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Optimizing Branch Office Security and Productivity in the Financial Services Sector
White Papers This white paper examines the problems that financial services sector companies face when attempting to provide secure and efficient data access to branch offices. It also provides solutions based on the features and capabilities included with ISA...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
IBM Human Capital Management Services - Public Sector
White Papers Public sector organizations face increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve services. IBM's public sector Human Capital Management (HCM) practice helps to increase productivity and add value through one of the most valuable resources - people.
[February 19, 2007, 0:00]
The Move Toward Shared Services: An Examination of the Business Models and IT Trends Driving Public Sector Adoption of Shared Services
White Papers They bridge legacy and newly developed applications across diverse organizations to provide the public sector with more efficient means of serving civilians, employees, business partners, or any other end-user base.
[March 29, 2007, 1:00]
India's IT services sector hits refresh
News Arno Franz, a partner and Asia-Pacific managing director at sourcing advisory firm TPI, said the Indian IT-enabled services (ITES) sector employs more than 700,000 people and accounts for about 35 percent of the business-process outsourcing (BPO...
[September 19, 2008, 15:34]
IT services sector posts solid growth
News Worldwide spending on information technology services grew 6.4 percent to $570bn last year, with defence-oriented companies and Japan-based providers notching market share gains. IT services, which range from hardware maintenance contracts to...
[October 26, 2004, 12:50]
Shared Services in the Public Sector
White Papers One of these is Shared Services. In the Strategy the term "Shared Services" encompasses the sharing of customer services in the front-office as well as corporate services in the back-office. The experience of HR and Finance in Government and of...
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
Achieving Efficiencies in Public Sector Services by Exchanging Citizen Information in a Way That Protects Data Privacy
White Papers BKWI is a government agency in the Netherlands supporting information exchange between the Departments of Employment and Social Security. Because these government organizations are autonomous, a wide variety of platforms existed.
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
IT sector sees increased profit warnings
News Research by Ernst & Young shows profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 percent in the first quarter of 2008. James Bennet, technology director at Ernst & Young, said in a statement...
[April 15, 2008, 9:56]
HP Blade Workstation Solution for the Public Sector: Workstation Computing Without Boundaries
White Papers HP holds a workstation leadership position in the financial services sector thanks to product innovation that addresses the ever-changing IT requirements of the industry. Through its years of leadership work with, and as an integral IT provider to...
[June 5, 2008, 11:08]
Credit squeeze hits tech contractors
News The proportion of tech contract workers in the financial services sector is at its lowest level for more than three years. Just 22 percent of IT contractors are working in the sector, according to contractor services company Giant Group, which...
[November 1, 2007, 8:52]
Software sector UK's worst performing in 2007
News The software and computer-services sector was the worst performing on the UK stock market last year. The research by Ernst & Young covered all listed companies in the UK and found 56 profit warnings from 43 companies in the software and computer...
[January 17, 2008, 7:48]
Credit crunch driving outsourcing demand
News The credit crunch is predicted to drive greater demand for outsourcing in the financial services sector. Fiona Czerniawska, author of the report and director of the MCA's Think Tank research unit, said in a statement: "While innovation and...
[June 19, 2008, 9:42]
IT will spend on security, but not services
News While IT spending on security and virtual private networks (VPNs) is expected to increase substantially this year, it's bad news for the services sector with many technology decision-makers planning cut-backs in IT outsourcing and consultancy.
[January 10, 2003, 11:43]
Socitm unveils 'Council of the Future' project
News Public sector IT professionals' organisation Socitm has launched a project aimed at increasing its members' influence over the future shape of public services. We need widespread input and feedback, particularly from our growing numbers of members...
[October 13, 2009, 9:07]
Fujitsu to deliver Cabinet Office shared services
News The Cabinet Office has signed up Fujitsu Services as its new ICT supplier, in a deal which could provide shared services to multiple public-sector organisations. It said that Public Sector Flex, as the seven-year framework is called, has the...
[June 22, 2007, 9:03]
Public-sector IT spend predicted to fall
News The UK public-sector software and IT services market will begin to wilt as big government IT programmes slow down, analyst house Ovum predicts. But 2007 will see higher-than-average growth, with the UK public-sector software and IT services market...
[September 10, 2007, 16:08]
Promote broadband, EU tells public sector
News Governments across Europe should "aggregate" their public sector demand for broadband services in order to stimulate take-up, according to the European Commission. The public sector "can help to make the business case for investment" says the...
[May 13, 2004, 13:10]
Can IM ever be secure?
News Many of them, in turn, will be in financial services, the business sector that has taken to IM more than any other. Financial sector authorities have already responded to the threat. Nearly 200 million individuals will use instant-messaging (IM...
[April 12, 2005, 17:55]
Public Sector Network live in next 12 months
News The Public Sector Network will be working with its services available for purchase next year, according to the programme's director. It aims to make savings of £500m, worth around a third of the £1.6bn the public sector currently spends on network...
[September 28, 2009, 8:18]
IT workers get rich in the City
News Financial services is now the fastest growing sector for the use of IT contractors in the UK, on the back of booming profits and regulatory compliance initiatives that are driving a new wave of IT investment by investment banks and hedge funds.
[June 8, 2006, 9:35]
