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Government Starts 'rationalisation' Of IT Systems
News The UK government is to cut more than 5,000 jobs from NHS agencies and "rationalise" back-office IT systems, health secretary John Reid announced on Thursday. Reid said that the move is in line with the Gershon efficiency review, which is expected...
[May 21, 2004, 12:30]
MoD Gives Scores Of Applications Their Marching Orders
News The MoD application rationalisation project is part of the Defence Information Exploitation programme which runs alongside the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, which aims to deliver a consolidated IT infrastructure across the...
[February 8, 2006, 15:20]
US Recession May Hit Indian Tech Sector Hard
News It's the mid-size firms that will be badly hit in the event of a portfolio rationalisation by the American clients," Sheth told ZDNetAsia in a phone interview. Indian IT-ITES companies have also undertaken labour-cost rationalisation by getting rid...
[April 10, 2008, 9:00]
Present And Future Smart Active Label (SAL) Enabling Technologies - An Introductory Overview
White Papers As the technologies evolve and standards are realized, a process of rationalisation will yield a smaller range of technologies and associated products to satisfy the majority of needs. The rapidly evolving radio frequency identification (RFID...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Understanding SANs
White Papers The two business drivers of this are rationalisation of resources and economies of scale. Whether building a Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage NAS or simply responding to unpredictable growth and change in storage needs, one...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IT Cost Optimisation: Slicing Through The Application Landscape
White Papers For example at Norwich Union an IT operations transformation and rationalisation project saved £12 million for an investment of £2.3 million. In the current climate financial climate, companies are not willing to make the substantial sustained...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Evaluating The Developmental Impact Of E-Governance Initiatives: An Exploratory Framework
White Papers The Indian government has for the past 3 decades widely acknowledged that expanded use of ICT in the public sector can offer important benefits such as improved planning and monitoring mechanisms, cost savings through rationalisation, and more...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth In The United States
White Papers The overall efficiency of policy would benefit from a rationalisation of the treatment and status of cost-benefit analysis in different policy areas. This paper analyses aspects of US environmental policy, including, among others, policy on air and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Integrated Content Management For The Financial Services Industry
White Papers Mergers, de-mutualisations, rationalisation and the advent of Internet banking have fundamentally altered the financial services landscape. The financial services industry has been subject to rapid and unrelenting change in recent years.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Report: The Internet Is Dead - Sprint Chief
News There will be a rationalisation of economics. Just as his company has begun to put large businesses onto its well-publicised new data network for all kinds of communications -- from transferring files to making voice calls -- Esrey this morning...
[October 6, 1998, 9:16]
CIOs Urged To Adopt Portfolio Management Tools
News The company also says it can help reduce the risks of strategic IT initiatives such as rationalisation, modernisation, off-shoring and outsourcing during the planning phase. Enterprise software management vendor Micro Focus has launched a new...
[March 5, 2008, 17:02]
Gartner: Remote Working 'going Mainstream'
News It is maturing and enterprises are moving from a phase of experimentation into a phase of rationalisation, where mobility investments are part of the overall IT picture. Businesses have woken up to the benefits of mobile working and are now...
[March 26, 2008, 11:32]
Camden Council Cashes In On IT Overhaul
News Other changes underway include server rationalisation, a migration to a storage area network, network improvement plans and the introduction of desktop management tools. The London Borough of Camden has claimed significant savings from an IT...
[September 4, 2007, 15:44]
Oracle's Tricky Encore
Leader Mega-mergers are justified by the economies of consolidation and rationalisation: much harder to achieve when you've promised to maintain diversity and separation. It's been a set piece worthy of Wagner.
[December 14, 2004, 12:05]
QXL Denies Restructuring Reports After Raising £30m
News We're integrating a number of companies that we have recently bought, and in the process some rationalisation has happened, but there will be no major restructuring," he says. Online auction firm QXL (quote: QXL) confirmed Thursday that it had...
[December 1, 2000, 15:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ten is a nice number, as it signifies the rationalisation of the decimal system and all the traditions of enlightenment and intellectual renewal that go with it. Friday 19/10/2001 Amid online discussion of the proposed laws to ban activity that...
[October 19, 2001, 17:52]
Downturn Claims 5,000 Dot-coms
News Internet sites -- i.e.destinations -- dominated the early years of the Internet's rationalisation. In the three years since the peak of the dot.com frenzy, nearly 5,000 internet companies have either been acquired or shut down in a massive sector...
[March 17, 2003, 12:45]
Tech Acquisitions Boom
News With persistent pressure on pricing and continued rationalisation of IT buying patterns, most M&A is happening in the mid-market, where smaller players are attempting to build scale and to buy in critical expertise," said Francois Dauriat of...
[August 2, 2004, 17:05]
Eidos Shares Shoot Up
News We have done quite a lot of growing into our own skin with re-organisations and rationalisation. The City had Eidos up to 925p on early trading this morning, following an 18 per cent rise from 740p to 870p yesterday, after the company said sales...
[January 22, 1998, 13:07]
BBC To Sell £220m Technology Arm
News The alternative to a sale, the BBC says, would have been a rationalisation of BBC Technology resulting in "substantial job losses" from among its 1,400 staff. The BBC is putting its technology division up for sale as it looks to engage one of the...
[November 27, 2003, 16:55]
