcing objectives, says PA Consulting Group's 2005/06 Understanding Misunderstanding survey, released on 6 June 2006.
[June 7, 2006, 10:10]
Home Office data loss included drug records
News Its resource-accounts for 2008-09 show that 377,000 records were on the device, lost in August 2008 by contractor PA Consulting. The department fired PA Consulting over the incident. The Home Office has confirmed that the volume of data on a lost...
[August 27, 2009, 8:46]
Business intelligence tools up for the recession
News Alastair Taylor, a managing consultant at PA Consulting, explains: "Significant business change often triggers big-bang, enterprise-wide BI, and the big change in the economic climate is forcing many customers to rethink their business models.
[November 28, 2008, 11:22]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller the Home Office was ultimately accountable for the loss under the Data Protection Act, said assistant information commissioner Mick Gorrill.
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
Superdome: 'Mother of all computers'?
News Fiorina joked about HP's interest in acquiring the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, but didn't offer any more details about the state of the talks between HP and PwC -- talks HP confirmed yesterday.
[September 12, 2000, 17:04]
HP hires Linux luminary
News Linux advocate John "maddog" Hall left his job at Compaq to work among his own kind at VA Linux Systems, and Brian Behlendorf has built a business, CollabNet, on providing outside consulting help to traditional companies with open source ideas.
[December 5, 2000, 14:26]
Red Square Employs SilverBack to Deliver Peace of Mind
White Papers An IT consulting group based in Pittsburgh, PA, Red Square Systems' mission is to provide 'Peace of Mind' to clients regarding their IT infrastructures. Managing over 70 clients, Red Square was challenged to find the right monitoring solution to...
[December 3, 2007, 0:01]
HP plans to upgrade Integrity server line
News According to our research, the majority of HP customers are either actively migrating to HP Itanium-based systems or have decided to make the move in the near future," said Gabriel Consulting analyst Dan Olds.
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
Mobile operators 'blow billions' on legal bills
News Graham Bell, principal consultant at PA Consulting, told delegates at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona he believes the mobile industry will spend between $1bn (£512m) and $2bn (£1.24bn) on lawyers this year.
[February 15, 2007, 16:30]
Government confirms ID partner
News David Blunkett has confirmed that PA Consulting is to act as the "development partner" on the UK's ID card programme. The UK's ID card programme now has its private-sector development partner in place, the Home Secretary has announced.
[May 25, 2004, 13:25]
The funniest press release ever
Blog Mark Neild, from PA Consulting. A representative of a certain consulting group will soon be speaking at a "network sharing strategy forum" on the subject of "Getting the terms and framework right to ensure successful and long-lasting partnerships...
[September 19, 2008, 17:07]
Failed gov't IT projects cost £273m
News Department for Work and Pensions m of projects were axed, including £135m for the cancelled Benefits Processing Replacement Programme project handled by IBM and PA Consulting, and £11.2m for the retirement planner being run by Accenture and EDS
[October 21, 2008, 8:31]
Biometrics speeds up visa-processing by days
News He said the system, provided by PA Consulting Group and Software AG, was far more efficient than relying on manually checking biometrics. Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the government...
[March 6, 2008, 8:00]
Europe to take Wi-Fi crown from US
News Other analysts, though, are more downbeat about Wi-Fi's chances, with PA Consulting reportedly believing that the public access wireless LAN market is years away from profitability. America will be jostled off the top of the Wi-Fi heap within four...
[November 27, 2003, 15:40]
Candidates for new NHS IT contracts revealed
News It includes major suppliers to government and the existing suppliers to the national programme, such as Computacenter, Capgemini UK, EDS, Agilisys, Cerner, PA Consulting, LogicaCMG, Oracle and Atos Origin, and Accenture.
[August 15, 2007, 15:51]
