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Last week the UK’s Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) published the results of a feasibility study, carried out on its behalf by London Libraries Development Agency (LLDA), for a single membership card for all of London’s public libraries. The card is likely to be a smartcard and the possibility of linkage with Oyster is being considered. Oyster is a smart ticketing solution that is successfully operated by Transport for London (TfL). There are over five million cards in circulation and it als…
OpinionWire Articles - published 08/02/2007 - Sarah Burnett
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Patni Computer Systems (Patni) is the sixth largest of the Indian service provider companies in terms of scale. It has achieved impressive growth, and has a variety of service lines, ranging from ubiquitous types such as application-related services to less common variants such as product and engineering services. Organisations of all kinds are increasingly turning to outsourcing either to take everyday business or IT tasks off their hands, or to achieve more advanced objectives such as transformational …
Technology Audits - published 05/02/2007 - Alan Rodger
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The Christmas on-line sales figures were announced last week. For the ten weeks running up to Christmas, UK consumers spent UK£7.66 billion, which represents a 54% increase from the 2005 Christmas figures of UK£4.98 billion.
OpinionWire Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Roy Illsley
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It was reported last week that various problems with the Indian outsourcing industry are forcing UK and European companies to look elsewhere for their offshore provision. The problems that have been cited include big wage rises, skills shortages, and incidents around data security.
OpinionWire Articles - published 07/12/2006 - Maxine Holt
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India’s biggest IT services vendor, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), announced last week that it had taken control of Swiss banking software and services specialist TKS-Teknosoft (TKS), having bought a 75% stake for CHF 100.5m (about EUR160 million). The two companies had partnered for some years, with TKS providing industry-specific and local market expertise in France and Switzerland, as well as being the front-end for its customers to gain the benefit of lower-cost software development from TCS, who c…
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/11/2006 - Alan Rodger
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I was having a look at Internet growth and usage for African countries, and came up with some interesting statistics. Reunion, The Seychelles, and Morocco all have greater than 15% of their population with access to the Internet. As individual countries go, this is higher than Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/11/2006 - Terry White
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System integration is rightly perceived by many to be the solution to a wide range of IT problems that organisations face today, but in many cases it proves to be too difficult a challenge, often failing to deliver its full value. Sometimes this is because integration simply takes too long to achieve, or it is too expensive, and too complex; other times it just does not deliver integration at the right level. Therefore, many organisations opt for what they believe is the easy alternative: ‘swivel chair i…
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/11/2006 - Sarah Burnett
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HP was founded in a garage behind Bill Hewlett’s house in Palo Alto, California, in 1939, where Hewlett built an audio oscillator with his Stanford University classmate Dave Packard. The pair remained leaders of the company for almost 50 years, in which time they had built a massive global technology company. Today, the company is the 11th largest in Fortune magazine’s list of global companies, and its 150,000 employees serve customers across more than 170 countries. It has become one of the giants of th…
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/10/2006 - Alan Rodger
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Europe is going through a period of changing demographics with new challenges for its healthcare services. With decreasing birth rates, the population is ageing and becoming increasingly mobile. The European Union (EU) forecasts that by 2051, nearly 40% of the Union’s population will be older than 65 years.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/10/2006 - Sarah Burnett
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Mention outsourcing to most IT professionals, and the reaction is often less than enthusiastic. Despite the fact that making use of outsourced and offshore resources has become part of the IT landscape, within the IT function itself there tends to be three levels of response. Firstly, there are those who treat outsourcing with a sense of inevitability, deeming it to be a second-best option driven by cost motives, where the capability would have been better provided in house, but they are prepared to acce…
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/09/2006 - Tim Jennings
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