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IBM moves access to UK drivers’ private data offshore to datacentre in India |
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The IBM will access their personal data in UK’s 43 million drivers to an Indian data center to cut costs, the UK government agreed. THe IBM runs London’s congestion charge system. The observer revealed that the secret move comes after IBM lobbied Transport for London. The IBM has been fined repeatedly since it took […]
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Two more councils join CapacityGRID |
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North Warwickshire Borough COuncils and Dacorum have joined a shared service which provides transactional services to the councils. CapacityGRID which provided by IT services firm Liberata has over 25 councils using its services to complete business processes such as the revenue and benefits transactions. It also provides cost savings joining the shared service that […]
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E.ON application’s outsources to Capgemini |
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The utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m. For the E.On’s business information management and SAP ERP applications, the deal will see Capgemini provide application lifecycle services. From the E.ON to Capgemini, the work has […]
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Is the cloud driving IT outsourcing or dazzling the outlook? |
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The cloud computing is an increasingly significant segment of the Information Technology outsourcing sector, however it has a tipping point that really been reached or they are one huge data breach away from an about turn? The cloud currently represents only a fraction of the Information Technology sector and a minuscule slice of the […]
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KPMG survey reveals state of IT outsourcing |
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The general annual survey of £14bn worth of UK IT services contacts has admitted a continued appetite to outsource, new reasons for doing so and various ways of doing it. The KPMG’s annual UK IT Service Provider Performance study in the sixth year which was previously completed by the EquaTerra before KPGG acquired it, […]
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London Metropolitan University to outsource most supply to private set |
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London University has drawn up an ambitious outsourcing program in which a swath of services from managing its estates to marketing and finance will be carried out by a private firm. The London Metropolitan University has more than 16,000 undergraduate student that produced a tendering document under which all services except teaching and the […]
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G4S Olympic breakdown prompts ministers to ‘see again’ over outsourcing |
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To deliver certain services in the aftermath of G4S security failures at the Olympics, two seniors ministers have questioned the use of the private firms. Troops were formulate in at the Games after the private company was unable to accommodate enough security guards. Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary stated that he had made realize […]
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G4S outsource plan is checked |
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After the firm found itself criticized over its failure to provide enough security staff for the Olympics, plans to outsource support services of three police forces to G4S are being reviewed. The Hertfordshire Police, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire plan to help plug a £73m funding gap. The forces were given the go-ahead to investigate outsolurcing […]
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The Public Sector Outsourcing |
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The FT reported that the outsourcing was booming with a surge in the contracts that not seen since the 1980s relating to prisons, defense, police forces and health. They already knew that the first wave of police force privatization was leaked to the Guardian in March. The first tender documents went out for nine […]
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Outsourcing of IT work to India nothing to do with computer systems chaos |
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With the computer problems that have led to chaos for millions of its bank customers the RBS swiftly denied its outsourcing program to India. The RBS has shed about the 30,000 jobs including more than 20,000 UK-based roles and has outsourced work abroad. The bank’s vast computer servers are based in Britain wherein it […]
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