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Sir Desmond Pitcher, a former top executive in the Sperry computer company and now chairman of North West Water, tends to think big. His salary at 337,000 £ is the.. […]

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. In the wake of 11 September, a lot of people--including 20 percent of air passengers -- […]

Imagine a future where there is no divide between IT and the business, where changes to the processes of the business are simultaneously mirrored in the enterprise software. The business […]

Last week, more than 400 movers and shakers from the business world and IT industry gathered to celebrate the best of UK e-business endeavour. London's Planit 2000 played host to […]

Not so long ago. if users had a problem with their PCs or trouble accessing the network, the last place they would call would be the IT helpdesk. They knew […]

Beat the Clock is a pleasantly exciting, utterly trivial game show. But played in IT departments throughout the world it takes on a grimmer aspect. The clock they have to […]

Geoffrey Bush, director general of the Inland Revenue, feels as if he works in a goldfish bowl. This is not a psychiatric problem but a genuine feeling that his every […]

Despite the obvious commercialisation of the NHS, managers are still reluctant to refer to commercial benefits associated with IT implementation. However, a combination of competitive pressure and legislative demands creates […]

Rightsizing may be the current vogue, but, asks Jenny Mill, are users aware of the many pitfalls that could lead to reduced performance and increased costs? Last month, insurance giant […]

With European IT purchasing dominated by the influence of US and multinational companies, it is tempting to suppose that IT and business managers across Europe are concurrently experiencing and driving […]

This year's annual NCC Salary Survey shows IT pay rises topping inflation. But with the job market so flat, any chances for the ambitious to climb the promotion and pay […]

The idea of compiling a massive European database for police, as the border regulations relax, was agreed at Maastricht. But its fragmented development could lead to disturbing threats to personal […]

How much money does the NHS pour down the drain on IT? Channel 4's Dispatches, programme, shown last night and prepared with Computer Weekly's help, blasted the health service's record […]

Despite all the campaigns and efforts by employers, the number of women going into computing is at best stagnating, at worst, actually falling. Women still make up just 3% of […]

Computer Weekly's round of regional debates moved last month to Manchester, where the computer was invented. There our seven lunchtime guests chewed over a question that must be almost as […]

It should be impossible to mistake the lush green fields of England for the hot dusty deserts of Helmand. But stepping inside the cluster of tents at the UK Minister […]

Barts and the London NHS Trust has apologised to 442 patients who were not seen within maximum government waiting limits because of inadequate management systems. The patients waited an average […]

The Department for Work and Pensions' failure to implement management information systems contributed to £2bn worth of benefit error, MPs said in a report published today. The Public Accounts Committee […]

Karl Flinders karl.flinders@rbi.co.uk The HBOS banking group has rolled out a software-testing programme across three of its four major IT departments to reduce the number of errors in thousands of […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk There is a shortage of business continuity skills in UK companies according to research from British Telecom (BT). Costly security breaches will continue to plague UK businesses […]

The progressive retirement of the baby-boom generation means that IT departments will be forced to recruit more imaginatively to meet staffing shortfalls. If IT has traditionally been a stronghold of […]

The new positions of application delivery architects and engineers should be an IT organisation's next key appointments, says analyst Gartner. As more organisations begin to deploy application delivery networks (ADNs) […]

Given that a full report on the trading fraud at Societe Generale is not due until towards the end of May 2008, it is inappropriate to speculate too widely, writes […]

Savoury pastry products supplier Pork Farms is implementing an ERP system tailored for the food and beverage industry to improve visibility of business processes at a lower cost of ownership. […]

Horseware Ireland, a leading manufacturer of turnout rugs, riding clothing and accessories, has run a performance management assessment of its business before upgrading to its latest supply chain system. The […]

Waltham Forest Council is saving £2m a year after completing a three-year project to overhaul its IT and replace legacy systems with SAP software. The project has helped the council […]

Jessica Twentyman Giving patients the best possible care is never easy when details of their symptoms, diagnoses and treatment lie scattered across a myriad of diverse paper-based documents and disconnected […]

Chorley Borough Council has saved £800,000 through IT as part of a three-year council transformation. The council has split into three departments, based on three groups of customers: business, neighbourhoods […]

IT heads are spending too much time managing the IT department, analyst Gartner has said. In its annual 2008 CIO Survey Gartner found that CIOs in EMEA currently spent 40% […]

The Department for Work and Pensions is losing money on its anti-fraud detection systems, with those systems costing more to run than the amount of fraud detected, reports the National […]

Officials at HM Courts Service (HMCS) say they have turned around a failing £447m project to provide a national case management system for magistrates courts - a scheme that is […]

Schools using analysis of pupil data in their management information systems (MIS) are helping drive up their exam results. The schools are using the SIMS MIS platform from Capita to […]

Plans by Norwich Union's parent company Aviva to trim £350m from its costs will result in major cuts to Norwich Union's IT operations, including the loss of 385 IT jobs. […]

Time is running out to get your entries in for Computer Weekly's Best Places to Work in IT Awards. The annual event, now in its fifth year, aims to find […]

Ordnance survey's IT department is planning to cut its power consumption by transferring large image files from its power-hungry storage area networks (Sans) to removable disks. 'The IT department is […]

Cliff Saran cliff.saran@rbi.co.uk IT companies including BMC Software, CA, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft have collaborated to produce the first draft of an industry-wide set of specifications for sharing systems […]

IT departments need cultural change before the full benefits of IT service management can be realised, but version 3 of the ITIL framework is providing hope, according to Howard Kendal, […]

IT departments are turning to SOA (service orientated architecture) and web services to preserve substantial investments in mainframe applications, according to analyst The Aberdeen Group. For a report entitled Modernising […]

networks Distributed computing is an increasingly attractive option for many firms seeking increased processing power to fulfil high performance computing needs Miya Knights computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk IT departments have a delicate balancing […]

awards Computer Weekly's fifth Best Places to Work in IT Awards are now open for nominations, so if you work in a winning IT department, get your entry form in […]

John-Paul Kamath john-paul.kamath@rbi.co.uk Efforts to introduce energy efficient policies in datacentres could fail because they are at odds with the key performance indicators traditionally used to measure IT efficiency, according […]

uch has been said about businesses becoming more energy efficient to tackle climate change, but energy demands could become a deal breaker in the datacentre for much more immediate reasons. […]

Lindsay Clark lindsay.clark@rbi.co.uk IT departments face long-term skills shortages following a 47% drop in the number of students taking A-level computer science, according to a report by the Council for […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk Many IT departments are spending an unnecessarily large proportion of their time and budget on maintenance because they do not make full use of systems management tools, […]

Technological advances mean that the old distinctions between security, facilities and IT management are becoming blurred in modern workplace buildings. Intelligent design of IP (Internet Protocol) networks means they can […]

Bill Goodwin bill.goodwin@rbi.co.uk IT departments should set outsourcing suppliers service targets that measure the genuine impact of IT to the business, rather than focus on technical performance such as availability […]

John-Paul Kamath john-paul.kamath@rbi.co.uk IT departments are eager to deploy wireless applications, but the wide range of services on offer, coupled with a lack of measurements to prove their benefits, could […]

John-Paul Kamath john-paul.kamath@rbi.co.uk IT departments need to rethink how they develop network security to take into account greater collaboration between businesses, industry analysts have urged. Threats to the network are […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk IT staff say they are being put under unreasonable pressure by the business when it comes to supporting regulatory compliance, according to consultancy RussellJack Technology A survey […]

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